Find me a girls' magazine that isn't about sparkling up your fingernails, braiding your hair, one direction (band) or some other useless shit. Then look in the boys' section and you'll see what I mean.
Same goes for adult women except they can skip straight to grannies' knitting magazines if they choose to.
I have a daughter that I'm trying to shield from this and it's really hard. I don't even know what to say when she asks why there are only pictures of boys in her favourite arduino magazine. Same for lego technics. Unless you buy lego with princesses or animals, pictures on the box will be of only boys having fun. The game is rigged.
When we stop belittling of half of earth's population down to the level of a bedroom/stove/pushchair accessory from their early teens; when we start equally participating in said things and give them a generation or two without ramming our perverse ideas of women down their throats as soon as they reach 12, only then can we start making comparisons. Before then, a big F**K YOU to everybody who even tries. This is as unfair a fight as it gets.
i really agree with the 1st point. i'm not a fan of the 2nd but it's true.
my wife's father was a composer, conductor and a music professor who married very late in his life. last 10 years of his life were pretty much so his wife and daughter can be supported by royalties from his work after his death. while the yearly cheques don't bring any breathtaking sum (it's mostly classical and jazz music), it was enough to make sure his wife could stay at home to bring up his daughter and enough to put his daughter through university and good quality private schools.
had there been no post mortem royalties, he would probably not have composed half of his best works and taught instead.
i still think the best way to protect your data is not to have your data on the computer. i simply mount a remote volume with a command that doesn't get saved in my.bash_history. you can have all the fun you want with my computers, it won't get you anywhere.
well, on my computer it shortened startup time by about 10% (not much), the shutdown time however is another matter. if i forget to unmount nfs, it pauses for 2 minutes showing countdown and then continues shutdown. i've had many wtf moments with systemd.
i once watched a guide on how to change the screen on my phone. i remember thinking i'd actually pay for that. but that was it. it was about 5 years ago. every other video i could happily live without.
what makes youtube so ubuquitous is that it's a kind of pastebin for videos. you don't need to care about storage cost even if only 2 people view your video in a year and you don't need to care about bandwidth if 10000 people decide to watch your video at the same time. youtube is just there and ready for any kind of load.
on the topic of cleverness; my recently assembled Ikea Pax drawers have plastic nails in them. i'm glad my other furniture's manufacturer isn't that clever.
while i was assembling those drawers, i had a 10 minute sitting down WTF moment, contemplating returning the whole shebang. then the wife came and made me finish it.:-(
i wouldn't trust it not to connect to a free wifi from a van parked outside. fortunately, this is purely hypothetical for me. i do not own a TV. i set one up for my mother (with raspberry pi) and felt happy with the setup. then i set one up just like that for my mother-in-law. if i were to own a tv, i'd set it up just the same (and then never turn it on). i'm simply too picky about what i let my offspring watch. eden tv http://eden.uktv.co.uk/ is probably the only tv channel i consider worth watching.
not sure. that's why if i had a smartTV i'd dangle my man-bits and hairy behind in front its camera every time i walked past it. "you wanna watch? here you go, mr nsa. claw your eyes out."
seriously, i want my TV to be as dumb as possible and fed content by an easily upgradeable computer.
i played with making filesystems RO and logging to a remote syslog server + using shm/tmpfs wherever i could but i ended up using overlayFS which is similar to what you suggested. the iterative steps were quite fun though. i should have taken notes.
not only that, but unlike alternatives, this is the only one I found that my TV's USB port can power. so my B+ is powered by TV and feeds the TV via HDMI. I'm not sure even this newer version will be able to live without an external power adaptor. I know nobody cares but I for one won't be upgrading anytime soon.
I did have to make some changes to raspbian's filesystems so that switching off TV didn't leave dirty bits on filesystems, but it was fun tinkering with it.
this is why i'm waiting for a phone with Intel CPU+GPU. for now, intel's phone cpus come with powervr gpu which is probably the most linux unfriendly gpu there is. anybody remember intel gma 500? i'm not stepping in that sh*t again.
although for a slightly different reason, this is exactly how i run our openvpn network. whenever somebody from our company went on a trip to a country where SIP telephony was blocked (yes, it's you UAE!), they took a small raspberrypi-like box (dreamplug) with them whose only purpose was to create an openvpn tunnel via port 443.
i analysed the first couple of packets captured in wireshark and there's pretty much no difference between this and https.
