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Tailscale is just more reliable and mature in my experience

What sort of issues have you run into? I’m currently on Tailscale, but was considering Netbird because it’s open source. (Also, I hate that Tailscale requires me to create an account with Big Tech to login.)

They seem pretty close in terms of features, at least in the simple cases.

Honestly, yeah. Lots of people in my town would probably be onboard and justify it. “This is a good thing because the radical left is crazy!”

OP, try PieFed! https://piefed.social/auth/register It’s actually pretty good. I’m surprised more people aren’t connecting to the Fediverse via PieFed. I recently jumped from Lemmy and PieFed.

And because this isn’t some corporate hellhole, you don’t get cutoff from Lemmy. Yay ActivityPub!

Been daily driving Arch on my laptops for the last 10 years. It’s been great. Getting the latest software has been especially handy for laptops, where the kernel sometimes needs time to catch up to the latest hardware.

I ran Guix for a few months when I had some extra time and I liked it, but it was very different and not all software I needed ran on it (or ran well). I ended up going back to Arch, but I brought Guix with me, as a package manager.

I also ended up trying Fedora for the first time (ok, I was unemployed) recently and was pleasantly surprised. Turns out Fedora is pretty close to how I configure Arch. And it’s got some extra polish that was neat. I ended up installing Fedora Silverblue for my parents 6-8 months ago and it’s been working out great for them.

Anyway, Arch has been my reliable companion for the last 10 years.

Disagree with the US not being an ethnostate. If you’re not white, then it does feel like an ethnostate. I was born here, but I’ve always been made to feel that this isn’t my country. I’m a guest here. I’m tolerated (in the blue states), but not welcome. I’m constantly getting news that half the country hates people like me and wants me to leave (again, born here!)

But, uh, yeah, if you’re white or white-passing, then yeah, the US is your ethnostate. 👍

Can’t do that anymore

What is “that”? I just bought a Google TV and was able to install Projectivy Launcher fine?

Definitely not WebOS. I have an Nvidia Shield that runs Android TV, which is nice because there’s a wide selection of apps and you can install custom launchers, Tailscale, Jellyfin, SmartTube. The downside, as I recently learned, is that your parents probably will have a harder time switching between the TV’s native OS and the Shield.

So I recently got a Google TV, which is (just?) Android TV, and that allows me to install Tailscale and Jellyfin, but since it’s 1 system, it’s easier for some folks to use. I also installed Projectivy Launcher for my parents to get rid of the default ad-ridden launcher. I haven’t yet had time to try to install SmartTube, but I think I read it’s possible…

Curious to learn more about https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ I didn’t know about that. Thanks!

1. Exporting and importing passwords is a time-consuming, annoying process
2. There’s no guarantee your exported data will be entirely (or partially) compatible with the destination app

My migration from 1Password to Bitwarden was both of those things.

Vendor lock in doesn’t mean it’s impossible to move. It means there’s a huge burden to move.

Yeah, not handled well. They’re doing slimy corpo bullshit.

On the other hand, I like that they’re open source and don’t block stuff like vaultwarden.

I hope they can take the extra money and make the product better. Cuz I definitely don’t love Bitwarden, but it’s a better alternative than 1Password.

I thought the Iranians specifically chose Legos because the US bombed a girl’s primary school. Seemed like a fitting way to fight back.

Yes, it should be Nucleus. Them calling it PiedPiper is a propaganda campaign to try to earn good will from people. Fuck Google locking down Android.

One of the huge benefits of using a third party manager is that your data is more portable! If you wanna use Firefox today, cool. But what if you want to use Safari tomorrow? Or Chrome later? Don’t self vendor lock yourself. I see those built-in OS/browser password managers as traps to prevent you from leaving.

So… should I start stashing my cash under my mattress?

We’re a huge country I guess. I’ve experienced pretty much the exact opposite as you.

2. almost everyone I know takes home some portion of their meal from a restaurant. So that single portion is really two, or maybe three.

Most people around me have the waiter take their half-eaten plate away. Apparently, food waste is considered polite or something around me. If you actually try to finish your plate, you get made fun of. (I’ve been made fun of.) I guess it makes you look poor or desperate or starving or something?

3. IME people don’t usually have giant portions at home, they sometimes do of course, but things tend to be more sane for home cooked meals for your family. They also tend to be a lot more balanced, with more veg and grain.

The dinner plates my family and my wife’s family (and extended family) have for dinner are quite large and they usually get filled up. Usually meat is the biggest portion of that plate, followed by carbs, and then veggies are the smallest (if present at all). My wife’s family in particular always, always, always, has ice cream or cake or cookies after dinner.

My wife and I use smaller dinner plates, and again, surprise, get made fun of because we’re eating such “tiny” (normal) portions.

Does anyone else get paralyzed on fixing small things because they’re terrified of it becoming a larger thing?

This never occurred to me… I just thought I need to fix this. Shit. Debuff unlocked.

I guess “hire someone” is always an option, but it’s a difficult task sometimes, especially finding someone reliable.

Actually, this is way more annoying to me. I’ve been ripped off/scammed too many times. I hate blindly trusting other people to not screw me over. Just this week my AC mysteriously broke after a recent-ish visit from some HVAC “professional”. I had to call another company cuz this is way more complicated than I can handle (for now…). After talking with the 2nd guy, it seems like the 1st guy didn’t do the maintenance work properly… I tried researching and going with a reputable company, but damn it still feels like a shot in the dark. Completely random chance they may completely break my shit.

Also, for some work, I’ve noticed I do it either at the same standard or better than some of these “professionals”. So. Meh.

Yes, it may take me several weeks to do it, but at least I know I tried to do it right, instead of rushing off to the next job.

squidward opens chair: ooh, AGPLv3, nice

squidward closes chair: sign our CLA

which by the way was not expected to give perfect answers to questions

Except that’s how a lot of people treat it. And there’s so way to guard against that.

Related: https://brainmade.org/

… You know… yeah, that’s true. One of the huge benefits of using some open source library is that you don’t have to maintain it. But if you clean room it, then it’s all on you.

Although, companies like Amazon will have the engineers to maintain it internally. But a lot of other companies won’t.

And then you have the chardet guy: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fight back? Should we start withholding test suites now? Withhold docs?