SearXNG is in the picture and it’s one of the 3 recommended.

They mention they’re only doing things locally, and looking into using tailscale, so they aren’t exposing to public web and the security concerns you mention are a lot less important.

Windows 10 long term servicing channel. It’s intended for things like electronic signs but works great if you just want un bloated windows. It comes with most of the random bullshit not installed and has a longer period of security updates.

Hardware whitelist is unholy

People ‘know’ how to use Microsoft products. I’m a data guy and might spend less than a day a week in word, PowerPoint, excel. Most of the time I spend in them is checking other people’s work. I’m still called on to help people with such tasks as switching from footnotes to endnotes, moving files in SharePoint, fixing formatting. My general knowledge of navigating the UI and googling fixes is better than what people ‘know’.

Yeah you’re correct. The person you’re replying to is treating dictionary attacks as separate from brute forcing. Dictionary attacks are great on short passwords using likely words, but as soon as you use 2 or 3 or 4 words it becomes computationally unfeasible. I would say a completely random string of the same or much less length is more secure because a dictionary attack won’t work at all, but 3-4 word passphrases are excellent for passwords that you have to manually enter ever.

I definitely have a different experience to other people here, so it’s not all bad. A lot of managers and employers are cottoning onto the fact that some aspects of neurodiversity are a strength in the workplace, and being supported through the challenges means you’ll have an easier time accessing those strengths.

It’s massive because of context. Massive is inherently a comparative term. Something can’t be large or significant unless something else is small. Here the context is performance gains (in comparison to other forms of PC gaming) constrained by 1) being on exactly the same hardware 2) a sizeable price difference between the two options.

Here the performance gains are 10+% for a device which costs more than 10% less. The size of the performance gains in the handheld market would otherwise need you to buy a new handheld, and those fps increases would demand spending at least a few hundred bucks on a new GPU.

So massive performance gains with the implied context is absolutely true.

I think they’re saying they’ve already signed into a Google account, downloaded play store apps, and set everything up. Afterwards, they have disconnected the Chromecast from the internet and successfully continued to access their self hosted content.

Oh! Appreciate the tip. I’ll investigate this weekend

No worries! I’ve used the calibre app for ebooks in the past and it does quite well.

I use the Audiobookshelf app from AdvPlyr on the play store. I’ve been meaning to try Lissen since it’s on F-Droid, but I tried this to make sure my partner didn’t have any issues.

If I’m using it on my PC I just connect to the web UI.

I connect on all my devices with tailscale. My partner uses the same but has apparently been having issues with her phone not being able to access the tailnet when not on the same LAN. It’s not so bad though, the Audiobookshelf app lets her download her books. This works better anyway, since she travels for work and often has no service anyway.

I use abs and it’s great. My partner listens to audiobooks, I read ebooks. You just have them side by side in the library, and in the audiobookshelf android app you can choose between stream or read. You also don’t need to store them side by side, the metadata can put them together clientside anyway. I guess this would be the way to go if you thought you might try a diff ebook hosting service later.

If all you do with your ebooks is read them, I daresay you’ll have no issues because I haven’t. Supports volume controls for page turn and that’s all that I want.

Honestly? Take a solid chunk of the credit. An idea is only as good as the pitch when the person on the other side has to sift through x^2 applications.

Sure, discourse I’ve read on social media has encouraged me to go and do further reading and educate myself. You got me?

I’m on 269 on Android 14 and I get this problem too. My accounts are on two diff instances, but it also happens if I go to switch accounts and pick the account I’m already on.

Second Baikal, I’m using docker on nixos through compose2nix and it’s great for syncing both my calendar and my tasks.org todo lists. Crazy easy to setup as well.

I believe there are significant downsides to AI because of my understanding, not because the internet has told me to. The flip side of this conversation is people who do not understand, or choose to downplay, the downsides and who inflate the benefits through ignorance or vested interest. Of course all change has to be balanced against both good and bad consequences but to me it reads as though you are discounting valid criticism of AI as groupthink, when just as much happens in the opposite direction.

Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate “no you can’t take the day off” emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they’ve learned something.

And if the human impact doesn’t appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.

Not nobara related but I found a Linux Mint thread about using xinput to adjust config to have left handed mode enabled for 1 mouse but not another. Maybe that will help. If they’re wireless mice with dongles, maybe they’re struggling in that one mouse is connecting to both receivers? If they offer both bt and wifi pairing you might be able to get around it by manipulating that, or if they can be plugged in that might help.