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NotAnArdvark

@ NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

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  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • ZRAM is real. Even on computers with lots of ram it lets the os compress and tuck away memory that a process is hoarding. When I start using android studio all these long-running election process get 1/2 their memory swapped out to disk, and evidently they never really needed it because days later I still see lots of their memory swapped out.

  • Hong Kong's deadliest high-rise fire in years leaves at least 36 dead, 279 reported missing

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  • I don't know how firefighters even hope to put something like that out. You can't reach the higher floors with water from the ground, it doesn't seem like there was any sort of sprinkler system in the building. Would they go in from the ground floor and just work their way up one level at a time?

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  • I bought a Fairphone 4 off Clove.co.uk and I live in Canada. After a year and a bit of enjoying that my wife agreed to replace her Pixel 4a with a Fairphone 5.

  • Canadian Dental Care Plan now open to All Canadians who don’t have coverage & household income below $90K/year

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  • Has anyone used this program? Did your dentist treat it like any other insurance?

  • Recall issued over ineffective radon detectors sold online: Health Canada - National | Globalnews.ca

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  • We're in Alberta and used this site: https://www.homeradontest.ca/

    It was cheap and easy. Unfortunately our results were right at the warning level, so now we're trying to figure out what to do.

  • Dangerous veterinary tranquilizers now found in most fentanyl samples

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  • What is happening in that picture?!

  • What do you guys use LLMs for, that is proven to work well with them?

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  • I guess my notes are unstructured, as in they're what I type as I'm in the meeting. I'm a "more is better" sort of note taker, so it's definitely faster to let AI pull things out.

    Infosec ... I guess people will have to evaluate that for themselves. Certainly, for my use case there's no concern.

  • What do you guys use LLMs for, that is proven to work well with them?

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  • I use it to review my meeting notes.

    • "Based on the following daily notes, what should I follow-up on in my next meeting with #SomeTeamTag?"
    • "Based on the following daily notes, what has the #SomeTeamTag accomplished the past month?"
    • etc.

    I'm not counting on it to not miss anything, but it jogs my memory, it does often pull out things I completely forgot about, and it lets me get away with being super lazy. Whoops, 5 minutes before a meeting I forgot about? Suddenly I can follow up on things that were talked about last meeting. Or, for sprint retrospectives, give feedback that is accurate.

    To add: I've also started using AI to "talk to podcast guests." You can use Whisper to transcribe a podcast, then give the transcript to AI to ask questions. I find the Modern Wisdom Podcast is great for this.

  • This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs

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  • How long have you been using Kmail?

    I tried maybe 3 years ago and I found it incredibly buggy. I've been using Thunderbird, but definitely wish there was a KDE or Qt-native mail app that did what I wanted.

  • Lightest-weight video conferencing?

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  • One is a Pinebook Pro, which is an RK3399 processor. Another is a Surface Go 2 with an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y.

    The actual issue is that the video conferencing works, but trying to do anything else is just suuuper slow. Well, the Surface Go 2 is actually fairly good as long as I'm not touching the ZRAM. But, trying to share a window in Google Meet will always involve a lot of waiting. Firefox and Chromium seem equivalent on the Surface, but the Pinebook seems better in Chromium lately.

    I can bare-bones most apps I use on these laptops, but for video conferencing it seems like I have to drag along a whole browser.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Lightest-weight video conferencing?

  • How long has your PC been on for?

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  • I'm surprised how many people turn their computers off. My desktop uptime is 4 day, but, I do put it to sleep at night (which I think counts towards its uptime).

    I will look into hibernating. The reason I don't shut down is because I usually end up with carefully placed windows and lots of ongoing projects all over. Restarting would mean I'd have to start all that up again - assuming I remember what I was doing.

  • Optimal ZRAM configuration for my device

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  • For whatever it's worth - I have a laptop with 4GB of RAM and a 4GB ZRAM device, and it can't use all the ZRAM before everything grinds to a halt. I think the way ZRAM works best is if it can "swap out" (compress) anonymous pages that aren't actually needed again right away, freeing up the fast memory for disk caching and other memory needs.

