@rose_alibi yeah it’s incredibly hard to find anything old or vintage here as people didn’t have any sort of disposable income back then. Any rare stuff usually electronics ends up in CeX but like I said no iPods or 3DS either
@rose_alibi one thing I dislike not being born in the West is the lack of vintage or old hardware. It's incredibly rare to find old tech here in India. I've been searching for an iPod Classic for a while but can't find anything. Heck, cant even find a 3DS or DS
I'm really tired of hearing terms like "digital detox".
We don't need to "detox" from digital. We need to wrest control of digital away from the capitalist oligarchs who have corrupted it into a torment nexus.
@contrapunctus @contrapunctus I wouldn’t be surprised if these people are voted back into power again in the next elections. Hate sells very well.
Wrote a blog post today about how some folks on Instagram made people all over the city/country buy grapes to the point that there are no grapes in the market. Goes to show how dangerous proprietary social media is.
https://arklixs.in/pages/posts/jan2026/social-media-mass-manipulation.html
@untrusem I’m sure you’ll meet more crazy and amazing people at MDC Kanpur ;)
First day of the year and I already woke up at 5:30am with poor sleep quality :(
@libreinator @ravi The website is work in progress. We don't have full access to the editing part yet. Hopefully we will next year :P
We're happy to announce MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 scheduled for 14th-15th March, 2026.
Details to follow on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConfIndia/MiniDebConfKanpur2026
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Details to follow on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConfIndia/MiniDebConfKanpur2026
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@libreinator @praveen not very close to Delhi but it’s near Lucknow. All of us will be there so as long as you’re within the IITK campus premises and don’t wander off alone you should be fine. As for pollution it’s in march so I guess things will settle down a bit. The event was delayed intentionally to march keeping the weather in mind iirc
@niyabits same, was just dealing with a really outdated package that I forgot had an outdated source, i just updated the package and the entire codebase changed in just 3 years. None of the patches work now. Python is easy to work with but the dependencies are a nightmare due to constant changes in the code.
@khubsuratinsaan I think we should also do the same for people who get ideas like this.
I usually never watch Bollywood movies but I somehow ended up watching Dhurandhar and ended up loving it. I don't remember Bollywood movies being this good since 2013. Dhurandhar was pretty entertaining, never felt bored at all despite being 3hr 30 minutes. But yeah, didn't understand a lot of dialogues as the Hindi felt too advanced for me to understand.
Read that the word “clanker” from Star Wars is now being used as a slur for AI so let’s call AI slop as “clankerware” from now on. What do you say?
@praveen @billchenchina can relate with the sleepiness part. I for some reason have a bad reaction to carbs but with our country being carb heavy it’s hard to ditch the rice out of the diet. My hostel only serves pure white rice. As a test I’m gonna try skipping breakfast for a few days. Breakfast in the hostel is soaked in oil anyway
@billchenchina @libreinator it’s not just McDonald’s no fast food chain serves beef