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  • Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released

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  • Is there a buried lede here? What’s noteworthy about an RC of a minor version release?

  • Optimizing factorio startup performance when running on a hard disk

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  • This isn’t storing the game in RAM; it’s caching it — which isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want fast load times and do any sort of substantial disk IO between system boot and game launch.

    Not tryna get too analytical on a meme post, but tmpfs is the correct way to do this for anyone wanting to pull this sorta thing off seriously.

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    Should we be wary of Red Hat?

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  • I appreciate systemd at a high level, and use it all the time, but Nanook’s comment in this thread is dead on the money in my book:

    https://lemmy.world/post/30945123/17510444

    The CLI interfaces for PA and SysD are janky/verbose af and make it hard for beginners to do simple things as well. E.g. try wiring up a virtual device with pacmd that fuses your desktop audio and mic output into a combined source using only the man pages, or putting together a fresh service from memory without looking up any directives.

    E: even better example, compare how easy it is to set something up to run in cron vs. a systemd timer.

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  • Sorry, bad phrasing on my end. I agree the community should suspicious, but I think the flawed premise in

    It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

    is that there is consistent, well-founded criticism and has been this whole time. And even though the vocal folks are a minority, a lot of people feel ambivalent about the relationship rather than viewing it favorably.

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  • I do think there are quite a few linux users and developers who are suspicious of Red Hat, they are a small-ish but pretty vocal minority.

    Yeah, I’m with you all the way — no shade to OP, but the question has a flawed premise. I think the majority opinion is that they’re both an asset and a liability. They’re a huge contributor to the ecosystem and have done a lot of practical good, but I also think the community will turn on a dime if the suits overstep into FAFO territory.

    (All that said, fuck Lennart Poettering. Dude couldn’t design a plan to get himself out of a paper bag.)

  • Help: what is this cucumber missing?

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  • That’s very helpful, thanks! Unfortunately, this one is over my pay grade - nothing you’ve mentioned seems like an obvious culprit to me.

    You can definitely try iron supplements, but given that your other plants in the same soil are doing okay, iron deficiency doesn’t seem to be a super-likely cause either. You might be better off starting fresh from seed, given that cucumbers take off rather fast. Sucks to lose a plant, but you’ve given it a strong setup here.

  • Help: what is this cucumber missing?

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  • Sweeping generalization: they need lots of water, but they also need to be planted in a space that gives them a sufficient root base such that they can go a few days without drying out.

  • Help: what is this cucumber missing?

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  • It’s definitely chlorotic, but there are a ton of potential reasons for that.

    Can you give us a brain dump of watering habits, environmental conditions (temps/humidity/light), fertilizer use, plant age & provenience, specific contents of the soil/compost used, etc?

  • This is the hardest concept to understand in physics

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  • I expect Feynman’s answer, if he had a whiteboard and unlimited time, would’ve been to dive into Maxwell’s equations.

    With that in mind, his answer makes complete sense. Good luck explaining coupled PDEs to people who aren’t mathy in a few sentences without visual aid. The analogy to the gravitational force isn’t on point; there’s a lot more to be said about how magnets tie to into E&M more broadly, compared to gravity.

    Though you’re absolutely right that once you get deep enough into any topic in physics that the answer to “why?” inevitably becomes “it just be like that”.

  • So it begins...

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  • Not a triad user in sight.

    Just lemmings living in the moment.

  • File collecting program?

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  • While I’m sure there’s a pre-canned tool out there for you, if you have basic software experience (which you seem to), this is one of those times where it’s usually most efficient to hack together a dumb CGI script and call it a day.

    This prompt should get you most of the way there, using your llm of choice:

    Write a minimalist cgi script to help upload files to a server. Upon a GET request, serve a light page with a centered form that takes in a file and a submission code. Submission codes will be stored on individual lines of a plaintext file. Adding new codes to this file is out of scope - but the codes will be 8-char hex strings (do validate that submission strings are not empty!). The script should accept the submission as a POST, and save the file to an upload dir if the submission code is valid.

    Vet the output, harden as needed, setup a systemd service to serve with busybox httpd, and optionally reverse-proxy. If you’ve done this sorta thing before, you can probably knock it out in a half hour.

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  • Flatpak: a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.

    Flatpak application: an application installed via the flatpak command or through a graphical interface, such as GNOME Software or KDE Discover.

    Runtime: also called platform, an integrated environment providing basic utilities needed for a Flatpak application to work.

    Flatpak bundle: a single-file export format containing a Flatpak application or runtime.

    From https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html#terminology

    You might be thinking of AppImages, which are more of a pure file format.

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  • Ah - I totally missed the Nvidia-related bit! Thanks for flagging that.

    That being said, based on the maintainers’ past stances, I’m pretty pessimistic on them actually implementing a fix like that. They’re very much against the general practice of poking holes in their sandbox security perimeter.

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  • Flatpak is quite fucking far from perfect, and will always remain so due to its flawed design and UX approach.

    Pretty sure the culprit here is Fedora’s packaging which adds an opaque systemd timer to run auto-updates, but the thread immediately next to this one on my homepage just happened to be a nice case-study in Flatpak fuckery: https://lemmy.world/post/30654407

    Of course, the proposed changes in the article do nothing to fix this sorta problem, which happens to be the variety that end users actually care about. Flatpak is an epic noob trap since it pretends to be a plug-n-play beginner friendly tool, but causes all sorts of subtle headaches that newcomers inevitably don’t have diagnostic experience to address.

  • System needs to be updated for steam to work. Advice?

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  • On most distros, Flatpak has a separate auto-update process that runs independent of system upgrades. Disabling that “feature” should solve the problems you’re seeing.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • This is a great suggestion!

    Lest anyone miss the buried lede, this approach means that traffic is pre-encrypted as it passes through the gateway VPS - so even if your VPS gets hacked, it’s way harder to steal credentials and break into the services running on your home network.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • If you’re looking for sympathy, you got it. Fuck the state.

    If you’re looking for solutions, use a cheap $5/mo VPS that exists purely as your gateway host. Run everything you want on your home machines, then tunnel the traffic to your gateway and reverse-proxy it there. Your data stays in your hands, you can spin up and expose new services publicly in a matter of minutes, AND your home IP isn’t vulnerable to doxxing or DoS.