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Or that a better climate policy came only a few years later but they have somehow memory holed the whole thing. Yes, Abbott tore the whole thing up but I'd wager he would have took an axe to Rudd's policy too.

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Could be useful for PiKVM or equivalent.

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The situation is a lot better with music, but it's not perfect. There's still issues with region locking content, and content only existing on one service and not another.

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Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it's a manual process, particularly since it's not normally included in released videos. And I'm not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).

mpv definitely does support it at least, with "--replaygain=track".

Of course, none of this helps with OPs situation, because enabling replaygain will actually lower the volume on most files, so it can account for high dynamic range content.

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I haven't tried it, but Tube Archivist may fit the bill.

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I think there are more people that are #1 and #2 the same time

Probably where some of the attitude comes from. People are assuming that it's paid IT people bringing their work home with them, which is a different case then a casual user trying out self-hosting without the broader background.

Although I haven't seen this attitude myself so I suspect it's not that common, and probably just a handful of users jumping to conclusions.

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The downside with ULA is that ipv4 is given preference, which is annoying on dual stack networks. I believe there is a draft RFC to change this but it will take a while for it to be approved and longer still for OSes to change their behaviour. I workaround it by using one of the unused (but not ULA) prefixes.

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There's a bunch of other variants like PiKVM and BIiKVM as well. Even some cheap knockoffs on Aliexpress that may do the job.

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I’ve recently tried to do that using sunsine and different linux gaming distros and it was awful, the VM was working great for a few minutes and then suddenly crashes and I have to hard stop it.

Are you running this with something like libvirtd/qemu? If so, VFIO configurations can get pretty complex. Random crashes seem like MSI interrupt issues (or you've allocated too much RAM to the guest). Or it could be GPU reset issues that would also occur on the (Linux) host, a newer kernel and Mesa version in the guest may help.

Setting on the kernel commandline for the host to workaround MSR interrupt crashes:

kvm.ignore_msrs=1

If you're running on a Windows host or with something like Virtualbox (assuming GPU passthrough is supported by these), YMMV but I wouldn't expect good results.

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Vanguard is especially bad because it will not allow to run the game with Intel-VT/AMD-V enabled even if you are running bare metal as of its last update.

The Vanguard anti-cheat is incredibly invasive and something akin to malware, so that's not surprising.

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Mainly because running multiple desktop machines adds up to a lot of power, even at idle. If you power them off and on as needed it's better, but then it's not as convenient. Of course, if you leave a single machine with multiple GPUs on 24/7 that will also eat a lot of power, but it will be less than multiple machines turned on 24/7 at least.

And the physical space taken up by multiple desktop machines starts to add up significantly, particularly if you live in an apartment or smaller house.

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Ah Nvidia. Bazzite uses Wayland I believe since it uses the same gamescope session as SteamOS (unless something has changed recently). While it may be possible to get it working, I'd expect a much better time with an AMD card.

A traditional distribution may be a better bet with Nvidia for now.

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No, no. Dig up, stupid!

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Here's the story for those interested: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk-failed-takeover-report-closed-open-source

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LeechBlock is useful on desktops too, although it's just the browser and is more of a traditional time limiter.

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This already happened a few years ago. Transphobic ciswomen got mad when the app identified them as trans.

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I think we should pursue it for the future, but it shouldn't be taking funding that could be used for more immediate solutions or used as a distraction / delay tactic (although of course it will).

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Even Xiaomi are getting rid of the MicroSD slot now (and the headphone jack). At least onboard storage has been starting to increase again, although it's not close to the amount a SD slot can provide.

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There aren’t really any good platforms for artists.

There's bandcamp, but it's not really a streaming platform per se.

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Near 100% since Wine isn't a hardware emulator. But it depends on how well the software is supported, and CAD has historically been a sore point (but it may be better these days).

What's your server wattage?

I'm in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn't that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run all my...

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Systems themselves are all around 5-20W, although the ones with mechanical HDDs obviously add their own idle usage.

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

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I'll add the old school method of scrobbling to last.fm for discovery still works pretty well too, and you can play music directly there now using Youtube (probably been there for years I assume). Just found some pretty obscure stuff that isn't even available on the mainstream streaming services, so that's a win.

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You can actually buy bike insurance if you are particularly worried. And some home/renters insurance includes protection against bike theft.

