Novocirab

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What hardware do you currently run and what software do you intend to use?case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very cool indeed, although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, that’s interesting and good to know. At least it’s probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties regularly in very small steps (like 2% at a time). I suspect the 5% steps I’m using for brightness should be fine, but I’ll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn’t find anything on that)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you basically. I have given up trying to control the RGB on my RAM (even though it’s probably decently documented somewhere).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your comment has now motivated me to add a Windows section :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know nothing about this, but can OpenRGB (Linux tool) talk to your device in any way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than running a Tor relay, running a bridge (e.g. via the browser add-on Snowflake as suggested by @ryokimball@infosec.pub is probably the best thing to do with one’s home hardware.

  Actual relays must suffice certain requirements, according to the Tor project:

  Requirements for Tor relays depend on the type of relay and the bandwidth they provide. ==== Bandwidth and Connections ====

  A non-exit relay should be able to handle at least 7000 concurrent connections. This can overwhelm consumer-level routers. If you run the Tor relay from a server (virtual or dedicated) in a data center you will be fine. If you run it behind a consumer-level router at home you will have to try and see if your home router can handle it or if it starts failing. Fast exit relays (>=100 Mbit/s) usually have to handle a lot more concurrent connections (>100k).

  It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload bandwidth and 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) download bandwidth available for Tor. More is better. The minimum requirements for a relay are 10 Mbit/s (Mbps). If you have less than 10 Mbit/s but at least 1 Mbit/s we recommend you run a [/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy bridge with obfs4 support]. If you do not know your bandwidth you can use beta.speedtest.net to measure it.

  As for exit relays aka exit nodes, the obligatory advice is of course to not run them at all unless you know exactly what you are doing both legally and technically, and probably only if you’re a foundation or something.

• YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fellow Linkwarden users, how do you deduplicate bookmarks in your link collection?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me neither, but since it’s about operating on external files, one can likely use procedure that’s more or less the same.

• Fellow Linkwarden users, how do you deduplicate bookmarks in your link collection?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some local libraries (e.g. in Heidelberg) or ecological initiatives lend devices to measure electricity consumption at the power plug. In particular, this is useful to measure other appliances as well.

  Specifically for computers, they probably have some means that tell you their own consumption, but they may not be accurate or complete and will most certainly omit any peripherals, e.g. external hard drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a simple distraction-free control via Linux’s command line, you can install mpg123 and add the following to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:

  function soma() { mpg123 -@ http://somafm.com/nossl/$@.pls; }
  alias somaoff="kill $(pgrep mpg123)"
  

  Then from your console:

  # Tune into station "Lush"
  soma lush 
  # Turn Soma off
  somaoff
  

  The specific station names to enter after soma are the ones in the URL of each station’s webpage, e.g. “folkfwd” for Folk Forward, as its URL is somafm.com/folkfwd/.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This (e.g. on DuckDuckGo) only excludes the results for that one search, by adding the option “-site:example.com” to the query. When one conducts an entirely new search, the domain is included again. (Also, one will probably quickly reach a limit if one were to append a growing number of domain exclusion options to the search string.)

• YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user scriptgreasyfork.org ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨23⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought: There should be a federated system for blocking IP ranges that other server operators within a chain of trust have already identified as belonging to crawlers.

  (Here’s an advantage of Markov chain maze generators like Nepenthes: Even when crawlers recognize that they have been served garbage and delete it, one still has obtained highly reliable evidence that the IPs that requested it do, in fact, belong to crawlers.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS IS AWESOME, THANK YOU!

  (Apologies for my capslock, but I really am stoked.)

  Link to FreeTube.io download page

• Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AIgizmodo.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations! All the best to you and the people you care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into PhotoGIMP, afaik it precisely delivers Photoshop-like symbols, maybe even layout, and shortcuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Browser is nice. On Linux though, Okular is superb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your opinion on Affinity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Audacity has been bougth by a company which subsequently did crap with it. reddit.com/…/help_tenacity_a_fork_of_audacity_aft…

  Not sure how good Tenacity is currently

• List of Alternatives to Adobe Programsfeddit.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a huge opportunity. All of us Linux geeks now need to be on mainstream social media platforms and actively seek out and help everyone who expresses an interest in switching from Windows to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, shit. But at least there’s this:

  It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t help with personal experience unfortunately. I think some (a lot?) of people are satisfied, but one does need some tech skills to get it up and running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting: Affinity, while not open-source, can be brought to run under Linux. This may be helpful for people wanting to ditch Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why doesn’t it have more jpeg? That’s the real question here.

  (The answer is: I was lazy and just took the image as I found it somewhere else.)