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FrederikNJS @ FrederikNJS @lemmy.zip
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  • What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"?

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  • Outer Wilds covered a lot of emotions for me. Wonder, excitement, sorrow, fear, relief, anger, frustration, calm, contemplativeness, despair, hope, terror, acceptance.

    It's my favorite game ever, and the less you know about it when you play it, the better.

  • THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

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  • Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.

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  • Why not just write your YAML files in JSON syntax?

    JSON is a valid subset of YAML

  • Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday?

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  • Yes, the WD Red line used to be for NAS use, but suddenly they started including SMR drives in their WD Red lineup, people got pissed because SMR isn't a good fit for RAID setups which NASes usually are.

    WD continued the practice, but introduced the WD Red Pro line. So now regular WD Reds could be either CMR or SMR, but WD Red Pro are guaranteed to be CMR.

    In my opinion it's still misleading to even brand the regular WD Red line as suitable for NAS use, but at least now you can specifically pick a drive that fits your needs.

  • What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?

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  • Outer Wilds - The way this game uses music and ambient sound to foster a sense of wonder, dread, excitement, sorrow, and much more is nothing short of incredible. Probably the best game I have ever played.

    Subnautica - Equally impressive use of music as Outer Wilds, many of the same feelings, but a much much different vibe and genre.

    Return of the Obra Dinn - A grim game where the soundtrack with church bells and heavy string instruments really underscore the mood.

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • That works but requires that you hand over a key for the hot-spot which makes it significantly more cumbersome, especially compared to airdrop

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • I love LocalSend, the only downside is that both devices must be on the same network. So it won't work for sending a file to someone else at a bar.

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • These are great points, but there is something more that phones have going for them.

    All modern phones are full-disk encrypted by default, and can be remote wiped. I think this is only the case for Mac laptops, but not for Linux and Windows.

    So if your phone is stolen, it's not really a risk of the thief having your password manager and your 2FA at the same time, but rather can they get in to your phone and then password manager and 2FA before you can trigger the remote wipe.

    Unless the attacker is sophisticated enough to mirror the whole disk and attack it offline.

  • Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io

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  • I too am a bit speechless that two companies get to censor what all stores are allowed to sell.

  • Distrochooser: Tool to choose a good Linux distribution for your needs

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  • Ubuntu works just fine. But Canonical has an iffy track record.

    Some years ago they bundled an Amazon app with the plain install. For a while it also integrated with the system search by default. So if you searched for a file on your machine, then your search query would also be sent directly to Amazon. You could opt-out but it was enabled by default. Later it was changed to be an opt-in, and I believe it's entirely removed today.

    Besides that they often push technologies that isn't really fostering the community. When Wayland was slowly gaining traction, Canonical suddenly announced and aggressively pushed Mir, instead of collaborating on Wayland, the preferred making their own alternative.

    These days they are pushing their Snaps pretty hard. So back in the day if you apt-get install firefoxyou would get a regular native Firefox install. Today if you do the same it will instead install a Snap of Firefox. Snaps are also a bit funny... Flatpak was gaining traction, and suddenly Canonical decides to build their own alternative instead of contributing to Flatpak.

    So all in all, Canonical is making some dodgy business partnerships. The add a good bit of bloat in their regular install, and they constantly build their own (inferior) alternatives to all sorts of stuff.

    I'm all for having alternatives and choices, but in Canonical's case, they generally don't give you much choice, they just force you to use their alternative. This of course leads to fragmentation, which is unfortunate.

  • Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

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  • I agree that = for "not equal" is an abomination.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • I have been on Arch , and I'm now running NixOS as my daily driver... IMO NixOS is less of a hassle to set up, and nearly maintenance free compared to Arch... Twice a year when the channel updates there's a bit of stuff, but every change I need to make is usually explained in the output of my nixos-rebuild... If something suddenly breaks in an update, I just boot into my previous generation, roll back my flake.lock and wait a few days for a fix to be available...

  • r/israel in meltdown over Superman movie

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  • I have an education in compsci, and I have worked in software engineering and platform engineering for 8 years now... And I only know of one programming language that makes use of "=/=" which is Erlang. Every other language or scientific papers I know of make use different operators.

    Prolog comes close with "=", and Haskell too with "/=", but every other language has either used "!=", "~=" or "<>". The papers I have read that go for a more pseudo-code or mathematical notation has always used "≠".

  • r/israel in meltdown over Superman movie

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  • To some extent the SQL syntax also kind of makes sense... It's a combination of both "greater than" and "smaller than" operators, which is kind of a different way of saying something is not equal.

    The "!=" comes from most programming languages using the "!" character for negation. Negating something is usually read and pronounced "not". So it literally reads "not equal" if you are reading the symbols.

  • Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?

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  • Last time I used EndeavourOS, I managed to get the graphical installer to install BTRFS on LUKS, it did require custom partitioning in the graphical installer, snapper just worked after that.

    Zram (or was it Zswap?) was pretty easy to enable after installatiok

    The bootloader might be beyond what the graphical installer can do though... I never really bothered switching...

  • Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?

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  • I gotta ask, what is it you want that the installer doesn't provide?

  • Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers

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  • These DDOS for hire services make use of hacked machines as botnets to perform the DDOS attacks.

    So while the people paying for the service didn't hack anything, the people performing the DDOS certainly did.

  • Glitterati strike again!

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  • Wouldn't bright pink be even better?