KiranWells

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just going to ask this just in case: have you tried doing a full update and reboot? If you updated and have not rebooted, sometimes drivers get messed up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you had any luck with hibernation with a BTRFS swapfile? My computer still does not start from hibernation, and I am not sure why, even though I followed the Arch wiki to set it up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My computer was taking too long to start up, which I interpreted as failing to boot, but in hindsight was probably just my hard drive being slow. So, I booted into recovery mode, and ran an update. At one point, apt said "there are unnecessary packages" and would I like to remove them? I figured that apt knew better than I did (after all, maybe a package dropped a dependency), so I said yes.

It was after I noticed the very large number of packages that I suspected I messed up. Turns out, apt uninstalled the entire desktop environment, and network manager, so I had to boot into a USB drive with Network Manager installed, chroot into my main drive, and reinstall plasma. As a bonus, I think I missed the main group for the plasma desktop and only installed only most of it, so some of my extensions just didn't work anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The link they use is working for me; what is the code you are using to fetch the data?

Also, dbg!() is a very useful macro for inspecting state. Might help see what is going on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That link seems broken (the date is wrong). This worked for me:

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2023/11/08/this-week-in-rust-520/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I haven't taken it myself, but "The Last Algorithms Course You'll Need" is free and is written by The Primeagen. He works at Netflix and runs a programming-focused YouTube channel, and as far as I can tell is very knowledgeable and level-headed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not all ad blockers remove elements from web pages, and if they acted that predictably you could detect the ad blocker by detecting whether an expected element is hidden.

I have not looked through an ad blocker's code, but I don't believe it is that simple.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (10 children)

This already exists - @[email protected]'s blog already has a popup about not having an adblocker, although it is easy to dismiss. It's probably a bad idea to block content based on not having one, as detecting ad blockers is a losing battle (as YouTube is learning).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Exactly; the idea is familiarity, not efficiency. To be fair, this argument doesn't make sense for all situations, so it is possible I misunderstood what the original post was talking about specifically.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think the behavior could actually make sense with real physics, as the vehicle might be designed to mimic what the driver expects rather than real physics. For example, my car often shuts off the engine when I am not accelerating because it is a hybrid. So, if I don't press the gas pedal, it wouldn't really make sense for it to move. However, it is designed to artificially engage the engine when none of the pedals are pressed to more closely mimic the behavior of non-hybrid cars.

If most pilots are used to the behavior if a vehicle in atmosphere, a space ship might be designed to mimic that behavior (through weak reverse thrusters or something else) to make it easier for pilots to get used to.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely seems like an AI generated article. I can't imagine a human actually writing "the sound of legends being printed."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just listing some things that I needed to do for working remotely on a personal device: have an antivirus installed, make sure Windows firewall is enabled, enable automatic updates, screensaver or lockscreen configured for 15 minutes of inactivity, and use a strong password (and a good password manager).

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