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Want an honest answer?

Onboard are >=2 bits of code. At least one of those is a specific system trained to recognize a “wake word”. This specific system (ostensibly) doesn’t send anything to an outside party. Its entire job is to recognize one wake phrase: Alexa, Ok Google, or Siri, and then if that wake phrase is used it responds and tells the second system to listen. As you can imagine, this is a pretty easy job to get right 80% of the time. So that can be put on a chip. So then it does its job, and it’s the second system that sends everything to an internet service for whatever reason.

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Correct.

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It would effect any UEFI based system regardless of OS from one of the affected manufacturers (which is basically all of them).

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Side note if you can’t figure out how to use psycopg2 in a 5 line tutorial you have even less ability than you thought you did

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Just sit them down with it. Kids can figure new technology out.

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Boot from a live distro so you can modify your boot disk. Use the disk utility to create partitions. Copy the data to the relevant partitions ensuring to maintain file ownership and permissions. Modify /etc/fstab to mount the partitions at the designated locations in the filesystem.

I don’t bother putting anything but /home on its own dedicated partition, but if you ask 10 people this question you’ll get 12 opinions, so just do what feels right.

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Note: Create your partitions from your empty space. You may need to resize your existing partition to do this. But don’t practice on your main drive.

This is a simple job, in that the steps are few, but it’s something that causes catastrophic data loss if you get it wrong.

I’d recommend buying a cheap second drive, doesn’t have to be big or even good. Partition it, mount it, make sure you can make the partitions automatically mount, teach yourself to copy data around, umount it and remount, make sure you got it right.

Just… these are all very simple things. I wouldn’t hesitate to repartition my own drives. But if you fuck it up you fuck it up good. Make sure you know the operations you’re taking first. Measure twice, cut once, all that jazz.

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s e c u r i t y

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Owning your own domain is great that way. Even makes the little bit I pay to ProtonMail well worth it. There are a few addresses I have dedicated, like my [email protected], me@, and my-name@, but the rest just go to a catch all. It’s fantastic.

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There should be enough left in America to repopulate them within a few generations.

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I need to fuck an idiot, you brakes

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Am US citizen, only drive manual transmissions. Anyone here who likes cars can drive a manual transmission, anyone who doesn’t like cars doesn’t give a shit about a manual transmission and just wants to get where they’re going.

We invented cars, we’re allowed to decide how they evolve.

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htop and/or btop are more modern user friendly alternatives to the classic top

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Actually just saw btop mentioned on Lemmy the other day lol

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Plex setup is literally just installing it on a machine. It took me an hour because I decided to move it to a different machine after I set it up.

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It’s fair to call them terrorists when they attack civilians.

And don’t give me the “what about Israel” bullshit. They can be terrorists, too, it doesn’t make Hamas suddenly freedom fighters for murdering children. A terrorist is a terrorist.

My few remaining gripes with linux

It’s mostly libinput. Why the hell can’t I easily change scroll speed on Gnome and not on KDE? Why does gnome have a simple tool (gnome tweaks) to change the trackpad cooldown to change the time trackpad doesn’t work as a substitute for good palm rejection and KDE doesn’t? Why is it a bit of a pain in both to change...

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You might check out xfce. It’s gtk like Gnome but the development team doesn’t have their heads up their asses; pretty much every aspect of xfce can be customized. It should be a simple install from your package manager, whatever distribution you’re using. The downside of this, however, is it might take extensive tweaking to get it to look how you want as it’s a pretty bare bones UI by default. Personally I like it, but ymmv.

That’s the beautiful thing about the Linux world. If you don’t like some aspect there’s virtually always an alternative.

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Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

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If a different user doesn’t exist then you obviously can’t run the command as that different user. The only solution here is to create a new user account.

Also your image is improperly configured which is something you should fix first.

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I don’t think you understand what root is. By definition it has those permissions because it’s root.

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You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.

