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CrimsonCape
·أول أمس·discuss
reading "Terms of Service" is useless if you are not also understanding Terms of Service, and once you understand Terms of Service, you also understand how you are being shafted by signing up to them since 99% of Terms of Service are for their benefit.

I propose a new metric: you feed any terms of Service into an AI that outputs "It will realistically cost you X litigious dollars to win against these terms." That's all the signee really needs to know.
CrimsonCape
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
I'd be interested in any more info you can provide. Do you have your router configs in flakes? I'm currently testing Nix in a proxmox VM.

I just finished writing a shell script to dump all the UCI config files to one text file using curly braces to bracket/separate each file with the intent of committing this to a repo. Then will be writing a little parser to chunk up the text file to the appropriate /etc/config structure that OpenWRT expects. So at any point I can then just checkout different git branches, run the parser, and bam the entire config has been written to the router over ssh.

Still trying to figure out if OpenWRT has some other state outside of the /etc/config directory.
CrimsonCape
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Ask AI to generate you a UCI config for "<your use case here>".

Reading the raw config files in /etc/config is the opposite of the web UI. The config files are the bare minimum data. Very easy to read.

I have no idea of the wider scope of possibilities that could be written into the config files, but that's where the AI helps.
CrimsonCape
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Looking at Asha Sharma's track record of having no experience in anything related to gaming, don't color me surprised when in 6 months the foisted narrative will be 'well, do we even need an Xbox?'
CrimsonCape
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
Imagine if small movie theaters could just show films at their own whim.

You could have small theaters springing up everywhere. I'm sure there's a boot ready and waiting to smash down this from happening.
CrimsonCape
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
This article felt like a classic example of "I just discovered this cool technology that seems to have massive potential! While massively blind and naive to the implications of what I think!" As others point out, the OP will learn in 5 years why people do what they do and not what OP thinks should be.

So I find myself being more sympathetic and SMH than antagonistic..
CrimsonCape
·قبل 12 يومًا·discuss
Not a Nix user yet, so i'm wondering if you can describe a little more about the "reproducibility" aspect which implies that you are often "reproducing" stuff. What needs reproducing? What is a basic daily-driver use case for whatever we are "reproducing"?
CrimsonCape
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
Please evangelize me if you have experience and you consider this to be a better declarative containerized router...
CrimsonCape
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
> OT: I think the cause of the wealth gap is much simpler. It is the stock market. I imagine a society where there is no stock market, but instead everyone invest in their local economies. We would probably be growing much slower, but who cares?

In our real-world Matrix, in which we are all part of Keynesian economics, you just took the red pill and discovered the existence of Austrian economics (and the stranglehold that Keynesians have over the world and anybody who proports to be an Austrian)

You are discovering that at some past point the USA was distorted to become the host for the biggest Keynesian economic experiment ever. I'm not even sure how it was even foisted upon people with such little regard. Is there any surprise that in a Keynesian system nobody ever feels fulfilled or happy? The whole point of the system is that constant growth and inflation are necessary parts of economics. You literally have to keep your wealth flowing in market ventures. Who's going to have time to stop and use wealth to improve cities and communities (unless it's part of business venture)?

There's one word I use and hope everyone learns: 'siesta'. A culture that has siesta cannot co-exist with a culture that does not. These are just different words for 'a Keynesian economic system cannot co-exist with an Austrian system.'
CrimsonCape
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Yeah, this space seems pretty sparse. Some of the Radxa SBCs are getting closer to a hardware solution for your vision, but there isn't real mainstream software. A self-hosted DNLA server is probably the most realistic option but DNLA has seemed to fall by the wayside in favor of paid streaming and plex/jellyfin.

That said, Tailscale did not exist when DNLA was popular, and DNLA over Tailscale seems a really promising non-jellyfin avenue.

Ultimately the problem will be lack of hardware decoders and poor interop with Dolby, DTS, etc.

https://bret.dk/radxa-dragon-q8b-a-laptop-cosplaying-as-an-s...
CrimsonCape
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Jellyfin's worst aspect is the opinionated file structure. You have to set up folders the way it wants, and then the resulting UI browser is what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Pretty sure it's done this way for automated metadata discovery.

Ideally, this would be designed in two parts: separate the file structure from the metadata discovery mechanism.

I personally want a file structure managed by the OS. Let me make folders and nested subfolders to whatever structure I prefer.

Then make the metadata discovery slightly more manual. Click a media file, click a hypothetical "add metadata" button, and then a simple search box with "is this your movie?" and click apply to import metadata from a search result. easy peasy.

The UI is clearly meant to resemble a typical media app but falls short if the end user prefers, for example, foobar2000's UI.
CrimsonCape
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
Ultimately, if a kid is super digitally connected and using social media all day, can't his/her final grades be enough evidence?

I'd like to hear some arguments how we must ban certain technology in school; meanwhile it's plain to see to anybody with a brain cell that there is an entire corrupt stack from state government down to the individual classroom that *students must not be given failing grades*.

Here's a thought experiment: provide an opinion to both of these assertions. The rule of the experiment is you cannot give an opinion to one without answering the other.

- We should ban social media in school

- We should ban failing grades in school
CrimsonCape
·قبل 30 يومًا·discuss
Correct me if you have more experience, but I have mostly avoided using smart plugs for computers because the PSU capacitors generate a large inrush current which tends to weld the relay contacts over time, causing the plugs to fail prematurely. Maybe ok in a power loss scenario, but not good to use for remote waking regularly...
CrimsonCape
·قبل 30 يومًا·discuss
It would seem relatively easy to tie speed to the direction the boat is facing. The more perpendicular you are to the 'wind direction' the faster you move. Or make the fastest velocity 45 degrees from wind direction, for a bit more realism. Basic sailing physics can add to the fun.
CrimsonCape
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Ever since the liquid glass update, my wallpaper is just a muted color. I investigated the settings and previously my wallpaper was the "blur" version of my lock screen. Since the liquid glass update, "blur" apparently means "99% blur" instead of the 20-30% blur it used to be. The muted color does seem to be an average color of the lock screen image. But nothing recognizable.
CrimsonCape
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
To those who know more about this, who is the "Blue Busters" song targeting? (It's just the Ghostbusters theme)

"If there's something strange, stinking up your desk, who you gonna call? Blue busters!"
CrimsonCape
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Haha for example, to the homeowners out there, you should change your water heater anode rod ASAP if you have not. Good luck getting the rod out, because the caps on the water heater get corroded shut. And did I mention you need to drain the hot water heater to do so. You ever tried draining a hot water heater when that task has not been accounted for in the design? You need a way to drain it.
CrimsonCape
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Can you shed more light on this? You are saying that more processes help avoid figuring out correct state logic? Howso?
CrimsonCape
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Maybe Windows 12 will be the promised "last Windows" which 10 was supposed to be.

I'd love to know the exec who ordered Windows 11. It stinks of "I need a product on my resume that I launched because being Windows 10 "maintainer" sounds so pathetic on a resume."
CrimsonCape
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The problem with all those devices you listed is that they have lost the "general purpose" ability. I guess you could define "general" to mean "carefully curated"...