IsoKiero @ IsoKiero @sopuli.xyz

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That's something along the lines I do as well, but your methods are far more in depth than mine. I just glance around documentations, how active the development is and get a rough idea if the thing is just a single person hobby-project or something which has a bit more momentum.

And it of course also depends on if I'm looking for solutions just for myself or is it for others and spesifically if it's work related. But full audits? No. There's no way my lifetime would be enough to audit everything I use and even with infinite time I don't have the skills to do that (which of course wouldn't be an issue if I had infinite time, but I don't see that happening).

Someone with more experience on sed or awk should chime in, but out of memory something like this (which MOST LIKELY WONT WORK, verify it before running it on anything important):

find -name *mkv -exec sed -e's/file=.*/file=' > {}.changed \;

That, at least in theory, reads every .mkv file recursively in a current working directory, finds lines that contain "file=

<whatever>

<EOL>

<EOL>

<original filename>

You could save yourself cents per year!

That's pretty much it. Maybe even tens of cents. In pre-USB era that actually made sense, Nokia chargers with a barrel jack (and other that era wall-warts) consumed even several watts on idle but (assuming a good quality) modern USB-bricks are way more efficient. They still consume a non-zero amount of power when plugged in but you're not going to see that on your power bill. You'll waste far mor energy if you forget your bathroom lights on overnight, even with LED bulbs.

But surely in order to “feel things” you would need a nervous system right? When you feel pain from touching something very hot, it’s your nerves that are sending those pain signals to your brain… right?

On that case, on our meatsacks, yes. But there's also emotional pain which can cause physical pain or other effects too and that doesn't require nerves at all. Also there's nothing stopping from an AI robot to have nervous system too, it would just have different kind of sensors and a CAN bus or something instead of organic stuff. There's already co-operation robots on factories which have sensors to detect if they are touching something in order to keep humans safe and from there it's not too far fetched to program it to feel "pain" if forces are big enough.

And that all boils down to on how you define consciousness, feelings, pain response and all that stuff. "Behold! I've brought you a man!" I yell while holding a chiken.

DOT 5.1 to significantly increase that wet boiling point, but it’s expensive for normal car use

Huh? In here you can get DOT5.1 for the same price than DOT4. Roughly 10€ per litre, depending on brand and how big bottle you get.

You don't even need to push. Just wait a while until the toddler finds something else to focus on and forget what happened today.

It was some time ago but a response from Canadian supplier to US customer went few rounds on social media. They informed that the item customer was buying was under a tariff and gave options to either pay up the tariffs, cancel the sale with no extra cost or just wait for few days and see what happens. And the really stupid part is that it was (and largely is) a viable strategy, at least on customer sales. For businesses that's obviously a total nightmare, but that's just one example on how ridiculous any kind of trade with the US is right now.

You are absolutely correct on that, but I find it a bit ironic anyways. Trump seems to be quite fond of royalty, at least UK kind, and this underlines even more that relationship with Europe is going down the drain and fast. Royal families across the Europe are more or less either family or at least friends together and this will play it's small part on US failures to maintain any kind of political or other power across the pond.

You're not wrong, but my personal experience is that it can also lead you down in a pretty convincing but totally wrong direction. I'm not a professional coder, but have at least some experience and I've tried the LLM approach on trying to figure out which library/command set/whatever I should use for problem at hand. Sometimes it gives useful answers, sometimes it's totally wrong which is easy to spot and at worst it gives you something which (at least to me) seems like it could work. And on the last case I then spend more or less time figuring out how to use the thing it proposed, fail, eventually read the actual old fashioned documentation and notice that the proposed solution is somewhat related to my problem but totally wrong.

And on that point I would have actually saved time if I did things the old fashion way (which is getting more and more annoying as search engines get worse and worse). There's legitimate use cases too of course, but you really need to have at least some idea on what you're doing to evaluate the answers LLMs give you.

Noissa omissa tonnin - kahden kotteroissa ei reaaliarvo enää merkittävän paljon muutu. Ja vähän sama homma se on noiden kesämökkienkin kanssa, joillain on iso hirsihuvila Levillä kaikilla mausteilla ja toisilla on mökkinä pieni rintamaiestalo Keuruulla. Jälkimmäisenkään reaaliarvo ei vuosien kuluessa merkittävän paljon heilu.

