What's this? The architect of the 1994 crime bill who helped the Dems get elected on a platform further right than the GOP on policing and prisons is pro-police? Huh. TIL.

The thing a lot of people get backwards (fuck the war on drugs actually) is that hardcore addiction is virtually always predated by some type of undiagnosed and untreated mental health issue. To say that another way, mental health issues are not caused by taking drugs. When someone is very unwell and often poor (i.e. low or no access to medical and mental health professionals) they often find a way to self-treat the affliction(s) with street drugs. Those same underlying causes for a more affluent person will be dealt with alongside medical supervision (and often with the same class of drugs) without falling into the trap of addiction (because supervised, and supported).

Nothing cool about being a drug user by choice, nor an addict trying to cope. It's just reality.

I'm not speaking in absolutes here obviously. But it's pretty well established that a very small fraction of people who take drugs (prescription or otherwise) become what we term addicts. There are lots of affluent addicts and alcoholics (I know plenty personally) but just because they have access to medical and mental health care doesn't mean every one of them will go there.

You don't see a lot of upper middle class people end up on the streets with heavy addictions because they can usually get into rehab, get help processing whatever it is keeping them down, and move on with their lives. Lots of poorer people can do so as well (the poverty and "success" porn content out there is easy to find) but for every one of those success stories there are thousands who never make it. I don't think it's hard to parse that poorer people have less culturally acceptable means of getting help (if they don't outright end up in prison for simple possession to begin with, which I'm guessing those peers you're referring to seldom have to worry about).

Ghostrunner 2 is 80% off for $17CAD and runs great on the deck. It looks like some of the best speed swordplay vibes from Cyberpunk and I'm stoked to play it.

Also picked up Rage for 5 bucks.

I don't have any personal experiences with any of these crew finder sites but I know lots of people who've used them. The catamaran designer I *apprenticed under met his wife through one. She had no prior sailing experience but was willing to learn, and he needed crew to do a Caribbean crossing, and that's how the story began for them like 25+ years ago. They still sail together all over the world.

The other advice is good too. Just walk the docks and ask around. People love talking about their boats.

I quit a well known ecomm tech company a few months ago ahead of (another) one of their layoff rounds because upper mgmt was turning into ultra-wall street corpo bullshit. With 30% of staff gone, and yet our userbase almost doubling over the same period, they wanted everyone to continue increasing output and quality. We were barely keeping up with our existing workload at that point, burnout was (and still is) rampant.

Over the two weeks after I gave my notice I discovered that in the third-party app ecosystem many thousands of apps that had (approved) access to the Billing API weren't even operating anymore. Some had quit operating years ago, but they were still billing end-users on a monthly basis. Many end-users install dozens of apps (just like people do with mobile phones) and then forget they ever did so. The monthly rates for these apps are anywhere from 3 to 20 dollars per month, many people never checked their bank statements or invoices (when they eventually did, they'd contact support to complain about paying for an app that doesn't even load and may not have for months or years at this point).

I gathered evidence on at least three dozen of these zombie apps. Many of them had hundreds of active installs, and were billing users for in some cases the past three years. I extrapolated that there were probably in the high-hundreds or low-thousands of these zombie apps billing users on the platform, amounting to high-thousands to low-tens-of thousands of installs... amounting to likely millions per year in faulty and sketchy invoicing happening over our Billing API.

Mgmt actually did put together a triage team to address my findings, but I can absolutely assure you the only reason they acted so quickly is because I was on the way out of the company. I'd spotted things like this in the wild previously and nothing had ever been done about it. The pat answer has always been well people are responsible for their own accounts and invoicing. I believe they acted on this one because I was being very vocal about how it would be 'a shame' if this situation ever became public, and all those end-users came after the company for those false invoices at one time. It would be a PR and Support nightmare.

You have definitely interacted with this ecommerce platform if you shop online.

So... you're not gonna try Threads then???

I work at a vpn/adblocker company and we just finished releasing an updated mv3 extension that does block ads effectively (among other things) but the feature set is limited vs mv2 because of the changes. Furthermore, google has actually pushed back their mandated release schedule for mv3 compliance because something less than 30% of the extensions on their store are anywhere close to ready for it (which if they pushed ahead with mv3 they would effectively break 70% of what's on there overnight).

The DRM shit is just next-level bad though. Enshitification 101.

4. If every psycho and their dog knew there was a parachute onboard for them it would happen often that some drunk asshole decided today was they day they're gonna jump from a commercial flight

He has a podcast too called Better Offline. Just started it up a few months ago.

Fuckin Boeing at it again.

Shopify laid off a couple thousand people, then "chaos monkey'd" the entire company just over a year ago, and forced everyone to open an FB Workplace acct as though it was going to boost productivity somehow having us split our comms between slack (which already sucks) that we've been using for years and some half assed afterthought Zuck's team came up with (at least the public facing piece) leading into their own layoff waves.

I left Shopify happily and voluntarily and I'm not gonna pour one out for FB Workplace, at all. Good riddance to bad garbage.

Bluetooth is disabled, as is the Wi-Fi antenna. Which I always do with any devices I turn things off that I don't need.

Who's even still on Twitter at this point besides racists and transphobes and companies who have no tech department to help them divest to a better platform?

It doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but that's a good thing. It seems to be catching on, and frankly those large companies and orgs that are enshittifying and get labeled thusly might actually not love being called out with it, and hopefully slow their roll.

Doubtful, but a man can dream.

I used to work at S***ify... which is currently enshittifying at top-speed. It fits.

Thank you. Was wondering if mine was normal in this way after having it for over six months.

Between this community and the actual Onion I get pretty much the gist of current events, yeah. If some topic or other piques my interest from here, I'll chase it down. The Onion and its opposite tend to give me enough of the context I need to figure out what's important enough to pursue vs the vast majority of quasi-satire hitting "normal" news cycles over a given week.

