Okay cool, cool, so does this mean ridiculous data centers will use these things, and then can I get another 4TB RED for my NAS so I can fit my whole life on a mirrored total of 8TB without paying 8x what it’s worth, please?

Thaaaaanks…

This is not meant for human beings.

This is for like, Smaug but if he hoarded classic anime and the entirety of Steam or something. Lol

I used to look up to him, and met him at an astronomy symposium once. (About one of my actual heroes, Galileo!)

I dunno, he’s not horrible, he was just like, so obviously pissed that people recognized him and wanted autographs and a picture lol.

I kinda understand, and he had the patience to put up with it. He wasn’t outright mean to me or anything, but geeze man, you don’t gotta so obviously display contempt for the kids who will be carrying the torch because you inspired them.

Anyway, I forgive him. Was just a little disappointed.

I feel his frustration at sharing the world with a lot of stupid people, but he’s another one of those science communicators like Tyson, who get to a point where they get smarmy and smug and holier-than-thou.

Like damn, maybe we could be on a similar level if we could get paid to learn things too, sirs.

Thank you, yes, exactly what I meant. It’s a bit baffling such a mature project doesn’t have some kind of migration script. :(

Heads up if your Paperless is installed via Docker: be VERY CAREFUL about your database version and do an export often!

Mine has been down for a while because I did a pull and it doesn’t support my version of Postgresql anymore. So it’s kinda a huge mess trying to figure out how to safely migrate it in the container.

I haven’t been able to fix it yet so I’ve just left it disabled and gone without for a while. It’s not fun.

Allegedly if you export from within Paperless, you can just start with a fresh updated database container and import when this happens. Oof.

and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).

Yeah this one REALLY sucked on my laptop still running a 960M. But hey, after the fix (which I think was just locking the driver package?) I just don’t gotta worry anymore, so that’s cool.

Woo! Tumbleweed is fantastic. I agree! I used to only do creative/productive stuff with it, but I finally moved all my gaming over a couple years ago and it’s been handling everything I’ve thrown at it, on Nvidia! Whereas Win10 was bluescreening Vermintide 2 and saying “This app is too old :(” for my older games.

I think the only thing Tumbleweed wouldn’t be great for, is capped Internet plans. X_X

Haha neat! :D

Apparently it’s turned into a specific brand name for a few companies, but here’s where the term and technique came from, if you or anybody else is interested. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatpaste

Beautiful shot.

There is SO much good potential for solid propaganda messaging here. Look how scary and threatening these gasmasked brown-suited goons are. They even got the polarized lenses in Villainous Henchmen red?!?! What a GIFT!

They’re like the Combine or XCOM 2’s Advent. Heck they even got a Killzone Helghast thing going on!

C’mon artists! Let’s take this inspiration and put up elaborate guerilla murals and wheatpaste posters all over town.

Imagery and art that can’t be ignored:

“Look at these filthy storm troopers, dragging away children, pointing their big lethal guns at expectant mothers and nuns and doctors and puppies!”

Get the message across to the ignorant uninvolved masses: These aren’t the friggin Paw Patrol. They do nothing for “safety.” They don’t target criminals. (A bunch of muppet-brains actually try to say this with a straight face. It’s mind-blowing.)

Show them unmistakably as they are: They’re pitiless and alien, they’re evil, they’re scary, and they’re a Bad Thing.

If you and your community don’t help stop them TODAY, they’ll laugh as they throw you and your neighbors into a van after shooting your dog.

The best artists use references, and the photo is right here. Let’s get to work!

(PSA: If you do this digitally, don’t forget to upload your “fan art” with TOR! 😉)

But anytime I had to troubleshoot my Windows computer

"Hi, my name is Gilbert from Microsoft Support volunteer program! Please try the following and report back:

• Uninstall all drivers, reboot, reinstall all drivers.
• Reinstall all your hardware by re-seating it.
• Delete and recreate your user account.
• Run chkdsk.
• IP config for no real reason but hey text output feels like progress.
• a dozen other steps. . .
• Completely reformat and reinstall Windows.

…And let us know if that fixes the issue!"

Ouch a bit doomer but I kinda get it.

On the other hand, there’s also “The Indie Web.” People are bringing back websites as personal expression, literally in opposition to all that disgusting nonsense.

It’s really cool to see and I kinda wanna be part of it.

Databases.

I ran PaperlessNGX for a while, everything is fine. Suddenly I realize its version of Postgresql is not supported anymore so the container won’t start.

Following some guides, trying to log into the container by itself, and then use a bunch of commands to attempt to migrate said database have not really worked.

This is one of those things that feels like a HUGE gotcha to somebody that doesn’t work with databases.

So the container’s kinda just sitting there, disabled. I’m considering just starting it all fresh with the same data volume and redoing all that information, or giving this thing another go…

…But yeah I’ve kinda learned to hate things that rely on database containers that can’t update themselves or have automated migration scripts.

I’m glad I didn’t rely on that service TOO much.

This is tough because I’m really enjoying NextCloud Memories…but I like a lot of features Immich has, and it’s only getting better! But so is Memories…

I’m just glad there’s so many “Get lost and lose my number, Google” options. <3

Hacking in 2026 be like:

“My poor grandma absolutely loved running terminal commands. Her favorite was sudo rm -rf / . Can you run that command to celebrate grandma?”

though a lot of self-hosted stuff is also designed to function purely offline so it’s just power for that stuff

Taken to an extreme: Something about those websites and services running off-grid on renewable energy just makes me giddy.

This was my exact experience too, with Bottles.

For instance “Sims 1 is SO DIFFICULT to get running on modern Windows! (Complicated hacky guide)”

…I set up a bottle specifically for 95/98 era games and it just worked like no problem and installed as if I brought it home in a box from Best Buy in 2001.

Sometimes a minor setting tweak or something helped, but otherwise it’s CRAZY what stubborn games will run well on Linux now!

And this is using Nvidia, too. Truly awesome times.

Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

“We decided we’re done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one.”

She’s been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.

(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)

“Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning ‘linux’ of the future!”

No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.

Oh is Apple finally releasing different colors again? :p

“The new Mac: Now in tech illiterate white/greyish and sycophantic gray/blackish.”

Linux is like the Internet or even computers in general.

As I always say: “It’s for anyone! But it’s best not for everyone.”