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JTode

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  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I think the thing that's shifting attitudes these days - aside from the fact that stability has long since arrived on the Linux desktop - is that Microsoft has taken a nosedive in terms of functionality at the same time, with little to indicate that the situation will improve on their end.

    A fully stable desktop that never breaks is not really on the table, but Linux is by far the most stable and user-centred one, at this point.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Agree. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and I have visited local datacentres - anything built in the last twenty years would be very hard to physically penetrate with stealth alone.

    There are older ones which might be a bit less sophisticated, but that's not the norm.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Hi, occasional spreadsheet user here who cannot tell the difference between Excel and, say, LibreOffice Calc (which is what I use, disclosed). Why is Excel specifically better? No troll.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Those old computers you speak of: They worked. There is no comparison to be made here.

    They were built in order to give us an edge on the battlefield. More accurate artillery and the like. They did math which humans could do, but which would take humans weeks or months, and the answers were required within timeframes more like 12 hours, because war.

    They were so useful, so valuable, that they were worth the treasure spent. They conferred a kind of superintelligence to their users. Those with brains to understand could see this, and so yes, hobbyists found their way to building their own machines, once small CPUs became available, however janky. Anyone who had to do math, who had to do math, went into debt if they had to, and learned to use these janky beasts because the advantage was weeks or months of time they didn't have to grind on paper.

    There is nothing about AI that resembles any of that.

  • Meanwhile in Canada

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  • It me 😂

  • Can't just be me...

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  • I ended up with adult "friends" who were putting up just as big a front as me, probably also autistic in many cases really, but very far from any sort of acceptance of that. But I believed that everyone was like this, others were just better at it than me, so I never questioned a lot of things.

    Once I reached paragraph 2 and began to act on that, well, they have scattered to the winds. Though to be fair, I did move an hour away from everyone I have known, though for me it's just pragmatic; I want to avoid the food riots (or possible Troubles, if the Usians go ahead and invade us; it will go as well for them as it did for the British in Ireland).

  • DoorDasher in Indiana arrested for allegedly pepper-spraying delivery

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  • IANAL, but if it's true that a lawyer only needs to create Reasonable Doubt in the mind of a single jurist... I'm pretty sure I could do that. Of course, her lawyer will probably be a gig economy worker too, so they might just pepper spray her and plead guilty while she chokes. Badum. Tish.

    (Marxist) But also, this woman, and all gig economy workers besides, is basically a sharecropper without land. I don't specifically think that what Nat Turner did was right, but I do understand why it happened. Likewise, someone who probably lives in their car 75% of their life because that's about all they can afford, forever, at the door of some comfortable warm secure home of a person who is participating in your exploitation just so they don't have to go retrieve their own extreuded meat paste sandwich... well like I said, I don't think what Nat Turner did was right either.(/Marxist)

    More generally: Back in the 80s when everyone had a suburban home and nobody suffered, you still wondered if those teenagers in back of the McDonald's were messing with your food... and they were. And those kids had a bright future, or so they believed. We didn't appreciate what we had.

    This is the LSCD (Late Stage Capitalism Doomer) version of a little extra sauce on your burger. Pillorying this prole won't even actually make anyone feel better, and it sure as shit is not going to fix a motherfucking thing.

  • ‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

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  • 😂

  • ‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

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  • They know that whatever their money religion's ministers say, at street level, NYC will be a great place to live, if Mamdani gets his way.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • I display my movies and music in the order they were added by default, but I do recall a lot of historical problems with that functionality. It has not been a problem for me the last year or two, I would say, but I do remember it being a problem.

    There's still lots of room for improvement, to be damn sure. But can't beat the feeling of freedom, you ask me.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • Would you like help/guidance on your next attempt? It definitely works, but possibly not on corporate devices like Roku and such - I never did have a lot of luck with those, other than I think I had Jellyfin casting to a couple of Chromecasts we have kicking around. Not when the internet was out, of course, cause why would they keep working if Google can't get their data on the spot?

