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  • How common are men-women friendships on Facebook?

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  • That may just be the cause then? The difference in relative population? Since we don't know from the graphic what the numerical foundation is, it might be sometime that skews toward the "more common" side when there's just less women in an area.

  • I built a tool for managing config files

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  • I would like to add that I did look at the GitHub before commenting. And I still didn't get it. Matthew with just explain what it does, but also why is different from the common tools/suggestions that seem similar. Maybe it's more about highlighting the differences (or the additional capabilities).

  • words to live by 🙏

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  • Just one more aspect to add to the other replies that I didn't see mentioned: the most common use of this is with online multiplayer games like Mobas (lol, dota2) or ability/arena shooters (overwatch, valorant), where the developer will actually make changes to the balance, or add/remove items, heroes, ... Here "the meta" will often shift with any major patch. As an example, they might adjust the items that give health and/or armor because front liners aren't effective enough, and maybe they overtune it a bit, leading to a "tank meta" because now tanky characters can fulfill roles they weren't even intended for (just as a random example).

    But also things like tabletop games (Warhammer) have seasonal rulesets where this can apply.

    It can even apply to Singleplayer games like Baldurs Gate 3 (as a recent example). In these cases the meta often refers to very efficient, good working character builds (class selection, level order and items) that have usually been figured out by the community over time. In that case the meta is generally more fixed or stable, as the game doesn't receive maybe balance updates every few months.

  • I built a tool for managing config files

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  • Ah now I understand the purpose. I only use it for my (personal) dotfiles, which as a term is ambiguous at best, but in my case I mean config files. That was how I essentially misread your title. Obviously all those files are owned by my user, and most live in ~/.config or similar locations beneath my home directory. Things like application preferences, basically.

    Obviously your tool also works for this, but I now understand it's more meant for system wide config files.

  • I built a tool for managing config files

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  • I'm also just using GNU stow into a git repo. It needs no configuration file and just works on any system. Rolling out a new system takes 2 commands. I really don't see the need for a specialized tool for this use case.

  • Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea

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  • It's also in the article, which is actually a pretty good read. The short version is is very hard to make heat go anywhere, and you can only radiate it away, which is slow and inefficient compared to even basic air cooling.

  • What's the story behind your username and avatar?

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  • You guys have avatars? Too much effort...

  • Qogir-style icons for Books, Build, and Games folders since the icon pack doesn't have them by default.

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  • Can't you have them be added to the pack? Open a pr or something?

  • Can confirm this is true

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  • At least half of that list applied to me when I was like 16.

  • Tmux 3.6 Update Adds Scrollbars, New Theme Mode

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  • I've been using Zellij whenever I can cause tmux is so limited. It'll also be probably years before this release hits Debian repos, so if I'm having to manually install a binary, might as well get something modern.

  • Locked

    I dunno

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  • But the USA seems to use PEMDAS? I'm confused now...

  • Oblivion Remastered crashing after 2 minutes.

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  • You can try to refund anyway, and explain the reason in the text box. Has worked for me in the past. There are actually people reading these as far as I can tell. If it didn't work, all it cost was life 3 minutes.

  • Why I Dumped YouTube (and Why You Might Want to Too – No More Crap)

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  • You can use ReVanced to add a block to the android app. It's as as free as my desktop experience with Firefox+uBlockOrigin.

  • Munich wants to legalize parking on sidewalks

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  • No one is going to get a tape measure out

    You clearly don't know Germans. Yes they will. They already do. You're not allowed to park within 5m of an intersection, which the people in charge of checking and giving tickets will absolutely measure. There are many other instances where distances are involved like this. They already carry a tape measure (or equivalent) for this exact reason. Adding one more case just fits the theme.

  • Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers

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  • It's the same with other vendors though. I man those that allow you to swap internals without losing warranty. Bought my laptop with just a 16g stick (base price/included), then bought 2x24g for the price one additional 16g module would've cost. And now I got a 16g module left over, too.

  • Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?

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  • I only have one entry in there, which is for /boot. The others are implicit anyway since I'm using ZFS. The boot entry is needed afaik, as there are multiple efi-type partitions in the system.

  • Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?

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  • If that is necessary depends on your BIOS/MoBo. I did have to on mine. But the effort for a normal CachyOS install is t really like 5 minutes: boot into live iso, enter 'cachy-chroot' or whatever the command is, follow instructions on screen. Then just reinstall grub and/or kernel (which regenerates initramfs). There's a wiki entry and pinned posts in discord for this whole thing. Ask in discord if you get stuck, they are incredibly responsive and helpful.

    Once you've done it, you'll notice it's really no big deal. Btw. "Losing" your Linux install is very hard. It's not as fragile as Windows. You can bork things, but they can usually be un-borked as well. The only real way is fully deleting partitions or their contents, which you can't just do accidentally.

    Especially just moving it to a new host can't break it, you just need to get it to boot. Once you know how, it's like 5 minutes. You can take the drive from a 20 year old PC, pop it into a modern system and it'll work fine (assuming the system is semi-updated). Windows has a hard time moving to a different MoBo or platform. Linux doesn't care. Drivers aren't 'installed' like they are in Windows. They are just in the kernel available to be used. Almost everything is detected fresh on every boot, making this incredibly robust. As I said, you might just have to fiddle a bit to get it to boot, once it does, it'll just work fine.

  • E-ink smartwatch Pebble, back from the dead, now open source

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  • Doesn't have and never had an E-Ink display. It's a tLCD (t for transflective). It shares the property that it gets easier to read the brighter the ambient light is. It does not need to be cycled like E-Ink and is generally fast in comparison (closer to LCD in speed).

  • Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?

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  • This is actually not even necessary. The systems are similar enough it'll just work. I have recently swapped an SSD from a laptop to a newer model with CachyOS, and that was more of a generational jump in terms of cpu and other hardware.

    But CachyOS has a quirk. Linux systems specify which partitions are mounted to which directories in the /etc/fstab file. Unfortunately, the boot partition is specified using a device name and not a UUID. this is problematic when switching an SSD from a system to another as this may very well change device names. It did for me and I then had to rescue boot + chroot to fix it.

    The fix, if done before, is trivial: edit the line for /boot in that file to start with UUID= (followed by the actual UUID of the partition) instead of with /dev/nvme0n1p1 or whatever the current device name is. Google should be able to tell you how to find the UUID of your boot partition.