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I forgot to carry the one.

tasankovasara via Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

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Lemon, ginger and lemon balm beer

Happy days! My new beer is done. This is a battle-tested recipe with lemons and ginger. This time I also had 10 g of fresh lemon balm in the seasoning infusion. This guy:

Works really great as a beer component, sharing to spotlight this herb with you all! There's a Wikipedia page that describes the many aromatic compounds it imparts. It's perennial (pic is from my garden), grows in a slightly invasive manner so you only need to plant very little to get enough for many brews. This was a warning 😀

Another new twist was a helping of Weyermann spelt wheat malt. I expected the nutty spelt flavour from it, but the taste profile ended up so multi-faceted that I'll need more tastings to pinpoint it 😁 All in all, a distinctive flavour to this beer. Fermented to bone dry very smoothly.

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bitofarambler

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Nice, Ill keep lemon balm in mind.

How big was this batch?

do you filter the beer at all when bottling?

Is your lemon balm separated from the rest of your garden or do you keep an eye on it and remove as needed?

How much longer do you ferment beer to get the dryness? I've fermented wine, but it rarely made it long enough to get rid of all the excess sugar.

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Alexander

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Drying is usually not so much matter of time as matter of OG and yeast strain. OG1090 mead dries to completeness faster than 1120 going to medium (and then staying there forever). With beer, it's harder to pintoint the turning point, as beer yeast is much more diverse. There is also matter of non-fermentable sugars content that will never disapper. And you've got to have vigorous healthy fermentation to make it in time to bottle with enough active yeast if you plan natural carbonation.

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plactagonic

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Also for beer you have some unfermentable sugars, so you can't achieve driness by just fermenting, you have to use enzymes to break them down completely to fermentable ones.

So scientifically speaking it is dependent on the "substrate" (what you ferment) and yeasts.

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tasankovasara

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As the others said, it comes down to how much alcohol the yeast will ultimately tolerate, if there is enough fermentable sugar to get to that point. I still don't do og / fg's, so my 'bone dry' was not a measured outcome, only perceived. I'm type 1 diabetic so I prefer no leftover sugar in my brews 😀

In this case, six days of fermentation followed by a hasty cold crash of two days was enough. The yeasties at work were a standard Finnish fresh yeast, 0,25 € at any grocery store and known to produce 10+ % ABV sahti brews. Speed comes from having a fair bit (25 g) of yeast in there and making a starter with it. I also ferment under pressure and at the cool-ish temp of 16 °C. There is 23 L of the stuff with 6,7 kg of malt, pretty strong stuff.

I filter the wort into the fermenter with reusable coffee filters. The fermenter doubles as a keg, so I only bottle on demand.

The lemon balm is in a garden bed, so yeah, I do battle with it. Hence the warning 😁 It makes good pesto too, so the battle is not too bad XD

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Alexander

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Somehow, this plant gets mauled by local grasses in my garden. I've tried growing this weed many times, sourcing from different places - I had experience with mint relatives as being super invasive in other locations - but every year, it just doesn't stand to competition here. Savo biomes are mad.

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tasankovasara

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Maybe it would help to make a mini bed just for it? Mine is in a bed and it's been easy and vigorous. We have pretty wild natural undergrowth too; it would be nice to have lemon balm here and there as fuck yous to mosquitoes (I'll wager the aroma is of the repelling kind) but if it doesn't compete, that might not be as easy...

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Alexander

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These mad plants crawl everywhere. Sure, I have those bonsai trees I care for, but spending this much effort on a grass seems a bit mad. I'll try to grow it a winter garden. I think the edge of native grasses comes mainly from winter fungal activity under snow that they somehow benefit from; if I manage to exclude that from local system, things might change.

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VioletSoftness

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congrats on a delicious brew!!

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tasankovasara

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Thanks & cheers 😀

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robsteranium

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Great idea! We're overrun with Lemon Balm!

How did you extract the flavour? Did you add it to the boil or make a vodka tincture or something?

In fact I'd really be up for trying this out if you'd care to share your recipe?

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tasankovasara

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Absolutely! On mobile so I'll make this tight...

Mash is 18 L water, 6,7 kg of mostly blond malts, including 1 kg of Weyermann Spelt and 1 kg of Simpsons Premium English Cara for a little sweetness. 60 min BIAB mashing with strike temp at 71,2 °C.

Then there's the infusion: 3 L water heated to boil, off the hob, in with ingredients and let sit with lid on. This had 2 large organic lemons sliced thin, one smallish ginger sliced thin, 10 g lemon balm leaves and growth tips, 30 g Simcoe and 30 g Amarillo hops (pellets). It had about an hour and half to infuse.

One more thing was the yeast starter - 2 L water, 1 dL white sugar, 1 dL sugarcane syrup, pinch of yeast nutrient. Extra sugar there to feed the starter and offset the diluting effect of 5 L water added on top of the mashing.

Boiled the wort for 50 min, added 60 g Challenger hops at 45 min to go. The 3 L infusion went into the boil at about 10 min to go, flame up to allow a little boiling for that too.

One thing I might have changed in hindsight is a little less of the Amarillo and Simcoe in the infusion to leave more room for the lemony notes.

Would be great to hear how it went if you try this 😀

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robsteranium

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Brilliant. This looks great. Thanks for taking the time for a thorough write up!

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Thoughts on social media device?

I have been trying to de-google and de-meta my life, but although i haven't had facebook for a year and a half, i need it for work. Also i do miss marketplace, and some niche groups.

i have been thinking to setup a used android phone, that runs a new google account, that is not related to my (still at use google account). (as hard as i try, some profiles can't be unlinked to google once you have linked them).

Anyway - my concern is, that i'd still be trackable, even if i leave it at home and only use it when i need to use it. Won't meta eventually be able to link my identity to my nework, IP, location etc?

What would be the best way to go around this?

And what to do with secutiry verifications where they as for your phonenumber or to confirm, your ID with an SMS?

