renard_roux @ renard_roux @beehaw.org

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Gluetun is running in a container in the same stack as Qbit, and Qbit knows to get its network through Gluetun.

network mode > service > gluetun or something similar (syntax is def. wrong) in the Compose.

Gluetun is connected to AirVPN through / with / using (?) WireGuard. I'm actually a bit foggy on the terminology 😅

I'm in virtually the same situation, although qbit is running in Docker through a Gluetun/Wireguard tunnel, so that part works fine.

I really wanted to do split tunnel on my Mac to access my tracker's site (all Linux ISOs, of course) through the same tunnel, and haven't had any success.

My workaround is running LibreWolf (modded Firefox) in the same stack, through the same tunnel. It's not ideal, but at least it works.

Do update if you find a solution!

In curious — what's your user level in Photoshop? Tried GIMP a few times, and loathed it, as a professional (and very proficient) Photoshop user.

I also loathe Adobe, but i'm stuck with them (and macOS) until someone comes up with a viable alternative 😓

Managed to get somewhat comfortable with Linux (Fedora+KDE Plasma) on an old Chromebook recently, so think I might be ready to leave macOS behind, if only there was a viable Photoshop option.

Both for bloated code, inconsistent shortcuts and features across apps, and their shitty subscription scheme.

A thought — there is a lot of news (paper?) jargon in there that makes it difficult for the layperson (including myself) to parse. It took me more lines than I care to admit to understand that the text wasn't about office workers not having desks ...

Consider a re-write with less jargon to reach a wider audience?

Shit dude, this is a public instance! Think of your family! 😳

/s

Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst's commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I'll paraphrase): "The interesting thing with [Chump] isn't what he's going to do next, it's what he'll do when it fails" 😂

Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).

Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?

Edit — Never mind, nothing was scrubbed, that was the shortest Google search I ever did 😅

In mother America, car IDE's you!

Joking aside — how the fuck are they getting away with this shit?! A company with zero armored car experience (fuck you, Cybertruck) gets a 400M government contract out of the blue? While the CEO of said company is employed by the same government, and a personal "friend" of the president?!

Seriously, if corporations are people, when the fuck are they going to start screaming their heads off?! Are none of the American car manufacturers enraged by this?!

America is so completely fucked.

Obsidian, any day, all day.

• Desktop client on macOS computer and laptop
• Desktop client on Fedora Linux laptop
• Android app on phone
• Everything synced with Dropbox
• Dropsync to sync Dropbox to phone
• Local and cloud backup (Backblaze B2 + Google Drive) his my NAS

I love it so much that I live in near constant fear for them to somehow enshittify it 😔

It's only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.

... wasn't OpenAI not also ...

Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅

"... reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media ..." 🙄

Rough turbo-treatment:

Ella can't seem to hold on to her husbands; every time she thinks she's finally got a marriage worth keeping, she gets divorced. Strangely, this always coincides with her starting a new garden. But this time is going to be different — she's just married Mark, and he's Mr. Perfect. This time, there will be NO gardens! But then Ellas favorite aunt dies, and leaves her a billion dollars and a sprawling estate in England. The catch? Her aunts will stipulates that in order to receive the inheritance, Ella must create the perfect garden, and win the coveted Norfolk Garden Of The Year award. And she has 6 months to pull it off.

--- and then I ran that through ChatGPT a few times ... ---

    
Title: "The Garden Curse"

Movie Trailer Script:

[Soft romantic music. A bouquet is tossed at a wedding. Freeze-frame. Ella’s voiceover kicks in.]

Ella (voiceover, wry):
"Hi, I’m Ella. Three marriages, three divorces, and one really weird curse: every time I start a garden… my husband leaves."

[Quick montage of Ella digging in gardens while husbands dramatically exit: slamming doors, driving off, and one just yelling, "I CAN’T DO THIS!"]

Ella (to camera, deadpan):
"Yeah, I’m done with plants."

[Cut to her dream wedding. Ella and Mark, her charming new husband, laughing and spinning on the dance floor.]

Voiceover:
"Now she’s married to Mark. Mr. Perfect. No gardens. No curse. Just love."

Ella (to Mark, serious):
"Promise me: no gardens, no divorces!"

[Record scratch. Cut to a lawyer’s office. Ella stares in disbelief.]

Lawyer:
"Your aunt left you her billion-dollar estate in Norfolk, England."

Ella:
"WHAT?"

Lawyer (grinning):
"On one condition: you must create a garden and win the Norfolk Garden of the Year award. Within 6 months."

[Cut to Ella standing in the middle of an overgrown, chaotic estate in England, jaw dropped.]

Ella (panicked, to Mark):
"The curse! If I pick up a shovel, you’ll be gone by Christmas!"

Mark (smirking):
"Ella, it’s just a garden. I’m not going anywhere."

[Fast-paced montage of chaos: Ella covered in mud, accidentally spraying herself with a hose, and losing a fight with a hedge trimmer. Mark looks on, half-amused, half-concerned.]

Voiceover:
"But curses don’t care how perfect your husband is…"

[Mark sitting alone at dinner as Ella sketches garden plans. Ella frantically planting under moonlight while Mark sighs in the doorway. The eccentric judge of the Norfolk competition glances at Ella’s half-finished garden, unimpressed.]

Judge (dramatic):
"This? Needs a miracle."

[Enter Mabel, Ella’s snarky gardening mentor, slapping a pair of gloves into her hand.]

Mabel:
"You want a billion dollars? Then grab a spade and start digging, sweetheart."

[Montage of high-stakes gardening and marriage chaos: Mark stepping on a rake, Ella rushing to a posh, romantic dinner in muddy boots, with a peacock under her arm.]

Ella (to herself):
"I can’t lose Mark over this stupid curse."

[Final montage: the garden coming to life, Mark and Ella laughing together in the dirt, and the judge returning for his final verdict. The music swells as Ella and Mark hold hands in the finished garden.]

Voiceover:
"Can she break the curse… and win the garden of the year? Or will love wilt once again?"

**Screen text fades in: "The Garden Curse. This spring, love needs a little fertilizer."

[Final shot of Ella chasing a runaway wheelbarrow down a hill while Mabel shouts:]

Mabel:
"Faster, girl! Those hydrangeas won’t plant themselves!"

Ella (shouting back):
"Next time, I’m just buying fake grass!"

[Final shot of Mabel yelling as a goat runs off with a prized rose bush.]
 
  

Rosemary is the one thing (well, ish ...) that I can't keep alive! We should join forces! 😅

Caveat — Scandinavia

We have a Samsung "smart" TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV's original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.

I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen "keyboard" / text input (we don't have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we're happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.

Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung's interface.

either

Is there any indication that they won't implement this shit at some point?

Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane "features" in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?

Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer's favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?

I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future ... 🐰

Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

• Klaus
• That Christmas
• The Grinch (2018 animated)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Home Alone 1 + 2

That Christmas became an instant classic this year. Fucking amazing ❤️

Just watched Klaus with the kids for the Nth time (first time this year, though), and still absolutely fantastic.

I'm probably forgetting some, but these are definitely at the top of the list.

Just finished watching Klaus with the kids 30 minutes ago (we've seen it many times before), and it's just brilliant.

Exactly! Seems like a very "Yo Dawg!"-moment to me.

The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

(Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don't know about)