[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.

https://launchpad.net/~oem-solutions-group/+archive/ubuntu/intel-ipu6 https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can't remember technical details but you can't simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won't get a camera driver. "We ship a laptop with Ubuntu" does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.

EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It's already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Well, maybe you are:

  • Planning a surprise party
  • Leaving a job
  • Trying to escape an abusive relationship
  • Famous
  • Writing a detective novel
  • A writer without a publisher
  • Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
  • Having a crush in someone
  • In the closet
  • A teenager with controlling parents
  • Having a hobby that's considered embarrassing or childish
  • Having a psycho stalker
  • Buying a present from Santa
  • A reporter who doesn't want to reveal their sources
  • Buying a toilet and you don't want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
  • Lending your computer to someone, and you don't want your recommended videos to change
  • Under an NDA

... Or maybe you're talking with someone who's in one of those categories.

We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it's a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won't suspect anything when I'm looking for a gift for him.

That's only the tip of the iceberg and it's not even touching some bigger problems:

  • You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That's not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
  • Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
  • If you keep a backdoor open to let the "good and trusted" actors in, there's no way to not let malicious actors in as well.
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We used a sencha flavoured with banana, mango, melon, etc: https://tea.gr/eshop/caribbean-cocktail/

We left about two tablespoons of tea in 300ml of room temperature water for maybe an hour, then bought a bottle of cold water, emptied 300ml from it, and put the concentrate in. Very tasty and refreshing.

Our plastic jug is old and has a lot of salt stains unfortunately, sorry for this.

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Fortunately everything was safe. We just barely managed to collect all our things from outside (apart from the jug, which we left on purpose), and the tent took absolutely no water inside.

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Normally it takes two gaiwan-fuls to fill my mug. This time I brewed it both times with a bit less water, then cooled it down a bit by using another mug (pour it from one mug into the other, rinse the now empty mug with tap water, repeat), and at the end I topped it up with ice cubes.

Using this oolong: https://yunnansourcing.com/products/imperial-jin-guan-yin-aaa-grade-anxi-oolong-tea

As is the case for every cold tea, it tends to conceal a bit its more delicate flavours. However, this tea's aftertaste is thick and sweet with some milky flavours, so this is retained very well in the end result. The astringency is a bit more pronounced in the cold version, but it essentially goes from non-existent to very mild, so that's not a problem.

Unfortunately I have to use a Mighty Mug when drinking next to the computer, in order to prevent spilling (I've had to change a laptop keyboard because of this), so you can't see the colour of the tea.

I tried uploading pictures, but the server is giving out errors, so you can view them here: https://toot.cat/@vivia/110666587179203337

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, no, this is some Internet slang, and oddly enough it comes from the first meaning. AFAIK, the second one doesn't exist in Japanese.

~~Basically, "hahaha" in Katakana is written as ハハハ. If you line up enough ハハ's, it will look like a series of w's.~~ In chats, they use w (from 笑い、warai) to denote laughter. If you line up enough wwww's, it looks like grass. That's how 草 ended up meaning LOL.

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I found an interesting community on another server. When I search for it in the Communities page, I get on Subscribe link. When I click into it from the search results, the Subscribe button is not a button but just plain text. In the past both these options worked for subscribing to a new community, but what do I do now that they're both broken?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by vivia@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Saw this one flying by on Discord.

Image description: A 3x3 collage of literal versions of some popular sayings:

Butterflies [drawing of a flying piece of butter]

Hold your horses [photo of a farmer lifting a whole horse]

Well in that case [drawing of a well inside an empty suitcase]

Well said [picture of a hand holding a microphone to a well]

Holy shit [picture of a hand pointing towards a toilet bowl with light emerging from it]

No way [picture of a road that's suddenly getting cut off]

Let that sink in [picture of a bathroom sink standing outside an open door]

Well that sucks [picture of a vacuum cleaner poking out of a well]

Okay this is crazy [drawing of 3 humans, the left one is named Okay, the right one is named Crazy, and the middle one is introducing them to each other]

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Our summer home (sh.itjust.works)

Chalkidiki, Greece. We don't spend the whole summer there, but go back and forth quite often.

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[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Women don't have balls, therefore they can't store pee, and that explains the longer queues in women's bathrooms. See you next time with a new episode of Troll Biology!

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In the distant past, I used to be able to sit down at a bar where people would smoke, and not mind at all. Then came the smoking ban, which made me find it unpleasant, but not a big deal. Then came the lockdowns, and I got used to breathing super fresh air all the time. Now I start coughing if someone outdoors smokes 5m away from me and the wind blows it in my direction. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

A "simply explained" kind of book, "even foxes can understand".

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[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud Tasks?

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Well, at least you could send a link to a friend who doesn't have a Reddit account and they could view it. Now they'd be greeted with a friendly "install the app or get out" screen, and let's be real, they wouldn't install a whole app just to view the occasional link you'd send them.

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Two NextCloud instances, one is a RPi4 with a big external HDD which I use for backups, the other one contains everything else, including PhoneTrack. Happy to have a self-hosted privacy-friendly way to share my location with family.
  • Email using mailcow.
  • Jabber server using prosody. Using it with immediate family and two friends. Still super happy.
  • Web server including personal blogs. Currently looking to migrate away from Wordpress into something static without comments.
  • pihole
  • Half-finished home automation stuff.
[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Do we need it to officially migrate? We just need an AITA community with at least a small handful of users, and there's one right here.

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