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Posted on 01-10-21 06:55:32 AM, in What's on YOUR mind? Link
Spent a good chunk of yesterday wasting time, trying to connect my web server to Amazon S3 so I could use S3 as file storage. But I had to use a library to connect to the thing, and the documentation was terrible and the results I was getting were different than expected.

In the end I thought "wouldn't it be better for me to just copy the files using ssh and host them in the server itself?".

...

So that's what I did. Screw S3, it's not worth it. And honestly, so far, not really a fan of AWS. I'm just using it 'cause it's cheap, but I might end up opting for something else instead later.

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Posted on 01-10-21 07:03:28 AM, in Obligatory desktop screenshots thread Link


(click above to view it in full)

I officially dual-monitor now but there is quite a resolution mismatch since I just opted for a quick and cheap 4:3 monitor.

Left is 1920x1080, right is 1024x768.
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Posted on 04-20-21 02:40:04 PM, in forums v. discord v. social media Link
Originally posted by Xenesis
Yeah, I use an RSS reader to keep up with various forums that I still use.

It's a useful thing, really.

I also use it! But not for forums, rather for YouTube subscriptions and Twitch streams. It's really useful actually, and for the most part, much more reliable than YouTube itself.

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Posted on 04-28-21 06:37:23 AM, in twenty five thousand posts on this thing Link
Originally posted by ikebukuro
a poster's work is never done!

^ this

Congrats on the 25K!

i wonder how long itll take for me to reach 1k

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Posted on 04-28-21 06:45:25 AM, in Unpopular tech opinions Link
Originally posted by Rena
It's a lot of hacks piled on top of each other with a very user-unfriendly interface. System updates should not break the web browser or sound.

Varies depending on your distribution and your hardware. But ultimately Linux is a bit like assembling a bunch of mismatched lego pieces, but it's easier to fix than the alternatives, at least for me.

Pick a distribution that's too stable and you'll always be left behind when it comes to updates, which is specially bad if you plan on using Steam's Proton or Wine to play games. Pick a distribution that's too cutting-edge and things break very frequently. Finding the sweet spot between the two is not always easy.

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Posted on 05-18-21 07:54:07 AM, in Device naming schemes Link
so, there's been an update to the hardware of my computer since my last post in early 2019, and while it's still named Aquamarine internally, it's actually the Aquamarine MK.II for no reason other than it's an updated version of the same old computer. will there be an MK.III in like, 5-10 years from now? maybe.

the Q8400 still has no real name, and the Athlonic is currently dismounted at my father's home, but he wants to remount it soon, he's just been using the Athlonic's case for a different computer for the time being

been thinking about buying a raspberry pi, not now but at a later date. if i do, i'll need to think of a name for it

my work laptop is unnamed due to it belonging to the company and not to me

Originally posted by Sanqui
The nice thing is it's short enough I can write it on the MicroSD cards themselves with a permanent marker, so the names are safe from formatting.

I think I once tried to do that with what I thought was a permanent marker and the ink just came off after a while. Maybe I used the wrong marker?

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Posted on 07-09-21 10:06:13 AM, in Computer Storage Link
It's been a couple of years and I never answered what I ended up going with in the end! oops

1TB Western Digital Blue HDD (WD10EZEX)
- sda1: Games (290GB / 400GB) (73%)
- sda3: Windows 10 (33GB / 129GB) (26%)
- sda5: Downloads (182GB / 300GB) (61%)
- sda6: Mint Backups (100GB)
- sda7: Swap Memory (2GB)

240GB Western Digital Green SSD (WDS240G2G0A)
- sdb2: Documents (73GB / 138GB) (53%) (/home)
- sdb4: Linux Mint (20GB / 86GB) (23%) (/)

Summary of changes include:
- No more Windows 7, replaced by 10*
- E:/ Softwares is gone. Windows softwares are now on Downloads, while Linux softwares are now on Games
- Debian w/ KDE 5 was a terrible idea and is also gone, replaced by Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon, now on the SSD

*I actually had 10 on the SSD for a while, then realized I wasn't using it at all, then moved it to the HDD

I thought about buying another SSD but right now I still have plenty of free space, specially considering I've been pretty bad at organizing my files lately. I may have to reorganize my HDD space due to how many games I have installed.

