My favourite recent one is Yunohost, which makes it super easy to spin up a little self-hosted server with a bunch of apps. I’ve been having good fun with that and a spare Raspberry Pi lately.
I’ve been using Filen, seems to work pretty well, it’s got a Linux version of the desktop sync client (comes as an AppImage IIRC) and I dunno if they’re still doing it but they used to have a good price on lifetime plans that were ~100GB that you could stack, so I got a good amount of storage without having to pay a monthly fee.
Yeah you can’t go wrong with Ursula Le Guin IMO. I loved The Left Hand of Darkness too.
Also 'cause I love sharing it, her 2014 book award speech is worth a read as well:
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
+1 for the whole Culture series of books. My personal favourite is Look to Windward but they’re all good.
The best five-book trilogy you’ll ever read, even though there are six of them.
I died in that game from reading a book that was too sad lol
Yeah I feel like especially when it comes to something like art, it becomes extremely subjective.
For me personally, I’m not a fan of using AI to create art itself, but I can see a good use case for it in supporting an artist. For example, a lot of artists I know are notoriously bad at things like marketing, or writing grant proposals and mission statements and all the other bits of miscellaneous paperwork that seems to be required. So I think AI has some value there, to facilitate artists getting their work out there, rather than creating the actual art.
But also having said that, on a more fundamental level I guess you could argue that any bit of art that lights someone’s brain up has some sort of value, even if it only works on one person and everyone else in the world thinks it’s crap. It still made life a little bit brighter for that one person, which I suppose is the point. So in that sense maybe it doesn’t matter where it came from at all?
Anyway, that’s a bit rambly and esoteric for first thing in the morning, sorry!
I’m not part of the typical group that gets drafted (presumably young men) but my argument has always been that my country doesn’t own me, I’m not its property. If I want to fight for/serve my country I will, but IMO it has no right to just use me at will like a resource.
This especially goes for times like these, when everything is unaffordable, nobody can get a house, you can barely see a doctor, the police don’t even bother solving most low-level crime and the rich are lining their pockets with our money. The system is not upholding its end of the social contract at all, so why should it expect any extraordinary measures from us?
And the solutions to Windows problems are almost always ludicrously esoteric and stupid anyway lol. It always turns out to be something like “the CPU usage went up because the clock in the taskbar on this specific version of Windows syncs to a different server that closed down so it tries to ping it 400 times a second for some unknown reason and that’s why you get a 78-character hexadecimal error code and all your USB devices disconnect whenever you render a video.”
Honestly, just Googling (or DuckDuckGo-ing) things. I tend to be the “tech person” that people ask about their computer problems quite often, and 9/10 times I just copy-paste the error code into the search bar and it tells me what to do. I’m not secret about it either, I’m like you can literally just Google it and it’ll usually work. But people still seem to think it’s magic lol.
Yeah that’s basically what I do, I know the passphrase to decrypt my drive, and the one to open Bitwarden and then I basically let that just handle everything else.
Oh and the sudo one I guess.
Yeah when I used to do Kung Fu that was how they taught it, more for fitness and they would always emphasise that in a fight, just run away. Even if you win a fight, you don’t know how badly the other person is going to get hurt, you could end up unintentionally killing someone etc. Just not worth it. They’d also teach stuff like if you’re surrounded and you can’t get away, how to open up a gap in the people and then use that to run away lol.
Mon français n’est pas mauvais, und mein Deutsch ist ziemlich schlecht.
Je ne sais pas si mon allemand avait un sens.
Also English lol.
This has uncovered my shameful Linux confession lol - I don’t understand Docker at all. I think I’m reasonably okay with Linux stuff, I can put an Arch install together without using the archinstall script, I got NixOS up and running without too much trouble etc. but I just can’t get my head around how Docker is supposed to work for some reason.