loaExMachina

Hello, my name is loaExMachina and I'm a redditor.

Jk, I've almost completely stopped browsing reddit, tho so far I hadn't committed to deleting my account, because all I've written was of such high quality that it'd be the worst loss of wisdom since the library of Alexandria burnt down. But now that I saw the deal they cut to train the Google AI on their content, I'm thinking "better erase it than let it fall in the hands of evil."

I recall seing on reddit many comments replaced by something about moving to lemmy and how much better it was, apparently some software had been used to bulk-edit all of the accounts content into this. Is it possible to learn that power ?

So, I've been having some bugs when I turn on my PC since I installed my GPU, and I figured a possible reason might be that it uses bios instead of uefi, although my motherboard supports uefi.

So I've been trying to change that, following the instructions from this reddit comment, cross-referenced with relevant arch wiki articles, all from the archiso key I used to install the OS in the first place. But I'm having trouble with the second-to last step: Mounting the newly created partition at /efi. I added the line

PARTLABEL=esp /efi fat32 defaults 0 2 In /etc/fstab Then I created the /efi directory and tried doing mount /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi I get an error message telling me it can't find an ext4 filesystem I don't know why it's expecting an ext4, several tutorials agreed it had to be a fat32. Then I try mount -t fat32 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi And get mount: /efi: unknown filesystem type 'fat32'

So... Is it impossible to mount a fat32 system from the arch installation device ? If so, what's the workaround? If not, is it something else I'm doing wrong?

This had taken me my whole afternoon, and in hindsight I would've saved more time reinstalling the whole system. This is not off the table, but the fact that I might be really close to success kinda dissuades me from doing that...

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.6.8-arch1-1

It's a clip I've seen long ago, it was in Japanese but I had seen a version with subtitles. I think it was Kagamine Rin or Ren. The art style was pretty nice, the colors involved a lot of black, red and white. The story went like this : An injured woman found shelter in a cave, but it was inhabited by a she-wolf. The wolf (who could talk) was about to eat her but agreed to listen to the woman's story first. Turned out this woman was a warrior who had killed a bunch of people, and was betrayed and stabbed right when she had decided to chill. The wolf was like "yeah, very interesting, but I'm still gonna eat you", but then the woman stabbed the wolf. And then she was killed by some kind of demon that came from inside of her. Anyone knows the title ?

Feral chicken are known in several places. They can be pretty successful and have been signaled as threats to ecosystems and crops in archipelagos like Hawaii and Bermuda. But I've thinking about Brasil: Given the sheer amount of chicken being bread there, the presence of the Amazon rainforest, which has a similar climate to whence jungle fowls, the chicken's ancestors come; and its already fragilized ecosystem, isn't there a specific risk there ? So far, I've seen no South American country listed as famous for feral chicken presence . But hypothetically, if a few millions of fowls escaped a massive Brasilian farm and swarmed the Amazon; what could happen ? Would they quickly die off, due to having lost adaptations to wildlife, having an insufficient ratio of roosters and facing many predators ? Would they outcompete one or two local bird species and steal their niche, but otherwise fit fine in the food chain without further disrupting the ecosystem? Or would it spell a great ecological catastrophy ?

Tl;dr : I'd like to find an app that switches any part of an url with a certain pattern to another chosen pattern when I open it.

Explanation of what I'm trying to do:

An institution I have an account in offers free access to a few online publications that are normally behind a paywall, via ezproxy. The standard way to use it is impractical: You must go through the institution's website, log on, go to the page listing online ressources, find the one you're looking for and log in to your account to access it. What's more, the rss feeds of the proxy version of these sites don't work.

A quicker way to access it is to go on the (paywalled) article, switch a part of the url with a certain pattern that's always the same, and log in if not already done. On my desktop, I could use a Firefox addon named "redirector" to do this automatically. This way, I follow the publications normal website rss feed, and when I click on the link I get the unpaywalled version. But I also look a feeds on my phone, with Feeder, and I'd also like being able to get the full articles there (I don't mind opening the article in a brower). Firefox for Android and it's forks don't have the Redirector add-on tho. Is there another way I could do the same thing on Android, so I can click on a feed and have it redirect to the proxy version?

Ideally, I'd like the solution to be FOSS.

(My phone isn't rooted and cannot be, as the bootloader is locked)

Many add-ons have somewhat spookiy authorisation requirements, such as "access all of your activity". In many cases this is justified by it's function, and of course there isn't any problem with it as long as we're sure all this data stays on your computer and isn't shared with any remote server. How are we sure of that tho? Is there an easy way to check for each add-on ?

Image description: A grumpy looking cat. Top text: "You're like a ray of sunshine". Bottom text: "Hurting peoples eyes and giving them cancer".

I'm sorry if it's not my olace to say this, qnd I don't wish to offend anyone, but lesbians are gay, right? Maybe "gay" has once meant only "homesexual men", but now many lesbians call themselves "gay" so having both the "l" anf the "g" seems redundant. In fact, an even broader definition of "gay" may even encompass bisexuals, so gtq+ seems sufficient. But the word "queer" is also used as an ulbrella term for all lgbtq+ identities, so really, q+ seems like would suffice. Or if it has to be lgbt, they could at least switch the "b" and the "t" so that it can also mean "Let's Get This Bread".

I know there are already Gmail alternatives in the pinned post, Protonmail and Tutanota. I've experimented a bit with both of them, and both Tutanota or the free Protonmail are out of the question since I can't use them with Thunderbird, so I don't have a convenient way to keep all my mails stored in case my account gets deleted or I get locked out of it. And getting locked out of it, I already have once for Tutanota, right after making my account, for no reason, and it took me three days to get it back after sending a mail from another address.

Disroot seems good enough, at least for communication. But for making accounts for official stuff, I'm still a bit worried that I could lose access to my account before an important mail has been downloaded, or that I'd be unable to recover a password or contact some important service if something happens to my account, so I'm wondering whether I'd need something... "Bigger". A service that has less chance of going bankrupt and being discontinued, but without being google. I'l considering "laposte .net".

Any thoughts? Do you guys think I'm right, or do you think using more open-source and privacy friendly stuff for everything is completely safe?

They could've done better.