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Maybe start here, but there's lots of discussion on the post.
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I'ma run prime95 for a bit first.
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Yep. It's probably fine for most people, but it's still a trade-off between transparency and utility. Ventoy is superior functionality, but those blobs bug me, too, and the fact that the dev is so openly hostile towards transparency is concerning.
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3666 produces a good latency with C16, and I was able to boost Infinity Fabric up past the default to 1967 (it's complicated, but it's something you can do under certain circumstances). I had to get the highest speeds I could manage, because the original build was a stopgap before GPU prices dropped.
Unless I can get the RAM to work at C14 @ 3600, it won't be much of an improvement over what I have currently.
My stability suite is a mix of OCCT, TM5, and Prime95. Takes about 3-4hrs to get through all of them. 😅
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Balena Etcher is a writer that does one ISO at a time. Other similar options are Fedora Writer, Rufus, etc.
Ventoy is one that can do multiple ISOs and is generally easy to manage.
However, be aware that Ventoy has a lot of unknown code involved. There's binary blobs that the maintainer refuses to open source, so there's a big question over whether it's hiding some malware or is using unpatched packages. Nobody knows except the maintainer, and it's just his word saying it's safe. You could use it to test out ISOs, but I wouldn't personally use it to actually install a system.
Also, the Ventoy fanbois are pretty insufferable, and they tend to brigade anyone that speaks ill of Ventoy or its dev.
If you want something similar that's open source, Glim works and could be a good option; YUMI has been around for a while, but I dunno if it's still a good project or not.
Edit: typo
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I think Google uses certain fingerprints, like location data, IPs you tend to connect from, etc. In my experience, they're good at figuring out who and where you are.
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I dunno why yours was weird. Maybe Apple is doing something odd behind the scenes.
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That's a good point. I dunno if my current BIOS version would recognize the 5700X3D, so might need to check on that.
I'm saving up to get a 5700X3D around Christmas, upgrading from a 5600G, but I want to make sure I prepare properly before I do the swap. The RAM I bought couldn't match the C18 @ 4000 M/Ts advertised and still remain stable, but I managed to manually overclock to C16 @ 3666. Should I drop to JDEC specs before I upgrade, or is it a non-issue?
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I think that's a fair point, and also it's cool that they want to try to be sensitive to a group that's historically gotten the raw end of the deal much of the time.
It's small progress, but better than business as usual.
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They're also working with the Shawnee and their chief, who is himself a huge Civilization fan, to ensure they portray Tecumseh and his people well.
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I found multiple gifs, including ones from Firefly and Soul Reaver as the top results. Further down the page, there's "reverse" gifs, too.
Anyway, this is just lazy searching. Adding the word "Firefly" brings up all the relevant Firefly results you could want.
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The ones that get famous almost certainly don't (e.g. Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, Tucker Carlson, Trump, Vance, etc.). Few are the true believers at the top.
The true believers are just a bunch of useful idiots, because they're easily manipulated and lured by the promise of being the special little smarties with little to no effort.
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Possibly. Maybe a Fishing Cat, but that's only possible if this picture is from South Asia. Those dark marks on the sides of the muzzle look very ocelot-y, though.
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Works for me.
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I just did it on DDG, Firefox Mobile, moderate safe search level.
I got tons of Soul Reaver gifs, so it's just you. Google probably got relevant results, because it likely has a sprawling profile of your interests. No idea why your DDG is so fucked up.
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We should be glad it's an election year, and their favorite demagogue isn't doing well enough that they have any wiggle room to fuck around and capitulate to corporate interests.
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Trying not to rock the boat 30 days from an election. A reminder that we have a rogue supreme court is just fuel to turn out voters against Trump.
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I already have a WiFi 6 mesh system, but I still want one.
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13942074
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Thanks! Also, don't forget to unsubscribe from all the Marketing Preferences.
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True, but I would imagine those people are few. The 43mil are probably mostly people who have already made their decision.
I noticed that a lot of the posts from Lemmy.World are showing with few or no votes, and often no comments. Going to the actual post shows votes and comments. Did something change with how we/they sync up? Reddthat: https://reddthat.com/post/26198974 Slrpnk.net: https://slrpnk.net/post/13517175
I've been thinking about getting a couple of Yubikeys for a partner and myself, but we share certain accounts. While I would love to have the Yubikey 5 that can store TOTP, that seems like it could be problematic for shared accounts. Would using the cheaper Yubico Security Keys to unlock Bitwarden Premium vaults, that use a Shared Organization, be a better/more sane option than trying to sync up TOTP secrets every time a new shared account gets added? Any other critiques or suggestions?
