It gets logged in the event viewer, yeah. That’s how I discovered it, on account of the screens not waking up in time to show the actual bluescreen. The users were only reporting that their computers were deleting all their windows when waking up. From their perspective, all they saw was their computer taking a mildly longer time to wake up from deep sleep and then losing their entire session, but what it was actually doing was hard rebooting.

Headless is fine, the bug was specifically triggered when a computer woke up and detected a monitor exists, but the monitor took some unspecified amount of time too long to wake up. It was also fixed at some point, I’m not sure when, but it went on long enough that we swapped dozens of cables because it specifically only happened on the ones using DisplayPort, not HDMI.

Fun fact about monitors turning on slowly: did you know Windows has a bluescreen code for that?

The WIN32K_POWER_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT bug check has a value of 0x0000019C. This indicates that Win32k did not turn the monitor on in a timely manner.

~ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/bug-check-0x19c--win32k-power-watchdog-timeout

That’s right, Windows will panic and throw a bluescreen if your monitors take a little too long to wake up. Had the pleasure of dealing with this suddenly becoming an issue and causing wide bluescreens on wakeup after an update back in mid-2024, on any Surface Dock using DisplayPort with specific Acer monitors.

I feel like NixOS might be the only distro that could realistically handle all these use cases, but I’m a bit scared of the learning curve and the maintenance work it’d take to migrate everything over.

It’s a very steep learning curve, but I personally think it is worth it if what you want is to sync up all your various devices to a single common baseline configuration. I sought a single-distro solution for all of my systems for a long time and always ended up fragmenting them eventually because nothing I tried until NixOS was capable of handling such a diverse set of use cases in a way that would satisfy me.

I am similar to you, in that I regularly use a three server cluster, a gaming desktop, a multi-purpose personal laptop, and a work WSL instance on my work laptop. I still have some purpose-built distros where it makes sense; I use Proxmox for the actual server hosts themselves and then run NixOS VMs on them, along with running VMs for Home Assistant OS and TrueNAS (with the drives passed through, of course). All of these things I could do on raw NixOS (even Home Assistant is packaged in Nix, and there is a project to port Proxmox UI and tooling to NixOS) but I like the stability of the dedicated and battle-tested distros for critical infrastructure, especially for stuff whose configuration is very specific to a given task.

With NixOS, each other device has a consistent shared configuration and package set, they all get updated to the exact same versions thanks to flakes so everything works the same and as expected no matter where I am, and it’s all declaratively configured and documented in one spot. Spinning up a new system or rebuilding an existing system is as easy as pulling the config and changing a few relevant lines, and from there it effectively assembles itself from scratch to the exact state I want it to be in. There’s never any lingering packages or configuration cruft because the system is assembled from scratch every time it updates. Much of my home configuration is also managed, so aliases, environment variables, even vim configs are consistent across the board and set in one location.

The main downside is resource efficiency. Nix is designed to be reproducible and declarative, not fast or lean. It uses much more storage than a typical package manager, and packages are built with wide compatibility in mind so you often are leaving performance on the table from not using newer instruction sets like CachyOS. You can compile your own packages to fix that part, but that obviously takes a lot of spare processing power. I’ve been considering setting up my server cluster to do automatic building for me, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

It’s really easy to change your positions when there were never any principles behind it either way.

This is what I’m so desperate for people to understand: these are empty people. In terms of politics, they don’t have beliefs in the way you and I do. They have hollowed out that part of themselves. This is why debate or the introduction of new facts never changes their minds, because it never made up their mind in the first place. Such a change requires your positions to be propped up by genuine belief in what you think is the right thing, where that prop can be knocked over.

These people belong to a team, a clan, a cult, however you want to phrase it. The only thing that matters is that their side is in power and uses that power to act against those who aren’t. Any means to that end is valid to them. They’ll happily switch to whichever position is most convenient for them without missing a beat. They’re only justifying it to you to keep you busy and distracted, they never really believed a word they said. They just chose the words they thought would be most effective to win.

Oh yeah, I should probably expand on the context for that.

