Posts by tg9541@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AyIyt10EakmXiq7BfU by tg9541@mas.to
2025-09-13T07:51:48Z
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The Darktable installation page points to OBS for Debian, and the builts offered are "unstable", "testing" or "Debian 12"; no "stable", no Trixie.I just found out that Darktable, in Debian 13 Trixie, is just an apt-get install away.https://www.darktable.org/install/#darktable #debian
(DIR) Post #AzCv3Lw4uHdfzQECpc by tg9541@mas.to
2025-10-14T17:55:11Z
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A normal working day with some extra cycling. We had mist in the morning, and sunshine during most of the day. The autumn colors are very intense just after sunset. Roughly 23+77 km.#cycling #fall #autumncolors #Germany
(DIR) Post #AzXtM2X79M7Xj7UcaG by tg9541@mas.to
2025-10-24T19:37:39Z
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I own a miniature "netbook computer", the best selling type of computer from 2009 to 2011 (I believe) that's been unused for 8 years. Unlike the last generation of netbooks, with larger screens and normal sized keyboards, my Eee-PC 900A is a real 1st gen netbook: the keyboard is the right size for touch-typing toddlers and the 8GB flash is, like, small. It has a 32bit CPU; Bookworm is the final #Debian release supporting it. It now runs the latest Firefox ESR. Slow, but it works.#netbook
(DIR) Post #AzXtM8LzVcmvmMKp4y by tg9541@mas.to
2025-10-24T20:33:02Z
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Some finding: browsing the Internet, also posting on Mastodon works. That doesn't mean it's convenient. The scrolling speed is sufficiently slow to demand conscious decisions about what's up next. The battery is now almost 15 years old. It's still good enough for an hour or so, but I've got a feeling that it's also the much higher compute demands of today's Internet is to blame. The keyboard also somehow got a hit: the DEL and Backspace keys no longer work. New keyboards cost $7. Worth it?
(DIR) Post #AzaLKfwQqUZWP3OPFg by tg9541@mas.to
2025-10-25T05:31:24Z
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@DrPen I wonder why it was so much easier for me, a small town child. Maybe it's because money shuns small towns? Because I never needed a student loan? Because my 1st salary, low as it was, supported a family of 3, then 4? Because the old family members, lower class, had lifetime savings that they used to help us buy a flat? We also lived below our means, and still do that. Autonomy oriented habits stick. Autonomy, that's avoiding deep money hierarchies, which you get in big cities. @paninid
(DIR) Post #Azk4O2MyFwvIJzZnzU by tg9541@mas.to
2025-10-30T17:46:20Z
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@richpuchalsky 1) Ubuntu is easy but I like Debian better (I don't like Snap nag pop-ups).2) I'd suggest a used Lenovo for everyday use (very low fan noise). T470 or T480 but a cheap T460 should also work (that's what I use)3) no idea
(DIR) Post #B1DFuZsg37wf9o5nLE by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-13T16:17:44Z
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@richpuchalsky depending on how much space you need it's maybe not that bad.Google data can be accessed with rclone (including photos). Copying data onto a non-public S3 share is equally easy (and cheap). The trick is, I believe, to automatically do backups to redundant services without loosing oversight.
(DIR) Post #B1DFuc59rh7Jz5wn4a by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-13T16:23:21Z
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@richpuchalsky you're right, doing these things persistently is hard. What I mean to say is make it redundant, spread it around, automate re-build, keep the skill alive.
(DIR) Post #B1DKARWhHLBlhDdFQ0 by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-13T17:50:34Z
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@cy there is no biggest thing that keeps society from falling apart - it's the constant activity of many. Making sense of daily acts is the one single condition.Repairing means a bit of autonomy. No one will repair the next generation of cars, and no one will care about about the data we produce, it's just too complex.I'm curious what you think it is that people will do once everything starts falling apart more than what they're used to.@richpuchalsky
(DIR) Post #B1DP5OnmTq3xZM2MUq by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-13T18:31:45Z
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@cy You're right, but that doesn't mean that one can't opt out. Use a bike, repair your stuff, spend time reading books, take care of the people around you, refuse to be the substrate of "social business", be punk.@richpuchalsky
(DIR) Post #B1DSBmbTCRckzK0xKS by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-13T19:35:37Z
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@cy The only thing we may disagree on is the "if we stop them" part. We can't. It's a scaled social system. Stopping them means it falls apart, and as that's your concern it might not the thing to do. I have confidence in the ability of humans to construct their world. Mine will end in a few short years, and that's not the end of the world.@richpuchalsky
(DIR) Post #B1PlR4uVe8mD8VRiCG by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-19T18:20:53Z
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@matthew You're right, consumers have no understanding at all. "It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of [their products] by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."Douglas Adams in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
(DIR) Post #B1Pn355BYRFQd27mc4 by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-19T18:40:53Z
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@matthew Besides, my new computer is a 9 year old Lenovo T460 running Debian Trixie. My Lenovo T510, 15 years old, also running Trixie, is still good for daily use (even if it's a bit bulky and the power consumption is higher).
(DIR) Post #B1PqN8YIfEDb2kzv6m by tg9541@mas.to
2025-12-19T19:18:05Z
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@matthew I've read your article; a few observations:* a used business-grade laptop is faster, cheaper, and longer lasting than most new consumer grade laptop* used business-grade thin clients, or compact desktop computers are very cheap* an somewhat recent i3 or i5 is better than an old i7 (e.g., gen 1 vs. gen 6)
(DIR) Post #B23DUW2CZpcZWzynEe by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-07T19:08:47Z
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@matthew Knoppix maybe?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
(DIR) Post #B23FaCJuzF1I2C6T56 by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-07T19:34:45Z
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@matthew Knoppix was designed for exactly that use case: a no-risk Linux for people who were more used to renewing their McAfee virus scanner subscription than to understanding what kind of hardware they own.There is a Knoppix application that targets exactly that audience: Desinfec't https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desinfec%E2%80%99t
(DIR) Post #B28zsS2spJMzhRZq76 by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-10T07:36:47Z
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@dougmerritt Do I sense again someone who's mistaking stochastic models of productions of intelligence for intelligence?First of all, I feel, we need a honest analytical language. This article has none of that.
(DIR) Post #B2De5dLUthW3JHxpAm by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-12T19:44:56Z
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@showgoat My grandmother used the same sewing machine for as long as I can think - certainly more than 60 years. She was a tailor, and people came still to her to get work done when she was older than 95.
(DIR) Post #B2DmLAPJ3c3ppEfBku by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-12T21:26:21Z
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@matthew It's amazing that an old Core 2 Duo is still sufficient to run a modern web browser. A Pentium M might also still work (at least one clocked at 2GHz).
(DIR) Post #B2Ft4Uw8Z0r2ZKwEa0 by tg9541@mas.to
2026-01-13T18:57:55Z
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@rivercityrandom It's true, the following generations of Intel integrated graphics were much more performant. The old graphics cores integrated in the Pentium M and Atom chips had one advantage over the dedicated graphics cards I had used before: it was much easier to get a good driver for them, especially under Linux.@matthew