Howdy, folks! Doing X11 forwarding over ssh has been my go to way to access graphical applications on my headless server. With X11 being deprecated with its many security issues, I was slightly bummed since I thought I’d have to setup VNC or RDP....
As of this week I’m giving Pop OS a try (coming from Windows 11) and this will be my 4th or 5th attempt at switching to Linux but I’ve always been driven off by odd issues that have no (clear) resolution or just general weirdness like bad performance even when just using a web browser. I was having a terrible time with high resource usage just sitting at the desktop, Firefox being sluggish, the entire DE freaking out for no reason, etc. and I kinda just came to accept that that’s how it is with an Nvidia card.
I switched Pop OS to Wayland since there’s a toggle for it right on the login screen and suddenly everything is fine. Buttery smooth experience so far in terms of performance. Very little time spent playing games on it so far, but in my experience thus far it’s been better on Wayland. In X I booted up a game just to test and it put the game on a secondary monitor, upside down, and completely unresponsive to inputs. It also scrambled all of my windows and made my resolution weird and took a while for it to recover after force quitting the game.
In Wayland, the same game booted up with no issues, Windows-like performance, and it didn’t mess up everything else. That was AimLab which I use for testing since it’s a smallish download.
Second test was with Halo Infinite. Wouldn’t even run under X. Tried different proton versions but nothing worked. Under Wayland it booted up and ran. The campaign worked but I was having odd issues where it was kinda like having really bad ping in a multiplayer game where you rubber band backward and forward. Or like it was showing old frames mixed in with new frames. Low performance, about 55fps when under windows it’s 90-100. Still, better than X and could probably be improved with further tinkering.
Ramble aside, it seems like Wayland with an Nvidia GPU is going well for me so far. I’m really not familiar with the technical aspects of Wayland vs X, but from an end-user perspective, I’m liking what I see so far.
Medication is nothing more than a standard inhaler ($25-35). You will need to get a special hand-held chambered device called an aerokat ($40) that you press to your cat’s face and spray the inhaler into so they actually receive the dosed amount. Dosage will be once every 12 or 24 hours, whatever is just enough to prevent the attacks. Works a treat. Oddly enough, the cat won’t mind sticking an inhaler device over his face for a handful of seconds as long as you pet him at the same time.
Oh, and if you record the event happening, it makes diagnosis a lot quicker. It’s pretty unmistakable.
Sorry I can’t help with the diagnosis cost. Those can vary so wildly where I live. That and I totally forgot how much that was
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
I ran Manjaro Linux as my daily driver a few years ago but slowly phased it out for Windows for some reason, and I’m finally back using Linux (currently Linux Mint). I gotta say, I don’t know why I ever switched back to Windows. There’s just so much freedom Linux gives you right off the bat that Windows is just plain...
I rarely use Windows but I have a dual boot situation on my desktop PC for the odd game that acts up on Linux or to recreate bug reports. Every time I boot into Windows, I’m like, “Damn, people live like this?” Why does every single thing ask for a reboot? I know the reason but why can’t that be fixed?
JXL is the best image codec we have so far and it’s not even close. I did a breakdown on some of its benefits here. JXL can losslessly convert PNG, JPG, and GIF into itself, and can losslessly send them back the other way too. The main downside is that Google has been blocking its adoption by keeping support out of Chromium in favor of pushing AVIF, which started a chicken and egg problem of no one wanting to use it until everyone else started using it too. If you want to be an early adopter you can feel free to use JXL, but just know that 3rd party software support is still maturing.
Something you might find interesting is that the original JPEG is such a badass format that they’ve taken a lot of their findings from JXL and made a badass JPEG encoder with it named jpegli. Oddly, jpegli-based JPEGs are not yet able to be losslessly-compressed into JXL files, per this issue - hopefully that will be fixed at some point.
Other attendees on Tuesday will include President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris… …former first ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump…
Odd to see this name show up. At least her husband won’t be there to try to make it about himself.
