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Comment on How do I know if a USB-C PCIe card supports 4k video output? in ~tech
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Comment on How do I know if a USB-C PCIe card supports 4k video output? in ~tech
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentok, that I was not aware of. TIL. guess I am looking for usb power delivery mode only at this point.ok, that I was not aware of. TIL. guess I am looking for usb power delivery mode only at this point.
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How do I know if a USB-C PCIe card supports 4k video output?
finally getting to be that time where I need a USB-C slot on my tower that I built back in 2017 so I started looking into expansion cards. One thing I can't tell is how to tell if a particular...
finally getting to be that time where I need a USB-C slot on my tower that I built back in 2017 so I started looking into expansion cards.
One thing I can't tell is how to tell if a particular expansion card supports the usb-c ports with DP-Alt mode for a 4k display if the need arises.
for exmple, had my eye on this one and I can't tell much if it does have that kind of support
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Follow-up to an earlier topic I made about my hunt for a privacy-respecting notes app
after the comments in my previous topic, I proceeded to try Notesnook and Joplin after having issues with Nextcloud Notes (that I have already documented in my previous post) Notesnook ain't bad...
after the comments in my previous topic, I proceeded to try Notesnook and Joplin after having issues with Nextcloud Notes (that I have already documented in my previous post)
Notesnook ain't bad if it's your jam. I found it easy to use and quite nice U.I. the only dings against it (obviously subjective) is that it really isn't supportive of markdown in an easy way, you have to pay for it cause there's no self-hosting option and you have to pay for the ability to have more than 5 tags.
Joplin's only ding imo is just that it has no web browser interface, but beyond that, there's nothing else fuctionality-wise I can really count against it, the U.I. is rather dated but the functionality is so stable that I am more than willing to deal with a dated UI. and I can self-host using my nextcloud instance so that's a great plus in avoiding additional charge.
So I personally recommend Joplin if you don't care about a dated UI in order to avoid having to pay a subscription if you are willing to self-host.
In other news, by the time I finally imported all my Nextcloud notes to Joplin, the nextcloud Notes App had managed to wipe 60 of my notes empty. I love nextcloud and its let me do wonderful things but the notes app they have is incredibly buggy when combined with their android app and how they are trying to implement markdown support.
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Is there actual long-term issues with teens watching movies that are rated out of their range?
something I have been thinking about lately. like any kid being raised as the internet piracy was really taking off, I must have watched countless R-rated movies when I was still in high school. I...
something I have been thinking about lately.
like any kid being raised as the internet piracy was really taking off, I must have watched countless R-rated movies when I was still in high school.
I can see an argument being made that maybe immediately after watching the movie, it excited me too much and maybe I didn't know how to internalize a sex scene or a violent scene. as for the cursing, I didn't need movies to teach me bad words, society took care of that already.
but I have a hard time placing any issues I have now that are cause of watching movies that were not appropriate for me. I care about people, I place great significance on empathy and non-violence, I am a pacifist for goodness sake but I still enjoy a good shoot-em up movie. As for the sex scenes, honestly, the general misogyny and patriarchal nature of western society had a far greater influence on any incorrect assumptions I had made about the bedroom and porn. Imo porn is the only thing that really fucked me up, watched it too way too early and in a conservative-ish (at least with regards to sex) household so not like I could feel safe talking to an adult about it.
But I have a hard time placing any permanent harms that watching R-rated movies in my teens had on me. Then again, I was raised by pretty moral women who instilled a very active conscience in me.
which makes me think the rating system is mostly pointless and just done in response to activist conservative parents who get too worked up about that kind of thing?
Or maybe it does have a long-term effect just only with certain folks?
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Comment on best way to go about with a script that seems to need both bash and python functionality in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link ParentIndeed, I had a hell of a time figuring out how to convert my needs to words for this post. And also to be able to interact with the bash command if it asks for input, yes.This does sound like one of those awkward problems where its all about wording the question properly though.
Indeed, I had a hell of a time figuring out how to convert my needs to words for this post.
