Bought a brand new machine. Top of the line. Installed windows on it. Thought “You know what, fuck this, time to give Linux another go”. Discovered that nvida and Wayland don’t get on…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Windmill,_Brisbane

It was built in the 1820s

Like 3/4 of programs will never remember their size and position, so you have to make a never ending list of kwin window rules, which then end up affecting other windows you don’t want to

That’s Wayland specific isn’t it? X11 behaves a lot better in that regard

blahaj.zone, lemmy.blahaj.zone and chat.blahaj.zone

So so close, but it doesn’t import my ratings and play counts through arsenic, only the raw music, which means none of my playlists will work

I’m a little bit excited by that

Airsonic is fine! Looks like it should do what I need!

Now, if you tell me it’s subsonic compatible and I can use that smartlist feature with subsonic music as a source, I’ll have found my new music player :)

Does it have smart playlists that can combine other playlists?

Thesis envy

It’s what a life time of indoctrinated racism/classism/sexism etc looks

So, I was given some advice for situations like this that changed my life.

The first thing that comes to mind in these moments isn’t what matters. It’s what a life time of indoctrinated racism/classism/sexism etc looks like. The thing that comes to mind here isn’t necessarily what you think, it’s what you’ve been taught to think,

What matters is what you do next, after the thought has popped in to your mind.

I was raised in a very racist environment, and I struggled with feeling guilt every time some racist thought I’d been trained with popped in to my head, because that’s not the person I want to be. Reframing it like this allowed me to stop getting hung up on the guilt part, and work on the part that actually means something

The only thing I use it for is Dreaming Spanish, and it’s months since I’ve watched any of that content, so I’ll say yeah, I think I’ll be ok in a world without Youtube

They’re going to use LLMs to analyse user usage data to make things better?

As part of my fitness training earlier in my life, I got used to getting up early (somewhere between 5am and 6am). I’m nowhere near as fit as I used to be, but I still get up early.

While I personally think they aren’t judging me, I sometimes feel like I’m doing exactly what you have described when I compliment people. I try to compliment people whenever I can in order to make them feel good and while it works, I feel like I’m above them for doing so.

Yep, I struggle giving compliments for the same reason! So I give compliments in the way I can receive them, which is to compliment the things that people have said/done or are planning etc, rather than complimenting the person.

Hate spreaders need people to spread hate to, but people that are targeted by hate tend not to hang around in spaces where unrestrained hate is allowed.

I’m an extrovert, and I was a gifted kid. I haven’t been gaslit about my abilities, and I was supported and encouraged as a kid. I know what I’m capable of, and I know my limitations. I love myself, and wouldn’t choose to be anyone else.

Yet I hate compliments.

To me, compliments feel like someone passing judgement on me, like they’re putting themselves in a place above me so they can judge me. I’m aware that’s not what they’re doing, but that’s always been what it feels like to me.

However, you can compliment things I’ve done, and I’m here for it

I have no idea what it means :)

Thongs are perfect for when I’m chuckin’ a sicky, but still have to grab some snags from the corner store and some goon from the bottlo for the barbie on the weekend. Me mates 'll be devo if we end up eating Maccas again…

Australian

I’ve never owned a car. That’s my favourite thing about cars

Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough that you can’t usefully generalise from them to anything else, to the point that lumping them in together could be actively misleading

I would argue that they’re “lumpable” with other monotremes :)

Catholics see themselves as the root form of Christianity that other versions forked from. Whilst it’s not technically true, as there are many versions of Christianity that pre-date Catholicism, in most countries where the term “Catholics and Christians” is used, it’s accurate enough

In Australia, they’re made of plastic, so they look just like they did before they went in, only cleaner…

Usenet, email and MUDs via my universities remote UNIX terminals.

This was at the time of Mosaic and Netscape navigator, but honestly, at that point, there wasn’t enough on the web to keep me coming back, so I spent my time on Usenet and MUDs instead of studying :P

I don’t do centralised social media any more, and that includes discord. Matrix all the way

Help me formulate the dullest response to colleagues

Now if there was ever a job for an LLM like ChatGPT, this is it

Transphobia.

It’s just an echo of the homophobia decades earlier, and it’s going to be seen as equally ridiculous at some point

Lemmiversary? I was on the fedi long before I was on lemmy!

Lemmy started for me in December 2022. By that point, I’d been on the fediverse for 6 months or so. The Twitter implosion had just happened the month before, and I finally realised how sick of centralised social media I was. Reddit was the only one I was using, though I barely touched it because of the moderation, and so I went looking for alternatives.

I found lemmy.ml, and saw the potential of the concept. A month later, in January 2023 my partner and I were running an instance (we already ran a regular fediverse instance). The lemmy instance was basically just a single person instance. Sign ups were open, but lemmy was quiet back then, so the few people that joined left again. My partner barely used lemmy, so it was basically a single person instance.

And then the reddit implosion happened, and suddenly we found ourselves running a fully fledged lemmy instance, with more users than our “main” instance. And that was really the moment that I got more serious about lemmy too. The increase in community size and engagement transformed the experience.

I’ve never been back to reddit since I left in December 2022, but I didn’t delete my account until 2023 during the reddit exodus.

This was my approach to things even as a kid. I didn’t care who got the bigger “half” between my brother and I, because I wasn’t going to care once I’d eaten it. All I would remember is that I’d eaten it :)

“The first thing that jumps to your mind isn’t always what you truly think. Sometimes, it’s just what you’ve been trained to think. What matters, is what you do next”

I grew up in a really racist, queerphobic environment, and that comment really helped me by letting me give myself space to undo the bigoted indoctrination I had been taught, without getting trapped in guilt and self disgust whenever one of the racist or bigoted things I was raised with jumped in to my mind.

It let me recognise the bigoted thought as something I was trained to think, rather than being what I actually believe, and by recognising it, I could disempower the thought, and start to unlearn it

Nope. If anything they see shocks them, a) that’s their problem, not mine and b) serves them right for snooping

I have zero idea how big any city in the US is beyond “big”. I couldn’t begin to rank them by size

Metazooa. It’s not quite a wordle clone, but it’s clearly inspired by the genre

Basically, you have to guess an animal each day, and every time you guess, the game tells you the last branch your guess and the animal have in common on the taxanomic tree

https://metazooa.com

Capitalism

millibits per second?

My mother and my kiddo live with me. I don’t really have any other family.

I’ll be here all year :P

Steak and black pepper pie, now that’s what I’m talking about!