Sounds like you’ve been listening to Linux Unplugged, ha. Drive support is generally good in my experience. If you’re going to buy one for writing, then I’d also recommend one that can be flashed with Libredrive. That way you can also rip encrypted BluRays and store them without DRM.

I haven’t used burning software in a long time, but you may have issues getting them in a format that will just play back normally on players, especially if you put a bunch of movies on one disc. I think they need some sort of menu system, but maybe some burning software can build a rudimentary one? idk

Optical archival storage is tempting right now because of the price, though it definitely is more of an archival solution. Good for long term cold backups, but not great for any data that needs to change, even infrequently.

Yeah I’m thinking the request frequency was the issue rather than bandwidth.

Thanks! I haven’t tried that dashboard yet, I might give it a spin.

Nice stack! What’s the crab logo? I don’t recognize it.

Do you notice a massive increase in request latency (like 10x-50x) when using a CloudFlare tunnel vs connecting directly to your IP? I’ve experimented with it a few times, but it really negatively impacts QoS for me, especially with federated services (like Matrix) where there are lots of small requests.

High Resolution Timers aren’t even the most controversial HRT.

Yeah, that’s what I meant by “the manual”. Though I suppose the Linux community is the most likely to be flipping through a physical book to figure out their bash script.

“RTFM” (or similar comments like “it’s in the docs”) are just mean and useless without a reference.

Like, okay, superior user in the internet: If it’s in the manual/docs, what page? Do you have a link? Could you quote the relevant section?

Often people ask because they couldn’t find the answer in the docs. Simply pointing them at the answer is infinitely better than “lol the answer is in there somewhere”

See also: “Let me Google that for you…” Like mf Google brought me to this thread!

I can’t count the number of times I swear I read every man page and I can’t figure out how to structure my arguments–especially when they are nested or conditional.

I especially wish more man pages had common examples. Sometimes an example can say more than a paragraph of explanation.

Nice! These are all great changes… especially the new profile edit consolidation.

Yeah, it’s frustrating on both ends.

Readers and viewers of art are increasingly skeptical because of all the intentionally deceptive content flooding the zone.

Meanwhile, the humans actually making new things get drowned out by the slop and accused of using AI when they finally do surface.

They created BS machines that made everyone more distrustful of real human experience.

Yeah, it sucks because I kind of like emojis, but now I feel like I can’t use them because people will think my docs are AI generated.

I can already collect and organize bookmarks very easily in every browser. Other than a prettier UI, I’m not sure how this is functionally different. Am I missing something?

2027 = The Year of the RISC-V Desktop?

I see a lot of people freaking out about this, but adding this as an optional field was the right call.

This way, distros can choose for themselves whether or not they want to use it during account creation.

Whipper snappers… my birthday on Steam is Jan 1st, 1900.

To be clear, I still think the law is dumb and poorly thought-out, but not because it increases surveillance or compromises privacy. It’s just so ridiculously broad and completely ignores the fact that majority of internet queries are server-to-server and aren’t even seen by any user.

What I really don’t get is why there’s no specification of content sensitivity. Isn’t that the entire point of this? Like if the software never accesses any age-restricted data, then it should be categorically excluded from this requirement.

It really feels like the writers of this law never considered the fact that “software” means anything beyond apps from iOS or Android.

Yeah this is a way better alternative and no more invasive than a “I’m over 18” checkbox, it’s just done once on a OS user account rather than on every site.

I think all the age verification bullshit happening elsewhere is making people jump to angry conclusions rather than actually read the law.

EDIT: JFC the straw man arguments on this one are insane. I feel like people are intentionally misunderstanding how this functionality works because they’ve decided to be mad about it in advance.

Yeah, I only didn’t mention this because it’s theoretically possible for Tailscale to discontinue support for that and break compatibility in the clients if they decided they want you using their stuff.

There are self-hosted overlay networks. They may be harder to set up, but you prevent your infrastructure from being reliant on the ticking timebomb that is VC money. I’ve heard about:

• Nebula
• Netbird

But I’m sure there are others.

It’s no secret to regular readers of this newsletter that I’m still an avid Plex user. Despite the numerous privacy concerns, price increases, and recent (confusing) primary domain redirect from plex.tv to watch.plex.tv, I still find the transition to Jellyfin a hard sell given its fragmentation and smattering of third-party clients that are all good* but not really great (oh, and hello to the Lemmy readers who always roast me for this take)*.

Alright, I’ll spare you then. <3

This is a seriously cool plugin though, and I legitimately loved Plexamp. Plex’s decent really sucks for this community.