There's also a 2012 Macbook Pro, and a 2010 Mac Mini which will need some attention.

I also picked up a Thinkpad L580 from the same trash pile. This one had a smashed screen, which I gladly removed. Now I have a desktop with an i5-8th gen, and it will get the Linux treatment in due time.

Got my hands on a 2010 Macbook Pro. Did you know, Apple no longer hosts the MacOS version for this laptop so the network restore does not work!

In other news, I got Arch running with LUKS and I'm kinda pleased with it. It's not an awful laptop.

Last Saturday, there were no tech meetups. Got the chance to hold up the big pride flag, block some traffic, get filmed by half of Mauritius, make a few friends, and catch a cold.
Pity my friends from college are all in uni and weren't around to attend :P

@_who_up_instancing_they_host @famfo i just logged on for today, hello 👋

@jana Oh, damn, that's true. Admittedly I can't really avoid single points of failure - power cuts, my ISP router, fiber line, and so on. A ugreen charger would be the least unstable factor in my homelab I think haha

@jana That would be pretty fun to power the micro PCs which make up my K3s cluster because they are all 65W. Replacing the cables and power bricks with just this one charger sounds interesting (albeit expensive)

I've been trying to write some Rust to interact with Kubernetes through kube-rs. It's in times like these that I'm grateful not to be a dev by profession.
But also I regret learning Python first because it makes learning Rust so much harder.

@geerlingguy Never in a million years would I have expected Pewdiepie to pivot to Linux and tech content.

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@vilmibm pretty server :P
what's in it?

@PaulaToThePeople Oh, thank you. I'll give it a try :)

@PaulaToThePeople True, I get what you mean. But if I were to never have to use any other part of the internet again, the interoperability of the different instances would have to be better.
The alternative is concentrating the existing Fedi userbase onto larger instances, which ruins the whole decentralisation concept.

@PaulaToThePeople Better integration with small instances. If I follow a hashtag, chances are I'll never see anything from the other instances I haven't federated with. It's a stupid limitation imo

@jana i agree with the neobot

@jana tbh on Fedi, not so much. But out there, people are cheering on SO dying because they had bad experiences.
And also the AI evangelists who are in love with the idea of corporations monopolising the internet.

I blame Google and these AI for the internet being shit nowadays.

It's why having question boards and forums cannot be replaced by a Discord server. You have made your information less searchable and harder to find.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I prefer that OpenAI or Google or whoever else does not monopolise information behind a fancy autocomplete on shrooms.

Controversial opinion but I think it's bad that SO is dying. Despite being a pretty awful place for beginners and more hostile than ChatGPT, SO is searchable and indexable and the content on there is available to everyone.

Having knowledge locked behind an AI makes it much more inaccessible and harder to get to.

Re: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114534564729693277

@pieceofthepie
Here's all of them on the magnetic paper before cutting. Only downside is that complex stickers, like the traefik one, take a lot of time and patience

@pieceofthepie
Yep exactly! I woulda put them on my laptop but I don't want to lose them when I inevitably buy a new thinkpad.

So now they're fridge magnets and can be put wherever. I'll put up a sheet of metal in my room where I can put the duplicates.

The solution to my commitment issues 😂