Sehe ebenfalls durchaus Chancen dafür, hier zumindest noch auf geraume Zeit entsprechende soziale Normen aufrechtzuerhalten. Glaube wir sollten uns das alle mal als Michmich-Sujet in den Hinterkopf notieren, um unsere Kreativität bei passenden Anlässen in entsprechende Bahnen zu lenken.

As a semi-simple compromise it would be cool if there was some way to have the cycling between different Searx instances be done automatically. E.g. either as a browser feature/browser extension, or as some private self-hosted interface to which I send my requests and which then selects the server at random from some subset of the list on searx.space. Or, while a bit hacky, the easiest way could be to do this on the DNS level. Should be doable with just one or two existing tools, with standard tools even.

The only thing I disagree with is this:

This continuing saga shows how important regulation and legislation are to protect consumers, whether it’s individuals like us, or companies that are being bullied into complying with some pretty odious demands.

This makes it look like anti-repair lawsuits were something that can natuarlly occur, and that the solution were some form of government intervention. By and large, that’s not true: It’s the existing copyright laws which are the government intervention — what we are calling for is not a restriction of freedoms for the greater good (regulation), but a return of freedoms that were unjustly taken from us.

(Just so no-one misunderstands me: I’m no opponent of regulations, and am wholly aware that, very often, they actually protect freedom in the greater scheme of things. My point is that terms like “regulation” and even “new legislation” do have a bad ring to many people in the Western hemisphere and beyond, and we needlessly cease discursive territory if we neglect the fact that we are victims of overreaching, oligarch-serving regulation, which we seek to abolish.)

If you don’t yet have a USB adapter for using NVMe SSDs over USB-3 ports, I’d suggest to buy such a thing first, since they not just make for a simple yet (decently) fast storage expansion solution, but are very useful in all sorts of situations.

For an ongoing discusion on Lemmy and a more detailed article see here

Kein “SPRICH”? :(

Let’s say, hypothetically, that there was a way to access this article without paywall

I would immediately agree if the gangs were utterly fragmented away from each other.

However, many of those gangs simultaneously constitute an asset for the government of their respective country.

Case in point: In Russia, things take the form that the government lets the gangs do their stuff, but they have to attack government-chosen targets every once in a while. So there is already structure for coordination. What it would take is for the Russian government, or maybe even just one of its rivalling intelligence agencies, to conclude that making an example out of Britain has become important. Still more interesting game theory lies here: Russia’s government and agencies needn’t even hope to participate in any ransom payouts at any time – just perpetuating the gangs’ damaging of European economies is already heavily in their interest. They have a cyberwar budget anyways.

However, I know far too little about the economic magnitudes involved here to say anything with certainty.

There’s some interesting game theory at play here.

The idea is to make the public sector and CNI (which includes utilities and datacenters these days) less attractive targets for financially motivated attackers.

Indeed it’s about time a major country try out if this works. Should it prove successful, others could follow suit. However, it’s exactly this prospect which could make it all fail. Why? Once the UK enacts its law, the major ransomware gangs (and the occasional government backing them) could have a major incentive to target the UK’s systems extra hard. This would not make the gangs any money, of course. Rather, the purpose would be to deter the rest of the world from employing the same approach, lest this source of income dry out, too.

Cool, you’re welcome! Also, by now the problem regarding key enrolment is more a general Linux/Secureboot problem, so you could also ask it in more general Linux forums/channels. When you find a solution, please let me know about it (ideally right here), since that would interest me too. :)

Yeah, the weird confusing screen at boot that’s easy to miss and difficult to bring back must have been the one about key enrolment. Memories lol. Sadly I’m not fluent in dealing with secure boot. So when you’ve exhausted what the SUSE wiki suggests, try googling the error messages (‘Failed to access kernel trusted keyring: Required key not available’ and ‘Failed to get root password hash’) and play around with mokutil to see if you can solve your problem. Or ask in the OpenSUSE IRC channel, e.g. going to the Libera Web client and entering the channel name opensuse (ideally link to this thread when asking there).

ffmpeg is usually the tool of choice.

