Ranch Eater

Ranch Eater

@bbqranch.bsky.social

Professor of CS, Game Dev, Tech Death enjoyer

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So you can get banned from bluesky for reposting someone elses post if the alt text on their image goes against policy. So yeah, never reposting anything again. Fuckass platform. Pretty sure it was flagged by AI too because the text was about spongebob apparently.

Alriiiiight got tailscale all set up with some services like jellyfin all properly configured so now I can stream in the wild! Next big step is valheim server >:)

A bit of tin foil hatting real quick: You know how mossad created stuxnet to propagate errors throughout irans nuclear facilities' computers and it caused massive damage? Linux using AI to track down vulnerabilities and bugs and then fix them feels the same

Was using proxmox but realized I didnt really need it. Was shopping around all these techbro distros and frontends and decides to just do opensuse tumbleweed server. I made an excellent choice.

Homelab, self-hosted people, can you give me recs for a good docker frontend / store type app? Ive been doing plain docker compose for a year or so now and kinda wanna see what options thete are for point and click type service management

Its so weird how much I really hate UE5 cinematic graphics. There's no crunch to it. The finals actually does a really good job of using UE in a way that actually looks good instead of realism-slop

Honestly sticking with neovim. The handling of the whole thing was a mess but they did make the merge which I genuinely didn't expect to happen. Hopefully the leadership changes or there's a fork but until then, my env is just to good to switch right now. I absolutely love the software itself.

Wahhh Im gonna cave to pressure because our userbase is collapsing but im gonna pretend like everyone whos mad isnt a real neo(nazi)vim user wahhh *locked* Its apparently vital to the success of neovim to have a quote from a fascist saying "neovim looks cool in fullscreen"

So I'm getting an ayn thor soon, and im thinking about better typing controls on android and virtual keyboards in general. Im thinking of making a keyboard app that makes use of standard controller mappings. Does anything like that already exist? #mobile #dev #retro #gaming #android

Been thinking about my next phone upgrade and Im kind of realizing that I really don't need one... I have working cell phone, rarely am without wifi, don't really have many people to talk to, and I spend most of my time on laptop or other devices.

Went to go update my vita apps on vitadb downloader since its been a while which led me to find out the mod community has largely been propped up by a fascist who got mad when the community pushed back on his statements about murdering immigrants. Bizarre.

Another weekly post warning the linux noobs to just stick to fedora, ubuntu, or opensuse. You dont need a distro that promises ease of use, you need a distro that has enterprise level support if things go wrong. Small distros are cool, but their promises mean little if the community is small.

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OSSOFF: So we entered this war on false pretenses. Sound familiar? Not the first time the United States has been dragged into a quagmire in the Middle East on false pretenses about weapons of mass destruction.

Outside of my kontakt woes, chat suggested using distrobox as a way to keep my audio plugin ecosystem clean and its about as perfect as it gets. Linux is so rad. I have a tumbleweed image set up with a home directory set up in an .audio dir, so now all my plugins stay relegated to the distrobox.

Welp, I tried to get my Invasion drums from GGD to work in convertwithmoss so that I could export them as a renoise instrument on linux, but nope, shits encrypted. Fuckers

Kontakt already is a buggy piece of shit on windows, and unfortunately its even worse on linux. If anyone has good recs for a good sample pack or drum kit vst for linux, let me know.

"AI is wrong about everything, it doesn't know enough to be useful" Tell that to chatgpt last night after it helped me troubleshoot why my new enclosure wouldn't read my drive, provided me with highly useful bash commands I didn't know about, and ultimately resulted in the problem being fixed

Kapton tape applied on the third pin solved the problem, and I literally couldn't find a single piece of information about this online. It might be common knowledge for an admin or something, but not for a guy newer to linux and home servers.

Às vezes esqueço que falo português. Sou americano, mas se algum brasileiro curte tecnologia e videogames, me siga. Sigo de volta (faz mais de dez anos que não falo português, rs).

I completely agree with the socioeconomic concerns about AI, mostly related to the way capitalists are using it to continue to extract value out us, but jfc some of you are completely uniformed on AI. Theres a difference between being class conscious and being completely uneducated

Im really enjoying this Mako launcher I found on fdroid. Besides google being evil, Im really getting back into android since its becoming so capable. Anyway, this launcher has a really nice simple presentation and looks retro while also still providing nice info.

I know everyone hates ai, but genuinely, if you're still not using linux or sticking with some software or os because you don't know how to do it, seriously just use ai and itll get you most of the way there.

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Microsoft uses Global Device ID (GDID) a permanent unique digital fingerprint to manage software licensing and Windows Store apps, but because it links all your online activities on that computer back to a single identity, law enforcement can use it to track a device’s true owner across the internet

windowslatest.comMicrosoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaintGDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

Lol my pinterest account that got reinstated? I havent been banned again but immediately started getting notifications about arbitrary art reference images violating tos for "adult content" and its always just a fully dressed woman. A) you all suggested them B) women are not adult content lol