reallyzen

reallyzen , 2 days ago

Ça va ?

reallyzen , 3 days ago

Not a boat owner, but trained on sailboats: if you feel like it, take sailing lessons and get a feel for it, it's fun and relaxing. I hate motorboats for the noise, the environmental impact. And it's kinda dull.

In any case, navigation and boating in general has rules, depending on where you are you may have to get a license.

Got to your local sail club, take lessons. When you're trained you will be able to rent boats from time to time. Almost nobody sails enough that buying is reasonable. And anchoring in a proper port means an annual fee to pay.

reallyzen , 4 days ago

Never could get it to work with phones, and that from Arch, Mint, Asahi, Macos all sharing flawlessly between thembut no phone would reliably stay sync'ed.

reallyzen , 4 days ago

Birds. These jerks stared 4am this morning, and their way of announcing the bird-world (and the whole planet around) their morning urge to fuck RIGHT NOW and get fucked ASAP is annoying me seriously.

A lovely, sunny morning indeed. I want to barbecue these Priapic Jerks. Or make a Quetzalcoatl carnival costume of their skin or something.

reallyzen , 5 days ago

Can we have the same with the other components? Like Fats, Fibers, Glucids...

reallyzen , 8 days ago

What would be a configuration to maximize battery life?

reallyzen , 8 days ago

I'm using Asahi daily these days; it is dual-boot by nature so you can rock your Linux OS everyday but still have "a macbook" (and be working on a work machine paid by your company, as should be).

I'd be using it more if the keyboard wasn't so shit. Battery is good, screen too, processing power... really just the keyboard is wrong, wrong and wrong. Oh, and I love the touchscreen on my other laptop.

Did you guess my other machine is a Thinkpad? Yes it is. With a touchscreen!

reallyzen , 10 days ago

Theatre tech. Show up on time. Sometimes shows don't take late comers even with a bought ticket. And it's bothering everyone else, artists included.

If the venue has a bar, stay for a drink. Like everyone else, artists (and techs) love to have a drink after a hard day at the office.

reallyzen , 23 days ago

Linux Audio

reallyzen , 24 days ago

An AUR package has been done for Arch by (supposedly) someone who knows what they are doing and needs it on their Arch Machine

A Flatpak is something done by someone, to (supposedly) work everywhere, untested on Arch, that may or may not work. And crash (Ardour on Asahi). Or waste hours or you life to render files incorrectly (kdenlive on arch and asahi).

Native versions work perfectly.

I thought I was clever in using arch/aur for everything, but pull KDE or QT apps from Flatpak to keep my gnome install a bit more tidy... For this, you'd have to have those Flataks to work, and sometimes they don't.

reallyzen , 26 days ago

My reaction when reading the post's title: nothing.

I am not tired.

reallyzen , 26 days ago

Don't ask me what I do not look forward to.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

DDG has it's non-track version online since a bit now. Use the !ai bang to get to it

Also you have the choice of Claude insted of ChatGPT, and your queries aren't harvested for further ai training

In any case, it's a completely different tab, it's not mingled in general search results

reallyzen , 1 month ago

You can also ask it when is the cutoff date of their database - there is a gentleman's agreement between providers not to have ai involved in news / current politics in it's public chats.

I tried them on a topic I'm pretty proficient on, (a spaghetti recipe lol) and the answer was the most bland imaginable.

The way it is setup by DDG, the restrictions and blandness, shallowness of the replies give me peace of.mind when a 'natural language' query is the easiest one. And Claude wouldn't give me the DOB of that queen because it is Personal Info!

reallyzen , 1 month ago

An early one, a 7 with the smaller engine I believe (the difference is in the rims). If I'm right this puts this picture as pre-ww2 because the 7 was very quickly replaced/followed by the 10 and 15. Numbers are “fiscal horses", the amount of taxes to pay being relative to the size and power of the engine.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

In CMY (printing) you get black by adding them all. In RGB (lighting) you get white

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Commodore 64, with the tape reader, hooked to a black&white CRT

Seems I'm the eldest one here for now

reallyzen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There's a lot more to Peter Watts, with the Rifters trilogy in particular.