Like as a kid coming from camping, I would give my mom a daylong report about all the things that happened in details.
Or know when I read something interesting I have to show it to my wife. Or when we meet after work I have to let out all the stuff that happened at that very second.
Good points overall! I’d add that in my opinion “estaremos enviando” is closer to “we will be sending”, which also better conveys the odd, misplaced telemarketer politeness vibes it carries.
“I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex’s Week in Review email and Discover Together feature....
Plex is the odd one out here. They handle authentication and user management with there own servers, while your server just gives those users somewhere to stream media from. This means plex (the company) gets to see all of your and your users activities and everything you’ve got available on your server.
Both Emby and Jellyfin give you a similar netflix style experience using your own media, but self-hosted without third-party influence. Your users are your own, them and their activity is not visible to anyone else but the server operator (you).
Emby does have a licensing structure for ‘Premiere’ features, this means they can see how many and which devices connect to your server, but thats it. Jellyfin removes even this leaving things entirely self-hosted.
These solutions make streaming your own media as well as sharing it with friends/family incredibly easy. As easy as just giving out your Hulu/Netflix login. They’ll also transcode so you can play highbitrate files on crap Internet without buffering, or allow devices to play files they otherwise wouldn’t be able to read (codec/container mismatches).
Game feels great. I just wish the people I knew who also played weren’t across the pond so I could actually get a kill once in a while (being the odd man out, if we play together my ping is 300-500ms).
You’re correct, but you’re also being a bit pedantic and ignoring the point OP is trying to make. It still illustrates the point just fine at 47.4% instead of 50%. Odds of winning 10 in a row go from 1:1,024 to 1:1,746.
I’ve stumbled upon the clip too, its pretty messed up. I’ve spent a fair bit of time around horses so I know they’re mostly gentle giants with unique personalities (obviously there are the odd outliers) but that clip totally makes you jump and go woah!
sorry for my layman terminology, but to my understanding as a coder a function has a name, parameters, arguments and operations. if sin is the name, and its parameters are side opposite and hypotenuse, and its arguments are context dependent, what is the operation itself? am i making sense?...
Oddly enough, on a computer, I have not seen secant, cosecant, or cotangent.
I have seen sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, and arctan.
Though the arc functions will only have one parameter, so if this is homework, you’ll probably be avoiding the arcs and using secant and friends
Anyways:
sin ( angle )
Term
In this example
Parameter
Angle is the parameter. It’s in radians, so in Java you’ll use a conversion like Math.toRadians(a) on whatever number you’re going to use as an argument
Argument
If I were to call sin(Math.PI / 4) then I would be passing the argument π / 4 to the function.
In other words, if a parameter is a question, then an argument is an answer. If a parameter is a coin slot, than an argument is the coin you choose to insert.
Operation
An operation is practically synonymous with “function”. It is performed on inputs to arrive at an output. However, usually in code, I hear “operation” used to describe things like /, *, and +. Things that have multiple inputs and a single output, all of the same form.
If someone is asking you, "which operation should you use in the body of function sin ( hyponetuse, opposite ) then I imagine the expected answer would be, / because
/ is an operation, and because
opposite / hypotenuse will perform the division that yields the sine of whatever triangle those two sides belong to.
Oh I’m not saying that the PS1 has the “best” library, but among the 16-32 bit console generations it likely has the most varied library of games that are generally more difficult to emulate/play properly on other things like emulators and which is likely to be in more danger of losing more of its library to the aether of lack of preservation than the Genesis, SNES or perhaps even the N64. Also, while you can find the classic PS1 games such as FF7/8/9, Twisted Metal, Castlevania SotN, Metal Gear Solid, Crash, or Spyro all over in collections or remakes like Crash N-Sane Trilogy and Spyro Reignited, there’s a lot of weird and fun experimental stuff on the PS1 while devs were figuring out what they could do with 3D and mastering 2D gameplay that I would absolutely love to give a try. There’s a certain aesthetic of 2D PS1 and Sega Saturn games that has always looked oddly charming to me and I enjoy.
