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JustEnoughDucks

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  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • I am split on this.

    If you allow it, then you get eevblog sort of posts where there are 1000+ comments over 5 years in 50 pages that switch topics so regularly that every 2-5 pages should be entirely seperate posts and reading them because of wanting to find information on the title topic is completely useless.

    On the other hand, sometimes an issue will become stale and someone will comment with an update or solution to a problem and get chastised for "necroing" and sometimes their comment with a solution deleted.

  • Bottles 60.0 Launches with Native Wayland Support

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  • Similar goal, different function.

    There aren't install scripts like lutris, which makes it harder, once in a while, to install certain games that might need a modification.

    What makes it special is that it puts each program in a "container" (hence the name) that is sandboxed from your system. E.g. if you were trying to run a program infected with malware, it would have a very hard time trying to infect the rest of your system, where with lutris and Heroic, that separation doesn't exist so it would have full access.

    It is less targeted at games and more at general programs.

    That is about it. The interface is much worse than lutris or heroic, but it is still a useful program.

  • Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

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  • As someone who is not a great coder. I can help in cases of double checking in addition to learning.

    I made a USB HID report & device descriptor, it works fine everywhere except it causes KDE settings Game Controller menu to segfault when identifying USB devices.

    I know there is a 99% chance that it is due to my descriptor being wrong. AI found my mistake of carrying over the logical min/max number of bits to the report size and my logical minimum was 1 too small. Haven't had a chance to test yet, but maybe I saved the KDE maintainers annoyance of a false alarm bug report.

  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • Except not on most phones, just a small subset of old phones.

  • The Right Is Now Transvestigating Charlie Kirk and His Wife, Erika

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  • First they tried accusing her of running a child trafficking ring in Romania.

    But I guess then they figured out that probably made the Guardians Of Pedophiles party like her more.

  • Steam Frame (VR with Linux)

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  • What other people haven't quite touched on is that the in-built system certainly won't be powerful enough to run demanding VR games with good frame rates and resolution.

    I also have my doubts about the 6GHz WiFi connection being enough for it, I hope there is also a wired option.

    But it will be awesome to be able to do normal tasks like coding, writing, etc.. outside in the garden, as an example. I think for people that don't have a dedicated VR space, this could be awesome with 6GHz WiFi outside without needing base stations.

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  • But actual results and bugs have very little to do with corporate firings or open positions, as 30 years of history show us.

    If corporations "think" they can fire people, with AI as an excuse, and put that cost in their pockets, they will do it. We are already seeing it in the US tech-bro sphere.

    Companies will tank themselves in the medium-long term to make short term profits. Which I think is the "dev market" that OP is talking about. It shouldn't affect the market, but it will because you have MBAs making technical decisions. I could be wrong, but the tech market is very predictable as far as behavior. They will hire a skeleton crew and work them to burnout to fix the AI slop. (Tech industry needs unions now)

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.

    Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people's interests too!

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I peel carrots to give the peels to my dog because it is her favorite.

    I peel pumpkins/squash that aren't roasted, and potatoes if they will be fried (very different texture and they are unhealthy anyway), what other vegetables do people peel normally? I am coming up blank.

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  • Jokes on us, investors and shareholders are already doing that.

  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • It is funny because electric motors have nearly unlimited* torque depending on the kind. If you have thick enough power cables and winding conductors, you can just keep pushing it harder to get more torque.

    It is like the thing they are very good at, besides sound levels, double or triple the efficiency, low/no maintenance, simpler with less parts, no emissions, etc...

    Literally the only good thing about combustion engines are their fuel source energy density.

    I think the problem is that motorheads see the enshittification of the auto industry as a whole and just say it's because of electric motors because it happened right about the same time as EVs started coming out and try to push back on the wrong thing.

  • StackOverflow vs ChatGPT

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  • Yep. I have posted on stack overflow exactly 3 times. One time it was marked as duplicate and referenced to something that was not even the same topic. One time I had too much detail and debugging done for the classic knowitalls to come make a smartass remark and was completely ignored. The final time I got one comment, addressed it, and that person was never heard from again lol.

  • Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers

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  • What does you comment have to do with anything? He asked why delaware, I answered why delaware. Companies that are from europe still have to pay property taxes on american properties, worker-related taxes for their american workers, US health system taxes, income taxes for american declared income, etc... You don't just magically not have to have any sort of knowledge of any local laws when running an international business...

    Foreign companies must comply with local and state tax laws or risk facing tax compliance issues and be liable to penalties or even suspension of business operations.

    https://www.taxsamaritan.com/tax-article-blog/how-foreign-companies-pay-us-taxes-expats/

  • Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers

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  • The ton of US companies are registered in Delaware because it is the state for tax evasion.

  • What FOSS projects do y'all donate to?

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  • I was not earning enough to donate with our renovation to try to fund, then I was also unemployed for a period, but now I have a new job that pays around 300€ more net per month, so I think I can start donating and still pay for the house and renovation.

    • FreeCAD
    • KiCAD
    • immich
    • gadgetbridge
    • codeberg
    • KDE
    • Krita

    Some projects that I use a lot don't want donations (jellyfin, antennapod, HomeAssistant, etc...) though

  • How often do you update software on your servers?

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  • I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

    It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn't in there.

    I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn't auto-restart without my permission...

  • Do you actually read documentation, or just search it when you’re stuck?

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  • Yes, but I am also of the opinion that not one single acronym should be used without at least once in the section saying what the acronym is. Many many programing docs with say what am acronym is exactly once, somewhere in the docs, and then never again.

    Also, if there are more complex concepts that they use that they don't explain, a link to a good explanation of what it is (so one doesn't have to sift through mountains of crap to find out what the hell it does). Archwiki docs do this very well. Every page is literally full of links so you can almost always brush up on the concepts if you are unfamiliar.

    There seem to be 10 extremely low quality, badly written, low effort docs for every 1 good documentation center out there. It is hard to RTFM when the manual skips 90% of the library and gives an auto-generated api reference with no or cryptic explanations on parameters, for example.

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • But on this threat model? Why would it not be good?

    It has to physically accessed on the PCB itself from what I gather.

    There are 2 "threats" from what I see:

    • someone at the distribution facility pops it open and has the know how to install malware on it (very very unlikely)
    • someone breaks into your home unnoticed and has the time to carefully take apart your vacuum and upload pre-prepared malware instead of just sticking an IP camera somewhere. If this actually happens, the owner has much much bigger problems and the vacuum is the least of their worries.

    The homeowner is the other person that can access it and it is a big feature in that case.

  • Best Tool and Layout for Learning Touch Typing on Linux?

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  • I miss the Compose key so much on windows for my work computer