thelastknowngod

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[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When you have it built, throw it in a container and run it in Lambda. You'll be able to run it anywhere if you package as a container.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that "works on both Windows and Linux!"

"I don't know what Linux is but it can't be worse that Windows."

I've been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.

I honestly don't know how windows works.. I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It's easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.

  • configuration
  • an executable
  • a communication mechanism (dbus, networking, web server, etc)
  • something that decides if the application runs or not (systemd, monit, docker/docker compose, kubernetes scheduler, or you as the user)
  • a way of accepting input (keyboard and mouse, web requests, database queries, etc)
  • a way of delivering an output (logging to unique log files, through syslog, or to stdout/stderr, showing something on a screen, playing a sound, returning a message to the client, etc)
  • storage (optional)
  • some cpu and memory capacity

That's really it. If something isn't working, it's pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I got a galaxy watch thinking I'd do all these cool things with it. Ultimately I only used it to set alarms to let me know my tea is ready..

I only really use the mechanical watch now.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A small container running in kubernetes on an old laptop.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the "cool" distros, I've settled on Mint and don't really have any motivation to do anything else.. I have real work I need to do and can't be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.

TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling.. I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation.. We wouldn't be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah agreed. I use copilot too. It's fine for small, limited tasks/functions but that's about it. The overwhelming majority of my work is systems design and maintenance though.. There's no AI for that..

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago
[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't speak for most of these places but I'm pretty doubtful in general.

I have no idea what it means for VPNs to be restricted in Turkey for example.. I use them almost every day. Personal, self hosted, commercial, corporate... Both using them while I'm in Turkey to get information from the outside and when I'm outside trying to get information from the inside.

I've never had any issue using them. Like literally ever.

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