hinterlufer @ hinterlufer @lemmy.world

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Mint with Cinnamon is very Windows like from the UI. You probably won't need to touch the terminal for running steam games - there's a GUI for pretty much anything a normal user would need.

I've had it happen three times in the last ~1 year each time killing some running process that I kept my pc on for. IIRC it were robocopy backups twice and once during deep sky photography.

I get why they force updates, but resarting is a bit too much for me. Although I understand why they do it, there's so many people just never shutting their systems down and Windows apparently just needs to reboot a lot for updates.

If you haven't noticed it on your machines, it probably is because you keep them updated and restart them regularly (or disabled the "feature" somewhere).

Why don't you subscribe to communities you're interested in instead and only browse those? Blocking that many communities sounds like a lot of work.

Something like a ASRock 4x4 with a 5800U should draw about 10W in idle, but you can certainly shut it off when you're not watching. I use a small tower because it also holds some storage for my home NAS and jellyfin server.

Dumb TV+(mini)PC is the way

Have you also found that their serving sizes are way too small or is it just us?

I think you have just single handedly solved world hunger with your pasta weighing method

You might want to try deleting that video from your watch history. Idk if it actually does anything to the recommendations but definitely something to try.

Google Lens is also a thing for general usage, and there are plenty options for more specific tasks such as Merlin for birds.

Powder is mostly filler though

I would imagine they store the highest available quality only by default and do on the fly transcoding until a certain threshold of views per time is reached. At this point they would then store the transcoded versions as well.

For videos with a lot of views it only makes sense to store the transcoded version as, like you say, storage is cheap. But fact is that the vast majority of uploaded videos get <1k views and for those it probably would make more sense to transcode them otf when needed.

There are a bunch of vulnerabilities for VLC for example. Some of them are based on modified .avi or .mkv files.

Note that those are all known and already patched but there are certainly some vulnerabilities out there that are unknown and/or unpatched. You're quite unlikely to get one of those though.

The biggest security issue probably is an unpatched system so don't forget to keep your software up to date.

What use cases for example? I can print TPU and have some lying around, but I have no idea what to use it for. The only useful thing I printed with it so far was new endcaps for a ladder.

I've got a flexispot E7 and I'm really happy with it. It's quite stable but certainly not the most stable solution. But there's also the E7Q which has 4 legs instead of only 2 which should increase the stability but I haven't tried that one.

Some filaments look much different when printed than they look on the spool. Matte, shiny, multi-colored ones for example.

Seed and... seed?

I don't know what you're trying to do but the easiest thing would be a bash script you would run after installation which does everything you want to change if it's just some setting and packages

Well it floated, but it was also underwater so we will never truely know

Probably not what you're looking for but Linux Mint has the option to encrypt your drive when you first install it. It's as easy as clicking "yes" and setting a password.

It looks like going from blue (-20) to white to blue (+20). It could be modified by using a different color palette - for example blue/green, blue/red, yellow/blue. A good indicator is also if the colors are still discernable in grayscale altough this will be pretty much impossible on a divergent color scale unless you add a second identifier such as dots.