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  • Boot into NVMe drives from USB

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  • I'm sure there would be a way to do this with Debian, but I have to confess I don't know it. I have successfully done this in the past with Clover Bootloader. You have to enable an NVMe driver, but once that's done you should see an option to boot from your NVMe device. After you've booted from it once, Clover should remember and boot from that device automatically going forward. I used this method for years in a home theatre PC with an old motherboard and an NVMe drive on a PCIe adapter.

  • Delta flight forced to turn back after maggots fall on passengers

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  • When I fly to the US from Toronto I clear US customs in Pearson Airport, before getting on the plane. If I were to sign up for a Nexus pass I'd be able to pass through US customs even faster, but I don't travel often enough for it to be worthwhile. Not sure if either of those matches what you mean by pre-clearance.

  • The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?

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  • Elon broke the seal on firing huge swaths of a tech workforce to make your numbers look better.

    Don't give him too much credit, it's hardly the first time the tech sector has gone through this cycle. Elon had to do it because he massively overpaid for Twitter. The fact that his layoffs came at the front of this wave is probably just coincidence.

  • Ideas for setting up a media server compatible with xbox viewing?

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  • People here seem partial to Jellyfin

    I recently switched to Jellyfin and I've been pretty impressed with it. Previously I was using some DLNA server software (not Plex) with my TV's built-in DLNA client. That worked well for several years but I started having problems with new media items not appearing on the TV, so I decided to try some alternatives. Jellyfin was the first one I tried, and it's working so well that I haven't felt compelled to search any further.

    the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration).

    Why not try it and see how it works for you? Jellyfin is free and open source, so all it would cost you is a little time.

    I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software)

    Can you install apps from Google Play on this TV? If so, there's a Jellyfin app for Google TVs. I can't say how well the Google TV Jellyfin app works as I have an LG TV myself, so currently I'm using the Jellyfin LG TV app.

    If you can't install apps on that TV, does it have a DLNA client built in? Many TVs do, and that's how I streamed media to my TV for years. On my LG TV the DLNA server shows up as another source when I press the button to bring up the list of inputs. The custom app is definitely a lot more feature-rich, but a DLNA client can be quite functional and Jellyfin can be configured to work as a DLNA server.

  • U.S. plans to raise tariffs against Canadian softwood lumber producers

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  • What an odd coincidence... I've been following this boat-building channel on Youtube for a couple years, and they talked about wood grain in the episode posted just today. Here's a link to the relevant timestamp in the video. I'm not a woodworking expert by any means, but if the boat people say tighter grain is better I'ma believe 'em.

  • U.S. plans to raise tariffs against Canadian softwood lumber producers

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  • U.S. plans to raise tariffs against Canadian softwood lumber producers

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  • This shit has been going on since the 80s. It's mostly bullshit instigated by US lumber companies. Available softwood lumber in the US is mainly on privately owned land, and the owners of that land want the price of lumber to be as high as possible so they can make more money. The softwood lumber companies in the US are effectively acting as an oligopoly, and they lobby US politicians for legislation in their interests.

    Softwood lumber in Canada is mainly on public land, called "crown land" here in Canada. A lumber oligopoly isn't possible in Canada because the government would never sell all of that land to a handful of lumber companies. Instead lumber producers in Canada are charged a fee for the logs they cut, that fee is set by the Canadian government, and it is less per log than what US lumber producers want to charge.

    Instead of competing on price, US lumber companies lobby congress to impose softwood lumber tariffs for the umpteenth time. When the US lumber companies don't need to compete with Canadian lumber, they can jack up their prices. When they do that the only people who benefit are the US lumber companies and the politicians they've lobbied. Americans pay more for lumber, Canadian lumber companies and their workers suffer.

  • Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap

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  • Containourboros!

  • Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ

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  • How did this happen? Isn’t there usually a flight attendant standing right there as you board the plane?

    Yes, but the 777 has two aisles. Here's the Air Canada seat map. The flight attendant greeting passengers would be by the first aisle, directing passengers down the correct aisle for their seat. This passenger might have been directed to the second aisle, and rather than turning down the aisle they went straight across to opposite exit door. Or they might have used one of the other doors. The 777 has 10 full-sized doors, 5 on each side of the plane. Two of those doors open onto the wings, one of those would have been used for boarding, maybe two if first-class passengers get a separate air bridge, but that still leaves 6 or 7 doors where there isn't likely to be a flight attendant to notice a passenger doing something stupid.

  • Kai Zhuang: Chinese teen found alive in US after 'cyber kidnapping'

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  • File size preference for Radarr?