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>In response to questions about why A&M discontinued the medical care, a university spokesperson said its growing student population and the resulting strain on the A.P. Beutel Health Center require officials to continuously review the services they offer and how they use the center’s resources. The spokesperson noted that the university has invested more in mental health care following a national rise in college students seeking it out. > >Transgender and queer students are skeptical of that explanation and believe the university acted in response to pressure from conservative groups. They say the move shows the university is not willing to support them equally. > >“It just seems that they don't take the same level of care to address concerns of the queer community as they would other communities,” Klatt said. > >Students saw the move as part of a political environment that has become increasingly hostile against LGBTQ+ people in Texas. And it comes as the state’s public universities face top-down pressure to appease Republican leaders — or risk incurring their wrath during next year’s legislative session. Don't you just love that "small government?" FFS, y'all. Please vote like people's futures depend upon it.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/24214265 > So, a couple years ago, somebody published the 2017 free desktop client of SketchUp on the chocolatey repos, and I managed to snag it before it got taken down. I use it primarily to make woodworking plans. > > I'm wrapping up my transition plan to Linux, but I'm not really up to date on SketchUp alternatives. The only ones I know of are Blender (afaik more for animation and 3D printing) and FreeCAD (CAD seems like overkill, since I'm just doing simple cuts and joinery). > > Are there good Linux/FOSS alternatives to SketchUp that have similar features, or is the web client the only reasonable option?
So, a couple years ago, somebody published the 2017 free desktop client of SketchUp on the chocolatey repos, and I managed to snag it before it got taken down. I use it primarily to make woodworking plans. I'm wrapping up my transition plan to Linux, but I'm not really up to date on SketchUp alternatives. The only ones I know of are Blender (afaik more for animation and 3D printing) and FreeCAD (CAD seems like overkill, since I'm just doing simple cuts and joinery). Are there good Linux/FOSS alternatives to SketchUp that have similar features, or is the web client the only reasonable option?
This isn't a joke, though it almost seems like one. It uses Llama 3.1, and supposedly the conversation data stays on the device and gets forgotten over time (through what the founder calls a rolling "context window"). The implementation is interesting, and you can see the founder talking about earlier prototypes and project goals in interviews from several months ago. iOS only, for now. Edit: Apparently, you can [build your own](https://docs.basedhardware.com/) for around $50 that runs on ChatGPT instead of Llama. I'm sure you could also figure out how to switch it to the LLM of your choice.
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>A US appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional, finding Universal Service fees on phone bills to be a "misbegotten tax." If not overturned, the ruling would upend the $8 billion-a-year system that is used to expand telecom networks and make access more affordable through programs such as Lifeline discounts and deployment grants for Internet service providers. > >But the FCC program could survive in the end as the case appears ripe for Supreme Court review, with yesterday's ruling creating a circuit split. The ruling against the FCC was issued by the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which is generally considered one of the most conservative appeals courts. > >The FCC previously prevailed in the 6th and 11th circuit appeals courts, which both rejected claims that the Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional. All three cases against the FCC were filed by Consumers' Research, a nonprofit that fights "woke corporations," and a mobile virtual network operator called Cause Based Commerce, which offers wireless service to "values-based consumers who want alternatives to the many companies and providers that support causes and positions contrary to their beliefs." Everyone's favorite, Texas-based, Conservative rubber stamp strikes again. This may be a federal court, but don't forget that these people represent Texas every time they issue a bad ruling.
I'm working through some necessary issues in VMs as I work towards dropping Windows, but it occurred to me that I should pick a distro my non-techy partner could use in the event that something catastrophic happens to me. I really like the declarative/immutable distros, but perhaps something more traditional with btrfs snapshots would be better suited to such a use case...? It's no secret that NixOS has a steep learning curve, but do any of you share a NixOS PC with family/partners/etc.? If so, what has that experience been like? Could they take over admin if you were incapacitated?
