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  • Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience

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  • How the heck did those tools developers figure out how to remove those various ads in windows? Did they do it the hard way, fired up a debugger to reverse engineer how those ads were displayed? That takes some dedication. We in the Linux land have it easy because the source code is available to mess with.

  • Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?

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  • I mean, a huge number of redditors moved here because of reddit enshittification.

  • Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App

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  • What's a good budget home server?

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  • For comparison, I run a thinkstation p300 with i7-4790 (TDP 84W) 24/7 and the power usage looks like this:

    Even when idling this old processor still guzzles 45W. Certainly not as nice as GP's that only use 10W during idle.

  • What's a good budget home server?

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  • Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

  • Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App

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  • The term "Android" itself is trademarked and can't be used by hardware manufacturers without passing certification and paying Google.

  • What's a good budget home server?

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  • Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it'll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine. Assuming $0.12/kwh, that's $262.8 per year for electricity alone.

    Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.

  • Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App

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  • Technically you can't call it "Android" without paying Google for certification and play store/gapps license. It's AOSP.

  • Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App

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  • You'd be surprised how many companies ignore GPL. Providing broken links to the source code tarballs, telling you to send an email request to get the code then proceed to ignore the requests, etc. Only the most famous case got sued, the rest simply got away with it.

  • Chinese numbers

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  • How long would it take for an average guy to learn Chinese without actually living in China or near a Chinese diaspora?

  • I don't know who Wayland is

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  • tmux is your friend.

  • I don't know who Wayland is

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  • The most obvious, user-visible loss of features are applications no longer able to grab/mess with contents of another application's window. Screen sharing and remote desktop was broken for a long time in wayland until it's fixed via pipewire recently. Under X11, rendering is free-for-all, where any app is free to do whatever it wants to other app's window. Heck, you can even tell mpv to play video on a cell in librecalc if you feel like it. Such shenanigans is now impossible in wayland because it's a big security risk (though I'm not sure if it's actually exploited in the wild).

    The most hyped feature of wayland is better support for high resolution "retina" display. Also, you can use multiple monitors with different dpi/scaling in wayland. IIRC it's not possible on X11, though you can use xrandr to force the scaling on each monitor, though it'll result in blurry texts because the scaling is not done natively.

  • Is it greener to just burn plastic?

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  • Using high temperature incinerators, yes. IIRC you'll need at least 1000°C to reduce toxic fumes production when burning plastics.

  • I don't know who Wayland is

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  • It's an entirely different design than X11. It gains features not possible to implement on X11, while losing many features exists in X11. People that like those new features love Wayland, while people that use those missing features hate it.

  • To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?

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  • I wonder which one came first, clothing or hairless skin?

  • Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues

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  • Being a successful politician in China may allow you to control large companies. Being a successful businessman in US may allow you to control political parties. I guess the endgame is the same for powerful people in both countries.

  • Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?

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  • Do you mean my cats are actually green in the eyes of it's potential prey?

  • Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor

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  • This is low. Imagine if you're unemployed, doing rounds of job interviews and got hit with this mess.

  • Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues

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  • I thought DJI has an R&D office in California? Is that just for show and the actual R&D is done in Shenzhen?