A rich person. Imma fuck em up from within

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! And a hard-boiled egg!

Shut up, you can’t take the sky from me

• Spotify -> Bandcamp. ~80% of the proceeds go to the artists, last I’ve heard. Also, FLAC downloads, and a streaming app.
• Gmail -> mailbox.org. It’s a bit pricey at 2,50€/month, but that gets you 4(IIRC) family accounts at no additional costs and servers hosted in Germany. Email is the one service I’m gladly paying for. Tried hosting email myself once; it’s horseshit.
• Whatsapp -> Signal (and Whatsapp, sigh). I donate 5€/month. This is money I consider well spent to keep Signal running.
• I once paid a hundred bucks for the big ol’ Osmand+ update, back when I still had Google Play. Money well spent for a good project.
• Some Github sponsoring here and there, mostly for Android bread ‘n’ butter apps, such as a PDF reader, a good music player with Opus support, a FOSS email app, and – last but not least – Öffi.
• Some irregular donations to the KeePassXC and Paperless-NGX developers.

I would like everyone who has ever donated to FOSS software developers to consider that ‘money spent to avoid Big Tech’. You’re doing a good thing.

I read it to our (at the time) 12 year-old when she had trouble sleeping. Didn’t help, go figure. With my hindsight glasses on, I guess I could have picked a better book for that particular problem.

Heh, tell me about it. knocks on wood

Nice username btw. :)

Sure. The following are the bits that I’m pretty sure are universal. The rest – mostly configuring my audio interface – is IMO fairly specific to my system and can be found in my dotfiles.

• Limits for Pipewire:

  # /etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf
  @pipewire   - rtprio  95
  @pipewire   - nice    -19
  @pipewire   - memlock 4194304
  

• Add the realtime group and grant it access to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so Ardour can prevent the system from going into idle:

  # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-realtime-privileges.rules
  KERNEL=="cpu_dma_latency", GROUP="realtime"
  

• Add threadirqs and preempt=full to the kernel commandline
• Disable VM swap readahead since Kinoite uses ZRAM anyways:

  # /etc/sysctl.d/50-audio.conf
  vm.page-cluster = 0
  

• Set IO scheduler to None for SSDs and NVMe:

  # /etc/udev/rules.d/60-block-scheduler.rules
  ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="nvme?n?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
  ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="sd?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
  

I’m not using a preempt kernel or anything like that; I’ve only gotten into audio when Pipewire had already hit the scene and I’ve found it to be good enough with these settings.

Right, if you insist: Fedora Kinoite, Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th Gen, some sysctl tweaks for low-latency audio.

Yesterday I realized my password database (which I sync between computers/phones via Syncthing) was broken, because I had failed to regularly manage upgrades for my Syncthing container, and Syncthing had recently released a v2.0. My monitoring was insufficient and so I hadn’t noticed the Syncthing container on my laptop hadn’t been running since ~September. When I got Syncthing running again, I had already made changes to my password database on all three synced devices, so Syncthing generated a number of password.sync-conflict-<date>-<time>.kdbx files. Normally that’s not a big deal because my password manager has the ability to merge two password databases together, but this time around 400 entries showed issues when merging.

So, armed with a big ol’ mug of mulled wine, I bit the bullet and started checking entries manually. After a trip to the KeePassXC bug tracker and the merger code, it turned out that the entries only differred in a few seconds in the _LAST_MODIFIED attribute, which can happen when my laptop is a) on battery, which causes the system clock to go a little off when the voltage drops and b) disconnected from the internet so the NTP client doesn’t have a change to sync time. Both happened a lot during the months the time my password database had failed to sync – we had gone to Paris (lovely place, can wholly recommend a visit) and my GF’s daughter is in the habit of watching shows on the computer without plugging in the power.

So I shrugged, merged anyway, ignored the error messages, deleted the sync-conflict files, and called it a day. Maybe the wine played a role in that decision, maybe not.

Thank you for coming to my TED‌ talk.

Linux. I’m bringing it on myself, though

I’m in IT. My personal laptop is perennially broken because I. cannot. stop. tinkering.

• em dashes
• “delve”
• “Key takeaways” instead of “Conclusion”

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)

What’s ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain

I, cannot disguise,
all the stomach pains
and the walking of the cranes
when you, do come out
and you whisper up to me
in your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
till you eat the last of me
oh when will I be free
and you, a parasite
just find another host
just another fool to roast
cause you
my tapeworm tells me what to do
you
my tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY

Right. As we all know, ed is the standard text editor.

I sometimes like to pride myself on my ability to take a different viewpoint, but today it’s absolutely failing me, lol. I really thought this was a movie everyone could at least enjoy.

I guess it hit every nail on the head. That’s all it hit, actually.

That’s a fascinating statement. Could you elaborate a bit?

I may be biased, as an RPG nerd, but man, they hit all the notes so damn well. That was such a good movie.

Also just how fucking cool is that title man, seriously? I realize I’m letting my inner 8-year old get the better of me, but in this case, he’s goddamn right.

It is my favorite game for this reason alone. Every screen feels just… right. Crafted. It’s a good feeling, like I’m in good hands.

It’s my comfort game.

Therapy, family, plotting to overturn the system in my head, imagining carrying out those plans with them going swimmingly, imagining myself as the warlord-poet of the enlightened utopic society I would erect afterwards, imagining other things.

There’s a lot of imagining.