kind of a weirdo tbh

https://linuxrocks.online/@OpenComputeDesign

An idiot with many interests (and bad opinions)

A programmer (who's never gotten anything to a working state)
A writer of short stories (That I never let anyone read)
A hardware tinkerer (who can instantly devalue any hardware)
etc

Also whiny AF

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2026-04-16 01:49:31 UTC

Wait, hold up, you can steal all of someone's money, from a locked iphone, in mere seconds, and have been able to for years and years and years,
And I'm supposed to believe that mobile OSs are more secure than desktop Linux or BSD?

2026-01-23 22:36:17 UTC

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it's proprietary. Whole point would be to get away from that

2025-12-12 06:27:38 UTC

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Just shifts the trust though, doesn't it?
Everything from signed certificates to VPNs just shift the trust

2025-11-22 01:42:19 UTC

Listen,
Until computers stop showing my desktop, task bar, and whatever I had open, for a second before showing the screen lock whenever I wake them up, and stop showing snippets of other windows for a second when I switch windows,
I absolutely refuse to take cybersecurity seriously.
Because this is an absolute bare faced _joke_
I simply will not trust obscure hypothetical fixes to hypothetical scenarios I can't see, when stuff I can see and actually matters to me is _blatantly broken_

2025-09-22 19:45:30 UTC

I should create a hybrid of gif and tiff called jif just so everyone _has_ to pronounce gif correctly

2025-09-21 02:23:24 UTC

I HATE 2FA SO FUCKING MUCH OH MY FUCKING GOD

2025-08-14 16:01:59 UTC

I'm feeling really dumb and useless rn, ngl

2025-07-30 17:02:49 UTC

Yoooooooo GMTK Game Jam 2025 has officially started 🥳

2025-07-25 04:06:38 UTC

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I know I would be a horrible father. I really don't think I should be allowed a child. I just selfishly want one anyway, and thrash about in desperation.

2025-07-25 03:47:26 UTC

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Father-daughter. It'll probably become apparent that I really only talk about the same few things over and over again :P

2025-07-22 04:38:11 UTC

I'm _way_ too tempted to build a carputer, even though they're both very obsolete, and probably a bad idea (Distracted driving, anyone?)

2025-06-19 02:07:04 UTC

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My mom, dad, and brother, and our farm

2025-06-19 02:05:36 UTC

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There's just nothing I can do to make the situation better. So there's just no point in risking what I have left

2025-06-18 17:37:57 UTC

Random crushing paranoia. Awesome.

2025-06-12 15:13:19 UTC

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Well, everything about life is quite selfish. If we weren't at least a little selfish, none of us would be here

2025-05-06 17:18:43 UTC

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To be fair, I never actually use a microphone. But I use audio in to record analog sources all the time. And combo jacks make that, absolutely _suck_

2025-05-06 17:08:05 UTC

Hot take:
Headphone-microphone combo jacks are stupid, just give me two separate jacks

2025-05-04 02:33:11 UTC

Hot take:
Wagons/Carryalls are actually absurdly more practical than pickups.

2025-04-01 17:45:38 UTC

Confession:
I've never actually seen traceroute work. Just all stars all the time even when everything is working properly.

2025-03-31 16:21:08 UTC

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Hey, I'm not the one trying to justify dedicating their lives to trying to fix the _worst_ excuse for an operating system ever conceived by the demented mind of man.

2025-03-31 16:13:11 UTC

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Wait, actually, I remember now, I _have_ used lineage x86 before. I was _distinctly_ unimpressed.
I actually had an android 2 device back in the day. Modern android (and iirc even lineageos) genuinely lacked features even from that ancient shit box.
Personally what I'd really want even more than mobile linux, is a return of PalmOS, but that's even more unlikely

2025-03-31 16:02:35 UTC

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Fair, but from a userland perspective, android is a worse experience than windows mobile. Even the (lets be honest) alpha at best state of Mobian or pmOS with Phosh or Plasma Mobile, they're still a better experience than android.
I don't have the energy for privacy and security that I should. E.G. I re use passwords, delay updates, turn off disk encryption, etc. Because I simply _cannot_ fathom the effort. I prioritize usability, which android lacks

2025-03-30 22:18:57 UTC

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Plus, the _other_ reason I need an android, because I've been put in charge of hardware that needs proprietary apps that only run on android. So I still couldn't throw my android out like I'd like, I'd only be able to replace my old dumb phone

2025-03-30 22:17:13 UTC

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I have a pinephone and a librem 5.
They have a few problems. Mostly battery life, though they're also a bit slow and sometimes rather unstable.
Biggest problem is I do a lot of rough work, and stuff in my pocket doesn't tend to stand up well. The pinephone gives _no_ confidence of durability, and the Librem 5 feels kind of sturdy, but is so expensive and hard to get parts for, I don't even want to _consider_ risking damaging it.

2025-03-29 18:57:13 UTC

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Reminds me of protonmail on a slow computer. The autosave interval is such that on a slow machine, it takes so long to auto save that by the time it's done, it starts another autosave, and you never get to actually type anything.

