Bitrot

Bitrot , 7 hours ago

Do xsnow and xpenguins next!

Bitrot , 5 days ago

Really great article, and thanks for posting the text of it.

Facebook is weird for me because it triggers my FOMO, but then if I use it all I see are a ton of random things with the most toxic people in the world living in the comments.

And similarly I just realized why my friends on instagram use stories and not posts, because for the most part stories is the only place I see content from people I know anymore (and again the FOMO).

I really relate to the sentence at the end, “there are people there but they don’t know why and most of what they are seeing is scammy or weird.”

Bitrot , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Yes. In low orbit like the space station they mostly deal with atmospheric drag, even just gas molecules cause it. The ISS is has a “reboost” on a regular basis, often from arriving spacecraft but it can use onboard thrusters.

At much higher orbits the gravity of the sun, moon, differences in earths gravity, and even the tiny force of photons from the sun striking the spacecraft (solar radiation pressure) contribute orbital decay. The Vanguard I satellite was the fourth satellite in space and was expected to stay up for 2000 years, but thanks to solar radiation pressure and some atmospheric drag it’s more like 240.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

I think it was primarily BIOS limitations, just like some old machines now don’t support USB boot.

Windows XP could also be installed using boot floppies, but I think was the last version to do so.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

Fedora updates the kernel because maintaining backports is engineering-intensive, Ubuntu backports fixes into their kernels. I don’t think Fedora kernels affect Red Hat much at all, Red Hat does extensive back porting into a set version and their stable kernel often has hundreds of releases of the “same” kernel version.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

Galaxy Watch, the original Pixel Watch and the Apple Watch have no charging contacts. It’s really the way to go.

The contacts have been an issue forever, like I remember it messing up a Fitbit a decade ago. Really crazy that it’s still a problem.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

While not run by the government, the Al Jazeera Media Network is partially funded by the government of Qatar. I don’t think this is a negative, but something people should be aware of.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

Wow there’s some memories I didn’t know I still had.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

But can it create that old GSM speaker buzz like my Blackberry did?

Bitrot , 1 month ago

It does work, but doesn’t always work as well as some third party clients. That’s also assumes everyone is using gnome.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

And then Apple ships with Shortcuts, which can do a ton of stuff with pretty basic building blocks. It’s very un-Apple really.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

Before his Twitter addiction it was much easier to think of him as a rich genius like you see in comic books, mostly since nobody knew what he was thinking. He’s also managed a celebrity-like persona that someone like robot Mark Zuckerberg could never pull off. That and money will always get hangers on.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

With that kind of leadership we should be thankful he can’t run for president, or he’d end up voted in.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

Only if it is information that would be available to many people.

And for every bit of information shared, you have to think of the number of people who have access to the information you are sharing and all of the previous information you shared.

If someone is aware there is a leak they might generate different versions of the same information to narrow it down.

If you’re a whistleblower, it also assumes you didn’t make a big stink about the topic.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

That’s when Nintendo reaches out to CloudFlare instead.

Bitrot , 1 month ago

First attempt at the Server iso it wouldn’t boot, stuck in an endless wait for some snap services to start. I don’t use Ubuntu anyway and wouldn’t use Server before a .1, but it was not the best out of box experience.

Bitrot , 2 months ago

Mint is built on Ubuntu LTS but removes some of the problematic bits, it has a recent Firefox and Chrome is of course available, Fletpak support is also integrated.

I’ve run Alma and RHEL as a desktop and it was fine, my main use case was “like Fedora but stable” (more than a year of support). However the repositories are very limited, even with EPEL and third parties, so it eventually irked me enough to switch away. Also no btrfs support without replacing the kernel and adding support from third party places.

Bitrot , 2 months ago

The install cd is probably just running Debian installer, and way more lightweight.

“Use the install-cd media for older 64bit as well as 32bit machines.” - probably applies to such low memory.

Also you should probably use the 32-bit cd. 64-bit binaries use more memory, and realistically anyone building with an Athlon 64 (2003) or newer was probably also installing more memory than that.

Bitrot , 6 months ago

He is, very obviously.

Some of his recent rants have been about technology that is actively unfriendly to people who are not good with technology. That doesn't mean he cannot figure it out, but it means his parents can't.

Inevitably people show up to suggest a giant convoluted solution based on the power of open source. Menu poorly worded on the ecobee? They should be using home assistant anyway!