elucubra

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Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress in c/windows@sopuli.xyz
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

So, we essentially need a non evil company to put together a curated distro, with a solid wine solution for most windows shit, something businesses can trust for their day to day, and then people, being familiar with their work linux would come over to the light side of the force at home.

Seteam OS for non-gamers?

Something cool about them looking so...normal in c/antifascism@midwest.social
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

After the allies had defeated Italy. It's not as if a popular movement had risen and defeated the fascists.

Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anticapitalist that made over 2 Billion dollars...

Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Merriam Webster seems to agree with me.

Anyone do this? in c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Try it. If it doesn't work, I'll give you your money back.

Anyone do this? in c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I do this, and it's getting worse with age. I also have Bipolar, wich is a hell of a fun mix. I asked my psychiatrist, and she told me that it was expected, since it was changing focus continuously, and thus didn't have time to fix (fixate) things.

Something that sometimes works is the thing where you look right to left and back a few times rapidly

Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

it genuinely seems like this guy hates developing duckstation at all.

I don't think you get it. He probably enjoys creating, and achieving something awesome. He has no obligation to deal with entitled users of what he gives away

Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (11 children)

If I give something for free, it's my rules. Simple as that. Don't like it? don't accept it.

Linus is often a dick. He even acknowledges it. Don't like it? Well, there are other OS.

I'm not like that, I like being helpful, I actually do many volunteer hours a week, but... I do hate entitlement. I don't see these people giving Microsoft as hard a time.

Lets keep the Karen constrained, please.

Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it. in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm in Southern Europe. I have very dear friends in Dallas and Austin. I'm welcome to their homes any time I want. The thing is that I know that if I go, the only worthwhile thing would be being with friends. I've been to Dallas twice, and really don't know why anybody would go for tourism.

That plus the danger of entering the country.

EU admits it can’t guarantee $600B promise to Trump in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

How are they going to check/enforce private corps investing?

Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues” in c/news@lemmy.world
Ukraine Urged to Prepare for Jet-Powered Shahed Drones in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I still don't understand why Ukraine isn't building V1 style buzzbombs with modern navigation systems. Cheap as fuck, long range, easily manufactured in massive scale. Pulse jet engines are so cheap, tha RC enthusiasts use them.

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Make AI more accurate (sopuli.xyz)
 

When querying AI, end the query with "provide verifiable citations". It often vastly reduces the bullshit.

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New God tier filament for me (sopuli.xyz)
 

No affiliation or anything. I’m simply stoked!

Elegoo Rapid PETG. I like PETG, but with my printer (Ender 5 Plus, slightly tuned; DD, All metal hotend, dual gear extruder, accelerometer…) regular PETG is sloooow. I’m already up to 180 mm/s it prints beautifully. As with all PETG it likes to be thoroughly dry. Once dry it prints like a PLA+. Beautiful definition.

I paid about 15€ per roll, but buying a 4 pack, it comes to about 12,50€ per roll, so about the same as PLA.

I’m just not buying regular PLA, or PETG anymore. The new generation of materials just leave the older ones in the dust. I had a few rolls of standard PETG that I had slowly been using up, but I sold the last 2, I couldn’t bear the waiting times.

I’m going to try a bunch of the new modified materials, like ABS plus and HT, ASA plus, and especially Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º. Nuts! They are basically sold out until August, but once back in stock I’m buying the stuff.

Interesting times to be in the hobby.

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What is your go to email manager? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Bonus points: Multi platform, Android-iOS... I usually use Thunderbird, but I'd like to explore other options. FOSS not mandatory

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Community and comments too close (sopuli.xyz)
 

I use the app in an iPad, a much of the time when I click with my finger on the comments icon, my finger hits the community link.

Anybody else have this problem?

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Please explain this to me. Are consumers that dumb?!? (sopuli.xyz)
 
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Voyager browser. (sopuli.xyz)
 

Is there a way to have Voyager use an external browser to display web links? In iPad I’d like to use Brave, to minimize ads

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Happy coincidence (sopuli.xyz)
 
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Synology with hybrid RAID alternative? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future

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Since people have asked: SMART Recovery and resources. (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/stopdrinking@lemmy.world
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DISCLAIMER: I'm a SMART volunteer, a meeting facilitator, among other things. I do this to give back. SMART is essentially run by volunteers.

SMART Recovery US website: https://smartrecovery.org/

There are others world wide. A web search with SMART Recovery (language/country) should give you the right result)

https://smartrecoveryglobal.org/

has resources for countries without an established branch

Also, a link to a non-official recovery server, (there are also other program rooms) that leans Link. where 1000s of people with addiction issues hang out, as well as many experienced volunteers. We call it "the support group in your pocket"

SMART is the leading science-based addiction peer self-support organization world wide. Non-profit. Meetings are free and confidential, with thousands of online and face to face meetings. There are 1000s of meetings weekly world-wide. Use this method to find meetings. The basic finder sucks.

There are publications, like the participant handbook, which are a paid, but very affordable resource, not necessary but very helpful. That said, most of the material is available free of charge on the website. The handbook simply provides a structured way to understand the concepts and tools.

Spirituality, like higher powers, is not needed, that is left to the individual.

The program is is based on self empowerment, behavioral training, how to learn to cope with what leads us to addictive behaviors.

The program is not strictly abstinence oriented. It's about identifying goals, and help you achieve them. It supports therapy, professionally prescribed meds, it's not adverse to moderation and harm reduction, as current addiction treatment research supports.

SMART doesn't shame, doesn't stigmatize, doesn't do labels. We are people with an addiction management problem, not alcoholics, or drug addicts or whatever.

There are no steps. It's a 4 point program. Points (or areas) can be approached individually or at the same time:

  1. Build and maintain motivation
  2. Cope with urges and cravings
  3. Manage thoughts, feelings and behavior
  4. Lead a balanced life

The program is oriented towards the addictive behaviors, and doesn't focus on the substance or maladaptive behavior , but how to deal with it. It works for Alcohol, nicotine, drugs, and for things like porn addiction, eating disorders, gambling...

The program is considered one of multiple pathways to recovery, does not claim to be the only way. Many combine it with 12 step, or whatever helps them also.

I hope this helps. If anybody has any questions, please ask.

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Goldilocks distro? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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What do you consider to be the "Goldilocks" distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc... You get the idea.

I'm not a newb, these last few years I've lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I've used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn't install something (which I can't remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I'm on Mint right now, because lazy, but it's acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don't have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I'm a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.

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Is Stremio a honeypot? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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Why is folder sharing between host and guest in KVM so hard? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I'm having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can't get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows. Any clues?

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