Originally posted by ひりゅう

holy shit that's a lot of storage. that's like, 20TB total.
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Posted on 07-09-21 10:43:37 AM, in What's your OS(es)? Link
Aside from having upgraded to Linux Mint 20.1 I don't really have any updates.

Originally posted by Halian
I really really wanna try one of the BSDs but none of them have drivers for either my network card or the USB Wi-Fi dongle I keep around

My father has been trying some luck with the BSD family and the end results seems to be: no. Just no.

Like, the system itself is not bad but driver support for video and even network made his experience a lot more difficult. It also has a lot less hand-holding than even most Linux distributions, so you really gotta know how your system is working to configure it. It seems to be that all you see is violence in movies an-- *ahem*, that driver support is just an issue in the *nix family overall, but it's specially bad with BSDs since they tend to be used mostly in very specific hardware and specific use cases.

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Posted on 07-09-21 11:09:13 AM, in Windows 10 Discussion (last edited by RanAS at 07-09-21 12:15:18 PM) Link
Originally posted by Jerry Nixon, Microsoft employee
Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10

lol

(edit: thing i forgot to mention: Feels like Windows 11 is just going to be something akin to 8.1 or 7 SP1. So the name change feels more like a marketing decision than really an actual new Windows. Windows 10 itself changed many of its icons to look like 11's in an much earlier update so *shrug*)

I'll probably be an early adopter of Windows 11 if only because I literally never use Windows. I've gone for about a year without even booting up to Windows, even if it's completely and utterly broken it hardly matters for me. Plus it'll be cool to see what Microsoft has changed.

Forcing 64-bit seems natural at this point. 32-bit has already reached its age. Forcing a Microsoft Account for Windows 11 Home...I wonder how that will go? Maybe it'll be like 10, but maybe not. Fun fact! I recently realized that 8.1 is also similar to 10 when it comes to that, it will ask you to set up a Microsoft Account or create one, and you have to play detective to find the option to create a local account.

TPM 2.0 and SecureBoot requirement is going to suck, but from what I've heard there's some tinkering you can do with the installation files to make it ignore those requirements and install anyway. I sure hope so! I have a 6th gen Intel, and my father has a Core 2 Quad, so that's definitely below the CPU "requirements".

My motherboard does support both TPM 2.0 and SecureBoot, but I have those disabled as I honestly don't see the point for me. Furthermore, Linux actually complains if I enable TPM, saying "[Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer". So apparently, my motherboard has a faulty implementation of TPM, and I'm already using the latest version so there's nothing I can do about it! Awesome.

Originally posted by Kazinsal
It's also the core reason that the Year of Linux on the Desktop is a thing that continues to be a current_year+1 concept but that's probably a ramble and a half about user experience for a different thread.

I want Linux to become more common place so that it's seen as a viable alternative rather than "hahah, Linux, lol" but it's also true that most non-tech users are probably better off with Windows. I don't see a problem with that, as long as the user has a genuine option of switching to a different OS that's fine by me. Because at that point it comes down to preference, not system functionality and compatibility.
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Posted on 07-09-21 11:11:49 AM, in Is it too early to jump on the 2160p bandwagon? Link
I'm not moving to beyond 1080p anytime soon, that I can guarantee. It's more likely I'll end up replacing one or both of my current monitors to better models (higher refresh rate comes to mind) than upgrading them to a higher resolution.

Right now I'm at 1920x1080@60Hz on my main monitor and 1024x768@75Hz on the side one. Yes, it's quite a funny configuration, but it works. There ain't many 4:3 LCD screens around! If there was one that was 1080x1024 I'd have grabbed it instead! Then the disparity would've been less noticeable.
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Posted on 07-09-21 11:33:02 AM, in Unpopular tech opinions (last edited by RanAS at 07-09-21 12:10:31 PM) Link
I hate RetroArch and its UI (rgui makes it better but it's still annoying), but as with everyone else, it is convenient and some emulators just don't make themselves available through a UI at all, making it really the only option. Genesis Plus GX and ParaLLEl come to mind.

Also the hostility sometimes shared between RetroArch and other emulator devs is just petty and sad to see.

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Originally posted by Ninji

I haven't said anything about OLED because it's just not present in my life at all. Everything I see everywhere is just LCD. I honestly didn't know a whole lot about OLED, even the whole "screen burn-in" thing was something I just didn't know 'til recently!

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