@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Ah. Oh. Yeah. That sounds annoying.

pkgsrc is still on my todo list, only used pkin so far. When I’m being honest, though, I don’t really want to compile from source anyway. I like binary packages. 😅

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com So I can think of a number of services that can run in this memory “pool”. It’s not a limit, just a default “unit size”. yarnd, saltyd, any static web hosting, etc. There’a a non-zero no. of things that will consume very little memory.

@xuu@txt.sour.is OH my god! 😱 You’re alive!!!!

@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3

@thecanine@twtxt.net I fell you 100%.

My son asked me to fix his Win11 laptop: When he logs in, he gets a GSoD (gray screen of death). So, I fiddle with it for a few minutes, and I get it to login, but now the start menu button doesn’t work. So, I fiddle with it for another hour, and I get the start menu working, but he only has 2 GB free on his primary drive, and that’s not enough for all of the “critical” Windows updates it needs, so now I’m moving files around…

I know everyone says how “user friendly” Windows is, but I call BS on that - my Manjaro install may not always work perfectly, but at least my Start menu button does…

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Spam is as spam does (or maybe it’s “slop is as slop does”).

@prologic@twtxt.net Understood, and I apologize if it sounded like I was trying to do a price comparison (I really wasn’t). Instead, let me ask this way: as I am still unlearned in the art of small VMs, what does one do with a 64MB container? I’m old enough to remember when apps were really small, but even most “simple” apps are too big for a 64MB machine, right? Or am I missing something?

I guess that’s why I made the comparison with the 512MB droplet at DO - that’s the smallest machine I’ve run in a VPS so far (and even my home servers have 8-32 GB of RAM).

Maybe a better question is: What would you run on a service like what you’re talking about? Or what do you envision people using it for?

@xuu@txt.sour.is Duuuuude, you Have been missed!! Happy seeing you around after all this time. I hope life has been treating you well 🙏

Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.

I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.

There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.

The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.

Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.

The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.

But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good to know!

@arne@uplegger.eu Sauber! Sowas ist echt die Pest.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords Häkelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafür gebraucht? Müsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurückerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehäkelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmäßig von Hand.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this diff… :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I didn’t see the Zalgo either. My own rendering can’t keep up:

But funnily enough, the raw view does it:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s why it’s suddenly getting really cold over here!1 I hope that your workmate keeps it up.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That sounds absolutely lovely to me. Enjoy while it lasts.

@arne@uplegger.eu Hut! Hut! Hut!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries. I’m sure we’re all UTF-8-clean. 😏

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahaha. 🤣 (I didn’t see the zalgo effect in my terminal, until prologic posted the screenshot. 😅)

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be I’m certainly not $deity nor a huge expert on this, but what are you struggling with? 😅

wut da actual fuq?!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de C’mon, it can’t be that bad OH MY GOD IT’S 11000 LȈ̷̢̠̟́NĔ̴͎̺͆̍̈Ş̴̛̉͒͑̚ ̴̙́̀͆̑Ó̴̧̝̝̌Ḟ̵̽̌̒ ̷̡̻̖͛͆͛̎̋C̸̊̒́͒ ̵͈̩̈́͑̕A̴͙͌̎̀́̕Ņ̴͐̓́̆Ḋ̴͇̕̚͘͝ ̵̡͓́T̵̹̘̼͐͑̈E̴̹͊̊S̷̫̔͑̂̊͘T̵̟̂̾Ş̵̼̘̠͛̆̉̐̄ Z̷̘̠̹̪̳̝̥̗͐̑̍̅̃͋̿̕A̴̜̦̖̟͍̒́L̴̢̧̥̤̖̼̯̝̭̠͒̈́͆́̇̔̾Ģ̸̰̯͇͔̦͎̱̳̖̠̽Ỏ̶̠͗̏̑͂͐͗̕͝͠ ̴̜̦͎̟̬̮͕̙̠͙̬̅́̔H̶̖̬͙̱̺͍̣͆͌͊͗̈́͛͑͒̿̃͘ͅÊ̶̮̝͇̲̺̈́̔̐͂͒̈́̽͗̿̄̚͝ ̸̜͍̩͉̭͎̤̼̊̃͛͊͌̏͝C̵͔͎̟̝͖̃͋̓̍͠͠O̸̡̯̰̜͖͉͊̃̄̕̕̚Ṁ̷̡̨̺̹͕̳̼͇̼͚͔͌̌̌̈́͆͗̉̇̌̎̕̚͘̚Ȩ̵̞̫̤͓̹̫̬̲͔͓̘͔̣̖̅́͋̈́́̌̃̀̀̇̐̌̓S̸̢̮̰͙̳̲̺̫͖̯̻̣̳̎̇̄͌͗̔̅̊͊̈̋͌̋͆͠ͅ!̴̡̨̳̗͉̭̙̦͓͆̇͒̎͆̓̒̓̑͑̌͘̕͝!̸͎̻͚̩̜͇͐͋̄̐͜͝!̷͙͚̱̤͔͓͂̐̑̀͆̃͜

