Notices by Duncan Bayne (duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

@hellomiakoda But they're *all* wrong, you should use FreeBSD instead 🤪

@hellomiakoda Something else you can do that's cool - use tmux for collaboration.

Start up a tmux session, load your editor, then a friend can SSH in and connect to the *same tmux session*.

Then it's as though you're sitting at the same machine, working together :)

@hellomiakoda Telling our kids "don't eat these" and explaining what happens if they do, seems to have done the trick. Main thing was keeping them away from the kids until they were old enough for that conversation.

Same with the exposed mains wiring in the valve amp in the living room. "Today we're going to learn about shock hazards".

Never really believed in the "child safe home" thing. Best to equip their workbench with a soldering iron, and have smoke and CO detectors, and fire extinguishers, placed liberally around the house.

*Edit*: this may be a hoax 🙄 See https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114111573461925897, and, thanks @ojs 😁

Apparently, Brother may be in the process of enshittifying. I've sent Brother Australia a polite message asking for the details ...

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Hi,

I run a Brother HL-L2445DW, and have used and recommended Brother printers for over 20 years.

I recently read in the news that Brother is rolling out firmware that breaks existing functionality - specifically, the ability to run aftermarket toner and ink.

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals

I have a few questions:

1. Is this true? I don't believe everything I read in the news ;)

2. If so, will my model (HL-L2445DW) be affected?

Thanks for your time, and I look forwards to your reply.

Brother has long been the brand I've recommended to friends, colleagues, and family because you haven't adopted the anti-customer behaviour of all of your competitors. I'm really hoping the news is wrong on this.

Yours,
Duncan Bayne
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@Fragglemuppet Now, this isn't a frozen meal exactly, but it is preserved, and I do microwave it, so ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_dace_with_salted_black_beans

Prep:

1. Empty can into glass bowl, microwave for a minute or so.
2. Microwave a small pack of microwave rice.
3. Shred dace with a fork, put on rice.
4. Eat!

Currently eating "kung pao chicken" for lunch, and I have a question for Melburnians: why is "Sichuan" food here so universally bad?

Dainty and Sichuan house do good gong bao ji ding and literally everywhere else I've been doesn't.

Is it something about Melbourne customers? Is the inauthentic "stir fried chicken with a bit of chilli and no Sichuan peppers" version what people demand?

Is it something about the restaurants themselves? Are they just not set up for flash-frying? Are the sauces pre-made?

Having a very "first world problem" grump about this at the moment 🤣

@hellomiakoda Oh yeah - I meant, I explicitly wonder whether farms failing and being bought up was the end goal here? Like, is there some sort of financial / lobbying link between the people doing the cutting, and the corporations buying failing farms?

@hellomiakoda I wonder to what extent that was someone's plan? Always follow the money, after all.

Haivng poured a glass of sparkling water into my Unicomp keyboard 😱 I'm borrowing my 8yo daughter's keyboard until a replacement arrives. It's adding quite a splash of colour to my desk 😁

@hellomiakoda Unrelatedly, what on earth does "beyond healthcare" mean? Are they a mortuary service?

@kims If your budget allows, a set of the most "white middle class" clothes and accessories you can get.

The sort of thing you could all wear to travel from A to B while attracting as little attention as humanly possible from the wrong people.

Me, yesterday: FreeBSD on both my desktop and laptop are now sufficiently stable for me to retire my Linux dev partitions.

Me, late yesterday: Oooh, updated packages available.

Me, this morning: The latest amdgpu module causes my laptop screen to blank, and stay blank 😢

Want to use Bluetooth headphones on a FreeBSD system that has a 3.5mm audio socket?

You can with a Bluetooth transmitter! I'm using this model, after buying a different (cheaper) unit that had unacceptably poor quality.

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B0CJY56XG3

Just plug it, switch to TX mode, and your Bluetooth headphones *should* auto-pair with it (how, I don't know ...)

#freebsd #audio #hardware

@madeindex @ramin_hal9001 Imagine all the rocks that would get turned over, all the skeletons that would come out of the closet, it that were to happen.

Because the defense would certainly get to ask some really pointed questions of the complainants. Questions about their business continuity plans, system redundancies, etc. Procurement too - was proper due diligence followed in purchasing and using Crowdstrike?

Pretty sure many execs would rather set their heads on fire than have those conversations on public record.

@hellomiakoda @hal_pomeranz Very weird.

I read a while back that Coke Zero was made for Australia and countries like it, because Diet Coke was "gendered" female somehow 🤯

@mekkaokereke The marketplace of ideas means you don't have to shop at McDonald's if there's better food available.

Ouch, Vimeo has bumped their prices from ~ USD100.00 to ~ USD132.00 per year.

I don't do a lot with Vimeo - mostly just sharing videos with friends and family, many unlisted. So it feels like something I could fairly safely move self-hosted.

PeerTube has fixed https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/944 and https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3218 which means it's theoretically a suitable replacement for Vimeo for my purposes. I already self-host a Web server, Gemini capsule, and Jitsi Meet instance, so adding my own PeerTube instance wouldn't be _too_ much additional faff.

Question is, is there something simpler I could be doing?

@stefano Oooh good to know, thanks.

My brother just sent me this photo of a bottle shop sign in Japan 🤣

@mcc I once had a client who used an Oracle education product; it had ~ 14k _tables_ in the schema.