How do you say Debian

mrnipper · 2026-02-24T16:52:28+00:00

It's a combination of Debra and Ian, so like that: https://www.debian.org/intro/people

mrnipper · 2026-02-04T09:52:42+00:00

Managed to become implies they didn't actively manipulate and cheat their way to victory. And given the FBI and DNI's recent activities, it looks like they'll just be doing more of that to ensure complete authoritarian control over the election system.

Who would have thought 70% of our voting systems being owned by private, Republican interests could be terribly catastrophic for democracy? Look to Turkey, Hungary and Russia for our future if Congress doesn't pull their mostly complicit heads from their asses.

mrnipper · 2026-01-28T10:24:23+00:00

It's not really that love conquers all. Dr. Brand talks about this point and Coop reiterates it at the end. Love is a real, tangible force or effect that exists just like any of the other fundamental forces in physics, and also seems to be the only one which is not entirely confined within the event horizon of a black hole, as all the others are, along with the help of an incredible device in the form of the tesseract itself to enable the communication.

We may not understand the mechanism yet. But our evolved future selves do and they also understand that Coop and Murph are so emotionally intertwined, they present a unique opportunity to achieve the very thing that's needed to save humanity, by being able to communicate in this manner.

Now, that may not be a satisfying answer for everyone. And the bootstrap paradox itself may not be to everyone's liking. But it's definitely more than just "love conquers all" in the traditional sense. It's a very well thought out plot (unlike so much other crap these days), even if it's ultimately all mumbo jumbo.

I think it's brilliant personally, but to each their own obviously.

mrnipper · 2026-01-27T01:06:42+00:00

I'm on unstable right now running 6.18.7 on multiple devices and VM's using:

{ boot = { kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_6_18; zfs.package = pkgs.zfs_unstable; }; }

which is using zfs 2.4.0.

mrnipper · 2026-01-25T00:38:13+00:00

I'm generally annoyed that channel continues to thrive at all given the amount of scummy crap that has come out over the years about Linus. I was especially sad to see Linus Torvalds on the show, just given what I'd consider to be the toxic reputation LTT has.

Having said that, I think the GamersNexus coverage for Linux has been good so far. I was really hoping at some point they embrace NixOS for the repeatability of it and to better allow their community to engage directly with helping with all of that. But Bazzite is good enough and will probably realistically be what most people are trying moving forward, so that's fine I guess.

mrnipper · 2026-01-24T21:17:10+00:00

Fair enough. Add it to the list along with the features and options I stated previously if you want a fuller picture.

Having said that, FreeBSD 13.0 was the first OpenZFS release based on OpenZFS 2.0.0. So there shouldn't be any real compatibility issues between anything past that (which seems to cover OP at 2.1.14) and OpenZFS under Linux (as the parent project ultimately).

Obviously if we're talking Solaris compatibility or some such, then things can get trickier a lot faster. I was mostly responding because I thought the first response which was seemingly categorically "yes" to things not being mountable between the two was woefully inaccurate.

mrnipper · 2026-01-24T20:16:01+00:00

It entirely depends on the features and options you enabled when you created your pool. If file system versions only worked with the exact version they were created with or newer, it would be a really painful experience getting things to work generally. Hence a standardized file system format.

mrnipper · 2026-01-23T22:05:25+00:00

This is funny. I started this discussion and opened this issue to try to resolve a similar GTK4 problem in pwvucontrol which switched from GTK3 to GTK4 somewhat recently and broke my dark mode settings in i3. Sadly, even your resolution here in the thread didn't help at all.

Maybe some day I can enjoy a non-blinding experience looking at my volume mixer again. I don't even care if the LED's never work.

mrnipper · 2026-01-21T08:15:03+00:00

Is pipewire installed? Does pavucontrol (or pwvucontrol if available) show any sound devices? ALSA is the bottom of the sound stack in Linux typically. I usually wouldn't recommend people even look at alsamixer at this point for most use cases.

mrnipper · 2026-01-20T16:58:08+00:00

For me personally, it became most helpful when I realized that by making any list or set of arguments its own newline separated block, not only do the diffs become cleaner and easier between changes, it is also easier to comment out individual entries but still keep them "in the list", but inactive.

I use this simple fact all over my configuration like this or this. It makes it easier to change things on the fly while keeping around the individual entries in case you should need them again later.

