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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

I'm curious what you're doing on an SBC that explicitly requires x86, though?

Not parent, but I used ARM SBCs for a bit, and while it was nice, my x86 experience with a nuc has been much, much better. HW acceleration works on some RPIs, and sort of worked on my Orange Pi 5+, but only when using an ancient kernel which had some hacks (like, kernel debug messages saying "DISABLE THIS FOR RELEASE!"). And afaik RPI 5 doesn't support hw encoding (not to mention no SSD support).

Basically, my experience was that the hardware was neat if sometimes limited, the energy consumption was great, but the software/kernel support...ugh. YMMV of course.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Certainly depends; and it depends on traffic volume!

  2. Definitely something to consider; many folks (myself included) use a free/cheap VPS as the endpoint, and reverse proxy to home, via some VPN (WireGuard in my case). Works well, and lots of guides online.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.

Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago

I miss the days when that X font was only associated with Xorg...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But this is a weird thing to lie about


the only reason to implement toner DRM is to get people to buy your cartridges. But if your public statement is, "it's ok to buy off brand cartridges," then...well... that's kinda weird.

Not saying you're wrong, and they could be trying to have their cake and eat it too (court the anti-DRM crowd but also scare people into sticking with their toner). I'm just saying your snarky/sarcastic response seems unwarranted here.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not encrypted, my comments are public, your comments are public, we both know that. Anyone with a raspberry pi or an old netbook can scrape them.

If I use an encrypted service and all of a sudden everything that I thought was encrypted was decrypted by the service provider without my consent? That's breaking encryption.

If on the other hand I use an encrypted service and they tell me that they can no longer offer the service, my data will be destroyed after X days, and I need to find another way of storing my encrypted data because of privacy invading government policies? That is not breaking encryption.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

For many things I completely agree.

That said, we just had our second kid, and neither set of grandparents live locally. That we can video chat with our family


for free, essentially!


is astonishing. And it's not a big deal, not something we plan, just, "hey let's say hi to Gramma and Gramps!"

When I was a kid, videoconferencing was exclusive to seriously high end offices. And when we wanted to make a long distance phone call, we'd sometimes plan it in advance and buy prepaid minutes (this was on a landline, mid 90s maybe). Now my mom can just chat with her friend "across the pond" whenever she wants, from the comfort of her couch, and for zero incremental cost.

I think technology that "feels like tech" is oftentimes a time sink and a waste. But the tech we take for granted? There's some pretty amazing stuff there.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

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