user224

user224 , 1 month ago to Linux in Cool distros to try

spare your free time

But it's not free time if you're not free to waste it ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

user224 , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What are you up to instead of what you wish you were doing?

Learning.

I am a lazy piece of shit.
I'd like to learn some programming, morse code, perhaps another language as well.
But I quickly loose any motivation. At least for the past 2 years. I do get some occasional bursts of motivation, but usually I often don't feel like doing anything at all anymore. I wouldn't even breathe if it wasn't automatic.
Preferably I'd be dead. I'd have 0 issues, create 0 issues, have no regrets. It would be better for everyone, myself included.

user224 , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.

But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date

Seems modern enough already.

user224 , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

You still didn't answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. ^(joke)^

Do you use GNU+Linux?

user224 , 1 month ago to World News in Man Booked For Using VPN In J&K's Rajouri, 3rd Such Case In 2 Days

If we're speaking of the technology, depends on implementation. "VPN" is a fairly broad term.

user224 , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in If you were alone in the woods, would you rather come across Windows or Linux?

39 buried, 0 found.

user224 , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in The last time you were misgendered and the last time you misgendered someone else, why?

Why? Looks, voice.

If it's not intentional, it doesn't matter.

Like, take this picture of the friend for example, what gender comes to your mind looking at that

JPEG. A cooked JPEG. That JPEG isn't well done, it's congratulations.
(Can't tell)

user224 , 1 month ago to No Stupid Questions in Will I ever be seen as truly British?

I am afraid not.
It's with you like race. You can't change it.
If you're part of any minority you'll always attract these dumbasses.

Sorry, I'd like to tell you something better.

Oh, and the "Say something in Polish" may very well be meant well, even if it's annoying. Nobody but you knows how often you hear it.

user224 , 1 month ago to Technology in iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'

inch

Ew.

user224 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Ask Lemmy in What do you do to cheer yourself up ?

I don't think I ever managed to do that.

TL;DR: Occupy myself with something

At best I can just have a fake conversation in my head. Sometimes I also listen to taxi drivers with SDR. I can only pick up 2 companies, unfortunately. Fortunately though, they are just 0.15MHz apart, so I can listen on to both at once.
One of them even routes phone calls over their radios, so I can hear those as well.

But it's usually boring. Just on new year 2022/2023 one of the 3 companies' drivers were greeting each other. That was nice. Yes, 3, there used to be 3 of them I could listen to.
Actually, even before I had SDR I could listen to one on VHF because they were overlapping with FM Broadcast band. But that wasn't the most pleasant experience. With regular radio I had no squelch option and picking NFM with WFM receiver I had to have volume fairly high. The result of that was faint voice followed by absolutely loud static.

Of course, it would be better to listen to hams. That would be far more interesting. But so far I only managed to pick up the end of 2 contacts on 2m. I don't have much luck. HF is basically unusable where I am due to RFI.
The only stuff I can pick up is chinese AM radio stations, CW (but I've been too lazy to learn morse...), FT8, and the Russian-Ukrainian pirates around 7055kHz.

I don't know how to monitor the 2m band automatically. If I know the specific frequency, in SDR++ I can just set up squelch and turn on recording with "Ignore silence". But obviously that will also not allow me to listen to a real-time conversation because all silence is cut out.

Yeah, sorry, I got off-topic.

I can also play with random stuff in Termux on my phone. Right now I need to update nginx which will require also re-compiling the fancyindex dynamic module. I also want to try setting up Jellyfin and NextCloud in proot at some point.
I also want to download the 110GB Wikipedia ZIM archive and serve that with kiwix-serve after I free up enough storage, currently occupied by DVD ISO files and satellite signal baseband recordings. (Yes, on my phone.)
Of course this isn't always without larger issues.
During one math class I took out my phone from the pocket, because it was starting to get too hot, only to find it stuck in bootloop. I forced it off and tried to boot it up. Thankfully, that worked this time. I found the internal storage nearly full. It seems when I forced it into recovery to turn it off, magically 17MB were freed which allowed it to boot up. Otherwise I'd need to fully reset it, most likely. I can't access the data from recovery, and that's good from security perspective.

What happened? NGINX error log filled up the storage. I am too dumb to properly manage that, so...

error_log /dev/null;

user224 , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What foods and drinks would you buy more often if money was not an issue?

Some different expensive mineral waters
Freeze-dried fruit
Beef jerky
Nuts in wasabi dough
Pizza

user224 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy

NileRed? Is that you?

user224 , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What the unholy f is going on with this eBay post?

Perhaps some filter to make it seem like it's on a wooden desk instead of something else, perhaps a bed.

user224 , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in Advice on finding a partner?

It's also possible she's going through something bad and doesn't want to pull OP into that.

There's no way to tell with a lack of any communication, and assuming stuff is inaccurate.

user224 , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in You have 24 hours to do anything with absolutely no consequences. What do you do?

No consequences? I won't even know I did anything. It won't even show.
Just carry on as usual.

Now, if you meant no bad consequences...

I don't know how I'd do it. Perhaps I'd steal money from some rich fuck, whatever.
But the idea is:
Find a train driver and bribe him with loads of money. Tell him to say that I've kidnapped him. I could even get a gun.
Perhaps bribe some more people similarly as well, not many would care about a single worker.
Threaten to kill them if things don't go my way.

Ask to get some specific rail sections freed.
Tell the train driver to do initial checks and start the train, then show me the basics on how to drive it.
The best part starts now: I'll drive the train.

Perhaps I'd take 3-4 hours with that. Then get to some side rail and stop there.
In the remaining time, ask the train driver to explain me as much as possible from this field.

5 minutes before the end thank my "hostages" for cooperating and leave the scene, hopefully leaving with loads of extra knowledge on a field different from mine.