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Use a spare router as a server
  • I tried to run some software on my router. It kind of works, if it fits. Storage was the limiting factor. There's an option to expand the FS to include a USB stick, but somehow it made something overheat, and the router froze every now and then.

  • That's why we need two ssds for dual boot
  • I'm using EFISTUB instead of a boot loader (on the PC running Arch, anyway) and Windows hasn't figured out how to break that, yet.

    Somehow it hasn't figured out how to ruin my systemd-boot bootloader on EFI, (NixOS, this time) either. Perhaps it just has better support for EFI than BIOS?

  • It's Saturday! What are you doing at the same time as browsing Lemmy?
  • When they got home, they were so hungry that they actually consented to eating soup!

    By the way, it's totally possible to ride on level ice, if careful, but some trails have this compacted ridge in the middle which makes them convex.

  • What do you do when you're bored?
  • Play video games - Cataclysm:DDA or Dwarf Fortress (tho I stayed on the pre-Steam version as it's lighter on the CPU).

    Learn a new programming language at https://exercism.org

    Read a book - tons of free ones around the interwebs, legally or not, as you desire.

    Install a new operating system. Try Haiku or OpenBSD. See if your phone is compatible with PostmarketOS. If not, Termux + SSH + port forwarding in your WiFi box, set up a webserver and publish something. Host a Gemini pod.

    Learn a craft. Repair something that another person would toss. Start a sourdough culture - it takes a week to mature (read up on how to do this right), then bake a bread. Homemade bread is approx 16× tastier than run-of-the-mill commercial stuff.

    Take a walk somewhere you haven't walked before. Find the nearest forest lake and arrange a picnic. Take someone with you on the 2nd trip.

  • what's something you're into that you don't want anyone you know irl to know about?
  • In general, I support your stance. The devil is in the details, though, so to speak. You can only get so much evidece first-hand, and need to believe others about the rest. How do you distinguish fraudsters from honest bet mistaken people from people knowing the truth?

  • what's something you're into that you don't want anyone you know irl to know about?
  • Fundamental logic skills also imply that atheism is a belief "God doesn't exist!"

    As an upgrade, try agnosticism: "Do we have good evidence that God exists?" So far, the only argument in favor of atheism I know of is the Occam's Razor (those manifestations of God could also be explained in other, possibly simpler ways).

  • If I'm trying to have a software program to help optimize my computers overall health and performance what should I be looking into?
  • Here's a couple of pointers to get started:

    1. The Arch Linux Wiki is full of excellent information. It's not for beginners, though.
    2. Run top in your terminal to see what's taking CPU.
    3. Run top -o RES (or what's easier, run top and then press M while it's running) to see what is taking up RAM.

    ... though unfortunately, it's mighty probable that the only significant consumer of memory and CPU is your browser. Get uBlock Origin, it helps web pages be lighter and eat less resources. Don't open too many tabs at once - learn to use bookmarks efficiently, instead (folders, bookmarks toolbar and whatnot).

  • If I'm trying to have a software program to help optimize my computers overall health and performance what should I be looking into?
  • Reminds me of the programs that make the kernel drop FS buffers in an attempt to free up RAM. Or hog as much memory as they can in an attempt to have unused things swapped to disk. Yeah, they free up RAM all right, but at the expense of actual speed.

    Most of the time, this junk is actively harmful. Forget it, modern Linux uses optimized defaults.

    You can get more performance out of your hardware by switching to from heavyweight to lightweight programs - for example, instead of Skype (which uses Electron), choose some other way to chat like irssi for IRC. Instead of Gnome, choose i3 or dwm or something like that. You need a bunch of tradeoffs and learning, though, to really get the most out of your hardware.

  • SMTP Relay Questions
  • Having an unauthenticated relay imposes the responsibility to configure it correctly (the "only certain addresses" part) and protect it (the "accessible outside the local network" bit). Are you sure it's not accessible? Did you remember to test with IPv6 too? Will it remain protected after the next time you mess around with your firewall for some totally unrelated reason?

    If it works - good for you, but be mindful of all the baggage that comes with a new service.

  • TIL: ferns have sperm that swims
    www.thoughtco.com The Surprising Way Ferns Reproduce

    Fern reproduction is quite different from that of flowering plants. Here's how the life cycle works and the various ways ferns reproduce.

    The Surprising Way Ferns Reproduce

    A fern is a plant. A plant is supposed to get pollinated by bees and whatnot. Yet ferns have sperm swimming around and fertilizing the lady-bits of other fern.

    Mind blown.

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