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If you are leaving it at home, consider a WiFi-only tablet to eliminate any chance of data leaking through the cell modem. Or perhaps an Android emulator on a laptop, but that does come with its quirks. Better yet, also set up a router with router-level VPN at home just for your Facebook-connected devices. Get a cheap prepaid phone for the SMS activation. Don't boot anything up until you're ready and pay with cash or a prepaid gift card at a store you don't frequent or something like Craigslist if possible.

Normally, there's a chance of Google/Facebook asking for SMS confirmation again down the road, maybe long after your burner phone plan has expired. But you should be able to prevent this by adding a FIDO/U2F security key as your 2FA method. No idea if this can be set up on the mobile app, but if not, bring an unimportant laptop with a Linux live USB too.

Since you've already used Facebook in the past, and considering your use case and the nature of Facebook accounts, they most likely have your home location readily on file. Assuming that your main objective is to keep it from correlating your named accounts to pseudo/anonymous accounts and devices, first step would be to isolate it from your real IP address and browser fingerprint.

Now take everything to a library/cafe/somewhere you can access the internet anonymously. Leave your regular devices behind or at least have them in airplane mode and disconnected from the public WiFi. Set everything up, add your security key for 2FA, install a VPN client if Google/Facebook will allow it. Power everything down before leaving. Only power up the Facebook device once you are back home, ideally connected to a dedicated router with router-level VPN.

I don't really know how it all works, but sometimes I do think about all the times I've logged into accounts with my real name without a VPN. And wonder how many of those companies phone home to Meta with my real IP, letting them establish connections with my pseudonymous accounts I've also logged in to without a VPN.

It's a game rigged in their favor and the slightest mistake can blow your cover. Think carefully if Facebook is your only choice or if you can get by with an alternative. If you must use it, I would agree that a dedicated device, even if imperfect, is still one of the best measures for your privacy.

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DavidGarcia

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VPN + DeGoogled Privacy Android ROM would be the most practical. That way you should br free from most if not all cross device tracking.

In general having a seperate device for that stuff makes total sense.

Get some sort of device that is compatible with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, like an older Pixel

not sure what would be best to handle verification.

You also have to be careful to use totally new accounts for everything on this new device, different number, different email, different device, different sim etc

Thorned_Rose via Linux

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App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?

I'm ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.

I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?

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I'm in a similar boat to you. I ripped almost all of my CDs to 320kbps mp3s for portability, but then I wanted to put all of them (a substantial number) plus a bunch more (my partner's collection) on a physically tiny USB stick (that I already had) to just leave plugged into our car stereo's spare port. I had to shrink the files somehow to make them all fit, so I used ffmpeg and a little bash file logic to keep the files as mp3s, but reduce the bitrate.

128kbps mp3 is passable for most music, which is why the commercial industry focused on it in the early days. However, if your music has much "dirty" sound in it, like loud drums and cymbals or overdriven electric guitars, 128kbps tends to alias them somewhat and make them sound weird. If you stick to mp3 I'd recommend at least 160kbps, or better, 192kbps. If you can use variable bit rate, that can be even better.

Of course, even 320kbps mp3 isn't going to satisfy audiophiles, but it sounds like you just want to have all your music with you at all times as a better alternative to radio, and your storage space is limited, similar to me.

As regards transcoding, you may run into some aliasing issues if you try to switch from one codec to another without also dropping a considerable amount of detail. But unless I've misunderstood how most lossy audio compression works, taking an mp3 from a higher to a lower bitrate isn't transcoding, and should give you the same result as encoding the original lossless source at the lower bitrate. Psychoacoustic models split a sound source into thousands of tiny component sounds, and keep only the top X "most important" components. If you later reduce that to the top Y most important components by reducing the bitrate (while using the same codec), shouldn't that be the same as just taking the top Y most important components from the original, full group?

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SayCyberOnceMore

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If your files are flac and you just want to.copy some files you could try Mp3fs

That'll make your files appear to be MP3 when you access them

You could them use a file transfer mechanism to read them from the mp3fs location onto your phone with - kinda - one step.

GitHub - khenriks/mp3fs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3

FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3 - khenriks/mp3fs

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‘Extreme limits’: China-led mission discovers Earth’s deepest animal oasis

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‘Extreme limits’: China-led mission finds thriving oasis in Earth’s deepest reaches

Month-long Pacific expedition uncovers vast colonies of exotic creatures oblivious to sunlight drawing energy from hidden sources.

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Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest – DW – 07/30/2025

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34128492

Andreas Knobloch
Los Palacios
07/30/2025

Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the #Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?
Under efforts to spur the domestic #rice output, the Cuban government has asked #Vietnam for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.
For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.
Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.

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Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest – DW – 07/30/2025

Andreas Knobloch
Los Palacios
07/30/2025
Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the #Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?
Under efforts to spur the domestic #rice output, the Cuban government has asked #Vietnam for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.
For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.
Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.

Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest
Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?
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Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest – DW – 07/30/2025

Andreas Knobloch
Los Palacios
07/30/2025

Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the #Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?
Under efforts to spur the domestic #rice output, the Cuban government has asked #Vietnam for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.
For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.
Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.

Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest

Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?

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Lowered Expectations

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Trump hung up 30 seconds into call with CNN reporter asking about new Epstein photos

Trump ‘hung up after 30 seconds’ on the phone with CNN reporter who called to ask about new Epstein photos

Resurfaced photos show Epstein attending Trump’s 1993 wedding to his second wife Marla Maples

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Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight

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Penalty: the equivalent of $100, probably. And even that will be contested; the second judge will drop it to $50, and the third to $10, and then the Meta lawyer will pay that out of her pocket change.

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postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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There NEEDS to be more competition in this space

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I love what postmarket os is doing.
I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.

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Open Door Policy For Pedophiles In Washington

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Trump saw his personal advert. "Senior male seeking fit children."

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D_C

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"Child Rapist Invites Rapist of Child Prostitutes to Whitehouse"... is a more fitting headline.

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US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence

Connections between sex trafficker and spy agencies have been long teased. But few are covering them.

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geneva_convenience

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When something goes wrong in the West it's a very complex issue and not black and white. And definitely not related to Israel.

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Tariff-splaining

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takeda

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This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.

He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.

