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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I haven’t flashed my T480s yet, as it’s my daily, and I’m waiting for a couple versions to bring additional functionality. anyhow, I was hesitant for the longest time about dicking around with this sorta activity, on the basis that if it’s not software flashable/moddable, I’m out. but the total cost of the hardware (raspberry pico, SOIC clamp, some wires) is under $10 in total and the procedure couldn’t be any more straightforward; also it has a multitude of uses after you’re done. my point, if you were similarly hesitant, take another look, it’s easy and this post is very detailed.





  • all-AMD system and don’t buy new stuff, go a gen or two back; new keyboards and mice and case.

    • better OS support
    • way cheaper
    • you fuck something up assembling, no biggie
    • the hardware is more than adequate for their needs
    • no esoteric distros, something widely used and documented, with fresh mesa and friends and sane defaults - Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.

    can’t help with the mentioned games. weening them off that corpo spyware is good in the long run but it’s detrimental to their social life.




  • both Gnome and Plasma support touch, so try em out and see which you’ll like more. go for the freshest distros so you have the newest versions of either as touch is being worked on constantly.

    not sure if you’ll be able to actually use the thing without an external keyboard/mouse; case in point, Gnome for the longest time didn’t allow touch to initiate dropdowns in the UI, kinda big deal.

    be sure to not use greeter logins and disk encryption as the on-screen keyboards (OSK) don’t work outside the DE. also, issues with non-US keyboard layouts.

    just a warning, if you’ve used an Android or iOS tablet, the support is pretty basic and the experience and performance is nowhere near that level.






  • it doesn’t do none of those things. also, you should include less details, it’s fun guessing what your software stack is, how you installed it, and the term “if I use Wayland” is way too precise. likewise, that sentence of yours is enormously protracted, you should consider shortening it.

    seriously, are you for real?

    edit: hey, if you want people to help you, provide details as to your os, software, hardware, and maybe spend a bit of time describing your issue in detail as well as stuff you’ve tried. cheers!




  • whether telegram was setup as a honeypot or got taken over or somehow is still independent and free of nation-state influence is a) beyond the expertise of any and all participants ITT and b) besides the point.

    the main point is telegram’s honcho when faced with the perfectly valid question (E2EE when?) throwing out one smoke screen after the other, shit noone asked or cared about and conflating unrelated crap to spread FUD - signal is CIA backed, whatsapp turns over metadata, all crypto is blown by NSA so we’re better off without, we can’t have encrypted channels (no1 axed for that), etc.

    if he’s being cagey and lying about plainly evident things, what else is he untruthful about?

    there are FOSS telegram clients out there and adding on E2EE is trivial (remember Pidgin and OTR over Google’s XMPP?). the fact that that’s explicitly against telegram’s TOS and that they’re adamant about leaving all your shit unencrypted “in the cloud” draws but one conclusion.


  • just tried to re-watch “the girl in the spider’s web”, the not-sequel to fincher’s masterpiece that’s “the girl with the dragon tattoo”. I remember hating it way back when and went in with a “how bad can it be” attitude… dios mio, what a colossal mountain of shit. the “hacking” in OP is hard sci-fi compared to this turdistan, and that’s the least of its problems.

    someone posted already the gell-mann amnesia effect and this applies to everything. how guns are portrayed in movies as magical. cars and how they’re driven. the laughable naive cop shows. medical procedures. legal proceedings. journalists and their MO.

    you hafta run your brain at 110% at all times to be able to somewhat disregard the learned idiocy that was programmed into you from an early age. here’s hoping we have the infrastructure in place so generations that are coming can avoid becoming similarly handicapped.


  • doesn’t have to be, it’s enough it’s not propped up by venture capital. all the results of enshittification are directly the result of venture capital wanting a 100x return on their investment.

    a privately owned business that’s not focused on 100x-ing someones investment but content with the profit their enterprise generates (think Steam) is inherently good to its customers.



  • well, living room, it’s a single-room-dwelling type of situation. but yeah, move the chair out of the way and browse Jellyfin. I’ll post an image in a minute or two when I clear out the desk, kinda embarrassing with the amount of random crap on it.

    edit:

    the macbook is unrelated, a recent acquisition and in the process of being tamed for Fedora.

    it’s a n-th hand monitor I got five years ago from some junker who fixes and resells used TVs, he got it by mistake and was super-apologetic for the “missing” remote; it’s a monitor, it ain’t got none of those. also had no stand so I screwed a VESA mount in a board and it’s hanging thus ever since.

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