GenderNeutralBro

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[–] GenderNeutralBro 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My grandfather used to half-jokingly call them the CIA's press wing.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you like hiking, you might also enjoy indoor rock climbing. It's more social and fun than a gym and you will have the opportunity to interact with a lot of the same people repeatedly. You might even have some beginners groups in you area to get started. Meetup.com is good for finding groups like that.

Good luck out there!

[–] GenderNeutralBro 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Online gaming just wasn't a big thing on PS2. FF11 was the only online game I was even aware of at the time. I wanted to play it but it wasn't realistic.

FF fans weren't PC gamers by and large at that point. I'm kind of amazed the game survived at all. It was far ahead of its time and not well aligned with the market.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are two potential show-stoppers.

  1. Field-specific apps that only run on windows. If you really need Adobe Creative Cloud or SolidWorks or something like that you might be out of luck. This is mostly true for apps that require GPU acceleration, which is difficult to rig up in a VM. You wouldn't want to do that if it was a big part of your workload.

  2. Mandatory spyware and rootkit DRM to prevent cheating with remote tests. Hopefully if they do such a thing they provide loaner hardware too. I've seen a lot of bullshit in my time but my experience is outdated, so I don't know what's common nowadays.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That actually sounds like a neat idea. I mean, it's a privacy nightmare, but not much more than any other social media site.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guess I'll look into XFS and see if it's suitable for my use cases (I know almost nothing about it), but this supports my opinion that BTRFS is an easy choice over EXT4 at least.

Edit: No snapshot support in XFS, so I'll stick with BTRFS. My performance requirements are not that high on desktop. If I set up a high-performance server that would be another matter.

I was surprised to learn that F2FS has rather small maximum volume sizes. 16TB with 4K block sizes, 64TB with 16K block sizes. But your whole kernel needs to use 16K pages to use 16K F2FS blocks, which seems like more trouble than it's worth. Either way, it's so non-future-proof I'm not even going to think about it.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never seen one I'd actually trust for the mic, but I've seen a lot of Lenovos that have sliding covers for the camera.

I'm a little reluctant to put an adhesive slider on my MacBook because it closes pretty tight and I'm afraid the extra thickness would create a pressure point and cause damage over time.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

For context, Debian dropped support for 586 in Debian Stretch (9.0), release in 2017.

I have not done the legwork to compare this to other distros, but Debian generally supports older hardware than most other major mainstream desktop distros.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Ridge Racer.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 2 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of makes sense. It would be an addition to the lineup rather than a replacement like previous "T" series. It would just cannibalize sales.

Bummer, but probably the right move.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 13 points 4 weeks ago

Mobile payment is the only major problem I've encountered. Fortunately, for me it's just a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

I've heard that some banks have that feature within their own app, but I've never actually seen that. If anyone knows of specific banks that support that, please share! I suspect there's no such thing in my country but who knows?

[–] GenderNeutralBro -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It ranges from "automatic" to "infuriating".

If you have Secure Boot enabled, there are some hoops to jump through. Read the docs and follow the steps for DKMS.

Depending on your distro and your requirements, you might want to install the drivers manually from Nvidia rather than using older drivers from your distro.

If you need CUDA, god help you. Choose a distro that makes this easy and use containers to avoid dependency hell. Note that this is not any easier on Windows (at least not last I checked, which was a few years ago).

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by GenderNeutralBro to c/sdfpubnix
 

Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.

Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11 BE: 0.19.0-rc.10

Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).

If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.

Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?

Here is an example post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/8482278

And an example direct image URL from that post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c8556f4f-d33c-4cac-86f3-975726ea69ec.png

I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.

Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.

 

That is all.

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