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exu,

Yes. I use a hacky script to copy them to the right place

exu,

Cron sadly does not offer precision in the seconds range.

exu,

*for 20-series and later graphics cards

exu,

I don’t know how good it is, but for Turing and later GPUs there’s a new official open source driver being developed. You’d likely have to use a more bleeding edge distro to get that.

VR works depending on your headset. Index is fine, Oculus doesn’t work.

You could make a usb stick of your desired distro and test everything without permanent changes before commiting.

Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)

Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...

exu,

With Mozilla Location Services going away soon, I’m wondering at the legality of using the Apple data to seed a replacement.

exu,

You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it’s not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.

exu,

Without knowing what was being hosted, the only surefire way would be pulling a complete disk image with cat or dd.

If you wanted to stay on a similar system, RHEL 9 would be a good option or one of its “as similar as possible” like AlmaLinux.

Other common distros for servers are Debian, Ubuntu server and Suse SLES/OpenSuse Leap.

exu,

Yeah, they’re more power hungry, but they’re also way more performant than a pi 4.

exu,

On my phone (Android, LineageOS) there’s an option in the hotspot settings to allow clients to use the active VPN.

exu,

VAAPI is the “standard” interface for hardware en-/decoding on Linux. It should work with any GPU using the open source drivers and mesa.

I don’t know how QSV can be installed; AMF, the AMD equivalent, is limited to their proprietary driver.

exu,

How well does the current linux app for Proton VPN work on mobile?
It might also be easier to get an ARM64 version than a completely separate app.

Maybe package that for Ubuntu Touch, however their packaging works.

exu,

They could use vapoursynth + the official encoders. But at that point you’re programming your own processing pipelines.

exu,

Of course KDE supports that…

exu,

There’s Onedriver to connect onedrive on Linux. Though it’s been a while since I last used it.

exu,

Syncing two instances sounds like a fun challenge. I think there’s some project to replicate an sqlite db over the network. Similarly, you could use ceph or other distributed storage for the media.

I built something like this for Nextcloud a few years back, fun times.

exu,

If you want hardware decoding, first check what your gpu actually supports. vainfo can be used on Linux for example.

If you have a very new gpu, it might support av1 decoding. This is currently the best codec and alsi free.

Otherwise I’d prefer hevc and then avc, in that order. Vp8 or vp9 might also be supported, but they never caught on much so encoders and decoders are generally worse for them than the equivalents for other codecs.

I don’t know any private person who was prosecuted for using hevc or avc. Most likely your hardware manufacturer and other companies already paid for the license to use hevc/avc. If you live in the EU it’s even less of a problem as software patents are not a thing here, i.e. you can’t patent a way to do things.

Foe audio opus is the best codec at the momenr.

Please make sure to compare the quality before and after decoding. Even using a more efficient codec I’d be wary of a 300mb sized movie.

exu,

Totally agreed, but you’d still want gpu decoding.

Are we (linux) ready for Arm devices?

Are we (linux) ready for arm devices like snapdragon elite X? Asahi runs on mac os with arm chips and the software somehow runs better than macos itself?! Is the softwares packaged for arm linux different? Is there much softwares available for the arm platform like softwares available for the intel/amd chipsets?...

exu,

Support by packages is generally there. What is lacking however, are drivers for video acceleration and many other soc- and often board-specific customisations required.

X86 in contrary offers one unified and queriable interface (ACPI, UEFI) that makes custom images unnecessary. ARM has ServerReady for that, however I’m not aware of any consumer chip that implements this.

exu,

I don’t think Zed has an email client and window manager built-in.

exu,

Heh, same. I didn’t really find it that amazing though.

kbal, to linux
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Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

exu,

Maybe ironically, the dev acutally makes a good case for why Wayland should be the future in that post. (Crashing the screen locker doesn’t cause it to display your desktop instead)

exu,

AirVPN, but only for its port forwarding to sail the high seas.

exu,

Yeah and after work hours. My work phone goes into silent mode every day 17.00 until 7.00 the next day with the schedule I set.

exu,

TIL, thanks for that tip

exu,

Not having automated updates can quickly lead to not doing updates at all. Same goes for backups.

Whenever possible, one should automate tedious stuff.

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