The North American pole of inaccessiblity being in South Dakota (maybe an hour drive from major highways) and not somewhere in northern Canada says to me that the name does accurately reflect what these points are.

I get the joke, but it’s weird for me that my highest ratio is for a Debian 13.3 ISO - 767MB down, 13.85GB up

I’m pissed because I moved here from Australia about 5 years ago and part of the appeal was the ease of doing road trips to various US locations. I have not been since arriving and can’t see myself ever going (I’m not young and can’t see things improving enough in my lifetime)

The stylus is more than a bit worn out!

With that level of damage I suspect there’s a chance the cart is also damaged and I’m going for a cheap AT for now.

Oh yeah - I’ll hang on to the Shure. Today I just want to play the records I’ve had in storage for years. Who knows about tomorrow.

My concern about it is though - how do I know it’s good? Is the only way to find out to buy a new stylus and see if it works? I’ve played an old record and it sounded terrible. I’m assuming it’s the stylus, but could also be the cartridge?

What are you using to ship the logs to VL?

That’s the reason I’m here asking about logging. I’m in the process of changing and wondering if I should switch it all up. I was using systemd-journal-remote, but I’m switching from Debian to Alpine so - no more systemd.

you should start excluding them before they reach VL

Now that confuses me. As I said in my original post - I had some preconceptions about centralised logging before I set it up, and having a single place to manage filters was certainly something I was hoping to get from it. Also any filtering would only be for reporting. I’d like to keep a full set of log data for potential problem analysis etc.

Yeah, I’ve been doing some more reading. Victoria Logs is doing a good job consolidating my logs and is very lightweight. It’s the visualisation that I’m missing. Grafana can do it, but I’m having trouble getting my head around it. That’s OK - it’s just my home lab and it’s mainly a learning exercise - I need to learn some more.

I’m already running a grafana instance, so I’ll look into elastic/filebeat. Thanks.

I’ve never followed the people or the politics - I just started using systemd when it appeared in whatever disto I was using at the time and liked it. I’m trying to catch up now because I have reservations about using projects that incorporate AI (and I’m learning this may be impossible to avoid) and I most certainly won’t use anything that implements age verification. (The irony of typing this on a device that has age verification via my credit card hurts)

I accept that Microsoft had significant influence over systemd when Poettering worked there, but I don’t understand how they do now.

I also understand that Poettering likes Windows, and wants to make Linux more like Windows. That’s not the same as Microsoft controlling systemd.

Are you saying that Amutable is just a front for Microsoft?

Do you believe Microslop funds and maintains systemd because Lennart Poettering works there, or is there more to it than that?

If it’s just that Poettering works there, you may be interested to know that he left in January this year.

Two thoughts -

1. I believe (with nothing to support it) that “in the beginning” a bunch of communites were created by some sort of automation, to mirror Reddit, and they are now dead because no-one actually wanted them here in the first place and

2. I often join communites because I’m mildly interested in the topic and am curious to learn more by observing to conversation - I’ll probably never end up posting. I don’t have any weight to pull in this scenario.

I’m not sure if it’s Lemmy or my client (Jerboa) but when I tap on that link I don’t get their real Mastodon profile. I get something that looks legit, but it has minimal details and only one post from 9 months ago??

I don’t get the downvotes here. I read it as frustration at the number of people that seem to think the current state of the USA is something that can be fixed at the next election - when it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that it’s way beyond that. We’re already at the point where high profile journalists are being arrested and Nov. is still nine months away!

I’ve been using Niagara forever (since at least early 2019) and it is different, but it really works for me. I’ve tried to use other launchers from time to time out of curiosity but keep coming back.

You are correct - they have no legal obligation. They do however have a moral obligation. It seems to me that if corporations want to be people when it comes to things like political donations then they should be people when it comes to their moral obligations as well.

I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I’m sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I’m sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.

It’s the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.

We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.

Interesting - mine is syncthing-fork 1.30.0.4. When I go to the App Info page it says “App installed from F-Droid” and when I tap on that button I get a small pop-up that says “No such app found.”

I installed mine from F-Droid. I just went there to turn off updates and it doesn’t exist. I have not been paying attention so it may have been gone for ages and not related?

I use a plastic one - the ones that have a floss “D” on one end and a pick on the other. They’re very thin and can also be bent to form a bit of a hook.

I’m the same as you, but there are a lot of people that pay (monthly fees I believe!) for pre-built “android boxes”.