Somebody forgot to tell Renault. I used to have a Renaulte Megane (2007). Changing the bulb took 30-40 minutes. It involved wiggling your arm through opening in the wheel arch and breaking it in several places. There was an episode of Fifth Gear about that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The alternative was to go to official Renault garage and pay 35 GBP (53 USD) for a single bulb change.
Now I have a brand new Toyota hybrid and the process is similarly idiotic.
"conversations" supports xep-198 and xep-280. those 2 are the minimum for a functional mobile client. however, when i tried this messenger (6+ months ago), i found the user interface pretty but less than intuitive.
"yaxim" gives you those xeps too, but only 1 xmpp account is supported and it looks like it's from the nineties.
show me a free xmpp server that supports all the necessary XEPs for reliable message delivery on mobile devices. you'll find exactly 0.
if i remember correctly, only ejabberd caters for mobile users and that is only free for up to 5 users. (the gpl only version does not support all needed extensions)
even if you manage to find one, try to find a free jabber client that supports those xeps. you'll find exactly 0 (well, you'll find 1 on fdroid, but in play store, it's paid for).
so you see, at the moment, xmpp is a very poor substitute for whatsapp (with OTR), telegram and the likes.
I have several microservers and all have 2 ssds (write and read cache) + 4hdds. I use USB stick for OS, cdrom's sata cable for one SSD and esata-to-sata cable to connect another SSD to the esata port. You will need a hacked BIOS to enable AHCI on all ports. Just search the web.
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Find me a girls' magazine that isn't about sparkling up your fingernails, braiding your hair, one direction (band) or some other useless shit. Then look in the boys' section and you'll see what I mean.
Same goes for adult women except they can skip straight to grannies' knitting magazines if they choose to.
I have a daughter that I'm trying to shield from this and it's really hard. I don't even know what to say when she asks why there are only pictures of boys in her favourite arduino magazine. Same for lego technics. Unless you buy lego with princesses or animals, pictures on the box will be of only boys having fun. The game is rigged.
When we stop belittling of half of earth's population down to the level of a bedroom/stove/pushchair accessory from their early teens; when we start equally participating in said things and give them a generation or two without ramming our perverse ideas of women down their throats as soon as they reach 12, only then can we start making comparisons. Before then, a big F**K YOU to everybody who even tries. This is as unfair a fight as it gets.
i really agree with the 1st point. i'm not a fan of the 2nd but it's true.
my wife's father was a composer, conductor and a music professor who married very late in his life. last 10 years of his life were pretty much so his wife and daughter can be supported by royalties from his work after his death. while the yearly cheques don't bring any breathtaking sum (it's mostly classical and jazz music), it was enough to make sure his wife could stay at home to bring up his daughter and enough to put his daughter through university and good quality private schools.
had there been no post mortem royalties, he would probably not have composed half of his best works and taught instead.
i still think the best way to protect your data is not to have your data on the computer. i simply mount a remote volume with a command that doesn't get saved in my .bash_history. you can have all the fun you want with my computers, it won't get you anywhere.
i'm secretly hoping they'll discover it was a kid learning how to mass-provision desktops in virtualbox. ooooh the embarrassment.
well, on my computer it shortened startup time by about 10% (not much), the shutdown time however is another matter. if i forget to unmount nfs, it pauses for 2 minutes showing countdown and then continues shutdown. i've had many wtf moments with systemd.
oooh, could this be the right time for gnu/linux people to start posting their uptime?
i once watched a guide on how to change the screen on my phone. i remember thinking i'd actually pay for that. but that was it. it was about 5 years ago. every other video i could happily live without.
what makes youtube so ubuquitous is that it's a kind of pastebin for videos. you don't need to care about storage cost even if only 2 people view your video in a year and you don't need to care about bandwidth if 10000 people decide to watch your video at the same time. youtube is just there and ready for any kind of load.
on the topic of cleverness; my recently assembled Ikea Pax drawers have plastic nails in them. i'm glad my other furniture's manufacturer isn't that clever.
