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i_am_not_a_robot, 8 months ago

Even for x86 it depends. Often they’re built like Android devices and they have weird hardware that isn’t properly supported by kernel.org Linux. My prematurely end-of-life Chromebook has problems with sound and thermals and longevity when running regular Linux. I replaced it with a laptop that has official Linux support. The build quality to price value is worse, but it’s not hobbled by inconsistent, half-hearted hardware support over an artificially limited lifetime. Even before it was end-of-life, my premium Google Chromebook had to wait to receive software features that were available on newer Chromebooks because the drivers weren’t compatible with new kernel versions.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Obviously the solution is to buy two apple Watches so you can have one for while the other is charging, the same way you watch movies on their VR headset.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

You’re better off heating the inside of the house with gas that heating the outside of the house with gas and using the heat pump to transfer that heat into the house. Replacing the gas line with lines for the heat pump would be best.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Downloading certificates from your domain provider is often a security problem. Only you are supposed to know your private keys.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Are you binding services to specific addresses? Normally if you bind your service to :: it will receive IPv4 connections using ::ffff:x.x.x.x addresses.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Trying IPv6 and failing is normal. Modern software that supports both is supposed to try both, but sometimes people mess it up…

In general, if you write code that connects to another computer over the network, you want to be connecting to a string, not an IP address. If you write something like connect(“lemmy.world”, 443), it should connect over either IPv6 or IPv4. However, if you write something like connect(getHostByName(“lemmy.world”), 443), that usually will return a single IP address and if that address doesn’t work then the connection fails.

The Java documentation says it should just work “if everything has been done appropriately.” docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/…/ipv6_guide/

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

What a non-story. The username, profile picture, posts from profile, and post interactions are all required for displaying the content that the Thread’s user has subscribed to. The IP address is required for connecting to the service to retrieve that content. Facebook doesn’t get any more access to your data than necessary nor do they get any more access to your data than anybody else. This is just fear mongering.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Tax increases are passed on to the people. Tax cuts are passed on to the wealthy. I’m American so I should know.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Did they also revert the change where most hostile NPCs would automatically flag you on agro? A long time ago you could run through towns without being flagged, and NPCs could kill themselves by attacking players that had some sort of damage reflection without the player becoming flagged.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

First, it’s not possible to use “pure docker” on Windows. Docker is for running additional user mode environments under the same kernel. You can’t run Linux applications under the Windows kernel without WSL1, and WSL1’s Linux implementation does not support the features required for Docker. This is also possible in limited cases with Windows Server, but because of differences in the way Windows works you almost always end up running a second kernel.

WSL2 can be used to run Docker, and in fact that’s how Docker Desktop works since years ago. When you start Docker Desktop it starts a WSL2 distribution under which the containers run. Running Docker from the command line only will not positively change the performance of your containers.

Running other virtualization software, especially VirtualBox, to start a separate Linux VM and running your containers in there is going to be more complicated and give worse performance unless you disable all virtualization-based features of Windows, such as WSL2 and security isolation.

The solution to your memory problem is most likely one of the following:

1. Don’t disable the pagefile. Windows uses a weird memory model where all virtual memory must be backed by physical memory. Certain software will allocate virtual memory without using it, and Windows will require that the sum of the physical memory size and the page file size be adequate to use all of that virtual memory. Disabling the pagefile or limiting it to small sizes because you “have enough RAM” will cause out of memory errors while you still have plenty of RAM available.
2. Reduce the amount of memory that Docker is allowed to use to a level that your Windows software can tolerate. You may need to switch Docker Desktop to Hyper-V mode for this option to be available, which isn’t an option if you’re on Windows Home, and this may reduce compatibility.
3. After stopping your containers, run echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory at a WSL2 prompt or wsl -u root – bash -c ‘echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory’ from a Windows prompt. See Memory Reclaim in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 for details about what this does.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

World of War Warcraft is also unplayable at noon on Tuesdays. It’s an uncommon enough time that the servers might be down for maintenance. They could do a better job explaining that if that’s the case, but it’s early access.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

It’s a Chinese name for a Chinese company.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

I have Comcast now and it’s okay in my area (no data cap scam in my area), but probably only because Verizon is available across the street. I had Verizon before I moved and it was faster but they completely forgot that they needed to implement IPv6.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

My ISP gave me an e-mail address and it’s all spam all the time. The server-side spam filter is useless.

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

Microsoft has a real branding problem with messaging services. First they had Skype and Skype for Business and now they have Teams and… Teams. They’re completely different products and don’t interoperate. This is almost certainly for the home version of Teams.

It’s not even a good name. Who thinks of their friends and family as teams?

i_am_not_a_robot, 9 months ago

If you’re in an Office you might be using a completely different product with the same name from the same company with a similar logo.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

WSL2 is actually Linux.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

That’s WSL1. WSL2 is Linux.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

It’s the number one change in the patch notes.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

It’s not so simple. If my parents stopped buying iPhones, they would need to replace their watches, their TV streaming device, their car chargers, and all their apps. You can’t expect normal people to collectively switch from an ecosystem designed around lock-in.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

If it’s reasonably private and a third-party morality police isn’t deciding what you should be allowed to spend your money on, it’d be a big improvement over the US system.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

Which is really sad because Safari used to be one of the best browsers over a decade ago now.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

Surely the drive motors use far more energy than the computer, and the computer doesn’t need to be fully powered on all the time.

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

Can’t you buy that from Boox?

i_am_not_a_robot, 10 months ago

How? Metal came first.