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That’s what I did. Broke everything the first update with absolutely nothing customized. Bog standard install.

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Updated Opensuse tumbleweed via the updator just after installation and a reboot. Broke Grub for the following reboot and had to completely rebuild GRUB

How could I have been so stupid? I should have never updated my system.

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

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ECC RAM is only necessary for people doing financial-related work.

If a video has a bitflip that is not corrected in software, ooooo 1 pixel will be a slightly different shade or hue or one subtitle letter will be wrong worst case.

Billing, payment processing, virtual currency storage, a flipped bit could be thousands of dollars, but those systems will have multiple verifiable redundancies in place, unlike the 90s when people like to quote that ECC RAM is essential.

Also 100% uptime servers like enterprise storage servers where customer data integrity is high priority.

I have yet to see a single shred of evidence that a memory bit flipping has caused any problems past 2008 or so. Maybe another person has found some case where it has, but when I was researching for my own server, I couldn’t find a single one.

Nearly every problem (1 million times more likely) is caused by software instability and bugs, with some being due to hard drive bit rot or hardware failures which ECC won’t fix anyway.

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I mean, that was actually pretty cool to read about! Speedrunning community always does the most crazy things as far as hardware memory dumping and analyzing to drop time in a speed run. 😅 that is passion.

It did happen on a device from 1996 though where in the time, programming and error checking was so barebones and efficient that a single bit could really mess a lot of things up.

That’s why I specified a time period 😉. Originally bug were called bugs because literal bugs would get in the holes of punchcards and make programs not run. Not a problem anymore! In the same way, systems have implemented checksums and error checking such that it really isn’t a big deal for the vast majority of applications.

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And when KiCAD gains enough features to make it able to compete in the enterprise space.

Altium still just has a ton of features that people use every day.

Cloud libraries, multi-channel design, flexpcbs, some good high speed tools, output job files, better curved traces for RF (though kicad melting + teardrop is ahead of altium in my opinion, though more clunky).

I have hope for FreeCAD now that Ondsel is on board pushing the community/enterprise split that OnShape does. They are shooting for a 1.0 next year. Though I think it will take until 2.0 to get it professionally usable.

How to bypass a metered connection?

In North America, using Xfinity for reference. I want to create both a home NAS and offline Wiki/media backup. Problem is to get the amount of data I need would blow through my plan and throttle my speed. I guess I could try and do it over a longer period or download just before the billing cycle renews so even if I go over it...

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Yeah I have a 3TB data cap with Proximus on Belgium. Telenet never had a cap, but both mobile and landline signal where I moved to is far better with Proximus.

I am hoping that is counts for downloads only and not uploads (seeding)

Absolute robbery, but at least the prices are around half of what I paid in the US for phone and internet. 70€ vs $145.

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Tried tumbleweed on my laptop, bog standard install with only defaults, first update with the GUI, completely deleted all grub configurations but gave no errors or warning on the GUI. Happened twice in a row.

Updating for CLI with YaST had no issues. Wanted to love it, but got a bad taste literal minutes after install.

I am fine on Arch, but I just wanted less hassle and ended up with more hassle. Maybe I will try again soon

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But then it wouldn’t fit the “systemd = devil” narrative if it was actually tested and found out to be false lol

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The one thing that I would look into is digital signing and change tracking

If you use that, I am not sure how it works between linux office programs and Microsoft office.

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What? Why do you say that?

I use it on my Chromecast constantly. I have had subtitle sync problems with some media, but that is literally on every single jellyfin app platform I have tried.

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You can definitely back up your messages… I have auto backups to my SD card…

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After reading your link, they can absolutely be used interchangably in a comparison with copyleft licenses. Your own link says that they are very similar.

…stackexchange.com/…/what-are-the-essential-diffe…

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Really depends on your area and amount of solar.

For the DIY approach with 20 panels here in belgium, it would be about 7000€. A contractor is estimated at around 9000€.

If you make a whole solar farm it would be of course, much more, but for a single family with <8000VA it is more reasonable.

To get a 100k+ quote your area must have horrible anti-solar installment fees or the company is not legit.

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Just as a PCB designer, make sure that you spec out the 240V voltage neutral and live copper trace width to the current going through them. For example, at 10 amps, those traces look much too small. Is it going to be in a high humidity environment? The spacing between traces also should be bigger for creepage/clearance reasons.

Cool project though!

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f-droid.org/repo/com.retroarch

You can install multiple cores on it.

First you have to go to the online updater and update all of your configuration files, core files, assets, everything and restart, but then you can simply go to the online updater and download any emulator core for any system.

I am playing on MelonDS which requires one fix to use the touchscreen in-game:

Core options -> screen -> change first option to Touch.

Also for pokemon specifically to have save filed work properly, you have to download a nintendoDS BIOS blob and put it in one of your retroarch folders. There are guides on that.

A little bit of configuration, bit you essentially have every single open source emulator in one app.

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I tried out my first private tracker with SceneTime.

Literally no benefit over a public tracker that I can see.

  • Selection is smaller, all torrents have a max of 30 seeders that I have seen. Most have 2-3.
  • Impossible to get a good ratio without seeding an unwanted popular torrent because niche content will have like 3 downloads per year.
  • Tons of abandoned torrents or torrents with 1 seeder
  • Almost 0 content older than 10 years unless it is very popular

Maybe I am not integrated enough with the community, and my stupid ISP has extreme asymmetrical speeds that max my upload at 30Mbps, but I mostly still use a public tracker where when I seed, people will actually leech.

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Well technically it is the record labels’ jobs. I think most big artists don’t interact directly with Spotify but through a label that signed them when they were small and takes 90% of the income from their songs.

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Element became unusable for me when I realized that it takes around 18% of my phone battery per day while being idle in the background without being opened even once. Absolutely insane for a simple chat app.

Wanted to like neochat and I still use it as I use KDE, but functionality is limited with no VoIP or jitsi, there are always a bunch of visual bug like gigantic icons, or other bugs like content not loading so all you get is a bunch of chat room use profile changed or enter/exits…

Maybe I should swap to fluffy chat in everything.

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