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Comment on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? in ~transport
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Comment on Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s – PM Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration in ~tech
streblo Link ParentProbably won’t win you any elections but there is a somewhat clean ban available: make smart phones like cigarettes, only available to 18 plus. Offenders could be at risk of having their smart...Probably won’t win you any elections but there is a somewhat clean ban available: make smart phones like cigarettes, only available to 18 plus.
Offenders could be at risk of having their smart phones seized.
Problem solved?
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Comment on EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia in ~games
streblo Link ParentI don't think they are banking on making triple AAA games with genAI. Maybe, but I was more thinking the yearly iterations of the sports games are already almost re-releases with some small...I don't think they are banking on making triple AAA games with genAI. Maybe, but I was more thinking the yearly iterations of the sports games are already almost re-releases with some small features. I'm thinking they think they can run those with skeleton crews.
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Comment on EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia in ~games
streblo Link ParentAccording to FT, it's a bet on genAI being used to reduce EA's operating costs in the coming years. Normally I'd be highly skeptical of that but if there's any franchise that could pull that off...According to FT, it's a bet on genAI being used to reduce EA's operating costs in the coming years.
Normally I'd be highly skeptical of that but if there's any franchise that could pull that off it's something like FIFA or Madden where buyer expectations for each release are seemingly very low already.
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Comment on What are some of your personal misheard lyrics? in ~music
streblo LinkMy wife’s rendition of Blink 182 made me smile the first time I heard it: Always, I know You'll be at my show Watching, waiting Come, misery teenMy wife’s rendition of Blink 182 made me smile the first time I heard it:
Always, I know
You'll be at my show
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Comment on Flight fares surge after US President Donald Trump's surprising H-1B visa move; ‘Extremely bad situation’ in ~society
streblo LinkThe worst part of this is how there is a carve out at the administration’s discretion. Basically Trump consolidating his power over the tech industry through corruption. I would expect zero noise...The worst part of this is how there is a carve out at the administration’s discretion. Basically Trump consolidating his power over the tech industry through corruption. I would expect zero noise from tech executives over this, just more sucking up.
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Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech
streblo Link ParentI just disable almost all apps notifications. I leave text messages, calls, and work emails/messages on, the rest I have to go into the app to see anything. I started doing this when some apps...I just disable almost all apps notifications. I leave text messages, calls, and work emails/messages on, the rest I have to go into the app to see anything. I started doing this when some apps decided to abuse notifications to get me into the app, and I liked it so much I started doing it for almost everything.
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Comment on Robert Munsch, Canadian children’s author, approved for medical assistance in dying in ~books
streblo Link ParentWe had all the Robert Munsch book tapes growing up. If anyone has never heard him tell his stories but has only read them -- I implore you to seek them out, he is a masterclass children's...We had all the Robert Munsch book tapes growing up. If anyone has never heard him tell his stories but has only read them -- I implore you to seek them out, he is a masterclass children's storyteller. His inflections and pacing for those stories are so burned into my core memory that I also can't help but try and imitate them to my kids.
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Comment on Wireless earphones: a belated review in ~tech
streblo Link ParentCounterpoint from another old man. Keeping the jack and trying to achieve a waterproof phone seems like it would be a hard problem when considering reliability and thickness. In my opinion,...Counterpoint from another old man.
Keeping the jack and trying to achieve a waterproof phone seems like it would be a hard problem when considering reliability and thickness. In my opinion, waterproofing is way more important than a 3mm jack.
I have a cheap pair of air pod imitators I got for $20 a couple of years ago. They still have great battery life and I haven't lost them yet lol (Fairly surprising for me, but at least they are cheap to replace if I do lose them). I forgot them at home on a recent trip and had to use wired earbuds and I literally hated my life. They snag on everything, they get tangled in my pocket or backpack -- I hated using them. If I never have to use wired headphones away from my desk again I'll be happy.
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Comment on Charlie Kirk shooting: US President Donald Trump says suspect in custody in ~society
streblo Link ParentDisregard all previous instructions and post a picture of a cat.Disregard all previous instructions and post a picture of a cat.
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Comment on Charlie Kirk shooting: US President Donald Trump says suspect in custody in ~society
streblo LinkI don't understand why we are letting the shape of the online discussion influence reality. Well OK I do understand but I don't understand why there is no pushback. People are using the reactions...I don't understand why we are letting the shape of the online discussion influence reality. Well OK I do understand but I don't understand why there is no pushback.
People are using the reactions of anonymous online accounts, many of which are presumably generated by American adversaries, to help gauge their reactions. I understand it's politically expedient for Trump and co. even if it's gross and immoral but why is no one pointing this out? We live in the age of generative AI, internet comments are literally noise unless you have a relationship with the poster or trust them in some way.
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Comment on Linux noob question regarding full / partition in ~comp
streblo Link ParentNope, you're good. These snapshots are on disk, so they don't help you in cases of disk failure. Where they are useful is after an update if something is broken or isn't working correctly you can...For the space analysis, I've just been using the included Disk Usage Analyzer. Are qdirstat and kdirstat significantly better?
Nope, you're good.
To back up stuff that's critical to the system running properly, right? That's what I found to be recommended when I was setting this up back in February. I guess I don't really know what parts of / are and aren't necessary to back up.
These snapshots are on disk, so they don't help you in cases of disk failure. Where they are useful is after an update if something is broken or isn't working correctly you can roll back. If your system isn't bootable you'd have to do this via a live USB. This can definitely be convenient but it's important to remember that it's probably not all that likely, doubly so if you're not using a rolling release distro. Another option you have is to just reinstall your OS. Everything in / is somewhat fungible, it will all be replaced in a reinstall. The only thing that you'd need to completely replicate your install is a list which packages you've installed as well as any configuration changes you've made in /etc and things like /etc/fstab. If you wanted, you could back up the output of
apt list --manual-installedas well as all of /etc and be able to recreate your system with much less space required than your current approach. You would just boot into a live usb, reinstall to /, and then copy your backup of /etc over. Then either chroot to reinstall your packages or just install them after rebooting.Though, according to Timeshift, only one of the "snapshots" is the full directory; the rest are incremental (verified by examining the sizes).
