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Cake day: November 3rd, 2024

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  • Obligatory: Your choice of Linux distro is awful. I don’t know which one it is you’re running, but someone will rip on you for it either way.

    Other than that, great to have you onboard. Some tidbits:

    • Seconding that other person’s recommendation of timeshift
    • I’ve been a linux user for decades and never quite figured out sleep mode. Haven’t bothered putting much effort into solving it, so that’s mostly on me
    • At least back in the day, changing ones username was just a matter of editing /etc/password, /etc/shadow, and /etc/groups, and optionally moving your homedir as well. Maybe it still works this way? Make backups if you wanna try it.







  • I do a lot of hobby electronics, so building a repeater more or less from scratch is the plan, yes.

    I still think the car setup is needed, at least temporarily until I’ve found some potential neighbors that I can reach with a repeater. I very much doubt I’ll be able to reach anyone without them, as I live here:

    …gotta get over those mountains. And that picture was taken from one of the few locations reachable by car, and I’m willing to bet better positions can be reached by foot. But NFW I’m hiking all the way up there just to test - I wanna map out other nodes in the region first.

    EDIT: Unless needed later, the car setup might be repurposed as a rooftop repeater so I can reach a summit repeater from my pocket node.



  • Seconding your remark about creators being on YouTube. I’m a big consumer of YouTube videos, and the only reason why I’m not (much) on peertube is because of the content.

    A reason why peertube isn’t as popular among creators is the lack of monetization. While I would love for monetization not to be a factor, it’s a simple truth that many of the creators do what they do to pay rent a d their phone bills.

    So until kofi, patreon, or similar funding methods overtake ads in revenue source, there’s not much of a reason for creators to upload to peertube.