GenderNeutralBro

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GenderNeutralBro,

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,

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,

Any mirrors? Tilvids.com seems to be down.

GenderNeutralBro,

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.)

Comparing compression in AV1, x264, and x265 (kbin.social)

I recently got it into my head to compare the various popular video codecs in an effort to better understand how av1 works and looks compared to x264 and x265. I also had ideas of using a intel video card to compress a home video security setup, and what levels of compression I would need to get good results....

GenderNeutralBro,

Can you explain what you mean by “visually lossless”? Is this a purely subjective classification, or is there a specific definition or benchmark you used?

GenderNeutralBro,

The link you posted seems to have the full url embedded so it doesn’t work in my client. I think this will work, pasted as plain text: !veronicaexplains

GenderNeutralBro,

In theory, faster updates compared to Debian Stable.

I haven’t compared the repos directly though so I’m not sure what the current differences are specifically.

GenderNeutralBro,

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

GenderNeutralBro, (edited )

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,

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,

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,

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,

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,

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

GenderNeutralBro,

There’s nothing wrong with installing a .deb manually.

Personally, I’d hesitate to add any third-party repos unless there is a very good reason. In this case, the only real difference is that you won’t get the updates automatically with sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade without the repo. Either way, the desktop app will notify you when updates are available. There’s very little advantage to using the repo.

Adding a repo is very rarely required. It has deeper consequences than simply installing an app, and requires a higher level of trust. If you don’t understand the security implications of adding a repo (and its associated key), then my advice is: just don’t.

GenderNeutralBro,

You can verify the signature of the manual download as well. Either way, you are trusting the files you download over HTTPS from mullvad.net. There’s no real difference, except that when you use the repo, you are trusting it indefinitely, whereas if you download the deb directly, you are only trusting it once.

Using the repo is less secure, because it opens you to future attacks against the repo itself.

GenderNeutralBro,

That page lists multiple installation methods, for multiple distros. There simplest one for you is just two steps.

  1. Download .deb installer
  2. Run apt install ~/Downloads/MullvadVPN-*_amd64.deb

It’s not that complicated. That’s just confusingly written. And caters to a wide range of users.

GenderNeutralBro,

Vulcan gang sign.

GenderNeutralBro,

Haven’t tried it yet, but I can see myself using it in the future. It could be great for automating Mac/iOS development and administrative workflows. I don’t think you can compile, sign, notarize, or inspect Mac/iOS apps without Xcode tools (which are, of course, Mac-only). It’s a pain in the ass to operate Mac VMs for such purposes, and it’s only getting more difficult as time goes on. IIRC Apple only allows 2 guest VMs per host now.

Not sure if there are any non-Mac tools to work with dmg files (Mac disk images).

If GUI support is sufficiently developed in the future, there are plenty of Mac apps I would like to run. iPhone app support on Linux would be an absolute game-changer.

GenderNeutralBro,

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

GenderNeutralBro, (edited )

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,

MacOS also supports exfat out of the box. So do most Android phones, TVs, consoles, etc.

It’s only viable choice for cross-platform use, AFAIK. Not the best fs out there by any means but I still use it on my all my USBs because I need them to work everywhere.

GenderNeutralBro,

Can you tell me more about your case and noise insulation? I’ve recently been unhappy with my PC’s noise level and I’m looking for upgrades.

GenderNeutralBro,

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,

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?

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