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Obligatory Dennis Reynolds / It's Always Sunny... thoughts on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzb355qT8RI I honestly don't mind downloading apps for things I use all the time…

The 555 version is the current version. It was officially released on June 27. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver

> Compared to the overall effort invested, that's careless, badly planned or underfunded. Not at all. It's a pattern that's very easy to spot while the eyes of the world are lookin…

> does the nouveau driver these days allow enabling higher power/speed? My understanding is that, yes, with the Nouveau GSP code in Kernel 6.7. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouvea…

Like many others in this thread, I've enjoyed a ton of Orbital. My introduction was when 99x in Atlanta played "The Box" a few times and I picked up a copy of In Sides. Also, like …

Valve getting involved. Proton. SteamDB. The progress that's been made over the past couple of years is absolutely amazing. For a huge number of games and gamers, Linux is so close…

The public repo for the new version of Cosmic: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

> does it fail to track the mouse on wayland apps? Exactly. It will work properly if the app is using XWayland and fail for native Wayland.

Always glad to see someone else who remembers that era at GT! CS1311 - Data structures in pseudocode (or Scheme if you had the "X" class) CS1312 - Build the game "Risk" in Java CS2…

Per the article, the size of "mid-size" trucks today is about the same as full-size trucks were in the 1990s. When the pandemic began and I started working from home, I gave up my …

It's so rarely an issue on Arch. Between the massive official repos and the incredibly comprehensive AUR, I've only needed to do it a couple of times. My initial comment was about …

I've been a user of Arch for the past several years and I've always been a huge proponent of the rolling release model. When I first picked up Arch, it was because I needed more mo…

I'll share my own story of the Windows 3.1 -> 95 migration and MS Tech support. At the time, I was using my grandfather's old PC that had originally been a 486sx 33mhz processor wi…

I'm excited for this feature. My brother purchased a small karaoke machine for my daughter for her birthday this year. It connects to her iPad via Bluetooth; but, so far, she's onl…

Proton Next - Candidate build for the next major version release. Proton Experimental - "Bleeding edge" builds.

He's not personally liable for the $13B. If (when?) Twitter implodes, he gets to walk away not owing a dime of that money--so why spend it if he doesn't have to?

I'd share your surprise; but, I sometimes question if they believed it themselves. I've spent the last 15 years in public companies and if there's one thing "The Street" demands, i…

The emails are not spoofed. They are actually generated by PayPal to notify an account holder of an invoice. The vast majority of the emails that these systems generate are legitim…

Former PayPal employee here. In truth, you got the best possible experience and it's good that you reported it. Ultimately, what would happen internally is that we'd detect this ma…

A couple of things. First, I used the phrase "debit card number" to basically mean, "they didn't have my physical card--but they did have the information to be able to use it." Sec…

That fear isn't irrational at all (at least, it wasn't). About 20 years ago, I had a debit card number stolen and my account was cleared out. It took about a month to get resolved …

This comment thread on the previous conversation has a lot of good replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908731 A few highlights: * "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" * Pe…

Former Netflix employee here (left back in 2013 so their stance might have changed). At the time, Netflix was very opposed to what we called "meta search" (e.g. having Netflix titl…

In my opinion (disclaimer, I'm currently test driving Arch again in a VMWare installation) this phenomenon is one that is routinely glossed over in discussions about challenges of …