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"backing" is a Virtual-Memory related term. With virtual memory, you can have memory areas (called "pages") that are not really there but only present in the metadata (the "book-ke…

Even though Monkey Island now has a real (i.e. canonical) ending, it sucks. I prefer the original continuation of MI3 to the 25-years-late official, canonical sequel

Are you not worried that your site might lead to those people being executed (either legally, no idea if that's a thing in India, or illegaly)?

What happens to you in India when you are charged builty of bribery? What are the punishments, if any? (for the person receiving the bribe, not the person bribing, obviously)

also https://werstreamt.es where the URL is probably only easy to remember for Germans

nobody has mIRC/ircii installed by default everyone has ssh installed by default

I think the main problem will be sourcing one of the AMD InterWave chips. Those are (to my knowledge) not produced anymore and the only source would be another GUS card

Wait, being transported in an ambulance costs money? Man, every day I learn new things about how shitty the US health system is, and I'm more and more happy to not have to worry ab…

So you can easily get it to work in the browser, but the dozens of core developers can't get it to work properly on Wayland[1]? Something smells fishy... [1] https://www.kicad.org/…

Of course broadcom offers 24/7 enterprise support. You can debate on whether the experience is bad or good, of it it was better when VMware was still VMware, but it's still Enterpr…

Yeah, I'm actually interested in that, and I think by now it should be very possible to build a Linux system without any GNU userland (by default). Instead of building yet-another …

doxxing and/or stalking the kids (minors) of the person you disagree with is still kind of a d*ck move though

I think the title is missing a verb ...

systemd is still GPL (LGPL to be exact) so if you truly want to get rid of the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" you might want to take a look at the rust-coreutils for a starter

because there are no real alternatives. Everything that could be considered an alternative has drawbacks or things that are missing. Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper en…

Newer reactors produce much less long-lasting waste. A half-life of only 100 or 200 years makes a tremendous difference to the old reactors where half-life was measured in 1000s of…

Tangentially related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhO1SNJRMQ Highspeed Highway Halo

Everything I know about trombones I know from the game Trombone Champ. It's a good game for every aspiring trobonist (or people just remotely interested in music-related video game…

Time to switch to Windows! yay! Where all of this stuff just works: HDR, remote desktop, gaming, Picture-in-Picture, ... all the stuff that Wayland devs are too stupid to get done …

at least FreeBSD does already have Wayland. It has a few more hiccups and rough edges than on Linux (at least from my PoV on running it on an older laptop) but otherwise it works f…

funny you say that, given that the SteamDeck (the largest/most popular Linux-based gaming console) runs on KDE on Wayland.....

crazy, I really did not know that. Do you happen to know if such boards also exist that take registered DDR3 RAM? None of them explicitly call out DDR3-R RAM so I assume they only …

Something doesn't add up here. As someone who has only recently built a home-server from an E5-26xx v2 on DDR3 RAM (because I have a sh*tload of 32g DDR3 DIMMs), I can confidently …

If malicious AI has replaced the sudo binary, then it can already run arbitrary code as root. No need to "collect your password" then

This is a recent trend in open-source though: - people avoiding systemd like it's the plague - people avoiding wayland because it is devil's work - people avoiding rsync because so…