I’m using Fedora 43 Plasma under Wayland, with the regular Discord flatpak. Vesktop works, but I recall some oddly hacky things I had to do to make it work

It works and has worked for a while. Application specific sharing for audio is an oddity though, since it can’t seem to isolate and you get all desktop audio excluding discord

Interviews do typically count, it just has to be citable. Videos are sufficient in that regard as well, not just articles or books. It would be different if Torvalds had edited his own wikipedia page, but an editor who updates the page and cites this video would not be in the wrong.

I mean, I feel like he outright confirms it in the video. It’s his distro of choice since it allows him to easily use his own compiled kernels in testing. Anything else is an inconvenience to his work.

These Zen-esque chips have come up before, though it sounds like this might be the first time they’ve been used in a marketed product. A couple other companies born out of the remnants of Centaur also seemed to have borrowed architectural notes from the early Zen CPUs, potentially as a result of their competitors like Hygon making that deal with AMD almost 10 years ago. It’s the first time one seems to be almost a boilerplate 1700x though.

How’s the overall health of the drives? You might want to get a quick SMART report.

Otherwise, this sounds like pretty normal drive activity. It could be the result of anything from indexing tools to casual background processes doing a read.

If it’s periodic in a way that’s consistent, then it’s almost definitely something in software. What docker services are you running? Do you have any auditing tools or security processes that might be actively logging activity?

It’s pretty unlikely you’ve contracted malware unless you’ve gone out of your way to expose the server to outside sources, so I think you can alay those concerns.

There’s some serious irony in posting these today of all times but I appreciate the writeup nonetheless.

A couple points:

• Your website does not properly convey the technical context of Safebox. Docker is a complex platform, and asking someone to install it point blank on any OS, while also championing ease-of-access feels at odds here.
• There is a severe lack of documentation about the tool. Discord is not an appropriate means to find these documents if they exist. It is rarely okay as a support channel.
• I saw your post from a few days ago, but it was framed as a question about about gatekeeping specifically. The post also advertised Safebox. Given that the post no longer exists (but the comments sure do), I’m inclined to think you didn’t get quite the answer you were looking for.

I dove into self-hosting several years ago and ultimately I think I found the experience quite welcoming. I also don’t know that Safebox has a lot to offer over well-established alternatives these days like Unraid or TrueNAS, which have large user-bases and a depth of support articles to help admins better understand what they’re doing and how to do it. It’s true that not everyone would want to do this as a hobby. No one wants their services to break, or their data to be lost, and more tools that make it easier to prevent these scenarios are helpful. With that in mind, I am not left with a clear understanding of how Safebox is meant to provide safeguards here.

I used the word “admin” in the previous paragraph for good reason. Self-hosting makes you the administrator, and it means that you, the administrator, have the power to make mistakes. My recommendation is not to talk down to your users. Someone interested in self-hosting should be aware of the potential security implications of what they’re taking on, alongside the risk to their data and that breaking changes are something they can and will make along the way. If you really want to make self-hosting accessible, then the documentation for your tool needs to be accessible too.

Safebox runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, supports both x86 and ARM64 (including Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, and others), and handles domain/subdomain setup, Let’s Encrypt certificates, DNS configuration, reverse proxy (nginx), and also offers WireGuard-based remote access.

A user should be able to learn why these elements are important and how they work together. Talk about the limitations of running it on a raspberry pi vs a workstations or server. What’s a reverse proxy? Is WireGuard good? This doesn’t mean the average person needs to know how to configure detailed permissions or application configs, and if the goal is to provide a repository of pre-hardened Docker configs for use then that’s cool too, but there should never be a barrier to the information itself. Especially as it is relevant to the tool you’ve built.

I think that fundamentally, you’ve built a good tool that simplifies things someone who is already familiar with its components, and where it needs to improve is by expanding to help new users familiarize themselves. Education is as big a part of accessibility as the ease-of-setup.

If this is based on the GamersNexus videos, those are pretty absurd hit pieces that seemed to come from some bizarre place of resentment. They’ve had process issues when it comes to how they benchmark hardware, but never anything paid or purposefully misleading.

I’m honestly wondering if you’ve confused it with something else.

Something KDE has done seems to have resolved the issues I used to have with DPI related scaling problems in Wayland. Once Plasma 6 hit, it’s been nothing but rapid improvements with Wayland as a focus and man does it feel nice.

That said, there’s virtually no downside to still using X unless you have explicit display features you need from Wayland like HDR or the per-display scaling. Xfce is stupid lightweight and still my default for anything where battery life is a benefit.

Since 2013, both Sony and Microsoft have been using custom variants of AMD’s consumer chips for CPU and GPU. These consoles are basically just laptop boards with some custom architecture, but at this stage most of the “Console” design is some software level features and a consistent baseline hardware spec to shoot for.

Sony still does seem to put mor effort into the hardware portion, but Xbox hardware has been little more than an SFF PC for a couple generations now

I’m very scared of your two-tonne corn starch mac

To add, Apple has actually been making amends regarding repairability. It’s small steps, but leagues ahead of what’s offered for popular android manufacturers, while still maintaining their IP68 ratings on most devices.

I can’t speak to how they make their parts available to third parties (seems to be a grey area), but there has been a reasonable focus with the last couple generations of iPhones that ensures the device can be repaired from either side.

Overall, the tide seems to have shifted. If you’re going to be at the mercy of a corporate giant in order to keep up with modernity, then Apple is currently holding the dimly lit torch of consumer rights.

The crazy part is this may make iOS the better alternative when considering the emergence of third-party app stores and Apple’s loosening grip on their ecosystem.

LineageOS is still a good option too, for anyone who would prefer to keep the phone they have

Most domain registrars make whois info private by default these days. It’s typically just a toggle. Same with DNSSEC

While I have no desire to defend Randy, Twitter is as Twitter does, and unless you spend time looking at his whole timeline, it sounds like he’s saying only stupid shit like this. He did actually acknowledge the issues, and stated that they’re working on them but also that for now the best way to play is with FSR/DLSS and frame gen.

I disagree with this deeply. He makes arguments about the imperceptibility of latency in frame gen, but that’s only true when the base framerate is high enough. DLSS is probably fine, but it’s also pretty fair for those who are using an 80 or 90 class card to complain about struggling at 1440p native, let alone 4k.

BL3 had some fantastic DLC though. Loved that.

This would explain why my 11 year old account got banned out of the blue despite me only using it to post videogame screenshots. Cool.

“Community Add-ons” leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.

Both are great, and I think complement eachother nicely. Qobuz mostly focuses on label offered music catalogues, while Bandcamp has always catered to indies. If an artist offers their music through Bandcamp, I still prefer to make my purchases there, but if the artist is signed to a label then it’s a good shot Qobuz has it.

Either service offers the music in the highest quality provided, though lossless versions through Qobuz do tend to be priced a few dollars higher than the regular album.