JustEnoughDucks

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hell, even here in Belgium, we take the green option to get all of our electricity from wind and solar (of which there is a ton) and it is slightly MORE expensive.

Plus tons and tons of people, like a significant portion of the population, have solar panels and batteries with grid feedback.

Electricity prices have only gone up, even when it gets cheaper for the company. Energy companies are universally corrupt and full of shit

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Except network scanning is the furthest thing from "just works" on atomic fedora based distros. That is an essential usecase for many or most people.

I like fedora atomic and I run bazzite, but can't break is quite different than "just works" in my opinion.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't get a tablet if you already have a Linux laptop or a dedicated workspace.

Get a drawing pad. They are better, more cost-effective, have a better feel (non-display versions), have better pens, and you aren't restricted to neutered programs offered on android/iOS.

Wacom is traditional, but expensive and their pen tech is kind of aging at this point, but they always work flawlessly.

XPPen is the great value alternative (with even better stuff on the top end). i have an XPPen Deco Pro Gen2 and it is an absolutely great pad with the texture of paper, and their little macropad with a scroll wheel works well. The downside is that you need a screen, but it is quite ergonomic.

The few actual artists I know use the XPPen Artist Pro series which is a drawing pad with a screen, and then they just plug it into their laptop and close the lid. Not as portable, but generally as good or better experience

XPpen also has good Linux drivers. They work in the kernel by default often, but the macropad and pressure sensitivity customization won't work globally without their drivers.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

XP-pen has much more cost-effective options that are just as good nowadays since wacom hasn't innovated in like 15 years lol.

They also work out of the box in Linux, but for all of the shortcuts, they also have driver packages for every distribution and if it isn't available, support will package the newest version for you (in my experience) in your chosen format and then send it to you and update the driver downloads.

The XP Pen Deco Pro Gen2 is an absolute beast for a drawing tablet.

XPPen also has a android drawing pad but that is normal android I think.

If OP wants the drawing tablet experience with a screen, they can also get XPPen Artist Pro display tablet series which of the few artists I know in real life, are what most of them use.

An actual drawing pad is much better than even an IPad for drawing, and you can also use whatever program you want (like Krita), not just the neutered programs that come on iOS or android.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Do you think your ISP and cell phone providers aren't companies?? 😂 in america it was made fully legal like a decade ago for them to spy on you 24/7 and sell all of that information to the lowest bidders.

Here in the EU it is better, but still not great...

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, privacy conscious? SMS, MMS, and cell calling is like the least private you can get IIRC.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is similar to what I do.

I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.

Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's funny, because often they aren't prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Technically you could get current live data (current step count, current heart rate, etc...), but any historical data, activities not connected to the smartphone, probably some UI features, etc... would simply not work and have no chance of working because they have an on-IC encryption module and encrypts everything into unreadable binary blobs before sending it to their cloud server to be processed. I think each of the developers sold their fitbits because it would be a bad experience, so there is nobody to develop the integration.

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/504

So this one is fitbit's fault for being a shitty cloud SaaS company lol

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

London population: 8.8 million

Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

Mystery solved.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the low low price of 50€ for a 30g part!

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

And you are often paying 140-200 for a pi nowadays to make it have the same usability as a laptop (pi, power supply, sata hat, data drive because SD cards simply fail after a while under server IO) while you can get cheap used laptops for 0-100.

So unless you are running it for more than half a decade (which rarely happens with selfhosters for a main server), you are probably spending more in total on the pi.

 

I have been upgrading after a few weeks of being too busy too. I constantly now run out of space on my 50GB root partition even when running -Sc after every update and reboot to make sure everything works...

It really is crazy that there is no option to put all the programs on another partition than root unless you make a separate partition for /usr that will somehow foresee what you will install in the future.

My /usr with all of my programs installed is 29GB and /var takes up 10 GB. That leaves just 10GB for everything else.

I have just followed the partitioning advice since my first 2016 install, but in the past few years, everything has just ballooned in size it seems and is now always a problem every few years no matter how big you make your root partition.

Is there a better solution for this? Can we place /usr files managed through managers in /home? I think that is against the pacman/yay way of working.

 

Good morning everyone,

My girlfriend and I are renovating our first house.we are busy with demolition and cleaning stuff right now, but we are also planning out our entire budget and getting offers for a new bathroom and such.

I hear all the time what a cost difference building and renovation is, but I can't see how it works in practice.

If I go on a webshop to buy dust masks for example, I am charged the full VAT. International companies like Conrad won't gave an option for less tax, but it would make sense to get it there if it is already 25% cheaper than a store here, all tax excluded.

If I go to something like SACK, they give one price that includes whatever tax they choose it to be (then pocket the difference, we actually had it happen where we got an offer, we said it was above our budget, and they said "oh I spoke to my manager and just for you we can give you a 15% discount" within 10 minutes of the email. Sure...)

If I go to a bouwmaterialen store or a groothandel for electrical, do I have to specifically tell them that I am doing a verbouw?

I am not sure how this works in practice.

Thanks guys!

 

It's weird. I have been working from the office 5 days a week instead of the normal 2-3 days for a few months.

Now I only get to have my nice V60 coffee on the weekends because my 1 hour to 1h15 commute time takes up too much time.

I end up using the work coffee machine, which does grind whole beans for my coffee at work. It is very inconsistant. The same setting often gives either watery coffee or overextracted coffee depending on how it feels that minute.

It has made me really enjoy and savor my weekend coffee much more than when I was having good coffee every day. Like the contrast made me realize how good it already was without chasing a better grinder/better water/better methods.

Does anyone else have this sort of experience?

 

Hey lemmings,

I have a headless server that works beautifully. B450 with 2700X and 32GB of micron 3200MHz RAM.

I am currently running Debian 12 Bookworm on it. I am at kernel 6.1, but in preparation for 6.2 or 6.3 being backlogged, I want to buy an Arc A380 for transcoding since they are only 150€ here. Software was fine for a single video stream, but I bought a new house and will have 4 camera streams running. Plus I want to dabble in AV1 transcoding for media or storage of my camera streams

Currently there is neither X nor Wayland installed since it is exclusively with SSH that I do all of my work on it. After I install the GPU, I was wondering if it is possible to not even install X or Wayland since I will literally never use a display on it?

Would I still be able to do Jellyfin and Frigate transcoding without an X server? If I have to get one, does it matter if I choose X or Wayland for hardware transcoding?

Thanks!

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