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The Realtek RTL8125B on my year-old motherboard has been doing fine with Linux's r8169 driver.

I've only used it at 1gbit/second, though; I haven't tested its 2.5gbit mode.

Intel is probably still the gold standard.

I guess you're not familiar with the i225-v and its variants. Intel burned their reputation for good NICs with that fiasco.

The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff.

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If you use wooden cutting boards / blocks, rub mineral oil into them every once in a while. This will reduce the water they absorb and make them less likely to warp or split.

Good to know, but having a high success rate at lying your way around bad policy doesn't make the policy acceptable.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I just subscribed. Perhaps I'll start posting things to that one instead of the .world room.

“While AT&T and Verizon only provide notice of surveillance of phone lines paid for by the Senate, T-Mobile has informed my staff that it will provide notice for Senators’ campaign or personal lines flagged as such by the [Senate Sergeant at Arms],” Wyden wrote. “Three other carriers — Google Fi Wireless, U.S. Mobile, and Cape — have policies of notifying all customers about government demands whenever they are allowed to do so. The latter two companies adopted these policies after outreach from my office.”

as long as it’s related to technology.

In that case, I suggest you define what fields of technology you mean, because practically everything is related to one technology or another.

you are better served by subscribing to a topic under the technology umbrella(Cyber security, hardware, software,… etc) , rather than the general technology community.

I do subscribe to such communities, but no, I am not better served by them. There are relatively few active ones, and most are about computer hardware or software. That leaves out a vast array of other kinds of technology, each of which might not have enough daily news to support an active room of its own, but in aggregate would make for a genuinely interesting community distinct from the flood of tech-stock drama that dominates so many others.

In any case, thanks for clarifying. I now know that your new community does not appeal to me.

You might be surprised how many informed geeks will defend mass surveillance until their last breath, if it's built with or adjacent to a technology that they feel connected to in some way.

I think most of them mean well, but unrealistic idealism and naïveté are definitely in play.

After being on !technology@lemmy.world for a while, I find it overwhelmingly tiresome due to so many posts that are not about technologies, but instead about business drama, the stock market, and politics. The most frequent posters there seem to think "technology" means "tech stocks and the executives behind them". Any article about any organization that happens to use a technology (especially computers) is accepted, and since that means all businesses, the result is practically no filtering at all. The community is flooded with noise that clearly fits better elsewhere.

If I wanted my feed filled with business drama, I would subscribe to a business or stocks community.

People gently complain about this from time to time, often garnering lots of upvotes, but the moderator(s) do nothing about it. A few examples:

https://lemmy.world/post/22514253

https://lemmy.world/post/24137271

https://lemm.ee/post/17164656

The posted rules remain vague, and the problem persists. The moderators seem to view quantity as more important than quality.

I wish there were a community where the bar was high enough to filter out most of that stuff, instead favoring news and discussions of technologies and their effects on the world. If one were to gain traction, I would gladly abandon the lemmyworld one and all the noise that it produces.

Will !technology@programming.dev be it?

I think my favorite part of Cyberpunk 2077's open world was that it was full of activity. The encounter variety might have been a little disappointing, but I was impressed with how they made the city feel dense and populated. It was much more convincing than the miniature towns full of locked doors and fake windows that are passed off as "cities" in so many other games.

It depends on what aspects of an open world are important to you.

Exploration is at the top of my list, and Skyrim is a good example of doing it well. Its world is full of unique things/places/characters to find, whether through an NPC's directions, or a roughly sketched map picked up while adventuring, or following your curiosity toward an area that looks interesting, or chasing a fox, or simply by wandering off the beaten path.

Map markers appear after you've already been somewhere so you can find your way back again, but since most of them are hidden until then, they don't spoil the experience of discovery.

And, when you find something, it's often genuinely interesting. Not yet another copy/paste monster fight or "hold the button to follow your witcher sense to the lost thing" quest. Not just checking off a task list item (or pre-placed map marker) so you can rush to the next one. The experience itself is rewarding.

Mind, I have criticisms of Skyrim, but it did exploration and environments (including sound) very well, and I wish more open world designers would learn from it and build upon its strengths.

EDIT:

I would love to play a game that reached or exceeded Skyrim's bar for exploration and environmental immersion, Breath of the Wild's bar for freedom of movement and wildlife, and The Witcher 3's bar for characters and story.

Yet before posting, I searched for words in the headline and got no results in this community. I guess Lemmy doesn't always work right. Oh well.

IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre at best:

• Sluggish controls
• Character movement that is unrealistically limited without offering anything to make up for it
• Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
• Bland combat mechanics
• "Open" world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
• Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth finding has a map marker
• A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct while the tasks to perform are mostly identical

This game's strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story. (All the things that could be had from reading the books, or maybe watching the live action adaptation.)

Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.

This will surely be used by the Trump administration to silence criticism of their unconstitutional, illegal actions.

You might be able to prevent a particular touchpad from affecting the desktop with an xinput disable command. Run xinput list to show the available device names and IDs, or man xinput for more details.

Another approach, assuming you're using an X11 session (not Wayland), would be to disable the device in xorg.conf.

A custom udev rule could also do the trick, although it might be more complicated than an xinput command.

Have a look here:

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart#supported_devices_pcs

AMD GPUs have better all-around compatibility on Linux, but if you're mainly gaming, Nvidia GPUs can be made to deliver good performance as well.

Better yet, run sudo dmesg --follow beforehand, and watch the output there while plugging it in.

I don't trust Meta to actually delete all copies of my data if I "delete" my accounts, but I will lose access to any privacy controls if I do it.

So, I have been deleting my posts, comments, photos, etc... stripping the account down to a mostly empty shell. Sometimes you can find browser scripts to help automate this.

I might add some junk data to the account later.