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HarriPotero ,

zram is only suitable if you have no swap. I’d you have swap, zswap does a better job. It also compresses pages in memory, but swaps the least recently used pages to disk when pressured.

HarriPotero ,

This guy kiddie porns.

HarriPotero , (edited )

I enjoyed Rampart tremendously back in the day. It had a lot of ports, but I’m surprised it hasn’t had any remakes or clones in the last 30 years.

HarriPotero ,

Sounds s lot more fair than the experience I had at home!

Three kids crammed in front of one computer. One on keyboard, one on mouse and one on joystick. The one on joystick was at the worst disadvantage. A small nudge was a good way to sabotage rebuilding your fortress.

HarriPotero ,

Start with getting some experience before considering buying a boat. Not only can you lose your investment, but your life. Job a club, take lessons, make friends at the local yacht club, volunteer as crew. Requirements for being a skipper vary quite a bit between countries. Some let anyone go up to a certain size, others require certifications even for small dinghies.

The bigger the boat, the harder it is too both manoeuvre and maintain.

Do you want something small that you can roll into the water on a ramp when you use it?

Do you want something big enough that requires a crane to get in the water? Prepare to spend a week cleaning, sanding, polishing, waxing and applying new anti-foul yearly.

HarriPotero ,

He was the best of us.

HarriPotero ,

What a misleading title.

She was obviously wearing gloves throughout the whole video.

HarriPotero ,

Something similar happened to this Finnish chainsaw juggler. He had just come back from performing at Kim Jong-Un’s birthday and had a stubborn headache that wouldn’t go away. Straight to the mental ward.

Article in Finnish, I’m sure Google translate does a decent job.

HarriPotero ,

I feel like googling his name would have sorted it all out.

HarriPotero ,

I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.

First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.

HarriPotero ,

And they have a -50% flash sale.

Imagine that timing.

HarriPotero ,

I’ve been trying to convince my boomer wife to try affinity. She works mostly with print, and it seems like a good fit to me.

HarriPotero ,

I’d only use zram if I had no swap device/file.

In my experience zswap performs better, and doesn’t get in the way of hibernation. In fact, most distros enable it by default today, and it doesn’t always work so great with zram.

HarriPotero ,

I was just wondering how they even managed to get publicly listed with that track record. Apparently a reverse merger with a company previously set up for just that purpose is just a slap on the wrist.

HarriPotero ,

Additionally, chat monitoring would not apply to accounts used for national security, investigations, or military purposes.

Why do they want to protect the pedophiles working for nations and militaries?

HarriPotero ,

I guess it all depends on perspective.

I love that it’s free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

I love that there are good package managers.

I love that it’s open source.

I hate that it’s GPLv2.

I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

I hate how it’s not POSIX-certified.

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

HarriPotero ,

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can’t really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

HarriPotero ,

You sweet summer child.

How long do you think Chrome will let DoH be opt-in?

HarriPotero ,

The day they do their own DoH in-browser it is definitely up to them. It’s already opt-in if you want to see how well your pi-hole won’t work with it enabled.

Next step is to do DoH by default, and finally making it compulsory.

HarriPotero ,

Personally, I’d like to see them force in-browser DoH down my throat with my computer powered off. They’ll never see it coming.

HarriPotero ,

MorphOS. It’s still kicking.

HarriPotero ,

I’ve always been quite deadline driven. So the week before going to the breakpoint demo party I wrapped up a Commodore 64 demo in a long series of all-nighters.

When I finally crashed I was dreaming 6502 assembly.

HarriPotero , (edited )

In no order:

  • Diablo 2
  • Chrono trigger
  • The incredible machine
  • Loom
  • Bravely default
  • The secret of monkey island
  • Prince of Persia
  • Rampart
  • Papers, please
  • Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders
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Netris: An open-source cloud gaming platform (GeForce NOW alternative) that can be self-hosted, integrates your Steam game library.

https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting

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HarriPotero ,

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

HarriPotero ,

I used to play it a lot when it was cool.

HarriPotero ,

Likely they’ll force app/play store to require compliance for the apps published in that region.

Yes, yes, side loading, FOSS. Grandma won’t sideload, and responsibility will be on the platform owner. That’s you if you run your own matrix server for your grandma.

HarriPotero ,

I’ve never had a car loan in my life. I’ve never had comprehensive insurance. I’ve had four cars in 22 years. Only once have I had a car less than 12.6 years old, and just barely. 10y is the sweet spot when I go used car shopping.

My current 2007 C4 grand picasso sitting at 153k km should last me at least another four-five years before I hit my pain point maintenance-wise.

