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Idiots.

dotfiles and system configuration are pretty different use-cases, usually when you do system-wide stuff you want to manage not just the configuration files but also what software is installed and a bunch of other things. Ansible or something else like it is definitely the right tool for the job. And Ansible isn’t so difficult to learn, you only need to know like 5% of what it can do to be very effective.

For dotfiles my personal preference is dotbot, but there are MANY many different tools that are all good and are just different ways to accomplish roughly the same thing.

I’m in a family group with only my wife and even we have 2 copies of Balatro.

What do you think you’re paying with when you’re using a “free” VPN?

This is the most British thing I’ve read in a while.

Ha, die kende ik nog niet! Zeker beter dan het Kiescompas ja, maar er valt ook nog wel een kanttekening bij te stellen. Ruimte voor nuance is er niet (altijd een probleem met dit soort dingen), en je moet ook uitkijken voor symboolgedrag, zoals een NOS artikel toevallig vandaag aanhaalde: https://nos.nl/artikel/2584855-politieke-partijen-vrezen-bolletjesterreur-op-laatste-kamerdag

Maar op zich hebben ze wel relevante stemmingen uitgezocht om de Stemchecker samen te stellen. Mijn uitkomst klopt ook behoorlijk met mijn persoonlijke mening over bepaalde partijen zie ik. En alles is beter dan blind PVV stemmen inderdaad!

Tsja, waarde hechten aan een paar loze partijstandpunten is sowieso nogal dubieus. Ik moest nogal lachen dat NSC links van CDA uitkomt bijvoorbeeld. Er zit nogal wat lucht tussen hoe ze beweren dat ze zijn (op Kiescompas o.a.) en hoe ze werkelijk handelen, en dat geldt voor meerdere partijen.

Same here. Only time it stopped working is when my last subtitle provider stopped working, so then I put in a few new ones.

Oh, that would have been really useful a year ago! Thanks, I’ll keep it in my bag of tricks, it looks pretty neat.

Yeah I wouldn’t call Arch a server OS. I run Arch on my laptop, but Debian on my docker/file/self-hosting server. Best tool for the job etc. Never even been tempted by Unraid, the whole point of running Linux is that I control what goes where.

+1 for Podman. I switched from docker last year and I’m really happy I did. It’s not all sunshine and roses (can’t copy paste so much from the internet being the main issue, nobody gives examples for it), but the product itself is much better.

This particular example isn’t very good, just install multiple kernels (or compile one yourself) on your distro of choice and boot into the one you want with your bootloader of choice. Once set up you don’t even have to change any configs any more, just use an interactive menu on boot. So even easier than NixOS? There are plenty of valid use-cases for Nix, this isn’t one of them.

Oof. That’s a well-made summary of everything going on with Eurovision for the past years. Really curious to see how the current situation of a whole bunch of countries threatening to pull out will play out.

We currently have an incredibly stupid government, so that tracks. Not for long hopefully, elections in just over a month.

Op zich wel goed, want dat betekent dat we net zo makkelijk in de rest van de EU online kunnen betalen als we nu in Nederland kunnen. Enige nadeel van iDEAL en ik denk ook straks Wero is dat het voor consumenten iets minder veilig is dan credit cards en zo, omdat je geen terugboekingen kan doen.

If you only route your encrypted Usenet traffic through it then sure, the privacy argument is moot, you’re just spending money for worse performance without any benefit.

But way too many people route all their traffic through a VPN under the assumption that it improves privacy somehow, which often isn’t the case.

Worse performance, not everything works, and depending on the country you live in and which VPN provider you pick a VPN can actually be a downgrade in privacy since a second commercial entity now has the ability to look at all your traffic and distil valuable data from it to sell. The better VPN providers say they don’t do this (and some probably don’t) but a lot of them will definitely do so.

You’re probably correct, although I have no experience with zram so can’t be sure. But you’re absolutely right that PostgreSQL depends heavily on the OS disk cache for optimal performance. Lowering the PostgreSQL setting like Blaster M suggests won’t improve performance much, since all that setting does is tell PostgreSQL’s algorithms how much memory is likely to be allocated to the OS disk cache. Of course it’s best if it’s accurate, so you’re best off seeing how much memory is actually allocated to disk cache under heavy use before setting it, but it shouldn’t massively reduce performance if you don’t get it right.

Also: VPN is only really needed for torrenting, and that’s not the only way to pirate stuff. Usenet is perfectly fine to use without a VPN, since it’s encrypted (TLS/SSL if you configure it right) and other parties can’t just join your P2P network to see what you’re doing.

The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC). Even if you are not at all interested in sewing clothes. It’s so fucking wholesome and adorable that it’s a massive antidote to all the bad things out there. First season is still a bit rough, it gets better and better after that (there are 11 seasons in total now).