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There's nothing illegal about blocking ads and there are many security advantages to doing so. Your company is well within its rights in blocking them and I would do so as well if I were a company's IT manager. If you're that worried about creators' incomes you can always donate money to them or buy their merch, both of which are much more impactful than sitting through ads.

You should definitely use the faster 3.0 drive for the OS, most flash drives aren't very fast anyway but 2.0 really holds you back. As for size, it all depends on how much you intend to use them. I wouldn't go below 32Gb if you want to actually use it, 128 is probably a better choice considering they're all so cheap anyway.

if you ever get the urge, there's always gentoo https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#ppc

It's literally just a relatively small rack server... Yeah, this is pretty much the only use case I can think of. In what other situation are you collecting terabytes of data while not having a high end system nearby, or reachable through the internet? What do you mean by this lmao

oh, is there a specific reason for not going all the way to current releases or are you just not interested anymore?

We're not even close If that ever happened then sure, it might be considered a life form. As of right now it's no different than wondering what would happen if a chair suddenly became sentient, though. If you're concerned about respecting intelligent life forms, we should probably start with creatures that exist, like octopi or cetaceans. We're not going fast at all. In fact we've probably already hit a dead end, because there's no path through which what we call "AI" can evolve into what you're describing. The perceived rapid development you've seen in the last year or two is just the result of a decade of research, hardware performance increases and data collection; from here there isn't a clear path forward and unless the technology changes radically all considerations about it becoming "sentient" are just thought experiments. The talking heads want you to believe we're on the verge of making skynet or whatever because that kind of hype drives investment, and they want to milk that cow for as long as possible. Kind of like how we were supposed to have fully autonomous self driving cars "any day now" 10 years ago.

You can do whichever is most convenient to you, if you have no specific reason to wait you might as well upgrade to 24.04 now. 22.04 is supported for another year though so there's no rush.

The difference being, websites can't just enforce any condition they wish on you just because you visited them. They can ask nicely, but ultimately what you do with the data on your end is your business, unless you're breaking DRM protection (which may or may not be illegal depending on your local laws). When you pay for something there's a stronger case to be made that you've accepted some type of contract, although again you can't just have anything in the terms of service and expect it to be enforceable.

As far as I can tell, yes. Although to be honest the "safety" aspect in a random hotspot scenario is pretty minimal. HTTPS traffic is already encrypted and protected from man in the middle attacks - at worst a malicious actor would be able to log which websites your IP connected to. And if you're using your personal device at, say, a random bar, they wouldn't necessarily be able to trace it back to you. As for this making VPNs "useless" as OP claims... I've always maintained that most of the marketing claims VPNs make are bullshit to begin with since, as mentioned, https itself already protects you in many ways and VPNs only "hide" your traffic from your ISP, if that. One legitimately useful (where legally permissible) application of VPNs however has always been accessing region locked or otherwise regionally unavailable content, which isn't affected by this vulnerability.

Yeah well, this type of thing is inherently inefficient, after all it's a quasi-brute force approach. It can do things we wouldn't be able to program manually, but not necessarily in a very speedy way. Realistically if you want to do things efficiently, especially on linux, just learning to navigate the shell and scripting (which is required for this to work anyway) is by far the best way. Oh sure, it can be useful as a tool for writers, I meant it doesn't really work as a standalone story/book synthetizer with little human input.

Well, nothing stops i.e. the kde devs from integrating it into their DE with a suite of premade scripts and feeding the text straight to the LLM. But yeah, I agree speech controls are mostly a pointless gimmick - except for accessibility, I can see it being useful for movement impaired users. The "problem" is that LLMs are just not the right tool for creative writing; it's not what they are designed to do and the way they work kind of inherently prevents it. What you get out of an LLM is what it deems to be the most likely next word, which inevitably brings it down to a sort of "average human writing an essay" level of quality, even at its best. "The average book" is probably not something I'd be terribly interested in reading, even if the model was expanded to be able to output hundreds of coherent pages.

Pretty cool, but do note that if you want it to actually do things on your computer it seems you'll need to write your own scripts for it to reference.

because. it's. building. from. source. and if you look at the dependencies for the pkgbuild, it requires some aur python modules which themselves have dependencies and need to be built from source. if that makes you mad, get a binary only distribution - but then maybe stop chasing the "most hardcore haxxor diy distro" if you're not willing to even understand how they work. the advantage of the AUR, compared to other distributions that don't have something like it, is that you have access to a much wider variety of packages that you would otherwise have to manually build and find the dependencies for; if that's not something you care about then just use something else.

Overclocking has never been a guarantee. After all, if all or even most chips could reliably reach 3-400 mhz above the default they'd just release them with those values, or take the opportunity for a more expensive SKU. As consumers looking to overclock, it's up to us to inform ourselves on what these chips can realistically tolerate, and (always) risk burning ours for the sake of a relatively small improvement.

Systemd is not slower than any other init system. If configured incorrectly, or when running too many useless startup services, it can seem slow, but at its core it's about as fast as it gets. As mentioned, one of the most performance oriented distributions is clear linux and unsurprisingly it uses systemd.

Not only is it that easy, it's the only officially supported way. Just read the wiki page. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository Specifying build flags can be done in /etc/makepkg.conf regardless of which aur manager you use (if any). That's not what bloat means under any definition. If the sources on your disk bug you, just delete them. If you don't need the build dependencies, uninstall them after the fact. By the way, yay will ask you if you want to remove them automatically. If you don't like the automatism, do it manually as the arch devs intended.

it all depends on what the rules and goals of the competition are... if it's a bunch of conceptual problems where performance is irrelevant and you have limited time to come up with a solution, C is a terrible choice. It will only slow you down. On the other hand if code performance matters and the questions are related to optimization and efficiency, then C is an ok choice. Many programming competitions will require a specific language or at least ask you to pick from 2 or 3 at most

...because that's just how the AUR works... and yay explicitly asks you whether it should keep the source files and build dependencies. Then use another distribution, or don't install anything from the aur. What's next, running gentoo and then complaining you have to compile things? Pacman wrappers are the most powerful form of aur helper because they abstract away all the work of searching, downloading, building and installing AUR packages.

You're probably counting cached memory then. Or running a load of services.

barebones wm, no frills, no applets, no animations. it wasn't really something I'd choose to use every day, but it worked. The kernel on its own barely uses any memory so there isn't much you can shave there anyway.

I've gotten arch down to two digits memory usage without touching the kernel

Might as well stop beating around the bush then https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

The problem is that there isn't really a 1:1 equivalent, despite the terrible management it still scratches an itch no other platform does (at least so I'm told, not being on twitter myself). However things like this are what's driving away twitter's main advertisers, meaning the platform's finances are going to be worse and worse the longer this goes on.

Yes! https://xdaforums.com/t/multirom-beryllium-miui-custom-roms-gsi-06-12-2020.3868734/

The lens is "just" the glass part that focuses light onto the sensor. The sensor is what actually captures the image. Not all sensors are the same, especially between phones, and therefore they can't just be swapped around like lego bricks. Now, if the industry were more standardized and phones were designed to be more repairable, this may not be the case... but that's not the world we live in right now. @wanderingfool2 data scrapes from refurbs can be solved by 1) having the drive be encrypted, which I think is already the case on iphones, and 2) diligently writing it over with random data. The latter isn't something you can easily do if you're a third party, but it could be done by Apple if they really wanted to. Though as I mentioned, with the way iphones are made there are many reasons why trying to resell them all would probably be a fruitless endeavor.