Not really, electricity is pretty cheap when you live right beside the largest hydro plant in South America.

My server is a loose motherboard with a loose PSU, thrown into the living room TV rack, which I leave open for cooling. It’s a repurposed (free) Athlon, DDR2. I only use it for smb and git backups, and project sharing between my desktop and laptop. What amazes me most is my IT coworkers don’t find that a perfectly acceptable scenario.

I mean, literally just lean it against the wall, at the very least…

I mean, I agree that in an ideal world, people would just not use TikTok, and let it die. But they use it, because it hijacks their dopamine response, it uses pavlovian and skinnerian conditioning to trap people into cycles of behavioral control, and they don’t know or care enough to stop using it. It’s literally the same thing a drug like weed does to your dopamine receptors.

And you could say “just don’t use it yourself”, the problem is this mass compliance leaks onto every other platform. Stories/shorts were a Snapchat issue, now they’re an internet issue. Everyone is getting brainwashed, and as a result, we get shit software spilling over from their shit platforms.

Maybe I got a little too doomer with this one, but how could I not, when taking about modern day social media…

Decent buffering, decent scrubbing with thumbnail preview, double tap to skip 10 sec forward or back, proper fullscreen on desktop, and orientation on mobile. That’s just to cite the very least. Imagine how good the YouTube player is, and how smoothly it works 90% of the time. Pornhub works that smoothly 100% of the time, with 90% of the features.

TikTok doesn’t even let you scrub, at all.

I’m actually amazed by how the Pornhub and Xvideos players, after all this time, are still better than the Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok players, like it’s not even comparable. The way people can just accept whatever slop any corporate will feed them is just insane to me…

250000 lines accepted.

While attempting to fix 3 individual issues.

A spinning wheel? That just screams inefficiency to me… Make it solid state.

Free as in “you’re free to use the system, and tell it what to do”, not only as in “you can use it for free”.

If the only point for Linux was it being available for free, then just install Windows, open PowerShell and irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

Least brainrotted fediverse user

If there’s wind, it can signal to all roads at the same time. I call it efficiency.

I bet it uses ffmpeg…

Obviously the only static bitmap would be the word that has an accent…

Arch or EndeavourOS (Arch for babies) should give you the best support for any new hardware.

It will definitely not report back to Musk on your proprietary code…

Because Musk wouldn’t understand shit, it’ll report back to some Indian guy instead.

Everyone said that about Wayland a decade ago…

Users move on from Windows because of old hardware compatibility, pick an easy to use distro, like Fedora. Fedora drops old hardware compatibility…

It’s their second attempt in under a month. Red Hat needs to sit the fuck down.

new installs and upgrades could sometimes take more than a day

Laughs in Windows…

Yeah, I love to see people being called “racist” over not liking corporate facades, or “neo nazi” over referencing a clown. Always very productive.

There’s a simple solution to this: if Red Hat doesn’t like the guy or his code, don’t fucking use it. They’re the ones who banned him from Xorg and reverted his changes.

Actually, why do I expect a corpo to be morally or ideologically consistent? Silly me…

Not even an apology to Enrico first… Fucking Red Rats