To me it sounds like you just want the program to log to the console while its running while also retaining the ability to kill the process mid run correct?
And also to be able to interact with the bash command if it asks for input, yes.
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Comment on best way to go about with a script that seems to need both bash and python functionality in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentdoes polling a subprocess allow you to interact with that subprocess? like if it asks for input and that kind of thing?does polling a subprocess allow you to interact with that subprocess? like if it asks for input and that kind of thing?
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Comment on best way to go about with a script that seems to need both bash and python functionality in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentalready answered thisI'm not sure what bash is getting you here.
already answered this
be able to Ctrl+c if I see the command go awry.
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best way to go about with a script that seems to need both bash and python functionality
Gonna try and put this into words. I am pretty familiar with bash and python. used both quite a bit and feel more or less comfortable with them. My issue is I often do a thing where if I want to...
Gonna try and put this into words.
I am pretty familiar with bash and python. used both quite a bit and feel more or less comfortable with them.
My issue is I often do a thing where if I want to accomplish a task that is maybe a bit complex, I feel like I have to wind up making a script, let's call it
hello_word.shbut then I also make a script called.hello_world.pyand basically what I do is almost the first line of the bash script, I call the python script like
./hello_world.py $@and take advtange of theargparselibrary in python to determine what the user wants to do amongst other tasks that are easier to do in python like for loops and etc.I try to do the meat of the logic in the python scripts before I write to an
.envfile from it and then in the bash script, I will doset -o allexport source "${DIR}"/"${ENV_FILE}" set +o allexportand then use the variable from that env file to do the rest of the logic in bash.
why do I do anything in bash?
cause I very much prefer being able to see a terminal command being executed in real-time and see what it does and be able to
Ctrl+cif I see the command go awry.in python, you can run a command with
subprocessor other similar system libraries but you can't get the output in real-time or terminate a command preemptively and I really hate that. you have to wait for the command to end to see what happened.But I feel like there is something obvious I am missing (like maybe bash has an argparse library I don't know about and there is some way to inject the concept of types into it) or if there is another language entirely that fits my needs?
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Self-hosting a podcast server
I am wanting to setup a personal podcast server but I am not really sure how to go about that. I have my own server at home with docker and I am not sure if there are any well-known FOSS...
I am wanting to setup a personal podcast server but I am not really sure how to go about that.
I have my own server at home with docker and I am not sure if there are any well-known FOSS (preferable dockerized) podcast server applications that I can spin up and load some podcast episodes into so that I can create my own custom podcast feed that only I would subscribe to?
and I want to be able to support video podcasts.
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Comment on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ struts past $1B global box office; soon to become biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide in ~movies
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentyou and me both but if the critical and box office success indicates anything, we are in the minority. although my biggest peeve wasn't that his handling of jokes about gay characters, just that...you and me both but if the critical and box office success indicates anything, we are in the minority.
although my biggest peeve wasn't that his handling of jokes about gay characters, just that he would not stop making jokes and I like comicbook movies where I can connect to the characters.
and Ryan Reynolds is more interested in making jokes every 3 seconds and roasting the MCU :shrug:
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Comment on Has there ever been a time before where so much social change was occuring in quick succession of each other? in ~humanities.history
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link ParentI am Canadian, or as I often joke, American-lite (we absorb a lot of American culture and news as the American politics, entertainment and media industry very much penetrates in our culture) Hmm,...Are you American?
I am Canadian, or as I often joke, American-lite (we absorb a lot of American culture and news as the American politics, entertainment and media industry very much penetrates in our culture)
Nothing happening today is unprecedented, and unfortunately a lot of it mirrors the 1930s leading up to world war 2.
Hmm, I am very aware that the issue being addressed are nothing new and it's a tale literally as old as the formation of Canada and America but I think I push back on the idea that the scale and interconnectedness of the reckoning is unprecedented.
