After Hours Shitposter and Developer, rummaging through what doesn’t appear to be the /sbin directory

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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I tried out Mastodon once, never really got into it. Fast forward to Twitter’s acquisition, shit hit the fan, you know the story, but I wasn’t really convinced until some of the decisions lately. Tried out Mastodon again, and whilst it was nice, it wasn’t really for me. I figured I’d try looking for another instance, and I ended up landing myself on Kbin as it has Lemmy support for topical discussions, as well as microblogging capabilities for who I keep track of on Mastodon. I don’t post that actively, but it’s been great so far!



  • In my curiosity, I bought a Nook Simple Touch off eBay for 15 dollars a few months ago. It actually works really great for reading EPUBs off Overdrive and OpenLibrary, and it definitely makes night reading a hell of a lot more comfortable, lasts quite long on battery, even as a cheap second hand device.




  • The Internet Archive, even outside of their Wayback Machine, is effectively built on digital piracy in many ways if anything. The reality is that any sort of media, whether it’s physical media that was destroyed, or digital media that was deleted or had it’s host platform shut down, could possibly never be accessed again unless it’s archived, even if that archival was done with piracy.

    Mother 3 could be considered impossible to play legally in many ways, with most of the cartridges being sold unofficially with the English ROM hack being preapplied, and the originals starting near 75 dollars on eBay, and Nintendo isn’t making any money off it anymore, so in many cases unless you’re a collector, it’s best to just pirate the game with an English ROM translation.

    The Internet Archive also has an archived online library of books that you’re free to borrow from, similar to an Overdrive-like platform of sorts, which is great for finding information that isn’t publicly available, or to read a book that is simply rare used and not sold anymore or where another copy isn’t to be found.



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    1 year ago

    I use a near-base model 2020 M1 Air, 512GB SSD and still 8GB RAM. One thing I can confirm is that this thing very rarely slows down. That being said, I’m a software developer that doesn’t do anything THAT rigorous, but I’ve been able to smoothly do tasks in the background during compiling, and goes through it quickly. I have some friends that do heavy work with Logic Pro, and their base M1s have no problem as well.

    So all in all, whilst it ultimately depends on the type of work and intent to be done with it, $3000 is still probably overkill, even with a Mac.