More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you’re still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.

Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo’s mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they’ll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I’m not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)

For Cinnamon DE, there’s Gamma and brightness applet.

Precisely. From Cory Doctorow’s latest, very insightful essay on AI, where he talks about the promise of AI replacing 9 out of 10 radiologists:

“if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop.’ It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”

This is a reverse centaur, and it’s a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it’s what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink.” The radiologist’s job isn’t really to oversee the AI’s work, it’s to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.

It’s the year 2026. Irony is dead.

While cstom ROMs of Android TV do exist, Samsung does not want you to truly own your device and has locked it down. The only option I see is to use your TV as a dumb TV: hook up any PC to your TV’s HDMI ports (I use a Raspi 5 running Ubuntu for that). The PC gives you full control over what you want to install, which may include an adblocker in the browser or free YouTube frontends such as FreeTube.

You do it to state things clearly. I do it because Microslop evidently hates being called “Microslop”. Apparently they’ve never heard about the Streisand effect. Let’s assist their learning.

We call it “Microslop” 'round these parts.

REAL MEN DON’T STARVE!

Tell me you haven’t read the article without telling me you haven’t read the article.

Three quarters of Dubai’s food is delivered by ship with another quarter flown in, but air transport has been as badly affected as shipping. On March 7 the IRGC hit the Dunia International Airport with a missile effectively closing it down.

OpenMediaVault. CasaOS. There may be others.

No drop-in replacements for everything TrueNAS did, but at least something.

Self hosting […] P2P

You do realise that’s a contradiction, right?

Unless you’re hosting a TOR node (which is outside of the scope here and, in the case of exit nodes, extremely risky), there’s nothing here that’s relevant to self-hosting.

Sure, that’s what I do for hosting my stuff. DDNS does not help with SSH whitelisting because that is IP-based, not based on a URL.

Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation!

Set up a firewall and only open port 22 with your IP (you can look it up using ip.me).

I keep wondering about this part whenever I read it. Do y’all have static IP addresses so you can do this easily? If I did this, I’d probably lock myself out within a week (which is roughly the interval at which my public IPv4 will change).

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Most are law abiding and tax paying people

…which makes them the natural enemies of this admin of crooks, which are neither of the two.

The problem is: you’re assuming they’re arguing in good faith when they say it’s about pRoTeCtInG tHe ChIlDrEn. It’s not. It’s a pretext for the data grab and mass surveillance of everyone. They will gladly take your argument, claim age verification is compatible with privacy and anonymity, and then introduce age verification systems that do implement mass surveillance. Don’t give them an inch.

Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.

Well, now he did.

Wait, the Dear Leader’s member is RJ45-sized? Wow, that’s even more pathetic than I had anticipated.