Thanks for sharing this list ; about everything I enjoyed recently is there, so I'm saving this as "I should probably like most of them". Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, and Ann Leckie - Leckie is fab. I get your point about Connie Willis, but her portrayal of London's wartime is poignant.

One author that didn't do for me is Sergei David Brin. I like the themes, I can't go though the books (uplift).

And anyone feeling overwhelmed by your olympic-grade S-F nerdery should just pick any John Scalzi book and stop worrying.

reallyzen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Don't miss "The freeze-frame revolution" then!

(+ it is available drm-free from its publisher, Tachyon)

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Thank you for taking your time about this. I will make sure to give Startide a go, since as I said, I like the themes but couldn't go through Sundiver actually.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Let me inflict upon you a sobering (pun intended) thought: Good! If you suffer from day- or week-long hangovers, it means you are not an alcoholic! I never, ever suffered hangovers after being drunk. All the time. For years.

That stopped 247 days ago tho.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I remember the first time I thought we were getting old: A friend suggested we meet for coffee at around 4pm. Fml.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

We used to meet for beers at any time of the day. Or night.

Having tea or coffee anytime past 10am is a sure sign of deliquescence of both body and mind I believe - and I should know since I totally reached that stage.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

It's a blog post on how to get Netflix and Spotify to work on Asahi Linux, the project to run Linux on new "M" chipsets 64bits Arm apple computers. Their solution (and widevine hack) is now integrated in the Fedora Linux Asahi Remix project' default distro. You still have to do the user agent mod tho.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

It all works quite smoothly ; the install process is a breeze of a single .sh script to run directly from macos. The amount of software available for Arm64 is surprising, tho gamers will be disappointed there's no Vulkan / Steam available yet.

That "Default" install is really just Fedora, shipped with KDE for it's superior handling of fractional scaling. There's the dnf package manager, flatpaks, the works.

I'm 80~90% of the time on the Asahi side of things on my device. Showstoppers today are sleep battery drain (50% a day) and pure "ooomph" - performance of an M2Pro chip is more akin to a 12th gen i7 than the same chip under macos. Rendering in kdenlive or blender is noticeably slower on Asahi. But it's a huge reverse-engineering undertaking, and it will be getting better.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Astonishingly, the trailer for Triangle Of Sadness reveals a lot, even the whole timeline of the plot, while the movie achieve to surprise and astonish with how much more there is to it.

I was afraid I wouldn't enjoy it because I somehow "knew" how it was going to end, but oh, my, that was only the surface and the craziness ran m7ch, much deeper.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

"Merde". As in, the french word for "shit" - or, should we say, "horseshit". Why? Well because at the time of horse-drawn carriages, a successful play at the theatre would leave a lot of horseshit in front if the theatre from the many, many coaches awaiting their fares.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

'Xactly. You say "je prends !" as in "I'm taking it!"

reallyzen , 2 months ago

Tampopo, by Itami Juso. Fair warning: get ahold of a reservation to the nearest Japanese restaurant, you're going to need it afterwards.

Also, it's a western. About food. And an initiatic quest, the everlasting quest for perfection (in noodle-soup making).

reallyzen , 2 months ago

You forgot the longstanding heritage of soviet designs from the Gaz and Zil limousines. The greenhouse is very rolls, but the front end is Pure Soviet Regurgitation (also it is a design from 10 years ago).

reallyzen , 2 months ago

Disclaimer: Linux user through-and-through ; I have a modern "m" mac for some work specific applications.

Setting up a macbook today doesn't require an apple id or even an email address. My warranty is with the non-apple authorized retailer I bought the computer from, I don't use the software store (but I think it would work) nor do I use any apple services like itunes, or, without the apple id, I don't have icloud backups. And I don't/can't buy anything from the store, of course.

