Barely… foreign policy firmly belongs with the president’s executive power

Getting 10 R senators willing to vote to convict, regardless of regarding the actual evidence

FTFY

Fox News

Have they already started to lament the national debt again or are they waiting for ~24 hours for the cult’s brains to cool down and their memories to reset?

It’s simply faster. Do you strrictly need a GPU-accelerated terminal? No. Or in your case of not doing much in terminal anyway: not at all.

But with modern terminals (true color, lots of utf-8 glyphs) on big 4k screens using multiple tabs you can literally see the performance difference (quicker tabbing, faster and smoother scrolling, even just how fast a command that spits out a lot of text –hello debugging– runs through) without needing benchmarks.
And that’s still just text. Watching (previews of) graphics files or even playing videos directly inside your terminal is actually possible with modern feature-rich browsers.

Also just from a pure efficiency point of view: If it runs more efficient on my GPU that’s energy saved, so a few more minutes of battery time on my laptop.

‘I don’t think the US is God’s kingdom on Earth’

I can’t even express how insane the notion of even discussing if “the US is God’s kingdom on Earth” is a true statement looks to anyone outside of the US (and probably a lot of people inside, too)

Only that scanimage’s manpages (was suprised to have it installed as a requriment of some GUI app…) talk about -x <value> and -y <value>parameters, with the caveat that the specific device has to support it.

Also: -l (top-left x position of scanned area), and possibly (if supported) -t (y posiiton)

PS: All values in millimeters

PPS: Did a quick test.
At least my scanner worked with scanimage -l 50 -t 50 -x 100 -y 100 > test.pnm to produce a (rounding errors included) 10cmx10cm scan

Correction… no, it does not. The -t option is ignored. But such things could be probably handled by placing of the original in your use case.

That’s the incredible thing when you build up a base of nearly brain-deads swimming in cognitive dissonance: You can say like: “He is very bad, because <random summary of morally wrong things you actually do>”, and your idiot followers will just stop at “he’s bad!” while only those with a working brain will hear the rest. And some of them might believe the lie and come to the conclusion that everyone is just as bad.

That’s the reason both sides bullshit is a working right-wing tactic. For everyone else this is an argument to give up voting while their own followers are filtering out every fact that does not fit their chosen view. “They are just as bad as we are!” only registers to their own voters as “They are bad!”. Because the “We are good” part is already a given in their damaged minds and so the other contradicting half of the statement just disappears.

Yes, not the desktop environment but the distro. KDE the desktop environment does not ship any kernel or modules at all because it’s not a distro. That should be obvious.

The “casual” gaming audience can follow intricate guides just to install minor mods, tune their devices for a few extra fps and so on, yet they magically can’t put a usb stick in their pc and follow a mostly automated installer.

I didn’t even know that KDE shipped without enabled NTSYNC still 1½ years after it got released in 6.14…

No, I’m not confusing things but directly referencing Wikipedia (and as explicitly mentioned British English):

( ) (round) brackets
[ ] square brackets
{ } curly brackets
<> angle brackets

American English however calls the same:

( ) parentheses
[ ] (square) brackets
{ } (curly) braces
<> angle brackets or chevrons

Yes, that means British an American people are meaning different things when talking about brackets (round vs. square as the default).

So I will repeat myself:

English (at least British English) does in fact the same thing.

round, square, curly and angle brackets…

So given that big chunks of the world learn British English it is probably not just a “German thing” as OP suggested.

We need to keep voting for progress, continuously, for the next few decades.

How are you voting for progress when you usually only are given the choice between fast or slow regression… standstill on an exceptionally good day at best.

I actually find it interesting to see that they seem to have skipped the whole “everyone needs an AI subscription for their everyday tasks”-phase and went straight for “technology isn’t for the serfs” angle.

Guess that happens when a case of collective insanity proves that you don’t need any working business model to get rich, just enough idiots to pump an endless bubble.

Difficult as in unlikely that the exploit works or difficult to write an exploit?

Difficult as in it’s a race condition that can theoretically be exploited when you get the timing right. But timing, if it’s not on a well-known isolated system right before you in some lab, depends on a million details, some –once we are talking about real-life examples– outside your control.

If Wikipedia is to be believed English (at least British English) does in fact the same thing. Although it’s “curly” instead of “curved” brackets.

Which is what Plakar suggests, too, as their cli tool reads the PLAKAR_PASSPHRASE environmental variable.

I guess there is no BoneAppleTea equivalent on lemmy…

I had to google what plakar even is, but they seem to think that’s the standard solution as you can give the plaintext passphrase as a variable at startup. Waht’s speaking against a passphrase as plaintext, set to be readable by root only?

How much pain you should expect is easily answered: Expect several things to break and having to do a full reinstall. So back up everything first.

It will probably not happen, but you should always expect the worst (out of the realistic at least…) outcome and be prepared.

“I did not use AI or LLMs in any way while writing this post”

A.I. would not have used “momentarily” in that context 😂