    In my case, I think I can reach a point where the amount of memory Linux needs simultaneously active goes beyond the 4GB of RAM, so it's just compressing/uncompressing forever and getting nowhere.

    So, I think I'd argue that maybe you can't go too big? I think only anonymous pages can get compressed, and there's probably only so many gigabytes of those in memory at any given time.

  • Not enough people buying Premium, eh?

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  • YouTube premium is one of the subscriptions I most often feel thankful for having. I watch enough YouTube videos that avoiding all those ads is really worthwhile, I hope that my view is worth more to the channels I watch, and YouTube music let me cancel Spotify.

    I understand being pissed at YouTube and Google, but at the end of the day, of all the things I have to rage at, YouTube isn't worth it. I like it, there are creators that use it that I like, and I understand that it costs real money to run the platform.

  • Linux, openSUSE ready for Everyday Users

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  • I switched to Tumbleweed from Ubuntu but was wary of the rolling release idea. I went in thinking "Well yeah, they need a file system like BTRFS to back out of bad updates." And this was the case for me when Zoom stopped working after an update during a month when I really needed Zoom to be working. But, somehow, BTRFS has turned into a personal requirement for me everywhere. Things went wrong on Ubuntu too, wouldn't it have been nice to be able to easily roll back the change that did it?

    So, I still find it irritating how often little things change with Tumbleweed, but I love having BTRFS in the background making sure I can back out of any major issues.

  • Some setup notes for self-hosting a Lemmy instance

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  • Does Lemmy life feel any different using your private instance now?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Can a Flatpak control the file picker used by an app?

  • Netflix raises prices as password boost fades

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  • I don't see what would be wrong with a world where businesses just satisfied themselves with providing employees with a reasonable living, contributed to the communities they were in, and provided a good or service that was needed. Sitting under a tree and reading a book sounds better than watching the world burn in your name-brand clothes and 5 bedroom 2.5 bath house.

  • What is your linux backup strategy?

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  • Adding my "Me too" to Vorta/Borg. I use it with Borgbase, which I like because it's legitimately cheap and they support Borg development. As well, you can set Borg backups with Borgbase to "append only," which prevents ransomware or other unexpected "whoopsies" from wiping out your backup history.

    I backup most of my computer every hour, but have pruning rules that make sure things don't get too out of hand. I have a second backup that backs everything up to my NAS (using Vorta, again). This is helpful for things like my downloads folder, virtual machines, or STEAM library - things I wouldn't want to backup over the network, but on occasion I do find myself going "whoops, I wanted that."

    I also have Vorta working on my Mom's Macbook, then have Borgbase send me an email when there isn't any activity for longer than a couple of days. Once I got automatic pruning working right I never had to touch this again.

  • Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

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  • I moved from Kubuntu to Tumbleweed and really like it. For some reason I really don't like RPMs and that caused some hesitancy when I thought of switching, but really I never deal with RPMs directly. Zypper is ok and I've made peace with Flatpak. I update the whole distro every weekend and I've tested out reverting using Snapper.

    In the year and a half of using it I can think of two problems I had from updating - one is fixed by removing the GPUCache directory of an Electron app when Mesa gets updated, the other is with Zoom which I mostly fixed by moving to the Flatpak version.

  • Can someone recommend me a decent air purifier?

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  • I did this this year for wildfire smoke, and it works great. Having said that, it is not quiet and the way I was using it was to run it at full blast for an hour, then leave it off for most the day.

    If you wanted an always-on solution, I think I'd actually suggest a commercial air purifier.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Why is OpenSSL able to use a key file my user shouldn't have access to?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Recovering from an openSUSE Tumbleweed update

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    What is the "right" thing to do when a website tells me to download Chrome?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Where can I ask questions about iproute2 tools?