@portalz 1000%, I often work with wordpress (not directly, thankfully) and it Kinda Sucks

oh hey its bandcamp friday in 20 hours
what an excellent time to point critters towards our bandcamp page…………….
currently there’s just a bit of bailey’s ambient stuff but expect more to show up there Someday.

https://bestiarysys.bandcamp.com/

@KaydeArcane while I generally prefer playstation controllers, I have used an xbox controller with this type of dpad and it’s pretty great

today’s reading: Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?:

It’s possible that consumers are happy to have the most minute details of their lives surveilled and monetized in return for seeing ads they might want to click on. This is a hard theory to test, because very few people even know they’re making the trade. However, one organization recently tried to find out. After the European Union’s landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, went into effect in 2018, a Dutch public broadcasting agency started prompting all visitors to its website to choose, in a clear and straightforward manner, whether they wanted their data shared with advertisers. The result? Ninety percent opted out, and the agency abandoned behavioral advertising altogether. (A Google spokesperson notes that all users can opt out of personalized ads, and that Google has long prohibited personalized advertising based on sensitive information.)

All things considered, "openly murdered someone in midtown Manhattan and made a clean getaway" is a pretty strong argument for bikes being the best mode of transportation.

Self-explanatory.

@RebaRabbit

@alyaza @it I didn't know calibre has a mobile app, I've just been using koreader on android with the calibre content server on my pc

thinking today about this Iceland Socialist Party quote: "What do you think it is worth to keep tens of thousands with a gnawing fear of income, to make it impossible for thousands upon thousands to use their talents, will, creativity and thirst for life to improve their lives and enrich society?"

hell we put shit we DO need in piles. we put shit we think we need in piles?? really we just like piles. the entire concept of a silo is just a pile with reinforced sides so we can make it higher. a quarry is just a reverse-pile so we can create piles out of the stuff we take out. a warehouse is just a pile with labels and shelves. factories take piles and turn them into more piles. a conveyor belt is a horizontal pile

@triangle-dog @Sacchihikaru yeah, that’s true, AM4 is still going strong (and also tbh I recommend AMD in general, their CPUs are better in pretty much every way imo, and also they don’t have the socket mess that intel has with their CPUs)

My cuban coworker just hit me with the “my phone is slow can you clean it for me” move but in spanish and I’m like “damn this shit really does transcend every barrier”

@Sacchihikaru it’s still being used, but tbh you might actually want a ddr5 mobo for better future upgrade paths

@Sacchihikaru the old GPU should still work with a new mobo, but it probably will be a bottleneck

you almost def will need new memory though (unless you pick smth that uses the same type)

protip everyone: if you ever heard anyone talk about electronic voting, whether positively or negatively (but primarily negatively) and they never once mention brazil, their argument is hot garbage and should be thrown straight into the trash.

this post was brought to you by: brazil has been doing country-wide electronic voting for longer than I’ve been alive and the fact that foreigners (primarily americans) think it’s some kind of novel untested idea makes me want to scream.

update: tested out resonite, it works perfectly fine (though wlxoverlay sometimes slows down, I’ll have to look at it)

I can now nuke the windows partition from low earth orbit

@RebaRabbit a bash script is (in its simplest version) just a list of commands that’ll run when you execute that particular file

for example, if you create a file named hello.sh with the contents

#!/bin/bash
# ^ this is technically not mandatory, but it's here so the system actually uses the correct interpreter

echo "Hello world!"
curl wttr.in

and execute it with ./hello.sh (you might need to chmod +x ./hello.sh or use the file properties window in your file manager first to make it executable), it’ll print Hello world! and then weather at your location (as reported by a geoIP database)

you can do a lot more with those, but 90% of the time they’re just a simple list of commands

as for udev, it’s one of the subsystems responsible for handling external devices, it can set permissions, run commands or do several other things; you usually don’t really need to worry about it, and it shouldn’t be mandatory for this, but it can be useful to know

ten percent luck
twenty percent skill
fifteen percent concentrated power of will
five percent pleasure
ten percent pain
twenty-five percent reason to remember the name
five percent magnesium
two percent caesium wire
three percent mineral oil to prevent metal fire
one percent fats
point eight percent crab
one point three percent distilled essence of gab
point five percent perspiration
point four percent agony
one percent traces of elements such as antimony

@RebaRabbit

…I may have figured it out but I am peeved that I’ll have to copy paste the commands to set up all of those buttons every time I log in though U_U

I recommend just putting said commands in a bash script and just running that, and maybe you could even set it up to run at startup (or potentially you could mess with udev rules so it runs whenever the device gets connected)

@ticky with a very lobotomized copy of windows

(and yes, the new router does (probably) support openwrt, it’s an acer predator connect w6x and while it’s not directly mentioned in the openwrt wiki page, the other w6 models work and someone in the forums said that this one “should work”; the physical construction seems different, but I can figure it out)