I am able to update the os, I have just one notification in the settings about setting up the account but no showstopper at all.

So what does apple get from me? I'd guess crude location (from my vpn), hardware/OS version and maybe installed software? That's not much, and since it's a work machine it's offline all the time, I can't see that device doing much behind my back.

If apple is indeed looking deep into that laptop, then I guess they'll see I also have Asahi on it. And maybe they are really really intrusive and notice I'm using that Asahi partition 80% of the time (;

Joking aside, if you need macos, it is possible to use macos. With some limitations: handle your own backups, get your software from the vendors and... And that's it.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

There's a difference here that I describe as "pro" meaning specialized, complex software targeted at big businesses vs individual tools of the trade: Vectorworks is gonna get paid for happily by companies needing support and relying on it for critical output, while your next door young architect will run an outdated, cracked version of AutoCAD because it's just too expensive - that kid could (and should) run Qcad.

Where I see pirated software surviving is also as a form of legacy support: if you run old hardware (i.e. 32bits), that's where "pro" software is gonna suck & leave you dry, while torrents are still out there.

In gaming or media, cracking looks like a sport, I feel people just want to have fun blowing restrictions to pieces. It's heartwarming!

Back to the 'tools of the trade" category, I am happy to pay a moderate price to support a talented dev (Isadora, D::Light) but get understandably annoyed at huge businesses practicing insufferable licensing schemes. I wish people start looking, and using then supporting more alternatives out there - but isn't photoshop still crack-able because it helps it dominate the market where The Gimp would do if it was the standard?

reallyzen , 2 months ago

[??Uh, you're getting downvoted for asking a straight question? WTF lemmies??]

reallyzen , 2 months ago

Lifa has a lot to offer beyond screens

Yarr, mateys, all sails to the Public Library! We'll drop anchor at the secondhand bookshop on our way back! And drop all that electronic ballast, it's only slowing us down...

You are absolutely right; I hadn't thought of it this way but a post-piracy world should be a frugal one, could be a quiet one. A planet-friendly one.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

OP's premises may be not wrong on the first point, is in need of some realignment on the second, and I have no idea about the third.

The idea of a post-piracy world can still be envisioned and discussed; will it be full of FOSS and CC-BY-SA? Will it leaves us with only secondhand pulp comics while our roku devices blast 23h out of 24 of ads? Who knows?

reallyzen , 2 months ago

You wonderfully deviated this conversation towards the real threats we are facing in the near future, and right now. That was very well said, thank you.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

And alcohol.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

It needs to have two things, and not have one thing:

• slippers
• books
• deadlines

reallyzen , 2 months ago

French: "neige" is used. Yes, it means snow.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

Dropping The List here because answering in detail would take ...a very, very long time.

reallyzen , 2 months ago

I do not use a kindle for the same reason. Amazon allows you to create a user email adress attached to mobile-enabled kindles to exchange docs by simply firing an email to that address ; it may not be on current models but 3G Paperwhites had them.

reallyzen , 3 months ago

DRM-free ebooks. I make a point of buying them, of thanking the publisher... And not sharing it on the usual piracy channels.

reallyzen , 3 months ago

jockstraps

unparallel support, minimal heat buildup, max freedom

reallyzen , 3 months ago

Serious answer: any that is build purposefully to host illegal content and hide it through the niche, constellation aspect of the fediverse.

De-federation is not the solution, and I think it is even counter-productive because it allows potentially harmful instances to flourish by themselves, being "virtuously" ignored by the mainstream.

reallyzen , 3 months ago

Serious: please do check the "science" corner of these communities. These instances are being hated wholesale for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean that useful points of view aren't shared elsewhere on these instances.

Or any other topic of specific interest, really, like "urbanism" for instance.

reallyzen , 3 months ago

Look up "pig butchering" by John Oliver. Yes, this is the technical term for it.