It’s for boosting Wi-Fi reception, don’t worry about it.

Afaik it wasn’t a temperature problem, it was voltage related. Obviously cooler temps help, but you would probably still be vulnerable to this.

Wow, I’ve actually never seen this disc. However, funnily enough, I have another disc with that program burned into it. Someone didn’t read the notice, it seems.

Wait, what happened now? Do they want to ban Lemmy?

Afaik, they are unblockable. They are served from the same domain as the video, so if you block them you can’t see the video either.

Instead of blocking it at the domain level, you can install adblockers on almost any platform. I recommend uBlock for Firefox and ReVanced for Android. ReVanced is also supposed to work on Android TVs, iirc.

If you use Arch, you aren’t really affected. As far as we know, the backdoor only affects SSH if it is linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn’t use that, so SSH has probably been safe. However, you should still update, because we don’t know if the backdoor could’ve been used in other ways.

Note that if you update, xz 5.6.1-2 will be installed. This is a safe version. However, if you run xz --version, it will still report version 5.6.1.

Why is the prong at the right shorter than every other one? Bad fork, 1/5. Giving it a 1 and not a 0 because it’s probably heavy and I like that.

Obligatory “I use Arch, btw” comment. I’ve been using Arch for years and, honestly, it isn’t that much of a pain. It mostly works with the defaults, installation is really easy now with archinstall, and there’s a ton of software ready to install from the repos or the AUR. Besides, the arch wiki is amazing and has solutions for many of the problems you’ll ever have.

Yes, we use it. However, it’s more common to say “hubiera”. There’s no specific rule to differenciate between both, but at least in the center and north of spain we mostly use “hubiera” for first person and “hubiese” for third person.

“Ojalá hubiera podido ir, pero tenía deberes” (yo)

“Ojalá David hubiese venido, se lo habría pasado bien” (él)

As I said, both options would be correct in both cases, and probably in other places they use the words differently.

the’r*

Discord on Xorg is a mess too. It’s not even the electron part, the app itself is really bad.

Not only it’s inefficient, but (at least in Arch) it doesn’t auto update on big versions. And instead of just warning you, it refuses to start until you manually install the new update. And god forbid if the package mantainers need a day or two to update the package, because until then you can’t use it.

The funniest thing is, there’s a file in the app’s directory called “build_info.json” which contains the version number, and with a simple edit you can make it think it’s updated, and it suddenly works without problem.

I really don’t know what they’re updating, but I have a version from 2021 running on my phone (it’s old and the new app is really slow), and it still works fine. Even after the account handle change and several other additions to the app.

Oh, and for the Arch users: there’s a discord version on the AUR called “discord-canary-electron-bin” that uses system wide electron, so it should be updated faster than discord’s own bundled electron. I don’t know if there’s a non canary version of it, tho.

On summer we normally hit 40+ (in some places even 45+) in Spain. I can confirm it’s hellish.

the fact that you have to go to other years proves that this happens way more rarely in France than in the USA. In fact, you can see that in all of the graphs there are gun related deaths in every country.

The point is that it happens 100 times more in the USA than in any other developed country

you can’t really hot swap the kernel, because all of the system runs on it.

you’d need to stop the system (you can save its state and recover where you left), reboot to load the new kernel and let it take control.

however, there are some distros and programs that allow you to hot swap certain parts of the kernel (mainly drivers) without rebooting. Note that, even though the system doesn’t reboot, most packages still need to be restarted for them to pick up the new driver.

Most people do what you say, but there are places where you don’t have a stable internet connection, or people who like to keep their storage offline.

I don’t mean to say that there are no alternatives to a fast cable, or that most people should use it. But it’s a feature that comes with the cable, and there shouldn’t be someone trying to cap it just for profit.

The controllers for the communication protocol probably cost something like 8 cents, Apple shouldn’t screw their customers over that little cost. Even with a feature most people won’t use, because it’s nice knowing that you have the possibility to use it if you need to.

It’s faster than network data transfer. I don’t know exactly how fast can WiFi go, but most if the time it can’t even exceed 1Gbps. However, USB-C 4 V2 can reach 80 Gbps, and isn’t all that affected by electromagnetic interference.

For transfering a few photos, you won’t notice a difference. But if you need to back up a 256 GB phone, the difference in speed is actually big.