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  • That site is likely written by AI, so is no surprise that it makes such stupid mistakes.

  • In that case, without encryption, your safety is zero. That's the exact scenario that full-drive encryption was designed for.

  • Safe in what context ?

    If the drive is mounted and data accessible, in case your computer is compromised by some kind of malware, well, the data will be easy to exfiltrate. Now, if the computer is turned off or the drive unmounted, that's what encryption comes in to protect it.

    So, basically, encryption will protect the data in case of physical theft of the drive or in case of remote hacking if the drive is un-mounted.

  • Try installing GOG Galaxy with Wine (Lutris can do it for you easy) and run Necrobarista from Galaxy, this should take care of displaying the achievement.

  • If India is anything like my country (Brazil), corruption is rampant and enforcement outside business environments is pretty much non-existent, so, no, no one is afraid of piracy for domestic use. We used to have street vendors and booths on strip malls selling all kinds of warez on CD/DVD. The only reason they're not around anymore is because internet speeds here are already good enough that downloading is easier. And no, no one will cut you connection because of it, our congress already approved laws saying that access to digital communication is a civic right.

  • You can use Lutris to launch the gane directly, either natively or using Wine, but only for games that don't implement Steam's DRM. For the ones that do, Lutris would still have to launch Steam before the game runs.

  • The only pins that carry power on a PCIe slot are the ones before the 1st notch, those are covered by the slot. all the other are data and low voltage and current limited, so there's very little risk. On top of that, OP protected those pins with kapton tape to be extra sure.

    Using larger PCIe cards on 1x slot is more common than you think and perfectly safe.

  • Here in Brazil, people can vote while still in jail serving sentence. On top of that, asking any job candidate for their criminal records is illegal, unless the job is on a financial institution, like a bank. Third parties (like an HR department) can't access criminal records due to privacy protections contained in out constitution and laws.

  • It's clear the original was made before all those sites enshittified into their current forms. That's why it mentions Vine instead of TikTok, which is notable for having been enshittified from day 1.

  • To dislodge an incumbent, a product needs to have an enormous advantage, a killer feature that makes the hassle of changing worth it. Up until now, Linux didn't have it. Well, it did, but Windows had it too, but Microsoft dropped it: lack of ads baked on the OS.

    Now that Windows is turning into yet another Ad delivery system, people are looking for an escape. Many are going to Macs, some are coming to Linux.

  • Go for RAM size. Video editing uses a lot of it.

    Don't bother with the X3D CPUs, video editors don't benefit from the extra cache, the problem with the stacked dies is that it makes moving heat out of the CPU harder, so they tend to run at lower clock speeds, so with a normal CPU, you'll get a little bit more performance on video tasks, while the hit on gaming performance will be minimal, especially if you play at higher resolutions where the GPU will be the limiting factor.

    As for storage, get an NVMe that's big enough to store the games you're playing and the video project you're working at the moment, so access is quicker. for other projects and games you don't play often, put them on an HDD or NAS with 10Gb Ethernet.

    As for graphics cards, Nvidia has better video encoding than AMD at the moment and great gaming performance, but don't dismiss Intel Arc, they're entry-level for gaming, but have a stellar performance in video encoding. Considering the price difference between AMD and Nvidia, you could pretty much buy an RX 7900XTX and an Arc A750 for the same price of an RTX 4080, so you could use one for gaming and the other for encoding. The advantage of this is that you could play games on the AMD card at the same time the encoding is running on the Intel.

  • You can run with your own reverse proxy Nginx if:

    • You expose the port used by the backend/API with a "ports:" setting on the compose file
    • Expose the socket used by the ytproxy container using a volume that points to a directory in the host

    You'll still need 3 DNS names and a SSL certificate to cover all three.

    TO configure your Nginx, you can use the template I provided on the config/ directory as a base.

  • One thing that was making the boot taking too long on my LXC containers systemd-networkd-wait-online.service, a service that waits for every link to be up. After I figured this, I added that service to the list of stuff I turn off, even on bare-metal installs.

  • first is to have a second graphics card - it can be an integrated one, like on Ryzen 7xxx or Intel CPUS - or a second computer that can SSH into the gaming box, just in case you need to open a terminal to fix stuff that broke. Then hit the Level1Tech forums, there's a lot of knowledge there about the stuff.

  • On the Radeon camp, it's just "apt dist-upgrade; systemctl reboot"

    Done.

    The only time I had issues with the open source AMD drivers was when I was doing GPU pass through to play Elite: Dangerous, the drivers really didn't like the state Windows left the card in when it was time to reattach it to Linux.

  • Manager: "Then ship your machine to the custumer"

    Developer: Invents Docker...

  • Those look nice. I don't need a dedicated desktop client, since I always have Firefox open anyways, but I'll give Libretube a try on my phone. Bonus, Libretube's Mastodon account is on the same instance that I use :-)

  • Games from my childhood. Moon Patrol, Galaga, Zaxxon, Twin Bee, Xevious, Gradius, etc.

    Yup. I'm that old.