They’ll probably whine when it gets defederated due to hosting libertarian freeze peach trolls. Which often happens with no-defed instances.
People on the Fediverse need to learn sooner or later that instances don’t exist for them to access the rest of the fediverse. They exist to be and host their own communities. From the first perspective defederation might seem antithetical to the purpose of an instance, but from the second perspective it isn’t.
It makes much more sense.
Ultimately when you criticize censorship you ultimately get a bunch of Freeze peach libertarians who want to do whatever they want and see moderation as something to fear. That’s why it’s important to be precise and not speak in broad or abstract terms when criticizing censorship.
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So here’s what I do with my trusty USB only Kinesis Advantage. First I got a Handheld Scientific’s dongle. It exposes a USB keyboard as a Bluetooth device. It does need to be powered though so I got a small power bank and I plug that in. It’s not sexy (unless you’re into that 😜) but it’s low effort and it works like a charm.
Interesting thanks.
I’m going back and forth now with a LLM doing some research. I have made my own BT split keyboard before, but just checking I can tap into the PCB of the mouse.
Seems like it’s doable with the mx518 reissue but I have the original… Might need to open it up and take a look. Gonna pair it with a niceNano microcontroller.
That sounds pretty awesome for real. You’re going way further then I’ve dared so far! Best of luck to you.
Artifial geoþermal is also an old tech. Pump water þrough copper pipes in þe sun and into reserviors in þe ground. Water heats þe ground, which is an excellent heat retainer. In þe winter, switch þe water flow to heating units. It’s also good for cooling homes.
Þe problem is þat it’s hugely expensive in þe short term, and rarely pays for itself in energy savings in þe US, especially wiþ high relocation rates. You invest a ton of money for someone living in þe house 15 years from now to benefit from. Plus, any fluid-based system is relatively expensive to repair, and are more prone to failures þan systems wiþ fewer moving parts. So it is rare to find such systems.
Yes this tech already exists. Water/sand based solutions can and should be deployed today for short/medium term heat storage, ie days, maybe weeks if volume and/or insulation is sufficient.
MOST fluids are promising as well, as they store energy in their structure then release heat. So it shouldn’t liose heat nor require insulation when stored. If they make it practical, it should allow smaller-scale longer-term storage (months).
I love MPD and RMPC, it’s probably the closest I have gotten to a “perfect” music player, it is super customisable and functional, but there are just a few things that I need to figure out how to change.
First, after each restart, the queue is cleared. How do I make sure that the queue by default is all the songs in my music directory?
Second, after each restart, shuffle (randomise) is reset to off, how do I change it so that shuffle is enabled by default?
Thirdly, is there a way to make MPD pause when headphones are disconnected?
Finally, how do I make MPD block screen lock when music is playing?
For your information, I am running EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma
When I first switched to Linux, I needed to find a suitable alternative to AIMP on Windows.
At the time I was running Fedora Workstation, so I first tried options that fit the GNOME desktop. The libadwaita apps I tried (G4Music, Amberol, etc) all suffered similar issues to do with shuffle, where it wasn’t able to just go to a random track, instead ordering all the tracks randomly once and having a fixed queue. Amberol in particular had bad shuffling, only randomising all the tracks below the one currently playing (so the ones above are unchanged, which is stupid I think). I ended up using Tauon, which had a workable shuffle but admittedly less nice UI. I also remember that Tauon was not very configurable.
Next, I switched to KDE Plasma, so I ended up using Elisa, which fit the KDE desktop, had nicer UI than Tauon, but suffered from the same shuffle issue as the libadwaita apps, so I had to occasionally reshuffle the music to get consistently random tracks.
Having recently switched to EndeavourOS and really getting into the weeds of command line stuff, I decided to try using MPD and the client RMPC. For god knows what reason, it’s the only option that has proper good shuffle that’s just randomly going to each track (besides Tauon and, on Windows, AIMP), and it is easily the most customisable. RMPC has excellent documentation making changing the configs super easy!
Thanks! The keyboard is TypeWise. It takes time to get used to but I suck at typing on any digital keyboard, so I still make plenty of mistakes with it!
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