If you do this use the neighbors address you don’t like for when it inevitably gets returned.

Survey shows as deactivated.

Let’s try this one

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7695681/

AI Summary

Title: Be Suspicious of HDMI

• HDMI technology is criticized for being a “money pool” for companies, despite the existence of better, royalty-free alternatives.

• Companies developing HDMI technology charge significant annual licensing fees and per-unit costs for using the HDMI name and logo.

• Additional features like HDCP require extra payments on top of existing licensing and unit costs.

• HDMI actively sponsors tech news articles to promote itself.

• DisplayPort is presented as a royalty-free alternative that offers similar or superior functionality to HDMI.

• DisplayPort supports more features, higher resolutions, and higher refresh rates compared to HDMI.

• The Steam Machine exemplifies the issues with HDMI, featuring a DisplayPort 1.4 connector capable of 4K 240 Hz.

• The HDMI connector on the Steam Machine is HDMI 2.1 capable but cannot be advertised as such.

• The HDMI organization does not license HDMI 2.1 for Linux devices, forcing Valve to label it as HDMI 2.0.

• There’s a call for the display industry to transition away from HDMI to less expensive and more open standards.

: “Trains that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
: Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
: So on the tracks of life we pass and speak one another,
: Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.”

I don’t know who you are, but I feel like we should be friends.

OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?

There’s a lot of correlation and speculation going on along with deflecting potential liability.

It would seem if you have one of these drives, make sure the firmware is current, and you should be fine. (Prerelease firmware and heavy load seem to be the “triggers”)

If you don’t plan for hard drive failure, you’ll learn that lesson eventually…

Unfortunately, I think we’re trapped in planned obsolescence. I’ve been taking the approach of looking at cost as a primary driver.

The difference between a crappy 4K tv and a quality 4K tv is hard for me to distinguish in most cases. Especially, if they’re not side by side.

Let’s say I set my max price at $550.

You can find a cheap brand Onn or TCL in a 70” range size. If you go smaller you’ll likely find “better” brands.

I don’t think there’s much that makes one brand better than others. 5-7 years is probably max life of anything you’ll buy today. Unless you’re willing to open it up and start trying to find the bad capacitors and re solder to the board.

Rule #1. The tv never connects to internet Rule #2. Rule #1 never gets broken Rule #3. Use another device to play signal (fire stick, Apple TV, cable box, Xbox, PlayStation, pc, etc) Rule #4. Use a sound system not the tv speakers. Go big with surround systems or don’t. Anything is better than tv speakers. I’ve used a 2.1 setup for decades. A soundbar with sub is simple to setup and use.

I’ve heard Roku is one to potential avoid now as I’ve heard they may require Internet connection on setup of some new tvs.

A good tv has an acceptable picture, size, and plays a video source.

Let’s take the original comment at face value and in earnest for a moment.

Wouldn’t the human race be more like a parasite?

In all honesty, I don’t think the earth needs us, nor would we qualify for a symbiotic relationship. Earth really doesn’t need most of its inhabitants.

That would move to a more existential question of what it means for earth to survive or be “alive”? Support any life?

EndeavorOS provides a GUI installer with what’s considered “sensible” add-ons included.
It’s where I am now. I started with Mint, played with Debian some, now “Arch”-ish.

It’s been good to me.

Don’t stall.

Glad you found one that worked for you.

As far as I’m aware, Logseq also just uses .md files. I back those up regularly and I do use the cloud sync. The cloud sync lets me alternate use between my computer and my tablet for work. I could use just one device, but this was a significant advantage for me.

I also keep a separate log for personal work which I can add to via special shortcuts from my phone.

Logseq for notes and task tracking. It’s an open source alternative to obsidian. Life saver for tracking stuff at work.

https://logseq.com/

I don’t think I can agree with all that on a burger, though bacon, cheese, and pineapple on a burger could definitely work.

My first thought was that it was running a windows vm…

Thanks for sharing the reasons for your approach.

There’s so many ways to accomplish this, such as ad guard or portmaster then add on the drivers for our choices. Finding the balance between privacy and easy of use is tough as it is. Then add in the rest of the family that’s more interested in things “just working”.

I played with a pi-hole setup for a bit. It was nice. I got distracted and set up NextDNS. That’s where I am now.

I like I can easily turn it on/off when I just need to do something and no time to fuss with it.

I’ve got a home server, just not fully setup and going yet, but someday…

Any thoughts on why I might do pi-hole over something like NextDNS? I think the cost is roughly $1/mo.

Does this work? I would think scanning a *.package would only assess that content. Wouldn’t something malicious likely be in the code or dependency it could call via some form of get request? That .deb package itself could be completely “safe” until it calls a git clone <URL> to then run something malicious.

I think this would be more likely to work for appimage or flatpak, though the same approach could compromise the validity of the scan. Am I thinking too hard, or did I just miss the point?

Why the pain of Arch? You probably fell in love with the rolling release, wiki, and the AUR.