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okgurl

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actually no the pee goes through our collective legs from trump but back into our collective tax paying faces 😭

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What Are Your Experiences With Crypt.ee?

I am using Proton Drive at the moment and thinking of switching. I don't want to use file.io as it's too new of a product. What's your experience using crypt.ee? I want to use it for documents and photos. I know it doesn't have auto-upload.

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I got on very well with it. You don't get a lot of storage on the free tier, and it functions exclusively as a web app/PWA, but it was quite seamless.

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Ulrich

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I use it for docs only and quite like it. My biggest complaints are that it doesn't support the dark mode setting server-side, which is quite annoying, and that you have to convert to PDF to print dark mode files, aaaand that if you type in your encryption key it will automatically log you in before you're able to tick the "save this device" setting.

Very minor, really. But I use Immich for photos so I can't speak to that. I'd probably opt for Ente if I were looking for managed hosting.

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Summer POV

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stupidcasey

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Pro tip, pop your legs isn the microwave for 30 seconds for a nice tan.

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lauha

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Pop your legs in the microwqve for 30 minutes to feel what it will feel like if we do nothing about the billionaires

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robocall

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Two hot dogs?! Lucky!

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The worst mistake I could have possibly made with Linux...

So I chose to install Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio on top (which as I understand is just adding a bunch of apps and maybe doing some configuring). I am a musician and visual creative. I'd like to know why I made the wrong choice in distro. Hit me with it!

Why is your distro of choice better than the one I picked at random for myself?

What bottleneck am I to expect due to my non archyness?

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TabbsTheBat

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Ubuntu

Snaps

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BlueSquid0741

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Agreed. I’d say Ubuntu is generally fine except for defaulting to installing snaps (which are terrible, the worst package management).

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TabbsTheBat

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Yeah :3.. I use pop which is ubuntu based, but they replace all snaps with flatpaks, and over the 4ish years I've been using it it's been the most stable experience on the desktop I had. If not for snaps ubuntu/kubuntu would probably be one of my default distro recommendations for beginners

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TimLovesTech

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Ubuntu (and also Debian that it derives from) are always behind on the software release cycles and contain "stale" packages. This is desirable if you're running a server, but if you're wanting a modem day desktop experience a non-rolling release distro is just leaving performance/usability of your hardware on the table.

Think of Ubuntu/Debian and all their derivatives as the Jitterbug of the phone industry. They work perfectly fine, but if you want a real phone you're probably going to be happier with an iPhone or Android phone just because they make use of newer technology and get updates constantly.

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phonics

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Oh very interesting. I wasn't aware. Thank you.

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scytale

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Take the comment you replied to with a grain of salt. IOS and Android are not rolling release unless you use their beta versions, so the analogy is not correct. Ubuntu and its derivatives have slower release cycles in order to ensure they’re stable. But it doesn’t mean packages are “stale”. A rolling release distro will give you bleeding edge updates at the risk of something breaking once in a while. If you work on stuff like music production, you absolutely will be better off with a more stable distro.

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phonics

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A wild thing for me was installing reaper(a music DAW) from the website and not seeing it in my app list. then finding out it needs to be installed in a opt folder and then I gotta make a .Desktop file so it'll show up in my 'start menu' like damn, is this how it really is out in Linux?

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TabbsTheBat

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Depends on how you install it

You basically chose one of the more complicated ways to do it, short of compiling the source code lol

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phonics

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I did the see it in any package managers sudo apt install bla bla bla. I literally just downloaded it clicked a link in the .Tar or .Zip and it appeared. I would have installed it the same way on windows. Guess it's part of the learning curve.

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TabbsTheBat

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Yeah it's not in apt afaik, I think it is on flathub tho :3 im not sure if there are any issues using it in a sandboxed environment, as I never used it. And you can also use it as an appimage I think.. that's all the kind of stuff you'll learn along the way tho, I mean.. I remember the first time I had to install something not in my distro's repos, and hitting my head on my keyboard for like a day, before I realized that im doing it the hard way haha

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ikidd

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Get your head out of installing apps via their websites like Windows. While it's often possible, it's preferable to use your distros package manager. If it's not in the repo, try flathub. Finally, if they have an Appimage, use that, many distros will integrate Appimages automagically. All that stuff gets taken care of for you.

Last resort is what you ended up doing and having to install/update manually. I mean, it depends on the package but if you're using a common distro like Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch, there should be a package ready to go for nearly anything that supports Linux.

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phonics

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Ah ok cool. Thnx. Still learning

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emeralddawn45

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Linux doesnt install things like windows does. A tar file is just an archive. What you did is basically the equivalent of copying a program's Program Files. Itll still work if you just run the exe from the folder, but there's no registry entry, no start menu shortcut, no desktop shortcut until its created by you or the installer on Windows.

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Magnum, P.I.

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ubuntu
Snaps

Canonical

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thenose

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I went for Nixos (distro) with Plasma (desktop environment). Nixos has a great package manager (99% of the things there just work)and the way you install things is essentially having a list of your packages/apps. Deleting them is just as easy and the best part is that it’s totally gone, no lingering random files that could bite me in the future. If you mess up your configuration bad it’ll force you to stay the working version if you don’t like what you did you’ll revert it.
Plasma has incredible defaults and you can click around in it to fine tune to your liking. Plug things into plasma is just works at least for me. I’ve plugged midi controllers, audio interface, dock, hdmi, game controllers first try no fuss.
Oh I’m sure other distros have this as well but fun fact if your bt is on and the laptop is connected to a speaker you can just connect your phone (or any other bt source) and use your laptop as a bt speaker. And I mean it just works again. Yeah sure you need to pair it first. But boy oh boy Im playing on the tv and i can just bt to it and play my tunes like it’s nothing.
Back to the question in hand.
I have a windows version of Ableton 11 that I installed there with 3rd party vst 2 and 3 plugins figuring that one out took me longer but it was in front of me all the time so in hindsight that wasn’t too hard either.
So that was my new generation Arch btw xD aka NixOS btw.
The tl dr is that I find Nixos with KDE Plasma 6 having very friendly defaults that can be built on if and when you ready

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non_burglar

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Completely dodged the question to crow about nix. I'm 90% convinced nix users are the new "arch BTW" users.

