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255 gives 0-255, which gives you a zero value. 256 is 1-256, you lose the option of setting 0.

It really has. I had always tried to use Linux in the past, but gaming was always a fight, and the OS just never felt like it behaved reliable for daily usage for me, was always some little annoyance or bug or issue I'd run into and inevitably switch back to Windows for the sake of things just working without having to spend hours and days and weeks trying to fix issues. That was 10+ years ago. I finally decided to give it a go again, using an Arch based OS. I figured it's been a while, try something other than debian or SLES that I've been used to. Honestly, I kinda don't notice much difference in overall day to day use between gaming and day to day use on Linux versus previously being on Windows just a month ago. Everything kinda just works. The one thing I do notice is I use significantly less RAM, I seldom exceed 32gb as where I was regularly 40gb+ on Windows, and everything runs much better while I do the same day to day stuff as I always have. It's not a huge performance difference, but if I'm paying attention, yeah, I do notice my games tend to run better, and everything within the OS is far more responsive. As for all the linux a-holes out there, please STFU, I don't wanna hear "winblows sux" or "this distro is better", it's why I didn't specify what specific distro I use. That toxic fanboyism is what keeps people away from seeing it as a viable usable OS.

My rambling is really just to say: Yeah, linux has come a long way, especially for gaming and day to day use. The work Valve and others have done to make stuff just run and work is astonishing.

There is a Windows build for it. I don't know if it's official or not, but there is a Windows build and it does work well.

My only tip isn't really useful. Just avoid going to that hostile country for now. Unless there's a specific necessity. And if that's the case, then change all your social media accounts info, change the name, change birthdates, missmatch as much info as possible. Delete photos of yourself/family. Then for 'burner' accounts, make them on a different social network, like bluesky, myspace (they're still around), and then use an AI to generate ideas for posts and just make those as posts for the next while. The problem will be making a realistic timeline/history for new accounts. Alternatively "your kids aren't allowed to use social media", and that clears up a lot of work. But honestly just avoid the risk of traveling there in the first place, is it worth the risk of being detained?

Vivaldi is what I use. uBlock works fine with it. I have no issues with content loading or anything weird. I just describe it as "chrome, but if someone actually cared about the UI and functionality", and the mouse gestures are super nice.

I went to it from Firefox ages ago and haven't looked back or missed Firefox and all its issues even once.

I can't say your experience with it will be as good as mine or not, but it is a browser with adblock, which is also built in, but I prefer the plugin version.

Genuine question here: what's the actual benefits of blocking icmp?

Not asking "Why should I leave it on", I'm specifically asking for legitimate valid use cases for disabling it.

I really can only think of one, abd that's if your server just gets a relentless amount of pings that it takes up a significant portion of your bandwidth. (There was a news article about a news site in Australia, I think, that had that happen)

Same for me, I've entirely abandoned google's search engine. It's become rapidly more useless to the point where it's just become a search engine for their ad servers, to browse what ads and garbage is in their database instead of providing relevant information from the web about search terms.

Adblock.

You can selectively block elements from sites. I've blocked shorts from it and honestly forgot how annoying it was until these comments. Just right click, block element, preview before applying, make sure you don't butcher out unintended parts of the pages.

As someone with decades of search engine experience, it's mainly knowing key words and exact phrases to use as well as excludes to filter out garbage. It's a bit hard to teach/explain in a single post, but if you search basted turkey and get results of "turkey baster", then quote the key phrase "basted turkey" -shopping -sale -price, try and remove results from shopping websites with excludes. Understand most search engines will drop most 1-3 letter words from your search. Like searching for 'fire in the house' will only look for results most relevant to the words fire and house, because 'in' and 'the' are just common everywhere. So if you want that exact phrase, then quote it. Searching used to be something you had to learn how to do.

I use a variety of mostly search engines that get me an answer much faster. Google/Bing frequently point to sites/articles written by AI anyway. Using a LLM directly often gives too much garbage and doesn't often stick to just answering my question, so it becomes as useless as a modern google search. I prefer old style searching of just using key words and refining my query opposed to having it (miss)interpreted.

I enjoy traveling a lot. Specifically traveling. Not arriving and staying somewhere, not vacationing, not sight seeing. Traveling has always been a fun experience to me. The road trip, the adventure part of a vacation. Spend a day or two to drive as far as possible, stop by places to rest and relax, then get back to it. Find an interesting road, where does that lead? People dismiss the adventure of traveling and just rush to the destination. Like quick travel in a game, if you walk to the destination, sometimes you find cool stuff, sometimes not, and sometimes you distract and detour so hard that you end up with a new destination instead. I don't consider flying to be traveling though, it's just flying to me, a rush of getting to a destination.

My goal of the cameras, which my neighbours know about, is not protecting me. It's protecting us.

