ai is the new stack overflow which is the new copying someone else's work which is the new reading the manual
The UK has "gender recognition certificates" that are only held by about 1% of trans people iirc. They're notoriously hard to acquire even if you've medically transitioned, and aren't that useful beyond changing your gender on documents like passports I think
I'm pretty sure this ruling totally overrules GRCs or at least doesn't mention them. Even for those with a cert you're still affected.
Always amuses me how people think these apartments are just vacant to fool the media/outside world like, surely successive governments would put that industrial capacity into literally anything else if it wasnt necessary?
You know it's bad when Linux YouTubers are arguing against Linux ports because Proton is just so much more functional for Linux gamers.
As others have said. The errors are easily fixed and documented if annoying. Some will require console access but are usually pretty safe.
300 years too late
Yeah I loved my tiny netbook. They're sorta eaten up by tablets now though. GPD's stuff counts as netbook form factor right?
It's surprising how slow open source is on replicating Roku. So many manufacturers could be using Linux to bypass androidTV and RokuOS bullshit. I suppose AndroidTV is good enough even despite that.
There's a bunch of technical debt passed off as features, too. Like, Nextcloud runs background tasks as a cron job which is something I've never seen with other hosted services. It's probably a holdover from before containerised applications were ubiquitous but honestly it comes off as jank.
Also, I wonder if there would be an argument for a Nextcloud fork that doubled down on PHP by utilising something like Laravel to put all the rendering on the server side. Right now it uses VueJS which is fine, but PHP is really best suited for server side rendering that you just can't leverage when using a front end framework in JavaScript.
Every worker moved is another worker more likely to use Linux at home. In my experience you're most likely to use the computers you work with (school or otherwise) and exposure to Linux is going to demystify it in ways social media cannot.
Most exciting is probably the IT management side. I wonder how many distros are hardened for end users who do general office work - where people are more likely to tinker and mess about either for fun or to optimise things.
I've been under the impression that for countries that print their own money, deficits aren't that important as long as the outstanding debt doesn't rapidly inflate like in Japan's case.
the new name is pretty slick so not all that bad
Level 1 circuit breaker suspends trading for 15 minutes
boo. shut it down motherfuckers!!!
How does the circuit breaker work? Does it trigger based on a timer or after each trade? Like, could the market crash so fast in the space of 5 seconds that it goes an extra % point or two below the magic number?
Private trackers usually have a request mechanism that you can use. I currently use seedpool and digitalcore which let you request media after you've spent enough time seeding media
Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
I'm curious, how well has Musl been for software compatibility? How did you resolve any that came up?
I wonder if Facebook will be quietly watching this considering their very public consumption of AA recently.
Cloudflare is known for being unreliable with how and when it enforces the ToS (especially for paying customers!). Just because they haven't cracked down on everyone doesn't mean they won't arbitrarily pick out your account from thousands of others just to slap a ban on. There's inherent risk to it
If I'm using *arr apps with qbittorrent, are active torrents duplicating data?
I ask this because whilst *arr apps supposedly import downloaded torrents to their respective media folders, my downloads folder for qbittorrent is over 200GB in size when I've got zero incomplete downloads.
Have I set something up wrong? Or is it setting some kind of hard link between the downloads and media folder?
Minecraft server hardware benchmarks
Is there anyhwhere that has any kind of benchmark for different hardware when hosting minecraft servers? I'm considering migrating to my homelab from a sparkedhost instance but I dont know if it'll be worth potentially worse performance (Ryzen 7000-series x3 vCPUs versus my i5 9500 running concurrent services)
Email provider for home server alerts
Nextcloud, Qbittorrent, Truenas and loads of other svcs take optional email credentials for sending alerts and other features (eg. password recovery for nextcloud).
What email providers do people usually use to make this process simple to set up? For example, Microsoft doesn't allow basic auth anymore so it's supposedly not possible to use via most of these setups, and some other services seem like they have a low inbox size (does this matter?)
(Electric Eel) setting postgresdb data directory to anything except ix-apps dir causes Nextcloud install to fail.
I'm pretty new to this so it's probably a permissions thing, How can I set up my datasets on this (new) server to allow nextcloud to install without crapping itself?
The app lifecycle logs arent too helpful - they just say postgres is unhealthy and brings down the container.
Any OMV + SnapRAID/MergerFS users here?