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ikidd

in reply to non_burglar • 1 mese fa • •

New user comes to ask question about their distro: gets "use NixOS; it's totally simple".

Weirdos.

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thenose

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Dude I started with nixos. If don’t want to do your linux hackeroo just use the machine it’s no fuss but I know Im a weirdo. 😂🤷🏽‍♂️

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thenose

in reply to non_burglar • 1 mese fa • •

What was the question then? Wasn’t it about the distro of my choice and how it handles packages specifically about media creation? I fell like you folks just saw nix decided “nah f this guy” but ok I get it.
Ps.: Im self aware if you read the last few lines

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non_burglar

in reply to thenose • 1 mese fa • •

You just went on about how easy nix is to configure, then about adding bluetooth devices, then jumped to installing ableton on windows.

Op specified they are a musician using a studio distro for studio tasks. You didn't address any of that.

I get that you're impressed with nix and want to share, and nothing wrong with that. But let's at least stay on topic.

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thenose

in reply to non_burglar • 1 mese fa • •

Ableton - Digital Audio Workspace
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Scarlette 2i2 - Audio interface

Compatibility,dependencies are the most important things when it comes to digital studio machines. At least that’s what my 15yrs of audio engineering experience taught me. Not sure how I didn’t addressed any of that my dude but if you wanna hate I’m here for it. You hate my choices for the sake of it I love yours for the same reason

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ReallyZen

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you ~~started~~ busy doing your things. It's a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.

The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there's just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)

Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That's the important part: making!

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phonics

in reply to ReallyZen • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah I've noticed that. Tryna work out how to delete most of them now lol. Cool to open them up and see what the are though

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kibiz0r

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.

The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.

So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.

And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.

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Eugenia

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

The biggest problem of ubuntu is snaps.

However, if you're into audio, you can install linux mint, which is ubuntu-based, and then install the ubuntu-studio-pipewire-something (sorry, can't remember how the package is actually called), which FIXES pipewire to work properly with high end audio apps. For example, on my vanilla Linux Mint, Bitwig Studio would not make a peep! After installing that package, it produces sound. With that fixed, you can do everything on Mint.

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swab148

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

If you're looking for a change, there's AV Linux, which is also Debian-based. Might be worth checking out.

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phonics

in reply to swab148 • 1 mese fa • •

Av for audio video I presume. Thanks will look into it

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dadarobot

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you did nothing wrong. ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro for beginners. the reason i dont use ubuntu anymore is the age of the packages started to bother me. also its kinda annoying that releases hit eol at some point. i like arch for the rolling release (no eol) and the fresher packages.

if ubuntu worka for you, keep using it. there is no correct distro.

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actionjbone

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

The biggest mistake one can make with Linux?

Using windows instead.

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youmaynotknow

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Pika

in reply to phonics • 1 mese fa • •

I think everyone's basically hit my complaints with Ubuntu. It's a very bloated OS with a hard dedication into snaps, which I dislike(but I also hate flatpak so yea)

Being said if this is your first Linux distribution, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu. It's a very beginner-friendly distro. The only other one that I would have recommended aside from that would have probably been Mint. But Ubuntu is going to have quite a bit more tutorials and guides for it.

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bdonvr

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You're good. If you like your setup please don't feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.

Now if you just like tinkering or configuring....

The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don't like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.

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WhatGodIsMadeOf

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Just get endeavoros. It's Arch with an install process like any other easy Linux distro.

Aur is useful for people that don't want to build packages.

That combined with flatpak and you can basically have an easy install of anything.

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FauxLiving

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The first rule of Linux is that you always picked the wrong distro and here is why mine is better.

If it works for you then it's good enough. Just focus on learning what you're on and a lot of that knowledge will transfer to any other distro if you want to try others.

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jhdeval

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

Totally agree with this and to add everyone's tastes are different which is why there are so many different distros. It is true there are some tailored for specific things but no one distro is better then another. Any app you install on one can be installed on another

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AndrewZabar

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Exactly! Also many people especially early on, seem to think distros are vastly different. They’re really not, so much as they’re a different assortment of bits and pieces from mostly the same pool. Some things differ significantly across I wouldn’t say distros but across like, kernel bases? Like Debian, Arch, etc. The big thing is if it has 99% of what you wanted straightaway, then there’s nothing wrong with just using it, optimizing it for your preferences, and learning what distinguishes it, if you’re interested.

When I got a new laptop, I was psyched because it was not long after Debian had finally dropped that whole opposition to things that aren’t 100% open source, as of v 12. I like Debian but prior to 12 I often had driver issues. BUT: lo and behold, my laptop was so new that Debian didn’t have drivers for the audio yet. Nothing did except Ubuntu. They’re usually very quick to get stuff compatible, and so I installed Kubuntu so I could be on my fav desktop right off the start.

Now, quite some time later, Debian almost certainly has my audio drivers by now, but I’m not rushing to change because what I have works. End of story.

Whatever is working for you, enjoy it.

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ruuster13

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When you're trying out distros, I usually say to just go for it. Install the one that grabs your attention. Save everything to a NAS or cloud because the distro is going to break and you're going to want to try another one. However, Ubuntu is actually the wrong one to start with for this trajectory because it's the least likely to break.

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youmaynotknow

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If you like "unlikely to break, don't mind my software and kernel a bit behind", anything Debian or Ubuntu based will be fine. Now, if you want cutting edge, even if you have to get pissed and confused a bit, Arch or Fedora based, in my opinion.

At the end of the day it comes down to taste and need. They all work (mostly 😋).

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phonics

in reply to youmaynotknow • 1 mese fa • •

I'm pissed and confused with Ubuntu already. I think arch might shorten my lifespan even further.

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Tapionpoika

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Good choice, man. Good choice. I have Arch and Manjaro, they're good, but there was a time when I was doing photography as a freelancer and I used Ubuntu Studio back then. The codecs are ready and instead of configuring, you can get to work.

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Evrala

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My most used distro in the past few years is CachyOS.