It's like a hyper-curated way to get my news, as if handpicked for me by a space clown. And I like it that way.

Bunsenlabs is Debian-based, but doesn't have a classic desktop environment. Instead it uses super lightweight Openbox window manager and some other tricks to emulate one. It will run very well with 20gb disk space (you have triple that at your disposal). If you remove the programs you don't use (the office suite, etc etc) you can trim the install down even more.

Thanks yeah I figured. I'm not being very scientific about it yet but for instance none of my laptops discharge that much if I shut the lid and walk away for a couple days, but then again they're bigger cells.

Obligatory Bunsenlabs plug. Nice light Debian based distro with no DE. It cleverly uses openbox wm and tint2 and some other tricks to make it feel like you have one though.

Confirm it runs awesome on potatoes.

You might like Commento which is FOSS. You can self-host it (or fire it onto a free or low cost cloud host), and fun. It's more like a Lemmy/reddit format (comment up/down votes can be enabled) than masto but maybe you'll enjoy it.

Users can comment anonymously or you can enable basic verification steps. Decent moderation for if spam bots find you. Etc.

ETA I used to host my instance on Heroku's free tier and it was more than enough for what little traffic was coming to my site.

No worries. It's been my daily driver for a very long time at this point across many different machines. If you do go with Bunsen, it's still on Debian 11. You can safely do an apt dist-upgrade to 12 and it will keep the Bunsenlabs flavor without issue. I often run Sid repo as well, no issues for me.

Windscribe is based out of Toronto.

I have a lenovo thinkbook (cheapy thinkpad) for work with AMD chip and gpu. It wasn't one of their models certified for linux but everything runs flawlessly for a lean debian build for me. I've had linux on several laptops and this is my second machine with AMD chips, and I'll say that what you hear is true; There are way more, and better, drivers available for AMD if you go with linux.

My 2 cents.

Dope, thank you for posting. Been using 'Core CTRL' for quite awhile but Imma give this a rip. For some reason the former tool never could control the fan curve for my GPU (all the other fans in the box worked fine with it) so this might be profit.

TIL Brotato

+1 for Espanso. Great tool, use it every day.

I'm new here too and I learned recently that if you're looking at the number of subscribers to a given community it is generally showing only the number subbed on your instance, not all of the instances combined. Often the number of subs are much higher if you look at one of the aggregators (I don't know any off the top of my head).

Feels on that, I know it's not a one liner. I suppose I asked here because I was looking for a possible open source/community made solution (several devs working on and refining it collectively). As it happens one of the other commenters linked to pretty much this type of solution i.e. Haven which looks dope AF and I'm a take it for a spin shortly.

The other comments almost got it right. If you had your torrent client bound to Mullvad and then opened your Tor Browser.... your torrent client would be running over the VPN tunnel (Mullvad) while your Tor Browser would be sending all its traffic over your vanilla ISP and through... the Tor network (unless you also bind it to Mullvad). You'd effectively be "split tunnelling" your traffic, which is actually a good use-case for Tor anyhow.

There's a lot of debate about whether it's fine to run a VPN tunnel (OS-wide) before you fire up your Tor Browser.... effectively you'd be pushing your Tor traffic through the tunnel to the VPN's entry/exit nodes before it got to/left the Tor network. Some say it's a security risk (if you don't trust the VPN provider, for instance. Which is valid if you're using some of the scummier providers). You need to do some research and understand the implications of doing that, before just mashing buttons.

You can also fire up the Tor network system-wide if you're crafty and then create an encrypted VPN tunnel to go over that, so all of your VPN traffic would be travelling over and through Tor nodes before it reached the entry/exit nodes of your VPN. It can work both ways. There are cases for both options, if you know what you're doing... which is a huge caveat.

Overall though, no. Please don't torrent over Tor. As you say, it's not necessary and eats bandwidth from an already slow network protocol. A VPN is more than sufficient for that purpose. If you wanna get more secure than that, make sure you're running an encrypted DNS solution (or resolve your DNS locally if you know how to do that) and profit. Then your ISP can't see shit. They'll still probably traffic-shape and throttle you, simply because they can tell it's going out over an encrypted tunnel of some kind... but they'll never be able to see what specifically you're up to.

lmfao. Does the VPN company's name start with a W by any chance? If so, I am very aware of that issue as well. 😂

I use syncthing for personal and work, and it's great. Having said that I've found it struggles with versioning i.e. editing a document from multiple devices.

Look into something like Standard Notes for cross platform markdown editing. It's e2e encrypted, works great, the dev is very responsive. Ymmv but I really like it, have it on every device I own and use it daily.

I've also just used a private git repo for editing docs from multiple devices. Once you get it set up it's effortless, and most ide's are extremely fun to use as text editors.

OP is it the 7700 non-x 65w tdp version? Asking because I'm thinking about upgrading my CPU from 5600x to the 7700non-x and have the same gpu. I was actually wondering how throwing that integrated graphics into the mix would work so thanks for asking this and looking forward to your findings if you don't mind posting however you end up solving this.

See my other comment 😂

Damn, thank you so much!

I've tried so many others out and I keep going back to it! I put it on everything haha.

It's kinda janky but I've been running HoloISO on my gaming rig for over a year and it was mostly pain free. To be clear I don't use that system for much more than gaming but recreational browsing and music/movies etc as well. It's fine.

Recent decisions by the maintainer to make that distro immutable have confused me and I'm thinking about switching to Endeavor. I was historically a Debian user. This was my first experience with Arch (btw) so I'd kinda like to get to know it a bit before we introduce thicker weeds and deeper rabbit holes thanks very much bye.