I found out about them about a year ago thanks to Lemmy, funnily

I was wondering why one of the Aussie instances was called quokk.au

It shouldn’t be, no. But one of the big problems with phones currently is that the radio firmware is almost always a closed-source binary blob.

Airplane mode is probably better understood as the OS asking the radio nicely to not attempt to communicate with the outside world. The antenna is still there able to receive signals, and the radio technically doesn’t have to listen to the OS if it doesn’t want to.

It’s incredibly unlikely (researchers look for this kind of thing), so make sure your tin foil is on tight, but not impossible that a radio could store cell tower identifiers it has seen whilst on airplane mode and do something with them when it is allowed to communicate again. There’s also the possibility there’s some secret signal that can be sent to force a phone in airplane mode to respond.

Unless you’re up to some Edward Snowdon level stuff though, even if that last one exists, it’s probably not being used on you.

The radios are the parts of your phone that communicate wirelessly. Most phones will only turn the cell radio off entirely during airplane mode, disabling mobile data does not typically turn that radio off.

Airplane mode should turn everything off (unless you re-enable things like WiFi, but that should still keep the cell radio off)

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

I like how foul language etc is halfway down the list

I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront

A lot of Arnie and no “hasta la vista, baby”

Baffling

Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

I’ve not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I’m looking for something in particular now.

Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

See you in 2033

Since visiting Japan, I’ve come to realise half of the whimsical stuff in Japanese media isn’t just great world building, rather it’s often inspiration taken directly from the author’s surroundings.

The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

Given you would need to pay actors and a production team to do this conventionally, $250/m is massively undercutting the cost of a human created equivalent.

Even if this produces shit half the time, there’s enough greedy marketing agency owners out there that will be thinking they can save tens of thousands a month in salary by gutting their video production teams

Great, now I’ve got the phonk walk in my head

blatantly easier with a gui.

There’s no such thing that I’d want to do with my servers

Most of my Linux machines don’t even have a GUI

It’s genuinely replaced Civ in my “hmmm, I’ve got a day ahead of me that I could do without” category

Probably at thousands of hours and I’ve only escaped once

RimWorld in space

Well… Shit… There goes the next few weeks

Depends what you want to spend and how much you want to do with it.

If you’ve got the technical ability and interest, look into building one yourself (they’re just computers, just usually with a lot of storage) and running FreeNAS or UnRAID as the OS.

If you want a bit more of a plug and play solution, both Synology and QNAP are good brands. I’d also recommend over-provisioning the NAS in terms of bays. Sure 2 drives might be fine today, but it’s nice to have room for expansion down the line.

Whatever you choose, you’ll be able to run nextcloud and similar

(Also your English is great, don’t sweat it!)