I point cameras at their houses, at their doors & driveways from my property. Why? Because they can't install a camera on my house, but I can. Nobody has a problem. There's no distrust. There's cameras pointed right back at my home, too. We watch each other, because having more than one camera point of view creates a better security for all of us. I also have them watching at my door, specifically so I can see who is at the door, when mail gets delivered, or when packages get dropped off.

None of us have the delusion that we're all spying on each other. We're watching out for each other.

It should always show its current state. If a button is doubling as a status display, it needs to display current status, that's the entire point of a button doubling as displaying information.

Would you flip a breaker to the "ON" position in order to turn it off, or would you expect the breaker to display its current state of being ON/OFF?

That isn't my interpretation, nor did I ever make that statement. That IS infact a valid definition of copyright infringement. The source material is copyrighted and you're making a literal copy of it via photocopier. I don't know how you twisted the logic on that to conclude that would not be infringement.

However, it does also depend what you do with the photocopies, merely photocopying a book and keeping it privately is on par with copying a music CD as a backup. The infringement occurs when you're reusing it as your own, such as selling, publishing, or broadcasting the copyrighted material.

What I stated is that generated art such as images/music/photos that are by a non human cannot be copyrighted. A photocopier isn't generating anything, it's a copy, it's replication and it isn't generating a new thing.

My personal opinion is that AI generated artwork should be treated as equal to fanart when generating copyright influenced material.

Because if I can rewrite my printer to not intentionally be a total piece of shit, the company gets less money by intentionally expiring or wasting ink, DRM locking ink cartridge brands, or "service needed" bricking the device after a period of time.

There's also the matter of lawsuits. If you get a device, they're not supporting updates, so you go get a 3rd party update and it ruins the device, the RMA costs the manufacture, but worse, the customer(s) may file a (class action) lawsuit against the company over the problem of being unable to find the official firmware/driver updates, causing people to ruin their hardware, get RMA rejections, or not even being aware of an RMA process and simply buying another one.

Personally, I'd rather there be open source drivers/firmware for everything from day one, but to look at both sides, I fully understand the liability and why that's something that only exists in the hobbiest world.

Per United States law, imagery/art/music/text/photography generated by non-human means (such as machinery, animals, or generative AI) cannot hold copyright. https://copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-auth... Section 306 on page 7.

I'm not sure how it'll hold up in law to claim copyright violations against something that wasn't created by a person. It'll really depend on the lawyers and judge's interpretation of written law. But I'm curious to see what comes of this.

Google Fiber ISP.

They won't admit it's static, but it is. I've had the same IP for three years since moving into this house. In that time, I've had power outages lasting for days, IP was still the same. I've replaced my router and the assigned IP didn't change. The only way it can change is if they replace their media converter "fiber jack" or you call or go to their store to ask them to change your IP.

Most pet owners are well aware of the info in these articles. It's obvious my cat can think, learn, remember, and recall. When she wants attention, she comes to me, pats her paw against me for my attention, and then hops into my lap or awaits me to pick her up. She doesn't go to the couch and expect attention. It's easy to see that she wanted attention, and consciously sought me out, and socially interacted with me to get my attention. No cat owner would think that to be an autonomous or subconscious/thoughtless behaviour.

However, as an owner, none of my interactions with my cat are scientific, recorded research, or anything that helps to prove things. Again, anyone who has taken care of animals knows they make friends, enemies, socialize, think, and even love. But research in the field is still relatively new, these articles are relatively "no shit" to pet owners, but they're saying that there's now scientific research about these behaviours.

I don't know what Windows 11 Pro version has bitlocker on by default, but none of the systems I have at home enabled it as a default setting. Whether upgrading from 10 or complete nuke the drive and install fresh, I haven't seen it be a default setting.

I just shop at AliExpress instead of Amazon. All the same exact stuff, but typically half to a tenth of the cost. I just have to settle with longer shipping times, which is fine, if I need something now-now, I can just go buy it locally.

That's how I already use reddit. I tried their mobile app and it was so garbage I just use it in browser in desktop mode to avoid the annoying "Reddit is better on mobile" lie that I had to click past every time. I really don't understand the difference and obsession of using old.reddit vs regular. As far as I can tell, it functions exactly the same only with a bit of UI uplift. As for adblock, the modern internet is virtually unusable without it. I don't care about how much it hurts webhosts, ads are intrusive, obnoxious, sometimes/often a security risk, and I'm never-ever-ever-ever going to click on one anyway.

The two hour rule isn't solid. I've returned a game after completing a 1 hour tutorial of the game, only to get into the main game and find out it was nothing like the tutorial lead me to believe the game was. I had to AFK during the middle of playing, so I ended up with 5 hours of gameplay. I just told them what happened, said why I wanted to refund it, and I still got it refunded. It took five hours of the game running for me to determine that I just didn't like nor enjoy it.

