I also thought this was a scam like “energized water” and similar, but then found that there are actually medical studies being done on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10816294/ But that review paper also says, that larger sample sizes are needed and the mechanisms aren’t explained, so it may turn out useless after all.

In the EU, cars have to be equipped with automatic emergency call systems since 2018. So probably since then most brands will have had it, as they are required to have cell connection hardware anyway.

Thanks to Crowdstrike I know that at least the checkouts in shops and some ATMs here use Windows 8 or newer, because of the new blue screen design (don’t remember if they had the QR code, which would mean at least Windows 10)

I don’t think The Guardian is wrong here, see this passage from the article:

Comer has sent 16 letters to former Biden White House officials requesting transcribed interviews, NBC said. Metadata analysis showed that all appeared to be signed with a digitally inserted signature. Further letters requesting testimony from the White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor and Anthony Bernal, a senior aide to former first lady Jill Biden, were also signed with digital images, NBC said.

He did not use cryptographic signatures, but images of his written signature, which I think is pretty similar to using an autopen (albeit probably much easier to detect)

Well, having a domain is basically documenting your IP publicly. It’s not that risky.

ARM boards with slotted RAM use the same type as x86 (although mostly LPDDR, as found in laptops), so I assume there isn’t any difference that is related to the CPU architecture.

My theory for why it created copies: The files you listed look like they are all subdirectories from /dev, which is (usually) a separate filesystem. When you try to move a file or directory across filesystems, the OS can’t just change the link, it has to actually copy the files and then remove the original. As a directory is a set of links to files, and the copies are different files, directories are just newly created with the same name in the new location instead of copying the directory filesystem entry. It looks like mv creates these target directories, before it checks if it actually has permission to remove the source, but checks file permissions, before it copies them

It’s a reference to the TNG episode Chain of Command

My Lemmy client can’t do spoiler tags, but the explanation for the “four lights” part is in the plot section of the linked wiki article

Regarding snapshots, I use a setup, where at the root of the btrfs partition I have the subvolumes “rootfs”, “home”, and a directory “snapshots”. I can boot into a snapshot by changing the mount options for the rootfs in the kernel command line, e.g.setting subvol=snapshots/rootfs-yyyy-mm-dd.

The only difference between a snapshot and a regular subvolume is that snapshots are readonly by default, you can keep a writable copy of a snapshot beside it for recovery purposes, if you need it. As long as nothing is written in it, it shouldn’t use any significant extra space.

I know that, but that does not give apps root access. Unless you mean something else by root access than being run with root privileges

But Shift+insert currently pastes the primary selection, not the copy-paste clipboard. So it doesn’t do the same as Ctrl+V.

Well, the article proposes to use dedicated copy and paste keys. If you don’t have an insert key, you probably don’t have those either.

And best of all, you get an OS that is secure, which traditional Linux distros aren’t due to every app having root access by default.

What? Which distro runs everything as root by default?

If it is anything like other surgeries done at vets, the risky part with such an old animal is the sedation, not the surgery itself. And with animals you usually need to fully sedate them, as they don’t understand that they need to stay still.

Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Stardew Valley have native Linux Support. For Stardew, even the third modding API works flawlessly for me.

For the other ones, they are reported to run well on protondb.com, which is a good place to check Linux support (not only for Steam games). The reports there usually also list, which proton version works well.

I found these grips very helpful https://makerworld.com/models/607677

Without them, my hands go numb after about an hour with the Steamdeck, these make it much more ergonomic for my large hands.

Manual firmware updates

As someone who’s work laptop no longer has Wi-Fi since the automatic firmware update, I like my updates to be manual.

Wouldn’t it still look weird because the two images are offset in a different axis than your eyes?

That just shows that one axis is too few to categorize political opinions. The opposite of liberal is authoritarian and while I definitely would say I’m a leftist, I’m not pro authoritarian.

Sadly, “liberal” partys nowadays are mostly economically liberal (i.e. freedom for corporations, deregulation etc.). But you can also be socially liberal, i.e. support individual freedom.

(N.B.: I’m not from the US, maybe the definition of liberalism taught in school here is different, or the literal translation is used differently)