yuman

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[–] yuman@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

lol fine - 3x 2 GB 1333 modules out of a busted 1366 motherboard I found and one 4 GB 1866 module I couldn't pair with anything, worked fine for years. the i7 got upgraded to workstation and a C2D i found by the dumpster took the server role. same drives, same debian, same docker-compose files - all good so far.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I've downgraded my server from 1st gen i7 10 GB RAM (don't ask) to Core 2 Duo 4 GB with the same load and barely felt it. my entire infra including desktop, laptopS, tablet, phoneS, etc costs like a third of this "missed value".

not shitting on your choices, but positing that the price-gouging retail market is all there is, kinda disingenuous; there's sooo much stuff being discarded although perfectly usable.

like, I couldn't bear the super-expensive raspberries while they were in the $50 range, let alone now. marketplaces are awash in busted laptops, with way better value and performance. discarded corpo desktops can house cheap HDD and run 24/7 for eons. etc.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

anyone drone-savvy up in here, can recommend cheap drones that are okayish wrt range, carry capacity, ease of hacking, zero clown shit, etc? ideally some white-label that's globally available...

[–] yuman@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thanks, good stuff! sadly, got none of these locally available.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

the, uh, alternatively acquired FC ND version doesn't work on wine due to some creative ways a bypass was implemented; doesn't look like this fixed it

[–] yuman@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

the author is the co-dev of cwtch with a proven track record of shipping product. as they state, it's impossible for any one dev to take on a product of this magnitude but I'm cautiously optimistic about this thing being in a position to gain contributors at this point.

 

in its first iteration, it strips all AI shit, doesn't just disable it; the hero went through the source tree and patched it by hand!

it differs from LibreWolf and friends as there's an intention to hard-fork the thing (LW should be based on basebrowser) and let the abomination that is the mozilla shell-game-corp of today behind, thus returning to the original idea behind creating mozilla, best described by the dude who gave us the thing:

In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

  1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
  2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
  3. There is no 3.

mastodon thread: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116994970688711387

the patch repo: https://codeberg.org/basebrowserproject/organization

firefox repo: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox

build instructions: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html

the only thing missing's how to apply the patch. it's as simple as going to the firefox source folder and applying the patch file with:

patch -p1 < the.patch

and then proceed with ./mach build.

this was my first time building firefox from source and it wasn't half as bad; about 30ish minutes on an i7-870 in the background without any excessive load that woulda made the system unusable.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the video blows, dude. jolla are opensource takers, they don't have a free tier so you can't just install it and take it for a spin. so an actual "here's how it works" video is beneficial.

my contention is that sailfish should be the next thing, after wrangling it out of the hands of those fucks. not forked android, not tweaked gnome shell on postmarketos.

this video wastes time on converting imaginary people over who don't know they're being spied on (the three hour long, or so it felt, intro with pichai and friends) showing ubuntu touch (wtf) and the presenter's face in the frame for what feels like 90% of the video.

this is a shit video on its own and especially for the target audience here.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (9 children)

what kinda hardware do you need to "run this on your desktop"?

[–] yuman@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

this is an incredibly, improbably shit video.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

thanks. the notification went away after login and I wasn't able to find its text anywhere in the myriad of pages.

also I'd take this "does not" coming from them with a bag of salt.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by yuman@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

In case you were one of the lucky ones able to snag a free account in the olden days, the terms have changed. Instead of 4 CPU and 24 RAM that you were free to whack up amongst 1-4 VPS, now you got 2 CPU and 12 GB RAM, so either one dual-core VPS or two single-core. If you keep using the old setup beyond a certain date (can't be bothered to look up when that is) you'll get billed; at reasonable rates, I'm sure.

If I'm reading this correctly, the block volume storage allotment hasn't changed, but their whole setup is hella confusing, so might be off on that.

Was really a matter of days when they was gonna axe the thing, they fired half a planet's worth of workers, I'm amazed they left even this much.

edit: I'm behind the times, this was reported more than a month ago: https://linuxiac.com/oracle-quietly-cuts-free-tier-ampere-a1-resources-in-half/

[–] yuman@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

this thing here. I've dramatically reduced support work at two shops I've set this up for. incidents went from from coupla times a month to once a year. not to mention - you don't need no VPS no more, don't need no database, nothing, the simplest web hosting will do and it's very cache friendly.

[–] yuman@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DIY perks has a new video out addressing this exact scenario and there are links to determine how to power on the things https://youtu.be/7FStfdGjAwc

 

hated on the thing since I first spotted it and dismissed it, never to think about it again - doing everything wrong and then adding the shittiest of solutions, who's gonna fall for that, right? but that thing is gaining and this post and recent threads just make me irrationally angry.

oh, the thing is also vibecoded. if you had any reservations about letting this idiocy loose on your data, there's a relief, huh? head bozo detects ever-so-subtle AGI whilst slop-fondling and easily "verifies" 30K LoC that was shat out. stomach-churning shit.

not to mention, said bozo is doubling down on his fash idiocies. I wish I was making half of this up.

 

looking for non-systemd solutions out there and thought I'd share this, didn't see it posted.

if you haven't seen any of tony's videos, you're in for a treat. enjoy!

 

what's going on here? I don't remember hiding any community and I'm def not finding any option to un-hide it

I'm using t.programming.dev, if it's important

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