Whether the yearly cost of it plus the deductible ends up being higher than just replacing it is the gamble you always take with insurance, however.

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Ideally, do the picking with a random word generator too, since humans are bad at randomly picking anything.

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Wine does do DirectX as well (and did well before DVXK and VKD3D-Proton were a thing). But it translates to OGL instead of Vulkan so it was always relatively slow and has issues with compatibility. There's also some other built in work to translate to Vulkan (including the original VKD3D), but they are behind the third party projects too.

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So is Xen.

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He's an unhinged anti-vaxxer and all around conspiracy theorist. Summarizing him as an environmental lawyer is being real generous.

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It looks like the data is taken from cities alone, which could skew the numbers a little, depending on how much of the population lives outside cities (and how they define what a city is).

Here's the study itself for people that are interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272

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Carbon prices and other incentives and disincentives can help accelerate this, and renewable tech and green(er) manufacturing will play into this too. I suspect (and hope) the decline in oil usage will happen well before we run low on it.

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You only need one app, as long as the totp is implemented in a standardized way.

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It's useful to minimize data leaks too, since (especially when combined with simple login etc) you can avoid giving out your real address ever.

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

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They might finally develop the affordable, mass market car that Musk has been claiming is in the works for years, instead of idiotic and expensive passion projects like the cybertruck.

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The execution is very poor, and I'd rather these dangerous monstrosities go away and be replaced by smaller, less dangerous, and more practical vehicles. And ideally, car ownership will decline over the long term with viable alternatives to driving hopefully being developed across the world (but that's a whole other discussion).

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It's the Model 2, which he has being talking about for years but it's not clear if it will ever happen.

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Probably realised that "full" self-driving the way people think of it is not likely to happen in our lifetimes. And Tesla's existing system is an out and out scam.

But I expect he'll try and combine it with his stupid tunnel idea, instead of, I don't know, a train?

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Jonathan Haidt

And his theory of morality seems to be just an elaborate justification for how conservative viewpoints are equally valid (or even more valid, because it claims that conservatives care about all foundations equally, rather than some of them), or a long-winded "very fine people, on both sides".

And the additional foundations that conservatives care about are all shitty reasons to support something (loyalty, authority, sanctity).

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Maybe just remove the turning lane and add an intersection, with the turning lane becoming a protected bike lane.

It looks like a horrible stroad in any case and it would probably be a great improvement to make it only one lane in each direction and use the space for more productive purposes.

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100 is a bit much, a good ebike can cost several thousands

Right, but it has much lower ongoing costs (less electricity or fuel, no/cheap insurance, no registration, minimal maintenance). 100 times cheaper is probably a bit hyperbolic, but not by that much.

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Futurama did it!

Looking for a portable AC with local control

I'm looking for a portable air conditioner (the kind with 1 or 2 hoses that go to outside air). The problem I'm running into is that every single one I find has some kind of "smart" controller built in. The ones with no WiFi connectivity still have buttons to start/stop the AC, meaning that a simple Zigbee outlet switch won't...

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Tuya wifi devices are common and you can use TuyaLocal or LocalTuya (confusing I know) integrations to control them without cloud connectivity. You will need an API key an cloud access to first set it up, however.

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And it was never a thing on AMD GPUs.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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Oh and HDMI prevents open source GPU drivers supporting HDMI 2.1 natively.

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No doubt this is partly making fun of this idiotic idea.

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There's a bunch of them here: https://www.theonion.com/opinion/cartoons

This might be the one you're thinking of:
https://www.theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506

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The left or "sinister" twin is invariably the evil one.

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The translation is more like a reimplementation, and sometimes that reimplementation is faster than native. But it's also because the Linux kernel is faster in some areas, and typically more memory efficient too.

And it's partly also the quality of GPU drivers, especially in the case of AMD (although they have been getting better on the Windows side in recent years).

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I first gamed on Linux in a time where Humble Indie Bundles weren't a thing yet and Wine was still very limited. Console emulators and some older native ports was all that was available. Oh and I walked uphill, both ways.

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Seems to be a repeat of the misleading (and outright cheating) scam that diesel emissions turned out to be, although presumably not quite as egregious as what VW did. Although perhaps part of the hybrid problem is that people aren't actually charging them electrically most of the time, but that is also why hybrids are such a pointless half measure (even more than electric cars are a half measure compared to reducing car dependency).

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