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  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • I'm almost exactly in the same boat, except even at my desk I want wireless. I often turn my camera off and get up to make coffee or go pee in big meetings. It's great. Even when I'm presenting things, it's usually only at a specific time, and I can still talk when I'm away from my desk (flip-to-mute microphones are great.)

    I have several sets of wired headphones I used to love. I'd buy several sets at once so I already had a replacement when they inevitably broke But I literally can't remember the last time I used a pair of wired headphones. I only miss 3.5mm on my phone for plugging into my car's aux port.

  • CtrlAssist v0.4.0: Controller Assist for gaming on Linux 🎮🤝

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  • Thanks for making this. I haven't tried it yet, but I think this would be great for playing a lot of more complex games cooperatively with my kiddos, like effectively adding back the "split roles" multiplayer of Cook, Serve, Delicious 1 to later titles in the series (one player controlling tickets, the other controlling cooking.)

  • Was not able to find programming_horror

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  • I don't think all Boomers are bad. Lots care about the climate, and (sadly) many younger people don't care about the climate, too. Hence why I clarified:

    a Boomer who doesn't give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse.

    The reason it matters they're a Boomer is because anyone younger is going to be facing the reality of climate change regardless of what they care about.

  • Was not able to find programming_horror

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  • I think you missed the bit that makes this sort of maybe make a tiny lick of sense: you use this to write code that you evaluate against tests, and put a maximum iterations counter in to make sure it doesn't go infinite.

    Yes, this is still going to melt the planet just a little bit faster every time it's used. Yes, it's most likely to completely fail and, even in cases where it eventually succeeds, it would likely have been orders of magnitude more compute efficient to vibe code it the usual way of actually, like, vibing the code. (Is that what re-prompting is called for vibe coding?)

    But it could maybe, kinda, sometimes work. If you squint your eyes. And you're a Boomer who doesn't give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse.

  • What is causing these layer lines? I'm assuming it has something to do with the curved part, as it starts around the same height as them. Is there a way I can avoid these?

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  • It's something like 5× stronger in the direction it prints than across layers, with great adhesion. It's even worse if your adhesion is lower.

  • technical debt

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  • Fuck Teams. The buggiest, most crash prone mess I've even been forced to use. They keep bolting on new, unnecessary "features" that only selectively work on some of their "supported" platforms.

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  • I mean, it sort of is, but only for the specific question of asking for agreement with the preceding statement.

    "This weather, eh?""The Leafs actually have a chance this year, eh?"

    But not like "What's your favourite colour, eh?" (Unless, maybe, it's in the context where it's obvious, like someone decked out head-to-toe in pink.)

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • I've copied and pasted other people's Bookmarklets before. ;)

    I've had a couple decades of eclectic, self-directed tech learning. There's no money for technology in education, so I'm always kludging things together, and there's nobody at any school I've ever worked at who can teach me much, so I need to figure shit out myself.

    It'd have been nice to be a junior to a greybeard for a few years, but I've made it work.

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • I know enough to parse the code, especially with the comments. It was a logical algorithm, it worked, and it was just for reformatting a page to print cleanly, so there was basically no risk if it didn't work. I code for work, I just don't know JavaScript syntax or functions.

    Anyway, I was impressed it actually worked. I'm an AI skeptic, which is why I thought it was noteworthy to get well documented, clean, functional code from vibe coding—even in such a trivial context as swapping a head tag and removing script tags.

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • I actually got really clean, well commented code from Copilot earlier this week.

    I have no experience with JavaScript to speak of, but realized a Bookmarklet would be a perfect solution for reformatting a particular web app for printing. I already had a head replacement with CSS to do all the formatting, and I was using a RegEx to strip all script tags.

    Anyway, I asked Copilot to write the Bookmarklet to replace the header, with full contents explaining the training behind the code, and an explanation of how the script functions below. When I got an error, I asked if to fix the error and or identified that Bookmarklets work better as single lines, so it fixed it. Then I added the requirement about replacing scripts, and it did that too, but for commented and a clean one-line version.

    The one-live versions even up getting truncated, so I need to copy/paste from earlier (correct) endings, but otherwise it was an incredibly smooth experience.

    I spent longer writing the guide for how to use it than the time it took to vibe code it and test it. I was super impressed.

    (Granted, that's a pretty easy coding task...)

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  • Indoor clean farms are pesticide free. Currently only economical for some crops, of course, but likely a good option in the long run for sustainable food production in general without using up all our land.

  • Joined the club!

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  • Are you running older hardware? Something Debian- or Fedora-based, or even "vanilla" Arch Linux might be more stable for you.

    Regardless, that sucks. CachyOS has been great for me, as my first Linux distro install (just a few months ago) since my previous attempt around ~2007.

