poettering is an absolute good guy here
Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.
pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.
I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.
I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.
Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.
I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. I guess living out in the sticks does help: it’s not like we don’t have electricity or internet out here, but the first neighbor is 3 miles away, the town is 5 miles, and we have real starry nights here. So it’s quite easy to turn off the light and experience a, quiet peaceful night at the hours at which sleep should be happening naturally.
I fall asleep around 8 or 9 pm and I wake up around midnight or 1am, watch something quiet and peaceful so I learn something interesting without falling fully awake - and more importantly without waking up the missus - then I simply fall back asleep until 5 am.
I live above the arctic circle, so when it’s winter, I usually sleep longer. And when it’s summer and it’s daytime all night long, of course I sleep less. But on average, I sleep 2 x 4 hours per night. I feel just as refreshed as when I slept 1 x 8 hours. But perhaps feel less “disconnected”, if that makes any sense.
I practice biphasic sleep - have done for decades.
I usually put on a light documentary - something about nature or technology, not exciting, terrible or controversial.
Youtuber Johnny-come-lately gets way too much attention.
Calculating the number of hours I had left on Earth, and realizing that every hour I spent fretting about shit that doesn’t matter is an hour I won’t spend having the best possible time on this dirtball with my family and my friends before I kick the bucket.
Once I “let go” and decided nothing really mattered, it felt like my whole body finally deeply relaxed for good.
IANAL but my attorney once told me he witnessed a guy defending himself in court for involuntary manslaughter saying “I didn’t see the red light because I was drunk.”
some of them have shown you they’re Nazi sympathizers
It’s been known for years that the magats are Nazi sympathizers. And if you had any doubt, very senior figures have warned everybody very bluntly that Trump was a fascist.
So if any of your friends and family was a Trump sympathizer, you should have known long before the election that they were at least Nazi-adjacent.
Therefore the only difference between this reality and the one in which Trump is six feet under is that the American 4th Reich hasn’t happened yet in the latter (but most likely will, because Trump is only a symptom of something deeper and profoundly disturbing in the American society).
The alternative reality Earth where Thomas Matthew Crooks aimed ever-so-slightly more to the right.
It’s okay if you’re fully in control and it’s built with redundancy.
how about they leave the fluoride in it for starters?
Google does not automatically mean bad
Yes it does.
Google does everything with an angle, and that angle is putting you under surveillance and collecting monetizable data on you.
Google has (or had, maybe?) fantastic products. They’re truly great! The translator, the map, Youtube… But they’re great for exactly the purpose of luring you into using them, so they can abuse your privacy with them.
Google products are trojan horses: they’re irresistible but their true purpose is nefarious.
He who cares about privacy even a little bit and uses Google DNS servers doesn’t really care about privacy.
That’s the most accurate article on the subject I’ve read in years.
With shell scripts, I’m not sure.
With Python scripts, you want argcomplete.
Yeah DDG has been serving up AI slop lately, it’s really annoying.
Ducky see, ducky do. It’s kind of pathetic…
Because alternative clients offer features that only the for-pay official client offers, like subscriptions and playlists, and Google can’t collect data on what people subscribe to or their playlists because in alternative clients, they’re stored locally.
Google doesn’t hate third-party clients because they skip ads: it hates them because they impede surveillance and privacy invasion, which is the true bread and butter of Google.
He is much too verbose, launches into side topics that have nothing to do with the subject on hand, and he speaks much too fast. But that’s his style. I believe he’s on the spectrum and doesn’t really know how to focus on what he has to say.
Having said that. I think Louis Rossmann wouldn’t be Louis Rossmann, or even be as efficient as he is, if he didn’t do that.
It’s different this time around.
The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
I reckon it’s serious this time.