I know it’s late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I’ve never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.

My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I’ve been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn’t hit the repos yet.

Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it’s a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I’ve found it’s often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.

I think it was August or September. Issue is documented in this forum thread:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19928

I lile my pinenote a lot. I mostly use it for reading.

As long as I’m reading or doing any touch-screen-y things (taking notes, viewing images, etc) it’s great! For anything that involves writing/copying/pasting text, it’s not very usable with just the on-screen keyboard, you really need an external bluetooth interface.

Also, it’s still very much a WIP. The version of Debian it shipped with had a bug where I couldn’t install any software updates without deleting some random lib64 directory. Once I did that, everything was fine. The device has no security by default, so I created a new user with an encrypted HOME.

With import tariffs to the US, I ended up paying $500 for it, which really got me down. As a $400 open hardware machine, it would have been easier to look past the rougher edges. And I wish it had more RAM.

But overall it’s worth it to me because I’ve wanted a more libre e-reader for a long time. It’s gotten me back into reading books, which has been a lot of fun. Plus, because it’s an actual computer, I set it up as a tablet-like interface to my home automations.

Man, I fuckin’ wish they directed me to the website. Every phone helpline I call these days tries to get me to install an app.

Seems like this system relies on defending from well-defined entrypoints to the network. I’m not sure how a group of enthusiasts could use this unless they centralize their systems.

From the original 404 article:

And yet, this is of course an extreme example of the broader political project of AI chatbots and LLMs: They are top-down systems controlled by the richest people and richest companies on Earth, and their outputs can be changed to push the preferred narratives aligned with the interests of those people and companies. This is the same underlying AI that powers Grokipedia, which is the antithesis of Wikipedia and yet is being pitched by its creator as being somehow less biased than the collective, well-meaning efforts of human volunteers across the world.

You may already know this, but a lot of everyday people don’t. They still think that a computer can’t have bias, and if all these tech bros and business leaders are talking about AI then maybe it does make sense to replace our society with an impartial machine. This article is for them.

Since this will be a facility owned by a public university, I think the city would see no property tax revenue from this project. So why should a city trade its health and/or morals for a nuclear weapons datacenter and not even get anything out of it?

I’ll just wait 15 years for the OpenMind project to release the first fully open source brain chip.

Then spend the remainder of my life in a coma because I flashed the wrong boot image.

Do you have ancestry which can be traced to another country? Look up whether or not those countries have a law which confers citizenship to dependents of émigrés from that country. It still won’t be a quick process, so the time to start is now.

For context, my husband and I are following up one such road to foreign citizenship. It’s finally time to submit paperwork, and there is a 13 month waitlist just to hand in the documents. Then an estimated 18 months to receive citizenship. This is assuming that the large influx of applicants doesn’t balloon the paperwork processing time even longer. According to one employee at the consulate I spoke to, they are dealing with a 300% increase in applications this year.

OpenMW has been fully playable for years

The Elon-oi.

I’d be OK if my descendents got to eat them.

I wouldn’t think so. Isn’t bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn’t do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

Wine is not an emulator. It’s not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

There’s nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

Probably meant shred the printed paper, but…

To be pedantic, you can shred a pdf

You inspired me to test on 6m. Not a good match at all (SWR 40+). Gonna explore more, but from what I read about moxons on Wikipedia, they don’t lend themselves well to multi-band operations. I guess the measurements can be very band-specific.

Honestly, my plan is to use it as a minor propaganda tool: Call up a local ham friend for a “radio check”, and “just happen” to mention that there’s a protest going on and nobody is being aggressive, etc. I hear way too many maga guys on the airwaves, I want to do what I can to counter it.

Plus, if the cops do get violent, there’s no downside to having a communication tool that doesn’t rely on big tech or cell phones. One more way to get the word out.

Of course, something like this could be adapted for tools like meshtastic, or used with digital modes in order to coordinate a group.

I think it’s called Shobie Story. It’s part of Fisherman on an Inland Sea.

I enjoyed reading Ursula Le Guin’s stories about instantaneous travel.

The process of instantaneous travel is so bizarre and unexplainable that every crew member experiences it differently. Some people think they haven’t gone anywhere, some people think they’re on the other side of the universe, and some people think the ship has disintegrated around them.

The only way for the process to succeed is for the entire crew to agree on a shared reality. It has the effect of making FTL travel a dangerous thing that requires training and planning. You can’t hop on a ship with random people and expect to survive. Everyone has to train together to really trust each other’s perception and experiences.

I checked a couple of reviews, and one of them mentioned they measured the temp at 212°F. Definitely sounds like something funky could be going on with yours.

Is it under warranty? I’d send it back and/or ask for a refund. If there is any spec that mentions what temperature the kettle is supposed to reach, I’d point to that when asking for the refund/replacement.