How is the drive management in OMV? I'm looking for something similar to UnRaid pools so i can add one drive at a time (ZFS makes you add vdevs of the same no. of drives).
I'm not too concerned with parity (ive got automated remote backups for sensitive info that I cant replace) but it would be good to know if I could swap drives out if I need to expand or replace anything too.
EDIT: with ZFS 2.3.0 supporting raid expansion, it might be worth me holding out for a year for that to become more stable, and migrate after. I only have 1 drive for now so it shouldnt be too bad if i made a new pool and moved stuff over to a 2nd drive
Mortgage Brokers red flags
We're looking at buying a house, and we've so far started talking with pretty much the first mortgage advisor that got back to us, from a recommendation of an estate agent.
He's part of Countrywide Mortgage Services which in itself is completely fine, and I don't think there's anything shady going on, but I feel like we're being rushed and heavily pressed into moving as quickly as possible into booking viewings, buying into "mortgage protection" (basically life insurance packages with loads of bollocks on top) and it's giving us a bad taste after our last two meetings with him.
At the same time, he's shown us the portal he uses for finding mortgage rates and its clear we'd save more than the £700 price for his services, and we definitely do want someone to help handle the process for us, but are they meant to feel as pushy as car salesmen?
Anyone tried assetto Corsa EVO today? Is proton looking good?
I have high hopes for it but it's only just come out so could be rough around the edges.
Anyone got the Asus Strix G15 Advantage? How is it with Linux?
EDIT: Works out of the box. For best experience you'll want Fedora or Arch or SUSE which provide the asusctl package for modifying things usually only available on the ROG Control Centre for Windows. Dual graphics output from HDMI/DP also worked after an initial update and some reboots.
I'm looking at a pretty solid deal for the QHD model right now and I'm wondering if anyone has the same model already. How's the dual GPU setup?
I'm sorta hoping the 6800M can drive both display outputs without much hassle because I used to have to reboot when I had a 1650 mobile system in order to use the HDMI ports (they wouldn't output unless the desktop was running exclusively on the dGPU).
England friends, just got off phone with adhd360 regarding right to choose
good news; they've actually got my referral!
But info that might be relevant for people here; they're currently processing referrals made in July 2024, which from my last call seems to mean they're working them down at a little less than one month, per month.
Otherwise they're supposedly one of the faster RTC providers so still consider them if you're in England!
Laptop charging ports aren't working anymore. Any way to fix at home?
I've got a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad (14aph8) which up until yesterday charged just fine. Now the ports don't accept any charger at all, even their official one.
I've tried holding down the power button to dump static charge from the battery but at best I get maybe 2-3 seconds of it recognising the official charger before it goes dead again.
Is there a home fix or should I just reach out for warranty?
ACNH - BCAT injections still needed?
There's almost zero proper documentation on BCAT stuff but does it still need to be done in 2024 for the latest 2.0.6 update?
From my own testing, a handful of date events seem to be working just fine as long as in game prerequisites are met. There are a LOT of events once tied to BCAT files though, so I can't really check all of em.
One other point to note - in videos of players using legit switches and copies of the game, the version still seems to be 2.0.6 without a letter (and 🏠 for HHA DLC)
"sub" meshes vs one monolithic mesh - Which technique should I use?
So I've done 3D modelling in 3DS Max and I'm currently learning blender, and I'm beginning to look at creating more detailed models and learning about stuff such as managing topology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj1uHSu1Bw
I've noticed in videos such as this, instead of merging the meshes together and managing the topology of each detail/element, the modeller just creates a new mesh. Is this right? Or is there some benefit to combining these details into one "monolithic" mesh and then fixing any topology issues.
Is there much performance or other downside to creating multiple separate meshes like in the video? Am I overthinking this?
Alternative/manual way to fix cloudflare-locked trackers on Prowlarr
If youve used Prowlarr, you might have experienced cloudflare blocking access to certain trackers.
There's a docker-based solution called cloudsolverr which automatically bypasses these cloudflare challenges by spinning up a headless chromium browser.
Main issue is it's heavy on resources (I have an rpi4b) and doesn't have an easy native setup (I've not had time to practice with docker stuff yet).
Is there a manual way for me to resolve these cloudflare challenges so I can add the trackers? It's mainly for public shit like 1337x just to fill out my access to TV shows where my other trackers fail or get rate-limited.