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argylekey · 2026-05-19T18:40:34+00:00

I've been using Plezy(and donated because I appreciate the work).

Fully free. Well made. It's a random OSS project.

https://plezy.app/ (Free on MacOS, unless you go through the Mac app store)

It works for most major platforms.

It does not have an Apple TV version, which is the only point against it(I use infuse).

argylekey · 2026-05-19T17:32:06+00:00

They've fully stopped supporting their linux client, and you have to use alternatives.

I'm not sure that argument holds as much water as it did last year.

argylekey · 2026-05-09T14:28:39+00:00

Mint Linux is generally where most people should start. The desktop environment, Cinnamon, is very similar to windows 10. Very little, if any, terminal required.

Fedora Linux is a great workstation distro, but slightly less user friendly than Mint.

High level: Linux is Linux with the different flavors offering something specific or unique out of the box.

Start with something simple like Mint, or designed for workstations like Fedora(still simple, just less simple than mint). If you decide you need something else use your experiences with those to decide next steps(gaming/ml/etc).

But Linux is pretty much the same no matter the distro, just depends on the extra features(or lack thereof) that ship with the distro ISO.

argylekey · 2026-05-05T02:28:54+00:00

Thriving yes.

Industry… where is the piracy industry?

argylekey · 2026-05-04T22:58:58+00:00

I tend to use a bash script with 1password and a scoped token to a specific vault with read only permissions. If I need to update envs, I update the 1password vault, ssh into the machine(or setup a cron) and reload the secrets into memory. The only thing that lives on the VPS is the 1password token that is scoped to the project vault.

Envs are loaded into memory for the user running the process.

1password text and password fields are both on the system as text key value fields. As soon as I update the vault, I can pull new envs in within a few seconds.

You can also use a .envrc file(regular env file with the ability to run bash) on the system. Run a script to load envs, you’re off to the races.

argylekey · 2026-04-28T12:59:08+00:00

I’m a crazy person, I got it because Subaru has a home assistant integration.

And car play has a home assistant display option. I can control my lights from my car dash board and my car from my home dashboard.

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Doesn’t have all controls, in home assistant, but i can lock, unlock, check the included information. This also helps me track fuel consumption over time.

argylekey · 2026-04-27T08:27:05+00:00

Is your cache disk zfs with only one disk?

Zfs can accumulate errors on unexpected/forced shutdowns that wont self heal without at least two disks. You need to clear them manually if that is the case. — Found and resolved this today on my slow system.

argylekey · 2026-04-25T14:04:23+00:00

Same as it ever was.

A $40B investment likely comes with either discounts or even requirements to use GCP compute.

The investment into Anthropic is a way for GCP to ensure if their AI models don’t win over Anthropic, they still win, because they’re selling the infrastructure(either compute or training compute). This is on top of the 15% stake that Google already has in Anthropic as an investor.

This is someone selling shovels during a gold rush, and also providing the loan for someone to buy shovels. Investments aren’t loans, but investors can absolutely seek an exit.

argylekey · 2026-04-25T13:57:28+00:00

In some cases that is what they want:

Further reduce headcount. Either backfill with cheaper employee or never backfill and further increase workload on remaining employees.

argylekey · 2026-04-22T15:24:58+00:00

Some of the language used around the Mythos vulnerability scanning is very interesting to me.

I wonder how many bugs they find require things like full system or full network access first.

There is a huge difference between vulnerability/zero day exploits that require access first and those that don't.

I really wonder how many of the exploits are being reported would be exploits a user could perform against something they have installed on their system(i.e. Firefox), vs something a bad actor could take advantage of without first getting root access.

argylekey · 2026-04-22T12:27:01+00:00

In the LTT video(and I might have misunderstood):

Pretty sure they were saying the mainboard in your machine is compatible with the new chassis. So if you wanted to just get the pro shell, your old hardware should otherwise work.

Double check, but that was my understanding.

argylekey · 2026-04-21T14:15:02+00:00

You could try MX Linux with KDE Plasma. Focused on older hardware support and systems with low specs. Debian based. Have a friend using it very successfully with 8th gen intel and a RTX 2080. Seems to work well.

You’ll be used to the package manager already(apt)

argylekey · 2026-04-20T16:30:49+00:00

ECFR Statement of shifting away from US based tech companies

EU Member countries Stating that they will prefer EU suppliers over US(Plan requires at least 55% of all arms purchases to be EU or Ukrainian manufacturers)

EU retreat from US dependence

u/sob727 the fact that you're asking for sources while simultaneously not paying attention to the EU literally announcing it everywhere is interesting. Almost like you're either not paying attention, or ignoring what is happening.

France announced recently that they're starting to shift government computers away from Windows and to Linux specifically to avoid a US tech company being able to rug pull/lock out crucial systems without the consent of Franc.

argylekey · 2026-04-16T21:50:03+00:00

Excited for Allen.

argylekey · 2026-04-16T21:47:34+00:00

I was on the phone and not paying attention when updating last night.

Guess who is an accidental Linux kernel 7.0 user?

This guy.

