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BlueEther ,
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come on, clicked through and auto logged in to slashdot...

but my last comment was (oh shit) 17 years ago

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But they must only be like 8 years old. What are they doing down loading warez

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I must say it felt weird when I had the first of my staff with a 2000 birthdate, that young falla is now an assistant regional branch manager

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Thanks for the hard work

I can use remot desk tops like nomachine realvnc etc which is nice

The only problem is that (only once so far) when using NoMachine I ended up with no display on the desktop I was remoted into after the TV went to sleep. To confound the issue it is a VM on proxmox with passed through iGPU

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A little tongue in cheek and showing my age alittle ...

https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/0da44636-fcfe-431a-8282-0bb45d4e8dba.jpeg

but there are some good youtube channels around, then there are resources like Arch's wiki and for the hard liner there is the Gentoo doc's

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

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I'm currently on Neon on the desktop (and macOS on the mac). On the servers it nearly all debian and a couple of BSDs

Over the last almost 25 years i've almost exclusively ran KDE when not being stuck with windows (for various reasons). Ive heard good things about Arch, but I'm getting far too old to be bothered with a semi-complex install (yes I have run Gentoo for several years, so I think it is an age thing).

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I will take a small amount with me to trade events, and collect a few. There are still a lot of old school folks out there

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I think I could get behind New Zealandic

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and is one that we are happy enough to use

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What licence are they using? Do you know something everyone else does not?

Just because Llama Group want to control what goes into FreeLlama? Just like every other open source with a leadership?

Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version

If I release project qwtop as open source I still retain ownership of my code and make the decisions about what makes it into the main release; how is this different so far, when we haven't seen the licence?

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thanks, there was nothing about a licence with the original post that i saw

BlueEther ,
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as well as what @jjagaimo said, there is also a scaled weight based on time since activity that is applied to hot/scaled sorting that allows things to bubble to the top but to slowly sink as they get older

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?

Hi there, I'm a registered nurse in Phoenix, Arizona and I'm seriously considering moving abroad because this country is driving me insane for a lot of reasons. I was considering moving to Israel since I'm Jewish and I've heard they have a better healthcare system there and pay nurses well but this war has made me not really...

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Thoughts on New Zealand or Austrailia?

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here in NZ I'd say we are much more progressive than the states, although we have a centre right government at the moment.

you will earn less than the US I would think, but I would hope that our quality of life is better.

Safety? not every second person is carrying a sidearm or protesting with an AR style firearm

I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality?

I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn't be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn't anything happened since then? It's like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy's assassination or 9/11, those are old news.

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in the communities i hang in here there a a good few that must be in their 50s (and i'm one of them).

just look at the number of posts in the *nix and self hosting communities for comments about pre and early linus users, or selfhosting email back in the day , or bsd/unix usage

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I just wonder how up and downvoting would work since that would go very differently from Lemmy.

how so?

I created a board game alternative for evil people ( lemmy.today )

Guys, I have something to brag about. After almost a year of hard learning, I finally created my first mobile game! Storiado is a board game alternative that will make you wonder what's wrong with your friends. Play by answering simple questions, mix all the answers, and generate the most twisted story you've ever read. And then...

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we have been playing a game like this eith the kids. could you make an under 13 version?

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well for me:

  • just passed 50 last month
  • been kicking around 'PCs' since the vic-20
  • buun using linux since Mandrake Helios (6.1)
  • have self hosted all sorts (including email for nearly 10 yrs, not any more other than a relay for my lemmy)
  • had a mastodon instance for about 2-3 years - but use mastodon.nz
  • spun up my instance of lemmy just as the exodus started
  • been into tinkering with electronics from childhood

I guess that puts me in the the tech group that seems very common here

other groups that seem well represented are the 'left' and lgbqt+

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i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark

BlueEther ,
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sometimes it is a good reference point though

BlueEther ,
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and then, us as the consumer will pay for the fine as well

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I’ve used influx and grafana in the past

There are some good options here for further reading

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meh, it's those of us that are entering into our 50's that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.

You youngins don't know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain

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Not almost cut my thumb off, the fucking thing ached like I don't know what, espitally while my wife was squeezing my hand during the ceremony.

That was over 25 years ago and the pain was real

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If I cant remember what dir I'm in, then rm is mot very memory safe is it?

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