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21668140 > I have a VPN daemon that needs to run before the client will work. Normally, this would have been set up automatically by its install script, but the system is immutable. > > I've created the systemd service via `sysyemctl edit --force --full daemon.service` with the following parameters: > > ``` > [Unit] > Description=Blah > After=network-online.target > > [Service] > User=root > Group=root > ExecStart=/usr/bin/env /path/to/daemon > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > ``` > > I've verified that the daemon is actually executable, and it runs fine when I manually call it via `sudo daemon`. When I try to run it with `sudo systemctl enable --now daemon.service`, it exits with error code 126. > > What am I missing? Edit: Typo, and added the relevant user and group to the Service section. Still throwing a 126. Solution: the system wanted `/usr/bin/env` in ExecStart to launch the binary. The .service file above has been edited to show the working solution.
I have a VPN daemon that needs to run before the client will work. Normally, this would have been set up automatically by its install script, but the system is immutable. I've created the systemd service via `sysyemctl edit --force --full daemon.service` with the following parameters: ``` [Unit] Description=Blah After=network-online.target [Service] User=root Group=root ExecStart=/usr/bin/env /path/to/daemon [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ``` I've verified that the daemon is actually executable, and it runs fine when I manually call it via `sudo daemon`. When I try to run it with `sudo systemctl enable --now daemon.service`, it exits with error code 126. What am I missing? Edit: typo Edit 2: Added script modifications. Daemon appears to be some kind of pre-compiled binary. Solution: ExecStart wanted `/usr/bin/env` to launch the binary. The service file above has been edited to reflect the correct solution. See [this post](https://reddthat.com/post/21672021) for further discussion.
I'm working on my transition plan away from Windows and testing out various things in VMs as I do so, and one big hurdle is making sure the VPN client my work requires can connect. Bazzite is my target distro (primarily gaming, work less frequently), though other more traditionally structured ones like Pop!_OS and Garuda are possibilities. I'm currently trying and failing to get the VPN client working in a distrobox (throws an error during connection saying PPP isn't installed or supported by the kernel). However, I *can* successfully get the VPN connected if I overlay the client and its dependencies via `rpm-ostree install,` but I read somewhere that Bazzite's philosophy is to use `rpm-ostree` as sparingly as possible for installing software to preserve as much containerization as possible. Since I can get it working outside of a container, am I overthinking it? Should I just accept that this might be one of the "sparing" cases? Is Bazzite perhaps a poor fit for my use case? I've been trying to make sense of [this guide](https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/10/wireguard-in-podman/#use-for-host-network), but I'm having trouble understanding how to apply it to my situation, since I'm not that familiar with Docker or Podman.
For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a [Brother laser printer](https://lemmy.ca/post/23695569) on Kinoite. That's not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had to set up the driver via `dkms.` A little prep and knowledge in advance would have saved days of searching online. I've started a personal to-do list of things to research and make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I make the full-time switch on my main desktop, so besides the usual "back up your files" advice, I'm hoping y'all can point out some QoL things I and others may often miss!
As an ex-fundigelical, I think the boys get it wrong here. Perhaps the people at the top are cynical with regard to the existence of demons, but I guarantee there's a concerning number of people in the crowd who think demons are real, and they genuinely think they're fighting a holy war against them by opposing people that include "liberals and 'unhuman' communists." I used to think demons were actually real, and average people often had demons inside them, like sleeper agents waiting to be activated. I agree that the "demonic" rhetoric is a convenient tool to justify political violence, but many of them aren't using demons as an excuse to do something they already want to do; they're doing it because they genuinely think they're saving humanity from Satan to usher in some kind of idealized 1950s utopia ~~only for white, affluent Christians.~~ In their mind, they are sincerely at war with their fellow Americans, but there's a convenient, dehumanizing layer of "demons" to make them feel better about any acts of violence or stripping of rights. Hello, spectre of Nazism.
First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE. Why might somebody choose that one over the others? What features or vision distinguishes it from the others? Edit: I love all the answers! Great stuff. Thanks to everyone!
Now that late spring/early summer is upon us, there's increasingly more headlines about less rain in various places (recent floods notwithstanding). I'm assuming that's because water is evaporating and not returning to those places, but where is it going? Is it arriving, now, in these bursty flash floods? Is it staying longer in the atmosphere and moving to new locations? Is more of it just staying in the atmosphere period?
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Communicating trauma through art is fine, as long as you don't remind the Christian fundies that their beliefs and practices are a prime source of religious trauma for lots of people.