“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.

I mean the article answers it, but this is not the first time that devs have complained that they MUST launch software that runs on the X and it’s sibling, the S.

Like, it’s a requirement that the game runs well on the flagship console and it’s potato brother.

It’s hardly a mystery why a dev might not want to spend time building a game that looks great on PS5, Series X, and PC and then also have to make a 2nd lobotomized version since Microsoft decided they wanted two consoles this time around.

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.

Man, grindr getting dangerous these days.

Biebian is VASTLY superior to Hannah Montana Linux. You should consider switching.

Maybe you’d be happier playing Diablo’s parents, a proper rogue-like?

Perma-death provides quite the incentive and intensity you seem to want.

It also doesn’t lend itself quite so much to “builds” since you’re relying mostly on whatever you find, which is randomized, so you can’t “solve the game”.

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.

Yeah, that would be an improvement, especially since the price per kwh can spike like crazy during situations where they really need you to sell back to the grid.

The only issue that I can see happening is that everyone would then move the ‘sell price’ slider to the maximum setting and leave it there and I’m not entirely sure the power companies would shrug and play along.

My $5 is that they’d keep the low offering price and just wait for SOMEONE to eventually decide that whatever, some ROI is better than no ROI and we’ll end up back where we started.

This is one of those problems that probably has to be actually regulated by someone “impartial” that’s setting the prices that are not unreasonable for either party, but I’m still in Texas and we can’t agree on regulating anything anywhere at any time, so I’m less than hopeful.

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But again, most people aren’t running Linux

Exactly. This is bad, for the 0.3% of the computing population that use Linux AND have CUPS installed AND actually print things.

Not exactly a prime target, compared to literally almost anything else. If I were going all-in on something after having gained access to someone’s local network, I’m 100% in on any exploit that lets me use an infostealer trojan to steal your session cookies, not fiddling around and hoping you print something.

(Patch your shit anyways, but there’s no need to freak out.)

That’s a very rosy picture, but they skipped a very important detail, alas. Or well, a few.

First, selling your power to the power companies in Texas is great! Except the amount they pay you is always going to be substantially less than the price you’re going to pay later to import a kwh.

We have the Freedom™ to pay two seperate charges for power: the delivery cost, and the power cost. This is a great Freedom™ because it lets the power company pay you the power cost for your exported power, but you get to pay both halves when you no longer have that kwh in your batteries later.

Also this is just an attempt to get someone else to pay their CapEx to catch extreme usage events, and the incentives being paid out to people who have spent tens of thousands of dollars is still tilted in the power company’s favor. The article itself even says it’s helping them make a bigger profit: if it was a fair set of incentives, well, then that wouldn’t be what’s actually happening, would it?

And, worse, any non-Texans might not catch how unlivable shit gets if your A/C starts screwing with the set temperature when it’s 110F outside. The article says it turns it ‘off’, but the impact I’ve seen from some friends who have one of these plans setup is that it simply sets the temperature to something like 86; high enough to stop the usage, but not quite enough to kill you or your pets if you’re not aware it’s done it. Still, not the most pleasant.

Still, it’s a good idea and a step in the right direction, but we need (lol, lmao) actual real regulation around this and the incentives to be a little less… lame. They’re very much structured around the ‘well, what else are you going to do with your excess?’, rather than with a real intent of fair dealing.

normalized microtransactions

I’d say it’s maybe a little more honest to say they normalized the gambling exploitation in gaming with the TF2 lootboxes.

You didn’t buy cosmetics, you bought a key to open a box that might get you the cosmetic you wanted.

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.)

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Yeah, and at that point your network should be enforcing client isolation too, which is also a mitigation for this specific issue in large, shared networks like a college campus, or office, or public Wi-Fi at wherever.

It’s that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns is only alive because all the things that would kill him are cancelling each other out, but in PHP form.

I tend to use Squarespace because uh, they have a marketing budget and everyone tends to already know (or at least one of the people in the meeting anyways) who they are, which makes things an easier sell.

I don’t particularly think they’re the best or whatever, but they at least do what they say at a price that’s reasonable enough and I’ve yet to be burned by suggesting them, sooooo…

I’m not giving access to my Mastodon account to some random service I’ve never heard of for no reason.

If it makes you feel better, it’s all client-side: there’s nothing executing on the server (I’m running a copy of it on a server that just… can’t execute anything) so it’s not doing any data stealing.

Buuut, since it’s trivial to host, you could grab a copy of the code and host it yourself as well.

The FTC commissioner opened her Fruit Loops and a Zuckerbot fell out, probably.

Not quite: it’ll drop a v2 captcha for you to solve when a v3 one can’t clearly classify you one way or another.

So if v3 isn’t entirely sure you’re human, it’ll make you do a v2.