machinya [it/its, fae/faer]

privacy/security and convinience is almost always a linear scale where you need to choose to risk one to get the other. you should draw the line at the exact point you feel is correct. you have to decide how many hops are you comfortable jumping through to simply use something you want/need to.

no google is way better than microg that is better than play services, but every step requires you to stop using MANY things directly. is way worse when you need things like banks that require the full package and will keep breaking all the time if you ever find workarounds. this will in turn increase the time you spend making your device work instead of using it as a tool.

nice, i was starting to get worried when nvidia stock price started going up again

curse you bisexuals, you always get the best flags

wiiu was a complete mess because nintendo didn’t really knew what to do with it. it tried to market it for (i remember there were conferences where the highlight was fifa or some “grown up” game) while trying to keep it’s usual family friendly userbase. it tried to move away from motion controlls (again, trying to appease gamers) while also having a very interactive gamepad without many games using its features. even the most popular games failed to sell the console so nintendo decided that they will try to slowly delete its existance from collective memory and re-released almost all the games for the switch.

i don’t doubt the name problem was real, but i also read of things like this on the ps1/ps2 transition so i doubt it was as bad as many make it sound.

backups will depend lots on your setup and how far you want to go with it. if you use filesystems like btrfs or zfs you can copy snapshots (across different computers, multiple disks in the same computer, across the web). there are tools dedicated to backup like borg that tries to simplify the whole process. if you want to diy, you can use rsync to do checksumming and copying only new or different files. you can even do snapshot-like backups with a bit of effort.

regardless of the method you use, keep in mind backups are for when things go wrong. ensure they are accesible to you whenever you need them (physically accesible, you have the keys if you chose to encrypt them, the hardware is in good state, things like that). people tend to recommend to keep at least 3 copies in two different formats and one in a different physical place (also known as the 3-2-1 rule) in case you loose two copies at the same time (in case of natural disaster for example).

kubernetes is the way to go for home cluster computing

i will challenge this idea every time I see it. The benefits that you get with it are good but usually quite overkill for the needs of a home cluster. Services that balances across nodes, no downtime, software defined storage; all of those stuff is nice and fun but most of the home clusters don’t really need them.

kubernetes is quite complex and it’s very hard to handle when you don’t have all the necesary knowledge and experience to do so. it’s very easy to misconfigure things and errors are often very hard to find when you don’t know where to look. there are other projects that try to have a simpler version of the “cluster orchestration” (nomad, swarm, portainer and others. haven’t tried all of them so I might be wrong) but they are also complex on it’s own way and have their own share of problems.

my recomendation is that, unles you are planning to work on it and want to get more experience, you should start with smaller things (podman + systemd, regular docker, maybe start managing systems with ansible) and slowly build new things over what you already have. this has the benefit of letting you learn the basics slowly so that if you ever jump to the kubernetes bandwagon you will have more knowledge that will help the experience to be better

i have never understood why using agab was ever accepted as trans possitive language. like, it’s litteraly the type of language transphobes use to categorize us

the whole definition of being trans is that you don’t agree with the gender you were asigned at birth!

that one is atrocious but another thing i also find nasty is the amount of disk space new games need. sure, buying more disks is way cheaper than getting more graphical power but downloading +100Gb for a game I might just play once feels like an incredible waste

games should have a lo-fi version where they use lower textures and less graphical features for the people that cannot actually see the difference in graphics after the ps2 era

pretty much every pressident since 1992 has made statements about supporting indigenous people in one way or another just to backstab them with worse reactions. AMLO was specially bad since he did use them as political platform and then continue the common opression every other pressident had done.

Claudia has said many things that sound good in theory but my trust in politicians has complately run dry. this reminds me of the san andres accords, which looked really good but the government decided to betray them bad

will stop seeing posts even if they follow them

wow, is this real? like, what type of social media is it that you can block your own follows without even telling you explicitly. I get the idea of wanting to get automatic block of specific stuff (even if I don’t agree) but having blocklists take precedence over something you actively opted in for makes no sense at all

what’s left

fursuits

i have not tried it myself but have you taken a look into zig? it looks alot like go but is lower level. i have heard good things about it and it looks nice. of course the ecosystem is quite limited since it’s a quite new language

yearning for a different timeline where this was the actual end of the cold war

decided to try supertuxkart again after dismissing it as a bad game years ago. surprisingly, it’s quite entertaining. it still have very rough edges but it’s actually fun to play for a bit

i hated them to death while on the school, but my job has been glorified group projects for some years already and i found out the main problem with them was that most people usually cared nothing about the actual project. this alho happens during the work but there people care at least for their individual reviews so it’s less painful

been using a kensington one for a couple of years and I don’t think i will be able to use a mouse ever again. While this model is not great and it could use some improvements. The whole idea of a trackball is really comfortable

that said, I lost the original ball and it has been incredibly hard to find a proper replacement. we have tried many different ones and they all have downsides that make the experience not great but still better than a mouse

i have a weird thing where even if i have enough time, i just keep finding things that i need to do before leaving. they are usually simple to do but brain defines them as urgent so i cannot just push them for later and they keep me from actually leaving the house until it’s late. this becomes worse for things i don’t really want to do but have to, so i think it’s like a subconcious way i have to cope with the anxiety of leaving or something

i just learned not so long ago the concept of “man cave” where they have rules like “no women allowed here” which in my opinion, sounds everything but het. but for some reason, it is considered very manly and very het

scream of independence

this is probably the first time I read this in english and sounds rad. it could be the name of a metal band or something

this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it