gerowen

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[–] gerowen@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's antisemitic? I haven't finished it yet, or maybe I'm just dense, but how is it antisemitic? And isn't Sirona trans? And I've met at least one openly gay married couple in game too.

I don't want to be defensive of something bad or to demean your opinion, I just want to understand this point of view since you aren't the first person I've seen express it.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Systemd has all sorts of options. If a service has certain sandbox settings applied such as private /tmp, private /proc, restricting access to certain folders or devices, restricting available system calls or whatever, then systemd creates a chroot in /proc/PID for that process with all your settings applied and the process runs inside that chroot.

I've found it a little easier than managing a full blown container or VM, at least for the things I host for myself.

If a piece of software provides its own service file that isn't as restricted as you'd like, you can use systemctl edit to add additional options of your choosing to a "drop-in" file that gets loaded and applied at runtime so you don't have to worry about a package update overwriting any changes you make.

And you can even get ideas for settings to apply to a service to increase security with:

systemd-analyze security SERVICENAME

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I just host everything on bare metal and use systemd to lock down/containerize things as necessary, even adding my own custom drop-ins for software that ships its own systemd service file. SystemD is way more powerful than people often realize.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When they first conceptualized the bomb some scientists weren't even sure the explosion would stop at all, or if it might create an unstoppable chain reaction that would just continue infinitely and consume the whole earth.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've had very occasional issues with it not uploading new photos in a timely manner in the past. I haven't had any issues in a long time, but I have gotten into the habit of explicitly opening the app, clicking "Uploads" and hitting refresh and making sure everything has been uploaded.

I'm not really sure what causes it, though if I had to guess Android is putting the app to sleep in the background so it may have something to do with power saving settings. I've switched to the F-Droid version of the app and manually disabled the appropriate power settings as a just-in-case, though that may have nothing to do with anything.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That'll still end up cheaper than room and board, clothing, medical care, food, lawyers, etc. for the next several decades.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

dpkg-deb --build
Makes it super simple to create one. You just lay out a folder with the contents you want to be installed. Just make sure it has a DEBIAN/control sub folder/file because that control file is where you can specify dependencies, package version, name, etc.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I literally have clothes hanging on a line across the living room because our just out of warranty $1,000+ Samsung "smart dryer" died again a month after I replaced every sensor and the heating element, and I just don't feel like taking it apart again to "maybe" find the problem.

Before this we just had a plain white box from Maytag; easy to work on, cheap replacement parts. It was probably 30 years old when the motor seized and my wife asked for newer, fancier machines. Big mistake.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Steam Big Picture mode (like what the Steam Deck defaults to) makes PC couch gaming super easy. I haven't played anything with or needed a mouse and keyboard in ages.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I had been a PlayStation gamer since PS1 and the PS4 killed it for me. I had bought a lot of digital games during the PS3 era; I was all in on PlayStation. I even bought digital copies of PS1 games I had the discs for to save wear and tear on my discs. I bought the official USB memory card adapter that let you plug your PS1 and PS2 memory cards in and import your save data.

I bought the PS4 and none of it carried forward, not even PS1. I kept it for a bit and played some CoD and Fallout 4 , but eventually sold it and migrated to PC.

[–] gerowen@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

I use AdGuard Home on a home server to block all social media for my kids for this very reason.

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