schizo

joined 5 months ago

Install it and use it?

Their PDS is self hosted, but it does still rely on the central relays (though you COULD host that yourself if you wanted to pay for it, I suppose?).

It's very centralized, but it's not that different from what you'd have to do to make Mastodon useful: a small/single user instance will get zero content, even if you follow a lot of people, without also adding several relays to work around some of the design decisions made by the Mastodon team regarding replies and how federation works for those kind of things, as well as to populate hashtags and searches and such.

Though really you shouldn't do any of that, and just use a good platform for discussion, like a forum or a threadiverse platform. (No seriously, absolutely hate "microblog" shit because it's designed to just be zingers and hot takes and not actual meaningful conversations.)

15 million Series A financing

Maybe shitty corporate search engines are failing me, but has there been a stated valuation for Bluesky? Googling 'Bluesky valuation" or any combination thereof is a problem since that's a business term so lol, lmao, search engine worthless.

$8m seed + $15m A series may be a shockingly small amount of equity, or it could be the whole damn company but I'm just not seeing it actually posted anywhere.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 32 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

I gather that's a meme that's older than you are?

By linux ISOs I meant any content you're torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 22 points 16 hours ago (13 children)

Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.

Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?

I wouldn't expect anything different this time, either.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 684 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Sounds good to me?

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 18 points 1 day ago (9 children)

That's a wee revisionist: Zen/Zen+/Zen2 were not especially performant and Intel still ran circles around them with Coffee Lake chips, though in fairness that was probably because Zen forced them to stuff more cores on them.

Zen3 and newer, though, yeah, Intel has been firmly in 2nd place or 1st place with asterisks.

But the last 18 months has them fucking up in such a way that if you told me that they were doing it on purpose, I wouldn't really doubt it.

It's not so much failing to execute well-conceived plans as it was shipping meltingly hot, sub-par performing chips that turned out to self-immolate, combined with also giving up on being their own fab, and THEN torching the relationship with TSMC before you launched your first products they're fabbing.

You could write the story as a malicious evil CEO wanting to destroy the company and it'd read much the same as what's actually happening (not that I think Patty G is doing that, mind you) right now.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's priced the same as a cheap laptop and/or desktop, which of course doesn't then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.

It feels like another 'Microsoft asked Microsoft what Microsoft management would buy, and came up with this' product, and less one that actually has a substantial market, especially when you're trying to sell a $350 box that costs you $x a month to actually use as a 'business solution'.

This would probably be a cool product at $0 with-a-required-contract-with-Azure, but at $350.... meh, I suspect it's a hard sale given the VDI stuff on Azure isn't cheap.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 124 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Amazing what happens when your primary competitor spends 18 months stepping on every rake they can find.

And, then, having run out of rakes, they then deeply invest in a rake factory so they can keep right on stepping on them.

This'll probably be a lot more interesting a year from now, given that the product lines for the next ~9 months or so are out and uh, well.....

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but all Google needs to do is back up a dump truck of cash to Mar A Lago, and he'll forget all about whatever it was he didn't like about Google and immediately start tweeting how he's the bigliest fan of all the very good things Google is doing, so I'm going to skip the breath holding bit.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Two thoughts come to mind:

  1. If it's there and you aren't having it shoved down your throat, then that's still a VAST improvement over Twitter, which has gone from shitty social media to blatant hate indoctrination platform.

and

  1. Did you just now discover that most people are shitty? I always assumed most people figured that out at 13 or 14.
[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The master-omnibus image bundles all that into a single container is MUCH simpler to deploy.

Literally just used their compose file they provide at https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny/blob/master/docker/example.omnibus.docker-compose.yml and added in the device names and was done.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean even if you could remove them, the problem is that beige is not always the same beige: same problem you had 30 years ago.

The colors would never, at any point, remotely match the rest of the beige, and it'd be nice if a premium product that exists only for the aesthetics, would have just you know, done that last itty bitty little thing so it'd look right (from at least a distance) and be color matched.

 

So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.

I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.

A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.

So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn to sticky goo?

Thin(ner) and light(er) would be nice, but probably not a dealbreaker if the rest of the pieces align. This will be almost entirely used at a table for writing and such.

 

Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.

I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?

A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.

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