Palmer Luckey is an outright fascist (see: thread picture above defending illegal executive military autonomy without the explicitly necessary congressional approval) who currently owns a company called Anduril that specializes in weapons and surveillance. He is also notably a Game Boy enthusiast, and ran a Game Boy modding site way back called ModRetro. He took his blood money and started a new company with the same name that produces a Game Boy clone called the ModRetro Chromatic, which is admittedly quite good quality, and publishes indie games as physical cartridges. I’m including this information just to be fair; unlike Elon Musk, this guy isn’t a poser posturing because he thinks it will endear him to the nerd crowd or whatever. He has a legitimate history in the community long before he got big, he knows his stuff, and there’s no way ModRetro is profitable, so it’s likely a genuine passion project for him and a love letter to the console.

However, any good will or endearment that would otherwise generate is completely wasted because he just recently produced an Anduril-branded Chromatic made from the same material as his attack drones. And ModRetro’s main fanbase is almost exclusively comprised of fascist or fascist-adjacent soylent losers who simultaneously claim that this shouldn’t be political but also think it’s Dang Heckin’ Epic that he made a Game Boy out of the same military murder metal as his weapons. They’ve spent the last year saying we shouldn’t judge ModRetro just because it’s owned by an arms dealer, and then they go out and defend said owner blurring the lines and making weapons-branded soy toys for grown men. They sometimes leaked into Game Boy enthusiast spaces and get real steamin’ angry that everybody else hates them, so for the most part they stay in their echo chamber now.

I personally really hate this guy because he keeps dipping his fascist dick into things I’m really passionate about and causing significant community fracturing over it. First VR, then NixOS, then Game Boys and the indie homebrew scene for it. I basically have to see this guy and the aftermath of his handiwork every day.

Some sources for my claims about the typical fanboys of ModRetro:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1pomrd1/better_look_at_the_anduril_chromatic/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1nyadq9/can_people_stop_pretending/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1oub2eq/buying_a_chromatic_isnt_an_ethical_dilemma/

My main use case is using it to protect my exposed Home Assistant instance in a way that doesn’t require a VPN that family can screw up. I can just install the cert into the app for them and it Just Works. I also use it for my own Gotify notifications.

As a more general rule, I apply it to anything I want to expose but can’t easily protect using OIDC logins. I used to put more behind it, but I recently opened up my services to friends and family, so I moved to using Authentik as my primary defense for most things. mTLS was great when it was just me, I can easily install the cert into my own browser and all of my Android apps (except Firefox Android…) but friends and family just zone out when I explain why their new phone doesn’t connect, so I had to adjust my systems to compensate.

They’re either poorly explaining or poorly understanding a well-known link between fascism and the overindulgence in nostalgia for bygone times. But not the nostalgia of “I loved the games I played as a kid” or “I think the industry has gone downhill since then”, and instead the more general and politicized “society/everything was better back then, remember what (((they))) took from you”. You’ll often see nazis posting video edits of late 90s to early 00s home video footage with massively overdone VHS filters of white people smiling and shit. What they don’t tell you is that the people making these videos weren’t even born then, and that’s the central flaw of the nostalgia-fascism pipeline that usually gets left out: it’s the strongest on people who weren’t actually alive yet. These people have nostalgia for a time that they either weren’t around for or were too young to remember, because the actual emotion they’re engendering is the feeling that they missed out on the “good times”, not that the good times have come and gone.

There can be some overlap with retrogame crowd because that nazi-nostalgia can take many forms, but this is usually from the easily-discernable “games are WOKE now, why can’t games be non-political like Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid” types. It doesn’t work as well as a vehicle for political engagement because… you didn’t miss out. You can just go download the roms right now, easier than ever, and still enjoy it. If you put in a little effort to learn to set up shaders and run-ahead, you can arguably get a better experience than we did back then on the real systems. So this is mostly contained to a subsection of nasally-voiced overweight 30-something nerds who are mad at the world because they can’t get a girlfriend. To circle back to the original topic, you can actually find a lot of these people in the modretro subreddit soying out about how epic and based Palmer Luckey is for making the weapons-grade Game Boy that triggers the libs, because upsetting people they hate is the only thing still getting them through the day.

I’m a socialist and I agree with them.

