I love this font. I set my web browser to use it and prevent sites from choosing their own fonts. Some poorly-designed sites have layout issues without their preferred fonts but I don’t care. I do too much technical work to tolerate glyph ambiguity. I use the mono version in my terminal as well.
If anyone knows a similar font with serifs, I’d love to hear. I tried this on my e-reader but wound up reverting to serifs. It just didn’t feel right.
To add to this, it is literally impossible to capture 100% of wind power, even in theory, because that would mean bringing the air to a full stop, halting flow. The air must retain some of its energy to continue moving through the system. The theoretical maximum is a little under 60% according to Betz’s Law. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz’s_law
Let me put it this way: I audit open source software more than I audit closed source software.
My grandfather used to half-jokingly call them the CIA’s press wing.
There are two potential show-stoppers.
Field-specific apps that only run on windows. If you really need Adobe Creative Cloud or SolidWorks or something like that you might be out of luck. This is mostly true for apps that require GPU acceleration, which is difficult to rig up in a VM. You wouldn’t want to do that if it was a big part of your workload.
Mandatory spyware and rootkit DRM to prevent cheating with remote tests. Hopefully if they do such a thing they provide loaner hardware too. I’ve seen a lot of bullshit in my time but my experience is outdated, so I don’t know what’s common nowadays.
That actually sounds like a neat idea. I mean, it’s a privacy nightmare, but not much more than any other social media site.
I guess I’ll look into XFS and see if it’s suitable for my use cases (I know almost nothing about it), but this supports my opinion that BTRFS is an easy choice over EXT4 at least.
Edit: No snapshot support in XFS, so I’ll stick with BTRFS. My performance requirements are not that high on desktop. If I set up a high-performance server that would be another matter.
I was surprised to learn that F2FS has rather small maximum volume sizes. 16TB with 4K block sizes, 64TB with 16K block sizes. But your whole kernel needs to use 16K pages to use 16K F2FS blocks, which seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Either way, it’s so non-future-proof I’m not even going to think about it.
For context, Debian dropped support for 586 in Debian Stretch (9.0), release in 2017.
I have not done the legwork to compare this to other distros, but Debian generally supports older hardware than most other major mainstream desktop distros.
Kind of makes sense. It would be an addition to the lineup rather than a replacement like previous “T” series. It would just cannibalize sales.
Bummer, but probably the right move.
Mobile payment is the only major problem I’ve encountered. Fortunately, for me it’s just a nice-to-have, not a must-have.
I’ve heard that some banks have that feature within their own app, but I’ve never actually seen that. If anyone knows of specific banks that support that, please share! I suspect there’s no such thing in my country but who knows?
It ranges from “automatic” to “infuriating”.
If you have Secure Boot enabled, there are some hoops to jump through. Read the docs and follow the steps for DKMS.
Depending on your distro and your requirements, you might want to install the drivers manually from Nvidia rather than using older drivers from your distro.
If you need CUDA, god help you. Choose a distro that makes this easy and use containers to avoid dependency hell. Note that this is not any easier on Windows (at least not last I checked, which was a few years ago).
It’s an extra step in macOS 15. You need to go into System Settings now.
Used to just be able to use the contextual menu to open it and get an approval dialog.
Most Republicans don’t. Never have in my lifetime, honestly, but with how hard they fight these days against e.g. feeding the hungry and treating the sick, it’s more glaringly obvious than ever.
Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.
I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it’s still highly application-specific. I’ve seen great summarizers and I’ve seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla’s implementation is not as lazy as most others.
I’m actually using an atomic distro now (Bazzite). But that’s not why I chose it, and honestly I don’t think the advantages are significant.
There are some downsides that affect me on a regular basis, though.
I need to reboot more since every update requires it. That feels like going back in time 25 years.
I need to deal with the complexity of multiple distros with DistroBox to get the functionality I am accustomed to. I think that alone is proof that atomic distros are not quite ready for prime time.
The advantages elude me. Snapper or timeshift handle rollbacks just fine, as long as you use a modern filesystem like btrfs. So I haven’t worried about busted updates in years.
I’m quite happy with Bazzite, but I can’t point to anything good about it that is specific to immutable distros. I just don’t get it, really. I guess the advantages are more for the developers and maintainers than for end users.
The great thing about USB-C is that it’s so easy to charge anywhere. Get a power bank or two and you should be good to go.
recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?
There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, and a small mound of scientific research, suggesting that psychedelics can improve creativity even in the long term. Ask your doctor if LSD or psilocybin might help with your imagination deficit.
Ebooks.com has a ton of DRM-free ebooks. They have a whole DRM-free section, plus a search filter, and they clearly display all available formats before purchase. That’s my first stop for ebooks.
I don’t think there’s any simple answer to what’s beginner-friendly, because so much is hardware-dependent. They mentioned obscure laptop hardware, and at that point I wouldn’t even make a recommendation to someone beyond “see if any distros have a wiki page about that specific hardware, and search for forum threads about it”.
I’m sure there are cases when Arch is a lot easier than Mint. I’m not sure why they dismissed Fedora out of hand, though. What’s wrong with Fedora?
mpv still works.