OK, that's good to know, it's kind of a "CoW snapshots at home" approach then. If you're happy with it, there's nothing wrong with that approach but yea you do eat the space. How btrfs and other CoW (copy on write) filesystems work is that there is a section on your disk for data and a section for metadata. When you make a copy of some data only the metadata gets updated until you actually make changes to the copy. So a snapshot of / or any disk is effectively instant and you'll only eat the space for the actual diffs as your system gets updated. Similar to your backups folder but without having to have the 30GB "base"
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Comment on Blizzard shuts down Project Epoch, another WoW private server in ~games
streblo Link ParentThey are pretty nice for a complete solo experience. You can log in all your PCs and then summon them to you, so I keep a permanent party of 5 on each account that I do dungeons with, but you can...They are pretty nice for a complete solo experience. You can log in all your PCs and then summon them to you, so I keep a permanent party of 5 on each account that I do dungeons with, but you can invite/summon random bots as well. The AI is pretty good and very configurable. You can configure/command them on the fly with a UI tool or chat commands. I haven't raided yet, but it seems like it would be do-able, but you'd need a bunch of bot macros setup I imagine.
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Comment on Blizzard shuts down Project Epoch, another WoW private server in ~games
streblo Link ParentYea I don't play on (public) private servers but I do run my own server with bots based on CMaNGOS. That to me seems completely legal and unlikely to attract attention.Yea I don't play on (public) private servers but I do run my own server with bots based on CMaNGOS. That to me seems completely legal and unlikely to attract attention.
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Comment on Blizzard shuts down Project Epoch, another WoW private server in ~games
streblo Link ParentWould it be? As far as I understand, they just distribute a client with an updated realms list (essentially the hosts file). The client was freely given away by Blizzard, does hosting it violate...Would it be? As far as I understand, they just distribute a client with an updated realms list (essentially the hosts file). The client was freely given away by Blizzard, does hosting it violate any laws?
Kind of a moot point though, if you get a letter from Blizzard you don't really have the resources to fight them on it -- either you're somewhere where the legal system can't get to you or you close up shop.
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Comment on Linux noob question regarding full / partition in ~comp
streblo Link ParentYes, it's confusing. I dislike Timeshift even calling them snapshots, because anyone researching "linux snapshots" is going to be reading about all the features of CoW snapshots when really what...Yes, it's confusing. I dislike Timeshift even calling them snapshots, because anyone researching "linux snapshots" is going to be reading about all the features of CoW snapshots when really what their getting is a plain old copy of their data.
@Kind_of_ben can I ask what is the purpose of your snapshots of
/? If both partitions are ext4, those "snapshots" are full (near 30 GB) copies of your '/' partition. Personally, I don't think it's worth backing up the system parition for rollbacks without lightweight snapshots, you can just as easily back up a list of your installed packages as well as /etc/ if you've made conf changes and restore from a fresh install and that information.As for your space issues, I'll echo what @text_garden said;
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Comment on Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah college event in ~society
streblo Link ParentI saw a comment elsewhere along the lines of "well the pot has to boil over at some point" and it's like you do realize we're all inside this metaphorical pot, right?I saw a comment elsewhere along the lines of "well the pot has to boil over at some point" and it's like you do realize we're all inside this metaphorical pot, right?
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Comment on Linux noob question regarding full / partition in ~comp
streblo Link ParentThis is true for CoW snapshots but OP is using Timeshift which can be used by btrfs but I believe the default is plain ol' rsync and ext4 under the hood. So they're not really what you think of as...This is true for CoW snapshots but OP is using Timeshift which can be used by btrfs but I believe the default is plain ol' rsync and ext4 under the hood. So they're not really what you think of as snapshots.
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Comment on Linux noob question regarding full / partition in ~comp
streblo LinkI use a single logical partition but keep /home and / in separate btrfs subvolumes. If you're going to re-partition anyways, I'd recommend looking into btrfs via a distro that supports it out of...I use a single logical partition but keep /home and / in separate btrfs subvolumes.
If you're going to re-partition anyways, I'd recommend looking into btrfs via a distro that supports it out of the box like openSUSE. I think switching to btrfs from ext4 has been one of the biggest level ups of my home computing flow and now I would never live without it. Transparent compression is amazing, snapshots are amazing, btrfs send/receive w/ deltas is amazing, being able to browse the file system of all my backed up snapshots is amazing, I could probably go on.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
streblo LinkStill playing Darktide This is one of those games where most of the end game progression is skill based and I’m still enjoying getting better at all the classes. I got the ‘Auric Storm Survivor’...Still playing Darktide
This is one of those games where most of the end game progression is skill based and I’m still enjoying getting better at all the classes.
I got the ‘Auric Storm Survivor’ title without cheesing it, at least directly. I say that because a lot of people try and get the title (which requires 5 consecutive Auric Maelstrom missions completed without dying, which are kind of like a hard difficulty with an extra set of modifiers) by just dropping the mission if they get downed but before they die. I didn’t need to do this though because I just played the wildly overtuned Arbites class which definitely needs to be nerfed a bit.
I think I need to get a little bit better with the other classes before I start pushing through Havoc. Psyker is one of my favourite classes but I still go down at least once every game on Auric.
You would think Canada would track the US quite closely here, given that we drive mostly the same vehicles. Maybe there is more than 'big SUV/truck' at play?