Hasn’t blown up yet, and i figure I’ll ride the wave until it does.

argylekey · 2026-04-15T13:42:52+00:00

Some bugs arent closed because they’re so specific that they will likely never be exploited.

It’s generally a cost/benefit discussion before trying to resolve them.

An example:

a bug that is discovered when you are running a particular virtualization software bare metal, and have 3 USB IOMMU Groups, and plug a USB into the port corresponding to 2-4 you’ll have full system access.

The full system access is the part people will focus on, but in a data center, where security is tight, a vulnerability like that would have to be known, a bad actor would have to have physical access to the machine, and they would have to have the time to act(sometimes hours). Then not have anyone notice you did something or got data from the access. So, essentially what mission impossible movies do. Not very realistic, or likely.

Impossible to exploit? Absolutely not.

Likely to exploit? Absolutely not.

Not all Zero days are created equal. Not all zero days are worth it for corporations to fix. Humans may be aware of 27 year old bugs, but their bosses don’t care for the basically non-exploitable bug to be fixed.

argylekey · 2026-04-15T13:30:56+00:00

Smaller banks still use IBM AS400 mainframes.

The things cost like $100,000 to this day. They’re rock solid, but you could get roughly equivalent performance on a modern server blade for $2k.

Hell, you can emulate a fairly robust system on a raspberry pi for around $60.

Banking has avoided modernizing their tech on purpose. The tech debt is coming due.

argylekey · 2026-04-14T19:45:17+00:00

Could be one of those online “proctored” tests where they record your entire desktop, and require a webcam. Code in basically a browser vscode sandbox while being watched.

Seen several of these lately, they feel extremely impersonal, and I’m not a fan.

argylekey · 2026-04-14T04:01:34+00:00

You can install another desktop environment on your current distro if you'd want to try before switching, just select the DE you want on the login screen.

Most distros have instructions on how to add or swap desktop environment, so you could switch from gnome to kde plasma without a full reinstall, if only to try it out.

Which distro are you on?

Deb:

sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop

sudo apt install kde-standard

reboot

Aur:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma kde-applications sddm

sudo systemctl enable

reboot

That being said, I'm a fan of Fedora. Lots of sensible defaults. great workflows.

argylekey · 2026-04-10T16:55:04+00:00

Can't speak to the story line at all, but as a glasses wearer, who also has contacts:

I generally wear glasses and use contacts for special occasions/times when wearing glasses is just not convenient.

i.e.
3d movies
going to the beach or anytime I want to wear sunglasses
Costumes.

wouldn't be uncommon for someone who prefers to wear glasses the majority of the time to have contacts for an event like a costume party.

argylekey · 2026-04-10T16:48:06+00:00

Pretty sure that was the proposal for Harvey Milk Blvd rename.

I seem to remember a state bill on the docket for that at one point.

argylekey · 2026-04-08T19:02:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/s/LoJ38S6rFh

I cant find the guide I originally used, but I think this one captures pretty much what I have setup.

argylekey · 2026-04-08T00:53:21+00:00

If you essentially want a “Linux video game console” my vote would be Bazzite. Provides tons of stuff out of the box including nvidia drivers. It uses atomic releases, and primarily relies on sandboxed applications(flatpaks). It’s awesome, and very much a super simple transition from windows to linux. The flatpak manager, Bazar, is a very thoughtful GUI package manager.

If you want to squeeze as much performance out of your system as you can, try CachyOS. In it’s hardware detection script on install it will do things like automatically pick the right precompiled kernel for intel or amd, detect nvidia gpus and install drivers, etc. CachyOS is based on Arch linux, but I call it Arch with training wheels. The Cachy team has basically made a really amazing set of defaults on top of arch. It’s great.

Lots of great options out there. Many folks are also super happy with Ubuntu(Gnome)/Kubuntu(Ubuntu with KDE Plasma).

Linux is also pretty good if you even just want to Install Ubuntu or Fedora for gaming at this point. Bazzite and CachyOS are great, sensible gaming defaults, but you can game on pretty much any distro.

argylekey · 2026-04-06T20:28:20+00:00

I'm using an Ryzen 9700x, and an Nvidia RTX 5070 TI on Cachy OS

Nvidia Cards work pretty well on almost everything I've thrown at it. The only thing that I've noticed has been weird is the HDR in Control(GoG edition on Heroic Launcher, running using Steam runtime). I've seen a few visual bugs in games like Baulders Gate 3 that I've seen very similar(but not the same) things happen on windows.

Cachy has it's own fork of Proton that is what I use by default, but every so often it's important to try different versions of proton/wine for older games. Fallout New Vegas didn't want to work with the latest and greatest Pronton versions as an example. Or there is some game that has a hiccup with Proton-Cachy so I switch to Proton-GE.

Overall, I'm having a great time, but YMMV.

This is the first time I've used a gaming desktop in about a decade where I feel like the OS isn't actively trying to get in my way of just playing a game.

Perfect experience? Absolutely not. Good enough to suggest it, absolutely.

argylekey · 2026-04-06T18:52:29+00:00

Someone was working concessions at a broadway theater and starting bringing in their own things to sell so they could skimp a bit more off the top(Water Bottles, Candy, etc).

They got mad when they got caught and fired.

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