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rodbiren

@ rodbiren @midwest.social

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  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

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  • Can't predict the future, but I can see the past. Specifically the part of the past that used standards based implementations and boring technology. Love that I can pull up html with elements using ALL CAPs and table aligned content. It looks like a hot mess but it still works, even on mobile. Plain text keeps trucking along. Sqlite will outlive me. Exciting things are exciting but the world is made of boring.

  • What text-to-speech application do you use?

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  • Kokoro is absolutely incredible for how small it is. It can run on CPU fairly quickly and the results are so consistent. I'm even working on an absolute wacky idea to use a genetic algorithm for voice cloning because the tensors it uses for voice style are just so small. It's an awesome application.

  • How to have a boring and low-maintenance system?

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  • Every time I stray from Mint I am reminded why I go back to it.

  • House is such a great show

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  • Rat bites

  • House is such a great show

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  • This vexes me

  • Is there support for USB C DP alt mode via Thunderbolt?

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  • Well crap

  • Is there support for USB C DP alt mode via Thunderbolt?

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  • It has to do with muxing for the dGPU. I have bashed my head against this what seems like endlessly. My suggestion is that you should enable only dedicated gpu mode in your bios. That has worked for me. It kind of sucks because you feel like you are leaving performance on the table, but I have found nothing that works properly on any DE in any configuration.

    At the end of the day it is basically a hardware issue, and for your specific hardware it will not work. I'm my limited opinion.

  • What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?

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  • I have a zellij snd micro config for journaling and writing that makes a completely borderless full screen terminal with no decoration whatsoever and narrows the terminal for micro to the upper half of the middle 1/3 of my screen.

    It helps me focus and limiting to the upper half and middle 1/3 makes it easier for my eyes. I get distracted easily and this helps keep my editor from being the source of that.

  • Is anyone running CachyOS?

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  • Chronic distro hopper here. It brings some interesting defaults and is probably easier to get gaming on than default Arch. Lots of stuff that is above my head for performance optimizing, but in all honesty it's not THAT incredibly different than default Arch, or even default mint. At least on my hardware which is a 3070 Nvidia 12th gen Intel laptop. It does make an impact, but your mileage may vary.

    You know how some people really like cars and spend endless time on the garage tweaking and tuning things? Cachy feels like the distro version of that for Linux. If you are an enthusiast then it is great, but you had better be prepared to figure out what esoteric thing broke and why your "car" now no longer works.

    Mint is driving a car, Arch/Cachy is being a car enthusiast. Both will get you places, but one is probably going to get you to the grocery store more reliably.

  • Are we close enough to Americas breaking point to know what it will be?

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  • No, it will need to get incredibly worse for anything like a revolution to occur. The only historical events I can think of to parallel would be the collapse of the Czar in Russia during WW1 and the end of the Soviet Union. The common theme is that it took huge stacks of dead people to actually motivate people to do something about their leadership.

    Until the state of things leads to basically all citizens knowing one or more of their own immediate family members dieing of being severely injured from something most people will carry on. Maybe a lot of starving people? Idk, I was surprised how suddenly the feds had money for people during the pandemic. I think they were a little scared their for a second. And of course they made hay of that being the reason for all the problems. Not PPP handouts or anything.

    TLDR, no. We need millions of dead before we are even close.

  • Distro suggestions for a dumb-dumb who only knows linux through meme osmosis

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  • I've done dozens of distros and Linux mint is the most familiar, unexciting, and stable one I have found. Ignore the hate. Real Linux fans don't care how you participate in open source, other than being toxic. Consequently, do whatever you want and install whatever seems like it would be something you'd want to use.

    Id highly suggest having a separate hard drive for Linux as it can be easy to break dual boot if you don't know what you are doing. Last thing you want to do is panic and decide you need to reinstall Windows.

  • openSUSE: Choosing Better Alternatives Amid Confusing Policies

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  • I have distro hopped my dang brains out with everything under the sun. I'm back to Mint. It works without being an absolute pain and is boring as watching paint dry, which is the point of an OS. I just use it to compute, work, code, and game. it boots and updates eventually.

  • openSUSE: Choosing Better Alternatives Amid Confusing Policies

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  • I ended up installing docker. Didn't want to make a bunch of systemd files. It automatically updates each day and has required almost no maintenance at all. It's a little strange, but can work great.

  • openSUSE: Choosing Better Alternatives Amid Confusing Policies

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  • I continue to have a hard time with it. I desperately want to like it but feel like it doesn't handle laptop Nvidia right. I keep getting boot to black screen on KDE and have to rfkill unblock on install and just a host of issues I can't seem to ever nail down. Might have to try again since switcherooctl, but there are some rough edges for me.

    Love MicroOS for server though. Rock solid.

  • Anon is an engineer

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  • Depends if who you work for. If you work for bad management prepare for some goon to tell you what you should be doing, be wrong about what they tell you, not know what they want, and to demand it sooner than you tell them it will take. They will then change their mind and still expect it to take less time. They will be constantly frustrated with you and you will hate it.

    Good management will find work with clear value to customers and you will feel valued and be given *mostly adequate time to do your work. You will put in your hours and be paid. You'll still be jerked around by typical corporate politics, but it's everywhere so buckle up. Better than ditch digging unless that's what you want.

  • type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it

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  • CachyOs I think I have a lot of the state of the state to get the question I guess I don't know what to do with it but I don't know what to do with it but I don't think it will be a good idea how much does it cost to get it on the way home gym is it too late to get it on the way home from the web site and it is a good idea to get it.

  • Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart

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  • My take is that they vote for him because he is angry. These young men are largely angry and have had media of all sorts telling them that they should be. They don't want someone telling them how they will boost the middle class and have equitable tax. They want someone who says they will burn every problem to the ground and break things. They want someone screaming at someone to blame.

    Why we have a huge chunk of young men desperatly angry is a choose your own adventure of societal issues where we have provided almost no healthy outlet for healthy aggression or the physicality that comes with being a young man. Everyone is free to come up with their own reasons, but for me it is the lack of outlet or the feeling of societial participation for young men.

    Whatever the reason, a culture who sweeps the problems of frustrated young men under the rug for long enough I feel will live to regret it.

  • CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs

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  • It defaults to BTRFS with more recent releases

  • Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?

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  • We also have the freedom to self govern. Laws are on the books to prevent firework usage in my state, it is simply ignored one night a year because it turns out mass lawbreaking is hard to handle. I don't have the right to conduct a parade in the middle of whichever street I want whenever I want. I participate in the social contract of sacrificing absolute freedom for mutual gain because I live in a country and am not a sovereign citizen claiming complete supremacy over all others. My taxes pay for a small and well moderated fireworks show at a designated location conducted by a local government for which I had a hand in voting for. My freedom is louder, collective, voted for, and more sensible. Not all freedom must be focused soley on the individual.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    rodbiren @midwest.social
    Solution

    Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 16IAH7H Nvidia RTX 3070 82RF006XUS i7-12700H Linux Mint Fixes and Modifications

    www.lenovo.com /us/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/legion-5i-pro-gen-7-(16-inch-intel)/len101g0015
  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    *Stares in crusty

  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    Shun the non crusty memes, shuuuunnn

  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    You'll have uncomfortable amounts of memergy!

  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    Dear Strong Bad, Your memes are so crusty they ran on flash

  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    All your memes are belong to us

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    All your memes are belong to the olds

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    Advice on finding and using a performent scheduler?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    rodbiren @midwest.social

    Good dumb TV for my living room media center?