The reality is that not everyone wants to own and maintain their current home, for a variety of reasons. So long as homes are commodified, which they effectively will be for the long-term forseeable future until we live in a true post-scarcity society, renting a home will be a necessary option that a functioning society must provide. Building housing is expensive in terms of labor and resources, and that labor must be compensated somehow, and not everyone will want or be able to front that entire cost. Or maybe they simply don’t want to settle down permanently where they are now, or even ever, and therefore homeownership would saddle themselves with unwanted debts and the trouble of selling the home when they do move.

The flaws we see in modern day landlords are largely a function of capitalism. Housing is a necessary resource for survival, but one that we’ve rendered artificially scarce through social and economic policy inflating the price, and then it gets bought up by the only people who can afford it and rented out to those who can’t. There’s nothing inherently wrong with, for example, a worker-owned cooperative leasing out housing and providing maintenance services at a fair price for those homes for people who don’t want to do it themselves. Ownership alone isn’t a job and such rentseeking would be forbidden in a sane and just society, but under a better system there would still be room for such a service that provides genuine value to society.

It’s definitely dried up a fair bit over the last couple of years. In January 2025 I got some recertified 12TB Ironwolfs for $140 each from GoHardDrive, and that was already a fair bit over what they historically had been. Same drives are now $200 on GoHardDrive, and $220 on Amazon. You can just get them new $250, so at that point I barely think it’s worth it to get recertified unless you’re really stretching a budget. I’m sure the businesses are very happy with the demand they got now, but it’s hard to escape the conclusion that LTT and other Youtubers covering these sites really drove up demand and prices.

Also, the smaller drives are a lot harder to find recertified these days since enterprise users will usually go for much larger capacities, so yeah, for 4TB you’ll probably have to go for new. You could also just get a larger drive and only use 4TB of it, assuming this is going into some kind of array. Upgrade the other one at a later date, then just expand your pool!

Authentik has done the opposite of enshittification. As they’ve gotten more successful, they’ve taken enterprise features and moved them into the community edition. I’ve been extremely happy with Authentik so far and the dev has been nothing short of fantastic every time I’ve seen them interacting with the community.

Reddit is mildly left of center as a whole. It is not leftist. You do not find many people there who are genuinely anti-capitalist, which is a prerequisite for any flavor of leftism.

Something you might want to look into is using mTLS, or client certificate authentication, on any external facing services that aren’t intended for anybody but yourself or close friends/family. Basically, it means nobody can even connect to your server without having a certificate that was pre-generated by you. On the server end, you just create the certificate, and on the client end, you install it to the device and select it when asked.

The viability of this depends on what applications you use, as support for it must be implemented by its developers. For anything only accessed via web browser, it’s perfect. All web browsers (except Firefox on mobile…) can handle mTLS certs. Lots of Android apps also support it. I use it for Nextcloud on Android (so Files, Tasks, Notes, Photos, RSS, and DAVx5 apps all work) and support works across the board there. It also works for Home Assistant and Gotify apps. It looks like Immich does indeed support it too. In my configuration, I only require it on external connections by having 443 on the router be forwarded to 444 on the server, so I can apply different settings easily without having to do any filtering.

As far as security and privacy goes, mTLS is virtually impenetrable so long as you protect the certificate and configure the proxy correctly, and similar in concept to using Wireguard. Nearly everything I publicly expose is protected via mTLS, with very rare exceptions like Navidrome due to lack of support in subsonic clients, and a couple other things that I actually want to be universally reachable.

I envy your life, as it feels like every year the browser assimilates and consumes more and more.

A direct case was not reported in the UK in recent years, but evidence of very likely polio transmission was found in sewage samples two years ago:

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/polio-virus-found-in-uk-sewage-samples-risk-to-public-low

A similar situation happened in New York where an actual case was found a month later:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/polio-found-new-york-wastewater-state-assesses-virus-spread-2022-08-01/

The short of it is, when vaccination rates fall, Polio can be reintroduced via transmission of the live virus found in the oral vaccine, usually taken in poorer countries. If someone were to take the oral vaccine and then immediately travel to a country with lessening vaccination rates, like is currently happening in the west due to the spread of right-wing conspiracy mongering, the live virus still in the vaccinated individual has a low but not zero chance of propagating to the unvaccinated or immune-compromised population there. Samples containing these vaccine-derived viruses are found a few times per year in most places, and it’s a weaker virus so often it leads to no symptoms, but in very rare instances it does take hold with the expected effect:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON366

Despite individual cases of polio turning up, either via direct reporting or evidence found elsewhere, it would still be correct to describe polio as being “eradicated” in these countries, at least currently. Nobody is confused by this or demands reclassification of the status of polio.

