refugee from lemmy.sdf.org
I’m replying here in good faith that this isn’t a bottomless Yes, but scenario.
Now tell me that I am asking too much and there’s no hope for me.
There’s plenty of hope if one is willing to fork and modify a FOSS server or client. Make it look and act exactly like you want.
browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them
I think this concern is overstated in an RSS context for anonymous (no sign-in) feeds.
between 2AM and 6AM internet would start dropping packets like crazy
about 20 years ago I was remotely troubleshooting a microwave connectivity problem that occurred at a clients workplace about 10pm each night. Lasted about an hour. There was no one at work then but data transfers between their server and the mothership would fail.
One night the client went to the site at night to check an alarm and noticed there was a bobtail truck parked next to the building. The aero deflector attachment on its roof blocked line-of-sight with the tower, causing the problem. He asked the driver to nap at some other location in the parking lot and the problem went away.
I feel crazy for thinking it is correlated to do bad weather, as if that should somehow affect my indoor WiFi quality…
well, if it’s raining more people might stay indoors on their wifi, exacerbating any channel interference problems
ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it?
to paraphrase the saying, “Millions of Raspberry Pi can’t be wrong”
When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?
They don’t take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:
alias argtest='echo arg is'
argtest foo
arg is foo
So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.
If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?
I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.
That’s the one I use, too. Works fine.
I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.
for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me
I’d definitely feel good about that!
I just don’t make a habit of visiting any particular website to read it. That’s what the threadiverse is for.
Alternatively: that’s what RSS is for.
There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.
Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.
Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”
I agree that’s a problem.
a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.
I don’t want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as “to protect and to serve”.
If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.
Yet they demand our obedience and cooperation.
And people willingly bootlick these brave heroes who “f34r for muh life!!!” and start blasting when an acorn falls. Or when they step in front of a moving vehicle.
Police are not required to help you under any circumstances.
When I want to see heads explode I mention
In both cases one are required by law to pay but the recipient is not required to perform. As they say, “it’s good to the the king”.
No matter what plugin you find that supposedly will do the job, in my experience it is always a PITA that ends up involving a lot of programming.
I had a good experience with jekyll’s wordpress->jekyll import tool. But see below.
I would go for a database-less static site generator like Hugo
Graybeard here, so it’s probably just braindamage specific to me, but I’ve found ruby dependency setup and troubleshooting to be extremely frustrating. Hard for me to wrap my head around.
When jekyll is actually dead (right now it is “only mostly dead”) I’ll change to something that does not require ruby (eleventy?) or just go back to the nineties and do something barebones with gtml or whatever. Already playing with the latter.
without kegels there’d be no squeezing
this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs
might also be an excellent time to familiarize oneself with ssh tunneling
If the ads for a feed are in a predictable position (like first two minutes, last minute, whatever) one can use sox or similar to trim the file at that point to effectively remove the ads.
But like some of the other commenters here, when the podcast is available by patreon I use that feed and avoid the whole problem.
I’m currently running FreshRSS with good results. I ran TinyTinyRSS previously but the dev was so toxic I bailed on principle. :-(