https://archive.org/details/wep_best-of

I use ethernet for everything, so even now I don’t use WiFi. I only figured out it worked because my internet was out a few months later and needed to connect to a hotspot, and was pleasantly surprised that it was not crashing. I also don’t really mess with RGB or bluetooth, so I cant really comment on those either. The motherboard itself always worked, it was just the integrated chips (it was new wifi 7 chip) that I wasn’t actually using anyway. It may have been fixed in days, weeks… who knows, I wasnt testing it.

tl;dr - sorry, I don’t have a good answer. The board always “worked” for my use case.

If you try to harm yourself we will kill you.

Always loved the logic.

The strong irony is that when high core count and asymmetrical multi-CCD chips started rolling out, they were having CCD pinning issues in windows. But since Linux has a scheduler that has been NUMA awareness for ages… Linux was actually just fine with these things.

Linux was actually better for bleeding edge hardware for once.

I built a new 9950x3d + x870e system last year. trying to use the motherboard’s wifi would kernel panic things. couldnt turn bluetooth on and off. couldn’t control the RGB.

Now, WiFi works great. Bluetooth works great. OpenRGB supports the RGB. Things are great. Took time to get here, but we got here.

I also have a preview edition.

I moved HA from my server to a HA green to separate reliability (my server is a test bed and uptime isnt great, and home automation warrants better uptime than I was giving it).

The voice services don’t work as well on the green directly, but I view it as part of the HA ecosystem and I want it running on the same hardware, but it seems very much like not a great option for that. And even on my own hardware, it still seems like it was a bit slower than I’d want and not always accurate. I definitely need a lot of tweaking (just like OP) to make it worth while.

I wrote the original reply as a joke. Clearly we’re not playing by any sort of rules here. so worrying about the difference between digit and number is kinda funny. but then I thought it would be fun to actually drastically overthink it and be overly pedantic about what the question says.

So no, not bitter. I just have a very bad sense of humor and find dumb things entertaining.

Now isn’t the time to start being pedantic about rules.

edit: the prompt says “Circle the smallest number” and not “Circle the smallest number that appears below”. What is the smallest number? 0 (at least by magnitude, negative numbers are just bigger numbers in the negative direction). So the prompt effectively says “Circle the zero”

If we’re going to work off the “that appears below” assumption. then the smallest number is “1” and not 1, 2, and 3. So circling all 3 is incorrect.

If we’re going to work off “that appears below, not including the categories” then the number to circle is 15 specifically. Not the “2.” in front of it.

And if there is a “circle the category indicator number for the category that includes the smallest number below” implication, then it’s truly just a bad question. Make it clear what you want.

There is a 0 in the bottom row. That is the smallest number. That’s why these were all wrong. Also it says number singular and they circled all 3

Doesn’t Ubuntu disable the root user out of the box and expect these actions to be performed via sudo/polkit. There is clearly a precedent for not needing a root password and being able to use your own user’s password for these kinds of things. So it is a monumentally stupid idea to require the system-wide root password, but not one that is done by all of linux, and seems to be a decision made by your distro to not use the modern solution.

The fact is though, you’re right and the pain point is that distros are still doing things the silly way.

• Distros should be using sudo/polkit/anything other than root user password to do things like this
• Modifications to the sudoers file should be easier
• The distro setup process should just be able to have some prompts about smart default things (“Passwordless updates?”) even if they include strongly discouraging comments.

If I can sudo apt install without requiring a password, I could generate a package that installs a custom sudoers config file that allows me to do anything, so “passwordless sudo, but just for apt” is potentially easily exploitable to gain full access. But that also still assumes A) you care and B) someone has access to your account anyway (at which point you may already have bigger problems)

It is interesting to me that at this point, because of Waydroid, the primary things keeping me from using a Linux phone are the same things keeping me from de-googling more of my current phone. When running LineageOS in the past, I couldn’t reliably use RCS. Plenty of apps have issues with google’s Play Integrity shenanigans.

Once I hit a point where Im ok with running a degoogled android, I’m basically ready for just going straight to Linux on phone.

You do know that you don’t have to change distros to change DE right?

They also get a power trip out of it. Some people would do that for free

I switched to vaultwarden back when it was bitwarden_rs due to the crazy overdone bitwarden docker setup… and then started using some of the licensed features. I have a home organization that I use to share passwords with my family. So now I can’t switch back to bitwarden official (even lite) unless they provide me a way to handle that.

I’m not opposed to paying them, but I am opposed to subscriptions for access to something I’m hosting on my own server. So a subscription license isn’t happening. I don’t see a reason to leave vaultwarden at this point

IINA is based on MPV, so I would assume that with a custom OSC, mpv can also look like this.

edit: went looking https://github.com/maoiscat/mpv-dark-box is definitely not what youre looking for, but an example. It might be possible to modify this to have a blurred background instead of a black background.

https://github.com/stax76/awesome-mpv has a bunch of info about customizing mpv, with a On Screen Controller section.

At my last job, they were trying to put LLMs in charge of doing data stuff to avoid typos, and it was just easily provably making up data.

Automation is not LLMs/GenAI.

Amazon Sidewalk means that PiHole or AdGuard won’t stop anything, because the point of amazon sidewalk is that if a device can’t find a usable internet connection (ie, you didnt set up wifi, or you dont have wifi), it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

So setting up a pihole prevents it from phoning home on your network, which will just prompt it to jump to another network potentially.

The question is just “how aggressively does this device want to phone home?” Some devices will actively seek out ways to phone home if blocked, some devices will try to phone home and give up if blocked. Some devices don’t try to phone home at all.

Not phoning home is ideal, a pihole will (probably) keep a device that stays on your network under control, and you should just not buy things that actively will work around your intentions to do whatever it wants without your permission.

But this person has already bought the thing, so “dont buy it” isn’t an option. But “don’t use it” might be. Depending on which category it’s in. (which I do not know, just trying to illustrate the bigger problem with Amazon Sidewalk)

https://youtu.be/XvXRaSvxmqg

Reminds me of this old commercial

If this were an actual public service, the solution would be to make sure people’s needs were met so they didn’t feel obligated to take comical amounts of soda.

Things in favor of Peyton here:

• Corporations in general
• There is no rule against it
• 7-11 has a pretty regular event where “fill a silly cup, feel free to be absurd” is a thing, so there is precedent
• That amount of soda is still probably profitable for the company, fountain soda is incredibly cheap
• This isn’t regular consumption and clearly not a regular occurrence, if beverages were regularly freely available, it wouldn’t be exciting to do this and this type of behavior would go away – you have to hoard service when public service is an artificially limited quantity.
• This didn’t deprive any other customer of soda – the only downside here is a corporation losing a few cents of profit.

Things against Peyton:

• Hoarding is a bad mentality to be in (agreed with you here)
• It will take days to drink that much soda, and it will be flat and nasty

When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It’s why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a “use it or lose it” for those people. If you’ve been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.

Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them… results in Americans desperate for public services… which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available… which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services… which results in less funding… Its a vicious cycle.