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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • I assume this sick Nazi fuck just wanted to make a snuff video of an innocent mom, wife and US citizen.

    It really does seem that way - the whole situation, especially being prepared recording and positioning himself at the front corner of the car so he could safely take a glancing bump from the car without actually risking his safety gives me flashbacks to bullies on the playground who would stand in front of you and move to block you just so that you’d run into them and they could call the teacher and say you pushed them. That but a grown ass adult and given a gun.






  • I mean you’re not wrong it’s true to a degree, but especially in my parents case, they hardly store anything on the computer so the disk usage hardly registers on the pros and cons. If it provides convenience then it’s whatever. They’re still on an obsolete elementaryos but flatpak is still keeping them up to date until I can get around to visiting them again. If I understand how it works on debianland once a major version goes EOL, they’d be using backports which might not have the latest version right?


  • I did this for my parents, context: borderline elderly, late 60s, use their laptops for checking email, reading articles, and watching youtube. I visit every year or so and usually end up doing a little maintenance.

    Probably my main tips are:

    • Don’t pick elementary like I did years ago, I learned there’s no upgrade path between major versions and that’s been a pain
    • I’ve found it helpful to install as much as possible as flatpak, since that decouples app updates from system updates
    • Set up some form of remote access, I’ve used teamviewer but in hindsight it would be nice to have WG to SSH in
    • If I were doing it again today, I would probably use a universal blue spin for the atomic updates
    • With my parents’ level of computer experience, as long as there’s a firefox icon in the dock then they’re right at home

    Honestly there isn’t much to it, especially if they’re not tech savvy and aren’t doing anything complex. All you have to do is make sure familiar app icons are where they expect and that they know how to use the window decorations / DE. My only pain has been having to do a bunch of updates when I visit, so next time I’ll swap them to fedora and set up automatic atomic updates. Besides that, everything keeps chugging along because they’re not making any changes to the system when I’m not there.






  • Yes that’s probably what they (and I) was getting at when they said that astigmatism is a big reason why they didn’t add diopters, since it would be a lot of work to only solve it for people without astigmatism.

    I assumed anyone interested in glasses or lens inserts would know what I meant when I said astigmatism is the reason they didn’t do diopters 😅

    I mainly have just astigmatism so diopters don’t do anything for me.


  • It was I think in the tested interview with norm and the optics guy when he asked about the lack of diopters, and after explaining why they didn’t add diopter adjustment (astigmatism), the engineer mentions that they’ve been able to make good corrective inserts and that they’re working on making that available. It doesn’t sound definite but it seems like it’s part of the current plan.


  • My eyes also suck ass but it looks like glasses fit just like in the index, and they’ll have first party inserts (whereas with the index you had to find third party ones). It also supposedly has a spacer if you need more space, which is something I wish was a thing for the Index because I couldn’t let some of my friends try because their glasses were too big and they couldn’t see without glasses.




  • It looks like it’s about helping to audo deploy docker-compose.yml updates. So you can just push updated docker-compose.yml to a repo and have all your machines update instead of needing to go into each machine or set up something custom to do the same thing.

    I already have container updates handled, but something like this would be great so that the single source of truth for my docker-compose.yml can be in a single repo.


  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhat's gluetun?
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    2 months ago

    I use gluetun to connect specific docker containers to a VPN without interfering with other networking, since it’s all self contained. It also has lots of providers built in which is convenient so you can just set the provider, your password, and your preferred region instead of needing to manually enter connection details manage lists of servers (it automatically updates it’s own cached server list from your provider, through the VPN connection itself)

    Another nice feature is that it supports scripts for port forwarding, which works out of the box for some providers. So it can automatically get the forwarded port and then execute a custom script to set that port in your torrent client, soulseek, or whatever.

    I could just use a wireguard or openvpn container, but this also makes it easy to hop between vpn providers just by swapping the connection details regardless of whether the providers only support wg or openvpn. Just makes it a little more universal.