while i was assembling those drawers, i had a 10 minute sitting down WTF moment, contemplating returning the whole shebang. then the wife came and made me finish it. :-(
i wouldn't trust it not to connect to a free wifi from a van parked outside. fortunately, this is purely hypothetical for me. i do not own a TV. i set one up for my mother (with raspberry pi) and felt happy with the setup. then i set one up just like that for my mother-in-law. if i were to own a tv, i'd set it up just the same (and then never turn it on). i'm simply too picky about what i let my offspring watch. eden tv http://eden.uktv.co.uk/ is probably the only tv channel i consider worth watching.
not sure. that's why if i had a smartTV i'd dangle my man-bits and hairy behind in front its camera every time i walked past it. "you wanna watch? here you go, mr nsa. claw your eyes out."
seriously, i want my TV to be as dumb as possible and fed content by an easily upgradeable computer.
i'd rather have a tablet that doesn't look like it was designed by an "equal opportunities" employee.
to give an obligatory car analogy:
nobody cares what's under the hood of "kia soul" or "fiat multipla".
i played with making filesystems RO and logging to a remote syslog server + using shm/tmpfs wherever i could but i ended up using overlayFS which is similar to what you suggested. the iterative steps were quite fun though. i should have taken notes.
not only that, but unlike alternatives, this is the only one I found that my TV's USB port can power. so my B+ is powered by TV and feeds the TV via HDMI. I'm not sure even this newer version will be able to live without an external power adaptor. I know nobody cares but I for one won't be upgrading anytime soon.
I did have to make some changes to raspbian's filesystems so that switching off TV didn't leave dirty bits on filesystems, but it was fun tinkering with it.
this is why i'm waiting for a phone with Intel CPU+GPU. for now, intel's phone cpus come with powervr gpu which is probably the most linux unfriendly gpu there is. anybody remember intel gma 500? i'm not stepping in that sh*t again.
or you can just buy it from oracle. they have 2 types of kit. one has a wheelmouse, the other has a 3 button mouse:
https://shop.oracle.com/pls/os...
although for a slightly different reason, this is exactly how i run our openvpn network. whenever somebody from our company went on a trip to a country where SIP telephony was blocked (yes, it's you UAE!), they took a small raspberrypi-like box (dreamplug) with them whose only purpose was to create an openvpn tunnel via port 443.
i analysed the first couple of packets captured in wireshark and there's pretty much no difference between this and https.
i hope not. i can't imagine anybody choosing suicide over this. (IF this ever moves beyond the usual "lab rats regain memory" stage)
thanks a lot.... i was eating!!!
i guess, now that i have offspring, i'm even more sensitive to this sick shit.
Doesn't matter whether you go up or down from Android 4.4, but at least for me, the inability to use SD card properly makes it a broken system.
I'll probably downgrade my phone from 4.4 to 4.3 if there's no lollipop for my device.
Somebody forgot to tell Renault. I used to have a Renaulte Megane (2007). Changing the bulb took 30-40 minutes. It involved wiggling your arm through opening in the wheel arch and breaking it in several places. There was an episode of Fifth Gear about that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The alternative was to go to official Renault garage and pay 35 GBP (53 USD) for a single bulb change.
Now I have a brand new Toyota hybrid and the process is similarly idiotic.
"conversations" supports xep-198 and xep-280. those 2 are the minimum for a functional mobile client. however, when i tried this messenger (6+ months ago), i found the user interface pretty but less than intuitive.
"yaxim" gives you those xeps too, but only 1 xmpp account is supported and it looks like it's from the nineties.
show me a free xmpp server that supports all the necessary XEPs for reliable message delivery on mobile devices. you'll find exactly 0.
if i remember correctly, only ejabberd caters for mobile users and that is only free for up to 5 users. (the gpl only version does not support all needed extensions)
even if you manage to find one, try to find a free jabber client that supports those xeps. you'll find exactly 0 (well, you'll find 1 on fdroid, but in play store, it's paid for).
so you see, at the moment, xmpp is a very poor substitute for whatsapp (with OTR), telegram and the likes.
closing eyes, plugging ears and singing naaaa naaa naaaaaaa. unbiblical! 'murrican dream for all
I have several microservers and all have 2 ssds (write and read cache) + 4hdds. I use USB stick for OS, cdrom's sata cable for one SSD and esata-to-sata cable to connect another SSD to the esata port. You will need a hacked BIOS to enable AHCI on all ports. Just search the web.