[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I recently bought a frame.work mini-PC and plan to run my own models, solar-powered.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Recently met with my local pastor to see how we could include kids/teens in community programs that intersect with the church. One of the major hurdles is that kids have new expectations around how to meet up--especially online--and the few touch points during the week are in person only. Trying to find ways to meet people where they're at. It was a good first meeting, although she (the pastor) is not tech savvy, so I expect we'll have a few more conversations before we find a good way forward.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Because their creators allowed them to ponder and speculate about it.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Tailored for You, By You

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Be Your Own Tech Support

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

You're not alone in feeling like you bear the weight alone. I mean, with all you're doing, you're basically a church-on-wheels here. And I say that both as a compliment and as a reflection of our situation as a society--we need each other, we need neighbors, community, and we need help sometimes. And many people are feeling the "it's too much to do alone" conclusion. I don't think we were meant to be this way. I've been reading Seth Kaplan's "Fragile Neighborhoods" recently and I feel like my eyes are open to the deep loss in social capital or "collective efficacy" that previous generations had. We're in a period of innovating on new social structures. It's tough. Keep going. Play the long game, make friends and neighbors, and don't forget you're just human too. We need each other.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

This is the case for me as well. I tried NixOS this weekend, and even though it has more adoption than Guix, it still does not have 100% coverage of all software I wanted. That said, the packages I did install were pretty up-to-date. I guess NixOS is as close to "critical mass" as we've got when it comes to this type of OS. But if I were a wizard devops type person with more time, I'd probably enjoy Guix more.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Elegant and flexible, thank you!

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

ChatGPT suggests the following:

  1. Run tmux
  2. rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/ | tee /tmp/rsync_output.txt
  3. Ctrl+B % # splits screen vertically
  4. Ctrl+B right-arrow-key # moves to right split
  5. tail -f /tmp/rsync_output.txt | grep denied

Not quite a one-liner, but I can see how tmux is a big help here.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Is it possible to get this to work with OBS studio? I see the author mentions OBS as an "Alternative Project" but it seems ideal to have these pieces work together.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

The short answer is "yes, but only as much as it needs to". Flatpak had to make a decision between "do we guarantee the app will work, even with system upgrades" or "do we minimize space" and they chose the former. The minimum necessary dependencies will be installed (and shared) amongst flatpaks.

Have you had the unfortunate experience of a utility or program losing its packaged status? It's happened to me before--for example fslint. I don't think this can happen with flatpak.

[-] canadaduane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The System76 engineers are culturally very aligned with the core values of freedom of choice, customization, etc. They build software with the larger ecosystem in mind, and in fact, I've never seen them build something only for their own hardware (even things that could have been just for their own hardware, like the system76 power management system, has extensibility built in).

That said, they also balance this freedom with a set of "opinionated" good choices that they test and support. If you care a lot about stability, it's easy to go along with the "happy path" and get a solid, up-to-date system delivered frequently. Every time they upgrade new features or kernel, they go through a systematic quality assurance process on multiple machines--including machines not of their own brand. (I've contributed software/PRs to their codebase, and they've always sent it through a code review and QA process).

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