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  • Haha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely --- you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably "idiot proof," but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).

  • If your distro can't be forked into a "beginner distro" then it's fundamentally flawed IMHO.

    To be clear, I've used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it's not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there's nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a "beginner" distro.

  • It's kinda a weird take? Like if I'm in a discussion about some scary things AfD are doing and a left-of-center German joins the conversation, I'd like to think I'd have the ability to...you know...hear what they have to say about things.

    There are a bunch of Americans who asked for this; there are a bunch who stood by and did nothing to stop it; and there are a bunch who tried to stop it, did not, and are devastated.

    I guess at the end of the day it's just a meme.

  • You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches

    But remember that the kernel knows best --- this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).

  • As someone from San Francisco, I'd suggest at least looking into it as an option. (I'm a straight white guy though so maybe not the best source here...). In particular https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_District,_San_Francisco

    For some color on the type of neighborhood it is, here's a recent incident. Unfortunately it involved some violence, but the good guys won (I don't think it should be triggering...): https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/11/nudists-save-tourist-attack-castro/

    Of course, San Francisco being in the US, I wouldn't blame you for trying to find somewhere else. But California (and SF in particular) is very different than Trump country.

  • I switched from raspberry pi and orange pi to a cheap Intel NUC, and I think it's just a much nicer experience.

    The pi is great fun, but the HW transcoding on a NUC "just works," and the SSD and 16GB RAM opens a lot of doors. My N100 NUC was less than $150, and it included everything (case, power supply, 500GB SSD).

    My pi found new life as an off-site backup: attach a big HDD, set up WireGuard, and have a cronjob do daily rsync and snapshots. I have it set up at in-laws, and it works great.

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  • My comment from cross post:

    Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!

    Note that it's not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.

  • I mean, I don't think "reflexively opposing" is really a good thing, ever --- in this case though "reflexively opposing" and "opposing on merit" would (as far as I know) yield the same outcome, so it's functionally the same thing.

    I don't hate Trump's nominee's because I hate Trump, I hate them because they're antithetical to a working government.

  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    San Francisco's historical fleet

    San Francisco @lemmy.world

    Sutro Tower lights changed color?

    Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio

    Recommendations for first HF rig?