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I'm still running TrueNAS Core, but I'm in the process of moving to the Community Edition. I'm doing a wholesale backup data, start from scratch, restore data to fix some initial choices in my zpool I wasn't happy with.
I'm dreading setting up Plex and Syncthing again so I've been dragging my feet. Seeing the comment about dreading each update isn't exactly lifting my feet out of the dirt.
They did for a time. I have a Radio Shack 10 meter mobile radio I picked up from an estate sale.
I decided to receive my Librem 5 I ordered in August of 2019 and shipped in April 2023. From the reports by the people who received the first non-test batches of phones (the "Evergreen" batch), I knew this was never going to be a daily driver. Their software team just isn't up to the task of pounding a Linux system into the shape of what people expect from a cellphone. The type of person who is using this daily only needs phone and SMS, charges it most of the day (or carries extra batteries), and can contort the rest of their needs into a ten year old hardware platform with immature display support. So mine just sits in my drawer of curiosities.
The issue with Planet Computer's Linux support is the lack of it. They all rely on custom kernels using Android drivers and libhybris to function. For both the Cosmo Communicator and Gemini PDA they glue together a bootable version of Debian, tick the checkbox for "it runs Linux" and then call it a day.
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php more of a historical collection of stories than an active forum about Planet Computer's devices.
Kind of. It was kind of like a community in a box. The server and client software were dead simple to use and could be run off of a potato. You would get a message board, live chat, and file sharing all in one package. Servers could be advertised on a Tracker that could be queried from within the client. I was a Windows and BeOS user at the time and spent a fair amount of time bumming around anime and music themed servers. Also ran into one or two servers with big "Coast To Coast AM" vibes. Fun times.
I did some VPN hopping and connecting to an endpoint in Dallas has allowed me to start watching again. Not live though, that throws me back into buffering hell.
True, but I want to be able to join a computer to my domain and everything gets applied automatically.
The absurdity being the creation of an enterprise environment to use enterprise tools to shape a personal computer into something that closely resembles an experience you used to get out of the box 15 years ago.
To build a castle so as not to be treated like livestock.
That's what finally gave me the confidence to switch to Linux a year ago. I'm running Manjaro on my main system and Valve's efforts in improving WINE/creating Proton have been fantastic. The amount of games that "just work" has been nothing short of amazing.
For the past few years I've had this thought in the back of my head . If I use a Samba server as a domain controller, how much cruft and hostility can I shave off a standard Windows 11 Pro installation with GPOs. I keep kicking around the idea of trying to do it as an exercise in absurdity.
Nothing.
Its still there and still my goto search engine when I'm not on one of my personal devices.
I just prefer Kagi now because I pay for it so I'm their customer not their product. I also like the configuration options Kagi offers.
It has more to do with making Walmart Pay the only contactless option to drive adoption of their mobile app.
As a 40 year old "institutionalized" laborer at the bottom of the IT pyramid I also cannot envision such a life. What does that time look like where my needs are met without having to sell my labor? Is it through a violent overthrowing of the systems of capitalism? Is it through the less violent revolution of Universal Basic Income? Or do we need to subvert capitalism from the other end with post-scarcity economics where energy is free and abundant. Or will post-scarcity only happen with free energy and some sort of Star Trek'esq replicator.
What I CAN envision is my labor becoming worthless. A level of worthless that no amount of education or personal character could make valuable again.
Its great to talk about not having to work. The mechanics of how we get there typically amount to hand-waving magic. Which if that is how we get there then I also want a pony.
Why spoof it when the actual MOS for our Eddie up there is 37F "Psychological Operations Specialist"
You hit the nail on the head. Games requiring DRM or anti-cheat probably won't run. Its something Valve has been working on, but its been slow going. Other than that, 99% of the games I've tried have just worked.
Whenever I visit Seattle I always take the light rail into the city. The few times I've had a chance to bring this up in conversation with a local they've always been surprised that someone actually uses the light rail to get to or from the airport.
Market forces and regulation.
Instead of a big V8 slab of pig iron for an engine you end up with a smaller turbo charged engine. Coupled with a mostly aluminum body to save weight is how they've been increasing fuel economy of trucks.
There has also been a significant drop in the desire for base model two-seater trucks. Most trucks sold are some variation of extended/crew/king cab. Coupled with a desire to use the truck as a daily driver you end up with a lot of extra like adaptive cruise control, cameras, infotament, etc.
Plus the usual expansion of standard safety features that has been raising the price of all vehicles. Backup cameras being required equipment now comes to mind as an example.
I also have an X230 that I bought from a local recycler. Its small but also a bit on the chunky side when it comes to weight and thickness. I do enjoy using it though. I put a SATA SSD and a mSATA SSD in it, upped the RAM to 16GB, replaced the Bluetooth adapter with a USB plug that I have a Logitech Unify Adapter plugged into, and replaced the stock BIOS with Skulls (which also nuked most of the Intel ME) https://github.com/merge/skulls/
Since its running Coreboot/SeaBIOS now it won't boot Windows. That's fine though became it runs the XFCE edition of Manjaro just fine.
