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how much battery does a device consume in sleep mode?

I use my device mostly as a camera and a flashlight when I work night shift. I only need the device 4 times during those 8 hours, 2 minutes each time the most (8 minutes total)...

Is streaming IPTV without obfuscation safe?

I’m not sure exactly how police hunt down “illegal” activities on the Internet though, streaming https://iptv-org.github.io/ without using any protection against ISPs is not a good idea I think. Do you use IPTV? If so, is your connection on a VPN or Tor (streaming on Tor would be a horrible experience though)?

Every anthropomorphic character is some kind of animal-ape hybrid

Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start?

I feel like I would make use of it more if I could do it again. Maybe that’s weird, I don’t know....

Star Trek infinite questions

Will the game be on Xbox Series X?...

Self-hosted VPN that can be accessed via browser extension

Currently I set up Tailscale in my Synology NAS and I can access selfhosted services on my phone using the Android app. I want to use some services in my work PC too but I’m blocked from installing any software. So my question is, is there any solution that allows me to connect to selfhosted VPN via browser extension? (Just...

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

Fellow atheists: How do you know your senses and reasoning are reliable and valid? How do you know that you know anything? Solipsism vs Nihilism

Just looking for other answers to this....

Dual Booting: How in god's name?!

I have one drive, 1tb with Pop_OS, and another, 500 on to which i want to install windows. (I know, I dont like it either but I want to play VR games via link cable cause ALVR is really mid) So, I put the ISO on a drive with ventoy, booted it up, got it all going. started to install windows on the empty drive. So, after the five...

How do I contact the Piracy megathread?

I found almost everything imaginable on that site! But I can see it is missing some stuff. So I need to bring this to Piracy megathread’s attention on what else they need to add, but how do I contact them?

How do I enable sponsorblock by default for ytdlp?

I want to be able to type yt-dlp [url] and have it automatically use --sponsorblock-remove CATS to remove sponsored section from the download file without having to type --sponsorblock-remove CATS everytime. Is this possible within yt-dlp?...

Is anyone using awk?

Studying and awk came up....

Happy New Year!

It’s the last Friday before the New Year. Like myself, many of you will be starting their on-call rotation....

XCP-NG with XOSTOR working?

I have started trying out xcp-ng as an alternative to VMWare solutions for virtualization. Currently I have setup 3 VMs of xcp-ng v8.2.1. I have also setup Xen Orxhestra build from source....

Trying to find a song based on a very tiny fragment of memory

There’s a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again....

YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?

For context I’m in the US. The last time I used YouTube without an ad blocker, there were 2 ads back to back, and way too frequently. I tried watching on my PlayStation tonight, and not only are they more frequent, they’ve increased in quantity by 150%. It’s also very common for the last ad to last 2 minutes to over an...

How would you feel if Beehaw left the Fediverse?

I am one of the admins of Beehaw and I’m trying to get some feedback on our potential move....

Xclip is not talking to the system clipboard (Klipper)

If anyone could help me out with this, I’d greatly appreciate it. Basically, I can’t ctrl + v to paste anything I pipe into the clipboard selection in xclip, and i can’t xclip -o anything I copied with ctrl-c or ctrl-shift-c....

What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?

Videos stuttering across all applications

For a little over a month now, when playing videos on firefox, VLC, or any other application, I get infrequent stutters. This is with or without hardware accelleration. It’s as if the video pauses briefly. If multiple videos are playing, even across different applications, each of them will be effected at the same time....