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tkcartoonist

tkcartoonist

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    I watched a video recently that used a site called wiby.org to explore old, abandoned webpages. Apparently it was designed to curate pages that don't use javascripts, which over 90% of the modern internet uses, plus find pages that are hidden in modern search engines due to SEO. Thought I'd share it here for anyone to check out.
    tkcartoonist
    I found an interesting article about autism from an unlikely source: the Summer 2024 issue of 2600: The Hacker's Quarterly. I wonder if I should scan it and submit it to the resources (I'm not sure if there's an online version of the article or not).
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    That sounds interesting, doubly so because the Hackers Quarterly isn't an online publication. Please do share it. I would love to see this.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    I'll ask one of the admins.
    tkcartoonist
    Firefox is not liking this site today.
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    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    I've also got Privacy Badger running. I'll have to try Dark Reader: there are so many sites where light mode makes me feel like I'm staring at a lightbulb.
    Judge
    Judge
    Then you'll love Dark Reader.

    My eyes just can't deal with white backgrounds and black text...and Dark Reader makes it all various shades of attractive grey. Just be sure to go into the settings and play with brightness and contrast percentages until it pleases you.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    While I haven't been a fan of his since before his first book, I did take one lesson away from Maddox's site: dark backgrounds and light-colored text are so much better on the eyes.
    tkcartoonist
    I'm going to be frank: a couple days ago, I found out that a user on another forum I'm on took his own life. I didn't know him well, but he seemed like a really chill guy. I have had a lot of conflicted emotions since then.
    UberScout
    UberScout
    Dear God...
    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    I've had this experience, too, and it can really be difficult. We connect for real over the internet even if only for a few moments and a loss is still sad and complicated.
    tkcartoonist
    Someone at this Linux User Group meetup I've been going to demonstrated GrapheneOS by having his phone screen copied to his desktop. I decided to try doing that for future reference.

    tkcartoonist
    So my Playstation 3 is borked. The southbridge on the motherboard is unrepairable. I want to deactivate it, but it has a tendency to freeze up. Does anyone know how to do it remotely without deactivating every device on my PSN account? Sony's support is a joke.
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    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    Sadly, it's out of date. Looks like I'll have to do it the painful way: deactivate everything, then reactivate my PS4. I can still turn on the PS3, but I don't want to risk having it freeze up in the process of deactivating it. I already had to get a whole new hard drive for the thing, and I'm not going to have my $70-plus SSD get toasted by a bad motherboard.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    I was never planning on buying a new console anyway, but I'll make sure never to buy a new one from Sony ever again: their service is awful. There's no email address for their support department (not in the US anyway), and I couldn't find chat support from a human (only some crappy AI they use).
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    I know calling would be a waste of time even if I could find a phone number, as big corporations like them have you go through a whole phone tree system just to find the one department you want to speak to.

    Cripes, why is it not possible to deactivate individual devices via PC through your own PSN account? What if said device got stolen? It's dumb.
    tkcartoonist
    Only in Wisconsin can it go from 80+°F to snowing in less than 24 hours.
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    Luca
    Or Massachusetts…
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I have been thru that in Minnapolis. It goes from winter right to summer, no spring. Wisconsin is so beautiful, you are so lucky to live there.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    Last time I encountered such an extreme change was the one time I was in Colorado over 20 years ago. Went from 60-70 the day we got there to -5 two days later.
    tkcartoonist
    I'm just gonna throw this out there: I am searching for a female singer to help finish a song I'm working on. I had someone in mind, but she had to back out, and I don't know anyone else. Sadly, I can't offer much other than a lossless FLAC of the song when it's done, but if anyone is interested I can send a link to a ZIP file with what I have so far plus a doc of the lyrics.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I wish l didn't sound like a wounded whale. But what a great chance for somebody to give it a shot. Maybe start a post on this.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    Doesn't sound like a bad idea. I think I'll make a thread in the Music, etc. subforum.
    tkcartoonist
    Modifying the shell session in Linux has been one of the neatest things I've learned about in that book so far, but don't ask me to remember exactly how to do it. It basically involves typing a nearly incomprehensible and somewhat long line of code, but it can make it so the cursor's in a different position, list date and time, change the color of the prompt or code line, and other stuff.
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    Slime_Punk
    You're getting me excited to try out some tricks from the book as well!
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    It's in Chapter 13.
    tkcartoonist
    It took me a while, but I got Ubuntu Studio installed. I was having issues with Universal USB Installer, so I switched to Rufus and got everything working.
    tkcartoonist
    So I'm diving into the world of Linux. I'm leaning the most into Ubuntu Studio for my distro of choice as I do a lot creatively. However, I'm also planning on going back to school for IT. Any recommendations for programs or even a different distro that would fit my needs? I'm still pretty new to all this.
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    There are two mainstream distributions that most of the others are derived from, these are Ubuntu and Fedora. I recommend sticking with either of those as they have the most support. If you want more advice it might be better to start a proper thread, the blogs have an 80 word limit which restricts responses.
    Jordy
    Jordy
    Ubuntu is fine for IT.
    Judge
    Judge
    I've done my share of distro-hopping in the last year. Yet I've always gravitated back to Linux Mint. Especially version 21.0 that has long term support for the next five years.
    tkcartoonist
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    Raggamuffin
    Raggamuffin
    Everything seems to be subscription based these days. I wonder if this new fangled electronic restrictions means that ECU remapping on modern Mercs is a no go.
    Misery
    Misery
    Heard of this sort of thing awhile ago. BMW decided they want you to pay a subscription fee for seat heating. Just think about that for a second. What I really want to see is stories of people cracking these restrictions.
    tkcartoonist
    tkcartoonist
    @Misery If it has a paywall, someone will crack it. Yo Ho Ho!
    tkcartoonist
    I'm thinking of diving into Linux finally. I'm looking for a decent laptop for it, since I'd like to go further into music production and I'd like to be portable to do so. Anyone have any suggestions on a decent Linux-capable laptop for that purpose without breaking my bank account too hard? I've done some research on the subject already, and it seems like all the best ones are pretty up there.
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    Slime_Punk
    You don't really need anything crazy for music production IMO unless you're planning on doing some hardcore DSP. What DAW are you planning on using?

    Also I should mention that Linux will basically run on any old potato you have laying around, too.
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    Outdated
    Linux doesn't use as many resources as Windows and it uses Ram much more efficiently. So you get longer life out of older machines. It's different to Windows and takes a little getting used to but that would be the same if you decided to go with Apple too.
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