Recently swapped to Bazzite because I got tired of the papercuts of running Arch. I also wanted to move to one of the official supported Distros that is supported by my laptop in case I ever need to make a support ticket.

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ace_garp

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You made a great choice of distro for media creation.

Some background information and other options are below.

--//--

Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).

Ubuntu is touted as a 'high ease of use' distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.

For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.

Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.

* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.

Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

^{www.youtube.com}

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phonics

in reply to ace_garp • 1 mese fa • •

Users data collection... Eeeew. That's why I'm leaving windows. I'll have a look at dynebolic thnx. My audio interface already doesn't like Ubuntu so far so I'm gonna have to get techie with it anyway

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The Bard in Green

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Qubes or gtfo
(troll answer, don't listen to me)

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haloduder

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Using Linux isn't something you need to defend towards others.

As long as something is comfortable for you, keep using it.

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phonics

in reply to haloduder • 1 mese fa • •

I'm just goofing. But thanks

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harsh3466

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I run arch on my laptop (btw), and Ubuntu server on my server. I like how reliable and stable Ubuntu server is. Gives me piece of mind.

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not quite01(they/them)

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Funnily enough I also used Ubuntu studio when I was distro hopping a lot more a year ago

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So I tried windows tiling...

And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.

How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?

#linux

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Drito

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Too much people, including some popular youtuber, dont understand how tilling WMs make life easier.

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npdean

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I agree. It seems like a genuinely underrated feature, a surprise in today's landscape where everything has its backers.

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How do you manage private phones with work necessities?

I’ve been tinkering with the idea of switching back to a dumb phone. I haven’t dug too far into the search because every time I do, I get hung up on the apps I need for work - outlook, my work keycard app, etc. Is there any good way to work around this? Keep my current phone with only those apps for work, operating on WiFi, and switch my primary phone?
If anyone has examples of things they’ve tried and what’s worked, that would be great. TIA!

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Libb

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It's different in my own situation (I don't have a boss) but would I be employed I would not mix work and personal. Ever. Phone, friendship, or whatever else as there is a too high probability some shit will happen.

I would have my own phone and next to it the job would provide me another one with whatever shitty apps they require me to use, if they rely want me to use it. And I would turn that bastard off the moment my work day is finished (aka the moment they stop giving me money in exchange of my time).

Exactly like I would not use my own computer for work. It's mine.

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shortwavesurfer

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I agree with @Libb@piefed.social. I would not mix the two at all. If they want me to have a phone with their apps on it, they can provide me one.

Also, for your privacy, it may not be actually the best idea to switch back to a dumb phone, because then you are limited to SMS, which is not secure, and phone calls, which are not secure.

On a smartphone you have things like signal.

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ExcessShiv

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Get whatever phone you want privately. If your work depends on you having a smartphone for various things, they can provide you with one. I have never used my work phone privately, and never will. I just have two phones, one of them gets turned off when I leave the office.

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Zephorah

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If work wants me checking email on the go then they can supply the phone. I don’t have an email app on my personal phone.

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Züri

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I use Shelter to activate the work profile.

Then all the work related apps are installed there.

It can have an activation schedule or activated or disabled manually and conveniently with on board Android functions.

Shelter

Isolate your Big Brother Apps, using Work Profiles

^{Angry.Im Software Forge}

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𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚃𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚄𝚙

in reply to ArcticPad • 1 mese fa • •

I have a second cheap second hand phone for work only purposes.

My employer has their device attestation set to only allow intune / Microsoft products to sign in if you are running stock android.
Graphene nogo.

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cyberwolfie

in reply to ArcticPad • 1 mese fa • •

I have a separate, company-issued phone that is used exclusively for work related activities and that is not even connected to my home network.

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ramble81

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This is the correct answer. If they want you to do any work in a mobile, remote, out of hours capacity, they need to provide the device.

I used to help manage MDM at my old company and I can tell you there is a shit load they can do once you install their utilities. For example:
- remotely wipe your phone
- block your ability to copy/paste between applications
- view all web traffic to/from it (even encrypted traffic since we installed a proxy that put its own trusted root certificate in)

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cyberwolfie

in reply to ramble81 • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there's a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company's need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.

Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer's side and the employee's side.

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ramble81

in reply to cyberwolfie • 1 mese fa • •

BYOD benefits the company at the employees stupidity (and sometimes the only choice). The employee thinks “cool, only one phone to use!” but for the company it saves a lot of money and they still get the control they want. They don’t have a downside to implement it.

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bigoljim

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It 10000% a cost savings decision.
Executives don't see why they have to approve a giant bill for company devices when people have their own already.
Regardless of how much we point out the risks.

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cyberwolfie

in reply to bigoljim • 1 mese fa • •

I am actually used to the company buying you a phone that you use as a personal device, but must then be enrolled in Intune or something similar. It is considered a perk of the job, and a taxable one at that. So the saving is not as obvious in this case.

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winky_lem

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Same here. I use the shelter to keep a couple of personal apps seperated on the work phone. For good measure, I keep company electronics in a Faraday pouch after hours.

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Ulrich

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Use Shelter to create a work profile. This keeps all your work stuff sandboxed from your private account (or non-account).

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oeuf

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I have a smartphone and a small dumbphone - one for work stuff and one for play. I have glued velcro to the backs of them, so they can be like one phone in my pocket. Ultimate flexibility.

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🐝 Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match

Missed This One. Prince William's Friend. Can We Take A Moment To Thank The Bee For His Sacrifice? 🐝

Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match

Indian auto parts billionaire Sunjay Kapur died after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Queen’s Cup in Windsor.

^{Luis Prada (VICE)}

#Worldnews

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HotsauceHurricane

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oh nooooo.

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Harbinger01173430

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Blessed be the bee for making the ultimate sacrifice

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july
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What are "points"?

I noticed on a comment that I got 3 "points". Is it like upvotes?

#lemmy_support

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

None of these imaginary points matter.

(Lemmy is rad)

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july

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 mese fa • •

To be honest I find myself sometimes skipping comments which are down-voted to oblivion on other platforms.. 🤐. It doesn't help that the down voted comment also gets hidden. Sometimes they are rightfully down voted but other times the mass opinion is against OP's message which doesn't mean OP is necessarily wrong.
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.