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s anecdotal, of course, but I remember HLWM being super popular – but that was, like, 10-15 years ago. 😅 (I even took some tiny bits of its ideas and put them in my own WM.)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s true. You learn the most about something when you’re constantly exposed to it.

I can’t bring myself to fully switch to NetBSD or OpenBSD, either. 😅 Not yet. This takes time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I did/still willing to try it on desktop. I feel like I’d be more involved in learning more about it’s ins and outs that way.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are/were you trying to run it on your desktop system? Or on a server?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First this:

I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base

And now a coworker actually reviewed an AI PR today. With criticism!

Hell is freezing over!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I’m into self hosting too, d’uh, but it’s just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn’t about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don’t have to maintain or build yourself.

@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Good to know 👌 Thank you! 🙏

@arne@uplegger.eu Oh, that’s cute. libcaca, eh? 😃

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be herbstluftwm! I haven’t had much luck with netbsd (skill issues). I had given it a try in a VM, ~4 years ago, and managed to brick it in less than a week xD The sad thing though, was deleting the VM. missing out on an opportunity to boot in single user mode and try fixing my mess.

@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, but 64 MB is kinda small. I haven’t run a host with < 512 MB in quite some time, and it would take 8 @ 64MB to match that, although that would only be $1.40 (for the first 3) + $3.50 (for the last 5), so still under $5 a month…. Yeah, most likely, even if just for a couple of off-site services and secure backups.

I’ll be honest - I’ve had a VPS at DigitalOcean for years, but I barely use it anymore because I got big into “owning my own servers” (hence my interest in Self Hosted, which I just signed up for), so now I run a few repurposed old desktops throughout my house. But I trust you way more than I do some other random VPS provider, so again…. Yeah, most likely. 🙂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Fair, but not what I was trying to ask 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The vast majority, yes. However, I know it’s hard to believe, I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base. Sometimes. Much more often, it’s not the case and I’m far from really understanding the merge request that I’m supposed to review.

One really looses the feeling for the software quickly. Those who think this is a bad thing are in the minority, unsurprisingly.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz But look at all the free available space now!

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s my favorite! It just feels like home 👍

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Pics or it didn’t happen!!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Awwwww! A beardie! 😃

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Nice video effect work indeed! Such a welcome change to all the overproduced music videos. I didn’t come across Castle Rat before. The Rat Queen has a great voice. If there only was less doom/stoner metal influence in their heavy metal. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Thank you! Yeah, riding a balloon into the sunset must be nice. Although, probably also really cold this time of year. On second thought, you got heating up top, so might not be too bad. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Soft start and soft stop are great features. Probably also helped longevity of the desk itself. Not sure if something could be rigged up with a resistor here to dampen it a bit. Electronics are really not my cup of tea.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m probably also not good enough. I just thought that it might be kinda alright, there’s no shortage of work, one’s hopefully not replaced soon by automation and so on. Not sure.

And yes, there are a myriad of jobs that are extremely underpaid, have awful working hours, ruining your health and where you get treated like shit.

The outlook is poor.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That’s so much more handy. :-)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hahaha, no worries! :-D

All I use Insert for is Shift+Insert to paste sometimes. Other than that, it’s always annoying to switch to replacement mode when I accidentally hit the Insert key it instead of Home or End, depending on the keyboard.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m way too clumsy to do actual craftsmanship. 😖 I had this janitor / delivery driver job once, that was great, and I’d love to do that again. Doesn’t exist anymore, though, and paid like shit.