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MacBook Air owner?

2018/2019 models are losing support.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-case-for-and-against-macos-15-sequoia-being-the-final-release-for-intel-macs/

with / to keep your device in use! These machines will run beautifully for many years to come.

Not only wallet friendly, keeps CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. Ca. 75% of Apple's emissions comes from production alone (details in alt text).

Sustainable, independent : Better for users, best for the .

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Title: "The most environmentally-friendly device is the one you already own." The image shows a pie chart with Apple Corporation's CO2 emissions. In the center are the total emissions from 2018: "25.2 million metric tons of CO2". The pie chart illustrates the following (from lowest emissions to highest): - End of life treatment accounts for less than 1% of emissions - Corporate facilities account for 2% of emissions - Product transport accounts for 5% of emissions - Usage accounts for 19% of emissions - Production accounts for 74% of emissions The original report from Apple is: "Environmental Responsibility Report: 2019 Progress Report, covering fiscal year 2018": https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Responsibility_Report_2019.pdf. The full KDE Eco leaflet from which the image was taken is available at: https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco/opt-green/-/blob/master/materials/leaflets/kde-eco-umweltfestival-flyer-EN-8.jpg
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    • merthyr1831 ,

    I've seen some impressive traction on newer videos putting Linux on (intel) Apple devices for example. Purely anecdotal but regularly hitting 100k+ views on Linux videos is something that I've only seen in the last year or so and moreso on videos documenting "hardware restoration".

    merthyr1831 ,

    don't.

    Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

    I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

    merthyr1831 ,

    go back to reddit if you want to live in the bubble of "America does nothing wrong"

    merthyr1831 ,

    With what money? SpaceX is the only company with any kind of steady revenue to its name and that's only because the US government subsidised it

    merthyr1831 ,

    the last functional windows.

    merthyr1831 ,

    I don't (never played Xbox til the end of its lifecycle) what did they do? 👀

    merthyr1831 ,

    we do a bit of entrapment

    merthyr1831 ,

    Welcome to modern media, where nothing is new and everything is a "reboot" or a "sequel". you'll get regurgitated slop passed between a few media conglomerates and if anything actually ends up decent it'll be canned and wiped from the earth before anyone can see it.

    Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

    I'm duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I've contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

    merthyr1831 ,

    Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box

    merthyr1831 ,

    Lmao i get the same whenever i wanna launch discord. Even if you do Discor it'll show discover first for a second so youll launch it twice before learning to wait :)

    merthyr1831 ,

    Sure but you still gotta wait half a second for the filter to update or you'll still open the wrong map. I do the same typing "discor" only to open Discover every damn time.

    merthyr1831 ,

    TLDR, language models designed through evolutionary training algorithms respond well to evolutionary pressures

    merthyr1831 ,

    The opinion of what is and isnt "subjective" is up for a lot of debate even if you dont personally have a major stake in a videogame's marketing campaign (such as the authors and enforcers of these contracts).

    What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

    I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

    merthyr1831 , (edited )

    idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi's GPU for transcoding).

    I use nextcloud too but it's a tiny bit slower than I'd like, but that's likely a wifi issue i think.

    Literally any PC on Amazon for $200 CAD, then add your own SSD. I'd say 8GB of RAM but that's just for cache, youll rarely go over 4 in general use.

    That, or a raspberry pi 4B/5 which runs you about $150 once you get a case, power supply, powered USB dock for sticking SSDs into (just for safety since technically the pi's USB ports cant handle certain SSDs power reqs.) and then stick SSDs into that.

    Use dietpi (dietpi.com) for setting up your services and it'll run nice and smooth for anything not H265, which might be annoying but Plex and possibly jellyfin let you transcode stuff in the background which is nice.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Shouldnt do so that bad. my raspberry pi 4b can do jellyfin and nextcloud without pushing 15W at full load.

    x86 is inefficient, especially older models, but youll likely only push anything over 10W when actually streaming something that requires transcoding. Most of the time your home server is gonna sit idle or doing some tiny cron job that won't really blast the CPU at all.

    merthyr1831 ,

    I moved from a 1080p monitor to a 1440p one for my main display and it's actually really worthwhile. Not only is your daily computing sharper, but multitasking becomes easier because smaller windows are still legible.

    IMO it's a lot easier on the eyes when things are sharper, too.

    1080p is still more than enough, but I think 1440p is worth it for a screen you're using for hours every day :)

    merthyr1831 ,

    If i was stack overflow I would've transferred my backups to OpenAI weeks before the announcement for this very reason.

    This is also assuming the LLMs weren't already fed with scraped SO data years ago.

    It's a small act of rebellion but SO already has your data and they'll do whatever they want with it, including mine.

    merthyr1831 ,

    I'd keep the physical library around and just digitize as and when she asks for specific stuff. You'll probably never back up half the library. That or stick it on a HDD out of the way and transfer the few she wants, then tuck the drive in a draw forever in case she wants something else.

