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Folks like you need to just install Linux and use it.

Why do folks act like windows isn't full of cli commands? First thing on any windows box is running debloat in powershell. Installing apps from a gui in Linux has been solved for a long time.

Having an excellent CLI doesn't preclude having an excellent GUI. No reason we can't have both.

Also I hate linux repos with a passion, because they are optimized for CLI usuage, and (like the whole OS) the GUI parts are a total unoptimized afterthought. Never mind that they are a dumping ground for whatever code anyone shits out, with virtually zero management or curation. With a CLI you don't see this, with a GUI it's a total mess.

I'm fine with app stores, but they need to be actively managed and curated. If not, I far far prefer just downloading .exe's from the source.


> whatever code anyone shits out

downloading an exe is "whatever code anyone shits out" cause that's exactly what built binaries are

A lot of the programs you use on Windows are actually the exact same ones on Linux be it VLC or Chrome. If you want to download binaries directly "from the source" and run those.... well that was always allowed. But remember the entire stack delivering the entire internet to you at any time is open source code that "anyone shits out".

distros are catering to server installs most of the time. if you want a gui you install that entire stack but for most classic distros like debian the GUI is not the main thing. if you want a GUI from start to finish go with Fedora or the new KDE distro.


I want a linux distro that seasoned windows users can slide right into, so we can actually get droves of people leaving windows.

No because you are not changing the ledger. You are changing the authentication mechanism for transactions. It's like adding a new supported password hash.

If you don’t also drop wallets with compromised signatures at some point after introducing secure signatures (effectively editing the ledger) they will be up for grabs.

Absent a functional ledger rewrite I expect there would be some window where miners with access to CRQCs switch their focus over to exclusively mining blocks of transactions transferring coins from insecure wallets to secure wallets under their own control. Is there actually interest in living in the world where the first person with both a CRQC and a mining farm gets to claim all of the stranded bitcoins for themselves?


For most folks it's just an add on. I have grandparents in Europe that have a garden where they grew potatoes and about 50 other things I'm not gonna list. They make jams, pickled things, and various other preserves. It's something to do and kept them sharp until they hit their late 80s.

Agreed. There's a world of difference between 'farming' for personal to small scale production as not quite a recreation but also not quite a job, and farming a low margin staple at high volume as your primary and sole means of earning money.

And I think when most people speak of the dream of returning to rural society to e.g. farm, they're speaking very much of the former rather than the latter.


That has been my experience as well, having immigrated from Eastern Europe to an enclave in the US. We know at least a dozen families (including our own) with 2-10 acre homesteads and all of them had previous experience with gardens and dachas in the Soviet Union that they used to grow supplemental produce, so no one came into the deal with delusions of making any profit. Everyone gives away the excess to neighbors of which there is usually a lot because yields are high on hand tended trees (and dutch bucket hydro).

The single biggest reason these farms exist is because American retail produce is mostly garbage. It’s so economically micro-optimized that all flavour has been wrung out of it. The only way many of us immigrants can get back the flavors of our childhoods is by growing the fruits and vegetables ourselves, if only to have control over the varieties, the vast majority of which are not sold in stores (>95%). That nostalgia is what pays the margin.


Where is this wonderful community, I would love to have neighbors like your described and where I can work in tech but still have 10 acre garden.

We're not neighbors unfortunately because we're spread out all over Southern California. By "enclave" I mean the area between West Hollywood and Arcadia, where many Eastern Europeans immigrated during the post-Soviet brain drain, not a dense conglomerate like San Gabriel.

BTW you do NOT want ten acres. That is a back breaking amount of work and even with modern technology you'll struggle to cope (it's not enough to afford most heavy equipment, but too much to do manually). You want an acre or two where you have enough space to plant trees. It takes a few years from nursery to fruiting, but they are far lower maintenance.


You don't really need 10 acres. My grandparents made do with 1/4 of an acre and would have yields of 350-500 lbs of potatoes per season. That's so much that they would give it away. I have fruit trees that require almost no effort to maintain once established. My neighbors give me oranges that fall to the ground and rot otherwise. It's not all or nothing. You can have a basil plant in an apartment.

