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Veritasium did a video about credit card payment and NFC payment :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJY3DvnybE

I think it’s a good opportunity to understand the capabilities and weakness of NFC.

I personally think QR codes are not very secure as anybody could replace it by a malicious one.

Meh it’s not like Linux is one static block of immutable code.

It’s modular.

So it’s not like all linux distros will evolve the same way. And OP points it out that some distros are affected by age verification laws while others are not at all.

So I think it makes no sense to panic and thinking all linux will converge to some Windows ersatz…

I think the fact there is so many distros out there is our strength but also what prevents people from discovering the right linux for them.

So this will be the year of linux discovery imo and all linux user should help out new users finding their way to a linux that fit them for their journey to freedom.

I think you choose a poor example.

When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.

Most business with a lot of machines uses long names where everything as a logical meaning.

[Site][service][Rack][User selected 8 chars name]

I mean you dont have to use such obtuse names. But if you have a lot of servers you have to have a long name or you will risk exhausting the available names.

I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing. You can use user selected names as a suffix to a more functional initial prefix. So that people who work this area of the infrastructure can have clear names but at the same time some other sys admin that never worked on it can still know where and who is responsible of the server.

My initial point is just that the namespace and length of hostnames mostly depends on what you want to do. For a homelab you dont need wide namespace. But for a large business using short names wouldn’t be practical either.

In a business with tens of thousands of servers, it makes sense to have long complicated names.

For a homelab ? Not really.

I’ll be honest morphe has been a total nightmare for me. It works 70% of the times. 30% of the times it rewinds mid video to a random timestamp. And will do that in a loop.

In my experience that has been the very worse app I used on Android for YT.

To be fair it’s not really their fault if YT is constantly trying to disrupt their app.

I did the switch to full time linux gaming a few weeks ago.

Initially I was on PoP OS but I wasn’t happy with it. I reinstalled everything on Cachyos and it has been very good so far.

Here are the main “hurdles” that I think I should not have encountered in my “liberation” :

• I activated FDE in cachyos but the LUKS decryption prompt was never on my keyboard layout so I could never decrypt with the original key. I should not have to handle keyboard layout issues when decrypting FDE. This would be fatal to any beginner.
• I still think the tinkering with proton is too involved. Some command line arguments should be activated automatically depending on your setup. Players should be able to anonymously opt-in to sharing settings for all the game they start.
• Mouse sensitivity is wonky on many linux distros for gaming. Mouse acceleration should not be a default if you target gamers. I dont care if original Arch has this default. 99% of FPS players avoid it.

That being said, leaving Windows makes me incredibly happy and I’m very thankful for the great opportunity the open source community has given me through great free software.

I concur with others that your question depends a lot on where you live.

In my country if I take a “seedbox” in a datacenters I’m pretty much safe to pirate. The copyright holders don’t bother with that.

On the other hand I have received a threatening email from some government agency because I downloaded a blockbuster movie on torrent without a VPN.

Your first step should be to check if there is any precedent of people having legal troubles or ISP threats after pirating where you live.

Then you can decide on the available avenues to go around that.

In many countries, anti piracy laws can be very dumb (mostly because they are the result of technically illiterate lawmakers).

Again I could pirate everything online if the IP that does it for me is in a datacenter. But the second I would do that directly at home and I could get in trouble.

For example I could have a seedbox download for me some content on torrents and then upload it to a file hoster like mega or something. And then I download that file without triggering any copyright holder scanners. It’s stupid but if the torrenting is done by a business for me, it’s off radar. But it’s quite risky if I do it myself…

Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.

A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.

A stoat is a pretty cool animal.

I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.

I think Bazzite is the “easiest”. But I think it would be very difficult to tinker for someone not used to Linux. It’s the plug and play option. For me the fact that bazzite tries to be immutable is a very good plus for stability on the long run. And somehow fits well for gaming on Linux. The drawback is that these immutable distro are hard to tinker with if you dont have experience with immutable package managers and so on.

CachyOS has maybe a more traditional structure but should offer good performance too.

There is also Nobara and Pop OS.

I’m on PoPOS but it’s too recent for me to give feedback for gaming. But it should work well too.

I suppose to some extent that it depends on how aggressive you clean up after system updates.

It seems like on both Silverblue and NixOS there is stuff you can do to prune and cleanup unnecessary stuff.

By spreading I meant thar if there is an underlying manufacturing defect it would be really difficult to predict where and when it would happen on memory. And if there is already a fault detected more might come later.

But I’m glad you documented how to do these types of workaround. It might be helpful with memory prices skyrocketing…

Very cool to be able to do that even though I’m not sure it’s worth it to run a RAM module that has a known defect.

If the fault spreads there will be corruption again.

I would say it doesn’t exactly say that AI is bad moreso that shoving it forcefully in people’s throat is not the way to do it.

If all the BS AI of Windows would be exclusively opt-in I would be “” fine"" with it.

Then there is also the “telemetry” and the random updates, or settings changing on their own and…

Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?

It’d not really the reason I stopped using it but I suspected that some games didn’t like it when PiHole was up…

Anyway this post motivated me to reinstall my RasPi.

LOL I immediately thought about Spotify when reading the question.

Spotify was once an ultra fast app. Now it takes 15 seconds from launching the app to starting your music.

What I find funny is that Spotify used to be super fast at the inception of the service.

I would say there is some truth to what he says :

https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/news/artificial-sweeteners-create-deceptive-sweetness

Although it’s not like a definitive answer from the scientific community.

It could go tits up indeed with a pod name like that.

Just dont name your pod “Titan” just in case.

I just started learning Godot so as I BF veteran this was quite the good surprise. Also BF is on Steam which I still can’t believe.

But I’m waiting to see it released. It could be like the previous “Portal”. Just announcements without anything released.

Yeah I think it’s just a false alarm.

I would suggest looking into how sudoers works. I might just be that you asked caddy to do something that required root and forgot to sudo the command ?

Still double check the timestamp and verify that it was when you tinkered. Use “history” to look for previous commands and maybe the timestamp ?

The way I see it something (probably caddy) wanted to check a TLS certificate and had to concatenate all the certificate authorities to check if an adequate CA was there. And it failed to access what looks like a local CA that is autosigned ? Still worth checking your CA has adequate / similar permission as the others.