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When the robots gain sentience y’all are gonna regret not tipping your gas pumps.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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People tipping their doctor? I don’t even pay my doctor, my insurance does that.

What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...

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Don’t forget Cities Skylines and the recently released sequel. They’re both a lot of fun but for the sequel they really listened to the community. It’s a bit of a performance hog. There are performance patches coming but in the interim there area lot of settings one can change to make it run better on lower end hardware.

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I’ve got a decently beefy machine but it’s not top of the line or anything (Radeon RX 6950 XT, Core i7, 16GB memory) and with a few tweaks it runs pretty well. Definitely looking forward to the performance updates, though, because it’s a truly beautiful game.

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Just buy a TV and don’t connect the wi-fi for the smart capability. It’s only 90% solved, but as long as it has HDMI inputs and a digital audio out it gets the job done.

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It’s not. I just don’t connect the wi-fi. TVs usually enter a default state of “just go to the last selected input” which works fine for me.

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I’ll give you that one. I don’t know about finding unsecured networks, that would be enough to make me return the TV, but the two Samsung TVs I have take about 30 seconds for their input menus to go away. The menu from my Shield or whatever little device I have on my office TV are loaded, but the “Select your input” kinda menu fills 20% of the screen for about 30 seconds and it’s annoying.

That said… I’m never in that much of a hurry so it doesn’t really bother me (though it is a minor annoyance). I don’t blame you if it bothers you, though.

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I haven’t bought one in like 15 years but modern universal remotes are pretty cool. The Logitech Harmony remotes do all kinds of cool shit, though they require a computer to program and they are not cheap. Then there’s always the old dumb universal remotes that get the job done and cost like $10.

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You have to use flour to fry a stick of butter. Nobody on keto would touch it.

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Virtually nobody who eats meat feels guilty about it. Animals are there to be food. If there was a life form that could eat me it would, and I’d have to accept that.

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Everything is food for something. It’s not fate, it’s just fact.

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Most things I disagree with aren’t food, though.

Except kale. Fuck kale.

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Well it was meant to be inspiring. It fulfilled its life mission 1000 fold.

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Most gun designs are 70 years old or so and they were as widely available then as they are now.

Something besides the technology has definitely changed.

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People aren’t buying automatic weapons now. You have to jump through a LOT of hoops to acquire an automatic gun, they can cost as much as $40K, and have to be manufactured before 1986. But 50 years ago they absolutely were available. They were banned in 1986.

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It’s been so long since X broke that most people won’t know what you mean by xorg.conf

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I’ve always been curious how people who give away software for a living make that living. I have a few OSS projects but I make my living other ways, those OSS projects are hobbies and my living takes precedence every time because I like to eat food and buy things.

Like they can sell support, but I have never paid for a solution. They can sell packaged solutions, but I can compile it myself. They can survive on donations but, while I have donated to a lot of FOSS projects, I imagine most people don’t donate.

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Because I also want to poop.

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Those words don’t make sense in that order Chinabot.

Well, unless you’re trying to sound philosophical, which would make you worse than a bot.

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The free market works to lower the murder rate. Capitalism ftw.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

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Not really. You just use whatever difficulty scaling value you’d use for “easy” for specific enemies/encounters.

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Oh for sure. If we’re talking accessibility then yeah, it’s a different ball game entirely. Accessibility for everything is hard. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done, just saying it’s hard.

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I didn’t change my clocks back, I think that happens next week for me, but I’m over the shit. I’d love it if we could just decide to stop doing it.

However I don’t want to be the developer that deals with that change.

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Starburst are the Great Value brand of Hi-Chew.

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They have better flavors, too. Their Kiwi flavor is excellent.

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They probably use it on the candy molds as a food safe lubricant.

Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)

In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out,...

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So I took your advice though I ended up settling on the Kobo Libra 2 and I absolutely love this thing. It has a couple hardware buttons, too. Thanks for the recommendation!

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