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It may not be your cup of tea, but a lot of people (me included) really like SoT.

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They either have a Star Trek license and can't say so yet, or they are going to be sued into oblivion.

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I like gnome. My only gripe is that workspaces should be per-screen. But all Linux DEs aside from a few isoteric tiling WMs get that wrong.

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It's not difficult at all, and many editors and IDEs already support this, making the entire point moot. Just do whatever the style guide says. I'm into PHP and Python so for me it's spaces all the way.

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If you write it down and sell it you 100% do violate copyright

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We have per weight pricing on a lot of items in The Netherlands. It's great for comparing different items when you're in the supermarket, but doesn't really work against shrinkification. You simply don't remember the price-per-kg from last week.

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Me too. I will not spend a single cent on Epic, but I'll happily buy Steam games.

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They can still seize it, and hand out fines for the attempt to hide it too!

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Yeah, I wondered about the ninth kid and how (s)he's doing.

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Cheap to make, so large profit margins

Do you often hear the ringing of switching power supplies and devices when you are in a quiet space?

I’m curious, how many people are aware of these sounds. I have designed, etched, and built my own switching power supplies along with winding my own transformers. I am aware of the source of the noise. So, does anyone else hear these high frequency sounds regularly?

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43 years old here. I can still hear it. I think I put about 10-15 chargers in the bin because of the noise. I also really hate those anti-mosquito ultrasone emittors people put in their yards. I can hear them whenever I walk around the neighborhood.

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Yup, I remember that 😄

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I just feed my cats wet food in the evening instead of in the morning. Problem solved!

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I spent about the same on a couple of stash tabs during a sale. I don't regret it. The game gave me a couple of hundred hours of fun. That's more than most games

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They'd have to get rid of that fascist bitch Meloni first.

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Too bad about the horrible Monster Energy product placement. It totally ruined the game for me.

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Even in the base (not director's cut) version?

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The petitions are for the universities, not starbucks. They may not scoff at 1500 signatures.

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I have a small collection of Lego sets. I mainly collect the minifigure-scale Star Wars space ships (yes, I have the crazy big Millenium Falcon), but only original trilogy ships. My wife collects the big Lego Creator cars.

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I've been playing V Rising PvE with a friend. Pretty fun game. Much less grind than typical survival or basebuilding games. But the bosses are quite hard to compensate.

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Home Assistant has a really good basic presence detection: wifi. If you phone is connected to your home wifi network, then you're home. Else you're away. Simple. Works. Local only. No extra sensors.

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I put a Shelly smart plug in my washing machine outlet. If it detects the machine using power for 30 seconds and then stop using power for 5 minutes, then it sends a signal to Home Assistant, and HA send a notification to my phone. It's easy.

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Home Assistant can do that. Put a Shelly smart plug in the stove outlet to see if it's using power (or do you have an old fasioned gas stove?). It can also track what time you turned off your lights last night.

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That's harder, but perhaps the new wifi 7 sensing can help in the near future.

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As a Dutch guy, I'm curious to what the original username was. I'm drawing a blank here.

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I've never heard that expression before. It's hillarious. Thanks!

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The Irish Coffee is wrong though. The whiskey goes in first, then the coffee.

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If the colors are reversed then it's waaaay too much whiskey 😄

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I have a Brother laser printer. I print a lot. It just works, it's cheap and you can use off-brand toner. It's great!

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It's not about clicks, it's about attribution. That is also why they all want to track you. It's not just about targeting ads. If you buy something in a webshop and the advertiser can show that you saw a (related) ad for that somewhere in the last X days/weeks then the sale is attributed to the advertiser and they get paid a fee. That is why they want to track anything and everything. The more data they collect, the higher the chance they can show attribution. No clicks required.

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I'm currently playing V Rising with a friend on a private server. I like survival games but I hate PvP, raiding and griefers. So far it's pretty good fun! Like a mix between a Diablo-like ARPG and something like Valheim. You don't need to grind resources so much, you collect plenty just playing. The focus is more on combat. Some bosses are pretty tough and progress is gated behind them.

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There's also browser extensions like "old reddit redirect". They ensure you're always on the good version of reddit.

[not solved] I think I messed something up in the router settings but cannot understand what... now I have no internet connection

Hello! I (tried, at least) converted an old laptop to a Debian home server, and I was trying to set up duckdns.org and to enable port forwarding on my router. internet connection was working, I installed packages, docker, immich, etc, and then suddenly (I don’t know exactly when) it refuses to connect to the internet. It does...

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My guess is that you have Docker configured incorrectly. Its internal IP range probably overlaps with your real network, so all requests are routed to Docker. Uninstall docker and reboot the server. If that works, reinstall docker and properly configure its internal networking.

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It's been tried multiple times and it just doesn't work. Physics (the speed of light) ultimately dictates latency. Streaming only works for a rather small subset of games that doesn't rely on reaction time or latency at all. And then only works for people who play those games a lot (you're not going to sub to a streaming game service if the majority of the games you want to play don't work on it). There's a reason Google Stadia died.

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It's called fashion. Give it a decade, something else will become fashion.

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That's just fashion you don't like 😄

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Hollow Knight. I love that game but I am in my mid 40s and my reaction time isn't what it used to be. And it's not even the bosses. I just can't make it past the spike section where you have to air-dash all over the place and can't be a millimeter off or you die.

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I've just moved on to other games. I have a wife and a small kid. I can't afford to spend hours and hours stuck on a game.

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I don't think so. I only beat 3-4 bosses or so. I think it was a dark bluish area with white spikes, some way down from the entrance.

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Only install flatpacks if the distro repository doesn't have the application in question. But I agree about snaps. Never ever use snap packages.

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Distro native packages are:

  • Better integrated into the base system
  • No maintenance for the devs (they are usually maintained by distro package maintainers)
  • Better interoperability with other packages and dependencies, thanks to the package maintainers
  • No duplicate or outdated dependencies
  • More space efficient because they use system dependencies instead of packaging their own
  • Launch even quicker since they don't go through flatpak
  • No missing or broken features due to flatpack limitations or sandbox issues (e.g. inter-process communication)

If an application is new or niche or small then flatpak is definitely a good option. But if there's a distro native package then that one is almost always the better option. Flatpak is nice for when there is no native package.

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Distro maintainers are a lot better about keeping libraries up-to-date than random application developers. They will even patch applications to work on newer libraries, even when the app developers do not.

There's also auditability. If e.g. OpenSSL (or some other library) gets a high rated CVE and Debian ships a same-day patch, I know I am safe. I can verify that I have installed the patched version, and I know my applications use that patched version. Not with flatpak. Now I'm at the mercy of a dozen app developers, many of which probably value security less than the Debian Security team.

IMHO it's a mistake for Fedora to drop its own packages for flatpak. But Fedora appears just to be a RedHat experiments playground these days, not a user focussed distro.

Don't get me wrong, Flatpak is fine if you want to install stuff from Joe Random Developer off the internet, but I trust the Debian maintainers a whole lot more. If they ship it, i can trust it.

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Exactly. Shitty mods have been a thing since newsgroups, AOL chatrooms and good old internet forums. Probably BBSes too.

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So, kbin? It can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time. If you boost a lemmy post on kbin, you essentially retweet (retoot?) it to mastodon under the hashtags associated with the community.

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He said that should be added

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It depends on the country. GDPR is not a law. It's a framework that countries use to implement national laws. GDPR doesn't say anything about one-click rejection, but some countries added it to their national law.

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There's a11y and l10n. What else is there?

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