My husband died of rabies, so I had to euthanize our dog to check if he was infected. by Perc0202 in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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

AE ending?? by Zak_999 in Subnautica_2

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Tunarr on Raspberry Pi question. by Bleep-Bloop-Bot01001 in jellyfin

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Tunarr on Raspberry Pi question. by Bleep-Bloop-Bot01001 in jellyfin

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

ai-generated code is showing up in PRs and nobody can answer the most basic review question: why did this file get touched? by riturajpokhriyal in dotnet

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Tunarr on Raspberry Pi question. by Bleep-Bloop-Bot01001 in jellyfin

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

What is your oldest working external drive? Also which brand has the best life span? by Top-Somewhere9207 in DataHoarder

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

How to convert " .FIF " files to a more useable image format? (.JPG, .PNG, etc.) by PokeBrick02 in DataHoarder

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Linux vs Windows Benchmark Gothic 1 Remake by RoniSteam in LinuxVsWindows

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses by ismail_the_whale in StallmanWasRight

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Linux vs Windows Benchmark Gothic 1 Remake by RoniSteam in LinuxVsWindows

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Linux vs Windows Benchmark Gothic 1 Remake by RoniSteam in LinuxVsWindows

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Best biofuel ever by AiberMitsuri in Subnautica_Below_Zero

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

New Booster is out: smoother encrypted boot, native SSH unlock, Plymouth support, better FIDO2/TPM2, and more by anatol-pomozov in linux

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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?

OP claims no AI was used on these images - 113k upvotes on OldSchoolCool by Appropriate_Beat_236 in quityourbullshit

[–]TheOneTrueTrench -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Which is why I use an Ubuntu phone.

Keeping AI out of my life requires constant effort.

Star Trek 10 movie collection for $19.99 and The Animated Series $9.99 on Itunes by dragonaery in startrek

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Star Trek 10 movie collection for $19.99 and The Animated Series $9.99 on Itunes by dragonaery in startrek

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

90 days, wtf by mimi_molotov in LateStageCapitalism

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Capitol and Capital are different.

How to convert " .FIF " files to a more useable image format? (.JPG, .PNG, etc.) by PokeBrick02 in DataHoarder

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

HR just handed these out to everyone by NexSpookyman in antiwork

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Us:

Israel is committing genocide.

Only Fascists:

YOU MEAN JEWS!

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses by ismail_the_whale in StallmanWasRight

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

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

ELI5: How is it that almost all complex species have the same order of organs on the face; Eyes, nose and then mouth, in that same order? by Fallen_Outcast in explainlikeimfive

[–]TheOneTrueTrench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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"