I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

Sounds like he was a mantis and was posting while copulating.

Haha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely — you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably “idiot proof,” but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).

If your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO.

To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.

No love for us Dvorak users :(

Oh absolutely; the folks who sat at home, are outraged that a fascist is in power, and are too dumb to understand how voting works to realize that they enabled it — they are infuriating.

That character is from the 20s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt

It’s kinda a weird take? Like if I’m in a discussion about some scary things AfD are doing and a left-of-center German joins the conversation, I’d like to think I’d have the ability to…you know…hear what they have to say about things.

There are a bunch of Americans who asked for this; there are a bunch who stood by and did nothing to stop it; and there are a bunch who tried to stop it, did not, and are devastated.

I guess at the end of the day it’s just a meme.

You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches

But remember that the kernel knows best — this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).

robot de cuisine

I don’t speak French but I may integrate this into my daily vocabulary.

As someone from San Francisco, I’d suggest at least looking into it as an option. (I’m a straight white guy though so maybe not the best source here…). In particular https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_District,_San_Francisco

For some color on the type of neighborhood it is, here’s a recent incident. Unfortunately it involved some violence, but the good guys won (I don’t think it should be triggering…): https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/11/nudists-save-tourist-attack-castro/

Of course, San Francisco being in the US, I wouldn’t blame you for trying to find somewhere else. But California (and SF in particular) is very different than Trump country.

We breathed a huge sigh of relief when our kid got vaccinated (first dose at ~1yr old). I just can’t fathom voluntarily not doing that.

I thought it was the poop challenge…

I switched from raspberry pi and orange pi to a cheap Intel NUC, and I think it’s just a much nicer experience.

The pi is great fun, but the HW transcoding on a NUC “just works,” and the SSD and 16GB RAM opens a lot of doors. My N100 NUC was less than $150, and it included everything (case, power supply, 500GB SSD).

My pi found new life as an off-site backup: attach a big HDD, set up WireGuard, and have a cronjob do daily rsync and snapshots. I have it set up at in-laws, and it works great.

I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you’re ok with a VLAN-aware network.

It’s a bill pointing out the hypocrisy of reproductive rights.

Ah, good point!

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it’s trying to compete with the Air.

It’s on https://www.thefarside.com/ today as one of the “Selections of classic The Far Side comics.” Comic says ©1984, but doesn’t give a specific date (an image on reddit suggests 4/6/84).

I mean, I don’t think “reflexively opposing” is really a good thing, ever — in this case though “reflexively opposing” and “opposing on merit” would (as far as I know) yield the same outcome, so it’s functionally the same thing.

I don’t hate Trump’s nominee’s because I hate Trump, I hate them because they’re antithetical to a working government.