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Also https://archive.org/details/yuzu-windows-msvc-20240304-537296095_20240305_1340 AKA magnet:?xt=urn:btih:13001f9414da4cf238d0370fea54f5668406107a&dn=yuzu-windows-msvc-20240304-537296095_20240305_1340&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia600207.us.archive.org/22/items/&ws=http://ia800207.us.archive.org/22/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

A link to the official notice: https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/Connectivity-and-Support-for-Legacy-Products

(It was the first link in the article, good job The Verge)

It is also nice that these just degrade to regular thermostats. It isn't like they are completely stopping working. It would be nice if you could swap out the API, or they keep the API running longer (how much work can maintaining it be?). But this sounds like a pretty graceful degradation.

It would be nice to have these speak some common Zigbee protocol or similar. But this isn't the worst behaviour I have seen from companies.

I would definitely go for Irish sheep farmer. You get to live in a cute little house in a green pasture by the seaside and the sheep feed themselves. What do you need to do? Sheer them every once and a while? I'd take that over Terraform any day of the week.

I just got a Lenovo Yoga 9i and am pretty happy with it. It has a really nice display and wanted to experiment with a convertible as I occasionally wished I had a tablet but wouldn't use it enough to justify it. Having a laptop that can double as a tablet was attractive.

Random notes:

• Fingerprint reader doesn't work.
• There is a sysfs file to set an 80% charging limit which is nice.
• WiFi often seems slow and the signal strength is reported as low. I suspect this is poor AP selection as it seems to connect to a further AP in my house rather than the closer one.

Or use a browser extension to implement your preferences rather than push them onto others in a way that makes it harder for them to implement theirs.

If an article links to medium.com my redirects kick in, my link flagging kicks in and everything else. If everyone uses some different service to "fix" medium I am stuck with what they like. There is valuable to keeping the canonical URL.

I would also love to see domain blocks as a user preference in Lemmy. Just hide these sites that I don't like.

If you haven't used any configuration management before it would definitely be valuable to learn.

However I would also recommend trying Nix and NixOS. The provide much better reproducibility. For example using Ansible-like tools I would always have issues where I create a file, then remove the code to create the file but the file still exists or the server is still running. I wrote a post going into more detail about the difference a while ago https://kevincox.ca/2015/12/13/nixos-managed-system/. However this is more involved. If you already have a running server it will be a big shift, instead of just slowly starting to manage things via Ansible.

But I would definitely consider using something. Having configuration managed and versioned with history is super valuable.

Reading feeds.

Mostly blogs and videos. Some comics. Some odds and ends like notifications for various things.

If they can shove ads into the GMail UI I'm sure they could have found a place to put them in Google Reader.

I just use snapshots for taking backups. This ensures that I get a consistent state when the backup occurs. It seems to work well for that.

Video serving is a very sequential workload so hard drives will be more than sufficient and you can typically get storage at a lower price.

SSD may give you slightly faster start and seeking but it is unlikely to be noticeable.

If you want to serve multiple resolutions and bitrates you will probably want hardware that can do transcoding. However basically any graphics card (even integrated) will be able to transcode a video stream in real-time at a decent quality.

(If you wanted you can try to pre-transcode offline, but Jellyfin doesn't support this well)

Although getting something that supports AV1 hardware decoding could be forward thinking. For now you are probably fine without it and if you are ripping DVDs you may consider just keeping the original encoding. But most likely you will start to see more AV1 files coming in the future, and having a server that can transcode AV1 to older formats easily will keep everything on your network working properly.

TOTP code is like 5 lines. The hardest part is writing the seed to disk.

Yes, but how do you configure who is allowed to edit which files in /etc/sudoers?

Out of the box no. But it would be easy to implement if you don't need very complex rules. (I don't actually know how permissions work for sudoedit.)

*to an industry who creates serious health complications that raise the costs of hospitals.

I more and more think that the only way to manage online community is via invites. There are major downsides (difficulty of bootstrapping and reduced anonymity) but it gives a way to combat this. If a significant number of the users you have invited are bots you get your invite privileges revoked (or you get banned). It creates a chain of accountability and you can ban as high as necessary to severe the corrupted branch.

For me it is actually huge. I went from 90-120 FPS to nearly 300. I must be some outlier though. I also haven't played a while so old numbers are based on memory and likely on different kernel, drivers and more. I also don't recall if I was using Vulkan before while the new build asked me if I wanted to use Vulkan (and I switched).

Maybe this will result in some really cheap hardware floating around when the whole thing goes bust.