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Blaster_M

@Blaster_M@lemmy.world

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Only computers that can run it.... are pretty much none of the computers running 11 today. The CPU needs to have an NPU, as the AI functionality is run locally on the PC.

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Pipewire's the new hotness

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Trying to run your own nextcloud be like

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This, every day.

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in 2015

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Controversial Take:

Windows 11 is actually decent

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dramatic music score

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Every spy agency's wet dream is a builtin auto screenshotter. It's also why we don't like anti-cheat software that does this.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/463d5ef2-ba13-4499-88c1-bc93f037f664.jpeg

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So now we know, iPhones and iPads don't TRIM their storage memory.

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TRIM is a command / instruction for solid state storage to release a block of data, so it is blanked and ready to be written again.

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Gun Zip - you literally shoot the gz file and it explodes like a piñata of files all over the dir you gun zipped it in.

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Echo Tango Charlie

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You know, this is a useful tool when you're clearing a malware infection. Everyone seems to be assuming this is fully automatic, but it requires you to accept the change before it commits.

Of course, since everyone here is rabidly anti-Microsoft, anything MS does is automatically the worst thing in existance.

Edit: In this case, it is providing the option to reset Edge's search and home settings back to "known safe" defaults. If you had this tool let you set anything, that's an attack surface that can be exploited by a "tech" from India or a malware running counterops to prevent removal.

Worst case, you use another browser, since clearly Microsoft is the devil and you shouldn't use Edge anyway.

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Meanwhile, Subaru phoned it in with their window switches...

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Ah, yes, the Crusaders. Using religion to further the state since the HRE.

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Never had a facebook, still won't have a facebook

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Can confirm, US small towns with the mega giant superhighway going through it will have these exact intersection designs. A turn lane in a divided, but no accel space. Best bet is to yield / stop in the halfway point to check traffic before going for it.

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This just means you're future proofed

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... and the Blazer EV was immediately on recall because of showstopping bugs. They're trying too hard to rush out a super high tech car when they need to make it more basic to start with.

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Even today, some people are still looking for the Any key

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+1 to Point Of Sale systems - POS as the acronym is. Every single one of them.

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WHAT ARE THOSE

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AI hallucinates stating it phones home when corrected, user did not wireshark it to confirm.

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I prefer to make MATE look more like Windows, with the taskbar on the bottom... otherwise, I leave the Applications Launcher Menu as is.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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Bazzite is a neat concept, and I run it too. Still haven't gotten VR to work properly, though (Quest 2)

A helpful graphic about writing alt text (lemmy.ml)

image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including "identify who", "expression", "description", "colour", and "interesting features". The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are...

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If you have really detailed image tags, a model trained on them can make great outputs.

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I wish this was true...

...but there's still a few technical issues that keep things from running smooth.

Also, VR.

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I have a Quest 2.

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Which I have already tried - it don't Wayland, and I get legendary stuttering when moving about. No go.

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AMD RX 6700 XT, Bazzite

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I bought what was affordable on the used market. And VR stuff is almost entirely Windows exclusive, with only the Index having a native Linux compatibility via the recent SteamVR Linux port. While the Quest series (and a Pico, its Chinese competitor) run a special version of Android, they don't have the performance in standalone mode that a PC has. Besides, my library of VR games are all on the PC.

And before you say "you shold have Index", I will point out the very, very high cost and requirement for external tracking hardware, aka "the lighthouse", something I lack the space for.

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I can't build an Envision profile in Bazzite, several source code packages don't exist.

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If you like the Steve? life IRL perhaps

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    Interesting, considering I haven't noticed... and gaming benchmarks have shown a minimal if any difference in gaming performance between Windows, stripped down Windows, and Linux. You'd have to split hairs to find it.

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    As someone with Ivy Bridge hardware that has run Windows 10 and Ubuntu... I haven't.

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    Windows and Linux both heavily use RAM caching, that is, using Unused RAM as a massive disk cache to improve performance - a lot of Windows processes that are "running" are really idling in RAM and not doing anything unless called on. In a way, they're "cached". Because it is a read cache, it can be dismissed immediately to make room when needed.

    Almost every problem with Windows running slow out of the box are one of three things:

    1: Not enough RAM (stupid super cheap 4-8GB laptops)

    2: Not enough storage (stupid super cheap 32-128GB laptops)

    3: Installed on a hard drive (install Windows to an SSD, spinny bois are too slow for 2024)

    It is true Windows 11 asks for about 5GB RAM, but what else does? Your web browser. The solution is to not be cheap and have at least 16GB RAM, regardless of your OS. You want to have no more than half your RAM used when you're using your PC. This gives you enough for programs, the disk cache, and room to grow.

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    Your work laptop may have company spyware on it. That will drag down the performance of the system, especially if it is monitoring absolutely everything.

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    I have a tablet with 8GB RAM... it feels constrained even though I'm running Mint Xfce with an idle memory usage of ~550MB. You may have grown used to the performance limitations.

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    Probably the cloud syncing then. That's always something that hurts performance. It would take investigating to find out what exactly is doing it.

    Note: I've used OneDrive, Dropbox, and Nextcloud, and historically, all these services take up a good chunk of resources... Windows, Mac, Linux, you name it. I've tried it on them all.

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    I prefer and use Lubuntu, before going for Mint XFCE, and now Bazzite (because gaming). However, regardless of DE, because I absolutely pack my systems with RAM, the bottleneck is not the memory, it's the cpu in cases of old systems.

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    NAPS2 may be what you are looking for

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    One reason not to switch to linux: I want to play PCVR with my Quest 2. It has a really bad stutter when moving around using the only tool that works: ALVR, and this makes VR unplayable. I have not found an actual solution, just a handful of speculative issues threads that go silent as to what is the answer if any.

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    Pico 4, though instead of Meta it's the Chinese

    I didn't get my headset new, I got it on ebay for cheap. I also made a Meta account specifically for the Quest and nothing else.

    A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

    Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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    You only know this happened because one dev was benchmarking their system and noticed a 0.5s anomaly in resource usage, and was able to track it down to this. For every one of these that are caught, there are countless more that slip past.

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    LibreOffice is perfectly fine for your Dear Princess Celestia letters (which 99 percent of Word users do is write simple letters), but once you start doing more advanced formatting (such as tables and text boxes and other embeddings), LibreO really doesn't like it. And good luck if you have to convert such a Word document.

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    Used to have a Hyundai. Paint was coming off as early as 50k. She was missing paint entirely in spots at 175k.

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    It was a Blue Veloster

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