Posts by yam655@weirder.earth
(DIR) Post #A2tYzJPTkqfMoJOzK4 by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-01-04T13:28:05Z
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@InvaderXan I watch various streaming programming. I have a number of hands-on projects. I sing improvised acapella. I dabble with some fiction writing. I've started experimenting with penmanship and sketching. There are other things, too, that I've prepped for but not yet fully engaged with. (I've collected a few new hobbies over the past year.)
(DIR) Post #A3040AaorhKRA3YKfY by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-01-07T15:49:18Z
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@feoh @ademalsasa The nature of Git itself mitigates a lot of this.Any developer with a Git clone has the full history of the project. (This includes the person who submitted a three-line patch to fix something nobody else was bothered by.)If there are no developers at all then it is an unmaintained project and the lack of source is the least of the problems. It needs to be pulled from use ASAP.
(DIR) Post #A31vnGzzoj9HIyaEJE by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-01-08T11:22:48Z
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I just ran across the "Ethic Cinema" concept. I have to say, it seems like my cup of tea.- Created with free software- Licensed under Creative Commons- Available for remixhttps://ethiccinema.org/concept.html
(DIR) Post #A6FKZxBxs1P0mYDSoy by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T16:19:45Z
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@ajroach42 I did a quick look around and found https://winterm.gaast.net/main.php/news.htmlThat's a page describing putting Linux on those devices and has some tools to do so.Top article: "Project is dead, sorry!" It also says:"[...] but you have to realise that these are very old useless power-hungry PCs by now. A Raspberry Pi is smaller, more powerful, has better support and likely consumes much less power."Is it a better fit for your use-case than Pi Zeros?
(DIR) Post #A6FKZxdyBtnuBPJpTM by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T16:24:13Z
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@ajroach42 I also wanted to note that you can still do centrally managed, remote root thin clients while still having Pi Zeros with a functioning local cache and enough resources to run their own applications.It's most of the fun of a big server and thin clients, but a more equal balance of resources, and far more likely to result in a functioning outcome.
(DIR) Post #A6FKZyRbDNVEfKXSpU by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T17:15:03Z
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@ajroach42 Yeah, the HP T5740s have better specs than the Pi Zeros. Those are definitely the ones to grab.
(DIR) Post #A6FKZzBgS2MkyG6Gf2 by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T17:31:36Z
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@ajroach42 Oh, nice! Those will definitely do the job!
(DIR) Post #A6FKZzxXa6eBMgUUFs by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T17:35:49Z
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@ajroach42 What sorts of heavy apps will you be using with them?
(DIR) Post #A6FKa0tK7GrsFtWdJw by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T18:38:09Z
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@ajroach42 I wonder how the photo/video editing stuff will compare with some of the current web tools.
(DIR) Post #A6FKa1iN3ThWoDPOt6 by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-04-14T19:05:40Z
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@ajroach42 What's the performance/experience like for the end-user working in a remote application hosted on-site versus a modern web app?There's likely to be differences in what is sluggish (or just not usable) between the two environments.Which one will be a better experience? It's going to be interesting to find out. :)
(DIR) Post #A8NSa6UVBovUoUhSLo by yam655@weirder.earth
2019-12-17T15:36:22Z
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Where can you find me:All the same content.- Web: https://yam655.com- Gopher: gopher://yam655.com- Gemini: gemini://yam655.comFediverse:- @yam655 : general- @yam655 : music-related stuffMusic:- https://mrbeany.bandcamp.com- https://fawm.org/- https://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/Writing:- https://nanowrimo.org/
(DIR) Post #A9DY2Ex9ic55AUK7fs by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-07-12T16:01:19Z
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@ademalsasa That's an interesting video.It got me thinking that some of my little projects could have been implemented in Elisp (or at least have an Elisp UI)...And that could get me looking at Emacs seriously again. (I tried it back in the 90s.)@cadadr @ljwrites
(DIR) Post #ABrobzfFTqaTBRb4y0 by yam655@weirder.earth
2020-11-26T19:46:26Z
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If you follow me, and I have no clue who you are and you have zero public posts, you better have a well written profile or I will block you.Are you friend or foe?As a blank account, I can't tell. More than that, I don't have enough information to even care.It's like a paper lunch bag of something mysterious on the sidewalk. Do I look inside it or do I just throw it away?
(DIR) Post #ABrogwHRUOxU8Votyy by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-09-29T18:33:02Z
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@ajroach42 My first thought:Do not assume it supports Linux at all, let alone supports it well. Make sure you know how to restore Windows to it if you try and it fails.From what I read at https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002668824730.html it seems to be designed as a "gaming laptop handheld." There's no mention of Linux.It should be a viable rig for Steam games (like you can get super cheap via HumbleBundles). It also looks viable for many Itch.io games.If you're not going for a gaming use-case, I'd ignore it.
(DIR) Post #ABrogxh0EqzyW4mpSi by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-09-29T18:49:08Z
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@ajroach42 The "If gaming on Steam" note in that article just leaves me scratching my head.If gaming on Steam, that's a lot of extra work to play fewer games and to have slower driver updates.I mean, I like Linux and I appreciate how much Steam embraces it, but Linux isn't what I'd use for a gaming rig.
(DIR) Post #ADypY9GpWK0JusxJA0 by yam655@weirder.earth
2021-12-02T02:21:03Z
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What's a decent mail provider these days? Specifically, for my personal website, so "business" in that it uses my domain, but there's only really one user.My only requirement is I need to be able to send email, and folks need to be able to read it. (So DKIM etc)I'm looking for traditional email. Nothing super fancy and not extra secure. As such, I'm not looking for anything that costs more than USD $5/mo right now.I was doing it myself, but I don't want to do it anymore. :boost_requested:
(DIR) Post #AH9O725Tu8OqMJMXmS by yam655@weirder.earth
2022-03-05T16:10:03Z
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I am of the opinion that autoclickers are an accessibility device. My youngest (10) is totally on board with this.My eldest (13), however, radically disagrees.
(DIR) Post #AIfZPpeBmrXuG6EYjY by yam655@weirder.earth
2022-04-21T03:42:54Z
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@RussSharek You mentioned two song prompts:The body does not speak English.Trying to talk my butt in to doing something it doesn't want to do.These were mentioned during #CircusInPlace and I didn't want them lost.
(DIR) Post #AMpBCS7TPgEFurwAZU by yam655@weirder.earth
2022-08-23T15:09:09Z
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Fun fact: The rise of ASCII-based markup languages (like Markdown, reStructuredText, and friends) indicates that the promise of WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) was a false one. It's not actually easier with WYSIWYG. It is harder. It is harder for software to process. It is harder to embed in other spaces. And even when the goal is simple document creation, it is harder because it hides so much that is important to authors: it hides the semantics, the very reason things look like they do.
(DIR) Post #AN49Rzx3J1sS9ir2GW by yam655@weirder.earth
2022-08-30T21:19:20Z
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@libreture j-novel.club is mostly light novels, not comics. (I am a fan.)Of their current "latest series", one third are manga/comics, and two thirds are novels.They also started with novels. Their older stuff: mostly novels.Light novels do have some art and their covers can basically look identical to manga, but we're talking about one piece per chapter or so. It's a far cry from a comic book.Honestly, more Western books should have art. Plenty of folks enjoy fan art, after all.