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- on Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
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on Packet Loss Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6d ago
Get an older version. The new one sucks ass even on windows. The older versions tend to crash every once in a while, but apart from that, they’re solid on wine and windows, with x11 and wayland. Just save every 5 minutes.
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on Packet Loss Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026
There should be an NSFW tag exclusively for Cisco Packet Tracer.
Call it CPTSD tag and I’m sold.
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on It's cruel to give them that level of entertainment and then snatch it away in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Still has charge on the battery
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on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Great Again?
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I used Kagi a bit before reading that article, and it was definitely better than Google (tho, at this point, it’s a low bar).
I have found Qwant to be equally good. But beware, it also has AI stuff. I really wish there was a real no-nonsense search engine without any AI in it, that just worked.
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Their leadership, business model and finances are sketchy, and the AI stuff being opt-in is a byproduct of their marketing. They are an AI company, and their product is an AI. Kagi Search was just a stepping stone to reach their goal.
This is a nice read on Kagi: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
The irony of Kagi, a for profit AI company, doing this
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on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I never had an issue with a GTX 1660 Ti on Arch. It’s been 5 years.
Older cards (in my case, the 970 M iirc) are slightly more annoying because Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore. So you can’t just install the generic, up to date, Nvidia driver package. You have to use Nvidia’s website to find the latest driver that supported them, and then install that one through your distro’s package manager.
Afaik, Nvidia supports all cards from the 16xx series upwards in their driver, as of right now.
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on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
So tired of keeping like 10 different ethernet dongles, 5 of one model and 5 of another, because half of the new laptops can’t even connect to the internet with the windows install ISO due to lack of drivers.
Sometimes one of those 2 models will also refuse to work with the windows ISO, so ig fuck you if you’re trying to install windows on more than 5 computers at the same time.
Oh and of course you still need to do the bypass even if you don’t have drivers for the network card. Ig also fuck you too if you don’t know about it, because you’re never gonna install windows on that laptop.
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on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I work as a sysadmin (luckily I work mostly with Linux). We have lots of tools for windows server setup on our company, and for most deployments, we have templates and checklists to deploy as quickly as possible.
It still takes at least 2 hours to deploy windows server from a checkpoint, and that’s skipping all the initial installation. Most of that time is spent updating, debloating, and setting the most basic stuff up.
It takes me less time to set up a Linux server from scratch, without any checkpoints, than it takes my coworkers to set up a windows server for the 9999th time, with a decade worth of tools.
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on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
OpenVPN in TCP mode wrapped around Stunnel. That’s the thing that works.
I have it set up to bypass VPN restrictions in some networks, but it also serves to bypass a lot more stuff if you know what you’re doing.
DPI will only see TLS traffic, and assume it’s HTTP. You can even try to fool it by modifying the packet headers, so dumb enough DPI will think you’re connecting to the site you choose.
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on The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Management is obsessed with the cloud and “serverless”, because it’s cheaper short-term, and they don’t have to care about eventualities like hardware breaking.
Long-term, it would be far cheaper and way more secure to host locally, especially for data storage.
But we all know long-term thinking is something that management can’t do. And of course, the PR doesn’t help at all.
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on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
I also had a machine that would randomly crash on Windows, but not on Linux.
I’m pretty sure it was some sort of hardware failure, as it also sometimes failed to boot Linux. But if it booted Linux, it would be stable until I shut it down.
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on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Back when I used Windows, many years ago, I used to have the setting that drew a ring around the cursor when you pressed ctrl. It was annoying when you used ctrl for anything else, and it was also visually ugly. You also had to remember about it when you lost the mouse, which is more difficult than it sounds like.
Needless to say, I love this feature from KDE. Not only is it way more intuitive to use and more unlikely to accidentally happen, but it also looks way better. And the fact that it keeps growing indefinitely is such a nice and fun addition.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
At a lower efficiency than before, and a lot of stuff now won’t get blocked because of the limit in definitions.
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on How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
I can’t tell you about the text, but the whole site is vibe coded. The CSS, the js, everything. Which doesn’t really inspire much confidence on the text, especially as it’s explaining how to bypass the claude detector.
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on You have lost CPU time privileges in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
It isn’t.
On Linux, the OOM generally weighs 2 things, and based on those, starts killing processes until the system dies or goes back to life.
The 2 things it weighs are memory footprint and how recent the process is.
The reasoning is that, by killing a recently spawned process that is hogging a lot of memory, you will probably kill an unruly app that a user started and not a critical system component. Even in the case of servers with databases that use hundreds of GB of memory, it should in theory not kill them if there’s a recent process that has quickly hogged a lot of ram.
Of course, it can still be a bit of a hit or miss (after all, it’s a last resource before crashing, and you can’t afford much complexity). But for the most part, it works well enough.
Edit: I actually looked at the code. It doesn’t check if the process is recent. I don’t know where I read that it did. Maybe it was the OOM code for something else.
There are still ways to mark an app as non oom killable, like a critical DB process. But it needs to be manually done.
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
I guess it may be smaller updates like .NET and some drivers. .NET and most of the other smaller updates shouldn’t even need restarting, they just eat your CPU and take ages because Microsoft is silently compiling them in the background on your computer.
Nowadays, Microsoft Defender’s definitions are, for some reason, also shipped through Microsoft Update. You can get those daily or every few days, but they’re fast and won’t affect your system in any way.
Drivers usually shouldn’t be common after installing the first batch, so I doubt you’d get a lot of those in 1.5 months.
Indeed, Microsoft only ships system updates on patch tuesday, the second tuesday of the month.
So this user could only have had a max of 2 system updates, 1-2 driver updates maybe (unlikely, though), and then possibly another 1-2 .NET updates. If the user has Defender activated, add a definitions update. Keep in mind that this is basically worst case scenario. Those updates should never cause issues, be that slow, or require 3 reboots.
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
When something is broken on windows, you may find a Microsoft Forum post with all dead links telling you to check an option in settings that is no longer there, and then run
chkdsk.Of course, none of those are gonna work, and you’ll just have to learn to live with whatever is broken.
The funniest thing about this is that Apple used the same excuse to defend parts locking. And every other company that limited the user’s right to repair and upgrade their purchased products.
It’s all BS. A company cares only about money, and they couldn’t care less about your product performing slightly less than optimally, if it ever does. Apple did it for profit, car manufacturers did it for profit, John Deere did it for profit and Raspberry Pi did it for profit.