Usenet is a bit like the fediverse, it has tons of different servers that all talk to each other, and the admins of each server decide which groups it carries. So it you use a server outside the jurisdiction of the police you’re afraid of you’re somewhat anonymous.
This has nothing to do with cars being electric, the ad was shown on modern ICE BMW’s too.
Anyone who can sleep through Bassnectar - Raw Charles deserves some kind of award.
I’ve got a Thrustmaster T248 that I mainly use for trucking. It’s OK, but if I were to start over I’d get a Moza with a trucking wheel and stalks. And for racing you can get another wheel and easily swap between them.
Sexbots are a lot easier though, all they have to do is lie there, take it, and tell us what we want to hear. LLMs are already reasonably good at the last bit.
You can fully upgrade the original 13. Some components have to be upgraded together, like the new keyboard and new battery because they have both changed dimensions. I’ve just put the new screen in my 13, and it’s MUCH better than the original screen the 13 came with, so I’m very happy with that.
I’ve been running Debian Testing for decades, but I’ve recently switched back to Stable on my homelab server and started using Arch on my laptop.
Testing is not as stable as you want. It does occasionally suffer from problems that have to be fixed manually, just like in Unstable. In reality my system was mostly running Testing, with some manually pulled packages from Unstable or even manually pinned on Stable. This was sometimes necessary to solve specific problems, particularly security fixes that weren’t available in Testing yet. I followed all the security mailing lists and acted upon them manually to stay somewhat safe, which is a decent chunk of extra work.
In recent years it has become less and less important what software versions your distro ships with, since you can easily run software from Flatpak, homebrew, or even directly compiled Go or Rust software. Tools exist to keep all of that up-to-date automatically. In practice that solves all my cases where I wanted to run a different version than Stable offered, so it’s more secure that way.
If you want to run a different version of something as foundational as Gnome you’ve basically picked the wrong distro. It would be such a PITA to change that manually, with tons of dependencies on other stuff. Switching to a rolling distro would be a far more logical step, which is why I run Arch on my laptop.
In short: don’t use Testing. It wasn’t meant for what you’re trying to accomplish and you’re going to have a bad time (security + more manual intervention needed than you want). Either accept older software and the peace of mind that brings (running Stable is REALLY easy, everything is sorted automatically) or go for something completely different, like a rolling distro.
Personally I’m pretty wary of the new wave of distros basing themselves on Debian Testing. I have a feeling that they don’t realise what they’re getting themselves in to, and that they can’t offer the same level of support as Debian does for their Stable branch.
One of the main advantages of Optane doesn’t easily show in a benchmark: it doesn’t have to do any cleanup. Normal SSD’s cheat all the time by caching writes in DRAM and an SLC portion of the NAND. Usually that works fine and you won’t notice, but if you keep writing then at some point performance will plummet dramatically. Also, the SSD’s need a breather every now and then to rewrite that cached data to it’s final place, during which time performance is also worse.
Optane doesn’t need any of that. You can write to it at max speed 24/7 and it’ll just take it and keep going, at ridiculously low latency. Perfect for handling large non-stop data streams, or workloads that need a guaranteed low latency (both for reading and writing). It’s a real shame the concept failed, the tech was fantastic.
Only on games sold through Steam itself. Unlike any other store out there they don’t charge for keys sold somewhere else, so in practice that 30% is significantly lower if you put in any effort to sell your games elsewhere too. This is why publishers like Paradox have their own store and heavily promote it, they just sell Steam keys there without having to pay the 30%.
Good blog. You touch on this point in the blog but IMHO it should be one of your main talking points.
Yeah that’s completely normal, looks absolutely fine to me. For more info on how linux uses memory I suggest reading https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
To add: that link suggests looking if your swap usage is changing. Linux is quite happy to stuff some memory that isn’t actually used in swap. If it was right about it not being used you should see the swap usage not changing much, so your SSD isn’t really being used either apart from the initial swap-out. If your swap usage keeps fluctuating wildly there is more going on which might warrant further investigation.