TheFriendlyArtificer @ TheFriendlyArtificer @beehaw.org

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I'm two states away from Utah. But because my data terminates to L3 in Salt Lake, half of the porn sites that my wife and I frequent want our Utah driver's license or passport. For a state that claims to hate stepping on sneks, they do love forcing their "morality" on everybody else.

No. Just fucking no. If I want my morality policed, the last place I'll go is to a religious institution.

Thank jeebus for VPNs.

PTSD...

I once destroyed a CRT monitor by misconfiguring X11.

Nowadays Linux just works to the point where my 72 year old mother is able to deal with Pop_OS without issue.

But man, those early days of unstable drivers, slow dial-up internet, and navigating through Usenet and IRC for decent support was a nightmarish labor of love.

The silky smoothness that we have now was built on caffeine and the backs of millions of greybeards.

(For the record: "Greybeard" is a nerdy term of endearment that I've seen adopted by people identifying all across the rainbow. Kinda like dwarfs on Discworld).

Pinterest can eat every dick or dick-shaped object that has ever existed in the multiverse.

I would happily, happily give up months of my life to build a robotic body for each of their servers so they could dig their own shallow graves. Where a line of image searchers will kick them unceremoniously into their unmarked holes.

Shortened version: Snap, snap, snap. Snap snap snap. Snap. Snap.

Seriously, Canonical. Having software that automatically updates itself without user consent or the ability to opt out is so laughably against the open source ethos that it makes me sick.

Patching prod servers without the consent of an admin or following the strictures of a deployment strategy?

I genuinely, genuinely do not know why Ubuntu is even seen as an option by server admins. They try to upsell you more than a fast food mobile app and suffer from NIH to an absurd degree.

Bonus for Librewolf!

I love Firefox... But the listicle ads are seriously tacky and annoying. I do not want Pocket. And I do not want Pocket randomly re-enabled after a set of updates.

Except that you are literally saying that Chrome/Firefox doesn't have the ability to stream HD when, in fact, they are. It's just the shitty antics of one of the sleaziest companies in existence.

Jellyfin is a great and superior alternative.

People still buy Lenovo laptops, Sony music, use Microsoft products and Google services.

No matter how loathsome and evil a company has acted towards their oysters, there will always be people who lined up to get shucked.

Which makes my incomprehensible notes to my future self an elaborate form of masturbation.

In an epic team up with Joss Whedon!

I'll be reporting this to Ambassador Porthos! You can expect some urination on anything sacred you own.

Whoa! Let's watch our word choice! Google doesn't abort things!

They keep them alive for 9 months and then will unceremoniously dump the corpse into a nearby river. Their PMs don't see the fun in killing something unless it's already been adopted by consumers.

The DLC was incredible.

Mayor Burt "fucking" Reynolds.

Damn my spelling!

I've been trying to satisfy my spouse by learning stealthy puns in Proto-Indo European. So now I'm a cunning linguist.

Off the top of my head...

Late 90s moved from Motorola 68k to Power PC.

Early aughts moved from PowerPC to Intel x86.

2020's moved from Intel x86 to ARMv8.

It feels like 10 years is a good prediction for when they'll shift everything again.

I'm no fan of Apple, but without a behemoth to force adoption of new architectures, we'd be stuck in the x86 duopoly for the indefinite future.

Where I live in the northern Rockies, -40°F is common enough that you kinda forget about it. But it's also a college town. And every year we get a bunch of incoming students who treat the extreme cold like some sort of game or a challenge to their masculinity.

Same with driving. There's a reason why the regional natives fastidiously use our turn signals and give a ton of space to cars in front of us. Because each of us has gotten into a fender bender by not doing that.

Seriously. Treat the cold with respect. It can debilitate you in just a few minutes.

Blacklist the Nvidia driver and un-blacklist nouveau. I'm going from memory, but I think if you can get to GRUB, you can append 'single' to your kernel parameters. That should get you into a system with minimal drivers loaded.

Service guarantees citizenship!

Maybe I was wrong? Gonna check again. Alacritty was my fave. Hopefully I misread something.

Vifm is ridiculously customizable but also assumes that you're competent with the modal paradigm of Vim.

If you're in a WM, you can use a terminal emulator with SIXEL support (Alacritty is no longer maintained but Wezterm is great) and you can get image previews as well.

Even on a headless server, I love being able to predefine bookmarks.

A simple workflow would be, 'e goes to '/etc/'. HJKL to whatever directory I want, ZZ, then there I am.

There's so much more that can be done, though.

Edit: It looks like alacritty is alive! No idea why I had thought that it had been abandoned. Apologies for the accidental gaslighting.