Here’s an example. Let’s say that you don’t know how open source works, and I told you the following:
Why are you in Lemmy? It’s open source so any hacker can screw with it, and infect your computer with viruses. You’ll never know, right?
That’s FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It’s a disingenuous tactic to convince you to not do something, based on the following:
You fear a certain outcome. In this case, a computer virus.
That fear is vaguely associated with something that is uncertain for you. In this case, how a hacker could use Lemmy to inject viruses into your computer.
The odds of that outcome happening are doubtful; it may happen, it may not, otherwise you could call me out for not happening. In this case, even if you don’t get a virus from using Lemmy, I can still say “well, some people get it, some don’t, but let’s play it safe and avoid Lemmy.”
This shitty strategy is fairly used in the tech industry because most people are clueless about tech, but they know that it has a big impact on their lives. However you’ll also see this in politics, religious debate (Pascal’s Wager is FUD), and others.
Yeah, I’ve been exclusively using Firefox dev edition for the last 2-3 ys. I can’t remember one site not functioning properly apart from the odd visual bug from time to time.
Yeah it was odd to read that description being presented as an oddity - that sounds like most households I know. If you have a wife, kids, or roommate and don’t enjoy being holed up in your own room the whole time you play (and those sharing your house don’t just want to watch you game all night) then in house streaming is a huge boon.
I PC game, but most of my gaming is done on the couch, streamed onto my phone. I’ve been very tempted to buy a dedicated streaming device lately to avoid draining my phone battery while playing
How to see enabled services that have been stopped [systemd]
Someone tell me if there is a better way to do this, but I don’t see how....
Waypipe Makes Me Happy
Howdy, folks! Doing X11 forwarding over ssh has been my go to way to access graphical applications on my headless server. With X11 being deprecated with its many security issues, I was slightly bummed since I thought I’d have to setup VNC or RDP....
What is the disgnosis and medication cost for cat potentially with asthma
Anybody been thru the process before and know what the approximate costs and details are about getting a cat seen for potential asthma?...
California seeing a sizable influx of new residents relocating from Texas (www.cbsnews.com)
I finally switched back to Linux as my daily driver after a couple of years of being on nothing but Windows.
I ran Manjaro Linux as my daily driver a few years ago but slowly phased it out for Windows for some reason, and I’m finally back using Linux (currently Linux Mint). I gotta say, I don’t know why I ever switched back to Windows. There’s just so much freedom Linux gives you right off the bat that Windows is just plain...
your stance on image compression and/ or avif/jxl?
Do you have a general stance about it?...
Would you want your troublesome ex spouse to be super successful or super unsuccessful on onlyfans ? And why ?
Asking for a friend who is writing a novel
Broadcom lays off VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
Jimmy Carter, currently in hospice, plans to attend late wife Rosalynn Carter's memorial (abcnews.go.com)
The former first lady died last week at the age of 96.
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family (www.404media.co)
“I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex’s Week in Review email and Discover Together feature....
Xonotic - a FOSS FPS game (xonotic.org)
Based on quake engine, now it has all the bells and whistles of modern graphics.
Success is built through GAMBA (sh.itjust.works)
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what are the operations of the six main trig functions
sorry for my layman terminology, but to my understanding as a coder a function has a name, parameters, arguments and operations. if sin is the name, and its parameters are side opposite and hypotenuse, and its arguments are context dependent, what is the operation itself? am i making sense?...
SteamWorld Build - Review Thread
Game Information...
US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas (www.gamesindustry.biz)
If forced to choose one retro console forever what would you choose and why?
What is "FUD"?
People use it like everyone fucking has the innate knowledge of every acronym out there
Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
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PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough? (www.eurogamer.net)
What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?