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  • Those are cool, and they’ve definitely nailed the aesthetic. Also looks like they’re working on a new revision which looks like a reasonable upgrade.

    Not sure it’s the right choice for what I’m after (it’s kinda expensive and very performance limited for the cost), but uh, I’m going to keep an eye out because that’s a cool piece of kit.



  • “Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!”

    The best rule of thumb I’ve ever heard regarding Debian Stable is that if the kernel in stable’s default repo fully supports ALL your hardware, and the software in stable’s default repos fully support your workflows, it’s fine.

    If those are NOT true, then you probably don’t want to use Stable, because you’ll either end up fighting it via manually compiled and installed software, or you’ll venture into so many 3rd party repos for updated packages that updating it later becomes problematic and prone to making the whole system catch fire and burn down.


  • You know, the older I get the more I respect the people who come out and say ‘I’m not going to learn that, and I don’t want to.’

    It’s a LOT better than dealing with someone who half-asses and kinda wishy-washes around and says they’ll maybe do something but then doesn’t and well, wasn’t ever going to.

    If you’re not interested and won’t, say so up front so you don’t waste your or my time trying to get you to do something.


  • Have some stuff on a VPS, some stuff hosted as static pages at Cloudflare, some stuff hosted at home too.

    Depends on if 100% uptime is required, if they’re just serving static content, or if they’re in some way related to another service I’m running (I have a couple of BBSes, and the web pages that host the clients and VMs that host the clients run locally).

    Though, at this point, anything I’m NOT hosting at home is kinda a “legacy” deployment, and probably will be brought in-house at some point in the future or converted to static-only and put on Cloudflare if there’s some reason I can’t/don’t want to host it at home.



  • And PeerTube is pathetic. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

    You’re not wrong, but the biggest flaw Peertube has is that the search on an instance is utterly worthless and defective.

    They do have a good search engine for finding content you might want to watch, but they don’t use those results in the instance-level search which befuddles and confuses the shit out of me, because you won’t find shit you actually want to watch.

    https://sepiasearch.org/ is where you probably want to start, but yeah, there’s a LOT of Linux shit, but you can at least find other things when you use a non-broken search option.


  • You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.

    Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we’re calling the cops.

    You really don’t bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.

    (And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that’s got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)





  • I’m somewhat surprised that there aren’t a lot of good alternatives but uh, yeah, there doesn’t seem to be.

    I would have expected there to be at least one or two good TTS engines but I guess that assumption is quite wrong.

    As to your other post, it’s less that I care in any specific sense that Microsoft knows what I’m reading and more of a (admittedly irrational) dislike of providing anything that an ad company could maybe later use to sell me shit.