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PDF reflow is one of the major reasons I am using Koreader. The whole thing is very clever and works extremely fast given the limited nature of these devices.

IMAP had its day in the sun, but the advent of big webmail providers (especially gmail) has killed off the advancement of email clients. Now all major development is focused on trying to recreate Gmail to varying degrees of success. It all ends up internal to one or another corporation so they are just all endlessly reinventing the wheel with IMAP just being relegated to a afterthought front end to some sort of search-based backend.

Actually having a email client software running on your machine is extremely nitch and is mostly in the realm of self-hosters and legacy holdouts that won't let their clients go.

A most advanced modern approach is to just use POP3 to download your emails to a local Maildir and have them indexed there non-destructively. And then sync between your various machines that you want your email accessible using some sort of file sync or P2P solution.

I use notmuch for this. It automatically indexes and tags emails and thus enables much more advanced email management solutions then what can be offered over something like IMAP.

The main advantage of this is that 'folders' are managed virtually. There is no shuffling or copying or editing of emails done normally. I only have to worry about backing up my emails and notmuch config as all the rest can be regenerated relatively quickly.

This is more or less replicating what Gmail and other webmail providers do server side.

Where as the traditional approach shuffling and moving and deleting of emails on some imap server is fairly dangerous and expensive operation. Mistakes can lead to data loss and are often very difficult to reverse.

This sort of thing is why nobody gives a shit about IBM anymore and they have to keep just buying relevant companies to stay relevant.

Hopefully they do the right thing and hand hashicorp over to Redhat so they can open source the shit out of it. So they can do things like make OpenTofu the proper upstream for it, etc.

This is correct.

I think it may add a bit of security, but containers are better thought of as mechanism to deploy and manage applications/services.

They can be useful as part of a security posture, but you kinda have to wrap everything up in SELinux or as part of some other system. Which is a lot easier to do with containers then it is to do with normal applications.

Also for most purposes:

If you want to integrate container applications into your desktop you'd be better off with something like Flatpak or distrobox/toolbx.

there are lots of things that these applications do to setup the environment and integrate into your home directory that isn't going to be done with simple scripts like this.

That doesn't mean that these scripts are useless, of course. I you want to run a application with more isolation and less integration then it is a lot easier to do it this way then with something like distrobox.

Like if you don't want to give a application access to your home directory. Or want to emulate a container environment for the cloud locally so you can hack on it.

> Is there an equivalent of DDWRT/OpenWRT but for TVs?

Get a used mini-pc, install Linux on it, and don't allow the TV to connect to any networks. This is a 50-75 dollar solution. Good if you are on a budget and are not interested in any wiz-bang features like HDR.

There are a few TV-dedicated Linux systems out there, like libreElEC.

Or get a more powerful system with a AMD GPU and install Bazzite on it. That way you get something like "SteamOS for your TV". Pairs nicely with controllers like 8BitDo.

It would be nice to have TVs as open as PCs, but the manufacturers and media companies are ran by dirtbags and would rather have victims then customers.

I have a 'smart tv'. I don't allow it to connect to any network.

The only really annoying thing about it is that noises from tv shows or the house sometimes triggers the voice recognition, which fails, and then you have to click through the error message.

I have a Rx 7600 XT that I purchased to run Ollama LLMs. Something just to screw around with.

Works fine with their ollama:rocm docker image on Fedora using podman. No complaints.

Did some gaming, too, just to see how well that works. A few steam games.

Mirrored raid is good. Other raid levels are of dubious value nowadays.

Ideally you use "software raid" or file system with the capabilities do scrubbing and repair to detect bitrot. Or have some sort of hardware solution that can do the same and notify the OS of the error correction.

And, as always, Raid-type solutions mostly exist to improve availability.

Backups are something else entirely. Nothing beats having lots of copies in different places.

Taking a valid and correct observation and then strawmanning it with a crappy comic strip does not turn it into a invalid and incorrect observation.

The whole article above reminds me of when my brother went through his "I don't know why everybody works. They are so stupid" phase in late teens. Except this guy never grew out of it and he is now 30-something.

Stuff like this:

> Poverty is not an objective condition, but a relationship produced by unequal distribution of resources. There’s no such thing as poverty in societies in which people share everything.

