Do we have any other former SETI@home users here?

I'm still bummed that the project stopped and for that matter that nothing really came of their analyzation phase. Nothing seems to have happened since they moth balled it..

I wasn't the most active user by by far but I had tens of thousands of classic cpu hours and some millions od current score after close to 20 years of on and off participation.

Sure, there are other projects I could join but.. there was something magical about SETI to me.

For those who never heard of the project:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

You could donate spare cpu cycles to help analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope to look for signs of artificial signals. You had it running in the background and as a screensaver if you wanted to see what you were analyzing.

I'm sure most of you have heard of it or similar distributed computing projects. There are plenty to choose from using BOINC (that S@h used) over at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

https://foldingathome.org/ is one if the most known similar ones.

I just wanted to vent a bit.

I'm still struck now and then by the fact that they stopped the project and I get bummed out..

For a long time I've been using Windows only on my private computer even though I might've wanted to use Windows.

One big part of that is that I have it set up next to my work computer when I'm working from home so I can do private stuff on it while working. Talking to people on Signal, Matrix, browsing Beehaw and so on. My work computer is pretty locked down and snooped on. I'm allowed do to stuff like that on it but it feels iffy.

Until recently I've used Mouse Without Worders to share the same mouse and keyboard between the two and it's worked like a charm.

I just never got around to checking for a solution that would work cross OS until today.

I've tried Logitech's solution once but couldn't get it to work due to firewalls and other stuff going on on my work computer but.. Barrier!

That just worked! I set up my private computer as the server and my work computer as the client and now I'm switching betwern the two machines without a glitch! :)

It did complain a bout a missing SSL cert at first but this solved that issue:

Copy the path to SSL directory which you can find in your error. "ERROR: ssl certificate doesn't exist: /home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/Barrier.pem " In this case : "/home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/" Then run the following commands:

cd  "path to your SSL"
mkdir -p Fingerprints
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -subj /CN=barrier -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout Barrier.pem -out Barrier.pem
openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha256 -noout -in Barrier.pem > Fingerprints/Local.txt
sed -e "s/.*=/v2:sha256:/" -i Fingerprints/Local.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67343804/error-ssl-certificate-doesnt-exist-home-rsvay-snap-barrier-kvm-2-local-shar

I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things.

I've run Arch in the past but I've gotten too old and lazy for that if I'd be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though.. and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice.

Not sure what I'd try out first this time so I figured I'd get some inspiration from you guys!

Where do you guys host images instead of uploading them here?

Imgur or something else?

Bonus points for them to be able to strip exif data and generate anonymous links.

Preferably not something big corpo-like. I realize that housing tons of images gets prizyb though..

Is pixelfed an option perhaps?

How come only the support community has a banner?

This one:

Shouldn't it be on each community? :) Since we have one after all!

I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!

My absolute favorite world of his is the commonwealth universe and really want him to get back to something on that scale again.

I've read both the Salvation and Arkship trilogies after that and even though they're both good I want brick sized epic space opera again!

Might just have to go back an revisit his books again.

I did see that he co-authored a book semi recently that managed to fly under my radar; Light Chaser (written with Gareth L. Powell).

Has anyone read it? No spoilers please :)

I tried signing up as NorthernLightMountain but couldn't since there seems to be a limit on user name length at 20 characters. (There's a bug for that btw, you won't get an error message if the user name is too long, it just won't submit the form and stalls)

Display names seems to share that limit. Wouldn't mind seeing it raised a bit if possible?

No biggie if not, just hoping I could look like I had imagined :)