VITecNet via Linux

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VITecNet
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GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more

^{www.phoronix.com}

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DonutsRMeh

in reply to VITecNet • 1 mese fa • •

For some reason, these local LLMS are straight up stupid. I tried deepseek R1 through ollama and it was straight up stupid and gave everything wrong. Anyone got the same results? I did the 7b and 14b (if I remember these numbers correctly), 32 straight up didn't install because I didn't have enough RAM.

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felsiq

in reply to DonutsRMeh • 1 mese fa • •

Did you use a heavily quantized version? Those models are much smaller than the state of the art ones to begin with, and if you chop their weights from float16 to float2 or something it reduces their capabilities a lot more

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Mordikan

in reply to DonutsRMeh • 1 mese fa • •

I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).

I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.

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teawrecks

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The performance is relative to the user. Could it be that you're a god damned genius? :/

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Mwa

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I had more success with Qwen3 14b/8b,But it still does small mistakes(like for me I asked It to compare Gstreamer and ffmpeg it got the licensing wrong)

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Mwa

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From the title I thought Gnome foundation made a Ai Client for a sec, Until I read the article.

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Worse Than Flying Monkeys, Distraction Monkeys

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teddy2021

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"The experiment is the experiment".

crankyrebel via Memes

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MAGA = My America Gone Astray

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wheezy

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While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.

Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying "hey! They are fucking this up" is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.

It's like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying "I know exactly who is at fault!" But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout "I know who is at fault" are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.

That's what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it's leadership. It feels like they are the party of "acknowledging bad things" and nothing more.

Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you're going to tell us for years that "Trump is a threat to democracy" and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you're not an "umpire" for democracy. You're just an announcer in a game without an ump.

Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.

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BurningRiver

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This bootlicking bullshit is really tiring.

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captainlezbian

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As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.

Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.

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tfowinder

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To shift to manufacturing america needs to move to machine manufacturing and not just goods manufacturing since they are already being done very well in china, american labour cannot compete with china for cheap items the Chinese are just too good. But when it comes to advanced stuff like cars, solar panels, machineries etc that's where USA needs to work on.

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two PMOS installs with LUKS

So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.

First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.

I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.

Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root

Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root

Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?

#linux

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swelter_spark

in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name] • 1 mese fa • •

Have you tried asking on the Peppermint forums? People there might be more familiar with the specifics of the distro.

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hankthetankie [none/use name]

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Thanks yeah that's gonna be my next step.

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SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news

SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.

^{Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)}

#technology

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Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033

Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocates
The software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.

Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir

^{dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)}

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0xtero

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I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.

Great.

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medem

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Exactly. Only small businesses and individuals have to honour the GDPR, not them.

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surph_ninja

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Germany has been one of the biggest supporters of the genocide, they’re cracking down on minor dissent, they’re targeting minorities (including anti-Zionist Jews specifically). The Nazis are controlling Germany again.

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stink

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Sadly they always have been. USSR shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.

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medem

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I'll just throw in the mandatory 'always on the wrong side of history' cliché.

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july

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Is it because they’re ashamed of their past they now fully encourage Israel?

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porous_grey_matter

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It's because they are secretly proud of their past

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surph_ninja

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No. It’s that the Nazis never really left power. They simply ruled under US supervision. And the Nazis always cooperated with the Zionist project.

skaarl via Memes

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skaarl
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I stand with Israel

Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.

(/s, it is POV of a racist)

#memes

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YappyMonotheist

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skaarl

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The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)

Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

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YappyMonotheist

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Even dumb and murderous racists have gone downhill in the US, lol. These ones at least seem literate!

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goferking (he/him)

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States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.

Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws

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peregrin5

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this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors

73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogr…

national demographics

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Andrzej3K [none/use name]

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Remind me, what were the demographics of the Confederacy

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culpritus [any]

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In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.
Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).

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culpritus [any]

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more ethnically diverse

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Nakoichi [they/them]

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Israel sterilized Ethiopian Jews without their consent stfu cracker.

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woodenghost [comrade/them]

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The whites need the others to do all the hard work. Can't have a fascist settler colonial project without exploiting the natives. The ones that haven't been murdered in the genocide yet, of course.

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Samsuma

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They need comprador tokens for PR brownie points to convince the libs of the diversity lie too

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Samsuma

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Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.

The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.

That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.

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goferking (he/him)

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And everybody has the same rights there? Or are some higher than others???

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TranscendentalEmpire

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considering Israel is more ethnically diverse

Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.

Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.

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peregrin5

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not disagreeing but want to point out by that definition America is an ethnostate. Which again I'm not disagreeing with.

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TranscendentalEmpire

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For the vast majority of its history absolutely. It wasn't until the civil rights movement where that was even somewhat debatable.

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peregrin5

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it's the case even now

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Saymaz

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I don't know why you're getting down voted. It's just a historical fact.

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TranscendentalEmpire

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It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.

While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.

Context and nuance is important.

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Saymaz

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I thought they were just agreeing on the fact that the USA is also an ethno-state that was founded on genocide.

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TranscendentalEmpire

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They were, but when evaluated against their original claim its pretty apparent they were doing it to establish a whataboutism.

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ShinkanTrain

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by that definition America is an ethnostate.

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peregrin5

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what do you think white Republicans and project 2025 are doing hunty?

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eldavi

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as well as most of the democrats and their refusal to enact the equal rights amendment.

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peregrin5

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are you talking about something in the 70s? how is that relevant to today?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_…

proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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eldavi

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it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.

in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.

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peregrin5

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i doubt it would have made it past the republican owned Congress that Biden experienced during his tenure. has very little to do with lack of Democrat support. this just smells like anti-Democrat whataboutism to me.

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eldavi

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democrats had majority control of the house, senate and presidency in 2020; there was nothing stopping them from pushing this through.

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peregrin5

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looking at the history it looks like in 2020 democrats were trying to push this through but via a state ratification process. keep in mind dems only had congress for two years and there were other things they were trying to get done such as ACA. reading through the history though it seems everytime it is put forward or progress is made toward it, it is being pushed forward by democrats. what are you bitching about now? that biden didnt dictator it in like Trump does? why do types like you only ever bitch about dems and not repubs? how much is putin paying you? or is he just holding your family in front of a window?

