dosse91 @ dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

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I agree. Coming from the Windows world, systemd felt quite familiar compared to other components in a typical linux system, I always liked it. It doesn't really follow the unix philosophy though, so it gets a lot of hate.

Cool stuff, now add some physics to those branches :)

Definitely. A lot of kids that used to be called "very lively" back when I was in school are diagnosed with ADHD or similar conditions nowadays even if there's nothing wrong with them.

Very well supported by Mesa. I do see more issues regarding the 7000 series compared to the 6000 series though, I guess they put more effort into the RDNA2 driver because of the steam deck.

In your situation I would probably buy an AMD 7700x with 32gb of DDR5 6000, and if you can get them where you live, an AMD 6950XT (they're really cheap here right now, equivalent to about a 3080ti-3090). Make sure to get a decent NVME SSD too.

Italy.

Cooking, every foreign person I know eats 20x more takeout and fast food than I do.

For me it was a combination of factors: Windows has been going down the shitter for at least 10 years now, FOSS software has been getting better and better, and I've learned to use more FOSS tools as I grew tired of dealing with Windows.

If I had to point at one project that made me go "Wow, this is amazing", I'd say ffmpeg. Even in my Windows days, I've always enjoyed digital preservation, when I discovered ffmpeg around 2015 it was an eye opener, so many features, so many options, I've been using it on a daily basis ever since.

I drive an automatic but I learned with a manual and used it for years. I find manual impractical for daily use but I can use it if I need to.

32 years old, Italy

It's extremely easy to set up with docker, I've been using a self-hosted instance for about 2 years now. Contact me if you need help setting it up or if you just want to test it.

Hardware requirements depend on how many users will be using it, I use an old i3 NUC as a home server and it can easily handle a room with a dozen people, especially if it's just audio, it gets heavier on the CPU if a lot of them have their webcams on but generally speaking if you have a decent internet connection you'll be fine.

Follow these instructions: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-docker/ You will need to set up HTTPS unless you're already using a reverse proxy.

For me the choice is really easy: Aegis works, Authy crashes when it opens the camera 😂

I've been using Aegis for a while now and it never gave me issues. I set up automatic backups to a folder which is synchronized with my home server with syncthing so there's no risk of losing access to anything.

None. If I encounter a bug in something I care about, I'll report it myself.

I've been into BDSM stuff since I was a kid basically, but I've always been to embarrassed to tell anyone or act on it because it's some seriously kinky shit.

The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.

I had a lot of fun playing A Way Out, you can play with two controllers or keyboard and controller

xdotool key i+j

Check the SMART status. If you're using KDE you can install plasma-disks which nicely integrates into it and warns you of potential failures.

This won't predict controller failures of course, those are generally unpredictable, but sometimes SSD controllers that are about to fail will show massive lag spikes or straight up disconnect while you're using them, if that happens back up your stuff immediately.

Another sign of early failure is extremely slow write speeds. All SSDs slow down a bit after a while once the cache is full, but if you see speeds slower than a mechanical drive, the memory is dying.

Very rarely, you'll see uncorrectable errors like being unable to open a file, a corrupt file system or files with corrupted chunks (usually 4kb blocks of zeros). If that happens it's already too late.

Also, the health status of a drive only indicates how worn the memory is, don't expect the drive to last until it gets to 0%, it's rare to even get to 60%.

If you only have 8gb you're probably swapping a lot, depends on what you do with your PC.

Anyway, to set up zram the easiest way is to try this: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/tree/main Also, take a look at the zram page on the arch wiki, even if you're not using arch it's very well made: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

I generally wouldn't recommend this, especially if you're using a cheaper SSD without cache or with QLC memory.

As you already know, cells on an SSD have limited write cycles (as low as 700 for QLC memory) and things like TRIM and wear leveling make sure that your SSD wears uniformly, but on cheaper SSDs the endurance is so low that without cache you will run into wearing issues in a few years of regular use or a few months if you're using it a lot or with swap enabled. I have seen it first hand many times working in a repair shop.

Keep in mind that endurance is not just a number of terabytes written that will cause your drive to suddenly switch to read-only mode, before it fails it will usually slow down to the point of making your PC unusable, I've seen SSDs write as slow as 9MB/s (specifically a Yucun drive from 2018 with TLC memory and no cache), it's not defective it just has to do a lot of error correction during writes.

Also, another issue that plagues cheap SSDs is that their controllers usually die well before the memory does, keep that in mind when choosing an SSD because this usually happens without early signs of failure or SMART errors.

So in general, unless your PC has a lot of RAM and that swap area will rarely be used, don't use swap and use zram instead (or just buy more RAM?).

• Syncthing
• Nextcloud
• Jitsi Meet
• FreeTube

It was a GeForce 2 Ultra, a rare high end graphics card from 1999-2000.

Sometimes a listing pops up, usually with an insane price, this time the price was almost reasonable but I couldn't bid on it thanks to ebay.