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The only RGB things I have is an NVidia 3080, and the RGB ram. Unplugging those would cause me a problem. I could set them to off. But, they’re there now. So I make them Borg green.

But if either of them (or the case) cost me more to have the RGB/Glass I’d not have gotten them. It’s absolutely not something I care about.

You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.

Hey, it was really better times when you could have your computer in any colo(u)r you wanted, so long as it was beige.

Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.

I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.

windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.

Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P

Oh, it’s the same here. Well, I do know what I’m doing, but I used to tinker with multiple linux distros in the 90s/2000s. I used gentoo “before it was cool”, when you would literally leave it building your initial install for a whole weekend.

I cannot do that now. I went through the process of installing Arch, and it’s been pretty good for me with not exploding completely on me (like Manjaro did). I honestly don’t have the time to sit and diagnose why I’m stuck at a text only console without internet suddenly any more. Which is exactly what happened with Manjaro.

At this point remaining a windows user voluntarily has to be considered Stockholm syndrome.

Oh glad I’m not the only one.

I misread nfts as ntfs and spent far too long wondering why that was in the list.

So, I cannot buy new books or download my current ones. But, I can download them without paying and then install them still over USB? OK Amazon, that clears things up fine for me.

Yes, I am wishing I bought a spare drive or two for my home array. When one fails it’s going to get costly now.

I was also thinking that. As an example, retail work seems to me to be a kind of hell I don’t think I’d want to endure. But I know people that really enjoy it. So it’s probably true of any job you might think is only done by those that are forced to.

I think, if AI and robotics replace most jobs. After some years of pain when capitalists enjoy the infinite money glitch they’ve discovered, there will either be a revolution or a natural coming to understand that things need to work differently.

Now, understand this would only work if the vast majority of work could be done via automation. In this case the vast majority of people would be able to pursue what they enjoy, a bit like the star trek anti-economy. If all remaining required jobs were no longer filled by those that volunteered to do them, there would be some kind of draft (think like jury duty), where people able to do a job have a chance to be called in to do it for a few months then released back to pursue their own interests.

I’ve always seen capitalism as the carrot on a stick we need, when we need human productivity from the vast majority of people. If that’s no longer the case, it’s not a suitable solution and all the ideas like universal basic income are just stopgap measures to try to eke a bit more time out of the capitalist system that has already run past the point where we can keep enough people usefully employed to make it work. That’s almost certainly the reason we’re seeing the huge wealth disparity that increases. As the productivity per person goes up, all the increased value only ever rises to the top.

Bit of a mini rant there, sorry about that.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. But you realise how that reads right? It sounds like you’re saying we should keep a boot on the neck of “the little people” so the rest of us can have a good life.

The thing about peertube is… It’s actually a tough one to run for non-profit. I run an mbin instance and it’s fairly easy to afford the hardware to host that and securely back it up.

But for peertube, you need storage, and realistically you also need backup for all that storage. That can be pretty costly unless you self host. In which case even with fibre your home connection will be hammered.

Video content eats storage like nothing else.

The enshittification will continue until… No man, it’ll just continue.

Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

Yep I’m hearing a lot about this and there’s a few Lora nodes on it in my area. So am considering looking into it.

If you set the ip of the router to fe80::1 then anything directly connected should be fine to connect using that address.

The thing is. Any year can be the year of IPv6. Google is on ipv6, youtube is on ipv6, facebook is on ipv6. Pretty much every datacentre I’ve used (OK limited to Europe) give you IPv6 for free by default. Deploying a web site to be IPv4 and IPv6 is trivial and people that use automation should be able to quite easily apply ipv6 to those scripts.

It’s really just the ISPs (more so in the US as I understand it), lazy IT people and the FUD myths holding us back at this point.

IPv6. No. Badly configured IPv6 routers, yes. But that’s something that would fix itself if it became the only protocol in use. And most routers now are pretty good at it from what I’ve seen. But it used to be the case it was easy to find bad routers.

The myth seems to be that NAT provides security. But a good default configuration for consumer routers would give the same security as NAT while providing the advantages and extra security IPv6 provides.

IPv6 usually has privacy extensions enabled. Which means it will generate throwaway IP addresses that rotate regularly for your outgoing connections, these IPs do not accept incoming connections. So someone cannot nmap you to find open ports based on the IP you connected to their server with.

Not to mention that most ISPs give each user more IPs than the whole IPv4 internet has. So, port scanning an entire /64 is not going to be fun.