Future generations will look at people who think AI/Robots are humans as the gullible useful idiots they are.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda
If by "scenario" you mean you only want to observe single parameter, then fine, but that's not really useful.
Alcohol is much worse than soda.
the risk of data loss at that point is high. you will miss things
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Why would it be "practical" to do it during the conversion?
They could just go to the toilet like normal people (before or after).
I mean, I don't plan to eat anymore until tomorrow, therefore it's practical that I shit myself now?
I used to love Sailfish OS.
I guess I still do, but the problem is that while they recently expanded amount of devices they support, for some of them the "support" is just not what you think. Eg. I got Xperia 10 V just for the SFOS, but even though on their main list the device is listed as supported, turns out that camera, Android support and fingerprint sensor, these don't work. To be fair, this info was possible to find on their forums, and I did not have to pay for SFOS (they offer 6 month trial), so they have nothing to gain from communicating so badly, but it is what it is.
So in case you want to try it, just really make sure you know to what extent your device is supported.
OpenTTD player
It's nice when people guess which AI i used to generate my avatar.
...well, technically, yes.
If you are well-versed in the guts of the distro (grub, /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab...), and have extra space, you could spend part of your weekend shifting partitions around and moving everything to the encrypted side, and eventually re-configuring your install and removing the old part. (Oh and don't forget to chown your /home data if you have multiple users.) I've been there, it's not fun. It's fun[tm]. It's just far easier and less error prone to re-install if you can.
(Yeah, I'm stretching the definition of "enabling it" reeealy thin here... đ )
It's much worse: They can re-use the same wrench.
(Disgusting, I know... đ )
Great point.
I provided reasons why I encrypted my drives but this one is even better.
(Another one could be if you need to get your computer to a repair shop, and for some reason you can't just remove the drive.)
TBH even the way you phrased your question kind of proves it's orthogonal. Yes, you can have the full matrix:
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encrypted | backed up
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no | no
no | yes
yes | no
yes | yes
In each case, you have a different set of problems.
- Encrypting a particular medium only means that it's going to be harder to gain access to the data on that medium (harder for everyone, but trillions of less harder for someone who knows the password.
- That's regardless of whether you also have a backup.
- Backing up just means that a copy of the data exists somewhere else.
- That's regardless of whether this or the other copy is encrypted.
Sure, eventually, the nature of your data's safety will be affected by both.
Disclaimer: I'm by no means a security expert, don't take what I write here as advice!
Eg. I encrypt my disks. When I do, I basically encrypt everything, ie. all partitions (except /boot). Then on those partitions, most of the data is not worth backing up since it's either temporary or can be easily obtained anyway (system files). Well, some of the data is backed up, and some of that even ends up on disks that are not encrypted (scary, I know!) :)
To be fair, just encrypting the disks does not solve all. If someone broke to my house, they would with almost 100% chance find my computer on, which means that the disks are not encrypted (technically still are, just that LUKS provides unencrypted versions as well..) So the barrier they would have to face would be basically just the desktop lock.
For that reason I don't encrypt hard drives on my remote server, since the server is always running in a virtual environment so by definition anyone who's maintaining the hardware can already open files from the unencrypted drives, ie. I think it would be pointless.
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Don't you mean LUKS with LVM on top? (That's what I use, I'm not sure LVM alone even supports encryption..)
LUKS (I was assuming that's kind of implied, I don't think I ever thought of another way..)
but if somebody is eager and skilled enough to break in my home to get my disks, honestly they âdeserveâ the content.
The problem with "my disks" is there's always some other's people on it, in one way or another.
But of course, it's your call. We all have gaps in our "walls" and it's not like I'd be pretending that LUKS is all that matters.
I do, laptops and workstations.
It's just too easy not to, and there's almost no downsides to it. (I only need to reboot, once a month or two.)
Well, unless you consider the possibility of forgetting the password a downside, so for that reason I keep the password in a password manager.
In case my laptop was stolen, there would quite a couple fewer things to worry about. Especially things like client's data which could be under NDA's, etc...
Don't take it the wrong way, It's not a strong opinion at all.
The inclusion of the word "cloud" meant that I wanted to know precisely how other people's computers are involved. My thinking was, since it got to the first paragraph on the site, (which I assumed was intended for the users), I thought it must be more than just the obvious, well, someone has to provide the hardware.