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Comment on Has there ever been a time before where so much social change was occuring in quick succession of each other? in ~humanities.history
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link ParentI think you maybe misunderstood what I meant. I by no means was trying to say that MeToo movement was the first time there was a discussion of sexual harassment and gender equality or that George...I think you maybe misunderstood what I meant. I by no means was trying to say that MeToo movement was the first time there was a discussion of sexual harassment and gender equality or that George Floyd was the first time a black man being killed by the police got the attention of the people, as you rightly pointed out, Rodney King led to riots itself.
I also am not saying that the Hamas attack of Oct 7th was the first time that Israel-Palestine has been an issue.
What I am saying is that while these aspects of social change have had a consistent through-line in North American history (with the exception of Israel-Palestine), the need for social justice that MeToo movement sparked amongst the younger crowd (thinking primarily millennials followed by Gen Z) did not die away before George Floyd happened and then the Hamas terrorist attacks happened.
It makes me wonder if any other generation of people either in North America or anywhere else in any other time in history experienced such impetus for social change on different (long existing) issues in close proximity to each other.
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Has there ever been a time before where so much social change was occuring in quick succession of each other?
I am not really someone who is well-versed in history, I never paid attention in high school, I couldn't wait to GTFO. I know what I know based solely on podcasts/debates/lectures I find on...
I am not really someone who is well-versed in history, I never paid attention in high school, I couldn't wait to GTFO. I know what I know based solely on podcasts/debates/lectures I find on YouTube and what Hollywood brings to my attention.
from my own knowledge, periods of social change (at least in North America):
- the civil rights movement
- women's suffrage movement
- civil war (given it was fought to a great deal to end slavery)
when it comes to social changes in history that is not based in North America, I know of only the broad strokes and none of the specifics, like I know the arrival of the printing press lead to a great deal of struggle in the same way that the arrival of social media has created a struggle, just the balance of power has changed.
I also know that France went through a French Revolution that played a big part of its current political landscape and its secular status quo.
However, something I have found interesting is that within the span of <10 years, we are experiencing a reckoning on several different fronts:
- MeToo movement have rise to a long-needed discussion of sexual harassment and just a general gender reckoning in other ways too
- the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests gave rise to a global awareness that race-related issues
- the Hamas attack on Israel has certainly pushed the discussion of Israel-Palestine to the forefront. Before the attack, I could not tell you the difference between Erdoğan and Netanyahu. That's obviously no longer the case.
But it makes me wonder if this is unprecedented in human history that so many different issues of social change are being pushed to the forefront in very quick succession of each other or this is a repeat, that it's common for a civilization that experiences one changing in the social norm, to start experiencing other social changes cause they are always in the mindset or something?
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parenthence why I use VSCodiumhence why I use VSCodium
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link ParentWhat does that have to do with anything? the CIA could release a really useful tool and if it has the open-source license, I see no reason not to trust it.Just saying Microsoft isn't exactly the GNU Foundation.
What does that have to do with anything? the CIA could release a really useful tool and if it has the open-source license, I see no reason not to trust it.
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentyea, that's why I use vscodium now.yea, that's why I use vscodium now.
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link Parentthanks! i dont suppose if you know if this has actually been documented anywhere though?thanks! i dont suppose if you know if this has actually been documented anywhere though?
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd (edited )Link ParentFTFY And correct. which is why all my unsaved files are in the same windows which I close last when I am done with my computer.If you have multiple windows open and more than 1 of them has unsaved files and close 1 of them, I don't believe you get this autosave functionality
FTFY
And correct. which is why all my unsaved files are in the same windows which I close last when I am done with my computer.
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Comment on How frequently does vscode save dirty files? in ~comp
b3_k1nd_rw1nd Link ParentVS Code does not prompt you if you have only 1 windows open with unsaved files.in the first case, it will probably prompt you "do you want to save your files" and if you say no it will (understandably) delete your unsaved files
VS Code does not prompt you if you have only 1 windows open with unsaved files.
wasn't aware that any USB-C PCIe card that support video output also need a port connection to my GPU...guess I am looking for just USB power delivery at this point.