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Cake day: December 28th, 2023
  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    They don’t actually believe any of this shit.

    I agree with everything else that you’re saying, but I wouldn’t be so sure about this. Have you ever noticed how it’s much easier to start online flame wars when you actually believe in the batshit stance that you’re arguing as opposed to pretending to believe it for the sake of trolling? I think it’s a similar thing here. I don’t think humans are that good at compartmentalising, so in order to do something performatively so often and so well you have to trick your mind into actually believing it in a sort of corrupt way. I know this makes me sound like a middleschooler, but I think George Orwell’s concept of doublethink is very much real in cases like these.

  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?
    1·
    3 months ago

    Yeah this is the way. Debian stable has outdated packages, debian testing has broken packages. Ubuntu is difficult for beginners because of snap. Linux mint is the perfect just-works debian-based beginner distro. Same for DE: Gnome is hard to use, KDE is bloated and unstable, and XFCE is too minimalist/diy/quirky for beginner users (you need to add a panel applet in order for the volume keys to work? Huh??). Cinnamon is the perfect middle ground between resource usage and features.

    Make sure during installation that you create a 4 GB swap partition too

    Or at least as large as your RAM if you want to be able to hibernate.

  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I wantEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    The type of people that truth social is designed for (conservatives, rightists, fascists) are often shunned for discriminating against minorities. Here they’re trying to pull a “no u”, to say that akshually we’re the ones who are discriminated against in mainstream media, and we’re gonna build our own platform with no discrimination, making us more virtuous than you. They don’t believe they actually have less discrimination, to them “discrimination” is a playing token in the game of morals. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that it doesn’t matter whether or not they believe they have less discrimination, because having less discrimination was never the goal. The card says moops.

  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?English
    4·
    6 months ago

    How is ceph working out for you btw? I’m looking into distributed storage solutions rn. My usecase is to have a single unified filesystem/index, but to store the contents of the files on different machines, possibly with redundancy. In particular, I want to be able to upload some files to the cluster and be able to see them (the directory structure and filenames) even when the underlying machine storing their content goes offline. Is that a valid usecase for ceph?

  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•GRUB is confusingEnglish
    61·
    7 months ago

    If GRUB is too confusing, just uninstall it? You said you have a UEFI system, you don’t need a bootloader. You can just put the vmlinuz and initramfs onto the ESP and boot into it directly. You can use efibootmgr to create the boot entry, something like this:

    efibootmgr \
	--create \
	--disk /dev/sda \
	--part 1 \
	--index 0 \
	--label "Void linux" \
	--loader /vmlinuz-6.6.52_1 \
	--unicode " \
		root=PARTLABEL=VOID_ROOT \
		rw \
		initrd=\\initramfs-6.6.52_1.img \
		loglevel=4 \
		net.ifnames=0 \
		biosdevname=0 \
		nowatchdog \
		iomem=relaxed \
		"
    • --disk /dev/sda: What disk is the esp on?
    • --part 1 What partition number (counting from 1) is the esp on?
    • --index 0 At what index in the boot menu should the boot entry appear?
    • --loader Path to the vmlinuz file. These are normally in /boot, you have to move it to the esp yourself
    • root=PARTLABEL=VOID_ROOT this is the linux root partiion. I’m using PARTLABEL to identify mine, but you can use pretty much anything that /etc/fstab supports
    • initrd=\\initramfs-6.6.52_1.img Again, you have to move the initramfs file from /boot into the esp. For some reason this uses backslashes, not forward slashes as path separator (double backslashes in this case are to prevent the shell from interpreting it as an escape sequence)
    • The rest of the arguments are just misc kernel parameters that I use

    Just search for EFISTUB for more info.