nelsnelson [comrade/them, love/loves]

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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • I really want one because I am tired of my lemon of a 2022 M2 MacBook Air and even more tired of paying money to a corporation that does basically everything in its power to remind me that I don’t own my own hardware. I had to have the goddamn logic board replaced on this thing, and Apple refused to let me retain the original part, even though the SSD chips were perfectly fine. I unknowingly botched my time machine backup and forewent the $100 bench backup, and now some five weeks worth of my data is gone forever because they wouldn’t let me keep the original part because “muh policy”.

    The only thing stopping me from purchasing a Framework laptop is that the fan intake vents are on the bottom of the device, which makes using the laptop on my lap not very doable.

    Also, I am pretty over aluminum as a material for devices that I have to touch with my skin for long periods of time. I would prefer carbon fiber.





  • If you do a lot of coding in popular software languages like Java and Python, eventually you will run into open source projects whose comments and documentation and issues are all in Mandarin. There are also Chinese versions of Stack Overflow, where I have to use Google Translate to read the discussion threads.

    It will always be more difficult to understand a language which is not your first, but if there’s a language on this planet that would be useful to learn aside from English, it’s Mandarin.

    I am personally not familiar with any differences in major frameworks between Chinese software ecosystems and American/European ones. But that is surely just my ignorance as a foreigner. Please let us know what you find.


  • Via ChatGPT 4 (accuracy unverified):

    Yes, you can configure systemd-resolved to use the DNS servers in the order provided without dynamically switching based on speed. Here’s how you can do it:

    1. Edit the resolved configuration file:

      Open the resolved.conf file in a text editor:

      sudo nano /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
      
    2. Modify or add the following line:

      DNS=`IP_of_pihole` `IP_of_mikrotik`
      DNSStubListener=no
      FallbackDNS=
      

      Replace IP_of_pihole and IP_of_mikrotik with your actual DNS IP addresses. This tells systemd-resolved to only use the DNS servers in the order you’ve specified.

    3. Prevent automatic DNS changes by network manager:

      If you’re using NetworkManager, create a drop-in configuration to prevent it from overriding DNS settings:

      sudo mkdir -p /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/
      sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/dns.conf
      

      Add the following content:

      [main]
      dns=none
      
    4. Restart services:

      After making these changes, restart systemd-resolved and NetworkManager:

      sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved
      sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
      

    This should ensure that your system uses the DNS servers in the order provided without any automatic switching.












  • Another way to be a class traitors or to betray and bully your fellow workers? Call them “technicians”, meaning that their work is boring and doesn’t require them to leave their comfort zone?

    I don’t know what is worse, making people learn how to do computer work in the first place (which is all just insanely ridiculous conventions other supposedly smart humans have invented but which then require ridiculous amounts of training to use effectively), or, pretending that the “ideal” is to build systems which are so self-sufficient that they eliminate any need for human operators or improvers and celebrating that as the ideal.