Paranoid Factoid

@Paranoid Factoid@beehaw.org
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Joined 1 years ago

I use Linux for work, and the commercial apps I use run significantly faster on Linux over Win. The performance penalty mentioned here is believable.

YouTube is not the government. They have no obligation to host him or anyone else, regardless of presumption of innocence. That's a court thing, they have to presume innocence. No private company does though.

Further, he is not an employee of YouTube or Google. So they have no employer-employee relationship and his video monetization bears no connection with employment law.

Total failure. I'm seeing a lot of polite replies by nice people. Clearly, the right people migrated from Reddit.

The issue is that Google locks down the bootloader. Nothing prevents the compute and display hardware from running a traditional Linux distribution, but that "trusted" bootloader does.

Fix the design flaws first. Especially broken incentives for toxicity and lack of moderation tools. It's too big already right now.

I'm old enough that my doctor shoved a tube the size if a garden hose up my ass and cut off six polyps from my large intestine. A suppository a day keeps the death away? Yeah, sign me up.

Don't wear their colors, patches, or gang jackets. UNLESS YOU'RE A MEMBER. Leave them alone. If you're on the road, let them pass. They typically follow road rules and group riding rules, so follow them back. And let them pass.

It goes without saying, don't poke the bear.

I've been running some form of Unix since 1985. Transitioned from 386BSD to Linux in '93. The last version of Win I bought was in Win 3.0 in 1991. It was horrible.

That said, Win has the apps and is perfectly reasonable as an OS now. Where it's unreasonable is the privacy invasion and use tracking. I mean, a keylogger by MS? No.

Linux is a PITA. But it don't spy on me.

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BeeHaw admins' critique of Lemmy software, and the broken incentives for toxicity that follows from duplicating Reddit, are spot on. It's not just the people, it's the behavioral incentives that come with its system design.

Way back in the days when kuro5hin was still a thing, folks created an endless reply chain with nothing more than, "You sad bastard!" And it went on for months until it fucked a table in their sql server and Rusty (admin) had to step in and fix it. Then stop it from continuing.

Davinci Resolve does not run on Wayland!

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I would like to be able to extrude fresh, delicious, bananas from my ass. Difficult and uncomfortable, I'm sure. But I'd never go hungry again!

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Good luck convincing Blackmagic of that.

Has never worked properly on Wayland.

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Lemmy is what Reddit was because the interface and anonymity creates these behavioral incentives. Brigades and info wars, trolling, rude comments, all this is incentivized by site design. So when Lemmy copied Reddit, it shouldn't be a surprise that people here behave similarly.

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That view bug has been sitting around since 2009, from what I can gather. But a file manager giving false filesystem state to a user is a showstopper. It violates the main purpose of the program. And risks data loss. Users may make errors based on false information.

Batch renaming I use regularly by ingesting media from cameras,, though typically at the command line.

I've had good luck with these guys:

https://makertube.net

I don't presume to know why others choose to use anything. But MacOS is highly consistent across apps. Dialog boxes, text input forms, file browsing, hot keys, all the same across applications.

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Not if you want compute for rendering or training.

3 Women, Robert Altman.

Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick.

Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmueller.

Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders.

Fitzcaraldo, Werner Herzog.

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I'd argue girth matters more than length. But please, let the banana spider that bit me inject thin banana superpowers.

It's just a request!

I'll stick with X11 until they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

I use Resolve in production. It's rock solid.

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Koyaanisqatsi

Or OpenBSD.

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NATRON (Nuke like compositing engine)

MBS-Labs (human 3D models in Blender)

Reddit is just as horrible as Twitter. Fuck Reddit. Invest in Lemmy or find something else to do. Life is precious, reddit is toxic waste.

This.

No. Not at all.

386BSD was extremely limited. Originally, it only had support for the 386DX series. At the time, I had a 386SX. The kernel would not boot. So, I had to install on a friend's computer, download a source patch for the kernel, recompile (which took forever), and then burn a working boot disk for the 386sx.

It came on 50 floppies. Didn't have X11. Didn't have working SLIP (ip over serial, before PPP). Had a shit sh.

Linux came on a bootable CD with everything and as long as your hardware was compatible, it just worked.

I use a Kindle lefy in permanent airplane mode. Manage it with Calibre and don't buy any content from Amazon.

You have a neighbor experimenting with Sandkings!

Big bag. ---> Dumpster. There, transferred.

For data, usb composite or svideo input capture. About $50 bucks. Connect to a VCR, start recording the stream, and hit play.

And you'll still need a firewire card too.

I still have a bunch of old 8mm tapes, a camera, and firewire card. It's archived work product. Otherwise, I'd toss 'em.

I don't want to debate win here, that's off topic, but batch renaming is something Explorer does.

Select a group of folders and try it yourself!

It's a toy.