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PIA

They lost me as a customer when they got rid of port forwarding, which is nice to have on the high seas

Stories like this worry me- I've got a fair amount of stuff connected to Google and I'm afraid one day I'll sneeze in the wrong direction and end up disabled and no way to talk to anyone about it (I used to live in the SFBA and know a Googler but he's gone now).

> COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177

It may be sick, but someone's got a sense of humor over there :)

Ditto for me on every one of the ~20 places I've logged in starting in ~2017

Pressure from rights holders or law enforcement?

Amazon has sold ~250M Fire Sticks; there's just no way most of 'em aren't used by regular people as vanilla FSs

"Basically the main reason"?

I can count among my friends and family some 50 Fire Sticks, and we're all happy with them, as they do what they say on the box. We Tech folks (and some more than others) live in a bubble, but the other 99% of the users couldn't care less about this.

> You really only need dirty_ratio/bytes and dirty_background_ratio/bytes set to something lower than default.

The vm.swappiness=1 was very necessary for me as well, and made as much difference as the dirties you'd mentioned.

I usually run Linus' master kernels (as I look for regressions in certain subsystems) and I know there's been some recent changes to the MM subsystem so this may explain some of the necessity for me.

> Even something as simple as alt-tabbing lagged for seconds on an overpowered machine.

This may not be KDE's fault; I tracked these kinds of issues down to some bad tunable defaults.

I came up with this:

    ----
    cat /etc/sysctl.d/50-usb-responsiveness.conf
    #
    # Attempt to keep large USB transfers from locking the system (kswapd0)
    #
    vm.swappiness = 1
    vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
    vm.dirty_ratio = 5
    vm.extfrag_threshold = 1000
    vm.compaction_proactiveness = 0
    vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 200
    # FIXME? 64K too big?
    vm.page-cluster = 16
    ----

I have fast everything, NVMe SSD onboard and others in Thunderbolt 4 enclosures and 32GB of RAM on my 12th-Gen i7 with 20 (6+14) cores; there should have been no reason for any stuttering and/or Alt-Tab slowness while doing large file copies and finally got fed up, did some research and experimentation and use the above and it's not happened since.

YMMV, but it's worth a try.

(Oh, and on-topic, I've had to try Wayland (vs. X11) on my KDE desktop 'cause it seems to handle switching monitors when I go from home to work better; jury's still out if I'm keeping it)

Couldn't care less, honestly. That being said, I don't use any LLM for coding and it'll be a long time before I do.

I love(d) it and used it every time I'd go to WF, but TBF I heard about it by "accident" (some small ad somewhere, or maybe it was in the Amazon app?) ... I got the impression Amazon just didn't want to push it much.

Aw ... it was really nice at Whole Paycheck, I'm going to miss it.

Any guesses as to why? Unlike Google Maps Timeline data being subpoenaed, I can't see what LE could use with this (since they have other ways to determine you were at a store), so that can't(?) be the reason why.

Oh wait- was this available in the EU?

> I grew up drinking the 'American culture ...'

> misspells "Kool-Aid"

... excuse me while I Nope! TF out

> in the era of the most cutting edge breakthroughs in video

... and what are those?

Likewise with decorative hedges and other gardenwork; your post brought to mind this one hotel I stay regularly where a hedge is high enough and close enough to the exit that you have to nearly pull into the street to see if there's oncoming cars. I've mentioned to the FD that it's gonna get someone hurt one day, yet they've done nothing about it for years now.

> IF they're proven to be dangerous to others if they access the internet

... which means what? They espouse ideas "you" don't like?

This. Don't get your downvotes, either. Sometimes you just wanna get something done, and hell, it's usually quiet AF on the weekends in-office, too.

> Has anybody ever actually destroyed a chip with static electricity?

Piling on, but yes, you very well may have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRqj9FhgcE

RTFA

"Fuck you, Shoresy!"

I have Wireguard (and OpenVPN off TCP/UDP 443 as backup) on a router connected to residential symmetric 1G fiber. Among the many uses for that means I can watch the NFL (et al.) when abroad just as if I were home; there's WG/OPVN clients for the FireSticks I carry when travelling.

It seems as it would average out, but I wonder if the equation between "<some %age of> ~2500 people for a 7-14 days" vs. "<some %age of> ~175 people for 2-5 hours" incurs more "costs" for the former?

... and even if you're just on vacation it's not like you're doing nothing else but being online, OP ...

I've been a "Sabbath Goy" a couple of times for some of my friends :)

It's been down there waiting!

> IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE

Maybe add the words "then get one" after "Detector"?

I'm mostly joking, but I can see a non-native-English speaker misunderstanding you

... and I'd heard the variation: Another inmate calls out "36!" which brings out raucous laughter. The new inmate asks why that one got such a great response, to be told "We haven't heard that one before!"

FWIW, 5 years ago a Gigabit PA pair could only get ~200Mbit/sec between two rooms in the same house, and even that was finicky.

Maybe the tech has improved since then, but I suspect not.

> Visual inspection of the carcass revealed that the liver ... and reproductive organs were missing

There's a joke in there somewhere