I cracked the windshield on my current car, but that repair cost 1/5 of what 22 years of windshield insurance would’ve cost, ignoring inflation.

[Jellyfin] PCIe x4 graphic card for transcoding

I have only a PCIe 2.0 x4 and a PCIe 3.0 x16 free and I need to install a 10Gbps SFP+ card and a graphic card for transcoding with Jellyfin (the CPU is an old E5-2620 v2). Since I can’t find any SFP+ card that is x4, do you know a graphic card with decent transcoding capabilities (I’d day 2 4K simultaneously) that is only...

HarriPotero ,

Resizable BAR was previously cited as a requirement for Intel ARC cards, but I think the drivers today can do without. Sounds like your system might be too old to have that. Might be a soft requirement, as in you’ll see a performance drop if you don’t have it.

HarriPotero , (edited )

I’d get a HDMI capture card for the tablet, if it supports USB-otg. Just run a program to preview the input on the tablet and connect it like any monitor to your laptop.

HarriPotero ,

Consumer rights in the EU are pretty strong. They include two-week free returns, no questions asked, on things purchased online/remote.

These rights do not extend to businesses, though. Sounds like Amazon is not interested in being helpful unless legislation is twisting their arm.

HarriPotero ,

Overwhelmingly positive.

HarriPotero ,

My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.

They’re dirt cheap second hand.

HarriPotero ,

btrfs every day of the week. The only scenario where I’d even consider something else is for databases that would suffer from CoW.

I’ve been running it on my home server since 2010. The same array has grown from 6x2TB to 6x4TB, one disk at a time as they’ve failed. Currently sitting at 2x18TB+1x4TB. No data loss even though many drives have failed.

HarriPotero ,

I’m a unix-guru.

If I were to shave I’d get a -5 penalty on my bash magic.

If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev

HarriPotero ,

Looks a bit like Heather Harmon.

HarriPotero ,

I got my first phone in 1998. It was a nokia 8110, aka the ‘banana phone’.

I got my first computer in 1989. It was a Commodore VIC-20. I still have it. 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.

HarriPotero ,

I went with endeavour.

Arch is already on 6.0.4. I’d say we’re five weeks into plasma 6. Manjaro is holding it back unusually long.

HarriPotero ,

I haven’t tried MX Linux. So they set the distrowatch page as start page in the browser, and users never change it?

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

HarriPotero ,

Not me, and not Linux, but a school mate found the following bash snippet online :(){ :|:& };:.

Naturally, he tried it on the SunOS servers we had access to for schoolwork. He got his account suspended for the rest of the year.

I think most Linux distros are configured to kill fork bombs nowadays.

Someone left a 4 inch rock rock with a line circle carved in it in the dirt next to my door

What do you guys think was the intention with this? I recently had an episode of mania, and was behaving a bit oddly, but I confirmed with my mother (this was her condo I’m renting it) that it wasn’t here when she left and I’ve never seen it before :|

HarriPotero ,

People sometimes do this to scout easy targets to rob.

If it didn’t move until their next burglary spree, you probably haven’t been home since they planted it.

Put it away and ask around if your neighbours had something out of place in their front yard.

HarriPotero ,

I moved from kts24 to a hetzner arm node earlier this week. So far I’m very impressed.

HarriPotero ,

Manjaro also ruined PINE64.

HarriPotero ,

And DDOSd the AUR.

Twice.

HarriPotero ,

I stopped doing it when Linux got support for kernel modules around Linux 1.2. It was a real game-changer.

HarriPotero , (edited )

I think the AI that wrote the article misunderstood.

Arch doesn’t build from release tar balls, but straight from git. Arch also doesn’t link sshd against liblzma. So while they’ve shipped the dirty version of xz utils, at least sshd is not affected.

It’s possible that the dirty version affected some of the other things that link liblzma. Like a handful of kde components for example.

HarriPotero , (edited )

Well, he’s credited as the editor overseeing security stuff. Reading between the lines I’d say he’s just taking responsibility for the articles correctness.

This article in particular is just so poorly written that you’d forgive me for assuming it wasn’t man-written.

HarriPotero ,

It was slackware 2.0.

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup. Also there were no CD burners nor USB sticks yet. So whatever your friend had on CD waa the option. I guess the only other possible option would’ve been red hat back in those days.

HarriPotero ,

It’s probably getting more rare as hardware gets more complicated.

You can barely get modern computers to boot without some proprietary blob. MINIX was a great stepping stone back in the day, and ran on plenty of hardware.

I have a sweet spot for MorphOS in my computer collection.

I do love bare-metal programming, but it just isn’t feasible for wide targets like modern machines. I guess the next best thing is writing virtual machines for my own needs.

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