Tästäkin syystä tuommoiset rajaukset verotukseen jonkin asian omistamisesta on vähän haasteellisia. Vaikka minullakin on autoja oikein kaksin kappalein niin vaikkapa X7 BMWn tai Audi RS6:n hintalapussa on sen verran että oma talo autotalleineen ja tontteineen, autoineen ja kaiken muun irtaimiston kanssa maksaa vähemmän.

aika monelle myös auto, on luksusta

Toisaalta aika monelle, minä mukaanlukien, auto on käytännön välttämättömyys. Täällä taajamamerkkien väljemmällä puolella kun ei julkisesta liikenteestä ole paljon iloa. Tuo kesämökki taas mielestäni menee selkeästi luksuksen puolelle, joskin niitäkin on aika paljon laidasta laitaan. Yksi euromäärä olisi paljon selkeämpi, joskin silloin rajaa pitäisi varmaan nostaa tuosta 100t vähän ylemmäs jos halutaan omakotitalot jättää vaikutuksen ulkopuolelle.

which was a ‘neutral’ border back then

There's quite a few unmarked graves along that border and immense effort from my countrymen to keep the border where it is. It hasn't been "neutral" for too long. And being prepared to keep that border where it is plays a part on why our president from a small country is on discussions with Ukraine, EU leaders and that orange clown across the pond today.

Murmansk is few hundred kilometers from Finnish border and it's been there for "a while", it's no more bigger problem now than it has ever been. And Norway border is slightly closer than ours and Norway has been a NATO country for quite a while.

Their bases have been about where the tent villages now are for decades. They're training grounds for new conscripts until they're moved to die in some ditch in Ukraine. Who knows why they're more active now, maybe Ukraine is getting pretty good to hit their targets deep in Russia so they need to move further away from the front line or whatever.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Finland, beyond the fact that our border just happens to be nearby. And should they actually try start an active war with NATO from there, these grounds are mostly in reach of Finnish artillery and our artillery is pretty damn efficient on what they do.

There's still things like that on my workplace today. I think there's some older, rarely used CNC with Win98 on the controller. We just keep spares around when they break, but that's cheaper than replacing the whole machinery. Also there's some XP stations running software for an industrial machine which would cost quarter of a million to replace. Some of those need access to network drives and such but they live in a strictly isolated VLAN.

And, as far as I've told at least, there was no option at any point to upgrade just the computers on those things. It's always the whole assembly line or whatever they're connected to. There's not many companies willing to throw hundreds of thousands every 3-5 years to replace perfectly working equipment.

Delete windows partition with your preferred tool and update-grub should remove the item from boot menu. Then, depending on your partitioning schema, you can either create a new partition in the empty space and mount it however you like or expand your existing linux partition, but options there depend on how your partitioning has been originally built and if you can leverage things like LVM or ZFS when expanding the usable storage.

And, while pretty obvious, make sure to only delete the correct partition and all data stored on that will be lost, so make sure you don't have anything important on windows side of things.

Anyone who has used intranet search engines at large companies

Sharepoint search functionality comes to mind. Our team commonly refers it as write-once storage as once you throw something in there you'll never find it again. And yes, we stole the term from somewhere.

Kyllähän se datakeskus tarvitsee rakennusajan jälkeenkin vartijoita, lounasruokaa, IV-huoltajia, sähkömiehiä, talkkareita jne ja tuskin sinne Kiinasta raahataan toimijoita ihan pelkästään tuota varten. Mistään maatamullistavasta ei tietysti puhuta, mutta työpaikkoja ja sitäkautta verotuloja yhtäkaikki.

Toisaalta tuo huoli Kiinasta on varmaan ihan aiheellinen, mutta sitten toisaalta Kouvola ja sen ympäristö ei ole varsinaisesti kasvukeskus ja työpaikat + verot on epäilemättä alueelle tervetulleita. Sitä en oikein näe, että miten tuollainen datakeskus itsessään nyt auttaisi minkään piirivalmistamisen kanssa, joten sanoisin että rahat pois ennenkuin Bytedance vie keskuksensa johonkin muualle Eurooppaan.

Ja mitä taas TikTokkiin (ja muihin somejätteihin maasta riippumatta) tulee niin ne ongelmat pitää kyllä ratkaista jossain muualla kuin Kouvolan tonttimarkkinoilla.

Majority of the data (video) is already compressed as MPEG-2 so I'd think it doesn't compress very well. But if you don't have enough storage it's always an option to re-encode video with something more modern and achieve smaller file sizes from that. But that also removes at least DVD menu and other 'format dependent' options.

That would get you an exact copy of the disk with everything on it. And also, while 200 DVDs sounded a lot, it's "only" 860GB (assuming 4,3GB/disk which I think is the most common for movies), so it's not stupidly expensive either. Obviously you'll want a RAID setup and most likely backups for that, so it's more than just a single 1TB drive, but still quite manageable.