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If you boot an encrypted disk ubuntu/kubuntu, it will boot up to the point where you can enter your disk crypto password. this is console, not an intelligent graphics mode, so there's no screensaver. it displays the same thing on all attached displays, regardless of rotation. there is no display sleep timeout, if you boot your computer and leave the room for a few days, it will burn the disk password prompt right into your displays.

it's 2022

note well that this is WITHOUT using a single apple service: no icloud, no app store, no facetime, no imessage, no handoff, no Apple ID at all!

This is all of the things that try to talk to the internet on a brand new format/reinstall boot of macOS Monterey 12.1.

what's the part of libvirt that's supposed to create virbr0 and run dnsmasq and all that shit?

@GNUxeava i actually remember preferring 2000 pro to xp

@bionade24@mastodon.social yeah i have a local nextdns forwarding resolver running, i just like pointing my browser at a different one than the system for logging purposes.

can't do an offline install of 12.1 on an imac pro even with "medium" boot security and external booting enabled. trying to boot the 12.1 installer says it "requires an update" which doesn't work without network. i think it's a bridgeOS (T2) update but still, no way to establish a trustworthy OS on this thing.

i've been reinstalling OSes for twenty five years. today i booted to external media, formatted, and went to reinstall.

guess who formatted the wrong disk?

of course it was the temp/scratch usb3/flash disk that just had, like, mp3s and vms and stuff that's easily reproducible, but it's still annoying.

always *double check* that the disk is the right disk before you zeroize it.

fonts still look ugly on chrome on linux no matter how many ttf files i copy from the root of the mac

and ungoogled chromium doesn't support DoH on linux for some esoteric reason i don't understand

wow, it's super annoying getting ungoogled chromium to work right on a current ubuntu. even just getting flatpak installed was a mess.

@mike this is sort of the right direction but i don't install php apps unless i have to (something this simple i'd just rewrite in a real language) and i want something that does caching/history, and auto-refreshes channels (and pre-downloads them).

sort of like an rss reader but for youtube.

ok, so the dissonance between command/control for keyboard shortcuts between mac and unix was hurting me. i swapped the keys on unix for a while but the problem is that control-c is still used on mac in the terminal for control-c, so then it's physically command (alt)-c in terminal on linux, so no go there. i of course have caps lock as control.

the trick, i've found, is starting to use the physical caps lock key as the shortcut key on linux always.

this is such a pain in the ass.

@novaburst@mstdn.social i don't know what i'm looking at at that link (it looks like just a bunch of commit messages) but i don't think it solves the problem i have. i already have an ssg. it already works well. i already have CI. i can already edit a git repo to update my website automatically. how does this help me?

@doenietzomoeilijk the other mac-retro-styled keyboards that use xda (like the old apple keyboards) don't use exactly right type (it's not Univers, it's something close but off) and the only one I can find (that one I linked) is some weird special etsy thing that only takes paypal and not etsy's normal checkout flow. paypal, has, of course, blacklisted all my cards.

why is giving people money on the internet so hard?

i want to publish my blog posts on a hidden web-based blog (write.as or something) that outputs RSS, and would like my jekyll blog SSG to render my static site from that RSS feed instead of the markdown in _posts. Does anyone know some existing tools to do this or must I write them?

thinking of writing a small/quick youtube-dl web frontend, sort of like put.io

hmm drop just cancelled one of my orders without so much as an email notification. i logged in to see when it was coming and it just said "cancelled", i didn't even get an email about it.

@mur2501 https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

people complain when i (objectively, accurately) use the term spyware to describe software that bundles opt-out analytics. it transmits your activity off your device, without your consent, often silently. everyone gets butthurt and says "that's not spyware, that's analytics" but not one person has offered any explanation on how that's *not* exactly the same thing that spyware is and does.