Notices by James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)

@Gargron I had a friend who had an account on a server with a less-than-generous admin, who nuked his account for no reasonable reason.

I love the idea of being able to move your account elsewhere, but it seems once you've been banned somewhere, it's too late :/

RE: https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/116399702459492158

The funny thing is that professionals who work in ambulance, etc, have already solved this issue. It's simple: "On three, one, two, three!"

@RuiSeabra I never said it was Fedora's fault. But I do know it's damaging the Fedora brand. I would really hope the Fedora partnership people who work with Lenovo would be polishing this a bit more. I'm spending social capital here to switch people away from Windows and this is not helping :/

Trying to do my part to encourage more Linux over M$ usage. Got two friends to buy Lenovo w/ Fedora pre-installed for their new laptops.

TL;DR: totally unstable garbage. Hangs all the time. In dmesg:

amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: MES failed to respond to msg=MISC (WAIT_REG_MEM)
amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: failed to reg_write_reg_wait
amdgpu 0000:c4:00.0: amdgpu: MES ring buffer is full.

We only win when the quality is better! These two users are annoyed they spent their money on not working.

The solution isn't to pivot from one proprietary platform to a different one.

It isn't even about repatriating the servers to your home country. (Although that's often a good thing!)

It's about moving to Free Software platforms that you or your community can run for yourselves!

(And yes, I'm still waiting for signalapp to release all of their backend automation/infra code!)

@gangrif Nah, it's the right platform from the available choices, it's just that their various UI's are seriously unpolished. Once that improves and becomes less buggy it will do fine.

@whitequark portal 2 has great two player coop!

@whitequark It kills me. I am constantly very frustrated by the lack of less than perfect healthcare due to fixable issues (funding, training, staffing, culture, etc...)

For the record, I have not personally worked in OR's, but I am a physiologist by training, used to work in an ambulance, and I'm friends with and have talked to many, many doctors. My experience is in Montreal, Canada, YMMV elsewhere.

@whitequark Ouch? Seriously though, most of the time when servers go down, people don't die =D

@whitequark They are not allowed to make such mistakes, but unfortunately when they do, they're not necessarily found out, and there is an unhealthy culture of secrecy and covering up in some operating rooms.

If you follow the pattern, let the server go down just don't let anyone find out =D

"No, you must have copied that file to a different server, sorry." #BOFH

@whitequark Don't remember the specific time codes, but he mentions a bunch of issues, including one where the cursors disappear and so on...

@whitequark Funny timing, I just watched this review of that exact same scope, and TBQH, it did not impress me.

Video may be useful as a heads up for some bugs and other workarounds.

Glad to hear it's working well for you!

https://youtu.be/EFEuWGFDL9U?t=86

@Gargron @Ameboid I don't get out much. 😅

@Gargron @Ameboid That's fantastic news!

@Gargron @Ameboid Honestly, one thing that turns off a huge number of people is calling it "toot". The sooner we stop using that term, the sooner there's a chance of non-super-nerds using this platform too =D

@whitequark @mntmn Fair enough. My initial "apparently" was meant to imply something I overheard that I had not researched much. I guess you rightly prompted that. Sounds like you should get a side-job as peer review for a journal =D Good intuition.

@whitequark @mntmn Some casual reading seems to indicate PVA is not a major risk, but probably isn't a good thing. I remember the old days we used to just throw in some soap powder and that was it.

This article has a decent summary.

https://time.com/7320935/dishwasher-pods-plastic/

@whitequark @mntmn Something I read or overheard and definitely didn't confirm by reading any papers. An internet search of "dishwasher pva microplastics" (pva == polyvinyl alcohol) seems to have a number of references, but I can't vouch for any personally.

@mntmn @whitequark Apparently the dissolvable pouches basically put a zillion microplastics down the drain.

@whitequark @migratory @wingo ping purpleidea in #mgmtconfig:matrix.org please =D