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • Sure, but OP was specifically running into issues with Bazzite and needed to tinker to get things working. Ironically, CachyOS likely would not have needed any tinkering in OP's case because updates in CachyOS but absent from Bazzite likely contained the fixes.

    OP also mentioned elsewhere wanting to self-host some services—also a task likely to be easier in CachyOS than in Bazzite. Wanting to self-host also implies that OP can likely handle the light configuration that's needed in CachyOS.

    I think "unless they're happy to reformat every other week" is unnecessarily pessimistic, too. With brtfs (the CachyOS default), recovery is quick and relatively easy. It's also very unlikely to ever be an issue; CachyOS is very unlikely to break, unless OP really messes things up. Updates almost always "just work" in Arch Linux.

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • Probably not a helpful suggestion, but CachyOS might be a better fit for you.

    Bazzite is an immutable distribution. This means that most things on the system are static between major Bazzite versions, at which time everything updates at once. This can be great; for someone who doesn't want to tinker, or for someone who's worried about breaking things—it's very hard to break.

    On the other hand, it also means that everything is running on an older version, with bugs that have been fixed in newer builds.

    CachyOS is Arch-based. You can configure everything in the system, and can update all your packages to the most recent versions as soon as updates are compiled in the CachyOS repo. The CachyOS repos are fairly extensive, but you can also install most other things from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The AUR is a bit of a "Wild West" where packages may not install or work dependably, but in most cases they work great... albeit sometimes with a bit of tinkering required.

    Your example of getting a "Deck Verified" game to run is what prompted this for me; CachyOS comes pre-installed with 2 versions of Steam (native and non-native), a bunch of versions of Proton (Valve's stable/experimental, GE, and I think more?), Heroic launcher, and Lutris launcher. So, you have like 8 different configurations to try just from toggling things that are pre-installed, lol. I haven't had a game not work for me yet.

    You also mention self hosting; in CachyOS you can install Docker or Podman from the CachyOS repos and then run a Docker image. They almost always "just work" without any tinkering needed, so you can jump right into setting up your configuration/settings. Or, if your prefer a more integrated solution, just about everything will be in the CachyOS repos or the AUR (but expect to put more work into it.)

    Bazzite might be holding you back a bit, and it sounds like you might not need the "safety" of an immutable distro, while its limitations might be getting in your way.

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  • Except it's not so simple. Research consistently shows that even people who believe themselves not to be prejudiced act differently based on prejudice. Having a "black" name, BIPOC, a woman, disabled, or any other "minority" affects actions and attitudes subliminally.

    Who do you ask a question to (the person pushing the wheelchair, or the person in the wheelchair?), sit next to on public transit (the black guy or the white woman?), friend's teenager you ask to babysit/house-sit (the white girl or the black guy?), hire to do your gardening (the Hispanic man or the black woman?), question do you take first after your work presentation (white man or Indigenous woman?), smile at politely as you pass on the street (the unhoused?), etc.

    For someone who acknowledges they are racist, these biases run deep, and I imagine it must be mentally taxing to constantly run a filter on your actions you notice, let alone all your unconscious/automatic reactions.

    As someone who's a "woke" anti-racist, I find it challenging to even notice my biases, let alone change my actions. (When's the last time you made eye contact and smiled at an unhoused person automatically, without noticing you're doing it? I do so, but it's a conscious action for me, not automatic.)

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • Most disable Windows Updates for that reason, afaik? You can manually patch security updates without getting automatic updates, I think.

    I don't really care about Windows Updates for my use case since it's just a VM and I know how to prevent most virus vectors anyway, but yes; there are major trade-offs to "debloating" Windows.

    In the longer term, I want to try getting all my must-have apps for work running in browser apps or compatibility layers so I can just stay in Linux.

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • It might be the version of Windows 11 you have installed, too. Enterprise has no ads (or can be configured not to have ads, at least). Same for Professional, I think?

    You can also use a post-install "Playbook" to rip all the adware and spyware out of Windows. I used ReviOS in my Windows 11 VM and it works well for me, but I'm guessing that's not what you've done since you'd know about it, lol.

    I'm super happy with my switch to CachyOS. Canadian laws roughly mirror US laws, so it's a breath of fresh air to not need to deal with Microsoft's bullshit (well, outside of the VM I need for work, anyway.)

  • You can shove that lightsaber deep up in your Death Star.

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  • Same. 8 was such a ridiculous clusterfuck of a film that I lost all interest in seeing 9.

  • You can shove that lightsaber deep up in your Death Star.

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  • Disney Star Wars is really in love with the fact that its Star Wars, to the point that it feels like a child smashing their toys together

    Mood.

    In a similar vein, I've been calling anything post-buyout as "Disney fanfiction". Some fanfiction is great! But it's not canon.