I just apply to every job I find interesting. Of the 7 job agency locations I've been through, zero have found me any work, they've been nothing but a useless waste of time. I have a 16 page master resume I tailor back down to 2-3 pages for every single company/position I apply for. I have a wide field of experience, so it's handy to be able to match my resume to the exact job.

I write in CV format, not resume, so the first page is just the education, previous jobs, hobbies, and general junk that's of least concern while the second to third pages actually list off my experience, projects, and relevant things.

I have more trouble with getting a job past the interview than actually getting interviews. I get interviewed by probably 60-75% of the jobs I apply for, and then an offer from maybe a tenth of that, but it's been six years since I've last applied.

So typically I am juggling several interviews a week, ideally as many as I can get. If I get lucky and have multiple offers, it lets me decide which job/company seems like the best fit for me.

I am moving on from my current job early next year, so that's exactly what I will be doing. Just browsing every online resource (linked in, indeed, usajobs, etc) as well as looking around at what small/medium sized businesses exist locally to apply to, even if they don't have an opening listed.

GPUs are doing the same thing. Every generation does bring more efficiency, but also includes an increase of power consumption. I'd like to see a line that aims to reduce power consumption by a meager amount (1-5%) each generation, while continuing to push performance higher and just be an "Energy Efficient" model. Like here's our baseline.. 6 core, 12 threads @ 5.2GHz, let's see how power efficient we can get those specs over the next 5 generations, and how much performance increase we can also squeeze without drawing more power or making it bigger.

This is what I was wondering. I'm taking a wild guess that maybe they don't have that level of firewall access and it was being done through filtering by the webserver to provide an access denied.

But why bother with deny? Just send a blank text file (or one with as minimal data as needed to satisfy the rogue adblock) to the "blocked IPs" to mitigate the traffic for now. If firewall access exists, just drop the offending incoming traffic entirely.

Twitter is full of fortune telling experts who gaze into the crystal ball to predict the future (horribly inaccurately).

For me, it's not the MSRP cost, it's that they've thrown power efficiency out the window entirely. It'd be like that automaker's flagship car getting only 2 miles per gallon on highways. Granted, that comparison makes the vehicle functionally useless anywhere but a drag strip, but that's not the point I am focusing on, I'm arguing the lack of focus on achieving performance with efficiency.

These new GPUs and even CPUs are entirely about power and performance. The upfront cost is one thing, but the long term cost of the both the energy consumption and central air system having to handle the massive thermal load is getting out of hand, particularly in a hotter region.

It's severely overlooked or just lightly complained about as "this thing needs cooling" without really elaborating what that entails or means. It's one thing to cool down a large studio area with a commercial HVAC system for doing youtube videos, but it's another to try and cool a bedroom in a house with the normal central air system.

I just wish these PC component manufactures would have some more focus on making their products more energy efficient, do more with less. You can always do more by consuming more, that's less impressive. And to go back to cars. Take a huge engine, and one half its size, both output the same power, but one uses a third as much of the same fuel. Which one is more impressive?

I understand flagship is the extreme edge. But when the power consumption of the flagships keep increasing, it normalizes the lower and mid ranges to also keep increasing. I just want to see a focus on efficiency, stop doing more with more. Do more with less instead.

This isn't news to me at all. For ATM/Pin pads, I wipe my fingers across every button as I press in the code, so it obscures what was actually pressed, and linger fingers on keys not even in my pin code. With enough practice, it doesn't take more than a second or two longer than normally entering it.

As far as keyboards, I really don't ever interact with computers that don't belong to me or aren't in a secure area, but I have a custom scripted "keyboard" USB circuit thing that emulates keypresses for me. I don't know what to even call it, but it's like a mini Arduino sorta thing that emulates a generic Microsoft keyboard to whatever you plug it into. It looks like a stick of RAM with a USB plug, kinda. I have a few preset buttons that'll type in my login info to automate logging into things. I made it as a hardware password manager.

When I was in highschool, I wrote a paper on how education lags far behind technology and modern era. In modern era, people write emails, type via messengers/sms, and use digital means of communication. Rarely is hand-written considered normal in any situations where transcribing is necessary.

Even with maths, people don't hand calculate large, long, complex equations. We use computers, calculators, and technology to accomplish it with far greater accuracy/reliability and speed. Simple arithmetic is useful to learn to do in your head, but to solve a²+b²=c², you can just google up a Pythagorean calculator. My point is that it's useful to know to find/use the tools to solve problems, not how to to solve by hand. This didn't exist 20 years ago, but it does today, and schools should teach for a modern and future era. It does no good to teach the youth archaic ways of the old which aren't in use anymore. If the parents believe it's important, then it should be taught by the parents to preserve a culture or value they believe in. But schools should spend time to functionally educate.

Cursive is just one of those things that has been replaced by technology, for most it is much faster to type than it is to write, and the advantage cursive has over manuscript is that it was faster. Well, keyboards are faster than cursive, and print is more simple and clean looking in manuscript than cursive on a display using a font.