twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to An admirable thing about the US... by nomorepie

It is one of the things I like and use a lot. I'm sorry you don't have accessible museums or libraryes :(

We have an app called Libby which is not sustainable for several reasons, but for now, lets you access ebooks and audibooks in your local library's catalogue.

It's also one of the things I'm afraid of losing. The fourth reich is here, we have book burnings, we have libraries under immense fascist pressure, and I am worried that libraries could even stop existing entirely.

Most museums here are not free, but most of them are not prohibitively expensive. (Usually, only popular museums in dense cities are expensive, and even then, those usually start at around $30, with discounts available. They make most of their money in the gift shop.)

There's a lot to be grateful for-- I could list a thousand things right now. I think capitalists defend capitalism by looking at how much worse things can be, while leftists are unified by looking at how much better things can be. We have so much wealth that we want to hold on just to ourselves and even then it's utterly wasted.

Which leaves us taking a lot for granted. Plumbing is a modern miracle. Your post resonated with me a lot and I appreciate it, and I'm sorry again you don't have access to these things.

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to Suggestions to get rid of pent up aggression/energy/frustration? by nomorepie

I hate to say it, but exercise, preferably cardio. The gymbros and fitfluencers were right about this one particular thing :(

I think many, many of my emotional problems were just having - literal - pent up energy. Blood sugar or whatever. Walking and running sweats away the anxiety.

That said, I love getting into fights with strangers online. So it's hard to say

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twovests wrote

Reply to Every day, I become increasingly distraught by the stupidity of the american general public. by cowloom

This is entirely valid and I'm feeling the same.

It's not just frustrating or exhausting, it's this deep existential terror I feel.

Living in a society with near-universal literacy is one of the privileges that come with living in America. And now there's a possibility that becomes a thing of the past.

I love to get in arguments online, and something I increasingly see is something like this:

incomprehensible bullshit

Frankly, this is incomprehensible. I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Surely you'd agree it's never acceptable to poison children?

cringe, you know you lost the argument when you need to break out the thesaurus 🙄

... Come on, I am using common English words in simple sentence structures.

It's so disheartening! It might have been worse, but it makes me miss the time when someone could say "you made a spelling mistake; your argument is invalid".

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Thank you to Postmill for offering production-ready Docker containers by twovests

a bandaid for having too many dependencies or a workaround for people who don't want to make their software easy to deploy

I'd be curious to ask this; what could someone using a LAMP-like stack do to improve on things? I kind of thought that dependency problems were inherent to this kind of stack.

E.g. Postmill uses Postgres and PHP. Short of rewriting the PHP part in Rust or Go (which is an extreme length but would produce a mostly-static binary), or using another isolation tool like AppImage or Flatpak, I don't know any way it could be easier to deploy.

I really am asking from curiosity-- I moved to Docker because of frustration with LAMP-likes. (Shaking my fist at Nextcloud)

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by emma in Thank you to Postmill for offering production-ready Docker containers by twovests

the bad news is both companies are in their enshittification stage, paywalling features and trying to sell you crappy ai shit

Awh, I was really hoping this was just Docker advertising itself as good for deploying AI. Running neural networks usually means running Python, and Python package management with CUDA is so hard that (in practice) you'll just see people providing a Docker container. Some kind of "Docker AI Hub" would make sense as a product.

Looked it up, nope, it's "we'll generate your Dockerfile for you!" which is very very stupid :(

but when i've tried using podman for postmill development, it crashed, and for deploying services, i couldn't get ansible to work with it. which is weird, because ansible is also a red hat product.

Oh yeah, this was my experience too (sans ansible). I wanted to use Podman for the same reasons you listed.

Actually, according to my notes, first I tried setting up a Conduwuit server to get connected to the Matrix using Podman. So, that's two marks against it. Which is strange, since it should be the same API around the same Linux tools, where the only difference is the containers can't use root, which they shouldn't be doing anyways...

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Thank you to Postmill for offering production-ready Docker containers by twovests

Yeah, I get that. I think I'm an "old ways" person too (thank u weird people who got me into linux in 2009). Docker just feels like the "right" way for me to do the "old ways" things I've been doing.

Lots of gotchas (isolation but no security benefits at all ??? every container gets host root ???) but lots of "I-gotchya-buddy" too. (That's Docker saying "I gotchya buddy", because it loves u)

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