I switched my server from Ubuntu to Fedora, partly so I don’t get sold Ubuntu pro on every login lol.

Out of all the shit Microsoft does, Paint3D is actually ok. I remember it having a cool 3d pen tool.

Where I live (Canada), IIRC it’s completely legal to cross anywhere you want, but bigger stroads will have fences in the median and the culture generally prioritizes driver convenience above all else. Pedestrians will often run across crossings when a car is waiting, which always makes me cringe.

Since traffic lights are car infrastructure, you don’t need them when there are no cars, which is the case in many cities that are walkable and bikable. You don’t need a machine to tell you what to do when you’re only going 20 km/h.

Pierre’s party, the Conservative Party of Canada, has a sizable chance of winning our election. Our prime minister up until recently, Justin Trudeau, is not terribly popular with voters, which might push more people to vote left. But since we have first past the post voting, that might help the conservatives win 😥️.

Ironically, I’m reading this from PostmarketOS, which has support for the echo dot 2, feature phones and some smartwatches, so it might be realistic to run on a vacum lol.

These new 196 community names are getting out of hand. 19684? Absolutely Diabolical.

I guess the cost is worth it to Google just to entrench themselves and their products even further into the lives of most people.

I currently have my homelab on a small shelf constructed from 4040 aluminium extrusion. If I could convert it to a rack, that would be epic, since right now it can be difficult to safely move.

They better have had traffic cones on their heads. The mental image that creates is quite funny with the contrast to the serious businesmen trying to sell AI one booth over.

With how easy it is to Massgrave to get a valid Windows key, I personally don’t even consider backing up windows keys lol.

I think it’s probably down to preference. I personally really like Fedora server because it comes pre-installed with the Cockpit webui which replaces the role of Portainer and makes other admin tasks like firewall openings and user management trivial. I’m definetly glad to have switched away from Ubuntu server which I was using before.

IIRC Meta was one of the first companies to publicly release a language model that you could run on your computer, called llama. Hence the naming of projects like llama.cpp and ollama.

I find the ad blocking in Gnome Web to be sufficient. The biggest thing that is holding it back in my opinion is a lack of features like extentions and FIDO support and moderate performance.

Huh. I have personally found SteamVR to be slow and very flakey, even on Windows. I find using monado I can just play. I guess monado has a bit more initial setup, but I personally found it to be worth it.

Maybe they mean that they use flatscreen applications in VR, or maybe they take all their meetings in VRChat.

Yes, Meta shit actually works quite well using Wivrn apart from it being, well, from Meta. lvra.gitlab.io is a treasure trove of Linux VR info. SteamVR is kinda shit on linux, so using the open source openXR runtime Monado is ideal. I personally use a pimax 5k I got cheap used to play Beat saber and it works quite well. While not complete, there is very promising progress on getting WMR headsets working. The Index, Vive and Vive pro all work with no fiddling though if that’s what you’re after.

Hugo is also pretty cool.

I don’t think so. The Jellyfin documentation still says it sucks lol.

I know here in Canada if a drone is 250g or under, you don’t need a license. I’m pretty sure that maby of the camera-drone manufactuers make variants that are just under 250g to make them more accessible.