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Lately, it’s been the man pages for bash. Linux is a rabbit hole all on its own. The man pages lead you from one hole to another and each has its own usefulness. Who would have thought that reading the manual could actually be useful?
Do I have to pick one?
OpenPGP use on Apple devices MainStage as a front-end for my bass rig MainStage for backing tracks in a live setting LilyGO TDeck 3-octave G major arpeggios
That all sounds like some big brains kinda stuff. If I may ask, what does OpenPGP cryptography have to do with live music mixing/balancing?
Haha, absolutely nothing. OpenPGP just happened to show up somewhere along the way and decided to vibe with the music-making stuff!
People talking and analyzing the movies and tv series I watched as a kid with each video ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours, 14 minutes and 28 seconds
Been rebinging Warehouse 13 (dumb but I love it). It stayed as an attempt to trick myself into doing some long overdue paperwork - even doing it slowly while half watching show is better than continuing to avoid it completely. That worked for a day or so, but now I’ve descended to just cycling through savoury and sweet snacks and watching a season a day…
Forgot about that show!
In my head canon, Warehouse 13 is just a continuation of Friday the 13th: The Series, where they track down cursed antiques their crazy uncle sold before they wreak more havoc on the world.
KCD2
Came here to say the same. I can’t stop playing
I was a huge fan of the first one and this new one looks even better. I guess I’m waiting for it to go on some sort of sale
What’s that? Mine was a game cslled The Dark mod
I had to look it up myself. It means Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. It’s a new medieval RPG video game.
Yeah, think like Skyrim, but no fantasy. Instead historically very accurate, and a level of realism that is tough, but still easy for casuals. The characters, stories, writing, and voice acting is excellent too. A very beautiful, deep, and captivating game. Excellent if you love being a part of a unique “defy all to overcome” movie.
Toying with the idea of running my own email server. Lots of people say this is a bad idea.
Been doing lots of research. I have a VPS for it already and want to set it up with postfix, dovecot, roundcube, and mariadb.
I don’t want to host locally because I don’t want it to depend on my internet connection and because my ip address will likely change at some point and most residential IPs are blacklisted.
But also don’t want to host it on someone else’s machine unless I can totally encrypt the drive. I have been looking at how to do full drive encryption on a vps hard drive by adding dropbear ssh to the initsys so I can ssh in and enter the decryption password when rebooting.
This also doesn’t seem ideal, because it would require me to be available to do this for every reboot.
So still researching to see what other options there are.
As other people said, getting the mail delivered is the hard part. Check if your mail is received by Google, Microsoft, because apparently they blacklist by default.
You can do everything yourself and then set up a relay for sending, so all mail is sent through someone else who can make sure it is delivered. Then you could get something like purelymail, which is 10$/year to deliver your mail. (I have no relation with purelymail, I am their customer, but it took me quite a while to find a mail relay that is not for sending bulk spam but for real people).
That sounds really fun
If you host your own email, expect your email to land in most people’s SPAM folders unless you warm up the domain first.
If your email is going to be important / mission critical, let someone else host it.
Yeah, my plan will be to use a domain that I don’t actually use for my email to start with, make sure that I can reliably send and receive mail with it. Then add my normal email domain for sending-only to start, will just need to add it to my spf and dkim records. Once I test with that and verify that I can reliably send mail then I can fully switch things over.
Still trying to decide what do do about full disk encryption.
Thinking that maybe I can host a decryption key on private github repo, have the preboot environment use a local key to download the decryption key to ephemeral storage and use it to unlock the disk. This doesn’t make it truly secure because anyone with access to the boot partition could figure out what is happening and do it manually. but it would make it difficult enough that a bored sysadmin at the vps provider couldn’t just browse me data easily.
I’d really like it better if I could have it send me a push notification to my phone to authorize the unlock. Maybe I can set that up with how ever I decide to host the decryption key.
If you’re email is going to be important / mission critical, let someone else host it.
yeah, I know. that why I want to do it.
Ive had great success with Mailcow on my Vps, they have good Docs to follow and also setup the DNS. Just wanted to drop that suggestion :)
International Humanitarian Law which defines war crimes and such.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1
As it turns out most people who cry about war crimes on the internet don’t know the first thing about them.
Voice cloning with python. My end goal, which of course I will never finish, is to create a little server or box that you can ask questions or send text to that will sound like me. My dad died over ten years ago and I would love to hear his voice again. I plan to make something so my kids can hear me again after I’m gone.
I used this and it worked very well. I realize it’s paid and not self hosted but an alternative and works surprising well.
Oh yea, I had that on my backlog to do as well. Currently pivoted to figuring out how to design a keyboard so I can 3D print one
Also on my list. At least the PCB. I have a keychron I’m ok with now but it’s not 100% what I want. Maybe 96%.
What I really really want is something designed like the Ocreeb MK2 or the beyblock20 all running QMK. But I’m not sure I’ll ever get to that.
International Humanitarian Law which defines war crimes and such.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1
As it turns out most people who cry about war crimes don’t know the first thing about them.
Motorcycle gear. I now know I can buy armoured(!!) leggings that go under my jeans, and an armoured(!!) leather jacket that looks kickass over a hoodie.
Ooo. I just bought a klx 300. I should look into armour.
ATGATT!
Please rate the effectiveness of these garments against zombie attack. Asking for a friend.
I second this. But I’m asking for a future friend.
Linux
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get my two LUKS encrypted drives to unlock by using a yubikey on boot.
I’m also realising this rabbit hole with every second I spend on Lemmy. Hell I was reading up on arch at 2 am last night when I couldn’t get to sleep….
CachyOS or EndeavourOS are good arch spins if you choose to be insane.
