Shinji_Ikari [he/him] @ Shinji_Ikari @hexbear.net

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What kind of home automation?

I recently rolled my own environment sensing, from the ESP32 C code up to the web front end. I basically got it functional and have been using it daily.

I love fixing watches. I used to do full disassembly and servicing on old soviet watches until I moved somewhere 100% carpeted.

Also several factors absolutely fucked my supply of cheap Russian watches. Between COVID and the war, all my sellers are MIA on both sides.

I think you helped me with camera advice so message me if you need any amp repair advice. I've got a HRD III that is constantly trying to end its own torment and I've done a bunch of little things to it.

I also believe in keeping threads mostly on-topic

Please don't worry too much about this, even on hexbear I'll ask a good faith question out of plain ignorance and get an honest response.

Like you said, this thread is about you! We want to help educate folks as best we can and a lot of users have read a ton of theory and love to educate others.

The layout is based on an old thinkpad layout which is cool. I never use the number pad either so it's perfect for me. The palm rests are so comfortable as well.

I literally spent my hard earned bucks on a Tex Shinobi from one guy in Taiwan just so I could get the trackpoint for the desktop with a mechanical form factor without having to source a 30 year old Model M.

It's my favorite keyboard ever btw. Don't sleep on the Tex keyboards.

Computers are more or less the sum of their parts.

For the longest time, and even now I think, the "Linux laptop" companies mostly sold re-branded quasi-generic laptops from Chinese manufacturers and focused on the software aspect to ensure compatibility. This meant that a lot of aspects were cheapened out on. The chassis, trackpad, keyboard, display, fit and finish in general were second class. Sure it was a machine that ran Linux, but most computers do that pretty well.

Laptop shopping is already fraught with pain and hazards. How do you know you're getting something that wont break down? Add the "vote with your wallet" premium price on these boutique Linux laptops, and they don't seem that appealing.

Thinkpads on the other hand have a huge community of nerds documenting compatibility. They have enterprise customers dumping pallets of used machines into the used market every year, and have far better parts accessibility than the quasi-generic machine.

Then there's the trackpoint, you never need to leave the home row. You're not victim to subpar trackpads(Every non-mac trackpad is subpar, sorry, I don't make the rules, they suck absolutely.)

I've had my X1 Carbon 4th gen since new in 2016. Even if I can't upgrade it, 7 years on its still nearly perfect. I got an Dell XPS 15 from work ~5 years ago and I've gone through two batteries, finishes are wearing off, the hinge is wonky, and IT HAS NO TRACK POINT.

By arguing for the lesser of evils, you are arguing for the legitimacy of the establishment.

One thing paper helps me with is free-form thought externalizing.

When you limit yourself to text, markdown, or sometimes even a digital pen/drawing app, I feel like it requires a bit of effort to use which allows ideas to slip from my mind.

With a pen/pencil and paper, I can write, draw, and connect about as fast as I can think. I can crumble the page and refine the idea over and over until something I like is there.

I'm left to wonder what is more likely, a company taking advantage of a public health emergency to turn a profit, or a company manufacturing an entire public health scare to sell their product.

To be safe, I'd go with the former. Stay healthy.

Anytime I need to install something in windows, it just feels, uncivilized? Like every step of the way is disrespectful to the user. Windows is political, it has business priorities that effect how it's used. Linux feels like a rock, like yeah you can get mad at it when you drop it on your foot but the rock isn't interacting back the same way that windows is constantly changing and questioning your judgement.

Cries in perfectly managed window layouts and reasonable defaults.

What card do you run? I went from a 970 to a 3080ti and both drivers just automagically worked. The 970 used to have dkms issues but it randomly stopped at some point.

oh my god another xmonad user. You can get almost close with some paid tiling window managers in mac but you can't recreate the managed layouts of xmonad.

What kind of things do you install? Typically the "page long guide"s are showing every basic step to hold the users hand. If you're installing something in ubuntu, you update your repos, then install the package.

Every time I install something in windows, the endless unique install wizards, weird spyware packaging, restart requirements, etc make me want to rage quit. Not to mention the sketchy sites most Windows freeware comes from, or the windows store that will continually re-install candy crush and minecraft.

With Linux, even the CLI you learn a handful of basic concepts and live your life. To me complaining about typing "apt get install" is akin to complaining you need to learn to read to know when the bus is arriving.

I'll admit there are three extra steps with say, installing chrome. But if you say out loud what you're doing, ie "I need to add the repository so my computer knows where to get chrome" "Now that it knows where chrome is, I'll run apt get update to refresh the packages" "Now that it knows where it is, and its refreshed, let me install it with apt get install chrome".

or if you download a deb package, the ubuntu apt store will automatically open it with a double click then you click "install".

No offense to you, but there seems to be an attitude that when trying something new, you should not be expected to learn the slightest thing about it. Sure your mom or grandpa might not be able to install it, but if you're at the point where you've acknowledged the page long guide, you're certainly smart enough to try something and give it an honest try.

A large majority of games on steam work via proton.

For games outside steam, there's a pretty good community around wine wrappers. I think it's called lutris.

I used to play GTAV, assassins creed, and other AAA titles through it 4 years ago and its only gotten better.

As a committed hexbear poster, I want to share something sorta quick that might give insight into the chapo rules for posting.

The culture generally arose from having a home-team advantage on the old sub. Where typically across reddit, Liberals and Conservatives would argue in bad faith with leftists, return to propaganda as proof, and generally ignore history and call it "whataboutism".

The culture that came from the home-team advantage was a mix of well cited arguments and a ruthless trolling component. It's a relentless form of arguing, where many people can get together and reverse the general consensus.

So when some far right person came in and thought they were being witty with some canned racist/sexist/homophobic remark, we would simply bully them, Tell them to post hog, etc. Same thing with Liberals depending on the comment. Good faith comments are typically met with a thoughtful response. Nowhere else on reddit could you have the level of backup to drown out the fascist elements on that site.

This culture is a shock to a lot of people but I assure you we're very nice people and I think some of us are just a little too excited to dunk again.

I hope this helps a bit. We're all extremely anti-fascist. We do have critical support for previous socialist endeavors, because the horrors of capitalism and it's bedfellow, fascism, have still more than outdone the harm socialist projects caused.

it's not a great comparison I'll admit, but it's essentially the same as digital privacy, only one of these is protected in courts and the other is encouraged.

I haven't sat down to really build a stance on this but it does not sit well.

If the results were also open and public, it'd be a different conversation.

This is more akin to rain water collection up-hill and selling it back to the people downhill. It's privatization of a public resource.