Re: OK...So package managers suck....but.....
They run on any distro that has is built into systemd.
Fixed that for you. I might be a year or two premature, but not excessively so...
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Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store
Saturday 11th November 2023 04:45 GMT 
Liam: It's about making stuff easier, for maintainers and for users, at the cost of some disk space.
That, on the face of it, is not a bad thing.
In a world where storage space is way cheaper per byte, and more capacious - and security is far more of a headache - than in *nix's formative decades, this does seem to be a reasonable trade-off, I'll semi-grudgingly agree.
Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him
Thursday 9th November 2023 10:06 GMT
Re: It Happened Decades Ago ...
Similar and from 80 years ago…
https://magazine.punch.co.uk/image/I0000oS38YV8ZmfY
(Sadly, Punch have taken to putting an obnoxious watermark over their archived cartoons now - I have the unmarked version saved locally, but this is the only online one I could find with a cursory search from my phone)
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC
Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car
Thursday 9th November 2023 04:00 GMT
Well, I seem to recall reading an interview with Andy Green a few years ago, and him saying that there's a fair bit more to it than that. Less of it is computer-automated than you might think. The driver has to be closely monitoring the throttle and the airflow surfaces, lest the vehicle go airborne, at which point he's (briefly) not a driver but a pilot.
Oh and even the "flat" surfaces they're planning to use aren't really "flat" to a metal-wheeled vehicle travelling at 1000mph. Even a small pebble could unsettle the car.
Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Monday 6th November 2023 17:45 GMT
Just set up a PiHole on your LAN and configure your router to point to it as the local DNS server when handing out DHCP leases. Job done, your wife will see fewer ads and you won’t have to touch her machine - well, unless her browser has DNS-over-HTTPS enabled (AKA Cloudflare’s end-run around PiHole) :)
OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source
Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool
Friday 3rd November 2023 17:24 GMT
One of my favourite things about hanging out on these forums, is learning about new software that's escaped my notice.
Thanks for the pointer to OpenMediaVault - I have to build a NAS for a friend soon and that might just be the ticket. Was going to use Linux Mint, but OMV looks like it'll require him to do less tinkering with the oily bits.
Have a pint.
Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs
UK data watchdog fines three text spammers for flouting electronic marketing rules
Friday 3rd November 2023 15:37 GMT
Yeah, that’ll learn ‘em.
The companies named in the article will promptly pay up and move into more virtuous business models.
They absolutely won’t just declare bankruptcy and sell all their assets & customer lists for a nominal sum to newly-registered, almost-identically named companies that coincidentally share the same principal directors. No way.
Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight
Thursday 2nd November 2023 21:48 GMT 
As a frequent Amazon customer...
...I'm shocked, shocked! by this... and knowing the robust precedents set by previous antitrust cases, I look forward to my compensation of a $0.50 money-off voucher for XYWHUYR-brand Chinese melamine-enhanced parakeet feed when the case grinds to its eventual conclusion.
As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock
Wednesday 1st November 2023 21:32 GMT
Cylinder? From space, you say? Can’t believe I’m the only one to think of this…
“Suddenly the top of the cylinder began moving, rotating, unscrewing. Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape. He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal…”
Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads
Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting
Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access
Russia hustles to fill impending void left by the ISS
Sunday 29th October 2023 22:00 GMT
Re: Dreams are free
>a washing machine processor sounds pretty adequate.
The first space vessel ever that orbits the Earth thirty times in one direction, then stops abruptly and orbits three times in the other direction, then sits motionless in LEO for ten minutes whirring, and then finally plays a jaunty little tune and unlocks the capsule door.
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity
Thursday 26th October 2023 18:45 GMT
We should all thank Musk.
No, really.
Given that social media in general - and Twitter in particular - is a plague on society, good manners, reasonable debate and civility… his selfless efforts to turn it into an x social-network (see what I did there?) must be applauded.
Can we persuade him, and his investor backers who clearly hate having so much money, to buy Facebook next and burn that to the ground, too?
Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'
Google - yes, that Google - testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy
Tuesday 24th October 2023 22:31 GMT
Re: Pardon my lack of trust
As 2 people at time of writing this have downvoted you but no-one's bothered to explain... no, this isn't HTTPS, which is entirely different.
HTTPS is encryption of the traffic between your endpoint and the website you're viewing.
DoH, by contrast, is sending all your DNS requests over HTTPS to a "trusted" DNS provider, instead of in plaintext to your ISP's own DNS servers.
The touted advantage is that a) your ISP doesn't get to see which site addresses you're looking up, and b) your DNS queries can't be MITM'ed.
The entirely accidental advantage - albeit not for you, the end-user - is that whoever you've chosen as your "trusted" DNS provider now gets all your DNS lookup traffic instead. Cloudflare (and Google, I believe but I might be wrong - see disclaimer below) have, out of the goodness of their hearts, been early movers for providing DoH services.
In many markets, Firefox auto-enables DoH out of the box and routes everything to Cloudflare - a choice I don't agree with, but YMMV.
(If there are gaps in the above explanation, full disclosure - I have never enabled DoH or indeed checked out alternative providers, and my preferred browser is Firefox.)
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off
It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries
Sunday 22nd October 2023 18:13 GMT
Re: They're still around?
Well, there was a related and rather amusing typo on the Telegraph website yesterday… Martin Scorsese’s best films “from Taxi Driver to Casio”.
They corrected it eventually to Casino, but for a while there I did wonder if he’d done a gritty cinema verité documentary about the ‘80s electronics industry, starring Joe Pesci as a small calculator…
Look ma, no fans: Mini PC boasts slimline solid-state active cooling system
Saturday 21st October 2023 01:27 GMT
Re: is that good?
1080p is not 4K!
[Citation Needed] :)
Fair point. I read the initial comment as "can't do 1080p or 4K".
So to ensure that I wasn't deluded, I've just played a chunk of a 4K H.265 file from the LAN (Bohemian Rhapsody, FWIW) and decode is silky smooth, with VLC hovering at about 1.5% of the CPU according to Task Manager. CoreTemp reports all 4 cores hovering around 53-57C.
My point remains. There are fanless solutions for Intel, but you have to be somewhat discerning.
Friday 20th October 2023 22:28 GMT
Re: is that good?
>Somehow Intel could not 4k deliver video decoding performance in the power envelope required for fanless build.
Counterpoint - I have here an 8th-gen NUC8I5INH, which is one of their Compute Element modules with a Core i7-8665U 15 watt CPU. It's installed in a NUC Rugged Chassis (CMCR1ABC), which is a fanless aluminium case about the size of a hardback book.
Currently as I type this it's playing a 1080p, 10-bit color H.265 MKV file from the LAN, and VLC is taking about 0.6-0.7% of the total CPU - ironically, Windows Update, this being a Win11 box - is hogging 25%+!
CoreTemp reports the 4 physical cores at between 85-95°, with no sign of throttling.
OK, so... in the time it took me to compose this comment my wife came in for a long chinwag, and meanwhile, Windows Update finished - core temps have gone back down to 57° or so.
Echoing your use case I've just played a 1080p Youtube video; Firefox isn't terribly efficient for that, but even so, the process' CPU load maxed out at 22%, and again, no overheating.
So there are fanless Intel solutions out there, but I'll be the first to admit that this is not a common solution - it's a commercial/industrial system, aimed at embedded, PoS, and digital signage applications - not home theatre.
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
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