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6mo ago
Because it's an easy solution esp. to a rather new installer: setting up swap on disk (partition or file, if file which file system, if partition w/o encryption, ...). Zram: install one additional package and forget. See also the
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8mo ago
Can the "vibe" statement be substantiated in any way? Also your "scheduler" is in a completely different domain, it doesn't even remotely relate.
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9mo ago
Which ones? Translation is local. Preview summarization is local. Image description generation is local. Tab grouping is local. Sidebar can also show a locally hosted page.
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10mo ago
> In theory Intel and AMD would pay the HEVC fees once > In practice it seems everyone in the value chain are forced to pay, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Dell and then even browser and software. The fee is payed by the one who makes it &qu
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2y ago
> Also, nuclear reactors don't deplete water for cooling so the premise of this article doesn't make sense. It goes from water to steam, to rain, back to water. The premise of the article is pretty clear: It's a statistic
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2y ago
Twitch did in the past (mostly), but it is trying pivot at the moment: Take tight control over the encoding settings on the client side and just pass the already encoded stream through the CDN. https://help.twitch.tv/s/
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3y ago
It changes the color, but that color has no inherent meaning. Let's eradicate any prior knowledge of what was clicked. Let's say you make screenshot of the current state, and show that to a random person on the street, who has nev
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3y ago
I moved on to sideberry and hide the normal tab bar completely. But if you open two identical tabs in the default layout I have no clue which one is active anymore. You can't understand that UI, you have learn it. It's infuriating
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3y ago
On that point: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - LinuxCon 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YbqrJ0_nM PS: The core of Valve's technical contribution is around the SteamDeck. You already know it
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4y ago
> Can the mouse scroll speed be configured in KDE, nowadays? If you use Wayland the answer is Yes. There's a "Scrolling speed" configuration in the Mouse settings.
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4y ago
> "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-) My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original page. Nonetheless the overall language seems to
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4y ago
That's fine, but the disclaimer is important. I did a quick test for myself by choosing what's at the top over at distrowatch(tm). - Fedora plasma ca. 1.4 GB (matching your numbers) - MX Linux plasma ca. 600 MB - EndeavourOS plasm
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4y ago
*on Fedora Now do it again on a different distro which packages different default apps and services, and see how these values differ by multiple hundreds of MB.
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4y ago
The Apple menu top left is the start menu, you organize it however you want.
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5y ago
Keep in mind that this persons appears to be a pro nuclear industry lobbyist. So the number of objective nuclear opinions on this twitter account is 0.
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5y ago
The news shows the extraordinary. It also reports car accidents and car shows, but not all the millions of people driving everyday.
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5y ago
It's dirt cheap because it's heavily subsidized by the public. For example no commercial entity in the world insures a nuclear power plant. These costs are completely hidden.
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5y ago
Afair (alas it didn't make a screenshot there) it was Apple-Pay onboarding but that dialog had a Abort or Later option.
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5y ago
> There's also stuff that's just straight-up bullshit. I've never seen an ad in the settings pages. Here's my iOS 15 update experience as someone, who doesn't use any other Apple services: https://i.im
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5y ago
Of course it should take a freak event to take out a nuclear power plant, it shouldn't happen every second Sunday. But I would also expect it to be an event that doesn't happen regularly every few hundred years [1]. [1] https:&#x
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5y ago
> Instead of informing the public of the facts (The plant was an antique, didn't meet safety standards, was built on a fault line) Knowing these facts makes it even more scary. We can't move countries away from fault lines, so
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5y ago
I'm still confused how they made it through regulation. Image you're a security-engineer and read "On average the indicator light runs at only 50% because we think it looks cool."
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5y ago
> If building a new plant was cheap, I'm sure you'd see a lot more happening. Not only that, but running it. No private company insures a nuclear power plant (at least in the densely populated Central Europe). We're talkin
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5y ago
Maybe QuickLook outlived itself. It was a technology tailored to the HDD era of hardware, when complex apps required dozens of seconds to start. In a world were even LibreOffice cold-starts in under three seconds on middle of the road hardw
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5y ago
I tried to find numbers. This seems to give some context [1]: Look at page 8 and 9 and compare flight hours vs fuel consumption of single engine planes vs turbo-jet. So there's a gray area that can be addressed in the future. Same goes
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5y ago
> Private and recreational flying is explicitly exempted from the tax too. So I don't think it affects them. That was my point. Most of the comments hammer down on "oh, the corrupt elite wants to cheaply fly to Davos", ign
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5y ago
Who talks about jets or crews? This doesn't affect billionaires, but private and recreational use of mostly small propeller planes. Flying is expensive, but it isn't a privilege of "rich jerks". You want to make it a pri
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5y ago
> This was the end of my relationship with Sony. One day I couldn't transfer my legally, newly bought Sony Music CD to my Sony MD player for mobile use (on my also expensive car and mobile MD players) because of DRM. That's whe
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5y ago
This legislation is directly aimed at preventing a race to the bottom, because societies (represented by their governments) realized that they are getting played by extranational entities if they act alone.
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5y ago
This happens all the time, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect Of course you're free to ignore it, if you don't care about hundreds of million potential customers.
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