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by alyandon 9mo ago
KDE doesn't need 4 GB of ram - that's just what my laptop happens to have which is more than ample to run the OS + KDE + native applications.
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by alyandon 9mo ago
I'm on an older LTS kernel so no support for lru_gen but I will definitely check out zramswap - thanks.
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by alyandon 9mo ago
It's the web browser and electron based apps that are the primary consumers of ram on my desktops with the DE and OS ram usage being minimal by comparison. I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE deskt
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by alyandon 9mo ago
https://antonz.org/go-1-26/#httptest-example > To fix this issue, the HTTP client returned by httptest.Server.Client now redirects requests for example.com and its subdomains to the test server I'm real
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by alyandon 9mo ago
Yeah, it's one of the reasons I use a Microsoft account to collect the PC entitlements and then create a local user account that has a sane profile name and never touch the online account again.
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by alyandon 10mo ago
(1) is already true today. There is no way for services to enforce whether a passkey is stored in software or hardware. Challenge: Go and try to register a non-blessed passkey type with PayPal and come back and share your experienc
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by alyandon 10mo ago
I'm a bit of a curmudgeon about this. Until service providers are no longer allowed to: 1) force the type of passkey stores used (e.g. hardware vs software) when I am providing the passkey store 2) force me to MFA (e.g. forcing t
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by alyandon 10mo ago
I can't take anyone that views regulation as universally evil seriously when history is full of stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
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by alyandon 1y ago
I had put it off for several years because everyone kept telling me how awful the prep was. My doctor kept pestering me to agree to do it so I eventually relented. Turns out, I needed to go to the bathroom frequently during the day which w
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by alyandon 1y ago
They say there’s no Emacs — only your Emacs. This hit home for me. I spent about 6 months working exclusively with emacs to get past the "this is weird/hard because it is unfamiliar to me" stage. At the end of the e
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by alyandon 1y ago
Same for my parents - one of their desktops that they were going to leave on Windows 10 needed to have tpm and secure boot turned on in bios and suddenly it was Windows 11 compliant.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I use powerline ethernet adapters to hook up the media center in the living room. They aren't super fast (~100 mbps) but they are so much more consistent than wifi.
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by alyandon 1y ago
What purpose outside abetting in avoiding a DUI is there for publishing a live map of DUI checkpoints? That is easy to answer - letting law abiding citizens going about their personal business know that if they go through an area th
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by alyandon 1y ago
For me personally it's just old configs I have that redirect from port 80 to 443. You're right though - probably unnecessary in this day and age.
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by alyandon 1y ago
For me, I'll be replacing Windows with Linux on any machine that can't run Windows 11 in a supported fashion. I honestly thought Microsoft would blink on this but I guess their leadership believes everyone is going to run out and
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by alyandon 1y ago
Perhaps instead we can just rely on the plain meaning of common language around "lifetime" income streams and sweepstakes companies that offer those kinds of prizes should be required to purchase an annuity to guarantee that payme
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by alyandon 1y ago
100% spot on. I do this with subcontractors quite frequently for house related stuff and most of them are quite happy to work with me directly.
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by alyandon 1y ago
LTS in general being slow to uptake new versions of software is a feature not a bug. It gives predictability at the cost of having to deal with older versions of software. With Ubuntu at least, some upstreams publish official PPAs so that
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by alyandon 1y ago
Yeah, the lack of an official upstream .deb that is kept up to date (like the official Docker .deb repos) for Ubuntu really kills using podman for most of my internal use cases.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I'd really like to see some combination of Tinc that manages the layer 2 mesh routing with wireguard underneath for the point to point tunnels.
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by alyandon 1y ago
My relatively technically literate older parents fell for that crap as well. Their tablets were virtually unusable because of full screen scam ads being shown as notifications. Also, * No Autoplay for Video or Music I'm having
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by alyandon 1y ago
When I bought my home in 2009 (suburbia in major metro area) - AT&T was offering a whopping 6mbps DSL connection for wired internet. At the end of 2024, they were still only offering 6 mbps DSL. This year - they rolled out fiber. So,
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by alyandon 1y ago
I had a similar experience with NixOS and eventually gave up. I liked the idea of NixOS but I do lots of weird things off the beaten path and was constantly troubleshooting why things wouldn't work. For me, building/running envir
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by alyandon 1y ago
I took the plunge and don't regret it. Despite the condition of the web site the extension is very useful and relatively free of any annoying bugs. At some point in time, I'd like to take the time to invest building a custom vers
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by alyandon 1y ago
Nope - fresh install.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I just tried to install the community edition and it fails claiming the license key generated by the site is invalid. Not a great onboarding experience.
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by alyandon 1y ago
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Resolver service became unavailable to the Internet starting at 21:52 UTC and ending at 22:54 UTC Weird. According to my own telemetry from multiple networks they were unavailable for a lot longer than tha
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by alyandon 1y ago
The KDE dev disagrees with this premise, thinks that additional clicks don't matter much in the grand scheme of things, I wonder how much that dev would care if someone changed the workflow of their favorite C++ IDE setup to c
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by alyandon 1y ago
Spot on - that is exactly my experience when working with LLMs.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I lean a bit on LLMs now for initial research/prototype work and it is quite a productivity boost vs random searches on the web. I generally do not commit the code they generate because they tend to miss subtle corner cases unless the

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