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  • You can do this with custom formats. You'd want to create a custom format that gives a score if the file is below a certain size threshold (say 1.5GB per hour), then add minimum custom scores to the release profiles you use (e.g. Bluray 1080p). You can also add custom filters for release groups that prioritise file size. YTS for example keeps their releases as small as possible.

  • I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

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  • I'm not convinced that Valve will go down the tubes when Gabe shuffles off this moral coil (praise gaben may he live a thousand years). It would require a strong company culture that believes as he does that piracy is a service issue and is thus willing to adhere to his vision in his absence, but that can happen in a privately held company if there's a strong succession plan in place.

    Now, if Gabe dies and Valve goes public, then it's pretty much over. Platform monetization, proft-taking and short-term thinking would enshittify Steam in short order.

  • I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

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  • Commerce conducted in a capitalist economy is inherently capitalist. Being publicly traded is not strictly required, though it might be the most common form of corporate structure under capitalism. Individuals, partnerships, privately-held and publicly-traded companies can all own capital. Valve's assets are not owned by a government, its business decisions are made privately and it operates in a free market. Those three factors are pretty much the definition of capitalism.

  • A repost from r/linuxmemes - Because I saw the original comic

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  • I briefly experimented with it ages ago. And I mean ages ago, like 20+ years ago. Maybe it's changed somewhat since then, but my understanding is that Gentoo doesn't provide binary packages. Everything gets compiled from source using exactly the options you want and compiled exactly for your hardware. That's great and all but it has two big downsides:

    • Most users don't need or even want to specify every compile option. The number of compile options to wade through for some packages (e.g. the kernel) is incredibly long, and many won't be applicable to your particular setup.
    • The benefits of compiling specifically for your system are likely questionable, and the amount of time it takes to compile can be long depending on your hardware. Bear in mind I was compiling on a Pentium 2 at the time, so this may be a lot less relevant to modern systems. I think it took me something like 12 hours to do the first-time compile when I installed Gentoo, and then some mistake I made in the configuration made me want to reinstall and I just wasn't willing to sit through that again.

  • Lemmy frontend

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  • Some of the alt UIs mentioned in this thread can be test-driven on lemmy.world:

    And as others have said, once you find one you like you can self-host it and use it with any instance you prefer.

  • What android phones do you recommend and why?

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  • You could install LineageOS on your existing phone instead of upgrading. The OnePlus 7 Pro is supported. The install process can be daunting depending on your technical skills, but it's a one-time process since the phone gets updates over-the-air after the OS is installed.

    I did this with my OnePlus 6 a few months ago and the experience has been good. Switching to LineageOS bumped Android to version 13, whereas it was stuck on Android 11 on stock OnePlus firmware. I'm getting regular updates again, including open-source Android security patches. Not everything gets patched though, some of the core firmware is proprietary to OnePlus and that cannot be patched by anyone but them. It's letting me extend the life of a phone still works well and has a 3.5mm headphone jack.

  • Markdown everywhere

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  • Atlassian doesn't even have consistency within single products! I'm using Jira Cloud at work, and while most fields support markdown (e.g. three backticks to start a code block) there are a few that only support Jira's own notation (e.g. {code} to start a code block). It's always infuriating when I type some markdown in one of the fields that doesn't support it for some inexplicable reason.

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • All known mineral reserves could power the world on exclusively nuclear energy for several thousand years at least.

    You got a source for that? Because the one I linked says that we run out of known Uranium deposits by 2100 at current usage rates. Our known Uranium deposits run out mid-century if we use nuclear to follow the IEA Blue Map plan to reduce carbon emissions by 50%, and we run out of even speculated deposits by 2100 under that scenario. Where are you getting "several thousand years" from? Is Thorium part of the mineral reserves to which you're referring?

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • It is somewhat unclear how much Uranium is available worldwide (for strategic reasons), but even at current production, supply issues have been known to happen.

    Nuclear fission using Uranium is not sustainable. If we expand current nuclear technologies to tackle climate change then we'd likely run out of Uranium by 2100. Nuclear fusion using Thorium might be sustainable, but it's not yet a proven, scalable technology. And all of this is ignoring the long lead times, high costs, regulatory hurdles and nuclear weapon proliferation concerns that nuclear typically presents. It'd be great if nuclear was the magic bullet for climate change, but it just ain't.

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • We’ve had the cure for climate change all along

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this simply isn't true with established nuclear technologies. Expanding our currently nuclear energy production requires us to fully tap all known and speculated Uranium sources, nets us only a 6% CO2 reduction, and we run out of Uranium by 2100. We might be able to use Thorium in fuel cycles to expand our net nuclear capacity, but that technology has to yet to be proven at scale. And all of this ignores the high startup cost, regulatory difficulties, disposal challenges and weapons proliferation risks that nuclear typically presents.