Run XFCE and use Thunar. : )

breaker masking

1200 incoming + 1 hairdryer at the same time equals overloaded circuit though.

It is more than just the concern around back-feeding the grid. These simple balcony setups connect to your home grid via a single outlet. Most US outlets/circuits are 15 AMP or roughly 1500 watts max capacity. These single circuits can only carry that much current total at any one time so if you have it loaded up with incoming power AND use anything else on the circuit at the same time … no bueno. To make this setup work best/safely you would ideally want a dedicated circuit for it which is basically non-existent today.

The safety issues really do need to be addressed because the folks most likely to use these systems are apartment dwellers and I don’t think anyone wants to increase fire risk in these scenarios.

Gentoo is GOAT. I am also glad that Arch exists though. Both have excellent wikis, good knowledgeable communities, lots of configuration options. In terms of pure speed, it is hard to beat a build it all from source as per your own custom USE flags setup like in Gentoo.

Nice to see the US government still supporting EVs these days.

I still think that EV rebates and tax credits would be more cost efficient and much less jarring than provoking Iran into destroying 20% of the world’s oil supply… but I guess that I am too simple-minded for politics.

Can I have 2 billion dollars to build UNIVERSE models?

Whenever these editors wars come around I just…

sshfs zerocool@thegibson:/home/zerocool ~/sshfs/thegibson

… and then edit files with MS Word… like a real gangster.

If vibe-coding is wrecking Windows 11 and Office now … just wait until Windows 12 sees the light of day! Ohhh boy, will that ever be some infinite-monkeys-on-typewriters-shite!

I also like FauxPilot.

faux - adj - artificial or imitation; fake.

Not to* be confused with the OSS alternative, also named fauxpilot.

The war ends when Israel decides it is over since they clearly own our government, financial sector, our tech overlords and soon most of our news outlets. Considering that they’ve been at war with their neighbors for over 50 years I would not hold my breath.

Fairphone is such an obvious partner here I guess that’s why they went with a Chinese manufacturer instead.

I am sure nothing bad will come from that decision.1, 2, 3

Seriously, though. Why?

In fact, I actually prefer jamming on my Linux boxes because of pulseeffects/easyeffects and its really nice EQ, AutoGain and other plugins.

https://github.com/megankde/pulseeffects https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

We need improved Linux support for power management on ARM platforms. In general Linux on ARM has been good for a long time now. (ex RaspberryPi, Gentoo, Ubuntu)

Where things aren’t so great is the choice in OEMs putting out ARM parts like Broadcom, Qualcomm and Apple. All of whom aren’t exactly open source champions. In a less imperfect world we’d have something like RISC-V with great power management and linux support available in mobile computing SKUs/TDPs.

Keep calm and

pulseaudio -k

Just read the paper. ArsTechnica is such a terrible source for analysis on anything remotely technical.

alias archUpdate=‘fortune && echo “take a deep breath now” && sleep 5 && echo “YOOOLLLLLOOOOO” && sudo pacman -Syu’

Thanks for noticing that. I certainly missed the ‘=1’ bit.

Debian testing, then upgrade it as they make major releases. I have yet to have a single Debian upgrade go wrong on Desktop or Server. It is basically magic.

Assuming that:

• your Linux Laptop uses wlan0 for its wireless connection and your home network uses 192.168.1.x for IP space.

On the Linux laptop:

• as root or with sudo – enable IP forwarding and load the change with sysctl -p.

sudo sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 ## updated edit thanks to folks pointing out my typo.
sudo sysctl -p

• if you have ufw installed and running – setup a NAT masquerading rule for any hosts forwarding IPv4 traffic to it.
  add this line to /etc/ufw/before.rules file right after the “*nat” line

:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]

-A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.1/24 -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE

On the mac:

• set your IP address manually to be on the same LAN as the Linux laptop, but for the gateway address… point that at the IP for the Linux Laptop.