All I did was Google it, and the definition I found was not telling me much.
In fact, I'm already learning more; eg. I listened to some of the podcast with j0rge that someone linked here.. So no need to fire this user yet.
More nuanced reply: I do tend to complain
- less about certain bugs and limitations, where I can understand that the problem is harder than it seems
- and more about others, where I have to imagine a poor intern dragged around by bad advice for several sprints, finally marking the task done (forehead sweating and all), even though they did not really know what they were doing even for a minute.
Thank you for the post, especially the interview links; I'll check them out.
Iâm sorry, but it is a software engineering term. Maybe not from the area you are familiar with, but cloud native was the raging buzzwordâŠabout 10 years ago
I guess my point would be the same, but conclusion is the opposite. Yes, I've heard "cloud native" tons of times, but that is the problem with buzzwords: because they are overused (and often used a lot by people who don't really know what they are talking about), for many people like me, they lose meaning in that period. It's like "AI" nowadays, or "NFT" few years ago. The term loses its specificity (if it ever had one), and collects all the "bad smell" from people overusing -- not just the term but sometimes also the methodology behind.
Honestly, for me rpm-ostree and Flatpak would be excellent terms to convey the architecture of Bazzite. I did have to go to here and to Wikipedia to learn that.
The suspicious part is that the "good folks making good shit" are defending it, and even doubling down because it makes people question the whole identity and of the project. (But I guess out that turned out after your post.)
(I recognize that it's by no means all of the Bazzite's good folks.)
So what the boink is Bazzite "cloud native" blah?
Look, I'm a Debian user for 15 years, I've worked in F/OSS for a long time, can take care of myself.
But I'm always on a lookout for distros that might be good fit for other people in my non-tech vicinity, like siblings, nieces, nephews... I'm imagining some distro which is easy for gaming but can also be used for normal school, work, etc. related stuff. And yeah, also not too painful to maintain.
(Well, less painful than Windows which honestly is not a high bar nowadays... but don't listen to me, all tried in past years was to install Minecraft from the MS store... The wound is still healing.)
I have Steam Deck and I like how it works: gaming first, desktop easily accessible. But I only really use it for gaming.
So I learned about Bazzite, but from their description on [their main site][bgg] I'm not very wise:
The next generation of Linux gaming [Powered by Fedora and Universal Blue] Bazzite is a cloud native image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best o
Who benefits from the "X Min Read" estimates popping up everywhere?
These things are nothing new. First time I saw them was on Medium com, if I remember correctly.
Honestly I never understood why they were useful in the first place. Why would it even matter how long do I spend reading things? And how would such a guess even make sense in the first place? I mean, define "reading" -- is it just skimming the text with your eyes and not even thinking about it? Or somehow thinking at the exact same rate & speed for all parts of the article, from intro to any novel ideas to unclear parts to conclusion?
Also, doesn't putting a "minute price tag" on a body of text kind of devalue it?
Disclaimer: I'm probably heavily biased here, all I can think of is some sort of a pseudo book nerd who wants to be as efficient at "reading" as many things as possible with no pauses for thinking, but there has to be a real serious reason why these guesstimates are ever really useful?
(A more honest disclaimer: I actually find them distracting, to say the least. I am pr
Understanding The Apologistâs Evening Prayer by C.S.Lewis
I'm not sure if this is a right type of question for this community.
The context is not essential, but in a recent video Alex O'Connor quoted "The Apologist's Evening Prayer" by C.S.Lewis. As a non-native English speaker, I failed to understand it from hearing, so I looked it up but I still struggle with interpreting it.
Can someone here help me out with "translating" to a bit simpler English?
So here's the poem, as taken from cslewis.com:
From all my lame defeats and oh! much more From all the victories that I seemed to score; From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh; From all my proofs of Thy divinity, Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust, instead Of Thee, their thin-worn image of Thy head. From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of Thee, O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free. Lord of the narrow
In January, is it winter in Australia?
I mean, everyone knows that in January it's hot in Australia, and in July it's cold there.
But do Australians call it "winter" in January and "summer" in July? Or does just "winter" imply hot weather and beaches, and "summer" implies winter, eh, i mean, snow sports and wool socks.
And given that, most of the population lives in northern hemisphere, is there a body of dad jokes and culture tropes related to the fact that "we're different", or is it just too cringe and boring. (I realize both could be true on this one.)