Honestly I would skip Arch and just use something like Fedora or Debian. Arch is way over rated. You can build a Arch like system out of anything.
Yeah, but the difference is quite huge IMHO. Arch philosophy is user centric so it is deliberately minimal because then it is up to you what to add instead of having to remove something to get what you want.
You can do that with any distro really
“Minimal” is such a weird concept to focus on in 2025. What are are you going for? Low ram usage?
Yes, but as I said the way to get there is different. With a minimalistic approach you add stuff that you know you want. With the default approach you either remove stuff that you may not know yet if it was a part of something else that you want/need, or you just let it be.
Minimal concept in 2025 is not weird at all. It’s a preference really. I just prefer my system to be as minimal as possible (not necessarily small mind you). The same reason why I setup my VSCode plugins to be disabled except to enable the needed plugins at different workspaces. So I will not be distracted by something that I do not use.
I’m using Ubuntu across a few devices atm. All the arch memes and the sleeplessness just drove me to go find out what the fuss was all about.
Don’t you get annoyed by snap?
So far only because of Firefox. Get everything else off apt
Start with something like mint and works your way to other distros.
You should be able to live boot mint to see how it runs before committing to installing.
Been using Ubuntu for a bit but mint does sound like a good next step if I decide to swap.
Househunting
I weave cat hair ear muffs. I don’t have a wife, but there’s this waitress I just met, and I’m pretty sure she likes me back.
One of my 2025 goals is to learn to draw well, and I’ve been making slow, steady progress at that. My goals are 2-fold - make quality drawings of furniture for my other new hobby, woodworking - and draw cursed shit that is disturbing to friends and family alike. Here’s a texture study I did yesterday in about an hour.
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Drove through Weldon, NC —> list of famous people —> Garland H. White —> 28th infantry of the USCT (US Colored Troops) —> Buffalo Soilders —> Brigadier General Charles Young Tree (NPS) —> Brigadier General Charles H. Young
So I took myself on a Black History Month tour while riding to daughters gymnastics competition.
I wrote an Excel macro in VBA that opens a file select window, imports the selected files as new worksheets, copies the data from each worksheet recursively into a master table, prompts the user to delete the imported tables, then prompts the user to save the workbook as a new file.
Excel does have functions that achieve basically the same thing, but it was being too finicky with how it wanted the source tables formatted.
I barely know VBA and idek wtf a Boolean variable is, but I fucking did it and it’s going to make mine and my team’s life so much easier at work. That was my whole Friday lmao
I frequently have to dump a bunch of data from our accounting system, and the process afterward involves a ton of manual cutting and pasting. When I have to do it 70 times, it’s physically and mentally exhausting. I’m not the only one who has complained about this process, and nobody has done anything to make it better. So I’m fixing that shit. I’m not a programmer. I’m an accountant. But I’m also so lazy that I’ll to learn how to program a little to save myself a lot of work over the long run.
Programming is a tool, you don’t have to be a knife enthusiast to want get the correct knife
Awesome, if you have any questions, shoot. Started down that rabbit hole 20 years and never really came up for air :)
Actually it just leads to many more data type manipulation, SQL, VBA connecting to the other Microsoft app, etc. never regretted it aside from the 3am sessions trying to figure out one more thing, which leads to one more thing… But then that is the rabbit hole piece.
Btwa boolean is just data stored in a single bit, either a 1 or a 0 on the backend, but usually presented as something more obvious to the user like yes/no, true/false, on/off etc
I’m interested in SQL. I just need to learn SQL.
I’d love to learn SQL. I’m going back to school later this year because I have a bachelor’s degree with 127 credit hours. I’m 23 hours shy of being eligible to hold a CPA license in my state. So I found a local community college that offers a computer science program with a focus on database management, and there’s a whole class on SQL that I’m kinda looking forward to. And because I already have a degree, all of my gen eds are out of the way. Taking the core classes for the two year degree at this community college sits right at the intersection of 151 hours. All I have to do after that is pass the CPA Exam lol It’s that easy.
Just to give you another rabbit hole, you can also manipulate pretty much any data source, including Excel using powershell. I regularly use powershell scripts to mass import data that the script processes into an Excel workbook that the powershell formats. I find powershell to be faster doing this (if you use .net framework/LINQ, powershell sucks at large scale data object processing natively), especially if it’s large amounts of data, I typically process combined logs of over a million rows.
What’s the advantage of VBA in this use case over other options?
They said they barely know vba. So it’s probably the integration into MS tools.
So I had tried using the data import wizard or whatever it was that’s built in to pull an entire folder into the workbook, but I had roughly 70 workbooks, all with 40 columns and anywhere from 3,000 to 20,000 rows. At the end of it all, I probably had over 20 million cells. The built-in tool was being finicky. I think it was that the sheer amount of data I was working with was too much for it to handle. But it kept giving me errors about formatting.
So I gave up on it, and I spent several hours of my life reading manuals and forum posts on how best to achieve one step and testing code on backups. It was truly an all-day thing. But when you’re dealing with dozens of files, this macro takes maybe 45 seconds to do its thing whereas the manual process could waste an hour of your day. And I plan to share it with the team once I get it a bit more polished because it’s not exactly where I want it. But I think the rest of my colleagues will love it.
I know a little VBA. I spent a whole weekend writing a macro because I did my personal budgets in Excel, and I wanted to automate some stuff because I could conceptualize how it could be done. I don’t use Windows at home anymore so I want to figure out how to bring it over to LibreOffice Basic. Still, since the business world uses Microsoft products, knowing VBA is a much more marketable skill so it is useful to practice in VBA whenever I can.