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eldavi

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the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.

no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.

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peregrin5

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it's silly to expect basic humanity from Republicans so you bitch about democrats having basic humanity but not doing enough (in your opinion). lol ok then.

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eldavi

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why would anyone complain about something they're not expecting?

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peregrin5

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maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low

i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.

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XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]

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shut up you stupid asshole

zero via World News

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zero
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Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev

Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements...

apnews.com/article/trump-nucle…

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CocaineShrimp

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Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.

If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes

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Sandouq_Dyatha

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Good, I hope Russia destroys every single American submarine

skaarl via Linux

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skaarl
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How can ufw do me like that?

EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!

Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like

To                         Action      From

[VPN server]               ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
Anywhere                   ALLOW OUT   Anywhere on tun0

So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.

Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
53                         ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
80                         ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
9091                       ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24              # Transmission
2049                       ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24              # nfs

[VPN server]               ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
Anywhere                   ALLOW OUT   Anywhere on tun0          
192.168.2.77 22            ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
2049                       ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                   # nfs

So how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?

TIA

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skaarl

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curl ifconfig.me shows my ip address and I have full rawdog access to the internet lol

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blobjim [he/him]

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How do you know it isn't going through tun0?

hankthetankie [none/use name] via Privacy

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hankthetankie [none/use name]
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final steps for privacy. trackers in apps. options?

#privacy

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monovergent 🛠️

in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name] • 1 mese fa • •

Unsustainable if the app needs to be updated and not guaranteed to work, but I have ripped out the network and other unnecessary permissions of APKs before using APK Editor Studio.

GitHub - kefir500/apk-editor-studio: Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac.

Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac. - kefir500/apk-editor-studio

^GitHub

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bloubz

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BTW you don't neee an external app to remove network permission on GrapheneOS

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bloubz

in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name] • 1 mese fa • •

People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)

I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid

There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online

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Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve [Please first read, then comment]

By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

E: Please read the article before commenting.

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve

Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

^{Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (The Atlantic)}

#World

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Petersson

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The article says that Hamas wants Israel to starve Gazans, it doesn't say that Israel doesn't starve Gazans.

It literally says Israel uses hunger as weapon (against Hamas and against –or at least not caring about– civilians): "Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course."

E: You partly approve the article yourself and I'm aware of the fact it's Israel committing the genocide.

Not I nor the article have said that Israel isn't committing genocide. The only thing said is that Hamas profits by it and that Gazans are furious about looters and the Hamas. I don't understand why so many people downvote this, claim I would be paid, claim I would deny the genocide or write 6 comments where 1 would be enough, if not you want to deny Hamas is a terrorist organization which only cares about its own survival.

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geneva_convenience

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So why did Hamas agree to a ceasefire in March which Israel broke?

Why is Hamas bending over to accept ceasefire conditions? You are spreading Zionist blood libel and genocide propaganda.

ikt via World News

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France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student

French authorities have halted evacuations from Gaza after a Palestinian student, Nour A., was found to be under investigation for antisemitic content on social media.

^{Sophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)}

#World

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geneva_convenience

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Oh no the victims are not perfect. This means they deserve to be genocided!

zero via World News

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zero
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How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?

Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites.

^{Aaron Boxerman (The New York Times)}

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geneva_convenience

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Must be a bad harvest. No idea what could have caused this NYT.

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Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State

Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a...

nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/m…

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gigachad

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Yeah, but people are desperate and die of hunger.

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geneva_convenience

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So tell Israel to disband.

TypFaffke via Memes

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Quantum physics manifest

#memes

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mumblerfish

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That would be an impressive addition to the standard model.

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El_guapazo

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You mean GeV?

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Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility

The online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported that hundreds of protesters joined the rally, while police put the number at 80. The police then arrested some of the demonstrators.

^{Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)}

#Worldnews

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multi boot - Hibernating and booting into another System or Distribution: will my filesystems be corrupted?

Short answer is: yes, as soon as more than one OS mounts a file system in read-write mode.

The kernel of a modern OS (I am generously including Windows here) caches file system data structures in memory. When you hibernate the computer, the content of that memory is written into a large file because that speeds-up a later restart.

Now, if you boot up another OS, and modify these partitions (without mounting them read-only), you alter the file systems data structures. That happens already when you view folders because this modifies access times stored in the inodes.

When you now shut down the second OS, and resume the first OS, the restarted kernel will have and use cached file system metadata which id loaded from the image into the kernel, that does not match that of the files on disk. And this causes file system corruption by definition.

data structure describing a file-system object (e.g. file, directory) that stores the attributes and disk block location(s) of the object data

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BCsven

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When you say hibernate do you mean sleep, because my understanding was proper hibernate writes the image to disk of the memory, and reads that back in on next boot. PC is totally off during proper hibernate

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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No, I mean hibernate, with the PC turned off. In sleep state, you return to the running kernel/OS, so no possibility to boot into another distro, therefore no risk of filesystem damage.

The crucial thing is that file systems need to be unmounted before they can be accessed by another distribution or OS.

see

askubuntu.com/questions/55527/…

Dual boot and sleep/hibernate issues?

I set up a dual boot before, but I've never thought about how or if putting a laptop to sleep or hibernate will affect grub or the OSes. For example, if I dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu, then use w...

^{Ask Ubuntu}

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Changes according to the new UK, USA, EU laws?

So, im kinda curious ~~(preocupied)~~, regarding how is the feddi-verse standing in regards to this new threath to freedoms and privacy in general. To the point in which some of us are seriously considering leaving the "clear" net altogether in favor of freenet, tor (even if already kinda compromised by the feds), etc.

So... what now?

#technology

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JumpyWombat

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I always hanged around non-mainstream forms of social media. The main issue with that is that the lack of "normies" soon transforms them in bubbles where extreme or controversial ideas are normalized.

