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  • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chtoMemes@lemmy.mlResources
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    18 days ago

    But that would infringe on my God-given right to own a car, eat meat, fly once a year and replace my 50" TV with a 20% larger one every 4 years!

    How dare you?!?

    I would rather have black people far away starving than living like THAT!



  • I agree that the Gentoo wiki is almost always better than the Arch wiki (and would recommend it to any user), but i really doubt installing complicated packages is remotely as hard as on Gentoo.

    While i have never used Arch before, i did use Manjaro, and there stuff was always just install the package and be done. I never had to alter the Kernel config, and all program features were just there. I also had VMs on Manjaro, and i do not remember any manual configuration (though that was many years ago, so maybe i misremember).

    Recently i wanted to encode a video in ffmpeg, but it didn’t work. After a bit of searching i found that the codec requires a use-flag to be set. Classic Gentoo moment.

    It’s not that i dislike Gentoo. In fact i do not consider returning to Arch (but i might switch to NixOS if my Gentoo install breaks). But i wouldn’t switch to any other distro.
    It’s just that Gentoo is configured in a way that is so minimal by default that even basic use-cases require changes in the Kernel config: systemd? Kernel config. Bluetooth? Kernel config. LUKS? Kernel config. Amdgpu? Yes, exactly. BTRFS? Yes. Blender? Yeah OK, that goes without kernel config.
    And the worst about the Kernel config: You don’t know which values are set by default. You might just end up in nconfig realizing that the values were already set.

    Then there is the instability in the distKernel (which i use). I think i started with Kernel 5.10LTS ish. Every upgrade went well until like 6.1 LTS, when Emerge complained about i think module ordering or something. It would not emerge a newer Kernel any more, which made me reset my Kernel config and redo it entirely because i thought Kernel 5 and 6 configs might be incompatible. That worked (somehow) until 6.6 LTS, which i wanted to install at version 6.6.6 LTS. But emerge complained it could not install it. I waited and ignored the update, and eventually got trough at version 6.6.20 or so. After that it refused to update again, which made me blacklist all non LTS kernels. I am now on 6.12 LTS, even though i am not a LTS guy, simply because i don’t want the hassle.

    And still, after all of this effort for being minimal, it boots in like 20s, while Arch does it in like 3 or so. Gentoo hates me.


  • The problem with Gentoo is that you can’t install anything in a hurry.

    Run VMs on Arch:

    1. pacman -S virt-manager
    2. Done.

    Run VMs on Gentoo?

    1. Read the Wiki
    2. Find out which USE-Flags you will want
    3. Fnd out the dependencies it’s based on (QEMU), read that Wiki entry too
    4. See what USE-Flags you want
    5. See what Kernel options are needed. Recompile Kernel if changes were necessary.
    6. emerge -av app-emulation/virt-manager
    7. See if you have read the Wikis of all dependencies.
    8. Install.
    9. Read the dependencies wikis for how to set things up.
    10. Done

    Yes, this is an extreme example, but many large packages are a bit like this.
    That’s why you will tripple-check if you really need sonething before installing it on Gentoo, or you are like me and install Boxes in a Flatpak instead.

    Personally i like Gentoo more than Arch because of all the buttons and knobs, and once it’s set up it does not need more time than Arch, but installing stuff is sometimes hard.











  • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chtoMemes@lemmy.ml*Sheeple* (updated)
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    7 months ago

    Sadly election results prove every few years, that you are the only one seeking radical change.

    ~30-50% want extreme conservativism/capitalism. ~20-40% want everything as-is.
    ~30% want mild improvements like a really low UBI.
    <5% want to get rid of oligarchs.
    <.1% want to eliminate suffering.



  • There are 2 kinds of companies:

    1. Evil companies
    2. Companies that are not evil YET.

    What this means in this case is that only your own E-Mail server running on a Raspi in your own home can be considered private or secure in the long run. Unfortunately this is really really hard to do, which is the only reason i have not done it yet.
    Personally i do not consider any E-Mail private, because E-Mail is not E2E-encrypted, and 99.9% of times one side of the conversation is going to be hosted on some shady companies servers.

    Of course Proton delivers a great service, because they make an insecure protocol a little less insecure, and i personally use Proton mail. Unfortunately their closed-source nature makes it impossible to switch providers without abandoning their great software.

    As for services like Drive, they can actually be hosted privately and securely on your own Raspi with stuff like NextCloud/OwnCloud.
    For those that can’t/don’t want to self-host, i would recommend paying for a hoster that hosts FOSS software and contributes to it either with money or code. In that case you would probably loose E2E-encryption, but gain the ability to switch providers once your provider turns on you. In that case at least some of your money would continue to offer value to you by having improved the software you are still using.


  • Personally, i have never experienced problems while reading from USB sticks, but i have while writing. I have a 15+ years old USB2 stick and a new USB3.x stick. The USB2 stick writes with constant ~20MB/s, while USB3 is all over the place between 200MB/s and ~0.1MB/s. Unusable for me. For a while i used external HDDs and SSDs over USB3, as they somehow run without problems, but they are cumbersome and expensive.

    Therefore i have switched to transfer files over the network (for large files i plug in Ethernet) using KDE connect. Unfortunately it can not send folders (yet), so i would .tar them before sending, and untar them after.

    LocalSend would also be an option. Maybe that can do folders natively.


  • Signs of Addiction:

    • Inability to stop? Yes. I drink even when i don’t want to.
    • Increased tolerance? Yes. I drank less when i was a child.
    • Intense focus on the substance or activity? Yes. I have many glasses for water, bottles, carbonated water,…
    • Lack of control? Yes.
    • Personal problems and health issues? Depends on water quality. Maybe.
    • Withdrawal? Absolutely.


  • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chtoich_iel@feddit.orgich💬iel
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    9 months ago

    100% Zustimmung von meiner Seite.

    Ich hatte Englisch und Spanisch (immernoch 1000x nützlicher als Latein).
    Englisch kann ich besser denn je, vorallem wegen YouTube und der EU/USA orientierten Seite des Internets. Hat sich definitiv sehr gelohnt mir das beizubringen.

    Spanisch? Nun, ich hab glaub ich seither mal einen Film gesehen den es nur in Spanisch gab. Fast nichts verstanden, dann einfach deutsche Untertitel angemacht.
    Grindsätzlich denke ich schon dass es sinnvoll ist eine Sprache zu sprechen die weit verbreitet ist, aber eine 2. zusätzlich, auch wenn sie so verbreitet ist wie Spanisch bringt fast nichts.
    Und wenn man dann den gigantischen Zeitaufwand bedenkt, gibt es einfach keinen Sinn (außer um die Kinder zu quälen).

    Da wäre es 10000x sinnvoller den Kindern Empathie, humanistische Ethik und logisches Denken bei zu bringen (Boolsche logik + Venn Diagramme + logische Schlüsse), damit sie (vielleicht) keine menschenfeindlichen Parteien wählen. Und das alles zusammen würde weniger Zeit brauchen als Spanisch.