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FishInABarrel

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  • Why does Windows makes changing executable's icons so damn hard?

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  • Programs compiled “from scratch” don’t have an icon...

    As someone that wrote Windows applications for a living, that's wrong. You just have to add a resource file and your icon.

  • [Question] What are your computers named?

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  • Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)Media server: AlexandriaFirewall: Hadrian

  • What is this big roll of tube in our trucking maintenance bay

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  • You can see that the hose enters the center of a centrifugal blower, which is the inlet, so the hoses are sucking.

  • StarLite Mk V is a Linux tablet with Intel N200, 16GB RAM and a keyboard cover - Liliputing

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  • I think there's a bug causing threads that don't have an image to pull a random thumbnail. I've seen a lot of unrelated thumbnails the last couple of days, but this is the first NSFW one.

  • Google wants to reduce hearing loss with Android 14's latest safety feature

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  • Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn't have an equivalent of "line-out" that isn't affected by the host devices' volume settings. It's so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

  • LionGlass: New Type of Glass That's Greener and 10x More Damage Resistant

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  • That's a ceramic. Not exactly what people mean when they say "aluminum." I mean, if that's considered aluminum, then so is sapphire.

  • [AskEurope] Fellow Europeans, what is the aspect of USA lifestyle that surprises you the most?

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  • Consider two potential creditors:

    • Person A has no credit history at all.
    • Person B has had a credit card with a $20k limit for ten years, generally has a balance of less than $2k, and has never missed a payment.

    Can you see how B is a less risky client than A? A is essentially an unknown risk, but B has demonstrated the ability to manage their debt. A could still get, for instance, a car loan, but likely not a mortgage. And B will get a lower interest rate.

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  • What is the most cathartic movie?

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  • Michael Clayton

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  • I don't know how it is in practice, but conceptually clearing a jam in a 40mm grenade thrower sounds nerve-wracking.

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  • I've got an older 3900X that's Zen 2, but I'm otherwise clear, too.

    It's kind of hard to figure out which Zen # a CPU falls under, so here's the Wiki page listing all Zen 2 CPUs.

  • US plans water heater standards, says they will save consumers $11 billion

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  • Heat pump water heaters already exist, but I think they're pretty expensive compared to gas/resistive heat.

    I wouldn't be surprised if electric tankless water heaters are indeed infeasible under this mandate. Heat pumps generally aren't powerful, and tankless heaters require enormous amounts of power while in use.

  • Is now the right time to switch to Linux?

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  • I'm a month or so into switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. I've never lasted this long in prior attempts to switch over.

    Gaming has been quite good. Steam just works for 99% of the games I've tried, with the 1% being one or two minor bugs in games that otherwise worked fine. Lutris, on the other hand, did not work at all. 0% success rate installing or running games.

    Linux does still seem brittle and/or unnecessarily complicated, though. For example, I have a super common nvidia card, and my first post-install experience was having to boot into safe mode to fix the drivers. Then Ubuntu updated the drivers and my screens didn't come back up. I had to hard-reset to get them back. And I have yet to get NUT installed and configured correctly so I can have the PC power down gracefully when the UPS runs low, something which is trivial in Windows.

    Is all the frustration worth it to have an OS that isn't selling me ads and trying to move me to a cloud account? Probably.

  • The Release Date and Key Features of Windows 12 Unveiled

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  • For me it's Fusion 360. The launcher for it opens your browser to log you in via the Web. Wine doesn't seem to support that.

    DCS has some sort of time/zone issue preventing me from logging in.

    My MX Master scroll wheel behaves oddly.

    Other than that it's been not awful since I switched to Linux last month.

  • Simplicity and convenience

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  • This feels like a comment from 1997. Aside from occasionally updating video drivers for a new video game, I can't remember the last time I had to maintain--much less fix--a driver.