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Re:SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:54AM (#48582216)
Use CachyOS or Bazzite instead.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @03:56AM (#43629863)
I got mine from a reputable German seller on Ebay. Avoided AliExpress due to the negative reviews on r/thinkpad.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @03:54AM (#43629855)
Out of curiosity, what is your ThinkPad struggling with?
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:07AM (#43619690)
Intel AX210 card worked for me out of the box in Linux.
I have recently switched to Rustdesk and it has worked quite well for my use case.
Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:22AM (#41564787)
People have different work preferences; some thrive working from home, while others do better in the office. I think the strong opinions about mandated office days stem from the fact that the job doesn’t necessarily require employees to be physically present.
Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:50AM (#41233580)
According to the extension homepage:

"DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

...

There are currently 64,634 users who have submitted 230,432 titles and 107,027 thumbnails."

Re:Homemade Pasta Now Is the Time (2021) on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:02AM (#39228581)
There's a common misconception that fresh pasta is always better over store bought.

In fact, there are two different kinds of pasta here fresh (egg based) and dried (semolina based) pasta.

Egg pasta can easily be made at home, without even the need for any machines.

Dried pasta requires industrial heavy duty machinery due to the force required to shape the pasta.

It's also important to note that not all sauces pair well with fresh pasta and same goes for dried.

Nowadays I'm careful when picking dried pasta from the supermarket. I have learnt that the more yellow the colour, and the smoother the texture, the lower the overall quality will be of the pasta.

Looking for these key indicators will give you pasta with better texture and pasta water to use for your sauces.

Re:A Grand Theft Auto III Re-Implementation on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:00AM (#38095056)
He's actually reviewing re3 which was the project DMCA'd by R* and involved manual decompilation rather than a complete reimplementation.

It's an interesting video to watch to get his perspective though.

Re:Geospatial Data Science with Julia on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:02AM (#37841755)
It would depend on where most of the processing is happening.

PostGIS gives you the benefit of spatial indexes which are extremely performant.

I've seen Python GeoSpatial applications taking hours to finish processing which only took a few minutes when shifted onto PostGIS.

If you're also doing a lot of processing in Python, exploring other languages could also help. In the case of Julia you get a typed language that's also JIT compiled.

Re:RISC-V Assembly Programming on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:34AM (#36642528)
This doesn't work for me, most pages are blank.
Re:Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:37AM (#35453077)
Still the same unless you're willing to spend hours tweaking.
Re:RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:23AM (#32493741)
From their GitHub page[0]: "Please note that most GUI applications will not run at the moment."

[0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

Re:Have I Been Facebooked? on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:17AM (#26708157)
This site doesn't seem to include the leaked numbers from my country +356 (MT).
Re:LineageOS 18.1 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:40AM (#26659182)
For some reason I can't find the 7T in their list for supported devices.