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I've been tried reading about how degrowth can safe the planet - personally I don't buy stuff I don't need, uses public transport extensively, etc. it happens to me naturally - But I don't see how people and countries can apply degrowth without fear that others in our capitalist world would take advantage.

For example. let's say the suddenly the UK decided to degeowth and stop making so much investments into the industrial sector. The international investments would simply go to countries that would accept the investments. It feels like degrowth is stuck in a prisoner's dilemma. And there's no obvious way around it.

How can this be solved?

I know this is a long stretch. But somehow I really want to try and see if I can run VRChat on my SBC (Orange Pi5, RK3588). So far I got the basic setup working (game starts executing) and what I did is as follows. But it always fail to initialize Direct3D 11:

1. Download and install Proton and VRChat on my Linux PC
2. SCP the entire steam folder to the SBC
3. Install box64
4. Try starting the game by running
5. It crash due to the driver not supporting Vulkan. Thus DXVK fails. (see attached image)

I have tried to use WineD3D and follows the Notes about Unity game emulation section on box64. But in the console it shows D3D11 fails to init then Unity exits.

Is there any way I can get around this besides using llvmpipe?

Kernel: Linux 5.10 CPU: RK3588 GPU: Mali G610 GPU Driver: Panfork (Mesa 23) OS: Ubuntu 22.04

I’ve been working on a project that I need constant access (and executing commands) among at least 3 hosts in work. I’ve been using SSH’s Host function to manage which host I’m connecting to. However, I find it increasingly annoying that I can’t see which host I’m connected to via the tab on my terminal emulator (I’m using Windows Terminal on Windows and Konsole on Linux).

Is there a good SSH GUI client that can show which host a session is connected to? I’ve tried Termius. But $10 per month is too expensive to me for what I’m doing (and I don’t need most of the paid feature).

I'm reading a lot papers after I switched positions in my job. I felt reading on my display annoying. I can't draw on the PDF easily nor able to read while I code (not without switching windows). And printing papers is annoying too. I can't search and the physical paper pile up quickly.

Is an e-reader a good choice for me? Or should I get a tablet instead?

I got my new PC for about 3 or 4 months. Today, I was using my PC as usual and suddenly everything stopped reacting. Rebooting just boots be into the UEFI interface. Which is very concerning.

Then I got a liveusb to look into what's happening. Upon using smartctl. It shows that my SSD have 0% spare capacity despite only writing 15TB to it.

So far, I knew that Samsung's EVO 980 and 990 SSDs have a firmware bug that can cause this. But this is the 1st time I know of 970 Pros having this issue.

I know there's a lot of servers using consumer drives for their system. Be careful and check if you are using a 970. If so, check the spare capacity RIGHT NOW and decided if to upgrade the firmware or RMA the product.

I've been getting myself into 3D modeling for my need of using stuff in VR. Buying props and models from gumroad and booth are just too expansive.

Sure, I can learn blender. And I did. But that got me thinking. Why aren't there open or copyleft 3D models? It feels like the exact same fork-modify-use pattern that pushed open source to the main stream. However almost everything in 3D modeling is paid or with restrictive license.

Why? Why didn't the same libre licensing spread?

(I'll release my stuff in LGPL when I feel they are ready. In case people think I just want free art)

I have a weird distaste of how law is written for a long time. Laws are difficult to understand and follow. For example, definitions are often unclear and depends on past rulings. Meaning the law itself is not suffice to decide if an action is legal or not. This really irritated me. The fact that I can't know with 100% certainty if my actions will be considered legal prior to acting makes me feel uneasy.

Why can't we just write laws like we write RFCs? With clear SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, MUST and MUST NOT? And with clear reference to other sections such that any uncertainty would be discovered and solved.

Also why didn't this happen? I feel it would bring much more efficiency to the society. And less lawyer arguing over details that the even the law makers proposing said law didn't know about.

So I'm about to get a new laptop (likely 13th gen intel) since my current one is breaking down. Currently I run Arch Linux on my device and is looking into FreeBSD or OpenBSD as the OS. Mainly because once I tried to look into the Linux kernel and can't believe the amount of spaghetti in it. I've read a little bit of Free and OpenBSD kernels. They look a lot nicer. And I travel a bit with my laptop to visit a few infosec conferences. I hear the BSDs have a more solid kernel then Linux (I know BSDs are OSs).

I'm use my laptop to browse the internet, remote into my boxes to code and email. And I tried to use both in VM and feels ok with them.

Can experienced BSD users share some pitfalls and why or why not to use BSD?