bonsai

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[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

I spent 4 hours yesterday commuting ๐Ÿ™ƒ Fucking hate it here

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

USA, modern day

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

I'm so envious of a one hour train commute over my current one hour car commute. Sometimes I take the train (depends on which site I have to go to that day) and that's so nice to just... Zone out. But in the car? Two hours everyday of bumper to bumper traffic and I have to constantly pay attention and be locked in. I feel so drained coming home from those days.

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Every school in America getting shot up except that one

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The guy who only says dumb shit, reporting for doodie

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Unless I move out to the middle of nowhere, there's not many options for me that don't have an HOA of some kind. Wish I could avoid them, but unfortunately too ubiquitous in the states.

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

That yellow lidded crate fits perfectly in your shelf. That is so satisfying.

 

Police stand idly by as a man forces his way into a Chantilly, VA, USA family's home without identifying himself or serving a warrant. The husband of 20 years is kidnapped, driven around for hours, before finally being deported to Honduras.

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Fuck me, I've lived here all my life and don't want anything from here anymore. Only thing I care about here is my friends and family.

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mfw I see spotted lantern flies

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Even before these raids, it's always been about targeting brown people.

[โ€“] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Not disagreeing with you, but it's a double edged sword inherent to any privacy-focused system. Tor grants journalists and political dissidents access to the broader world anonymously, but is also used by darknet markets to sell CP and illicit drugs.

Privacy coins like monero allow people to spend money anonymously to purchase VPNs or prepaid phones without state actors knowing, but also enables money launderers to do what they do.

And of course there's the pollution problem you mention with any proof of work cryptocurrency, but at least Monero's is more efficient that Bitcoin.

Again not defending cryptocurrencies or discounting your thoughts just wanted to tack on to it.

 

I'm currently using Beeper to conglomerate the plethora of chat services that my friends and family use: WhatsApp, FB Messenger, RCS/SMS, and Discord. I use Signal separately because I read that Beeper needs to decrypt incoming messages before reencrypting and routing, so I felt adding a bridge for Signal defeated the purpose of using Signal.

I've also read that Beeper is essentially just Matrix with a bunch of bridges, so I looked into self-hosting Matrix and standing up those bridges myself. I would feel comfortable integrating Signal into a self-hosted instance where I control and can encrypt the middleware.

What would you all recommend as a viable, self-hosted alternative to replace Beeper? I've been trying to set up Matrix but running into a lot of headache with no simple way to self-host it. Yes, I've tried the Ansible set up and I get countless issues. I've heard an XMPP server might be a better solution as it is more lightweight and battle-tested? How do XMPP gateways compare to Matrix bridges, and would they cover all my needs?

 

Anyone know of a good Android client for music on jellyfin? I'm currently using finamp but would like a client that works with Android Auto and can sort/filter playlists

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Laptop for Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hey all.

I've booted Linux Mint Debian Edition and Arch on to a couple old machines including my old laptops. The performance is still rather brutal because these machines are so old and their battery lives are rough. They are also bulky and uncomfortable to carry around.

So, I've been thinking about getting a more modern laptop and putting Linux on it but I've been out of the laptop market for so long now I have no idea what's good and what's not anymore. Any recommendations?

I think I've heard decent things about Chromebooks but how's the hardware of those? Are they relatively locked down and don't play nice with Linux? I'm just looking for a machine for daily use (browser, light coding, remote connecting to my desktop for heavier stuff)

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for responding, I did not expect so much discussion! I've certainly changed my mind on Chromebooks and will look into the options recommended below in the coming months. Thanks!

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