sovietknuckles

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[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That means if I used the digital version, they would had unlimited access to all my digital life. Photos, emails, chats, from decades ago.

Do they actually take your phone when you present it to them for digital ID? They don't scan it and bring up the same information on their scanner?

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What you're looking for is version sort. Here's how ls -1v sorts those files in the terminal, for example:

Link Click S01E04.mkv
Link Click S01E05.mkv
Link Click S01E05.5.mkv
Link Click S01E06.mkv

Nemo might be able to support version sort by way of a plugin, but I have not found one. The nnn CLI file manager supposedly supports version sort.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Another reason to not use Manjaro. Just use Endeavour instead.

Endeavour could be useful if it's your first time running an Arch-based distro and you're looking for software/configuration suggestions. Otherwise, Arch Linux is fine by itself and it doesn't have telemetry

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Is WiFi calling a decent alternative to VoIP?

I've placed calls using WiFi calling where the person said they could barely understand the words I was saying due to sound distortion. When I called back over VoIP, they said it was crystal-clear.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

It means that the key to getting a company to ditch arbitration is for enough people to win individual arbitration cases. There's arbitration lawyers who hedge their whole careers on arbitration payouts

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Switch to helix

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If your school blocks VPN connections, that usually means that they're specifically blocking OpenVPN traffic and/or WireGuard traffic. So if you use a VPN provider that supports OpenConnect (which looks like regular HTTPS traffic over port 443 to your school, there's a good chance that it will not be blocked.

That's what I do when I'm on open Wi-Fi networks that block everything but HTTP or HTTPS traffic. It's not as fast as UDP OpenVPN, let alone WireGuard, but it frees me from the restrictions of whatever Wi-Fi network I'm on.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Automatic updates is what to choose if you want someone else to fix your problems. As long as you don't run into problems introduced by automatic updates, automatic updates should be fine.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

They expected to get a marginal number of additional users from vendor lock-in of existing Signal users

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Wayland does not work with screen readers like Odilia or Orca. Because Wayland leaves blind users behind, it's a total non-starter.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I know AMD works better on linux in general but I am curious to follow the NVIDIA advancements as they go with the new open source kernel modules and stuff...

How is it open source? In the history of the whole repository, there were 11 merged PRs in 2022 (when the project began), and no merged PRs after, even though lots of PRs have been submitted since then. There has never been an issue-fixing PR merged, and no issues or PRs are submitted by the maintainers of the project.

A maintainer explains their workflow:

Because we will be sharing this code with our proprietary driver, we won't be developing in the open for now. So far, our strategy is to apply proposed changes to our internal code base, merge pull requests on github, and then do one NVIDIA github commit per driver release (and because the internal code base also contains the change, the release-time commit should not revert the merged pull request). It is not a great workflow, but we're trying to navigate the constraints as best we can.

All of their commits are tagged versions, none of which tell you in words what they did or what changed. As the maintainer says, they still do their actual development internally, and the GitHub repository does not contain that incremental work. Because the commits are releases only, there are only 66 commits on the main branch from May 2022 to the latest commit/release 2 weeks ago.

So whatever benefit you were hoping to get from Nvidia's kernel modules being open source probably is not there.

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