IngeniousRocks (They/She)

If your distrobution’s maintainers have your package in their repos it will generally only be 3-5 clicks in the GUI package manager or 1-2 lines at the terminal.

Flatpak solved compatibility and library issues, becoming huge in the process. AppImage is basically like an Exe for windows.

can I run exe’s yet…

This has been possible for over 20 years, but with the more recent changes to WINE most (MOST not ALL) windows apps will work fine but you really shouldn’t be trying to use the windows apps unless there’s no other option

Today I made vegetarian salisbury steaks using impossible patties, store bought broth, and fresh veggies and herbs (and some stuff I had laying around). I spent less than $15 total (costco, price per unit) on the ingredients. It took 2 hours of cooking.

Assuming a wage of $25/hr, lower than adequate but relatively high in service fields in the US (those who work enough that delivery is super tempting), my meal cost me $65 including my labor. That’s less than it’d cost for delivery of a similar meal, is higher quality than I could get for delivery, and I’ve got leftovers for tomorrow, which I wouldn’t get with delivery.

Delivery is a scam. Gig economy Based delivery doubly so.

I love burning entire trees as firewood on ice, that’s definitely a smart and cool human activity.

Linux doesn’t really have issues with NTFS, you just need to install the drivers.

My entire server storage is NTFS (except the boot drive) because its migrated from a windows system, but I use linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3G

I mean it all looks like its working now, it was around 1 hr 30 ago when I tried

I couldn’t view any content hosted on blahaj, kept getting a CF http 500 error. Poats that had already federated out were fine but links back to uploaded content were all broken.

Its actually cloudflare.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/cloudfare-outage-november-2025-x-chatgpt

Blahaj zone is down too, presumably anything that routes traffic through CF.

Editing later to clarify because I noticed this comment made some implications: Obviously it wasn’t just blahaj that was down, I’m sure plenty of other instances were too. I saw someone mention one of the austrailian ones as well. Blahaj was the one I noticed since I subscribe to a lot of their comms in my feed. This comment was not meant to throw shade at them for using Cloudflare.

Bud if its not feasible for you don’t do it then.

As I stated in my original comment, some people use readymade suites and pay for support, that is their perogative.

I find I do Better quality work when I build my own toolkit, and tie the tools together my way.

To borrow an example from my father in reference to working on cars:

Sure you can buy a mechanic’s toolbox that will have everything you need but those are cheap, mass produced tools desogned to fit the needs of the everyman. If you buy an empty toolbox instead you can fill it with the tools you use, then you can have higher quality tools for the things you actually do with them and not waste space on tools you don’t ever touch.

Use two tools if one doesn’t get the job done, is kind of my point here. Sure you can pay for the convenience of f360, or you can build your own toolkit. Its like 2-in-1 shampoo, if it does both things it probably isn’t the best at either of them.

Re: missing out

I’ve got friends who tell me they won’t switch to Linux because they want their anti-cheat games. I usually tell them if they took the time to learn their system they’d understand why they don’t want anto-cheat games.

In the last 20 years, I have not found a single piece of software (games excluded, i pay for art when payment is asked) that I, a regular person on the internet, have not been able to source a free open source alternative that while potentially equipped with a steep learning curve is often as good as if not Better than many corporate solutions once learned.

People can pay for pretty, super convenient UIs and proprietary solutions with support contracts if they want to, thats their perogative. I prefer to learn the software myself and if I hate the UI that much that I’d be willing to pay, its worth either just sitting down and making my own with pyside (its quick and easy, learning curve excluded) or paying a freelance dev to make one bespoke.

Corporate suicide is so fun to watch when you’re not stuck using their products.

I imagine this would be discouraged for corporate entities. Corps shouldn’t freeload.

I don’t use the official site because I care about what data I put into the world, but I have about 150 subscriptions tailored over the last 15-ish years. Every morning I have 2-4 hours of new content on my subscriptions tab. Don’t even interact with the ragebait algorithm

Then my comment wasn’t for you 😊

You should read the EULAs you sign when you Buy digital media.

If it isn’t on a physical device that someone can’t take away, you don’t own it, and even then you still have DRM in the way of you and the data you bought and paid for. That’s why game consoles are being sold without disc trays, and why services like game pass are being pushed so hard. The writing has been on the wall for years, and ubisoft’s director even said it out loud.

Emulation from backup file still requires somebody rip the game, and if you download that you’re stuck in a legal gray area, even if you own a physical copy of the game. For some, that’s a dealbreaker.

Retro gaming and media rips.

You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.

Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig

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Amazon essentially killed local bookstores and then used the proceeds to become a massive megaconglomerate only challangeable by alphabet, apple, and meta in their sheer capability to control media flow.

They have spies in the form of Alexa enabled IOT devices basically everywhere. They also have the Ring camera. Recently they have stayed they will share data from Ring cameras with Palantir.

Amazon is insidious. Its evil is quiet in its spread.

The sheer size of Amazon, along with their business model, means they must employ vast swaths of people. In the US alone, over 1M people are employed by Amazon. Amazon plans to lay off half of them in the next 8 years while they shift to a robotic workforce.

These “too big to fail” companies are not evil out of some malaise for humanity. They are evil out of a cavalier disinterest in anything other than increasing the size of their hoards.

That’s kinda what I’m saying though. Those aren’t randos! They’re other people taking the same commute as you, every day. Make a connection with one and you might start to notice them more. Maybe you have a similar hobby or interest.

Give people a chance to enter your life and they often become more than randos on the train. Maybe you find a commute partner, someone to chat with or bitch to about Jane in Accounting.

I’m not gonna try to convince you, Clearly you saw my point and chose to reject it, that’s your choice. I’d urge you to give different thinking a chance though.

Its a call to be present.

There is nothing inherently wrong with wearing headphones on the train, but ask yourself why you’re doing it.

If you put on Headphones to keep people from talking to you, you’re making the choice to opt out of the human experience.?Make that choice every day on a 45 minute commute and after only a week 7.5 hours where you’ve opted out of chance encounter, conversation, possibly meeting a new friend or partner. It might not be a bad idea to make the choice to NOT disconnect, actively choosing to engage in the world around us makes a huge difference in how we percieve it, and how it percieves us.

An experiment I’d suggest, if you’re the type to default to using your phone as an idle activity:

Next time you’re idle and get the urge to pull out your phone, instead look around you and find the most interesting thing you can see. Why is it interesting? Is there anything abnormal about it? Is it’s place significant? Take that and note it in your mind, have a conversation with a coworker about it later. Then take note, how did this pointless conversation make me feel?

Being present by choice, especially if done often, will create chances to engage with the World, and its inhabitants.

The other day someone told me life was boring. Put the phone down, make more than the 2 meter cone you can see from around your phone visible, and you’ll find the World has a lot of engagement to offer.