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Schlaefer

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    Comment #47507954

    Because it's an easy solution esp. to a rather new installer: setting up swap on disk (partition or file, if file which file system, if partition w/o encryption, ...). Zram: instal…

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    Comment #46878549

    Can the "vibe" statement be substantiated in any way? Also your "scheduler" is in a completely different domain, it doesn't even remotely relate.

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    Comment #46300467

    Which ones? Translation is local. Preview summarization is local. Image description generation is local. Tab grouping is local. Sidebar can also show a locally hosted page.

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    Comment #46006228

    > In theory Intel and AMD would pay the HEVC fees once > In practice it seems everyone in the value chain are forced to pay, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Dell and then even browser and …

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    Comment #43193677

    > Also, nuclear reactors don't deplete water for cooling so the premise of this article doesn't make sense. It goes from water to steam, to rain, back to water. The premise of the …

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    Comment #42316746

    Twitch did in the past (mostly), but it is trying pivot at the moment: Take tight control over the encoding settings on the client side and just pass the already encoded stream thr…

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    Comment #39443919

    It changes the color, but that color has no inherent meaning. Let's eradicate any prior knowledge of what was clicked. Let's say you make screenshot of the current state, and show …

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    Comment #39429795

    I moved on to sideberry and hide the normal tab bar completely. But if you open two identical tabs in the default layout I have no clue which one is active anymore. You can't under…

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    Comment #38569459

    On that point: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - LinuxCon 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YbqrJ0_nM PS: The core of Valve's technical contribution is arou…

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    Comment #33955955

    > Can the mouse scroll speed be configured in KDE, nowadays? If you use Wayland the answer is Yes. There's a "Scrolling speed" configuration in the Mouse settings.

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    Comment #33953549

    > "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-) My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original pa…

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    Comment #33952936

    That's fine, but the disclaimer is important. I did a quick test for myself by choosing what's at the top over at distrowatch(tm). - Fedora plasma ca. 1.4 GB (matching your numbers…

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    Comment #33952679

    *on Fedora Now do it again on a different distro which packages different default apps and services, and see how these values differ by multiple hundreds of MB.

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    Comment #33878615

    The Apple menu top left is the start menu, you organize it however you want.

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    Comment #30493754

    Keep in mind that this persons appears to be a pro nuclear industry lobbyist. So the number of objective nuclear opinions on this twitter account is 0.

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    Comment #29905592

    The news shows the extraordinary. It also reports car accidents and car shows, but not all the millions of people driving everyday.

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    Comment #29751746

    It's dirt cheap because it's heavily subsidized by the public. For example no commercial entity in the world insures a nuclear power plant. These costs are completely hidden.

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    Comment #29360141

    Afair (alas it didn't make a screenshot there) it was Apple-Pay onboarding but that dialog had a Abort or Later option.

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    Comment #29358344

    > There's also stuff that's just straight-up bullshit. I've never seen an ad in the settings pages. Here's my iOS 15 update experience as someone, who doesn't use any other Apple s…

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    Comment #29155306

    Of course it should take a freak event to take out a nuclear power plant, it shouldn't happen every second Sunday. But I would also expect it to be an event that doesn't happen reg…

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    Comment #29153566

    > Instead of informing the public of the facts (The plant was an antique, didn't meet safety standards, was built on a fault line) Knowing these facts makes it even more scary. We …

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    Comment #28663692

    I'm still confused how they made it through regulation. Image you're a security-engineer and read "On average the indicator light runs at only 50% because we think it looks cool."

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    Comment #28512224

    > If building a new plant was cheap, I'm sure you'd see a lot more happening. Not only that, but running it. No private company insures a nuclear power plant (at least in the dense…

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    Comment #28133001

    Maybe QuickLook outlived itself. It was a technology tailored to the HDD era of hardware, when complex apps required dozens of seconds to start. In a world were even LibreOffice co…

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    Comment #27776572

    I tried to find numbers. This seems to give some context [1]: Look at page 8 and 9 and compare flight hours vs fuel consumption of single engine planes vs turbo-jet. So there's a g…