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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason by cpw in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 weeks ago

Good comedy can punch up, but very rarely works when punching down. Punching down is generally just bullying in disguise.

notifications rule by cpw in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 months ago

If an app gives me more than a couple of unwanted notifications that I can't easily disable, it's uninstalled. Fuck that shit.

atoms don't touch by cpw in c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago

Physics needs more poets who understand physics.

What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades by cpw in c/videos@lemmy.world

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago

I paid £22.50 for my Knebworth ticket to see Oasis in 1996. Beer was expensive but the lines were so long that two or three was all that was feasible. Instead I got stoned off my face and zoned out on a little hill behind the vip area. It was amazing but I was so smashed that my memory is fuzzy. Ah well. My sister just paid over £1000 for four tickets to oasis. I think I got a rather better deal than her.

Nearly 90% Of Developers Surveyed Say Premium Games Don't Need Microtransactions by cpw in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago

But the CEO's third luxury yacht? What about that?

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Connect is blank? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by cpw@lemmy.ca to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

7 comments fedilink

This morning, connect is empty. All view modes are blank like the screenshot. Randomly ONE post shows up if I refresh a LOT, but immediately disappears. I can read and view my profile, but any posts I try and load from there are empty too.

Edit: I appear to be able to scroll the blank space for quite some time.

Editedit: other clients do not appear to be affected.

A cool guide software alternative by cpw in c/coolguides@lemmy.ca

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 months ago

This guide is misleading. Sure, the product functionalities overlap, but if you have a mature workflow, you will not be able to switch without investing a LOT of effort in relearning your workflow on the new product stack. This is one of my MAIN reasons I hate the "I tried to switch to Linux and failed" genre of content. You're not going to find identical like-for-like replacements in Linux world that won't require significant effort to relearn. It's something us Linux users through and through need to bear in mind.

Also, we need to be cognisant that "just switching to Linux" narratives, fueled off infographics like this, will lead to frustration and dismissal.

No, I don't know how to change this - and morphing e.g. gimp to be a clone of Photoshop isn't the answer either.

Where are the old (30s) granpa gamers? by cpw in c/memes@lemmy.world

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 months ago

30s are rookie numbers. I'm 52 and still game regularly. I started out playing pong clones in about 1975 hooked up to my tv. I played a lot of zx spectrum games in the 80s, failed my degree in the early 90s because I spent far far far too long playing civ1 on my Amiga. Etc etc.

AI is a Lie. by cpw in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

Emily wrote this one and you can tell she was on fire. Really good video.

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Normalization of my homelab? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by cpw@lemmy.ca to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

15 comments fedilink

Hi, so I have a very individual homelab. It's a collection of stuff accumulated over nearly 30 years of doing weird stuff.

For the past 9 years it's been running as a bunch of lxc containers (privileged because unprivileged did not exist, back then) but several of those containers are p2v conversions of physical hosts dating back to debian woody and earlier. They're all upgraded to at least buster, most are bookworm. Stuff like asterisk, email, home assistant, nextcloud, matrix synapse run there these days.

The server is a 15 year old HP gen6 thing, and is getting quite long in the tooth. There's also a dedicated cheapy microserver with an i4 running opnsense on bare metal as a firewall.

Trying to run stuff like local voice stuff for home assistant is showing the HP's age quite badly. Also, our area is getting fibre, and the opnsense box is maxed out at gigabit. More speed would be nice.

So, I'm in two minds. The homelab has been a lot of fun over the years, but I'm over 50 now, I want lower maintenance. This latest wave of upgrades is making me rethink the next 20 years of homelab. I don't want to leave something stupidly "only me" if I were to die tomorrow (diabetes is a fickle bastard). My wife might want to try and carry on this thing - it runs some useful stuff around the house (but it should be noted that nothing in this house requires a server or cloud) - and that's not going to happen with the current solution.

I think I might have a path, using proxmox, from where I am now, to something that can be deployed on e.g. a bunch of ms01 class devices. I'm thinking to convert the existing HP server to proxmox, to allow me to redeploy all my existing lxc containers into the proxmox world. As I acquire hardware over the next year, I can look at a k8s migration of the services onto a small, MUCH lower power cluster. One of the keys is that I don't want to have big outages of services for days or weeks while I migrate everything so it's gotta be a rolling upgrade as it were.

I'm here soliciting feedback. Has anyone ever migrated from a deeply legacy homebrew homelab into something like this? Does it reduce the workload long term? What's the practicality of this for someone rather less tech savvy?

Thanks!

Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years by cpw in c/technology@lemmy.zip

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago

I met my wife on ICQ in 1998.

An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup by cpw in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago

Debian guy could have just downloaded the nonfree installer that includes some common wifi and other hardware firmwares. There are some pragmatists at Debian.

What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? by cpw in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

Going to suggest the folding ideas YouTube channel on the same topic.

https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=m2b1gAkCOlDOnCle

Spoiler: his hypothesis, well supported in my opinion, is that a large proportion of those formerly in flat earth are now neck deep in qanon, and since the film was made many are now into other conspiracy stuff. The election was fake etc.

Also, his video of minnewanka lake is just perfect flat earth debunking.

Right wing commentator, Ben Shapiro pictured at the Barbie movie wearing all black, frowning and holding a stack of angry notes he took during the movie. by cpw in c/politics@beehaw.org

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 year ago

I'm a fifty year old man. Definitely not in the demographic. But I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I took my young adult daughters because we wanted to do barbenheimer together. I loved to messages of family and trying to improve yourself. My daughters obviously connected in a way that I didn't but that's not a problem.

In summary: Ben Shapiro is a twat.