pleroma.debian.social

@simevidas Eh, a "scroll this page up" swipe should never ever ever be confused with a "please refresh this page and lose all my context"? Seems rather obvious to me 🤷

@simevidas I would have liked it if it wasn't so broken. Sometimes, when scrolled way down and I try to scroll up a bit, that triggers it, causing me to lose where I was in the page... no thanks.

Today's complete waste of time yakshaving:

I want to switch on my home server with home-assistant.io
So I enable wake-on-lan in the system's BIOS
Which causes it to immediately power on after every "sudo poweroff"
Which I try to fix using "fwupdmgr"
Which, it turns out, requires UEFI boots, which I did not yet move the server to
Which I got to work for 99% using incomplete Internet guides
Which I could fix using a live image
At which point I find that there is no firmware update... 🙄

@lina
If you depend on X then probably not, either. X is no longer bug compatible with X of 20 years ago. In general that's a good thing, but not if you're trying to run old binaries.
@jmtd @trix

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4
@mirabilos

So true. I used to always find it difficult to recognize the difference between "this is easy, doesn't need a blog post" and "this is genuinely interesting, people will learn from it". I have learned since they it doesn't matter, there will always be someone who hasn't yet learned the something you care about and who will be grateful that you spent some time writing things down...

@highvoltage
Where are you doing that? I've been wanting to learn isiXhosa since I've moved here, just never got around to it...

@dermoth
I am aware of that, but to see that there are two power states, especially at the lower level, where the frequency is exactly the same, was something I found quite surprising.

@marcan confirmed that it wasn't that, so, 🤷

@marcan
Oh, right. That makes sense, thanks.

@marcan
Why do states 1 and 2 on cluster 0 have the same frequency? Does state 1 perhaps save power in other, less obvious, ways?

@liw
Here's hoping that this one was NOT prompted by some API that did not follow this very obvious rule...

@mjg59
That blog post reminded me of the time I skip-upgraded Branden Robinson's m68k Mac which is a terrible idea for very similar reasons, and everything suddenly started failing because libc was upgraded before bash and now bash didn't work anymore and most postints require bash, not to mention init scripts.

That was a pretty fun ride, too. And no, I should not have done that either.

@foone
Docker on dos?
@shac

@pbeccard
I've never had an x86 machine where all the components worked as designed under Linux, and I've not cared.

My current one: no working fingerprint reader 🤷
@marcan

@feld
@eevee @jr

This will fix the issue how, exactly?

@feld
@eevee @jr

Only in the 'million monkeys with typewriter' sense. Yes, eventually there will be something that, by pure chance, ends up being correct.

But an LLM is just advanced statistics. It makes plausible-sounding lies, by definition.

@eevee
🤷

I feel it's possible to let anger shine through and still be respectful. But perhaps I'm wrong...

@eevee
Why?

I don't mean the seething bit, I mean that part should be obvious. I mean why not let it shine through?

@kzimmermann
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Download once, play forever.
@cian

@april
@flameeyes and also some language to query said structured data. All you need now is to add some easy 3 letter abbreviation and you're done! Surely that hasn't been done before.