BluescreenOfDeath

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fucking same.

I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that's all they'll ever get out of me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

What I want is a way to answer the phone like a fax machine. Just press a button and the call gets answered and immediately starts playing that fax machine sound.

I'll bet that would stop calls. Surely they have something that can tell if they're calling a fax machine over and over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the example you're using is closer to emulation.

I'm not an expert by any means, most of my technology experience comes from hardware. But Proton isn't changing the Linux ecosystem, and the programs are still expecting a windows environment when they're run via Proton.

From what I recall, Linux and windows can both do the same stuff, they just have different names or different ways to ask for resources. And Proton receives the request for whatever and converts it to the Linux equivalent.

It's not nearly as bad as it was in the past, now that the graphics APIs are system agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Most simply put, it's a layer that allows a computer program expecting windows to run on Linux. It isn't emulating anything, just sorta like translating.

Think of it like a language. Windows speaks English, so a program expects to talk in English. But let's pretend like Linux talks Spanish. Proton translates the English commands to Spanish for Linux to understand and execute, and then Proton converts the responses back to English for the program.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

JAQing off, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plus, by the time you find the end, the crew can have moved on.

You could also exploit that to ambush the people trying to follow the cable farther into enemy territory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Looks pretty neat.

Is there a way to have it run like a ram statistics monitor? I'd love to have this running in a terminal window to monitor my ram statistics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my fucking God.

Is that a Z-board I see? I had one of those forever ago. Think I ended up tossing it when I discovered mechanical keyboards.

Super neat idea though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links

I'm not going to defend Mozilla by any means, but if you care about privacy, you wouldn't use a browser based on Chrome anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Then yeah, they probably have a camera system, and the owner set up port forwarding to the DVR so it can be viewed remotely.

In which case, you're probably out of luck for doing something on your own using the camera feeds.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.

At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.

 

I've been daily driving Kubuntu for ages now (currently on 24.10), and I've noticed that updates take a while for seemingly no reason.

The downloads are slower than my internet is capable of, but they happen fast enough. It's just that some packages take longer than I would expect on the "unpacking" step.

For example, anytime there's a new kernel release or new headers, apt downloads the packages fast enough, but the unpacking takes time with seemingly no resource usage. No increased CPU load (for possible inflating of a compressed archive), no IOWAIT warnings, my NVMe disk shows very little throughput (and can handle much faster disk operations, like downloading games via Steam), stuff like that. The system seems to be at idle, and yet the unpacking of some packages just... takes a while.

It's not like it's a huge issue. It's only maybe an extra 30+ seconds, but it's got me wondering if there's anything I could do to improve it.

sudo apt clean hasn't had any effect, and my Google searches are of people complaining of either slow download speeds or 30+ minute delays that end up being failing drives.

Anyone have ideas?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

and retreated to his self-made echo chamber at /c/LinuxSucks.

Guess some people just can't take criticism.

EDIT

Actually, looking at the modlog, it looks like he was removed by an admin.

 
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