@prologic@twtxt.net oh dear! đŹđŠ
Made this awful mistake of not doing pre-prep work before going away on our next camper trip (now). Discovered this morning that some (idiot) person had turned off the power to the camper trailer and the battery was basically dead. I just hope itâs not âdead deadâ. We plan to leave after 4hrs of Bulk Charge from the mains power and itâs internal battery charger and hope for the best. Iâm also brining a spare 12.8V LifePo4 battery that is basically full to power the fridge, just in case. Fark Iâm an idiot đ¤Śââď¸
@mckinley@twtxt.net He likes it enough which is good. The painful part is some OSS software just really sucks ass đ˘ Heâs found it particularly hard to find a decent âdocumentâ editor/tool he likes. Heâs stuck with Abiword for now, but itâs not the most polished ir easiest to use. It also saves things in a really weird non-portable? format?
@prologic@twtxt.net Nice. I hope he likes it.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Ubuntu
@prologic@twtxt.net What does he use now?
@mckinley@twtxt.net Agreed. Iâm just glad my dad has finally gotten out of the Windows ecosystem đ
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Done
@mckinley I havenât touched PHP for years. I am not about to dirty my hands now. It looks⌠decent. ;-)
@bender@anthony.buc.ci Check out https://darch.dk/timeline/, itâs an honest-to-goodness Yarn-like Web UI. Very impressive, @darch@neotxt.dk. Do you want it listed on groovy-twtxt?
He will not see this, so it seems. That twt was pretty much a telegram, without sender address. LOL.
Break a leg! Below a proof that no start goes always smooth:
poem@neotxt.dk: host route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.11] said: 550 5.1.1
Address does not exist. 4mZ3ZDn1GNg0 (in reply to RCPT TO command)
@prologic@twtxt.net Youâre right, but theyâre not going to stop until people vote with their wallets.
@bender@twtxt.net Iâm not suggesting that people should use an old Windows version to avoid this. Iâm saying that Windows in general should be considered a legacy operating system, and continued usage will only make you subject to more of this tracking and unnecessary garbage.
In other words, the situation will never improve. It will only get worse from here, so you might as well get out now while there are still plenty of life boats. Otherwise, when they do something thatâs really over the line, you either have to go along with it or dive right into the cold ocean.
Windows is only kept alive at this point by a lack of knowledge about the alternatives, apathy, fear, and some enterprise software and games with support in Wine improving by the day.
@mckinley which one would you call a legacy operating system? If referring to a previous Microsoft Windows OS, it will not be legacy for long. Granted, it might during our lifetime, but I tend to look (and often worry) a bit further.
This whole âdata commodityâ has gone too far.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Well yes, true, but not my primary point. Microsoft really needs to pull their head out of their ass. Toyota, BMW, Samsung and even Apple to some extent. Companies need to understand a basic economic rule: If a customer buys your product X, they really donât expect to have to pay for (useless) service Y in order to use product X. Iâm looking at you BMW and Toyota, both have attempted to do this and somewhat failed at a consumer level. I wonder why đ¤Śââď¸
Now Microsoft?! Câmon. For fuckâs sake. If I buy a new âtodayâ computer of some kind. I expect to be able to use it âofflineâ if I want. Iâm not going to be forced into paying for a subscription or handing over all my personal information to some stupid tech company that has no business whatsoever treating me as âtheir productâ.
@mckinley@twtxt.net LOL Nice đ
@prologic Only if you stick with legacy operating systems
Cutting edge server monitoring from McKinley Labs: Detect when the heavy compute task on my server is done and play a sound on my laptop
ssh server 'while true; do test $(</proc/loadavg cut -d . -f 1) -lt 10 && break; sleep 10; done' && qmpv sound.opus
If this goes ahead, it will really give new meaning to âPC ownershipâ đ¤Ź
Like none whatsoever đ¤Śââď¸
lack the words in any of the languages I know to describe the utter disdain I have for this.
How about âfuck off Microsoftâ 𤣠Or even âget the fuck outâđ¤Ł
wall
this morning as we were both on the same server investigating something... it's the best chat client haha
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com That is pretty cool đ
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Well, I see no issue with this personally đ
I ban all forms of social media in our household đ¤Ł
Adults and visitors included! đ¤Ł
@shreyan Good! đ
Looking forward to the extra long weekend coming up đ¤
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Hello! How is everyone?