2025-03-29 15:58:38 UTC

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Can I assume you meant to reply to me?
In which case, I'm attempting to do literally _anything_ but have a totally blackbox dumbed down home router with the only possible configuration being a super flaky port forwarding feature which feels kind of moot given how much it _hates_ static IP addresses and doesn't even want to tell you what address range it's using

2025-03-28 18:24:27 UTC

My stupid android smartphone has developed even more damage recently, so I've decided to once again to search the internet to try and find, if not a _good_ phone, at least a reliable one.
According to the internet, the winner by far is an iphone.
...Er, _no_
Ok, runner up is Samsung. *Looks down at the rubble of my worst phone yet samsung*
Ok, internet is still useless.

2025-03-19 16:05:29 UTC

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Hard compared to things that _don't_ have to have over 6,000 words _per_ task or command on how to use them ;)
I'm just using the MariaDB CLI client.
I've used PHPMyAdmin before, which makes some things slightly easier, but which is _such_ a pain to install

2025-03-11 16:36:39 UTC

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Well, once you're done tearing your hair out over config files, _then_ it's fun ;)

2025-03-11 03:16:07 UTC

Wait what?
Can you really boot multiple machines from the same "nfsroot"??? Why does that work???

2025-02-28 16:48:29 UTC

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There are quite a few spots where it doesn't pass spellcheck, but mostly on purpose, because I _insist_ that those are valid tenses and such. Like "wistfulward" and "prisonous"
It has a beginning, middle, and end. Even a prologue and an epilogue. Although I feel like about every third chapter or so is a bit hamfisted.
I'm also not sure which is cheesier, the conflict, or the resolution. :P

2025-02-27 17:40:40 UTC

Well, I think I've finished my story now. Or at least a first draft. If there's anything of worth in it, it would take quite a lot of editing I'm sure.
Still, ~9,500 words. Longest thing I've ever written.
Shame it's a weak story poorly written.

2025-02-26 17:05:39 UTC

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It was just a $40 swaybar mount. But I shoulda known better than to hook a chain to it. But then, the only other thing to hook to was the lower control arm. His truck could really use a recovery hook

2025-02-26 03:48:11 UTC

Well I feel like shit. Broke a front sway bar mount on my brother's truck after I got my truck stuck and he was trying to help me.

2025-02-22 17:40:57 UTC

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Damn, nothing permanent, I hope?

2025-02-22 01:22:54 UTC

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How does anyone actually do this?
How am I _this_ hopelessly dumb?

2025-02-22 01:22:17 UTC

Why is everything so complicated 😭
Nothing works and my brain hurts _so bad_ 😭

2025-02-21 03:29:08 UTC

So turns out email servers are high up on the list of things which are absolutely _appalling_ to try to get working.

2025-02-19 17:16:30 UTC

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Well to start with, the fact that it needs a specially configured DHCP server on the boot server, when I like the vast majority of people on the planet had my router configured for DHCP. Then there's the _stupid_ ".0" pxe files I need to deal with. And I've got this _infuriating_ problem where PXE keeps timing out on the client computer before the switch and the DHCP server can finish bringing up the connection. And then part of my problem is actually with SystemD, where it will just be like "Oh yeah, I didn't start the thing you told me to start, I think it had some kind of error. Don't remember what it was though, sorrss"
And the documentation and tutorials for everything, as seems to be the rule, are pretty _terrible_ with every single one completely disagreeing on how to configure anything.
And while I get that the client requiring virtually no configuration is kind of the point, the fact that I _can't_ configure anything on the client means I can't fix or get around any of these issues.
And it's all just another reminder that all of computing is just one disgusting cludgefest after another. And it's nothing short of a miracle anything works ever.

2025-02-18 19:12:47 UTC

PXE is so fucking cursed OMFG 😭

2025-02-07 03:22:42 UTC

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I honestly have no idea what's going on, but booting into rescue mode, it claimed it couldn't find anything to chroot into. I've tried a couple disks and a few different partition layouts, but I can only guess it's either to do with the fact that I'm trying to use RAID, or the fact that I'm trying to use an LVM

2025-02-07 03:15:46 UTC

I've spent _all day_ installing debian _over and over_ just to have grub _catastrophically_ fail to install, _every time_
I am ready to put my head _through a wall_

2024-09-17 00:27:54 UTC

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Maybe that's the norm where you are, but it's not the norm everywhere. Everyone's pretty much always carried a gun everywhere I've lived.
I respect their sacrifice, though I deny that it was necessary or beneficial.

2024-09-17 00:01:27 UTC

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My dad was in Vietnam, granddad was in WWII. And all our family friends growing up were in one or the other.
Virtually everyone I've ever known carries a gun, and the vast majority have been against, if not every single war, every recent one.
To be fair many have considered themselves traditionally liberal. But they've still generally voted republican just so they can keep their guns and ancient trucks.

2024-09-16 23:18:19 UTC

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In recent years the Democrats have been the war hungry ones. Most old vets just want to be able to use guns to defend their own property at this point, not some other country somewhere they've probably never been.

2024-09-03 01:22:44 UTC

So it turns out I'm actually a fully incompetent human being who is incapable of even the most basic of things.

2024-08-01 14:48:52 UTC

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I had a bit of a read yesterday when I saw the reports come in, and I've just given it a more thorough read now. Yesterday I thought the accusations made against you were so laughable I had to share them with me sister. And reading the full conversations today only reinforced my opinion on the matter. I seriously can't understand what they think you did wrong (other than try to hold a conversation with people who make being angry their entire persona, I guess...)