Lots of places have community gardens. Hell, I go to one in the middle of NYC, a rooftop garden run by a friend. We even grow our own wheat for bread making.

Would be interesting for a Wayland DM to catch this and draw to a picture in picture overlay

Oh yes! I will pull together a demo.

With ‘media-send’ I can send it out to ffmpeg/GStreamer and that does all the heavy lifting


I made a demo recently with my Google home camera using the official API https://github.com/hparadiz/camera-notif

But your way of grabbing the stream is so much simpler.

Overlay layer is super new in KDE Plasma is the only problem. You can also do v4l2loopback and make it a virtual camera.


Have you tried doing video + pipewire yet?

I am also using v4l2loopback, but its annoying to juggle /dev/video* devices. I wanted to do video stuff in docker containers, and it would be amazing if I could do pipewire in each container and have no global state.

I couldn't get anything to work in Chromium. FireFox saw the device, but video didn't come across.


When you say +pipewire you mean just audio playback? If you are pushing video to a picture-in-picture overlay a user might expect that so yea you could write to the pipewire socket like any other program. It's usually fully open for you to do just that.

I use v4l2 regularly with OBS. In order for Chrome/Chromium to see it you need to make the device before launching Chrome/Chromium. You can start v4l2 devices automatically by setting a modprobe config for your kernel.

My v4l2 notes might be helpful http://technex.us/2022/06/v4l2-notes-for-linux/


While humans are flying to the moon I tried to build an Earth orbital system simulation, and then an astronaut took the photo that showed the lighting I was trying to simulate.

I can actually get 7 gbit but have no idea what I'd use with it. I'd need to upgrade my entire lan just to make use of it.

> I'd need to upgrade my entire lan just to make use of it.

If the concern is cost (rather than recabling the house) Mikrotik sells solid, inexpensive gear. Its management UIs take a bit of getting used to, but are fine once you've figured them out. You can also find two-port Intel 10gbit NICs on the Newegg "Marketplace" for ~40USD [0], and -while most already come with modules (and you will be informed if they don't)- if the X520s you're sold don't permit non-Intel transcievers, the NIC's firmware can usually be easily modified to change that. [1]

[0] <https://www.newegg.com/intel-e10g42bfsr/p/N82E16833106041>

[1] <https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads%2Fpatching...>


It’s not official, but you don’t always need to replace Cat5 cable with Cat6 to support 10Gbps Ethernet. Cat5 might only get you a quarter of the range of Cat6 on a good day, but since the range of Ethernet is 300 feet you would need a really big house to have cables that were too long.

But generally the real question is how often the extra speed would give you a real measurable advantage. If it’s only a few times per month then it’s probably not worth the extra subscription cost.


I have a 1000 ft spool of cat6. I meant switches, router, and other peripherals. Need a new switch anyway.

1/4 exposure time so 250 ms of light. the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe, plus the moon, plus the sun's rays refracting through the atmosphere which happens even at night.

The natural blue light is coming from the oxygen in the atmosphere but it's so overwhelming in that spot that it turns the light pure white. The red/orangish is coming from particulates and the green/red from aurora. My favorite part I think is the very bottom where you can see the blue light taper off and not overwhelm the camera sensor and you can see the aurora with it. I love this photo so much.

Probably my favorite photo ever now.


> the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe, plus the moon

And all the others are negligible by many orders of magnitude compared to the moon. So it's really just the moon as far as this photo is concerned (except for the small sliver that's still illuminated by sunlight, including refracted sunlight).


> the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe, plus the moon

This is true for every photo ever taken


> the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe,

That's highly incorrect. I have many lightsources that aren't contributing to any photons in that picture. For example my refrigerator light.


I turn off my refrigerator light after I close the door by reaching in and pushing the button. Don’t you?

so the atmosphere acts as giant lamp lit from behind by Moon? never thought of it that way

There are some critical parts of architecture where sometimes I really do need to see the code and even sometimes put a wall around it and tell the agent they can't touch it.

Okay but the live stream for YouTube used a dslr live feed which I guess they didn't tell the camera operator for lift off because they started to snap still shots and the video feed had a visible shutter and then still frame for 1 second in the video feed. So to reiterate the official nasa YouTube stream ruined the lift off video stream.

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