pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@stroobl
Alle verwarmingselementen verbruiken ontiegelijk veel stroom. Een electrisch fornuis kan makkelijk 5kW trekken als alles aan staat.
@bert_hubert

@kinnison
In the world of open source, future you can also happen to be dome other person who gets ticked off enough by a bug you wrote in your 'good enough gor now' script to decide to sit down and fix it. And then maybe do that for other things, too.

And that's just fine!

@tubetime
So what's left is the acitor?

@b0rk
Sometimes it's the right thing to do though. You can run 'less -R' and the colour codes get passed through unmolested. Or you can redirect to a file and see the output as it was originally intended, later on.

Never when doing further processing though, of course.
@chrisgerhard

@tshepang
Belgium did away with their version of TV licences in the mid nineties, replacing it with direct subsidies coupled to various requirements (in terms of market reach and objectivity) as well as having elected politicians on the board of directors

It solved so many issues and made the public broadcaster become actually interesting...
@highvoltage

Them: "X happened. You won't believe what happened next!"
Next page: 45 minute monetized YouTube video of pictures with voice over and simultaneous text, making it impossible to get the answer except by forcing your way through it.
Me: yt-dlp for downloading the video, whisper for transcribing the voice over into text, chatgpt to summarize the text into 3 paragraphs. "Okay, so it was very boring then" ๐Ÿ™„

@ariadne
Thanks for the nerdsnipe ๐Ÿคฃ
@jacqueline @whitequark @n0toose

@KaitlynEthylia
So you couldn't be a real programmer before Randall started doodling in his notebook in college, then? ๐Ÿ˜œ

@k8vsy
KeepassXC, but shared via nextcloud

and of course, because nothing is ever easy, I now have to forward-port code across 7 years of unrelated changes, and I may have to rethink bits a bit. Ah well, we'll get there.

Maybe it's finally time to update the negotiate() function to be cleaner.

all this to say that the NBD userland utilities will soon have:

  • nbd-get-status: find out whether a device (or all known devices) is/are connected
  • working -persist again (yay!)
  • optional destroy-on-disconnect for the nbd device

#TFW you think you'll just update the kernel driver to support some feature because the kernel maintainer doesn't write it and it turns out he did write it and pushed patches for your code to a repository that you pulled from but he did it about a month *after* you pulled, and all that was SEVEN YEARS AGO and you just find out today.

Debian 31 in South Africa!

@purpleidea
You do you ๐Ÿ˜‰
@cks

@cks
Oh.

I see now that you mention 'the GUI', which I assume is virt-manager.

Sorry, missed that ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@purpleidea

@purpleidea
You can use it client side to manage systems over ssh, too. My laptop's configuration has four connections: one to the local system libvirt, one to my home server, one to my hosted server, and one to a VM on my hosted server that does nested virtualization.

Has the functionality of virt-install built in, and so much more...
@cks

@purpleidea
And virt-manager.

The only time I ever edited XML was when I wanted to convert a Windows 10 VM to a Windows 11 one, which required that I changed the bios firmware to UEFI, and *that* required that I changed the system from PCI-based to PCIe.

No way could I have done that without virt-manager helping me making sure the XML is correct:

https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/Upgrading_a_Windows_10_VM_to_Windows_11/
@cks

@hyc
To be exact, it would run flat in an hour if it were to produce 500W sustained.

Not all batteries can sustain 500W without overheating ;-)
@RustyBertrand

@Bright5park
Yes, there is that

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