I mean, sure, in terms of OS choice.

I think there are some other decisions that give it a run for its money if you don’t limit the scope to computing, though.

“Juice of one lemon” just means “lemon juice to taste.” If the recipe required precision, it would be written more precisely.

IMO the trouble is that there are so many of the things now that I need a damn flowchart to understand how they work together and which ones I need.

(No, seriously: I want to set up an *arr stack but don’t understand how. Could somebody please send me a flowchart??)

Facebook marketplace

The real !mildlyinfuriating is always in the comments. I’m damn near locked out of the used market these days because I refuse to use motherfucking Facebook.

I expect less AI and more effort.

Tim Berners-Lee already sold the soul of the Internet when he approved web DRM.

This is just two twats arguing; neither deserves our trust!

You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.

They should display all your accounts as a word cloud and have you draw a line (directional arrow) from the source to the destination. Yes, using your finger (on a touchscreen) or the mouse.

#shittyuiideas

“Nuclear is expensive” is a post-hoc circular argument, though. Nuclear has become expensive now because the hysteria about it, and accompanying massive political opposition, lawsuits, and paranoid regulations mandating massive overkill factors of safety, have succeeded in their goal of driving up the cost to the point of non-viability.

But back in the '60s, before the backlash had a chance to get going, we were building tons of nuclear plants at such cost-effectiveness that the economic worry was that the power they would provide would be “too cheap to meter.” And guess what: with very few exceptions, those power plants were, in fact, good enough in terms of safety and released no notable pollution throughout their entire operating lifetimes (or lifetimes so far, for the ones that are still in operation today).

At this point, sure, you’re right: it doesn’t make sense to build nuclear in 2025 because it’s incompatible with our paranoid regulatory environment, and also because our capability has atrophied after a generation of not training nuclear engineers because there was no job market for it. But that’s an “us” problem, not a problem inherent to the technology.

The world would’ve been massively better off if Greenpeace had stuck to saving the whales and we had built a trillion killowatt-hours worth of nuclear over the past 40 years instead of the gas-fired generators we actually built. Even at the cost of an additional Chernobyl or two.

I read OP’s question as him streaming from a Jellyfin server to this box, not using this box as a Jellyfin server itself. Could be wrong, though.

Also, it’s my understanding that transcoding is 100% about hardware support for the codecs and that integrated graphics that have it (TL;DR: 12th gen Intel) are going to perform pretty much just as well as even a high-end discrete gaming GPU for that task.

(I say “gaming” GPU because I was reading about the Arc Pro B50 the other day and it has two separate sets of transcoding hardware, so it presumably would actually perform better in terms of the number of simultaneous streams it could handle. But short of something like that, it apparently doesn’t make much difference.)

They should move the “KDE Neon” name to this new immutable version.

But why? Is there really not already some other project that does that, that the dev could join instead?

I hate it when Free Software installers present the GPL as if it’s an EULA. It’s not! You don’t have to agree to it to install the software!

You only have to agree to it if you decide to do something that copyright law otherwise does not allow (e.g. redistribution of a modified version), and it is the act of doing that thing itself that signals your acceptance, no button-clicking necessary.

It really doesn’t, though. Unless the company running the website has a presence within the EU – which means it ceases to count as “outside” – there’s fuck-all the EU can do to enforce it.

The EU isn’t trying to extradite or kidnap offenders in non-EU countries, after all.

They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.

I’m not a Linux person.

[X] doubt

an i5-7500 should be faster

4 cores worth of Kaby Lake is faster than 32 cores worth of Interlagos?

Nothin’ I’m running, that’s for sure!

It’s not really that there are services that require that much processing power for a single request; it’s that it’s designed to handle normal requests for hundreds or thousands of users at once.

I suppose that supporting 0.5TB of RAM means it could deal with quite a big LLM, but any sort of halfway-modern GPU would absolutely run circles around it in terms of tokens per second, on any model that fit in their VRAM.

My drives are 3.5" 💀

It has an HBA, 3 hard drives, and 3 SSDs. I was going to add a couple more hard drives (just to try to get some more use out of old ones I had lying around), but 0.5TB ones might not have enough capacity to be worth their power draw.