    Jellyfin must have a feature like Plex where certain user accounts can have certain libraries attached? You could use that to avoid having to look at those crappy movies in your library.

    I don't really have much of an issue with family recommendations but I do tell them that the space isn't unlimited so if they don't watch something they asked for I'm likely to remove it for something we WILL watch. In your case, you could at least have leverage to get her to narrow down what needs hosting and what doesnt.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Good spot! I've been putting [feature request] in the title lmao. Good to know this is a feature

    merthyr1831 ,

    Only advice: Don't install on the same hard drive.

    I dont care how many people say "oh it works for me" it works for everyone until it doesnt, and then you spend days fucking about with utilities that you shouldnt be fucking with, and at best it works until it stops working again.

    There's likely little risk that any attack goes after a potential linux partition, but there's much more risk that either your linux or Windows partition bricks the other.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Google used to list sites with backlinks highly, it was their first ever search algorithm iirc. Once people learned you could game that by planting useless backlinks, Google realised it was a bad idea.

    Somehow, they've reinvented this all over again with parasite SEO that fundamentally works the same way. All they did was add some "domain ranking". Now, unreliable-but-popular sites coughredditcough will always score highly regardless of quality, because Google deemed them superior.

    merthyr1831 ,

    If I'm looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.

    DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.

    merthyr1831 ,

    With reddit getting worse, these kinds of vapid "i only post snark about [insert US designated enemy]" users are gonna be all the more common.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Willing to bet money this was posted on hardware that actually does have backdoors to some 3 letter agency in the US, to much more personal consequence than any metaphorical Chinese government spyware

    merthyr1831 ,

    Yup agreed.

    China, like the US, hasn't got the means nor the motive to track billions of people abroad; they both have a hard enough time keeping tabs on people domestically despite years of expanding their respective police states.

    Of course there's always the propaganda and soft power stuff but again, every single state is doing this, but the insinuation is that Europe or the anglosphere in general are the only propaganda-free places on Earth!

    merthyr1831 ,

    When you leave reddit, a corporatised and astroturfed bot farm you're gonna get less liberal and right wing stuff that only existed to make money or exert political influence.

    If you're really upset by it you can filter lemmy.ml which is gonna be the main source of left wing posting.

    merthyr1831 ,

    Note how the "aid port" never actually materialised but the invasion of Rafah did

    merthyr1831 ,

    Oh give off with the "human shields" bullshit, I won't even bother giving you a response because you deserve no such respect from me.

    Fuck off back to reddit if you want to spout baseless Zionism.

    merthyr1831 ,

    UI is dated, for one.

    range inputs can't be scrolled, dragged around the screen, and are absurdly small on high DPI screens.

    There's a load of UX issues, such as how pasting content will create a new layer that is for some reason more limited than a typical layer.

    Feature discoverability is poor. Most features are buried in years-old dropdown tabs that aren't kept up to date with UI/UX expectations.

    Some features are incredibly obtuse in how they explain themselves: selecting a brush dynamic selects stuff from a massive scrolling list with nothing but a title to explain what they do.

    UI is inconsistent. Some elements are clearly older than others even after ""recent"" (years-old) updates.

    There's way more, btw. But honestly if this years-long push to get GIMP to GTK 3 has told me anything, it's that the project should've canned the update years ago and written an entirely new app from scratch, dropping the technical debt, the archaic choice of language and UI toolkit, and they still would've come out with a new version faster than they have now.

    merthyr1831 ,

    The Israeli prisoners were detained and arrested.

    The Israelis held by Hamas have been given many more rights than the average Palestinian prisoner.

    This is an outright lie, Palestinians are being amputated because of zipties to their limbs

    Again, Israel has no interest in "rehabilitating" its hostages, whereas Hamas is specifically offering to release theirs.

    At worst this is hostages on both sides. Your assessment only proves how much more hospitable Hamas have been to its captives than Israel, even at a time of war and famine brought on by Israel's onslaught.

    merthyr1831 ,

    What lame whataboutism. Hasbara need to start training yall harder lmao

    merthyr1831 ,

    in my uni house, the landlord once barrelled in without notice (highly illegal!!) to give us a rug, a new coffee table, and a bunch of crappy canvas wall art.

    After we decided to sign for another year, following a few viewings, the landlord barrelled in without notice again to take it all back lmao.

    merthyr1831 ,
    1. create empty debit account
    2. place credentials to account in server's home directory
    3. if you get a call from your new account's bank, they've got your server

    Hamas Says Gaza Truce Possible 'Within 24 To 48 Hours' If Israel Accepts Terms ( www.barrons.com )

    "If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were set...

    merthyr1831 ,

    How many dead children is a good trade for 600 Israeli military? Just wondering :)

    My laptop's touchpad is emitting joystick events

    Using my touchpad seems to act as if it's a joystick - If I touch the edges it acts like I've pulled the joystick to the far edge of its movement, etc. sort of like how a steam controller's touchpads work when emulating a joystick. However, it also just acts like regular mouse input so it's only noticeable in games that detect...

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