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  • Personal opinion here ! I think we shouldn’t think of setiency in a human way. Like every animal being can see but most of them don’t see the same way we are. Or trees can communicate with each other, but not in the same way as we are.

    We should broader our spectrum of possibilities and stop thinking in a binary way when talking about the world that surrounds us.

    It might be in a year, or maybe in a 100 years, but if machine sentience is even possible, it is inevitable.

    I agree, not only is it inevitable it will also be our own demise. I think of it like our own body (at some degree) is protecting us from external threat to keep us safe. Specially now they are playing arround with neurons on SoCs. The question is not “IF” but “WHEN”. There will be a point of no return where AI will be infinitely more “intelligent” we will ever be, where it can feed it’s own data and controls everything related to information and change things to it’s liking.

    Most people would say, just unplug that machine ! But what if It could spread through our own media and replicate itself through all our hyper connected space?

    The limit is our own imagination. But if it wants to survive, It would know It should keep discrete and hide until the right time to strike. Because nobody wants to be a slave controlled by others.

    Just my 2cent.




  • I haven’t heard of Mathy, but it seems to be a math tool?

    From what I gathered, miniconda is like pipx or venv. It’s able to create python virtual environments.

    But I’m very new to all of this so I’m not really a good source. However after experimenting with either of them (venv, pip or miniconda) I found miniconda the easiest to use, but that’s also probably a skill issue.

    I was genuinely asking because their could be something I wasn’t aware of because yeah I’m new to all of this. (proprietary, bugs, not the right tool…

    You seem related to programming, maybe you could give me some pointers here?


  • Some people will probably disagree with me but I consider Debian stable as a server distribution not as a daily drive system.

    Debian testing is probably the better choice if you want to daily drive Debian or consider or more up to date distro. If you’re relatively new to GNU/Linux, don’t bother with bleeding edge distros or exotics ones like Arch, EndeavourOS, Gentoo, NixOS…

    If you find your way to distrowatch.com you will see EndeavourOS very high in the rankings, but it’s a rolling release distribution. While it’s easier to maintain/install than Arch, it has a learning curve and needs regular attention and reading the docs/forum.

    I have seen a lot of people recommend the following:

    • Linux mint
    • Pop! OS
    • Fedora
    • OpenSUSE



  • Except that everything is under your control and not managed by a third party, not much I think.

    If this setup works for you and you’re happy with it, just keep it going.

    If you have time to spare, want to learn new things, tinkerer arround with network security, certificates, DNS, reverse proxy and, and, and… You can give it a try in a virtual machine and docker containers. But keep in mind that’s not an easy way and involves a lot of personal time before you get a GOOD working self-hosted / exposed services.

    I wouldn’t recommend to open any port on your router except for a secured tunnel like wireguard and connect to your services through that tunnel. Opening port 443/80 on your router is bound to some heavy automated scanning and brute force by bots. If you don’t have the necessary knowledge/tool/hardware, this is just going to put you at risk of ddos and remote attacks.

    That’s way something like cloudflare is populare, they most of the time take care of that nuisance and also why something like wireguard is popular among the selfhosting community.







  • Not sure if this is what happend, but there is a sync option in samba where you can sync your samba user password with login user password.

    However this needs explicitly be stated in the samba.conf and needs some further configuration. It could be possible that the installation fuckedup something with passwd.

    Just guessing here, I played a bit arround with samba and password syncing.



  • XFCE4 ! Stable, simple and EndeavourOS’ design is top notch !

    However there are some glitches from time to time. Nothing to serious but when I use Lutris + Wine my desktop bar does some wired shit.

    Also when coming back from sleep I have to “pkill xfce4-session”. Though I’m not totally sure it’s an xfce issue…this could also be Nvidia or X11 related… Didn’t dived to deep.




  • Hey :) Thanks for the pointer. This was to beautiful to be true ! I searched around the web and found out what is actually happening in the background (learned something new and important so thank you!). And effectively It was writing to the cache and I wasn’t aware that was a thing on Linux.

    The command I used to track it down: sync & watch -n 1 grep -e Dirty: /proc/meminfo. Took me some time to come across the right command and realize what’s happening.

    Will update my post right way (BTW is still hate MacOS !)