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AFAIK, they’re not known to be backdoored, only suspected

New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

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That’s generally not a problem anymore with UEFI (unless the boot variables disappear for some reason).

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This is how we end up with off-by-one errors

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ePub is basically just a limited HTML page in a zip file (plus a bunch of metadata and CSS styles), and ePub 3 can contain audio and video elements embedded in the text, just like a webpage. With the most basic usage, it would just show up as an audio player in the middle of the text, no sync. But there is also a media overlay thing I haven’t looked much into that looks like it provides sync.

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This meme didn’t let me down

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But it’s also about strength

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When would this be triggered? Could it be used during kennel panics?

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Yeah, that makes sense. So it’s for the situations where you end up in an emergency shell.

Some better presentation of kernel panic would be nice (which I think is the closest equivalent to a Windows BSoD), but I guess it would require kernel support.

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KDE already does have the same thing in its settings

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But then you can’t use any apps that require Play Services. The killer feature of GrapheneOS is letting you run Play Services in a sandbox.

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That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed.

Ah, yes, I heard about that sort of thing. Some bank getting a GDPR complaint because they couldn’t correct the spelling of someone’s name, because their system uses EBCDIC.

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There is no mouse unless you’re watching on a PC

LaggyKar ,
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What other service will let me watch YouTube videos?

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Even before this, you could just set the format of the column as text

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Pretty much everything plays AAC though (unless it’s some cheap mp3 player)

LaggyKar ,
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AAC-LC is patent free too nowadays (not HE-AAC, but that’s mainly useful for low-bitrate stuff).

LaggyKar ,
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And of course later on the alpha quadrant gets most of the mentions since that’s where the wormhole to the gamma quadrant is located. Though presumably Voyager would have spent half of their voyage home in the beta quadrant, had they not found a shortcut.

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And at least now the Pixel 8 has a 120 Hz screen, while the Pixel 7 only had 90 Hz

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Why is this age restricted?

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What’s the pro of KOReader compared to the stock reader?

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I assume you’re gonna back that up with a double blind ABX test?

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Plenty of people will

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A lot of them do, but there are also ones with mechanical or hydraulic transmission.

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you’re going to have a lot of difficulty and it’s going to be pretty expensive running high voltage lines across these railroads.

It’s worked just fine for the past century

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For what? Trolleys?

For most trains in Europe. For example I can mention the Iron Ore Line in north Sweden which has 8600 trains. Which isn’t as heavy as some of the coal or ore trains around the world, but it’s at up to a 1% incline.

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Ktorrent can do it. It’s got a built in media player, and if you watch a file in it, it will try to download it sequentially.

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Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

And also a lot of things that remain unpatched for years

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17:00 pm? So, 5:00 the next day?

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Oopsgenie

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The main thing that keeps me from running messaging applications in the browser is the lack of a tray icon

LaggyKar ,
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Your point 1 and 2 are the same

a - app + dependencies

Which will be duplicated for everything installed application, and redownloaded for every new version. Whereas flatpak and snappy shares the dependencies between applications.

s/f - flatpak run com.very.easy.to.remember.and.type.name

Snappy makes easily run command line shortcuts. Flatpak could use some improvements there though.

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Or he didn’t realize he needed to activate it, just like window shading

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That’s Nuts and Bolts.

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Are engineers a separate species?

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It’s not gonna be better than turning the screen off.

LaggyKar ,
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That’s not at all the same thing. That requires downscaling some screens, which makes everything blurry and breaks subpixel AA.

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Without the recently added wp-fractional-scale-v1, yes, it will do that if you use fractional scales (albeit per window rather than per monitor). Not however if you stick to integer scales, as they might do in the 1080p+4k use case.

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When talking about computers, it was always 1024.

No. Hard drive sizes are always given with decimal prefixes. Always have been.

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I don’t understand why we can’t just make 1 G=1 G, ditch the silly contex-sensitive-prefixes nonsense, and call it a day.

I blame memory manufacturers. They’re the ones who started this whole 1 GB sometimes= 1024 MB bullshit.

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It’s probably not the same people. Microsoft is a big company

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Google would discontinue it

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I find it ridiculous to have a car tied to a specific mobile OS

LaggyKar ,
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But then would they die if they don’t slow the train down? The train would necessarily have to impart some energy in order to effect a change in their bodies.

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Especially when you’re driving and it suddenly reduces the volume to the point where it’s barely audible, forcing you to fumble around with your phone. And now that’s apparently gonna happen even more often.

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They can’t do it for wired headphones either, hence why the current automation volume reduction sucks

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Android devices sold in the EU display a warning when headphones are connected and the user tries to raise the output volume level above 85 dB

No the don’t, they pop that up when you try to raise the volume above some arbitrary percentage. What volume that corresponds to depends on the audio hardware, it might be barely audible. And now they’re apparently gonna make that crap even worse.

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Same here. I have to turn the phone up to max and the car stereo up to near max for it to be audible

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Rust does. But you get:


<span style="color:#323232;">error: unknown start of token: u{37e}
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --> test.rs:2:30
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |                              ^
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
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