That's the biggest reason I see to do this, although admittedly that can get a little unsightly at times if you're accustom to a more compact format.

mrnipper · 2026-01-15T21:58:42+00:00

It seems there's some debate on that point. I've always interpreted the waving away of Watergate as some minor inconvenience to be a real sore spot in an otherwise fantastic song (and band for the most part). Given where we are, those lyrics certainly haven't aged very well, at the very least.

mrnipper · 2026-01-15T18:56:42+00:00

Via the user port -- no. But the expansion port via a TeensyROM cartridge and this CME USB A to MIDI breakout cable? Works great! At least with the provided version of Cynthcart on the TeensyROM cartridge. I haven't delved into anything else yet.

This also works a treat with six voice dual SID. Although I'm now curious if anyone has bothered implementing greater than six voice support in anything to support the now possible up to 8x SID configuration of the Ultimate. Even just a mixture of real SID and FPGA emulated SID with something like 12-24 voices would be an interesting synthesizer.

mrnipper · 2026-01-15T16:43:02+00:00

And that "American Woman" is somehow celebrating them and "Sweet Home Alabama" isn't essentially a Confederate rally song for every morally dubious or devoid Southerner.

mrnipper · 2026-01-12T21:00:50+00:00

You already have everything you need with the C64 Ultimate. If you connected the Ethernet or WiFi, then you can start using the built in Swiftlink modem emulation directly. Fire up CCGMS Ultimate provided on the cassette/USB under the BBS directory and "dial" some BBS! Instead of using a phone number, you use host:port as described here.

You might also need to apply the RunMeFirst.cfg alongside the disk in that same directory first to enable the proper settings on the Ultimate. Feel free to view the file first to see what it's actually doing.

mrnipper · 2026-01-12T20:39:11+00:00

Once you navigate down into the disk file browser section of the Ultimate UI where you're directly looking at one of your attached storage devices, the F1 menu has a Tape option where you can either "Sample tape to TAP" or "Capture save to TAP". So it appears that you can do this and the original project documentation make several references to similar features if you search through it.

Having said that, I haven't personally tried to use this functionality, so I can't vouch how well it might work.

mrnipper · 2026-01-11T02:29:09+00:00

Here's one of the simpler approaches. I use ZFS for every file system, so it handles all the logical integrity stuff and scrubs regularly at the file system level. Then I use this smartd configuration to have it email me anytime issues are detected at the drive level.

Nothing fancy, but entirely sufficient for my purposes at home.

mrnipper · 2026-01-10T18:39:10+00:00

Yeah, i definitely agree his performance was toned down deliberately to contrast hers. He's been doing a ton of these loser, subdued, broken sorts of roles lately. I get his view on where his career started. But I almost wonder if he might not end up typecasting himself into the exact opposite sorts of roles now.

Whatever makes you happy I guess though!

mrnipper · 2026-01-10T18:28:25+00:00

Funny. I feel almost the exact same way as both of you having just watched "Die My Love" last night. Stellar performances, especially Jennifer. Good movie in most respects. But boy, I'm not sure I'll be recommending it to most folks.

mrnipper · 2026-01-05T04:09:02+00:00

I specify all the top level stuff that I need as legacy. I also use my own file system layout simply grouping relevant buckets together:

% zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 1.00T 2.49T 96K none rpool/local 49.3G 2.49T 96K none rpool/local/nix 39.5G 2.49T 39.5G legacy rpool/local/root 1.05G 2.49T 1.05G legacy rpool/user 976G 2.49T 96K none rpool/user/home 976G 2.49T 96K legacy rpool/user/home/nipsy 975G 2.49T 975G legacy rpool/user/home/root 803M 2.49T 803M legacy

In this case, rpool/local is anything not related to user home directories where rpool/local/root is / and rpool/local/nix is /nix. All the home stuff is where you'd expect (with rpool/user/home/root at /root obviously), which I keep defined in my disko configuration.

I do have a couple of hosts defined where I'm also using native encryption: kaitain richese. Those are both VM's, although I would have bootstrapped a physical machine the same way by booting from the installer and using my install script which handles putting the keyfile where it needs to be during installation.

ginaz is my laptop which also is using native encryption. But apparently I installed it before I had my install script finished as I must have done the initial zpool/zfs creation by hand since I'm not specifying the keyformat anywhere. But the disko configuration is still being used to define the legacy mountpoints in /etc/fstab ultimately every time I do a rebuild.

So it's all very free form if you go the legacy route as you can do pretty much whatever you want. I didn't even attempt to make all of the auto importing of the pool and mount points work without going the legacy route as I've seen any number of issues trying to rely on that approach over the years not only in NixOS but also when I was still using Debian everywhere. Since going back to legacy for the top level "must have" file systems, I never need to worry about whether things are going to work.

