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Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @ vivia @sh.itjust.works
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  • 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

  • Oh yes, I completely agree with you! And it's in a large percentage of herbal/fruit mixes so they're out of the question for me. I wonder how it became so popular, isn't it sour for everyone else too?

  • 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.

  • (https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides) (https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy) would really love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone. I’m skeptical that my calls would no l

    (https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides) (https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy) would really love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone. I’m skeptical that my calls would no l

  • Get a Pinephone, or a Fairphone with Ubuntu. More privacy and more features than dumb phones.

  • 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.
  • SlimSocial for Facebook works, it's just slow.

  • I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.

  • camping @sh.itjust.works
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Camping-style cold brew tea

    sh.itjust.works Camping-style cold brew - sh.itjust.works

    We used a sencha flavoured with banana, mango, melon, etc: https://tea.gr/eshop/caribbean-cocktail/ [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...

    Camping-style cold brew - sh.itjust.works
    Tea @sh.itjust.works
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Camping-style cold brew

    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.

    camping @sh.itjust.works
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Throwback to when we got ~45mm of rain in 30min when camping

    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.

    Tea @sh.itjust.works
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Finally managed to combine cold tea with gong fu brewing

    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 gi

  • 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.

  • Well, it's a Tuesday so that means I can get fresh fish in my local street market. Nothing much going on otherwise.

  • Rust Jerk @lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023

  • I use NextCloud News, it's super convenient and also syncs between my phone and computer. I use it for reading the news (playing hide and seek with one news site after another when they inevitably disconnect their RSS/Atom support), for the webcomics I follow, and for keeping up with friends' blogs.

  • camping @sh.itjust.works
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Our summer home

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

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    A modest proposal

  • Ah, maybe the difference is that my parents smoked when I was very small. Eventually they both quit and now they both hate the smell. But yes, I also grew up before the smoking ban.

  • Fair enough. I guess it was so common when I was growing up that I never realised it.

  • Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    ナース

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Has anyone else become super sensitive to cigarette smoke since the lockdowns?

    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?

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

  • Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    New kanji just dropped

    (https://sopuli.xyz/c/japaneselanguage) I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structure

  • Oh yes, I completely agree with you! I was saying this exact thing to my sensei some time ago and she couldn't understand what I mean, despite knowing a few foreign languages herself, Japanese is her native language so she couldn't judge it from the perspective of someone learning it as a foreign language. But I also like how everything is well-structured and it's also not full of exceptions. My husband only started learning a few months ago but he also agrees!

  • Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Best replies to「日本語、上手ですね」

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Shine!

    Rust Jerk @lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Who called it Ferris and not the Rusty Krab?

    okay I'll see myself out now

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Foxy electrical devices

    Source: https://twitter.com/shamo0301/status/1456534675376119808 with an omake in the replies! 😊

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    The world stops functioning if there's no coffee

    This one is a bit tricky, in fact. What it means to say in English is "when the coffee is empty, we won't refill it".

    In Japanese, instead of こちらのコーヒーが it should say こちらのコーヒーは. With the は it's correctly implied that the こちらのコーヒーは refers to 終了になります, therefore "the coffee is over (when it's empty)". With the が, even though the mistake is obvious to an experienced speaker, it could be theoretically implied that こちらのコーヒーが refers to なくなり次第, therefore leaving the subject to 終了になります vague/dangling: "when the coffee is empty, [something else] is over".

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    The future is dangerous

    この先 could be vaguely translated as "from this point onwards", which usually has a temporal meaning "from now on", but in this case it's meant to be spatial, "don't walk past this sign".

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    三ドイッチ

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    "We are free"

    It wanted to give out a message of freedom, but the mistranslation ended up meaning "we are free of charge".

    Can't remember where I saw this picture, but it's definitely not one I took.

    Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    Half-hidden 安全確認 looks like you have to wait for the queen

    Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?

    • 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.
  • 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.

  • Rust Jerk @lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
    Vivia 🦆🍵🦀 @sh.itjust.works

    What it feels like to program in Rust sometimes

    The young man nervously rang the door-bell. A gruff man opened the door; after a few seconds of sizing him up, he nodded towards the inside, inviting him in.

    They sat in the living-room. After a few tense seconds, the silence broke.
    \ “Son… what are your intentions with my [u8]?”
    \ “Uh… I'm just borrowing her, sir.”
    \ “Her curfew is 'a, just so you know.”
    \ “I'll have her back by then. I promise.”
    \ “You better. Now, son… tell me something. Are you two, you know… exclusive?”
    \ “Yes, sir.”
    \ “Then you better put a &mut on it. That way the others know to stay away.”
    \ “Will do, sir.”

    While they had been talking, a woman had walked into the room. He recognised her as his datæ's mother. Her stare, somehow, seemed even more penetrating than her husband's.
    \ “Well, sonny, let me just make sure you're presentable, alright?”
    \ “Presentable, ma'am?”
    \ “Yes, presentable. It's the least you can do if you want to be her type! So tell me, do you implement Debug and Display?”
    \ The y