heliotrope
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aidEnglish
4·7 days agoMyanmar be cutting off its nose to spite its face.
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Not *Not* the Onion@lemmy.cafe•At Long Last, InfoWars Is OursEnglish
5·7 days agoThis is notnottheonion
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
2·7 days agoAh, I see. Well, the system seems to be under less load, but I haven’t really noticed much of a difference in performance.
I might try and play Minecraft tomorrow, though, so I’ll tell you if that’s any better than it was on Raspbian.
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
1·7 days agoI’m not sure what you mean
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
5·7 days agoI wouldn’t consider it entirely emotional. There are a great many reasons why the willing inclusion of AI-generated code is a bad thing. While the move to ditch systemd is something of a knee-jerk reaction for me, it’s backed by logic.
Also, I’m already aware of the situation with Linux. Unfortunately, it would be quite impossible for me to daily-drive NetBSD, illumos, RISC OS, AROS, or Haiku at the moment – especially on my Raspberry Pi. As such, I’m only defenestrating the parts of my stack that have viable alternatives or that I can do without.
That said, I do have another machine that will be running NetBSD some time in the next few weeks.
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
2·7 days agoWell, I do have two displays. I meant the image itself is fuzzy (at least, on my end).
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
10·7 days agoWell, I also run it on x86_64. On my laptop, I used the ZFSBootMenu instructions and it’s been running smoothly for over a week now (although I don’t have any swap, as ZFS doesn’t support it or something). I have had issues before, but I assume I must have skipped a step somewhere or fat-fingered an important command. This installation, however, is perfect. I also got Secure Boot to work, which was nice.
As for the Pi, it also seems to be going well, but it’s only been installed for a few hours at this point. This installation was a lot simpler: I just wrote the image to my NVMe drive, shrank the root partition, and created a third partition for use as an encrypted /home.
fscksometimes gets annoyed, as it uses a weird block size, but apart from that it works just fine. Performance is good, LabWC is straightforward, runit is simple, and XBPS is awesome. Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser don’t exist on Linux aarch64 yet, but there’s an unofficial Librewolf repo that I’m using.If you were wondering about systemd, well, they have a permissive AI policy and a few changes made by Claude, which doesn’t sit right with me. Maybe I’m overreacting, but regardless it does no harm to use alternatives.
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unixporn@lemmy.world•[LabWC] Ditching systemd on my Pi!English
4·8 days ago(I have no idea why the resolution is messed up; apologies)
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Buy European@feddit.uk•European English Dictionary Recommendations?English
7·10 days agoWell, you can’t beat Oxford and Cambrige. If you want an online dictionary, though, I prefer Wiktionary.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Reminder That The Ceo of Mozilla 🇺🇸 is OverpaidEnglish
6·10 days agoI use Evolution and FairEmail. A fork is all well and good, but if you want out of the bullshit you have to get out of the ecosystem.
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Linux@programming.dev•The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirementsEnglish
211·15 days agoRule-wise, this seems fair.
Regardless, if AI usage continues to increase in this manner, I’ll likely be driving NetBSD, AROS, and FreeDOS by the end of the decade.
Maybe even a little TempleOS or ZealOS, for flavour.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugsEnglish
491·16 days ago
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museumEnglish
4·16 days agoMan, I may have grown up with 64-bit PCs and Arduinos, but the ol’ Apple II is still surprisingly usable (though obviously don’t expect it to be able to run Crysis).
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Memes@sopuli.xyz•Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pagesEnglish
13·16 days agoI have a friend IRL called Kit, who also happens to use they/them pronouns.







(laughs in void)