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ffmpeg is the only program where I want to see visual no-code applied

But now I'm seeking a --chatgpt option similar to --help so I can navigate any man page.

I really don't understand how snaps can compete with flatpak. Flatseal makes this such a great experience. Ubuntu consistently backs the wrong horse.

Not kidding, the future should be Fedora Silverblue layered on top of Fedora CoreOS. Immutable Linux is the future, and extending existing images is how they should be layering for each Fedora... flavor :)

OP said so: The functionality of the account is usually partially or mostly available to an unverified email.

GNOME vs KDE race to HDR, VRR, and Wayland-only. :-) I am here for this.

Gnome is so much better than what I remember in 2005. I've also grown up a little, and my internet connection is much faster. Yes, XFCE plays nicer on lighter hardware but I'm very happy with less sprawling dependencies and the polish in Gnome today. Plus Gnome is the one most likely to have HDR, VRR, and such sooner. I'm just not looking forward to next year with Apple Vision Pro. We're finally getting well-rounded desktop environments on Linux, now we have to edge into "spatial computer" desktop environments. That will take 20 years to catch up to.

I'm still convinced every desktop environment should be a physics simulator - 2D or 3D. If you want consistent animations, changes of state, etc. you don't hardcode these into your application. Your application should exist in a physics simulator. Your windows are objects with layers. You're looking at a composited view of them. In 2023 we have the hardware and the know-how to run physics simulators as your desktop environments.

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I agree. You don't dispense vitriol, but people are way more willing to follow instructions from a perceived leader than we tend to believe. It's not worth splitting hairs to finaggle every word to sound delicate and kind. If you assume authority, and you aren't outright malevolent, you can usually tell someone:

I need you to take out the trash.

I mean like a checklist of security capabilities that are enabled/disabled, all grouped together in dmesg. That is cool though, it does help

That does look like it:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/n...

Looks like AMD has an equivalent:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-mktme-amd-memory-enc...

I wish there were a sort of checklist that prints out in dmesg saying "Your RAM is encrypted: (check) Your machine has these mitigations against cold-boot attacks: ...some list here... (check, check, check)"

In some contexts, I love how far we've come with secure boot, attestation, speculative execution mitigations, etc. but it's very difficult for the average Linux user to understand what they should expect for hardware security, and then work toward enabling all of it.

I love what Gnome did in the last year in Settings -> Device Security:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-GNOME-Device-Securit...

There's a detailed list here of what it's looking for:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=152705

Not a fan of all the bound-to-Intel technologies. I wish the concept of what's being secured were identified, then made available in dmesg or through some /sys or /proc interface.

As a naive outsider: Does RAM in 2023 encrypt all its contents?

Can we reliably "forget" the contents of what's in RAM by powering-off and letting some encryption key somewhere fade from a smaller, more volatile piece of memory? I'm curious what has been done to mitigate cold-boot attacks in RAM. What has changed in hardware? Are the keys to encrypt contents of RAM kept in the TPM or something?

He's like, the nicest guy :(

I don't know why your comment is being invalidated. Even in the best of cases when we try to protect wildlife preserves, there is undoubtedly collateral damage, and it ebbs over 40-90 years.

HBO Max to Max is the stupidest rebranding in terms of quality change. Twitter to X is the stupidest rebranding in terms of market valuation.

Thank you. When something works well you never look at its Settings/Options page again. Just took a gander and enabled. Best to your health ~

Although I use Firefox, I will dutifully mention that Brave seems to be the best of all of them. I initially thought Brave was about seeing ads and earning crypto. Turns out this is something you opt-into. It goes much further than ungoogled-chromium and adds a ton of patches to protect privacy.

Really I have the most trouble with getting a high-end GPU and high resolution screen on an AMD laptop. Framework is great, but doesn't offer what I'm looking for.

