GnuLinuxDude

joined 2 years ago
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I like Lemmy a lot, but when you share a URL it's just an ID number. Compare that to Reddit, where you can get a lot more information on what you're about to look at just from the URL alone.

https://lemmy.ml/post/27659153 vs
https://old.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1jg3vlk/progress_report_linux_614/

Are there any plans to make Lemmy URLs more meaningful?

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 50 points 3 months ago

10-20 requests per second

That's not a DDOS

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The rust coreutils project choosing the MIT license is just another gambit to allow something like android or chromeos happen to gnu+linux, where all of the userland gets replaced by proprietary junk.

And yet that's a popularly welcomed approach, for some reason. Just look at the number of thumbs down this has. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For small programs the FSF/GNU even suggests considering not using the GPL https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Accusing someone else of being me on an alternate account over a very low-stakes comment. Are you paranoid? Leave that shit back on Reddit.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

I live in the USA. Supposedly I, and all of my countrymen, have access to all the free information in the world. Yet Trump is president. A literal anti-vaxxer is the HHS secretary. They're also trying to destroy the education department. Please reconcile that for me.

How does loading flash drives with "subversive media" do anything for anyone? This just sounds like a plan to export ewaste into another country.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the order is actually Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

We are literally watching ICE kidnap people in the USA with legal resident status and deporting them or transferring them to detention centers, and somehow people are downvoting you.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

This person's website got me motivated to start programming in Zig a few weeks ago. Love his website's design, too.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

The VM is Debian Linux with a basic XFCE UI (for a system tray + notification widget) via QEMU/KVM which I run through virt-manager. Most unnecessary packages are removed or not installed in the first place. This is so that I can browse the sites, again, in a fool-proof manner. I share a directory from my host OS to the VM, which mounts it on boot in the fstab. This prevents me from downloading into the guest VM's disk image and having to keep dealing with that file getting overly big. In the past I've done a Samba share but recently I've just been using direct shared memory/filesystem and that seems to work OK, too.

As a bonus to this setup, I can use Microsocks in the VM to also proxy a profile in Firefox to get VPN coverage in a specific Firefox profile. I use this when watching on streaming sites instead of trying to watch within the VM, since there is considerable overhead to doing that.

And that's it, really. My VPN killswitches the VM if it ever experiences a connection interruption. And Qbittorrent is set up to use the VPN interface, as well. I use the aforementioned automatic torrents management feature to sort things when they're done downloading.

I should state that there are some obvious downsides to this setup. The first is now I have to overcommit disk space and RAM to keep and run a guest VM. You want enough to be able to run updates and the software in the VM without running into a wall. The second is that there does seem to be a CPU penalty when downloading files (maybe it's because of the way I'm sharing the downloads directory into the VM with virtiofs?)

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