MentalEdge

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Linux does. Not all, but a lot, and more every day.

It's been years now, and it still hits me sometimes how insanely nice it is that my computers now work the way I want them to.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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The 580 driver does support wayland, it's not that old. Or are you worried about future breaking changes since you won't get updates?

I just switched my sisters old laptop with a 970m over to the nvidia-580xx driver, available on the AUR. Further manual maintenance should be unnecessary until the kernel becomes too new for that.

I even had to enable wayland for GDM because it was trying to use X11 and failing.

She plays minecraft and a couple other games so the nouveau was not an option.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's almost more like Steam, complete with unmoderated social platform functionality.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That depends entirely on the service.

Nothing prevents the password from being hashed client-side, only ever sending the hash to the service.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the only passkey I have is stored in my VaultWarden. Though it only works in browsers atm.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Doesn't a normal modern password, hashed, essentielly do the same thing?

No sane service has your actual password.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Simon and Catherine are the two sides of the debate. The emotional response, and its conclusion. And the intellectual response, and its conclusion.

SpoilerThe people who killed themselves, landed somewhere in-between.

Catherine had already thought about it a ton before she was copied, and came to intellectual conclusions well in advancea.

Simon is experiencing the feelings involved, after he's been copied. Worse, he's the kind of person who thinks people have souls, something intrinsicly unique and irreproduciple. He may never get past his emotional response.

We hear him voice his opinion several times, that to him, there is only one soul. He refers to original Simon as "real" Simon. He actively avoids thinking about it too much because the conclusion he'd come to is that his current existence is "fake". And you can tell that Catherine picks up on it, pushing the subject only when she has to. Even when she does explain, it's not that he can't understand the way she thinks about it. It's that he won't.

They also do several things in the story that discourages Simon from thinking about the copies as "real" even as he is one himself. After getting a password from a simulated copy of a mind, Simon wonders if they just killed a person several times over just to get a password. It goes unsaid, but he undoubtedly lands on the side he is more comfortable with. That the copies aren't "real".

Cathrine does manipulate Simon into being copied the second time. She avoids explaining it in a way that would offend him. Only doing so when she fails to hide what happened.

And then Simon comes up with a rationalization, the coinflip. That when you're copied, there's a coinflip on whether "you" end up on either side of the copy. Just so he can accept his current existence as valid.

If you're on the intellectual side, that's BS. You end up on both sides. Both copies are real.

But if you think the soul is real, then the coinflip must be how it works. That, or only the original was "real". But to the Simon we play as in Soma, that is not an option he is willing to even think about.

I think it's extremely good writing. I just pitied simon, I wasn't able to hate him for reacting the way a normal person might.

He could've been nicer to Catherine, tho.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

With nextcloud in particular, nextcloud is not just nextcloud.

It's a bunch of additional optional services that may or may not work as-is on Synology. And the Synology package won't come with all of them.

With docker, adding (or removing) additional services, such as Nextcloud Office, is comparatively simple.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use this one professionally, yet to come across a PC that wouldn't boot from it.

And yeah, you won't benefit unless the PC also has both fast ports and fast storage.

But half of the time I'm using it to move files from a customers old PC to their new one, and more aften than not, even the old one has at least one quick usb C port.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure.

But that's limited to SATA 3 speeds. A "mere" 600 MB/s. Not to mention SATA SSDs often can't sustain their theoretical maximums.

USB3.2x2 can do 2500 MB/s, and with heatsinks on an NVME drive you can actually reach and sustain that transfer speed.

When you're moving more than 500 gigs of something, or if you move ISO sized things often, it's really nice.

When I occasionally have to write an ISO to usb for macOS or when ventoy for some reason wont work, I get annoyed at how I actually have to wait a bit, even though my thumbdrives aren't slow.

They're just not NVME with a heatsink fast. I've gotten used to moving ISOs around like they're text files.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

True. But if you have an old one laying around, from a laptop, desktop or whatever, even a low end one will saturate usb while beating 2.5" hdds.

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