Resizable BAR was previously cited as a requirement for Intel ARC cards, but I think the drivers today can do without. Sounds like your system might be too old to have that. Might be a soft requirement, as in you’ll see a performance drop if you don’t have it.

My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.

They’re dirt cheap second hand.

I went with endeavour.

Arch is already on 6.0.4. I’d say we’re five weeks into plasma 6. Manjaro is holding it back unusually long.

I haven’t tried MX Linux. So they set the distrowatch page as start page in the browser, and users never change it?

Not me, and not Linux, but a school mate found the following bash snippet online :(){ :|:& };:.

Naturally, he tried it on the SunOS servers we had access to for schoolwork. He got his account suspended for the rest of the year.

I think most Linux distros are configured to kill fork bombs nowadays.

I moved from kts24 to a hetzner arm node earlier this week. So far I’m very impressed.

And DDOSd the AUR.

Twice.

Manjaro also ruined PINE64.

I stopped doing it when Linux got support for kernel modules around Linux 1.2. It was a real game-changer.

It was slackware 2.0.

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup. Also there were no CD burners nor USB sticks yet. So whatever your friend had on CD waa the option. I guess the only other possible option would’ve been red hat back in those days.

Cool.

Last I checked kwin was still waiting for some protocols to become available. I’m sure it’ll be good to go if and when I need another Mac on my desk to synergize.

There was another server that already supported wayland/gnome, but the scrolling was too wonky for my nerves.

I’ve been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.

My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I’ve gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.

SIDPlay did something similar on the Mac.

It has the neat built-in feature of rsyncing the high voltage SID collection to your computer.

However, if you deleted your local copy of it and tried to re-sync it’d update (with deletes) against / instead. Bye bye files.

I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.

I think that limit (previously 5GB) is for files that they’ll store for you. Larger transfers are P2P only.

I recommend https://wormhole.app for the purpose. Drag, drop, leave the tab open.

It feels like a common and repetitive theme that doesn’t bring much discussion to the table. I might be an old grumpy fart, and I probably would’ve done the same posts back in 1997 when I left Windows NT 4.0 in the rear view mirror.

I’d much prefer to keep the discussion on Linux and not other operating systems. I enjoy AmigaOS and MorphOS as well, but I can’t recall anyone every comparing those to Windows on the forums.

Sounds like you’re looking for EncFS.

It’ll leak the size and structure of whatever you have there. Filenames and content are encrypted.

I was torrenting porn with good speed.

Seems unreasonably slow to me that xterm would take a second to start. My two computers running kernel 6.7 are slow than the machine in the test, both have BTRFS on LUKS.

I tried a cold start of xterm on my older thinkpad with an NVMe drive at ~0.3s.

A cold start on my desktop (also NVMe), 0.08s.

I’m unable to reproduce. I wonder if he might’ve had a fresh install with some background operations grinding on, or some indexing going on.