Need me some 2160p or 2400p @ 120hz OLED. I'm often in hotel after hotel after hotel and I don't have a docked setup. I just have the 1 laptop. Certainly not toting around a high-end portable monitor for this need, you can't find 120hz OLED anyway. Another poster linked how Intel influenced what OEMs were offering with AMD CPUs and I think that's exactly what's going on. When you go to Dell.com you can very easily see the many options for Intel-CPU'd laptops, and the handful or less of AMD options for screen configurations, hard drives, memory, or graphics cards. It's just very fishy.

We really signed our death sentence 20+ years ago. Californians won't have the attention span or the conviction to undo it with a phased or abrupt approach. We'll just have this unequal footing... forever

The limited availability of KiwiSDR's have made it crazy high priced. I've been trying to get one for a year now but they're up to like $600 on aliexpress. KiwiSDR2 has been announced, but that's a ways off from being sold.

WebSDR on other hardware is a better alternative-ish.

I had not heard of this strategy. Thanks for submitting it here :-) As a sidenote my father always said Prop 13 was never to protect seniors, but to help corporations buy massive plots they'd never have to pay adjusted taxes on in the future. Prop 13 locked in rates for more than just residents. I don't see an end to this without a phased elimination of prop 13, or an abrupt "now it's gone".

Anyone that can reliably and off-the-cuff do all of these can have complete control back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Compiler_optimization...

Otherwise we should trust compilers to know better.

You are right, but 2.8k is them again gimping AMD. We should be expecting 2160p minimum.

I feel like Rust finally broke the idea that programmers should be in complete control and completely conscious of everything the compiler is doing. It hasn't been that way in decades, compilers are freaking magic. But Rust undid a lot of that with borrowing. People became comfortable with the compiler knowing better than them. I just wish we could relax further: We should never be explicitly iterating forward over a collection unless we need this behavior for the algorithm. Things should be implicitly parallel. Etc. Give me rusty bash.

It pisses me off that AMD does either low/cheap laptops or extremely gaudy gaming machines. There's this high performance ultrabook niche that I wish they could make inroads to.

It is impossible to find: AMD + high resolution screen (3840x2400) + 120hz + OLED. In the last year even the Intel ones downgraded though, everyone went 3200x2000 @ 120hz OLED.

It's just frustrating when you're looking at upper-end AMD laptops and you cannot find 16GB of memory, or a decent screen. I'm glad they can dish out $500-$800 laptops, but I don't know why OEMs are always pairing the good components with Intel.

Sidenote: I thought Brave was BS because I had the first impression it was purely funded by watching ads and earning crypto. You opt-in to this, it's not the default. They actually have an extensive list of modifications to disconnect the Chromium base from Google and provide better security. I would be using it if not for Containers in Firefox.

I realized I didn't want to manage profiles, I just wanted separate containers by default. So that's why I use Temporary Containers. I don't maintain a "work profile" or "shopping profile", etc. When I need cookies or other data shared between tabs I will Ctrl + click to open a link in a new tab, with the same existing container.

Now, to organize tabs I use Tab Stash. I put things like 200+ YouTube music tabs in 1 group, 1-off projects in another, k8s stuff in another, job/career postings I need to complete in another, etc. Things that are temporary are shown under the default group at the top. This also allows me to keep most of my tabs "frozen" and out of memory/inactive while still keeping 400+ tabs open.

(Tab Stash is vertical tabs. Sidebery was the fastest, but Tab Stash has the grouping and inactive tab stuff I need)

The real gem of Firefox is Containers. No other browser has something like this. It's something critically missing from Chrome. I don't mean "Just create a private window", I mean being able to create 1 + infinitely many profiles/containers. Firefox has an extension called Temporary Containers that makes this better: Every new tab is a temporary, ephemeral container. By default I get isolation. I have it configured so if I hold Ctrl and click a link it will open in the same existing container (in a new tab). If I want sessions to "join" I can do that, but I get defense/privacy by default.

There's another called Proxy Containers so I can have separate tabs taking separate paths out.

There are many benefits to Chrome and it's dev tools, and I respect the Firefox mission more for all the shit Mozilla has done. But I'm bound to Firefox regardless of the pros and cons because it's the only browser that can do this.

