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@lent9004 @asbestos Holy crap, that looks like an awesome way to use Fresh. Thanks for posting it.

@Lemjukes @Sunny It’s a KVM that you access over IP. It’s physically plugged into a machine’s HDMI and USB ports so, unlike software solutions, it can be used to access the BIOS/UEFI and system functions prior to hitting the desktop (like login managers and recovery consoles), and allows you to boot other operating systems and the like. It can also act as a PXE host for loading disk images, issue Wake On LAN to its connected machine, and likely a bunch of other convenience functions.

@PugJesus I can’t describe in text form how it feels seeing Poland lead the world in demonstrating how to shrug off fascism and rejuvenate their democracy.

Coupled with their incredible military history and current might, it makes me extremely NATOishly erect.

@BlackRoseAmongThorns @daisyKutter Swap is a place on disk that gets used as a slow, temporary place to put memory when your RAM is full. Windows uses a swap file on an existing partition, while Linux generally uses a dedicated partition instead (although you can use a swap file if you really want to).

Appropriate sizes for the swap partition are hotly debated. Twice the size of your RAM if you have a small amount, or the same size as your RAM if you have lots is a good approximation.

@vga @gravitas_deficiency Adhering to the much-flaunted spending commitments wasn’t ridiculous, but Trump’s framing of it was.

Back when he raised it, he was threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance if other nations didn’t start adhering to it, and as recently as this year he’s said he’ll encourage Putin to do “whatever the hell he wants” to states who don’t meet the spending commitment, directly undermining the collective defence principle of NATO.

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@0x4E4F @Auli I think it’s a bit more like, “We’re banning specific named individuals from being maintainers because they work for companies on an international sanctions list.”

@greedytacothief @AmbiguousProps How does Finamp compare?

@clark I don’t know the Slim, but I wrote about Linux on my Yoga here: https://rhys.wtf/posts/sway-and-arch-with-yoga

Might be useful.

@zutto @warlaan Searching about, this was Plex banning the use of Plex on Hetzner’s IP block, right? Not a decision made by Hetzner?

@c0smokram3r evergreen post

@Moneo @SigHunter Networking came to be when there were lots of different implementations of a ‘byte’. The PDP-10 was prevalent at the time the internet was being developed for example, which supported variable byte lengths of up to 36-bits per byte.

Network protocols had to support every device regardless of its byte size, so protocol specifications settled on bits as the lowest common unit size, while referring to 8-bit fields as ‘octets’ before 8-bit became the de facto standard byte length.

@refalo @yogthos China has a single CPU manufacturer with an x86 licence, Zhaoxin. Their offerings don’t rival AMD or Intel upper end, but they’ve been around for ages and are widely used in China.

@FrankTheHealer @KarnaSubarna Setting displays to run at 144Hz has worked for ages. VRR is a different feature, where the display’s refresh rate syncs to the framerate being pushed to it by your OS. Most environments have supported that for ages too, but some things haven’t. Mutter moving to support it is a big step toward it being universally available.

@madcaesar @otl It’s a small server running OpenBSD, configured to operate as a router and/or firewall.

Linux and the *BSDs can operate as very good routers and firewalls, usually being much more configurable and enabling you to do more complex than off-the-shelf consumer-level hardware routers. Using them on a small form factor computer with a cheap switch in front of them can give you a better performing and nicer to use alternative.

@flashgnash Yep, just once to transfer the terminfo files and resolve this.

The SSH kitten is pretty useful though. If you use it in combination with kitty’s --single-instance mode, you can start new kitty windows in the same SSH session without logging in again using its shared connection feature. Hugely convenient for how I work at least.

@flashgnash @Laser Connecting once with its ssh kitten resolves this by uploading appropriate terminfo files to the user’s directory.

@rutrum @jntesteves I have that controller. It’s the best controller I’ve used — I greatly prefer it to my Series X controller.

The back paddle buttons don’t work for me with SteamInput in XInput mode though. Reading around, I think that’s independent of Linux and a limitation of the firmware on them though.

@unhinge I run a simple 48TiB zpool, and I found it easier to set up than many suggest and trivial to work with. I don’t do anything funky with it though, outside of some playing with snapshots and send/receive when I first built it.

I think I recall reading about some nuance around using LUKS vs ZFS’s own encryption back then. Might be worth having a read around comparing them for your use case.

@ShaunaTheDead @CowsLookLikeMaps The ProtonVPN app is native. It’s basically a frontend to NetworkManager.