nbailey

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[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, you’re not going to have a lot of luck with recent games. The sandybridge i5’s were great back in the day but their time has come. I had a 2600 for a looong time but it’s been out to pasture for a couple years now.

Check out the “patientgamers” communities, they like to play older games that would run a lot smoother on your hardware.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Best bet would be to setup postfix or opensmtpd as an open relay. Just make sure it is only accessible in trusted networks though!!

https://docbot.onetwoseven.one/services/postfix/

You’d want to set the listen address to 0.0.0.0 and use a non-loop back interface.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

If it was installed with tasksel that would be a good way to remove any dependancies like lightdm as well.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

They really don’t. When I was a pizza guy about ten years ago, after fuel & maintenance I would make the equivalent of about $12 USD per hour averaged over a month of full time work.

And one big repair like your power steering pump can ruin the whole month. It’s a great way to “use up” the last of your car before you scrap it, but really not a sustainable job.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Uber & Lyft drivers assume all the financial risk and responsibility for their car payment, maintenance, insurance, cleaning, health and dental insurance, etc. You’ll find that once you factor in the externalities the tech companies push into their workers, they don’t necessarily make good money at all.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people have the idea that a private business is going to break the law or defy their governments requests for them. That’s completely deluded, nobody would ever open willingly expose themself to that kind of risk. No organization is going to let themselves go on trial for $15/month. It seems we have a binary idea of privacy, when the reality is much more complex.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could always whitebox it with Debian, nftables, dnsmasq, hostapd, etc. on an old mini PC if it has two NICs…

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Over 60 years the cost of taxes to build and maintain a transit system plus fares is an order of magnitude lower than building highway networks, ownership of personal vehicles, insurance, fuel, and rebuilding the road network after 30 years.

The idea that transit is more expensive was a mind trick by the fossil fuel and automotive industries. We’re penny wise and dollar foolish.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I was looking at cool world record gokart pictures in 2008, and the next day the sidebar on Facebook was full of ads for the shitty kart track by the highway. It felt dirty and unsettling as a 13 year old that everything I was interested in would immediately be sent straight to the weirdest meth head carny I knew.

Then the Snowden leaks happened, and at that point I was fully radicalized.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Taking this opportunity to personally thank you for making a good logo, I absolutely love the Debian swirl! There are so many boring geometric or single-letter logos out there, the details and texture of the swirl is just so good.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Absolutely love Pixelfed. It really captures the vibe Instagram had in 2012 before FB ruined it.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Fwiw, I’ve had great results with upgrading Debian derivatives. A machine in my closet has been upgraded from version 8 -> 12 without any major issue. Usually, upgrade problems come from custom or third party software in my experience.

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