I don’t follow. We regularly refer to polio as being “eradicated”, even though there have still been documented (but exceptionally rare) cases of polio transmission even in western countries over the last couple decades. That actually sounds like a perfectly apt comparison for the goals of prison abolition, just not in the way you intended.

In short, prison abolition isn’t about abolishing prisons?

Bad name choice in my opinion, as it immediately makes me think: what a dumb idea.

This is kind of like saying being anti-war is a dumb idea because there will surely always be wars fought in defense. Being anti-war isn’t necessarily being an absolute pacifist. It’s about opposing war and striving towards a future where war is a relic of the past. Everybody understands this, but struggles to apply the same logic to other topics.

Striving for intentionally utopian and impossible ideals is a great idea, actually, as long as you recognize it for what it is. I’m a prison abolitionist. Ultimately what I strive for is a society that doesn’t need prisons. I don’t know if total prison abolition is possible, but worst case scenario, we get as close as possible. What’s so bad about that?

Similarly, I’m a communist, in the classical anarchist sense: abolition of state, class, and money. Are these things possible? Maybe not. In fact, probably not, at least not in any timeframe where humanity will be recognizable to us, as it would require true peace between all people and absolute post-scarcity in every way available to everyone. But worse case scenario, we get as close as possible.

Ultimately, adopting a utopian ideal is a recognition that the struggle to do better never ends. We’re never “done”. There’s no end of history. Even if we do somehow achieve it, it must be maintained.

You’re greatly overestimating how many people that is; additionally, it was largely people that aren’t very committed to FOSS that got mad. The project maintainers and most users are fine with it. People who are committed to FOSS ideals are overwhelmingly progressive to leftist. That’s why those codes of conduct were added in the first place, and were largely uncontroversial amongst most actual contributors of those projects.

Agree with the former, not the latter.

Use lemmy.ml how you want to use it, and if you want to participate in other political leanings, go to a different instance. No one is really stopping you, and that’s the whole idea of the fediverse. And there really isn’t any value lost, because this isn’t a “choose one and only one” situation. You’ve got all of the fediverse at your fingertips.

Until you make the mistake of replying with the wrong kind of comment to the wrong sub, and get banned from the entire instance and lose the ability to post on many of the largest subs on this side of the fediverse. Or maybe they just see you out and about and decide to ban you on sight because they don’t like what you said. There’s nothing stopping that.

Admin overreach and abuse is a major issue for the fediverse because it affects more than just the user in question. Admins of large instances get to decide who has access to the users and communities on their instances, and very often the users of the instance aren’t even aware of the actions taken on their behalf. Mastodon recently implemented a notification for when blocks and defederation remove your follows or followers, and this is a great first step. Users deserve to know when they are impacted by decisions such as these.

I love the fediverse and want to see it thrive, so we need to stop putting our heads in the sand on this issue. It’s always discussed as if it’s an issue with a few problematic instances rather than the systemic issue in need of a solution that is is. Admins need the tools to protect their instances from real abuse, but we need to balance that with the right of the users to know what’s going on and not be unfairly deprived of the social aspect of this social media experiment, especially without knowing.

Seconding this, I do the same. It’s a terrible sign that it took me longer to figure out how to successfully create VLANs and assign them to SSIDs in OpenWRT, which is a fairly simple concept, than it took me to learn basically anything about OPNSense, a vastly more powerful and complex tool.

I appreciate OpenWRT for giving me FOSS firmware I can slap on my AP, and I certainly don’t want to come across as entitled to the free labor of the developers, but it’s just objectively not very good from a UI/UX perspective.