I’m pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I’ve ever used don’t care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you’re typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don’t think the FS cares.

On my ext4 FS I was able to touch me~ow just now with no issues.

I don’t know a lot about stuff, but is there a reason you’re backing up the files off the disks, rather than imaging the disks into an ISO or something? I’ve never owned a 360 disk, so maybe there’s some reason I don’t know.

Honestly, I’m not a big fan if Microsoft generally, but I found NFS to be surprisingly not great for non-permanent infrastructure, whereas SMB took a few minutes and works great, at least in my use cases. Maybe I’m just a loser, though.

I know this is a stereotype, and doesn’t apply to all men or women, but I think it’s important. I think the woman thinks “if I’m important to you, you should represent me at my best”, which I could maybe see as a form of respect or something.

But the dude is like “I don’t love you for your best, I love you at your silliest. This is a photo of you no one else has, and gives me the feeling of when we’re together. Anyone can use your LinkedIn headshot or some photo from Instagram of you posing over some drinks.”

I’m not sure stereotypical women have noticed their guys while setting up an Instagram photo, but they’re not cherishing those moments 😛

I know you’re gatekeeping from Turd Mountain, but just for completeness, the reason I use Jellyfin besides the “pretty for my wife” reason is that it keeps track of her progress between clients. She sometimes watches things on her laptop, sometimes her phone, sometimes her tablet, and sometimes the TV, and no matter which one she uses it’ll remember which episode of her show is the next episode. It also highlights when a new episode of something has been added and cues her to watch the new episode that just came out.

But yeah, if I was alone and only had a pile of anime I’d already seen before, which I only watched from my Linux devices, Samba and VLC would do me fine 😛

I know this is a little off-topic, but I felt like this was a comically extreme example of the “fun” of the Fediverse, to have come up organically here in the Fediverse community.

“Hey, is there something like Facebook?”

“No, we’re not like that here. I’ve got some interesting information about that on my own website”

“That link doesn’t work”

“Oh that’s right, we totally broke it and I forgot, and gave you a broken link to my own instance. Anyway, in liue of working links, here’s some text you can use to fish around on my website with instead”

😛

Nothing in this world is forever, and I hate Facebook, but I bet there’s Facebook links that people have to some special post or photo from their life from 16 years ago, and we got a broken link live from a site that might be gone in 2 years. 😉

violet08: Something something if they like stress, the rockclimbers should come climb me.

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here until I’m not.

This is one of the reasons these “let’s replace Discord” threads are so tricky. I use Discord basically every day, and heavily twice a week for games nights with two different groups, for 6 years. I’m in there. And I have never uploaded a clip or streamed anything, so I never considered that this might be something people want, or are using the platform for. And I’ve seen a few custom emoji around, but never considered using some dude’s emoji in a different group’s chat.

So it’s wild how different people are using it, and getting one replacement to do all of it is a big ask!

There’s an official doc about this: https://trapexit.github.io/mergerfs/latest/remote_filesystems/

Have you tried those things?

Yeah I mean, this is the benefit of the fragmentation. If you don’t want to update all the time, you just use a different distro. I know I do, I’ve run Linux for 21 years now and never once run Arch because I don’t want what it does, but we’re still on the same team, and the things they do benefit me nonetheless. There are drawbacks to the fragmentation, but this is one of the benefits.

I’m not a fanboi of AI, but also not all AI is equally capable. You can be upset for ethical reasons, you can dislike some things it produces for style reasons, and yes it does sometimes produce code that feels like it should work, even though it doesn’t. All of these things are true.

But also Claude doing coding is very different than the AI answers on Google searches, and even those are much better than a cherry-picked highlight reel of bad results on a blog post.

Again, you don’t have to like AI or agree with its use, but claiming the code Claude produces is fully bullshit because some customer support chatbot does a bad job is just being misinformed. You should at least know your enemy and its capabilities.

I wonder what they think the word “vow” means… 🤔

OIDC is innately centralized

Huh, that’s not my understanding. I was there when it first came out, and the whole point was to allow you to use any URI of your choice as an authenticator. Let’s see what the first line of Wikipedia has to say:

OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol

Huh. 🤔

“Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”

Maybe I don’t understand what this warning means, but I don’t see anything here: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aclaude

Does this mean something else?

Can someone who knows things decode what 73% playable, with 98% in-game means? Does in-game just mean it starts, but playable means it has to actually with well? Or is it a different metric entirely?

🤔

Hmmmmmm. It didn’t, and when I last looked, and even in hearing people talking during this kerfuffle, it didn’t sound like it supported this, but perhaps it does. Which would be nice!

Searching for a single Discord alternative may be asking the wrong question however. Discord itself is an extensive bundle of functions smashed together: real-time chat, persistent forums and documentation, voice chats, events and even games.

I think this is the important part that’s missing from a lot of these discussions, including from users themselves looking for a new place to go. Some people use discord as an IRC chatroom replacement. Some use it was a small group text, essentially, between friends or co-workers. Some people use it as a Patreon perk to get access to a community around an artist and interact with that artist and their other fans.

And I’m in some “servers” of all of those. So anywhere that’s using it as IRC can be replaced with XMPP or Matrix no problem. Or IRC, but with gifs. Cool. But my other group that hangs out in there async every day and the occasionally jumps onto an ad-hoc voice chat when people are available to game, or sometimes shares my screen so someone else can watch what I’m doing? None of those things do that. But mumble kinda does, but not in a persistent or integrated way. Mumble is a great way to talk, but an awful place to hang out. Jitsi does screen share, but is not casual and also isn’t a good hangout.

And we could limp by with an XMPP room for chat and then a link to a Jitsi or Mumble or something when it’s time to do something. But there’s something tight about having the “just call” button right there, tied to the chat you’re already in, and in being able to see “huh Alice and Bob are playing GAME right now. I should pop in!”

But if you’ve never been in a discord server like that, you make a recommendation of IRC or something, and a gaming friend group user checks it out and is like “this is even close to doing any of the things I need it to…”

Is it?

I switched from Strava to OpenTracks, which does all of the recording but none of the social parts, and keeps the data all on device as far as I know. This looks cool! But for me I probably wouldn’t have enough use of it to set it up, so I’m not going to ask you to support OpenTracks just for me, but I mention this in case it’s exciting for you. If other people use OpenTracks and would benefit from this, they can mention that too I guess!

But it looks great!