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- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
Now get the hell off my lawn.
We are in a public community on the open Internet here where the following is written in the sidebar :
- Be kind
Tor was created by the USA military and the USA government has funded with millions of dollars. Many years ago Tor had a negative word association to it. But not so much anymore. Countless volunteers run Tor nodes from home, and Tor is not that slow anymore as it used to. I use Tor myself because I strongly dislike all the tracking, snooping and scandals by large and even small companies. The Clearnet Internet has become a disastrous place :(
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
I’ve dealt with Patrons like you before and the instant someone starts yammering at me about ClearNet / Tor I know exactly what kind of person I’m dealing with.
You selected your path for whatever reasons you chose and the inconveniences that come with that path are yours to deal with. Suck it up buttercup, you weren’t promised that a privacy respecting internet lifestyle would be easy or convenient.
I guess Meta, Google, Amazon and countless other companies are with you on this one for the ad and tracking riddled mass exploitation Internet of today.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.
The power implications aren’t likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).
Right.Meanwhile the on-board Ethernet port could become more reliable with newer software or some tweaks ?
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?
That’s an interesting point I didn’t think about.I don’t know and I have no gadget to test that.Once I’ve left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out thought I did take the Ethernet cable out. The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
Perhaps you are thinking in best and better and what most people want. For me there is something like curiosity (Not very uncommon in the open source world) and learning new things.Besides that I am not very amused about Intel and their Spectre and Meltdown failures which is still not a closed book with new attacks being reported in the news.For hobby and work, computer security and privacy is something that I cannot neglect.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
At the ever increasing cost of the pi and how limiting it is, the n100 is a no brainer.
Depends on the use case I guess.I prefer to have an ARM based SBC to play with (rather than an Intel based box) to test different Linux distributions and BSD without GUI.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
At this point, I’m not sure why someone would buy a Pi. I used my Pi 3 for years and got it super cheap on release.
You mean why anyone would buy a new Pi that is not a Pi3 ? Pi4 can boot from USB meaning that the usage of a SD card can be omitted completely. Not sure a Pi3 can do that or do that easily ?
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
Before you throw the pi5 out, buy a USB Ethernet adapter ? I have a few of them and they work well with Linux and BSD.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
- Most folks will probably freak out when they see a terminal window (“DOS box”) on a computer.
- Most folks in my country have no idea that there is something else than WhatsApp as alternative to SMS.
- Whenever I’ve tried explaining to people that stuff on their website violates privacy or when I try to explain why they are having email delivery problems almost always results in permanent silence or disbelief.
Technology appears to be a scare factor for a lot of people. But in this case the librarian maybe thought that Ethernet was only for their qualified IT department to use.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
I can think of two fairly active potential homes for that content: Showerthoughts, which is for random trains of thought that you think others might relate to. Lemmy Be Wholesome is for content that you feel elevates people’s moods, is supportive, shares good vibes and so on.
Nice, thank you.
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- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 6 months ago:
I feel that that is not what their post was saying.I read it more like the possibility that Mark Zuckerberg would want to talk to the core developer of Mastodon and e.g. buy Mastodon.social, and then when GoToSocial would grow Zuck would want to talk with them as well.I’d be surprised if the GoToSocial software would have Meta Threads blocked by default in their source code.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 6 months ago:
Following this conversation it was a pleasant surprise to see this pinned post by what appears to be a GoToSocial developer 🙂
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 6 months ago:
🤣
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 6 months ago:
Yes, maybe all those commenters could be simply called self-censored vendor locked in. This is also not the first time Google has been firing critical voices, it is quite frankly tempting to say “it happens all the time”.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
FckFckGo. I see what you did there.
+1 for the SearxNG. That project deserves wide spread attention as far as I am concerned.
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 7 months ago:
Here is a personal opinion from a YH forum moderator. forum.yunohost.org/t/…/3 That forum thread shows one more self host option : cosmos-cloud.io
And beware, Docker may be very popular but it also has drawbacks. One issue is that Docker can give firewall issues with ufw and if I remember correctly also with Yunohost.
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 7 months ago:
Agreed, Yunohost is a pleasure to use. Discourse is quite a complex software package to install, therefore Discourse themselves recommend to use Docker for installing Discourse.
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 7 months ago:
Yunohost tries to avoid using Docker as much as they can. In fact I would be surprised if you found Docker in use in any Yunohost app. Coop Cloud looks interesting but when it comes to usability Yunohost is clearly ahead. Another way to easily self host is www.cloudron.io though the admin interface software does not have a familiar open source license last time I looked.
