SSH in first place. No explanation needed.

But also MATE and Pulseaudio (yes). I really like paprefs, pasystray, and how easy it is to send audio over the network. To the point where I reinstall Pulseaudio instead of Pipewire, because Pipewire requires long command lines for what was easily done in a few clicks with Pulseaudio.

I dread the day where I will be forced to “progress” to Pipewire and lose that easy feature.

In the end though, it’s not making much of a difference aside from nostalgic value. There’s a minimal maintenance to it too. My parents still have the cassettes and the Betamax VCR stored somewhere. Physical photo albums also have to be stored. We don’t want to get rid of them but they’re kind of useless now. It’s around 200 GBs of files to be kept.

It’s also a bit cringe to see yourself being a stupid kid on video. Or read what you wrote in a journal on a floppy disk in the mid 90ies. I went to watch a few minutes because we mentioned it but it’s not something any of my family members return to regularly. It’s just stuff that now sits there. Nice and nostalgic to watch every few years or decade, but not healthy to keep returning to it.

Lots. I was born in the 80ies and my parents took lots of pictures when I was a baby. My sister was born a few years later, and there was also lots of pictures. We have albums full of pictures that I ended up scanning and digitizing. My father was also somewhat of an enthusiast for video cameras and he bought a BetaCam by the end of the 80ies, and a few other ones until the beginning of the 2000s.

So I have videos of my childhood from my first years of school to being a teenager. He was filming at Christmas, at birthdays, and sometimes at random events. He often just set the camera in a corner and filmed for the length of a Beta tape.

I digitized all of the Beta cassettes into mp4s during the pandemic and now I offer USB drives to people of the family that don’t have any videos of when my grandparents were alive.

Plus, my maternal grandfather also filmed some gatherings and events. So I also have digitized videos of them in the 60ies and 70ies.

Ironically most of us never liked to be taken in photos, or filmed, but I’m kind of glad we still have them. If I compare to my friends, apparently, I have a “treasure trove” of videos and pictures.

Did he say that in English? I can’t find the quote French and I’d be curious to see how it’s phrased.

Something like “Chère royauté, vous croyez être à la tête de l’État, mais vous n’en avez point”?!

The biggest issue I’ve had with my Pinebook Pro is getting any external display to work. I have bought multiple dongles and none of them are working. In fact, there are multiple smaller issues all different depending on the OS installed. I settled on Manjaro but wifi stops working after coming back from suspend, and it needs to be rebooted. The speakers are weak too.

And there’s software compatibility. Most of the software have ARM packages in multiple versions, but sometimes it doesn’t exists or can’t work. Like wine.

It’s not very polished and it requires knowing tech and Linux a good deal. It’s functional enough and could be useful for development, but I wouldn’t recommend it as an everyday laptop.

I tried to have it nearby and use it from time to time but I just end up getting back to my x86 laptop.

are you saying that the solution for genocide is more genocide?

Israel not existing is not a genocide against Jews.

Once translated: “ugh, those fucking idiots”.

In my native language: “ah les osti d’épais”.

C’est insultant qu’un employé au service clientèle dans un commerce de détail doive être bilingue, mais que le dirigeant d’Air Canada puisse s’en sauver en s’excusant de ne pas avoir été en mesure d’apprendre une exigence de son travail.

EDIT: Übrigens, eine Handy ist “un cell/cellulaire” in Kanada-Französisch.

Painting it gay is going the extra mile on hypocrisy.

But to be honest, compared to some of the anti homeless measures I’ve seen, this combination has the merit to not be as ugly and direct as this one.

Do Icelandic people power their cars with electricity from geothermal? I’m not in Europe but where I live 94% of our electricity is hydroelectric, yet the vast majority of cars are still using gas/petrol. So even if we are independent on electricity, and it’s somewhat clean, we still import oil to power cars and trucks.

As we all know, we can always trust on businesses to do the right thing.

A few years ago I would have said they are useless but I ended up buying one for my off grid cabin in winter and I like it.

I have solar panels and batteries with a small 500w inverter in the cabin and the setup works very well in summer for my usage. However temperature averages in January here are around -10C and the batteries get too cold to charge them. Also there is generally not much sun in winter anyway.

So I bought a small generic power station to bring there and it’s excellent for my needs. It lights up the place and charges my laptop and phone.

To be fair it’s kind of overkill because my laptop and phone can be charged from a hefty power bank using PD.

Torrenting a song from cassette? From what specific era should that be? You forgot Napster, Kazaa, and IRC.

Who is going to arrest/fine FOSS developers for not doing anything about that? Would Brazil and US states go after uuuh, the systemd developers? What about distros not using systemd, like Slackware. Who is ultimately responsible for a collaborative project? Are they gonna send the police after Torvalds?

Plus, other countries don’t have this obligation.

All that dev had to do is nothing. Instead he chose to comply with something that was never asked.

Most distributions use systemd but there are still distros and other unix-like operating systems that are using something else. However, they are not “user friendly” and will probably not be what most people are looking for.

Slackware uses its own init system and never used systemd but it has the reputation of being difficult to use. Gentoo also lets users choose between systemd and OpenRC. Alpine Linux uses OpenRC too. There’s more than a dozen distros not using systemd, but again, probably not what most people want to use. It’s also possible to replace systemd with OpenRC on some distros, but it possibly, probably, might cause some quirks.

Otherwise, there are other unix-like operating systems. Debian GNU Hurd also has its own init system but it’s not using the Linux kernel, so it’s a different beast. OpenBSD and FreeBSD also have their own init system, but not Linux. And AFAIK there’s no such thing as modern gaming on those.

There are ways not to use systemd, but realistically speaking, it will probably not be worth it unless you’re really militant about this. I started with Slackware at the end of the 90ies, I know how to compile a kernel, and tried GNU Hurd at some point, but I will not change something unless it’s really implemented deeper into the general software. It’s frustrating that the systemd devs are “collaborating”, but we’ll see what happens after a few rounds of updates.

Cycling on rail trails and long isolated bike paths. Getting from A to B without burning any fossil fuel. I live in an archipelago and pull my inflatable kayak to the river and the lakes nearby using a bike trailer.

this was due to “procedural reasons”. The applications would have required extensive clarification and could not be approved within the specified deadlines.

Isn’t just because of bureaucracy?

I wonder how IBM would deal with that.

The whole progression for curious people.

I even have a plan when there are power outages. The hard drive that contains most of the media I collected over the years is external. In case of power outage I can power it with a power bank and a USB-C PD to 12v adapter.

But this probably reads like wizardry for people that equate wifi to internet.