An example for batch converting of all AVI videos in a folder:

for i in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "${i%.*}.mp4"; done

Source & further reading here on StackOverflow. The comments to the answer provide examples of how to explicitly tweak the quality level. Inverting what this specific comment suggests, conversion from H264 to H265 could be done by something like this, assuming all your videos’ names end on .mkv:

for f in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -map 0 -movflags faststart -c:v libx265 -c:a copy -c:s copy "${f/x264/x265}"; done

I wonder: if one wants to make things run in parallel, would that be as easy as adding " & " before the last semicolon here? I suspect this could work as long as there are only a few handful of files, but lead to troubles once there’s more.

Looks normal; the graphics card is being detected.

How about about sudo journalctl -xe | grep nvidia and specifically sudo journalctl -xe | grep nvidia-persistenced ?

I remember my NVIDIA drivers causing troubles because of secure boot:

Kernels in Leap and Tumbleweed will, by default, refuse to load any unsigned kernel modules on machines with secure boot enabled.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Secureboot

During every reboot right after an upgrade involving NVIDIA drivers, one should watch the screen in case a prompt for the enrolment of new MOK keys appears. If one misses this prompt, one has to do the enrolment by hand, see Ctrl+F “miss the timeout for certificate enrollment after first reboot” in the linked section. With your card model, this means you’d have to run

mokutil --import /usr/share/nvidia-pubkeys/MOK-nvidia-driver-G06-<driver_version>-<kernel_flavor>.der --root-pw

as root. In order to find the precise filename to use here, the easiest way is to first enter just the part until and including “MOK-nivdia-driver-G0”, and then hit Tab twice to see what suggestions you get: the relevant file is then in all likelihood the one with the highest version numbers.

The repo configuration looks sane to me (however, it’s bin a while since I last combined Packman repo with NVidia). Also please give the output of lspci, which is about the most low-level way to see whether your system sees the graphics card.

I’m wondering if it has something to do with the priorities of your repositories. What’s the output of zypper repos --details (or zypper lr -d for short) on your system?

Ich probiere (aus gegebenem Anlass) mal gerade aus, ob man hier von Lemmy aus Personen auf Mastodon anpingen kann: @zoe@gruene.social

I think we should be reposting Rosie stuff way more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64YhFQ99a-c

No expert on CPUs and coolers, but

• begin by checking levelness of the plate and functionality of the mounting mechanism. I suspect that if they got badly warped, all work could be futile.
• when trying to bend things back, apply some external heat to them first (duh) [edit: dubious, see another user’s comment below] and pay care not to impair the levelness of the plate (duh)
• personally I would only try it on a CPU and motherboard that are old and cheap enough for me to be okay with them breaking. If you don’t have them, perhaps there’s some PC re-use initiative in your vicinity which would either accept and try your cooler, or give out corresponding components to you.

Habe da selber noch kaum Ahnung von, aber die Worte meines sachkundigen Kumpels klangen für mich so, dass seine Methode auch bei Handys von nicht-technikaffinen Leuten gute Chancen hat zu funktionieren.

(Ich glaube, deren Funktionsprinzip soll sein, dass das Touch-Display der Tastatur sich dem Smartphone als zweites (dupliziertes?) Display anbietet. Auch das spricht dafür, dass es hier wohl nicht darum geht, besondere USB-Debug-Funktionen zu nutzen, sondern halt nur mit dem Handy so zu interagieren wie man es mit dessen eigenen Display tun kann.)

Kumpel von mir hat mal erwähnt, dass er dank seiner PC-Tastatur mit eingebautem Touch-Display (ich glaube das Modell war eine Kwumsy K3) auch in Härtefällen oft noch an die Daten gelangen kann, iirc v.a. wenn das Handy-/Tabletdisplay kaputt ist, aber der USB-Anschluss noch geht.