The problem with this line of thinking is the line of thinking of "poverty exists because rich people exist". It treats the economy as a zero sum game were wealth is determined by access to natural resources and capital. That in order to for some people to be rich they need to restrict access to those productive and natural resource, thus condemning others to poverty.

A better way to think of poverty is 'privation'. Humanity has struggled against privation for as long as humanity has existed.

The natural state of humanity isn't being rich. When everybody had equal access to everything and there was no private property... It was true that everybody was equally wealthy, but they were also impoverished. It just meant that they were equally likely to die from what we would consider now a minor injury or inconvenient disease. It meant that you could starve to death if you badly twisted your ankle or broke your arm.

Poverty is the default. Anything else is a improvement.

It took 10s of thousands of years of struggle and fighting and dying to get to the point were large percentages of the population dying from communicable diseases and starvation wasn't considered a normal cyclical thing that was simply part of the natural order.

This wasn't that long ago.

We are still at the tail end of the moral panic of "People are no longer dying off faster then they can reproduce in the cities. How are we going to feed all these people? Are they not just going to descend onto the fields and consume the world like locusts?" (which is ironically reflected in some of the statements in the above article)

Now I am all for a person who doesn't want to exist as a cog in the corporate machine. I am also on the side of the person who is willing to accept a lower income in exchange for pursuing better personal relationships or gaming or art or whatever. Great. Go for it. You have only one life live how you want to. If you don't need to put in the government-imposed standard of a 40 hour work week... then by all means don't.

But if somebody writes a small book with the premise of "everybody in the world is a idiot except me"... then I have a pretty good idea on the odds of that statement being true. (hint: they are not good}

What software are you using that has a parent company that pays out damages to you if it fails?

Because that is the purpose of 'bonded and insured'.

I haven't looked at every EULA and license of every piece of software I use, but I bet that "without warranty" clauses are part of every single one of them.

> The one thing I don't understand about these Pi based mini-racks is why you would build a home lab that's less powerful than your client devices.

It makes sense because you are unlikely to run production workloads at home.

So you don't really need a half a terabyte of RAM and a 220v power supply for the world's most expensive electric space heater.

Instead people are most often interested in developing infrastructure-as-code or testing deployment strategies or doing tests to see what happens when outages happen. Logging, metrics collecting, simulating network failure, simulating software attacks. etc.

In most of those cases having a number of smaller machines makes more sense then trying to emulate a small datacenter on a one or two big ones.

In practice I think most people end up with 2 or 3 'big machines' for times when they do need the Umph or want to have a big storage array for their "linux ISO collections". Then having a number of Pis or HP mini desktops in arrays is just for good fun.

If I want to simulate full blown workloads and benchmarking then I can just use AWS or Azure for that. A lot cheaper to lease verts for a evening or two, then buy big machines and leaving them idle 99.8% of the time.

In the USA, at least, most the lumber for home construction is farmed. We don't rely on "old growth" for much anymore.

Meaning the forests are kept forests and new trees are planted to replace the ones that are cut down. The land the trees are farmed from is kept forested because it provides a income source for the owners. Also the trees tend to grow much faster then they do in natural forests because things like spacing out trees is optimized.

This is a big complaint for wood working folks, ironically. Because natural grown trees grow slower the wood grain is much tighter and ends up being generally higher quality. Where as modern farmed wood has huge rings.

Although it isn't too bad because you don't use soft woods much for things like furniture making. Where as construction lumber is almost all soft wood.

So at least in the USA the ratio of grown-to-cut wood is about 1.92. So we plant trees nearly 2 to 1 versus what we cut down.

It is essentially requiring tech companies to work for the UK government as part of law enforcement. They are required to monitor and censor users or face fines and Ofcom has the ability to shutdown things they don't like.

This basically ensures that the only people allowed to host online services for other people in the UK will be large corporations. As they are the only ones that can afford the automation and moderation requirements imposed by this bill.

You should be able to self-host content, but you can't do something like operate a forums website or other smaller social media platform unless you can afford to hire lawyers and spend thousands of dollars a month hiring moderators and/or implementing a bullet proof moderation system.

Otherwise you risk simply getting shutdown by Ofcom. Or you can do everything yo are supposed to do and get shutdown anyways. Good luck navigating their appeals processes.

United States educators need to go to Poland and find out what they did to get such a increase despite the pandemic.