magic_smoke

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

For transfers between systems you own yes, but when grabbing a Linux iso from a public server FTP works fine.

For years Firefox allowed you to crawl FTP sites natively.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

I hope to god one day the developers at Mozilla finally get tired of this shit and fork everything under a new org.

Fuck off with more services and give me my integrated FTP client back. No one who uses Mozilla software wants more cloud shit or online services from Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oof owchie my ribs

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.

I don't want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What we need to see is a major studio pushing for Linux like valve has been doing.

That's it. That's literally what makes it special. You, me, and half the fediverse probably aren't going to use steam os unless maybe we buy a steam deck.

The fact that there's a multi-billion dollar company throwing money at both it and proton is what makes steam os special. Its what's going to give Linux a unified brand name that every machine can put on their case badge.

Normal people and the companies that sell them computers need that unified brand name. Why on gods green earth, I don't fucking know, but I know that they do. Its how you get them to use shit.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Once valve drops better nvidia support into the kernel, and steamos starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it's over for their consumer division.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good I hope chrome does get fucking run into the ground.

Maybe then chromium can have some actual independence and spread its wings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like to run ufw on all my machines but I'm also a tinfoil-hat wearing wacko who believes that no computer should ever really be trusted. Just trusted enough to do specific tasks.

If someone somehow busts into one of my VLANs, at least the other machines on that net will still have some sort of protection.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The real issues are capitalism and the lack of green energy.

If the arts where well funded, if people where given healthcare and UBI, if we had, at the very least, switched to nuclear like we should've decades ago, we wouldn't be here.

The issue isn't a piece of software.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know that was part of my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.

Also, little off-topic but, as important as it is to computing culture, some of the gatekeepy shit put in there aged like milk. But I kind of expect that from nerd culture, especially 20th century nerd culture.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Fpv has a very storied history, yet we don't see these bombings in peacetime. Like fucking ever. Even in the U.S.

Its almost like pre-made drones are locked down and tracked, and homemade fpv quads take like 20 hours of sim time just to keep in the air.

That's before we discuss the fact that the munitions Ukraine straps to them are unobtanium for normal people.

This is really cheap if you're a military with a bunch of people, training facilities, and explosives, but still a big pain in the ass for anyone else. I guess if you have a really angry hobbiest with hundreds of man hours of flight time, and explosives knowledge you're in danger.

The only RC hobbiest that pissed off I know lives in New Zealand.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:

The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinator and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.

We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?

Like holy fucking shit. If you're not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.

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