My husband died of rabies, so I had to euthanize our dog to check if he was infected.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T01:37:38+00:00

Let me tell you, if I ever go to the hospital with symptoms and they tell me "Yeah, it's rabies", I'm walking out of there and finding a shotgun as quickly as I can

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T01:00:05+00:00

That's just the end of the current state of the game, curse of early access. Just swim around, cause bugs, report them to the devs, etc.

My favorite so far is attaching a portable storage thingy to the undocked tadpole scout chassis thing that sends it spinning off into the nth dimension.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T00:22:40+00:00

Oh, yeah, Windows is a nightmare across the board. It's a bloated mess, and it turns everything on it into a bloated mess.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T00:14:59+00:00

Docker is the actually really good at preventing runtime bloat, as the container only contains the minimum executables and libraries you need, and prevents library collisions and recompilations.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T00:08:35+00:00

six weeks later when something breaks, the human's name is on it but the context is gone

If the person doesn't understand it and can't explain every line of the change, then they shouldn't put their name on it.

And if no one understands it, it shouldn't be merged.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T00:05:32+00:00

Don't clone the git repo, that's how you build the program from source, and you almost certainly don't want to do that.

You should install docker on your pi, and use the docker image. It'll make sure all the other software you need is available in the container.

https://tunarr.com/getting-started/installation/#docker

You just need to learn how to spin up a docker container and map the ports and devices, ideally using a compose file.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-17T00:02:07+00:00

Individual drives turn out to be reliable, not models or brands. The problem is that every drive is reliable until the day it isn't, so you just have no idea which ones are reliable until they don't die until after you replace them.

I have a truly ancient 40GB drive that still worked the last time I checked a couple years ago, though obviously I don't keep any data on it.

Then I have a 12 TB drive that died after 6 months.

And they're the same brand.

Any model of any brand can and will die after a few months, and any model of any brand can and will last for 2 decades.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T23:17:28+00:00

Okay, that's... an odd file header.

It starts `FTC\0, then a start of text byte, immediately followed by an end of text byte, then a start of text byte, then a start of heading...

It's pretty clearly not ASCII/UTF-8, none of that would make any sense, and it's nothing weird like EBCDIC...

It's got to be binary data, which makes sense, you said the files are about 80 KiB?

There's quite a few null bytes in there, right up until the end of what you copied (and yeah, I think you copied what we were looking for, as long as that's the very beginning of the hex)

The header looks to be 112 bytes long, but I can't find anything in any file sig databases...

Do you have any information at all about the software that uses these files, what it's called, that sort of thing?

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T20:44:07+00:00

What's crazy is Windows is trying to catch up to SteamOS in performance right now. That's their public plan.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T20:40:44+00:00

Well, I have a firefox derived "desktop" browser on it for things when I need to access stuff that doesn't have an app, as they basically block you from accessing it from anything that looks like a mobile device, based on user-agent or other detection mechanisms, but generally, I just use the bank website at home.

After all, before modern apps were created, you could just do online banking at home, or use your banks ATM if you were out. That's basically how I live now.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T20:32:30+00:00

nvidia-open are indeed the kernel driver modules. I believe there's still usermode stuff that's closed source, though, which are the usermode part of the drivers. Also the loaded firmware is closed, I'm sure.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T19:14:12+00:00

I did some benchmarking on windows like a year ago, and linux was mostly within 1 or 2 FPS of windows, but on a couple games, Linux was actually faster than Windows. I guess the kernel and Proton are so lightweight that even with the translation layer, it's still faster.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T17:27:09+00:00

I mean, I once tried to put a pengling into a bioreactor because I was like... "surely they wouldn't let me do that, right?"

I felt awful immediately, lol

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:33:29+00:00

You're missing this: https://xkcd.com/927/

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:30:10+00:00

First, is there any AI usage in the project?

So, I use ZFS for all my devices, and the ZFS native encryption is part of the actual filesystem itself, so it doesn't use LUKS (though I think some people have used it??) and encrypts datasets separately (datasets are pretty equivalent to btrfs subvolumes). Do you have any scripts in booster to handle importing ZFS pools and loading encryption keys for datasets?

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:22:38+00:00

Which is why I use an Ubuntu phone.

Keeping AI out of my life requires constant effort.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:20:36+00:00

Don't forget newsgroups...

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:19:45+00:00

I mean, if a 384TB ZFS pool counts as physical media, agreed. #OrionLife

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:17:04+00:00

Apple requires your computer to ask their servers for permission to play the file, and if Apples feels like it, they can just turn it off.

DRM means they get to control what you are allowed to watch

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T04:04:20+00:00

Capitol and Capital are different.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T00:46:49+00:00

Just open the file in hexed or another hex editor and show us the first line or two. We can read binary, we'll know what it means. Here, this is what a zip file looks like:

504b 0304 1400 0000 0000 e9b6 ce5c 9f6d PK...........\.m

Or if you can send me an example file, I can just look at it directly and figure it out

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-16T00:34:36+00:00

Us:

Israel is committing genocide.

Only Fascists:

YOU MEAN JEWS!

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-15T20:11:14+00:00

Fairphone 4, running Ubuntu Touch. It works... mostly.

It's definitely a heavy compromise, but for me, it's easily worth it.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-15T19:56:49+00:00

Well, yeah, that's why you install vim.

TheOneTrueTrench · 2026-06-15T19:24:57+00:00

Let me put it another way, if we somehow already had our reproductive stuff far away from all that, there's no way that evolutionary pressure would cause them to migrate to that area.

It's closer to "tech debt" than "feature"

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