Brewchin

If it eventually gets outed as being Ponzi scheme, I’ll not be remotely surprised.

Found this to be an interesting read, and well written. Thanks for sharing it.

Odd, it must be the Docker image I’m using, then. Thanks for clarifying.

I run AdGuard Home, WireGuard and a couple of other things on my 4B, all in Docker.

I used to run HomeAssistant on our for a while, but they stopped supporting that architecture (armhf?). Also used to run Unbound on it.

Can’t speak to Fedora specifically, but most package managers let you configure the number of concurrent download threads it will use. Most are 3-4 it seems. Finding yours and setting it to 1 will probably do exactly what you’re asking.

Another option is to set it to only download the files, then install manually once they’re local to you. The options for this differ (eg. when installation order matters), so an RTFM is worth the time spent.

GOG does preservation. That and Archive.org are the ones I use.

One way could be to grep your history, then compare the matches against a distro source?

It’ll be tedious if it’s lots, but might be a solution if you don’t have a backup.

Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.

Perhaps, but we’re now in an age where IPO announcements, CEO changes and even new features inevitably lead to enshittification. There is no harm in having a backup plan.

I’d even say that anyone who doesn’t have a plan B is an idiot, given recent history.

Not currently a Revolt user, but this would be a requirement for me to consider switching, too.

It looks like its API supports webhooks, so should be relatively straightforward to enable it (or perhaps through a third party, like Zapier)?

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

You may be right, but I worked around this using https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Network_services_with_NetworkManager_dispatcher

I added the CIFS shares to my fstab with the _netdev option and created /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30-nas-shares.sh containing (got the WiFi UUID using nmcli con show):

#!/bin/sh
WANTED_CON_UUID="UUID-OF-MY-WIFI"

if [ "$CONNECTION_UUID" = "$WANTED_CON_UUID" ]; then
  case "$2" in
    "up"|"vpn-up")
      mount -a -t cifs
      ;;
  esac
fi

This waits for my WiFi to come up, ensures it’s my home WiFi, and then mounts my shares.

There are probably other and better ways to do it, but it works.

"I don’t like it…

• “…so it should be banned” (for everyone) is never the right approach.
• “…so I blocked it” (for me) is.

It’s a simple heuristic that works in almost every situation.

You don’t know what value something you don’t like provides to others.

Your original question was answered by numerous people in the spirit of the community, so you have got best answers it can provide at the moment, but your follow-up comments suggest that you don’t think so.

But I may have misjudged your intent, as looking further I can see you’ve been replying to comments individually. My initial impression was that you were masquerading statements as questions. If I have that wrong, then my apologies.

Yes, but what’s your point here? “Oh no, someone preserve us from… *checks notes* a group of subject matter experts!”?

If that annoys you for some reason, you’d best not learn how the overwhelming majority of products and services see the light of day. Rage aplenty awaits.

Have you seen the list of safety features on UK plugs and sockets? The sockets have shutters in them that prevents anything being inserted into the live or neutral sockets unless the (longer) earth pin of a matching plug is inserted first.

Having said that, I agree: seems to be a belt-and-braces approach. No downsides.

And it allows you to cut power to an appliance without having to remove the plug.

Safety and convenience versus the cost of including them, I expect.

The Wikipedia page for BS 1363 says they’re optional and weren’t added to the standard until 1967. I can’t recall having seen a domestic socket without one.

But it seems the only legal way to read the actual standard is to pay for it, and even the HSE website isn’t much help.

It’s a pretty common and wildly successful marketing strategy to put something on social media with one or more intentional errors to force everyone’s inner Reply Guy to fight the urge to do the thing.

But it also works with unintentional errors. My less well-thought-out replies attract responses like flies. 😄

Whether it indicates the success of your thesis or not depends on how you measure it, I suppose.

competitive multiplayer

I feel it should be added that this is one use of anti-cheat, but it also gets used on noncompetitive single player games, too.

Usually if a game has micro-transactions, but also to “protect our IP” as has been seen with a number of older non-MTX single player games recently being retrofitted with it.

As others have said, it comes down to people not enforced on/off switches. You can’t (well you can, but should you) stop people living their lives.

I was out with 3 friends tonight (all middle aged), meeting first for coffee, moving elsewhere for dinner and drinks, and ending with tabletop games (the place we eat/drink is happy with it). One of our group couldn’t stop looking at his phone throughout the time we were together, and the rest of us didn’t pull our phones out of our pockets once. (None of us were on call, contacted by family, or anything like that).

Just as some people have their phone ping them for every notification (often loudly, every few minutes), some feel they can’t live without the dopamine hit of a meaningless social media interaction from a stranger. 🤷‍♂️