As long as you verify the model of OnePlus you use works in your country, you could give them a try with lineage OS. My OnePlus 5T ran it great. However, in Canada Rogers just recently nerfed their Network so that my 5T no longer worked – 4g, LTE or 5g required now, and voLTE on Rogers apparently wasn’t compatible with OnePlus models. I’m trying to work up the courage to install graphene OS on my new pixel 9.

Ah, thanks for the correction!

If I want my fridge enshittified I’ll bag up my own poop and put it in the freezer, thankyouverymuch

Didn’t George Carlin have a bit about how all marketing people should just kill themselves?

Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…

An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…

Use a straw if available…

Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …

They shouldn’t cluster so closely together, it’s a risk. Not that I’m suggesting anything.

Thank you.

If you’ve ensured your home network’s firewall is sane first, there’s no big issue.

If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can’t run under Linux, and you aren’t downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven’t previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you’re in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.

Most people aren’t knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it’s impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.

But still… as others say, I totally agree – move to Linux if you can.

Just block W11 updates entirely.

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/

It’s mostly bullshit that one absolutely needs the latest Windows updates; if you use uBlock Origin in your browser and don’t download/run random .EXE/.MSI shit from the internet you’ll be fine. Keep Windows Defender up to date once a month just in case as well.

But really the best option is to switch to Linux.

There’s a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.

Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.

Neat, will try it out.

Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.

Just like the world assured Ukraine it could give up its nukes and nothing bad would happen, right?

No one should ever trust the US for anything, for a long long time.

I’ll look into those, thank you!

(I currently set up my APL keymap via .Xmodmap with xmodmap, and setxkbmap for X11 terms, and with ‘loadkeys’ for console.)

Great info! I will try it when I decide to trial-run Wayland again, thank you!

(Some things I had read online suggested that Wayland did not use the x11 configs. If it does, that’s good news.)

As someone who hasn’t yet moved to Wayland, how good is support these days for alternate keyboard mappings? Is this something that each individual window manager needs to support, or does Wayland itself manage them?

Not just “international keyboard” support, but truly arbitrary keyboard/symbol mapping support. I muddle in programming with APL, which needs its own key mapping with Unicode symbols.

I recall KDE had its own mapping support which used some system APL layout but I’d rather not have key mappings tied to a specific window manager.

Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.

I happen to be insane, and enjoy that stuff. And it’s not a business server (well, not anything big anyway).

If you’re in Canada, Rogers (nee Shaw) and Telus small business plans both offer ‘static’ IPs (Shaw’s residential plans aren’t officially static, but they rarely change on a residential modem unless you are always switching out hardware). Telus business fibre 1GB plan offers up to 5 static IP addresses.

Then you must purchase one or more domain names and assign them to your IP address… depending on your business’s needs even small consumer hardware can run a web server just fine.

Have a backup strategy though! And be sure you actually test the restore procedure on a periodic basis!

Linux backups can range from home-grown ‘rsync’ scripts and hot-plug external drives as backup, to more fancy ‘Time Machine’ like backup things (I honestly forget what’s out there for Linux right now, I have my own rsync scripts to back up to external drives).

My home server is my own, but if money is on the line you want proper backup and failover even. Most Linux distributions are easy-peasy to set up with Apache or nginx web servers but if you’ve never set those up you’ll need to study lots of tutorials and manual pages.

If you don’t want to tend to security and backups yourself though, it might be best to find a hosting service.

exile to the orbital asteroid mining colonies.

Can we start with Sam Altman please? Hah.

I was amazed at first with ChatGPT, outpainting, and the early stuff; it was fun making ‘paintings’ and playing with other imagery, but the main uses are taking such a dark turn I really think we’re going to regret this technology’s existence.