When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video?
When I speak, unless I'm sharing the screen I always keep looking at myself. It's kind of strange -- it clearly does not match a real-world conversation, but somehow I can't help it.
Edit: More context -- I'm wondering if others have it, if this is something that can be explained by some "brain" thing, and also how does it affect the conversation.
Protons inside, electrons outside. But why not the other way around?
Every time I try to understand how forces which hold atoms and molecules together work, I find myself wanting to ask this question: why not the other way around? Could there be an atom which has electrons and neutrons inside, and protons outside?
It feels like a silly question, but is there something we know about the universe we live in that implies that this is not possible?
cautionary tale with OwnCube (nextcloud hosting)
This is not strictly self-hosted but another approach I which is similar in philosophy, and which I actually prefer in many cases: hosted services.
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So about 5 years ago I got fed up with having to update nextcould (or was it owncloud? I don't recall) so I was looking for a hosting service.
Initially I expected this to be a bit of a burden on my budget (especially if one scales with users), but to my surprise, I found OwnCube (owncube.de), where the price was about EUR 18 per year. Great deal. So I went ahead, set it up, tested for a while and eventually ended up configuring my parents' phones to use it for storing contacts & photos instead of Google.
To be clear, I did not use nextcloud myself directly. I had been already paying for fastmail, and it's perfect, except it's single-user, so for myself I kept using fastmail, just synchronizing fastmail (using vdirsyncer) and owncube nextcloud just to have a backup and also alternate interface.
This was working perfectly, unt
Time tracking on GNU/Linux
Is there some mature and usable application or tool that would enable tracking desktop activities to aid in time tracking?
Over 10 years (back when I used Windows at work), I recall I was using an app on Windows -- I forgot what it was, definitely closed source, although very well made -- that would sit somewhere in the tray and just track my activities (mostly just active window title and app), and later it would enable me to look back at the data, analyze it and categorize the time.
I recall that for my rather ADD-ish brain, this was a life-saver.
I don't recall name of the app, but it looked kinda similar like timeBro (judging just from brief look at their web page and their demo)
I haven't seen anything like that for Linux -- I admit I haven't really tried to search very hard. Given the vast diversity of desktops (from GNOME to KDE to i3), technologies (Xorg to Wayland...) and work environments (native apps, web browsers, flatpaks, command lines, ID
Why do we want to know why?
With any question, why is it always so helpful to know why the answer is the one that is? In another words, which principle of thinking and learning is most closely tied to question "why"? Or is it purely social act of expressing deeper interest? Is questioning for reasons mandatory?
I feel I know the answer to this question intuitively, but find it hard to express it into words without it sounding stereotypical and lazy.
This seems bizarre, because it's children who are most "famous" for asking "why" all the time, but: How would you, say explain to a child, why do we need to know reasons behind things?
How do you deal with endless cookies dialogues?
This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless "accept/reject cookies" dialogues?
Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is ...just awful.
Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it's rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly --- or at least not trying to "get you". At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for "reject all" or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I've just seen too many of them where clicking anything but "accept all" will lead to some sort of visual punishment.
Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just .. darn ... everywhere, all the frickin' time.
Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just "accept all" muscle
Going out of comfort zone is good because it can help catch our "inner demons" at work
When we go out of our comfort zone, go for some new adventure or new challenge, we will naturally pay more attention to what happens in our minds as we're going through this new experience.
"Demons", i.e. results of past bad, or even traumatic experience can be active during our daily life, often in various activities ranging from getting out of bed to talking to people where we have complex relationships (family members, co-workers, bosses, even kids..).
In daily life, random acts of these demons can go almost unnoticed, but that could be just because we're so much used to them acting that we've already normalized this "mischief" as normal facts of life.
One way of exposing them is talking to therapist.
Another way is learning to be mindful and pay more attention to oneself.
Yet another way is experiencing something new and unique -- our brain will naturally tend towards some sort of mindfulness, merely by instinct of being careful in new environment.
This could also mean that
Lemmy is good despite 404: FetchError: invalid json response body...
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but don't worry, lemmy we love you đ„°, we can wait a while...
BoubĂn something 3/3 (1840x3264)
Author: me. Taken in 2014 during my trip to BoubĂnskĂœ prales (BoubĂn Primaeval Forest) north of Ć umava National Park.
I don't know what it is.