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • (looks up from his floaty chair in his Jellyfin pool while sipping his fruity bittorrent cocktail) C'MON IN FOLKS THE WATER'S FINE!

  • How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?

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  • Nix is fun when you're ready for it, but the only Systems noobs that should consider it are people who are already programmers in some other milieu, because Nix is specifically for people who think like programmers. This is not a bad thing, if you have learned to think that way it's a joy on many levels, but at this point in time, unless this is 100% hobby, it's not the best use of your time.

  • How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?

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  • It's great to give your brain daily workouts on the ins and outs of systems, but if you're feeling burnt out, you're doing that too much, probably, and my guess is, it's coming in at moments when you were trying to solve some other, more interesting/relevant problem.

    It comes down to whether you're trying to self-host, or trying to learn Linux at a level where you could get a job doing it. Often it's a bit of both, so don't feel like you need to make that decision right now.

    But my advice: whatever you're hosting, use their recommended easy way to host it. In most cases, this means running a container. In most cases, Docker. If you can wrap your head around using docker compose files, your practical problems are reduced by an insane amount, and idiocy at the developer level becomes your only concern. For instance, I used to run Tandoor, but the dev pushed changes into their "stable" docker container that failed to properly migrate my data, and the whole thing cacked. But that wasn't a system problem on my end, it was a case of a dev who was more interested in playing around with data than with providing a stable app.

    So, if you take this approach, which I absolutely do recommend, the one thing you need to be sure of is that you have a good backup strategy, and that you backup before you do any pulls of new images. Docker allows you to select old versions so if you don't like changes that get pushed on something, likely you can just rebuild the old version, but the changes might mess with your database migrations, so you need those backups. Other than that, you cannot go wrong with Docker, if you just want the damn thing to work, rather than get daily aggravating lessons in esoteric systems problems which are above your paygrade.

  • Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"?

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  • I figured my shit out by reading John Elder Robison, and followed him in medias for a while. Some time back, 5-10 years, he tried out a thing where they stimulate an area of your brain with (IIRC) electromagnetism, and he talked about it the way some people talk about being born again (the Jesus kind of born again). "I once was blind but now I see!"

    I'm sure a google will turn up how that's going, it was just a study or something that he got to participate in at the time I think.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • Just for the record, I'm going insane wondering what the thing is.

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • Bad week for me. Tandoor had become the home of quite a lot of recipes, and well, I'm never gonna just pull a docker container again without a backup, cause I did a pull and the bastard stopped working.

    So I setup Django and got started doing my own recipe server cause I was never very enthused about Tandoor, too much netflix-like Presentation bullshit and did not allow for the very simple thing I wanted, which was, a compact list of my recipes by alphabet that I can swiftly click on the one I want.

    I also need to get my Python chops back cause I think there will be jobs again, soon enough.

    Meanwhile, anyone got any suggestions of a better recipe app? Needs to run as a Linux server, that's about it. I can go Tailscale if it has no security. If I get mine to something usable I'll make it available.

  • Why many men struggle to maintain deep male friendships later in life

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  • I made a lot of terrible choices in terms of friends. Not exclusively terrible ones, I have several high quality men that I still exchange emails with at least a few times per year, and we talk a lot about lunches and stuff that don't happen... but they're quality men, and we are still friends.

    Along with them, two or three times as many dudes who I should've just left where I found em, and who eventually forced me to do so, usually by treating someone else rather than me like shit.

    Some others that I know I should have tried harder to move acquaintance into the friendship category.

  • Mixer makes loud pop when powered on

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  • -i live in the country, power outages happen, I cannot reliably prevent things from turning on all at once.

    -my other mixers make noise when turned on, but they are not loud enough to kill speakers; even so I do try to turn things on in the proper order. This one is dangerously exceptional and won't be used if this can't be fixed.