I think I have something to offer you: Tomatoes are a sign of a court-boullion, or a 'couvillion'. https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2010/03/cajun-courtbouillon.ht...

Gumbo - as I was raised - doesn't include seafood. It's chicken and sausage. I do acknowledge 'seafood gumbo', and enjoy it heartily but when we teach it we teach the non-seafood gumbo first. I was told seafood in gumbo was a Northern influence, because we have other dishes like shrimp etoufee and jambalaya where seafood is well represented. I would say gumbo made with a roux is most common nowadays. I didn't know the file-based gumbo was probably how it originated based on seasonal availability. Sassafras grass, wow. :) I didn't know.

The only acceptable phone for me has been a Pixel phone, with GrapheneOS installed. I do wish the permission to install/uninstall were separated for something like this (I may be naive). I have everything installed to a work profile in Android (using the Shelter app). I can globally pause all work-profile apps. It's not the best, because when unpaused I'm not getting some notifications. I need to figure that out.

When I lived with family it felt normal. My family actually lied about my symptoms on a medical survey because my mom thought if I was diagnosed with AD?D I'd be unemployable somehow, like employers could get that in a background check?

Getting around other people made it more obvious I had some issues. Like, my partner and I will go on walks and they'll get annoyed if I point out an interesting animal or thing I'm seeing if they're in the middle of a topic. At work I always set reminders on my phone, sent emails to myself, and left stickies on my desktop. My supervisor pointed out he'd never seen someone do that as much as I do, and started requiring me to show up with a notepad in meetings. He'd tell me to do 2 things, and then have to ask me what the first thing I told him was as I left - then the notepad became necessary.

I worked to get onto an employee advocacy group at work and we do a lot of writing to identify systemic issues and propose solutions. I had 2 months to create a paper covering issues with hiring and on the last day - after I turned in the paper - I hit reply-all to add an additional thing that was critically important. Something I knew was an issue before I started the paper. For 2 months it was completely gone from my head. So I have whiteboards around my room, and I'm trying to move to using digital whiteboards to remember these things and organize them so I can even keep my supervisor and coworkers in the loop. "This is my MS Team Whiteboard for Monday stuff, buwhahaha"

I just remember being 25 and feeling like this didn't affect me so much. It still feels like I'm joking when I talk about it. ADD /sounds/ like a non-serious condition. But all these relationships have suffered because I'm forgetful and disorganized, and people are tired of my excuses. :-( I felt normal before.

2 days ago I had a big argument because my partner says I should be taking my medication. I usually don't take it on the weekends, because I shouldn't need to "focus" then, right? I hate that the meds for ADD are addictive, and sometimes it works when I need it - other times it kicks in a day later and it feels like a double-dose. That scares me.

I never felt disabled until I got a significant other who wasn't as familiar with my ADHD symptoms. When we get up to go do an errand I tend to execute my todo list very quickly thinking I will lose the opportunity. I'll do dishes, put in laundry, clear away trash, send emails, pay bills, schedule appointments, etc. All the things I should have been doing in the hours before we do the errand. It's become very clear to me how much this frustrates my partner while they're waiting for me by the door to get this stuff done. They can't get me out of the house sooner because I'll just say "just one more minute!" and "almost done..." over and over. I work from home, so my partner will get frustrated if I work past the end of my day. Computers/technology is the one area I can focus very well, so I might dig into something interesting for hours. Except then I've infringed on the time we have to be together (my partner).

When I was living with family they were used to this stuff, and just let me be if I was obsessed with something. They let me satisfy those last-minute compulsions where I procrastinated and was unable to execute on my todo list earlier. etc etc.

I thought I had light ADHD but it effects my relationship, friends, and work responsibilities so much. I hate that I do everything at the last minute, with only a suitable stress to make my thoughts order themselves. And it appears entirely un-ordered when I'm doing x-y-z quickly.

Why couldn't I do it all earlier?