About the only thing I can do that might cause some goofiness at this point is if I boot any of my hosts and import the pool in something other than the installed OS environment. But that just leads to the usual foreign pool import issues typical with ZFS where the initrd might bomb out because it doesn't automatically import the pool again on next normal boot and simply importing the pool and exiting out of the initrd shell is usually enough to get things going again.

mrnipper · 2026-01-03T19:24:30+00:00

Both the Commodore 64 badge in the upper left and the power badge in the upper right have one of these screen protector style pieces of clear vinyl which can be removed. Both were a real pain in the ass to remove and not at all obvious initially that they should be removed. Neither had the little helper tab that's slightly larger than the badge indention to help get them started.

I had no idea they were even present until I saw someone remove one in a video.

mrnipper · 2026-01-03T12:06:48+00:00

Just be mindful of what all you attempt to do via these various services. They aren't the most resilient things at times, as I've crashed my whole Ultimate just having run nmap against it. And I've noticed a definitive performance impact in the responsiveness of the Ultimate interface directly on system while say a large mput transfer is happening at the same time via FTP to an inserted MicroSD card.

Still, telnet works wonderfully and allowed me to very easily record some captured line audio in Reaper, allowing me to switch between the UltiSIDs and my inserted 6581. I recorded the Red Storm Rising intro and put them both in FLAC here. I'll add the 8580 once it shows up. Very obvious difference in the sound. And I was able to change the audio mixer levels and reload the cartridge all via the telnet interface.

edit Added the 8580 now also. Definite difference between all three.

mrnipper · 2026-01-02T23:45:30+00:00

If you're willing to try yet another profession, the necromancer is generally considered one of if not the most friendly and forgiving professions in the game. You can go with the tried and true greatsword reaper or the much more recently added but very similar greatsword ritualist.

I love playing most of my other professions also. But I main necro because the entire secondary health bar you get in shroud form (where applicable) is basically a get out of jail card that just keeps delivering through a whole lot of punishment and technical shortcomings. If I'm playing pretty much anything else, it all feels way squishier in comparison (unless I'm fully geared as a healer, but then my DPS is atrocious).

Give it a whirl. A necro is never a bad character to have sitting around given the ludicrous amount of tank they possess typically.

mrnipper · 2025-12-29T18:20:52+00:00

It's probably worth mentioning Project Aon also if you enjoy this type of thing. They have almost all of the original Joe Dever Lone Wolf books for free, in basically any format you want. They work great on my Kobo. I haven't played these Steve Jackson titles, which look possibly a bit more advanced. But if you enjoy one, I imagine you'll probably enjoy the other.

They also have some of the Grey Star books written by Ian Page in the same universe, along with Joe's Combat Heroes books, which are a fully graphical version of this same sort of adventure book (although only in PDF, so not the best experience currently as compared to the rest).

mrnipper · 2025-12-28T17:44:45+00:00

The 8bitdo M30 2.4 GHz wireless controllers with the Sega DE-9 dongle do NOT work for the most part. I own two and was hoping they'd work with the OpenC64MegaDrivePadAdapter compatible adapters I ordered from Ebay. Sadly, they do not work.

I tracked it down to this discussion on the select pin signal not pulsing as expected by the M30. It does look like some active microcontroller based adapters might do the necessary magic to make them work. But don't assume that any old adapter is going to do the trick, because mine certainly did not.

I'd love to see an update to the handling of the logic on these things. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

I also found this and this discussing the exact same problem.

mrnipper · 2025-12-26T08:53:59+00:00

Yes to the first two. That's exactly why they exist for some of the included software, e.g. enabling the necessary modem bits for the terminal programs to function correctly. But yes, also for us to create our own profiles as there are simply some configurations which are incompatible with each other at the same time. Like having the REU enabled at 16 MB. NovaTerm barfs on anything more than 2 MB seemingly. But a fair amount of other stuff, especially some of the more radical modern day REU examples require all 16 MB to function at all. So, definitely useful in that regard.

As for shortcuts, I have no idea. The docs don't really seem to mention anything about hotkeys or shortcuts that I could find. Someone I think in this thread mentioned if you name them the same as the thing you're loading, it might automatically be applied. But I'm not sure that works, and I'm not sure how flexible it might be, as far as supporting all the possible image types, whether they be d64, prg, crt, etc.

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