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redditor since 2008, hoping kbin/the Fediverse can entirely replace it.

  • Sorry for the nitpick, but you probably mean GB/s (or GiB/s, but I won't go there). Gbps is gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second.Since both are used in different contexts yet they differ by about a factor of 8, not confusing the two is useful.

  • What does this have to do with systemd? Aren't they safer in this situation because they aren't using the beta xz release?

    My systems running Debian stable with systemd also aren't affected...

  • They're still working on a game they say is far bigger than BG3, though.

    Prior to development on Baldur's Gate 3, Larian CEO Swen Vincke was already planning out the company's future, and this included what he calls "the very big RPG that will dwarf them all."

    Speaking to GameSpot at GDC, Vincke explained that Larian's next game also won't actually be the aforementioned "very big RPG," but will be another step toward realizing it.

  • Most people need something to do. Being free all the time is rarely good for mental health.

  • You can make sudo password-less for a single command (including using specific arguments) though, so even if using sudo were the only solution, it wouldn't be that bad. For example, I have a sudoers entry that allows my user to decrypt my ZFS pool by executing a root-owned script (with permissions 700), but everything else requires a password.

  • Swedish too. I've always assumed the implicit meaning is roughly "there is [no reason] to thank me".

  • I gotta say, I really expected Rhaenyra or Rhaenys to be in this.

  • This is about the website.

  • Unless you've changed your vault encryption settings (which is not a bad idea!) it will likely decrypt rather quickly.I changed mine to Argon2id with settings such that one iteration takes over one second (on a Ryzen 5800X3D, about the same on my phone), since I don't unlock it very often.

  • What a bizarrely specific scam. Shouldn't take too long until everyone in that line of work in a particular area catches up on it.

  • I did read the article... Why do you think the parent commenter didn't?

  • Money doesn't solve everything. The probably have way more issues with stalkers and death threats than any of us do, for example. Even with hired security that can't feel very good.

  • And seven years of guaranteed Android updates.

  • It's always possible to re-encode video; it's usually called transcoding. However, you lose a bit of quality every time you encode, so you might not gain much in the end. You can offset a bit of the quality loss by encoding at a higher bitrate/quality factor/etc than you otherwise would, but that of course takes up extra space.

  • LCD for extra brightness? I don't think you've been keeping up as mobile OLEDs are usually brighter than mobile LCDs. Not that there are many LCDs left.

    The Nokia XR21 is one LCD phone released in 2023:IPS LCD, 120Hz, 450 nits (typ), 550 nits (HBM)Another phone with brightness listen on gsmarena is the Oukitel WP30 Pro:IPS LCD, 120Hz, 430 nits

    Take a few popular OLED phones for comparison...Galaxy S24: Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2X, 120Hz, HDR10+, 2600 nits (peak)iPhone 15: Super Retina XDR OLED, HDR10, Dolby Vision, 1000 nits (HBM), 2000 nits (peak)

    Or for consoles, Steam Deck LCD is about 400 nits, while the OLED is up to about 600, or 1000 in HDR.

  • I'm all for open source services, but realistically, what potential issues are there with using GitHub?Every contributor has a copy of the Git repo, so isn't the worst case basically losing access to issues and similar data? And even that is very unlikely.

  • a change that would avoid 17 metric tons of greenhouse gasses

    Uh, that's so obviously massively wrong. The headline seems correct though, it's about 17 MILLION metric tons.