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SinJab0n

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Ik, but even then is better than having' no privacy at all. I got kicked from my first university for participating in protests regarding the "grape" of a student by a faculty member, i was one of the unlucky ones selected to be "examples", hell its even a law now that all protest are illegal and reason to inmediate expulsion.

So yeah, liberty and privacy, nothing less.

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AlpBerNil via Memes

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Metal

#memes

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rbn

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Next level upcycling 😀

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IvyisAngy

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I wouldn't be surprised if said uncle asked to be made into a guitar or something.

WaffleWarrior via Linux

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Changing GTK theme vis Gnome Tweaks

I am trying to change my GTK theme via gnome tweaks buy that is no actual option to change the Theme via the appearance tab. I believe it is now listed under "legacy" and while the command line lists that my GTK theme is indeed changed to Material Black (the one I downloaded) the system windows still look like the default system settings. What is going on here

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WaffleWarrior

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I just REALLY want a pure black theme and apparently Gnome with Ubuntu is not the answer

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Eugenia

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Just install XFce (no need to reinstall the OS). XFce is very themeable.

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oeuf via Privacy

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Running a business/working in 2025

How do I make money - self-employed - without using corporate social media?

I was coasting along on an extremely minimal income and I embraced an ethical position of using only privacy-compatible technology.

I subsequently had a wonderful little person come into my life who has made me want to have more material capability & flexilibilty. And so I have turned to trying to sell my skills again.

By refusing to use to use corporate social media to promote my services, I am handicapping myself in getting work.

I also struggle to bring myself to cooperate with powers which are working to undermine my child's opportunity to have a good life.

Would appreciate your thoughts

#privacy

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Em Adespoton

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Do local networking the way we used to do it before social media — make up business cards with QR codes advertising what you can do, and leave the on public and semi-public bulletin boards (community centers, sports and fitness places, churches and shopping malls, parks that have boards set up, farmers markets, etc.). If you need to, try going door to door. If you can afford it, buy bulk mail and distribute a flyer locally. Let your friends and neighbors know what you can do. Take a few jobs below cost at first ifyou need to, listing your regular rate and a promotional or loyalty discount.

Personally I never made enough money to survive on doing this, but it was enough to keep me above water between contracts.

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oeuf

in reply to Em Adespoton • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm doing at the moment (haven't quite got to door-to-door though - maybe it will come to that). Those are some good ideas for locations for placing ads - thanks. I'm out of that headspace and need to get back in it!

I can't help noticing how much work is coming in to my peers from instagram though. I'm getting the impression that it has become the standard medium/conduit for professionals.

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Em Adespoton

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Instagram is the standard way to reach people in their 30s and early 40s. Anyone older or younger, traditional methods should bring more repeat business.

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cardfire

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If trying bulk mail -- explore USPS "EDDM" services for canvassing local ZIP codes for sub-letter pricing.

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svitvojimilioni

in reply to oeuf • 1 mese fa • •

just make business accounts on mainstream social media. idk what your job is or if you can do it but in parallel you can also have business accounts on federated/private/ethical whatever you call it social media and with that you are also promoting other networks etc. if u have more people working with you use some federated chat xmpp for example instead of slack, stuff like that

it's not your fault, there is no "ethical" production/consumption in capitalism

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tisktisk

in reply to svitvojimilioni • 1 mese fa • •

There is 'more/less' ethical though. Don't go full relativist on me

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svitvojimilioni

in reply to tisktisk • 1 mese fa • •

the term is pointless

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Steve

in reply to tisktisk • 1 mese fa • •

Only Sith deal in absolutes

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solrize

in reply to oeuf • 1 mese fa • •

For running a public-facing business where your customer leads have to come from online, I don't have a good answer, except maybe to take an attitude that it's your company rather than you who is using the social media. I did a similar thing when I had to do some windows development for a client. I don't run windows on my own computers, but the client supplied a windows laptop that I did the work on, so it was their computer rather than mine, ok fine. I realize it's possible to overstretch that concept but it's a matter of your personal comfort level.

As an ordinary working stiff working privately for companies or clients but not seeking public exposure, I haven't had significant problems despite not using the big social media including linkedin and github. Just respond to advertisements and stuff like that to get jobs, and self-host a public code repo if you want one. Once someone commented on it but it still wasn't an issue.

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Steve

in reply to oeuf • 1 mese fa • •

You create business accounts.
Use them exclusively for business.
Use a separate browser to access those accounts.
Create a firewall as much as you can between the personal and professional online.

Business is inherently ethically dirty. Doing work for money is already an ethical step down. But in the environment you live in, it's necessary to survive. So you do it. For you and your kid.

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swelter_spark

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Use Thumbtack or search engines/listing sites specifically for your type of business. Make friends with your clients. Cater to a specific group. Word of mouth can be powerful at gaining new business, but it takes about 6 months to get going.

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irmadlad

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First, congratulations on the new family member.

Not knowing exactly the nature of your entrepreneurial skills, I have found good success with meet n' greet, press the flesh as it were. Some businesses need a lot of advertising, some don't need any. Join your local Chamber of Commerce or Business Association. Keep your ears open. Treat every interaction as an opportunity to grow your business.

For example, I am getting along in years so farming 20 acres got to be a bit much for one old guy. I started leasing acreage to other local farmers mainly for growing silage. I was at one of our local farmer's market one day and by chance overheard/eavesdropped a conversation a small group was having. They were talking about looking for small plots of land that they could all go in on together and have a communal garden. You help with the labor, you get a share of the grow type of thing.

So I approached them and listened to them talk and suggested that I may have the solution they were looking for. Long story short, I now have four, one acre plots that I lease to locals for their communal gardens. I provide the pipe stand for a water supply with bib to split off different watering troughs and I plow the plot for you. All you have to do is work the soil, grow your veggies, and profit.

So basically now, I have positive cash flow with moderate to minimal work. I still maintain a one acre plot for my personal grow but in all honesty it's far to much for just one person to eat. I usually donate most of that to local food banks in town. Which is another good thought to keep in mind. We all get help along the way in life. No one is self made. Pay it forward. Give something back to the community local to you.

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reagansrottencorpse

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What kind of business are you looking to start? I dream of being my own boss too.

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