I'm in the same boat. If I'm using a private window then DuckDuckGo gets a search or two instead of Kagi. If you are militant about clearing cookies out I can see how it would be annoying. I sidestep that issue by using disposable containers in Firefox for everything except sites I want to stay logged into to. Those sites get a dedicated container.
Also, if you're fine with Google then Kagi is probably not the right product for you.
And I'm getting stuck in an endless captcha loop trying to load the archive.ph site. C'est la vie.
Unlikely.
LineageOS is in the same boat as GrapheneOS in this regard.
"GrapheneOS passes the basicIntegrity check but isn't certified by Google so it fails the ctsProfileMatch check. Most apps currently only enforce weak software-based attestation which can be bypassed by spoofing what it checks."
This feels like too little too late to stop what I think will actually solve the issue for retailers, charge more for credit card transactions. Every since businesses have been able to charge more for credit cards (as opposed to having to instead offer a cash discount) I've been slowly running into more and more local businesses that slap on a 2% - 3% for credit cards. So now I need that reward from my credit card to just break even on the transaction.
So it's an Android VM that can be accessed from a browser for $15/month. For an extra $10/month you can attach a phone number to it that has free incoming calls and SMS along with pay-per minute outgoing calls and pay-per message SMS.
I see App Lounge in the screenshot so I assume the VM's are running /e/. Have you tried installing any of the MDM's out there like AirWatch or InTune?
As a thought exercise, how about some light abuse. What would happen if I rammed a couple TB of BitTorrent data through that VM. Maybe used it as seedbox. Or maybe a proxy so I can access a streaming service.
It feels like you're really trying to sell the phone part, and that the Android VM is a means to an end. However, this is just a random phone number that I suspect isn't portable. So if I stop using your service I can't take the number with me. So why wouldn't I get a Skype number for $6.50/month, Skype to Phone for $3.50/month, and then use the web.skype.com page to make all the phone calls I want. Or you can do what I do and use jmp.chat for phone calls and SMS and have it all routed to the XMPP client of your choice (as long as that client supports all the needed features).
A mostly disappointing meal for everyone involved. If you know someone is picky ahead of time the meal can be steered towards a place that's accommodating. If, however, everyone is surprised by the picky eater then you're left with some disappointing choices. You either ruin everyone's expectations by changing to a different restaurant at the last minute, or you watch the picky eater try to make the best of what they probably consider a bad situation. Maybe they try something new and hope they like it, but most likely they order the blandest thing they can and everyone gets to feel a little bad about the person ordering a bowl of plain noodles for dinner so they can all eat at the place they planned on/wanted to.
This has been my experience with my Radeon RX 6750 XT and Manjaro. I didn't have to do anything and it just works. I use Steam/Proton to game and that just works as well.
The Army has expressed interest in the past for taking over the A-10 fleet should the Air Force try to retire it, but that was 2013.
https://archive.today/20130915210441/http://www.defensenews....
Meanwhile, the Marines are trying to figure out how to utilize the A-10 even more.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019...
If the Army doesn't pick up the A-10, then the Marines certainly would.
In my opinion, the only way the A-10 goes away is if the Air Force comes up with a direct replacement for the A-10's CAS, and the "Swiss Army Knife" F-35 isn't it.
Basically this. A Windows install is much better now at not outright dying from years of daily use, but they still frequently get a little weird over the same time period. So if you're going to refresh their Windows install, might as well just give them a new computer in the process.
Laptops have shorter service lives because they get dropped or drinks spilled on them.
Those are certainly factors, but I've found reduced battery life is what gets users asking for a new laptop if they haven't prematurely killed it some other way.
Otherwise it's like the McDonald's of storage software.
This is why I use TrueNAS. I use Core instead of Scale though because I prefer FreeBSD. Its main job is to hold my ripped media library and run Plex. If I can glue other stuff to it (like an Ubuntu Server VM running Pi-Hole) then that's just an added bonus.
Yes. On 4chan they're called boards. Some boards are focused on particular content. Other boards are focused on the type of media posted.
/b/ = random /trv/ = travel /pol/ = politically incorrect /gif/ = .gif and .webm files /wsg/ = the work safe version of /gif/ (its toned down but still not actually safe for work)
4chan will never "get better" because if that happens it'll cease to be 4chan as we know it. /b/ has always been an open pit sewer that the occasional nugget of gold flows through. /trv/ is where I like to hang out, but /pol/ can't help itself and likes to crap-post in there on the regular. /gif/ and it's blue board, "safe for work," version /wsg/ are fun to browse, but the 4chanX extension and some filters are needed to hide a lot of the trolling and truly awful stuff while browsing.