jcs

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Sometimes a trash bin is located near the door, so I'll use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands to open the door, hold the door open with my foot, then throw the paper towel in the bin. But these make hygiene so much easier:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

By Arch, do you use SteamOS on your gaming rig? And if not, what would be the determining factor?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Turkey pesto sandwiches and combo pizzas - this must be a pre-pandemic photo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

And the sysadmin said "well done, good and faithful servant."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Well, safer and better in the driver's mind until they fly too close to the sun and realize following the accident that there was a puncture or that the rubber delaminated off the belt during the commute. This happened fairly regularly at the track I worked at, though that was more from folks running their slicks too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I have a very hard time believing that an internal combustion engine would sustain significant damage prior to stalling. An engine could run, albeit very poorly, with extreme backpressure (say, an exhaust blockage but perhaps some leaks elsewhere in the exhaust system). If the exhaust was perfectly sealed, there would be so much backpressure that the mixture would be starved of air and there would simply not be any explosion in the cylinders. I have limited knowledge of diesel engines but would expect a similar result.

Here's a video where an exhaust pipe is plugged. You can see how quickly the car stalls (at 10:00): https://piped.video/watch?v=jnoW0skAChA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

We're just normal men.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's a valid point that it could potentially create some confusion when a user assumes that everything in Signal is secure. Unencrypted SMS threads could contain an open padlock icon and even an ominous red window border, but someone inevitably will not understand the difference.

However, my frustration has been how both convenience and security is reduced by removing SMS from Signal.

Many people will continue to use SMS for a variety of reasons, necessitating the use of an additional app. So now we have people continuing to communicate over this insecure protocol, but with the additional target vector of potential vulnerabilities in the supplemental app.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Imagine a world where we can adopt a scalable, secure, open communication protocol where users can use whatever app they want. Imagine humanity moving past the diaspora of special-snowflake chat apps and on to better things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't use a dedicated app at all to use Lemmy on my Librem 5 daily-driver. I access it via Firefox. To do this, I created a dedicated Firefox profile for Lemmy and created an app icon for it in the app gallery. More details here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I think the Lichee Pi image is almost guaranteed not to run on the BeagleV-Next, unfortunately. If you feel like creating a Frankenstein distro, I suppose you could leverage an existing/bootable kernel, etc, and swap out the rootfs with vanilla Debian.

I personally would expect Beagleboard to support Debian out-of-the-box, but it's still a recent release, so time will tell. RobertCNelson usually curates the Debian distros. Maybe it's worth reaching out to him on Beagleboard's Discourse forum or (Slack or Discord, I haven't kept up with it lately).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Do you mean the original BeagleV Starlight board? Yes, I do have one. IIRC, it did not have an OS pre-installed, but it's been years since I received it, so don't take this as fact. Debian and Fedora were officially supported while the project was in active development. I'd have to look deeper or reach out to Beagleboard, but I cannot locate a Debian image for it at this time, as all links seem to redirect to the current BeagleV-Next board.

https://forum.beagleboard.org/t/beaglev-comparison/29678/6?u=jcs

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