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GenderNeutralBro, (edited ) to linux in AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support For Ryzen AI On Linux

This has been standard usage for nearly 70 years. I highly recommend reading the original proposal by McCarthy et al. from 1955: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/…/dartmouth.html

Arguing that AI is not AI is like arguing that irrational numbers are not “irrational” because they are not “deprived of reason”.

Edit: You might be thinking of “artificial general intelligence”, which is a theoretical sub-category of AI. Anyone claiming they have AGI or will have AGI within a decade should be treated with great skepticism.

GenderNeutralBro, to opensource in Enshittification of GitHub?

The only thing surprising is that it took Microsoft almost three years to turn on the shit-spigot.

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in Which terminal emulator do you use?

Realistically, no difference.

They are called emulators because “Terminal” used to mean a full-screen text interface to a mainframe. The functionality has carried on, which is why terminals behave pretty much the same on any platform. You don’t use your system’s regular text fields in a terminal emulator, for example.

GenderNeutralBro, to selfhosted in Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp+, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think?

I would guess that’s not a hard limit. Maybe they decided to undersell it because many 4TB+ nvme drives are physically larger and/or require heat sinks, so they might not fit. I don’t see any details on their web site though.

Given two drives with the same size, same heat output, and same interface, it shouldn’t make a difference.

It’s pretty common to see fake limits like that on spec sheets. I can definitely put more RAM in my motherboard than is officially supported since higher-capacity DIMMs are out in the same form factor now compared to when the mobo was released.

GenderNeutralBro, to risa in Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and-

Vulcan gang sign.

GenderNeutralBro, to selfhosted in PSA: The Docker Snap package on Ubuntu sucks.

It’s insane how many things they push as Snaps when they are entirely incompatible with the Snap model.

I think everyone first learns what Snaps are by googling “why doesn’t ____ work on Ubuntu?” For me, it was Filebot. Spent an hour or two trying to figure out how the hell to get it to actually, you know, access my files. (This was a few years ago, so maybe things are better now. Not sure. I don’t live that Snap life anymore, and I’m not going back.)

GenderNeutralBro, to piracy in PDF Piracy

Yes, thanks! I did indeed mean Termux. I’ll edit my post.

GenderNeutralBro, (edited ) to piracy in PDF Piracy

There are some free, open-source command line tools that can do this.

First off, there’s exiftool. It’s the go-to utility to read and write metadata in a wide variety of file types, like mp3, jpg, and you guessed it, pdf. It’s very easy to use:

To read all the metadata in a file: exiftool -a -All <file> (where <file> is the path to your pdf).

To erase all the metadata in a file: exiftool -a -All=“” <file> (that’s two double-quotes, to indicate a blank string). Please note that this will overwrite your file in-place! If you want to save the output as a new file, use exiftool -a -All=“” -o <output_file> <file>.

exiftool is likely all you need for your use case, but if you need more advanced PDF manipulation, with a truly dizzying array of options, there’s Ghostscript. Ghostscript can read, write, and convert PDFs, and provides hooks to apply any PostScript commands and options.

To simply print out information on a PDF file: gs -dPDFINFO -dBATCH <file>. This will show you the metadata, such as author, title, etc.

I’m…not going to give you an example of how to use Ghostscript to edit metadata because I’m not confident I’d get it right. The gist is that you use PostScript commands with the -c flag. It is truly arcane but extraordinarily powerful.

If you’re on Linux, you can likely get both of these with your distro’s default package manager. On Mac, use Homebrew or MacPorts. On Windows, you can download prebuilt binaries from their web sites. I think you can even run them on Android using Tmux Termux.

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in How to use a portable SSD for a travel OS with Linux?

Good point. I can never keep my USB 3 naming schemes straight.

The faster nvme-based sticks can even exceed 3.0’s 5gbps!

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Thanks! I checked and actually, dark mode was already on. Huh. I guess I haven’t tried since…I don’t even know. Maybe I didn’t have qt6 installed last time?

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in How to use a portable SSD for a travel OS with Linux?

Definitely look for portable SSDs rather than flash drives. Different technology, usually significantly larger (physically). Easily saturates a USB 2.0 connection, so look for USB 3.0.

Back when Microsoft supported Windows To Go, they had a short list of verified drives to use. Surely outdated now but might be a good starting point.

FWIW I used to run Windows 10 off a Samsung T5. It worked fine, except that it would always shut down when I tried to suspend. Still works as far as I know, I just haven’t used it in a long time.

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

How do you get dark mode in Strawberry under KDE? I remember trying to follow some guides and not having much luck. But that was a long time ago at this point. Does this “just work” now?

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in Thoughts on this?

OP claims that “actually nothing will actually run” because the stable Wayland protocols lack so much important functionality. In reality, many people use Wayland every day

Are the Wayland compositors people are using every day exclusively using “stable” Wayland interfaces? Honest question, because I have absolutely no idea.

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?

Agreed.

Unfortunately, Mullvad’s instructions just have you download the key from mullvad.net and add it in with no further validation.

You can also get it from their GitHub page, at least for the individual debs. Not sure if they have the repo key on GitHub.

GenderNeutralBro, to linux in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?

You’re downloading the signing key over HTTPS either way, from the same server. That’s the common point of failure.

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