Notices by m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one), page 2

@meso @creamqueen @adachi @jihadjimmy
WTF is this choice of cars, Lada Racing Club? 😂

@p @vic
I don't know — I didn't write it myself, I'm using whatever Void's xbps-src is giving me🤷
The only thing that might be different in Firefox on this machine from the standard issue Void binaries, as I still had to rebuild it because I patch the about:config preference to disable WebP support, that Mozilla has removed, back in, is that it's built without PulseAudio support — I do not enforce it for every software I run, but the flag to disable it is set globally and it gets picked up.

@hj @lain
Won't returning such an e-readed and requesting a refund make more sense than attempting to fix it with another gadget? 😆

@lain @kaia
Damn these energy prices! We can't even have real inches in this economy!
Shrinkflation of the masculinity!

@dcc @p @vic
Sent from Firefox (without dbus).

@p @vic
Does it have to do specifically with dbus? Of course not, FF does a plethora of questionable things, like audio input not working in FF without PulseAudio, so I have to use apulse — luckily the output works with alsa.
I agree with you — it should be optional, but IMO it doesn't make dbus itself bad.
I probably wouldn't even have a problem with systemd — were it modular (and less bug-infested😏), BTW this would fit nicely with your approach: don't need the horse — throw it the fuck out!

@p @vic
I just tried stopping it (instead of restarting) and killing all instances of dbus-daemon running as user — again, nothing special happened, except for… yeah, Firefox — it didn't segfault though, terminated gracefully with something like "channel closed".
Ironically, I can start Firefox again without dbus running, dbus doesn't get spawned and FF works fine.
Well, what can I say… It's odd, it's lame, but so is its developers design decision.

@p @vic
> It's like a DE. I don't want a DE. People ask how you can have a widget tray without a DE. I don't want a widget tray.
Same here, I have machines that do not have dbus, but I have no problem running it on the ones where I can benefit from it — seriously, among these things it's the only one I have zero problems with. Overengineered — sure, but it's nowhere near as buggy as systemd and it's fully modular: you can easily replace it with another thing and you can even not have it at all.

@p @vic
> If I kill dbus, a bunch of shit crashes.
I suppose it depends on the distro, how deeply it integrates it and how modular it assumes it to be.
I have just restarted dbus in my Void system (where I even have elogind) — literally nothing started falling apart, no user-facing software crashed or got terminated, bluetoothd got restarted — that's it 🤷

@p
What's wrong with dbus though? Something has to fill the role of IPC to pass messages between daemons and other software that isn't… you know, a named socket — something higher level 😅
Even OpenWRT — which doesn't have all the luxuries of a full-blown system, has ubus.
@vic

@annika
…or Geminispace 😄

@p @Thickasabrick @j
Even lol-winrar days could hardly be considered intellectual, but damn… look where we've arrived 😩

@Nicro
Yeah, probably doable — even ready to use third-party ones might be available from stores that sell Apple-compatible components such as OWC. But I'm not sure that would still qualify as user-serviceable as it further blurs the line of what that is — after all people for whom ordering chips which meet the specs online and soldering them in isn't a problem exist too 😅

@kaia

@Nicro @kaia
Yep, just as expected: https://www.gsmarena.com/mac_mini_2024_gets_a_teardown_has_no_user_upgradeable_parts-news-65273.php
This can hardly be considered user-serviceable 😩

@newt
Starting udev... ok

@icedquinn @kaia
Exactly! And this is how I find those that I no longer want — something weird comes up as a suggestion.
Whether the bookmark is old or rarely used — I don't care, if I bookmarked it, I might still want to get back to it some time — and finding it in the bookmarks is still easier than going five months back in history. Also, I might be weird^W among the few who use tags for bookmarks in Firefox — tags work even if you don't organise them in hierarchy, makes navigation easier.

@kaia
rutracker.org — it's not as good as some specialised music torrent sites might be, but still good — mostly because it's Russian and I think they just ignore takedown notes.
And it's open — the built-in search might not work without an account, but you can always search for "site:rutracker.org whatever-you-want" on DuckDuckGo. Also, it doesn't always allow you to download .torrent files without logging it, but Magnet links always remain public and most Bittorrent software supports them.

@kaia
Putting Mini Cooper market share in grave danger by changing just one letter?

@munir
Ha-ha-ha, it's not that I get offended when I do not get responses… it's just with Fedi you can never be certain that the posts get propagated, whether the one you're replying to even knows of your reply's existence. Sometimes I even go to the frontend of the instance of the one I'm replying to and check if my post is there — of course if the instance has public access to its posts.

@munir
Well, a couple of times I did chat with you on this instance, but most of the time you do not respond, so I'm not sure 😜