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  • The story I heard was that Kopi Luwak was discovered by Indonesian slaves working Dutch coffee plantations. They weren't allowed to drink the coffee they farmed, but they were allowed to pick through civet dung and gather coffee that way.

    Once the Dutch learned what the slaves were doing and tried it for themselves, they determined it tasted better than their own terrible brew methods and declared it a delicacy. Then the slaves were left with nothing.

  • It is on by default, but can be disabled in your repo config: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html

    The feature works by adding a flag to one random http request to a fedora repo every week. Fedora then aggregates the http logs that have been flagged to derive their metrics. You can opt out of sending the flag, but if you're querying fedora repos then you still end up in their http log.

  • Not my absolute favorite epic (probably that would Lawrence) but I haven't seen Master and Commander mentioned in this thread.

    Watching it for the first time, I could almost understand why people put up with so much danger and hardship to sail around the world. But then you think about it longer, and it's nice to not have your arm blown off by a cannon when you're 10 years old.

  • Good. The combat was one of the weaker parts of D:OS2.

    • Late-game damage sponge enemies.
    • There are fundamentally two enemy types: weak to physical and weak to magic.
    • Goddamn cursed ground where you waste source points blessing it only for an enemy to re-curse it next turn.
  • He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

    Doesn't want to do that? Just like how 6 months ago, Sam Altman said he didn't want OpenAI to do adult content? Hopefully I'm overreacting, but I'm worried more about this kind of thinking than an AI feature.

  • My friend told me this story from his antique radio club:

    One club member is an audiphile and a former vibrations engineer for automotive companies. He disassembled his speakers and arranged custom housing for the drivers such that, based on his preferred listening spot, the peak of an average waveform from every driver would synchonize exactly at the spot where his ears should be. This, according to him, produces an unbeatable sound. We're talking about opening a speaker and moving its tweeter, like, half a millimeter back.

    No, I don't understand how this is supposed to work, let alone consistently.

  • I use a PiKVM to manage my server at boot.

    It streams video from the HDMI port so I can see what's happening before boot, and plugs into a USB socket to emulate a remote keyboard.

    Saved me the other week when I installed a new network card and the server lost its network connection. Since I could still reach the KVM, I logged in remotely and solved the issue.

    Although some KVM devices can take power from the USB connection to the host, you should make sure your KVM has an independent power supply. Otherwise, when you shut down your server, the KVM will lose power and then you can't remotely turn it back on again.

  • I love movies with abstract imagery and themes. Usually I can piece things together and figure out what the film is trying to say, but not Megalopolis.

    Like, what was Megalopolis (the in-film construction project) supposed to represent? It was one guy's vision for a better future that he was going to build no-matter what. Fine! But then Adam Driver's character makes a big speech at the ribbon ceremony about how we need to start a conversation about the future. What conversation? The guy never listened to anyone else during the film! Maybe his wife?

    Why was everything wrapped up in the names and imagery of late Roman republic? To imply that American society is reaching an end of its current unsustainable phase. Ok, but then you name Adam Driver's character after the guy who turned Rome into a militarist principate. So what better future should we be looking towards?

    What was the whole deal with Carthage, the crumbling Soviet satellite which destroyed part of the city? The Megalopolis project only got underway when the destruction cleared out a chunk of New Rome, so are we to assume that our bold conversation about the futute can only happen when the once-forgotten ghost of Communism smashes America? But then the satellite's crash has no impact on anything except some buildings. The mayor doesn't face any problems as leader during or after this disaster, and the MAGA-coded villains don't really change tactics either. Adam Driver's plans are obviously helped by this, but he already had buy-in from the Mayor. It's not like the disaster was some catalyst for change, but rather a convenience so we don't have to watch Adam Driver finger-snap another building demolition.

    Megalopolis threw a lot of ideas on the screen, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never arrived.

  • I had to look up what possible edible someone might confuse with a death cap.

    Apparently there's an Asian mushroom that can be confused with death caps. The secret to not confusing it with a death cap is knowing it doesn't grow in the US. I wonder if this is AI identification going amok, or if there are people from Asia who are foraging it and not realizing the problem until too late.

    A sad reminder to make sure your foraging guide is tailored to the area you are in.

  • I know it's late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I've never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.

    My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I've been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn't hit the repos yet.

    Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it's a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I've found it's often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.

  • I lile my pinenote a lot. I mostly use it for reading.

    As long as I'm reading or doing any touch-screen-y things (taking notes, viewing images, etc) it's great! For anything that involves writing/copying/pasting text, it's not very usable with just the on-screen keyboard, you really need an external bluetooth interface. I find web browsing very tedious if I have to type anything in the url bar without a physical keyboard.

    Also, it's still very much a WIP. The version of Debian it shipped with had a bug where I couldn't install any software updates without deleting some random lib64 directory. Once I did that, everything was fine. The device has no security by default, so I created a new user with an encrypted HOME.

    With import tariffs to the US, I ended up paying $500 for it, which really got me down. As a $400 open hardware machine, it would have been easier to look past the rougher edges. And I wish it had more RAM.

    But overall it's worth it to me because I've wanted a more libre e-reader for a long time. It's gotten me back into reading books, which has been a lot of fun. Plus, because it's an actual computer, I set it up as a tablet-like interface to my home automations.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    I've become minorly obsessed with conditioning wood

    Resist: It's Time @fedia.io

    2m Moxon antenna for protesting

    Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio

    2m Moxon antenna for protesting

    Rimworld @lemmy.world

    Getting scammed by a mystic shaman

    Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Blog post where someone used Python quirks to evaluate false == true

    Coffee @lemmy.world

    Espresso shot pullers: How long does your method take?

    RPG @lemmy.ml

    Interested in running a Paranoia one-shot but concerned about the line between in-game and out-of-game consequences

    What is this thing? @lemmy.world

    This shoebox thing near my furnace

    Buttcoin @awful.systems

    My favorite new grift to read about: Definitely not illegal hedge funds

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Appropriate settings for a private matrix server

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?

    transgender @lemmy.ml

    Agonizing: Stay or Go

    Ask UK @feddit.uk

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration

    Trans @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration

    transgender @lemmy.ml

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration