Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. For anyone wondering, all Intel x86 CPUs, even the original 8086/8088, use microcode. The ability to update it was introduced with the P6 architecture (Pentium Pro/II/III) which is coincidentally the oldest CUPs supported by stock Debian.
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  2. I'm curious, does that yes/no patch actually work? If it was just changing identifiers in the code it wouldn't change how it runs but since it also changes text strings some things might break.
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  3. @elfrjz It doesn't make sense because Debian 6 (Squeeze) dropped support for the 486. Debian 9 (Stretch) dropped 586 support and that version's last LTS release was over a year ago. As I said, you need a Pentium Pro, Pentium II, or compatible CPU to run Debian at all.
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  4. I see that working about as well as demanding that smartphones have headphone jacks. Consumer pressure only works when there is more competition.
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  5. The alternatives would be more along the lines of VxWorks.
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  6.  @blechtic  That's a very good point. NOP (no operation) is an instruction on almost all CPUs. YESP probably isn't a valid instruction.
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  7. Countersue. HTTP is not HTCPCP.
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  8.  @lboston4660  When you installed a BIOS with a microcode update or possibly when you installed an OS update which included a microcode updater.
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  9. ​ @nsr-ints  I did exactly this and for one simple reason: it was much faster than local storage. My local storage was a spinning laptop hard drive and the network storage was a RAM drive in my slower desktop.
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  10.  @NeilHaskins  DP also supports HDCP.
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  11.  @Bigoukun  Due to its analog nature VGA can work fine for HDR. Problem is nobody implements it.
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  12.  @dutchangle229  Very few applications really use X, I believe all the common toolkits render locally and send the results as a bitmap to the server.
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  13.  @alexstone691  It doesn't need to be nearly that modern for recovery to exist. I have late 90s boards which can recover with a pre-prepared floppy. I have successfully used the functionality on my 2006 ASUS board and also my 2009 HP Netbook. On the netbook it was naturally USB instead of floppy.
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  14. A long time ago (probably 15 years ago, but less than 20) I picked up a used (and then very outdated) book "Linux: Configuration and Installation (First edition) which described how to set up Slackware 2.2. I didn't know until literally today but it was written (partially) by Slackware's creator. Unfortunately it was missing the CD. If I can find an ISO of this disc it might be neat to do a "retro" install of what Linux was like back in 1995.
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  15. Compile everything yourself how? With a compiler?
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  16.  @Adiee5Priv  Send an email to yourself, then view source when you get it back.
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  17.  @roysigurdkarlsbakk3842  Only a little bit of power savings. N270 systems use perhaps 10 watts under full load.
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  18. IMO the XP-era BSoD was the best. The fact that it decodes the code to a string and tells you the module name is more info than most systems. In newer versions of Windows it just says "Something went wrong" and in older versions they didn't have the explanation message.
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  19.  @soulstenance  In addition to some mobos for custom systems, most mid- and higher tier business desktops have a standard pair of PS/2 ports. As an option they're also available with brand-new PS/2 keyboards and mice. This is specifically so USB can be entirely disabled in security-conscious locations.
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  20.  @BrodieRobertson  Since 3.8 the Linux kernel itself has dropped support for the 386. Only 486 and higher are supported these days. As for Debian, recent versions need a 686.
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  21. It doesn't matter if we use HDMI or not, it only matters if the ports are present. And I had the same thought about shipping less expensive HDMI-less models. I suppose as the chip provider they could ship all future GPUs without HDMI and card manufacturers could add an onboard bridge chip if desired. And while they can't have an "HDMI" port without paying the forum I believe they could have unbranded 19-pin TMDS video connectors which happen to be compatible with HDMI displays, at least for standard 1080p.
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  22. I've seen a (likely fictional) story where the admins wanted to make sure nobody was using the old coax-based Ethernet network. The solution? Put 120 volts on the line.
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  23. I don't use Arch because it got in the way. It's fine when it works but it's the epitome of "move fast and break things." I (nearly) hosed my install because one day I didn't read the news page before updating. With Debian (and derivatives) I can do a standard package update and know it won't break anything.
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  24. For another reference of what 16-22kHz sounds like, most CRT TVs put out a decent amount of whine at their 15.75kHz horizontal scan rate.
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  25. I work at a computer repair shop and just yesterday somebody came in with a laptop running Debian. It's coming!
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  26.  @thingsiplay  The vast majority of Bluetooth adapters used in PCs are electrically connected over USB. I'm not talking about rectangular type A connectors but special internal connectors. These are the internal ports option 2 will automatically authorize. One example is the A/E key M.2 slot used in laptops for Wi-Fi/BT.
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  27.  @lunlunnnnn  I would argue there's no need for new code ranges, even if you need more than 99 errors of each type. 499 could be defined as client error/other and an additional header could provide an extended code.
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  28. ON the old family Win95 PC there was an old "MS-DOS Application" of unknown purpose but we kept it because it was probably there for a reason, even though it would just crash if you ran it. Relatively recently I went back and decided to investigate what it was. I opened it up in Notepad to look for any identifying strings and noticed a telltale "BM" magic string at the beginning. It opened up perfectly in Paint and it turns out a much-younger me was trying to create a website or something. Not knowing anything about how any of it worked, I had made a BMP file but with a COM extension.
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  29. ​ @Aura_Mancer  I thought the official user-facing name was Stop error.
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  30. That would be a clear GPL violation.
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  31. Most filesystems don't actually have these special entries, it's emulated for compatibility reasons.
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  32. My least favorite thing is accidentally left-clicking in YouTube. It stops the video, destroys a comment if I was writing one, and takes a while to reload.
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  33. Yes to Chrome versioning being stupid. Firefox only copied that to avoid looking outdated in comparison. USB I can't agree with the same way. They're only on version 4 and all of the major versions (possibly excepting 2) involved major PHY changes.
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  34. I've been using a Wayland session on my T61p using the nouveau driver on the much more pathetic (by modern standards) Quadro FX 570M. I doubt you'd have any problems related to your choice of card but there's one way to be sure. Just try it and see if anything happens.
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  35.  @imzesok  My problem with using a root shell is that it doesn't have my command history. It's super helpful being able to up-arrow and grab file and directory names easily.
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  36. I found third-party systems like Sunshine/Moonlight to work much more smoothly than built-in Windows RDP.
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  37.  @pennyandrews3292  A minor point, the kernel doesn't care at all. It's only userland stuff.
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  38. With this patch you shouldn't need to worry about it.
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  39. Disabling UAC isn't a security concern if you know what you're doing. Just use a non-Administrator account and manually elevate only when needed. It's probably more secure doing this than running everything in a UAC-limited Administrator. Still, I don't get the point of disabling UAC. Other than some severe annoyances if using network drives it doesn't hurt.
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  40. As somebody who's been to the real Wayland (my favorite region is Cochituate) it seems like a nice place to live but the cost of living is rather high. As somebody who speaks the language I am confident Brodie would have no trouble communicating.
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  41.  @fakecubed  There's no official language. But for business transactions, English is the most popular language. Do all you jokers* not know that Wayland is a real place? It's a real town in Massachusetts, around 15 miles away from Boston. Weston is an adjacent town. *This might sound like an insult but I mean joker in the literal sense, people making jokes about a place they think is fictional.
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  42.  @Caminante-blanco  Half of the old computer companies were from Massachusetts, as well as FSF, GNU, X, and the Wayland protocol. Have you ever heard of the MIT license? Guess what the M stands for.
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  43. I have my laptop brightness set to 13/80 on its arbitrary scale which is plenty bright for me sitting next to a window. Putting it up to full brightness makes it look nice when sitting in direct sunlight but that's not how I use it. I think I have all my CCFL-lit LCDs set to at most half. Even most CRTs at full brightness are a bit too much unless very worn.
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  44. 1. It depends on your school's policies, and I'm sure there are exceptions for purpose built kiosks.
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  45.  @quickdudley  Technically SeaMonkey is the more direct successor.
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  46. It is that simple and has been done. That's what kexec is.
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  47. I thought they used OS-level encryption functions like DPAPI. Any program running as the user can access the store but without the Windows login the keys are inaccessible. On Linux there are different keystores but I believe the basic idea is the same.
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  48. All the P6 derived processors (including all three versions of Pentium III) have speculative execution.
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  49.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Problems arise when you mix and match SSE and non-SSE code in Rust but if you recompile everything I think it should work.
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  50. Back then most students wouldn't have known either, it will just be a few showing something to their friends and then making copies.
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  51. I'm sure it isn't an intentional animation, it looks like it just takes a second for the display to resync after a video interruption.
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  52. I have Windows 7 on a few machines that get connected to the Internet and I have a good reason: I'm lazy. I've migrated away on my primary machines (admittedly later than I should have) but for the system by the basement workbench that I use a few times a year to look up schematics or whatever it's not worth the effort to migrate. I don't deal with anything sensitive on these systems so I don't care too much that it's not the safest. I actually use Win98 online occasionally on my "retro" machine to read strategy guides and such when playing old games.
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  53. ​ @keit99  That's why screensavers are harmful, they just add more burn-in.
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  54.  @keit99  How is that possibly better? Whenever a pixel is on it is getting burned. If your screensaver displayed the exact opposite of your normal desktop it would even out the burn-in but I don't see how burning more pixels helps at all.
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  55. 8086 and 8088 contain microcode too. AFAIK the 6502 does not.
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  56.  @MegaLokopo  I agree that shifting energy use from dirty peakers to clean base generators would have much more of a positive effect. IMO the best way to do this is time of use rates but if you suggest that people will complain.
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  57.  @RadikaRules  The XP PowerToy wasn't a native part of the OS, so it doesn't count. There were many third-party virtual desktop manager for Windows before then.
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  58.  @tablettablete186  Are you sure the PowerToys virtual desktop used kernel objects? I thought it just moved windows offscreen. Unfortunately I don't think I have it installed anymore.
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  59. interesting. I don't know if there's an explicit standard but in the US the hot water is always on the left and the cold is on the right.
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  60.  @123Daktary  In the US there actually isn't a standard orientation for standard electrical receptacles. But since (most of) our plugs are non-reversible there's no way live and neutral should ever get mixed. Usually ground is on the bottom (and right angle plugs are usually designed with this in mind) but sometimes ground is up. Sideways receptacles are very rare except near Chicago.
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  61. I've never tried a tiling window manager and I get how they'd be useful (my desktop is indeed messy), but at the same time I don't want anything moving or resizing unless I specifically want it to.
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  62.  @anon_y_mousse  You joke but listening to the hard drive is how I would know how far along in the boot process my old computers were. Near-silent mechanical drives killed that ability.
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  63. The MS-DOS partition style actually has no limit on extended partitions.
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  64. The downside of Vulkan is it's only supported on newer graphics cards. This probably isn't an important consideration for a heavy 3D game that needs such a GPU for performance reasons. But for other applications you should care.
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  65. Unpriveleged users, root, and a filesystem with permission bits.
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  66. Actually it's from 2004, but that's mainly an academic point.
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  67. Windows 11 boots without TPM enabled, it's only the installer that cares.
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  68. Yes, it's a weakness if used like that. But the authorization of pluggable devices is done in userspace and can be more advanced. For example maybe only authorize devices if a smart card is inserted.
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  69. If you buy a 6502 how do you know there is not a malicious processor monitoring and intercepting the bus? You would need to completely verify every read and write operation by hand. At that point why bother with the CPU at all?
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  70.  @lpprogrammingllc  The bus being D0-D7 and A0-A15. It's easy enough to make something which keeps the same bus timing and you can't be sure it isn't malicious execution unless you watch it continually. You'd need to dissect it, and then keep in mind modern 6502s are built on more modern processes. The best course of action would be to use one CPU, then dissect it and if anything funny is found discard all its computational results.
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  71. Many of these do work with modern security standards. In a ThinkPad T30 I was able to get WPA2 working even though it's only 802.11b.
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  72.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Yes in Linux, on the then-latest Debian (probably Wheezy). I was also trying to make it work in XP but IIRC the latest I could get there was WPA1. That would've also needed a firmware update and I don't remember if it actually worked or not.
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  73. IIRC the "IBM" 802.11 card available in the ThinkPad T30 used the hostap driver and with a firmware update it works with WPA2. While not fast it should still be compatible with modern networks and is plenty for SSH and more limited browsing. You don't need to be a complete weirdo to use one and I'm sure people do.
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  74. Who says they were source disks? Microsoft used their own source control system (Source Library Manager) so it would be stored centrally.
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  75. Tab Suspender seems to work pretty well on regular Firefox for me.
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  76.  @jonathanbuzzard1376  Old-school Macs let you use / in filenames long before users would've been concerned with SMB support. When switching to the Unix-based OSX they needed compatibility systems. When you enter a / in the GUI it is converted to a : for the Unix filename (and vice versa). I presume they used : as a path separator in old MacOS. I had no idea this was a thing but I was helping somebody with a file not opening. Apparently Word for Mac does not do all the necessary translations and simply can't open those files.
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  77. Are they non-free drivers or non-free firmware? It's an important distinction. It's a problem if by default non-free code runs on the CPU.
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  78. Desktop entries should definitely be handled better.
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  79. Not quite true. DVI was around before HDCP and the benefit is you get a pixel-perfect transmission to a dot-matrix display. If you notice on any LCD monitor the VGA input goes right into a video ADC.
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  80.  @soulstenance  I should add that it has the electrical USB D+/D- lines but you're not going to find a regular rectangular USB connector inside the laptop. It will use a proprietary connector and power is usually a minimally-protected 3.3v instead of the standard well-protected 5v.
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  81.  @ukyoize  Laziness is one of the three virtues of a great programmer. The others are impatience and hubris. Hubris ensures you don't make terrible code.
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  82. Bluetooth adapters are usually connected over USB so they wouldn't be authorized if you use option 0. But keep in mind this means the kernel won't automatically authorize the device, you would likely have a daemon that would auto-authorize your main keyboard and other devices.
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  83.  @thingsiplay  Traditional Thunderbolt is PCIe and DisplayPort. I'd imagine modern type C Thunderbolt is mostly the same but it might also be a hybrid of the three. On that note I'm sure USB type C displays wouldn't count as USB.
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  84.  @MrSnivvel  You're (partially) right, it doesn't change. Intersex people have always existed.
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  85. Without a compositor anytime part of one window is uncovered it needs to immediately redraw itself. With non-optimized applications this means the entire window gets redrawn which can be computationally intensive. You've probably seen Windows XP screenshots where an error dialog is dragged over a window and leaves a trail, this is what happens when the background window can't redraw in a timely manner. With a compositor the WM knows exactly what each window looks like so moving and/or switching between windows is always instant. And related to that, compositing window managers can show miniature previews when using window-switching functions like Alt-Tab. It's much quicker to tab to a moving picture of Brodie than it is to tab to the text "Begone Wayland". On my crappy old netbook compositing had a noticeable performance hit. But when you only have a 1024x576 display the ability to switch windows instantly made it worth it.
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  86. Win9x, in its normal mode of operation, accesses the internal state of DOS directly. This probably won't work too well if you use a different DOS. It is possible to run without this functionality but this makes the system freeze whenever you perform disk accesses.
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  87. That's why you lock down the BIOS and use disk encryption if you are concerned about physical attacks.
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  88. I know that my compiler produced binaries are accurate to the source. If they didn't match the compiler would be violating the GPL.
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  89. Freeware
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  90.  @josearmandosalgueiro7907  I'm pretty sure MS didn't force them to remove S3 sleep. They may have forced them to implement "Connected Standby" but removing S3 is definitely the manufacturer's choice.
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  91.  @billj5645  Your example with a NAS running Linux is also the case with Windows. You can't repair a drive on Windows without unmounting it. There are also GUI ways to invoke disk checks on Linux if that's what you're talking about.
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  92.  @jan237  It's been the default option on Windows since Vista so 2006, far from forever. XP not sleeping by default, and remaining the dominant Windows version for a long time, was estimated to waste something like $100b of energy (I forget the number)
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  93. In my experience the PLoP boot manager is very finicky with USB boot. When it works it's nice but with some drives (or maybe combination of system/chipset and drive) it just doesn't.
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  94.  @SukSukulent  On modern systems the system firmware is signed and verified by hardware inside the CPU or PCH. You can't upload hacked firmware and expect it to work. If you're just talking about clearing the NVRAM section, then yes it will probably work fine.
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  95. It's authorized by a userspace daemon which can be programmed with whatever mechanism desired. I would expect that setups used for desktop systems would always allow at least one keyboard so you could always login.
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  96. I noticed that behavior but I thought my system just had something funny going on, I didn't realize it was working as designed. The proper behavior is just so obvious. I wonder if there's a tweak or addon which will make it properly stage the new version before telling you to close the old one.
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  97.  @AutismusMaximus  IMO a donation popup on first launch is a bad idea. It seems too pushy to me and could turn new users away from the program. If you wait then people will have time to use the program and see how it provides value.
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  98. From the A53's Wikipedia page: "4 KiB conditional branch predictor, 256-entry indirect branch predictor".
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  99. Firefox is good enough for PDFs so a dedicated PDF viewer offers minimal extra value. On Windows the default viewer is Edge and I haven't heard anyone complain. Eye of GNOME was on the list so you can view pictures, and yes they should include a media player.
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  100.  @Pyro-Moloch  The problem with minimizing on the taskbar is it only does one window at a time. If each task has multiple windows it can get old quickly, especially when you have multiple instances of the same application. On smaller screens I might use adjacent workspaces for reference materials and the active working file. Alt+tab works fine for quickly swapping between the two but when a third window (such as a calculator or terminal emulator) is added a quick Alt+tab starts jumping to the wrong window. Switching workspaces is one click yet can restore dozens of windows at once.
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  101.  @Pyro-Moloch  The smaller the monitor, the more you need to switch views. With only one virtual desktop you have all your windows on one taskbar and it's annoying to pick out the specific window you want. All browser windows look the same, all PDFs look the same, all file managers look the same, etc. It doesn't take much time to find the right one but it interrupts stream of consciousness. It's much easier if you can press one button without thinking and be shown the window you want to see. Virtual desktops makes that easy. Even if you still use taskbar switching it eliminates extra taskbar icons to keep it clean. Then there's also the idea of having one workspace per task. You can have one for one work project, one for checking on personal communications, and one for work email.
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  102. Nouveau also means new.
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  103. Well yeah, but not everybody knows that suspend or sleep mode is a low-power mode.
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  104. TLDR: I used Arch 11 years ago. I don't use arch anymore. My first Linux experience was from a CD found at a yard sale with Freespire Linux which I installed on an old (Celeron 466) PC. My first "real" distro was Arch, installed around 2013. Because I didn't religiously read the news page before every update I ended up without a copy of the shell. I somehow was able to use the existing bash window and fix the system. That put me off Arch. When I got my first ThinkPad I went with Debian and I no longer needed to worry about everything breaking. After that my distro of choice was Xubuntu, now it's Mint.
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  105. The 32-bit VMM (and loadable VxDs) are the real kernel of 9x and rebooting through DOS fully restarts those, so it's much more like kexec. The ability to restart the 16-bit window system while keeping all the VxDs running would be the real equivalence.
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  106. So you're saying each DE writing its own compositor is basically writing its own X server replacement? I can't see how TF they're managing that. I thought X itself handles all the hardware acceleration with different modules. On my NVidia laptop I would use xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and my dGPU desktop would require xserver-xorg-video-radeon. How are GNOME and KDE doing this without writing their own drivers?
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  107. I had never thought about it before but the lack of this already being a universal feature is a win for legacy X. I think I've crashed the WM once or twice but didn't lose any work. If they can make this work everywhere it will definitely be a win.
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  108.  @cameronbosch1213  I've had a few BSoDs in NT4 and don't remember seeing any stack traces. As most builds don't contain symbol tables I think a stack trace would be limited to debug or other specialty builds.
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  109. No, they skipped that number for some reason.
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  110. Lenovo M920q Tiny has a speaker. I think it's mainly intended for low-fidelity audio but the beeps are mixed in.
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  111. And how did you compile the HDL to a bitstream?
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  112. My favorite Intel CPU is Prescott. Just kidding. My actual favorite would probably be the Core 2 Duo, just because it was so much better than the Netburst CPUs it replaced.
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  113.  @mohammedgoder  More like 25-28 years. On the Intel side the Pentium Pro and successor* CPUs are affected. I believe the only exception is the older Atom CPUs like the N270 and D525.
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  114. I thought running OpenGL applications using X over the network has been broken for decades.
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  115.  @rallias1  I'll need to investigate this. Also keep in mind that a modern CPU can probably handle software rendering vanilla Minecraft. If you pull the F3 debug screen it wouldn't surprise me if you were actually rendering using llvmpipe.
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  116. Modern software has power management inhibit hooks so if implemented properly the things you describe aren't an issue.
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  117.  @RomvnlyPlays  The application it is cloning, as well as the entire OS it shipped with, can be installed and use less than that much disk space. RAM usage, again OS+Application, is perhaps one tenth of that.
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  118. The definite answer to the first question is an absolute no. If they're using a microkernel they're not using Linux and thus are not a Linux distro. Some free systems with similar functionality are MINIX, GNU Hurd, and Redox.
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  119.  @cigmorfil4101  In MS-DOS the kernel uses the stored . and .. entries in that way. As you said on anything Unixy you have mount points but the feature which really precludes using .. entries directly is symbolic links.
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  120.  @cigmorfil4101  It seems you're right. I was under the impression it was the other way around. Probably because when you cd with the shell it behaves the way I described. In related, I just discovered the pwd -P command which shows the true current directory without using any symlinks.
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  121. That's how most BadUSB devices work.
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  122. In the US pushbutton tuning was never popular on TVs. Meanwhile on car radios there were almost always buttons for presets. I watch a number of radio restoration channels and I think I've only seen pushbutton band/function selection on European sets. For that purpose rotary switches were usually used.
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  123.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Our pair of linked eyes can move from thing to another much more quickly and seamlessly than we can press a hotkey. With two monitors (or one large one) you can read a reference document on one monitor while your project is on another. Also in most environments you can only supply input to a currently visible program. It is very annoying needing to manually switch desktops once a second.
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  124. Yes, standard charging would still work.
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  125. I don't remember how it worked in earlier versions of Windows but at least in XP with Fast User Switching enabled this is not the case. Before starting the screensaver Windows opens a new desktop and on my particular setup the display obviously loses sync whenever this happens.
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  126. Windows (at least XP and newer) actually handle screen savers in a better way, they're (mostly) just regular GUI applications. When the timeout is reached the OS opens a new desktop object and the screensaver is launched with the '/S' option. Once the screen saver is dismissed the login UI is launched or it switches back to the original desktop with all the windows. I see no reason why a compositor which already has a screen locker also couldn't launch an external executable and display this over the login screen. After all they already have the ability to display the output of external applications.
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  127.  @framegrace1  Slow performance is much better than no functionality. I'm fine with them leaving the support disabled by default if it hasn't been as well tested.
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  128.  @andreimiga8101  Linux dropped 386 support in 2012.
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  129.  @jordanhildebrandt3705  Word has never been included with a regular Windows install.
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  130.  @jordanhildebrandt3705  The only 90s versions of Windows I've used are WfW3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, NT4, and 2000. None of those came with Office, the closest is Write/Wordpad. PC sellers may have bundled them but that's a different matter.
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  131.  @elmariachi5133  USB-IF has finally realized they've been stupid. Apparently late last year they announced they're going for new names like "USB 10 Gbps".
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  132.  @eduardoroth8207  nouveau is much better with older chips like this, I could run Minecraft fairly well. Contemporary integrated graphics are much worse in performance. And this laptop doesn't have integrated graphics so it's that's not an option.
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  133.  @Perchpole  No, it's 100% okay to sell access to free GPL code. But if you sell GPL code you can't stop the person you sold it to from giving it away for free.
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  134.  @BrodieRobertson  Define "modern kernel". The average user isn't compiling their own kernel but they will likely run the latest version available in their distro. I would be running Debian and wouldn't hear about the change until the next version comes out in two years and I go to upgrade.
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  135. They disabled the scrollback in the kernel VT? I didn't know what but it explains why scrollback wasn't working on some of my server VMs.
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  136. It should already work. Are you running an older version?
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  137.  @alpacamale2909  The AX101 should work but there are known bugs. I read one report that it works properly with Linux 6.4 (which was released in June). Ubuntu has a mainline kernel PPA which would give you such a version. There's also a "iwlwifi-ax101-dkms" package you can install using makedeb which should definitely fix it for you.
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  138. Keep in mind that bugs can lead to unintended execution of malicious code.
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  139. The dot in the i being red is a relatively recent change. None of the IBM-branded models had the colored dot and I"m thinking some of the Lenovo-branded ones didn't have that either.
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  140. That uses logind and polkit. But that's not what the video is about, have you watched it?
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  141. If you're going OOM then you could probably make use of more swap. When on my older laptop I will often notice excessive slowdowns due to swap usage with only a few tabs but that's with 4GBs and heavy 2024 websites.
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  142. If it came with 7 it should be able to run Windows 10 well. If you upgraded to 7 on an XP-era machine you probably can't run Windows 10. Anyone using this old a PC as a primary general computer should upgrade their hardware but if you use it to play old games IMO you should be able to.
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  143. Root hub is a virtual construct that contains all of the physical ports. If you disable the root hub all of the ports are disabled. Internal is pretty obvious, anything inside the computer. Things like webcams, fingerprint readers, smart card readers, and Bluetooth adapters connect through USB.
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  144. A definitive no, these attacks only get you data in the running system. If you boot your own OS then the original OS isn't in memory anymore.
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  145. Lenovo has been putting in large touchpads for quite some time. 15 year old ThinkPads aren't the fastest anymore but IMO they just feel excellent physically. The slightly newer T420 is not quite as good but in my experience more than fast enough.
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  146. Ah yes, I love the days before state imposed regulations, back when the neighborhood kids would go swimming in the river and come out a different color depending on what the factories were making that day. Regulations often increase the direct cost but good regulations lower the overall cost.
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  147. The old Raspberry Pi is ARMv6 and the Pi 2 is ARMv7. So in recent devices the 32-bit ARM CPUs were definitely more popular.
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  148. Coincidentally, the previous video I watched was about Rust on a legacy computer system. Not the language, the oxidized metal.
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  149.  @doq  I think "they" are working on proxies to address that problem.
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  150. I've never seen a BIOS option to disable the deep speaker. Yes you can disable the sound card but that's different.
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  151. Swap.
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  152. I also like AoE but iSCSI has more features and is probably faster in most cases.
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  153. It's not when only one thread is running. Single-thread performance is always the limiting factor unless all cores are 100% used. Due to the nature of computing not all tasks can be parallelized, thus single-thread performance will always matter for normal usecases. If you drop to 1/10 the single-core performance but have 20x the cores your performance will still suffer.
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  154. mtPaint is a very nice tool. It's my go-to for working with paletted images.
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  155. Sleep works 100% of the time for me on Mint. The only Linux system I have where sleep doesn't work properly (or more accurately resume doesn't work properly) is one where I crossgraded from Ubuntu to Debian so it gets a free pass for weird software issues.
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  156.  @kolz4ever1980  There's plenty of things that just work in Linux-based systems but not with Windows.
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  157.  @kolz4ever1980  You don't believe me? Try using an old webcam with modern Windows. The only real advantage of Windows is compatibility with certain programs which were only designed to run on Windows. The opposite is true of application compatibility as well: programs like Cinelerra are designed for Linux and don't work on Windows without lots of workarounds. It has nothing to do with the merits of each system, only adoption rates.
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  158. I have one Skylake laptop, one Haswell desktop, and a ton of systems which are older. These older systems include all the ones I normally use.
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  159. You've really never seen a PC that will run 7 but not 10? A typical Pentium 4 system runs 7 fine but 10 only supports the latest P4 variants.
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  160. I literally just installed Chromium last night and now I need to stop? Fortunately I had no intention of using it regularly. I only installed it because one particular site was broken in Firefox (and if anyone's wondering, it was also broken in Chromium).
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  161. I have never heard of anyone hating its presence. As long as there's also a TrackPad everybody is just indifferent at worst.
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  162. Whoever says people don't want to switch from Windows to Linux because they don't want to learn a new way of dong things has never used Windows 11. Or 10 to a lesser extent, and let's ont forget 8.
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  163. I'm in the camp of "I wouldn't mind trying but I don't want to go too far out of my way to do so." Since I use Cinnamon and XFCE I don't have an easy place to try it out yet. I don't want to install extra DEs on a system I use and clutter everything up and I also don't feel like installing a whole new system just for the purpose.
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  164. Literally nothing was on the Mac long before Windows existed. There was barely a year between the release dates of the two.
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  165. Copy and paste, various IMEs, or just download a file with an emoji in the original name. Social media users often use emoji in titles, downloading such media will often copy it as (part of) the filename.
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  166. Even if my laptop idled at only 4W it would die overnight if it became unplugged when powered on. I use suspend instead of poweroff and I suspect this is the norm. Even if bootup were 100% instant it would be a disruption unless everything came up exactly how I left it.
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  167. Not exactly the same but when I started I didn't know how to quit man. The manpage for man doesn't say. Eventually I figured out that it was using the PAGER variable and that I needed to look at the manpage for less.
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  168. I hope they don't decide to remove the ipw2x00 or b43 drivers anytime soon. I was regularly using my Inspiron 8600 (with Intel 2200 Wi-Fi) on the go until March 2020. I was using Windows but if my life situation hadn't changed to not need a mobile laptop I probably would have switched to the latest Debian due to the EOL of Windows 7.
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  169. ​ @Stroopwafe1  More modern airbag systems also have multistage actuators which will deploy differently depending on the characteristics and severity of the crash. This can't practically be done with a mechanical system.
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  170.  @EwanMarshall  The word "on" only works if it is next to the slider. If the word is on the slider it's ambiguous: does it indicate the current state or the state which will be selected when activated?
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  171. It's what Linus did to Pop!_OS.
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  172. I'm pretty sure the wording specifically used the word "may". That cleanly covers the fact that it doesn't affect consumption when active. And while it is obvious if you think about it that sleep mode saves power I'd suspect surprising number of people aren't thinking about it.
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  173. Round "porthole" TVs were a thing 75 years ago. Back when picture tubes were round most manufacturers would shrink the picture so the entire width was visible but this meant the top and bottom of the tube were wasted. Some manufacturers expanded the picture so the entire tube was lit but the sides of the picture were cut off. When rectangular picture tubes came out in the 1950s this practice quickly vanished.
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  174. Most BSoD / kernel panic are when the system detects internal inconsistencies in critical kernel data structures. You can't just roll back because it has no usable record of how it was before. Windows 9x let you continue after a blue screen and 99% of the time the result was a totally unusable system. It's actually really bad to keep using it even if it appears to work because you could spread corruption to the file system.
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  175. The BSoDs I've had in Windows versions earlier than 8 have been just fine to me. In these versions they give the textual identifier of the error and tell you the driver name if it can. This is useful information. Every time the computer has told tried to tell me what to do it has always been useless.
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  176. I thought the modern web browsers internally used containers to isolate the more risky processes. How valuable is it to add an extra container layer on top of that?
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  177. Wasn't the language "may result in higher energy consumption?" May vs Will makes a big difference.
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  178. Many laptop BIOSes have hardware whitelists which prevent upgrades without modifications. Also, we'd be talking about mPCI (not express) here where selection is more limited.
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  179. I haven't compiled a kernel recently but does it really take 45 minutes? IIRC that's about how long it took to compile a 2.6 series on a Celeron 466. I figure you're running at least a 2GHz dual core so I would expect it to be much faster.
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  180.  @afedorov3  I think that CPU is about 15-20 times as fast as the old Celeron I'm using for reference which compiled an older kernel in the same amount of time. So in the past ~15 years of software progress either the kernel is 15 times bigger or the compiler is 15 times slower. Software bloat clearly isn't limited to lazy web and app developers. This comparison is also assuming you have an SSD. If you're compiling on HDD you could be spending a decent amount of time on IO waits and not fully utilizing your CPU. You'd also want at least -j 3 or -j 4 to maximize CPU utilization (RAM permitting) but if you're a Gentoo user I'm sure you know that.
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  181. If YouTube pages took that long to load for me I wouldn't complain. On my crappy laptop it takes longer than that.
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  182. @MacroAcc I disagree, while multi monitors can reduce the need for workspaces and vice versa they most definitely do not eliminate the need. Multi-monitors (or one huge one) is needed to see more than one thing at once and workspaces put more than one thing in the same spot. It's not uncommon for me to have four or more workspaces active and four monitors are expensive and take up too much physical space.
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  183. I'm not a fan of haptic touchpads. I've used a few recent Apple laptops and it's obviously simulated feedback, I much prefer a physical click.
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  184. Ahh, reminds me of when in 2013 Arch decided I no longer needed a /bin directory and basically everything stopped working. That was fun to fix, especially since I was new to Arch back then.
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  185.  @sesei2149  Admittedly TFM is pretty good. I may not use Arch anymore but Archwiki comes in handy so many times.
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  186. I just put mine to sleep.
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  187.  @CoolerQ  With modern applications it doesn't make sense to have the GPU running on a separate machine from the application, the final bitmap is much smaller than the intermediate data. The Wayland protocol only supports bitmaps so presumably waypipe must as well.
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  188.  @BrodieRobertson  Which Linux distro would you recommend? Most Linux distros have dropped 32-bit support. AFAIK every PC which runs Windows 7 but not a newer Windows version has a 32-bit CPU.
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  189. ​ @BrodieRobertson  For some reason I was under the impression Debian was dropping 32-bit x86. Maybe it's something they were considering at some point. Or it's just that I'm annoyed they bumped the requirements to a 686. Close to a decade ago I had an install running on an old K6 laptop so that bothered me. Fortunately for people still using these older systems as daily drivers the retro value has increased so that you could sell one and buy a faster Pentium 4 or newer system and come out ahead with a few dollars.
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  190.  @BrodieRobertson  On a practical matter that's debatable. It's easy to find updated user software for Windows 7 but not so on EOL Linux distributions. However Firefox seems like it will probably drop W7 support next year while the current Debian stable will go far beyond that so it's a moot point. There are some systems which will run Windows 7 but not current Debian where this would be an issue except AFAIK they don't even meet 7's official minimum specs so nobody in their right mind will be using them for real work. However Steam is a different story. Some games work just fine on 7 but not or not as well as on newer OS. If I bought a game online in 2012 which required Windows 7 but now I can't run it because Steam no longer runs I would be far from happy. Hopefully Valve provides some sort of legacy client so people can continue playing their already-bought games without resorting to piracy.
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  191. It's worked fine for me, I'm pretty sure I've had two keyboards running on the same dongle. You need to run a tool on your computer in order to change the pairing, either the free Solaar or whatever Logitech calls their proprietary Windows app.
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  192. I appreciate their dedication to making the menus and interface nearly identical to the Microsoft original. The main thing lacking is the secondary color selection.
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  193.  @kensmith5694  HTML 5 is a living standard so saying you support it doesn't supply any useful information.
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  194.  @kensmith5694  Firefox 3.6 is a W3C HTML5 compliant browser. Most modern websites don't work on that browser. Basically all browsers are HTML5 so my point remains that saying so in your user agent is useless. Having said that I agree they shouldn't need more, specifically they shouldn't need anything. Side note, the W3C HTML5 specs are retired, now everybody uses the WHATWG spec.
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  195.  @kensmith5694  When did you last try this? Earlier this year I was trying the much newer Chrome ~60 and some websites (specifically Reddit IIRC) were showing breakage. I don't think I've tried Fx 3.6 since 2016 but IIRC there were a few problems even back then. I know there have been changes in TLS standards since then so you simply can't make an HTTPS connection to a good portion of sites. I don't think Fx 3.6 supports these newer standards but I could be mistaken.
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  196.  @Xmetalfanx  FlatPak supports other distribution channels. I hope app developers all make their Flatpaks available outside of Flathub.
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  197. Don't modern smartphones still have screen brightness controls? My LG V20 is a bit old now but on minimum brightness it's dark enough for nighttime use. Some devices scale the brightness setting so "0%" is still bright and these designers should be reprimanded. I'll give an exception to CCFL-based or similar displays where there is a minimum brightness but LED-backlit and OLED displays can dim to zero.
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  198. If you're running sound the air vibrations will offer some cooling. If you put pure DC on the coil it will be easier to burn out. And besides burning out, it's not rare for antique speakers to have open coils due to corrosion.
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  199. Windows shares the problem that the special directories are a relatively new creation, especially the "Documents" and related folders.
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  200. Firefox and LIbreOffice already have LTS versions.
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  201. Fear for your life? Military grade equipment? Classic Mac OS used a bomb as the icon on its critical error screen.
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  202. 500 Internal Server Error sounds like it would do the job.
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  203.  @AlucardNoir  The release date of a card should have nothing to do with whether or not it's technically obsolete. A much better metric is when its successor was released. This was only five years ago. When somebody buys a brand new latest gen system it should have at least five years of software support.
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  204. I think there should be a mechanical backup but for normal operation brakes are modulated and/or boosted for antilock brakes, traction control, etc. And for cars with traction batteries, blending between regen and friction brakes.
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  205.  @nomadhgnis9425  Intel ME was on the chipset. The older Core 2 Duo chipsets don't have ME so there are plenty of options for 64-bit PCs without ME.
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  206. I have no idea what "IME" means. In my experience most interesting BSoDs in Windows are during the boot process. 99% of the time if they happen later it's a hardware problem.
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  207. Are you generating the FPGA bitstream by hand?
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  208.  @kyle8952  I'm presuming they had IBM-branded PC-DOS, not the "generic" MS-DOS.
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  209.  @softwarelivre2389  I would've expected that if you change desktops on one screen its half of the window would stay up and the other would disappear. But then I can see how this would be terrible to use. Your suggestion makes more sense from a user perspective.
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  210. If they wanted to cause clutter they'd just put each recovered file directly in the root of the partition and give it a name like file0000.chk. Yes, I'm looking at Microsoft...
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  211. The original interface was most common on old analog car radios where they were used for presets. You want to minimize time spent dialing in a station when you should be driving. Since old car radios were usually AM-only there was no need for a mode switch. In terms of implementation, oftentimes it was all mechanical, pressing the button would physically rotate the tuning knob through a few levers/cams/pulleys/etc. Sometimes it was interlocked electrical switches which would switch different tuning capacitors into the circuit. After car radios went to digitally controlled tuning in the 80s the implementation of presets was obviously greatly simplified.
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  212.  @Triro  Nouveau works fine on my system. Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with Quadro FX 570M (G84M). That's equivalent to the GeForce 8 series. From what I can tell nouveau supports reclocking up through "Fermi" which means the GeForce 400 and older all should work fine. GeForce 500 up to and including the "Pascal" (GeForce 10) should mostly work fine in nouveau, just with reduced performance due to lack of reclocking. The "Maxwell" (GeForce 800 and some 700) are supported by the latest proprietary drivers. So it's only the cards released between 2010 and 2014 which you need to worry about if you're using Wayland.
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  213. A lot of those off brand new mini PCs just come with unactivated Windows (and it wouldn't surprise me if some are blatantly pirated). They're already not following Microsoft rules, I'm sure they won't be rushing to implement this new rule either.
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  214. If you're installing enough systems for that to be a concern you should be using unattended setup files to save much more time. More importantly, AFAIK the only thing that changed is the time and warning message. If it wasn't a problem at 20 minutes it's probably not going to be a problem at 15 minutes.
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  215. The kids know that if they get caught doing that they'd be in a lot of trouble.
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  216. I hated KDE 3.5, I remember it being slow and clunky. Maybe it was the underpowered hardware I was using.
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  217. On a desktop the most likely internal USB device would be a Bluetooth adapter if so equipped. On a laptop the webcam is almost always USB. Fingerprint readers and smart card readers (common on business laptops) are usually also USB based. The kernel knows which devices are internal because the system firmware (supposedly) says so.
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  218.  @peacefulexistence_  If you can only use one API then use OGL. Mesa backends like Zink can convert to Vulkan and DX12 if needed. If you can use two then OpenGL and Vulkan. If you're using an off-the-shelf game engine that supports multiple backends then just enable all of them unless you have a good reason not to.
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  219. Honestly my silliest problem with the Wayland desktop is its name. The town it is named after will always take precedence in my mind.
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  220.    Searching information about X is still easier than the $9 SBC named 'Chip'.
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  221. Something I've thought of writing but haven't gotten around to starting is a disk fragmenter. Existing defrag tools can improve file access performance on HDDs but my program would do the opposite.
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  222. But if you're hand calculating everything why bother with a CPU?
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  223.  @0x6a09  I don't remember all the details, it was over a decade ago. The related news "Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention" is from 2013-06-03. There might have been an unrelated error compounding the situation but I distinctly remember being unable to open a new terminal window or even login on the console, I needed to use my one window I already had open to fix everything. After thinking about it, that seems about right. I installed the update which moved bash from /bin to /usr/bin. So then everything (like the login shell entry in the passwd file) which was hardcoded to /bin/bash no longer worked. At the same time there was a filesystem update which replaced /bin with a symlink, solving the problem, but this was unable to be installed at the same time. If I had read the news post I would know I needed to remove all the "extra" files from /bin and then perform the updates in a specific order.
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  224.  @0x6a09  Like I said, if I read the news beforehand it wouldn't have been a problem. It gave the impression that it will break if not babysat. Also note I said I almost hosed my install. I was able to recover because I had kept my terminal window open and I was able to access the website through my old Windows 98 laptop. If I didn't have another computer with Internet access it would have been much worse. Also remember there have been various changes to the package manager over time, meaning an existing live CD most likely can't be used as a good recovery environment. I think I ran into that once or twice. Other than that I never had any major issues. I don't know how different modern Arch is but I'm sure of one thing: it's a bleeding edge distro. Every update might break something. Even when nothing breaks updates might mean interface changes which take time to adjust to. With a stable distro I can update and everything will work exactly the same. Major changes will come in the next version of the distro and there's an overlap in support window so I can safely wait until I have time set aside to deal with the changes and any possible problems.
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  225.  @0x6a09  The changes themselves aren't worse but the timing of the changes is. 99.9% of the time nothing breaks but I'd rather that number be closer to 100. With my luck the 0.1% of breakage would happen right when I need to do something important and don't have any time to waste. If it wasn't clear, I don't think there's anything wrong with Arch. It's a good distro and ArchWiki is great. Arch just isn't the best for me, it's better suited to people who are more of a software enthusiast type.
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  226.  @dashcharger24  What do you mean they threw that out? Unless I"m very mistaken, it was integrated in version fifty-something.
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  227. If you ever put an American and a British person in the same room you'd learn that up/down on a UI toggle is a bad idea. We have differing opinions on which direction is on and which direction is off.
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  228.  @stepannovotny4291  I've never been there but my understanding is their standard light switches are rockers with down==on. A Marshall guitar amp I had the chance to work on was definitely built that way. I occasionally watch UK electricians on YouTube and their breakers are up==on which sometimes causes confusion for homeowners. If there was ever a concern about things falling on the switch then down==off also isn't great. Because then if something falls then you get plummeted into darkness. Apparently in some earthquake-prone regions the standard is a sideways switch so falling items are less likely to flip them.
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  229. I think you're very much wrong. Unless I'm very much mistaken you can still run apps from one DE with another's compositor.
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  230. OBS and Wine definitely do not need to be in a default install. They're not used by the average user.
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  231. That seems to me more like a desktop environment issue, or possibly udisks. It doesn't sound like something the kernel would do.
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  232. The Wayland protocol is always going to require compositing. Assuming they implement it well I don't think it's an issue. And for whatever it's worth Windows 8 and later also requires compositing.
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  233.  @franciscopena7859  Automatically moving existing config files to a new directory is just asking for problems. If I write a config file I don't want anyone else messing with it. Plus if you then run an older version all your config files will be missing. You're relatively unlikely to switch to an older version on a single-user home system but on a network system where your home directory is over NFS it can easily happen.
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  234. That's what has been happening even before Flatpak. Distros have been shipping modified versions of software for ages.
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  235.  @Hyperboid  You can stream MJPEG video without client-side scripting or video playback support. I believe it's basically serve a picture with a "Refresh" HTTP header to immediately reload it.
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  236. I technically could say I have 10 years of kernel dev experience. That's probably when I tried installing the then already obsolete kqemu module and needed to bodge a few things to make it compile for my 3.whatever kernel instead of the 2.6 it was made for. I didn't share my "fix" but it did work on my system.
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  237. If the required code is an open source driver it would be easier for anybody to make an HDMI 2.1 compatible device. Then small companies could learn how to make HDMI-compatible gizmos without paying licensing fees.
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  238.  @TheOpenBSDguy  What incorrect info did they give? Compiler memory use has nothing to do with target portability.
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  239. Do you know they sell replacement rubber bits? There are even different styles you can try out.
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  240. Dual clutch transmissions usually select the next gear before you need it.
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  241. Do you mean ended when they released the T410? The T400 is the same design as the T60. The T410 (technically the T400s but nobody cares about that model) brought the mildly inferior keyboard, removal of many indicators, moved the UltraBay release, and probably other things I"m forgetting.
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  242. All regulations is too far, but it's reasonable for them to know and understand the regulations in the area they're working in.
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  243.  @lpprogrammingllc  Obviously it's impractical to make and hide bugged 6502s which somehow detect the specific compilers you might be using. The Ken Thompson attack breaks down when you have access to different compilers on different systems.
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  244.  @giovanigeorgis3848  Windows Vista was the newest version of Windows going into 2009. For 2008 era desktops the 3GHz Core 2 Duo E8400 was far from top of the line. With 8GB of RAM you can do a lot with those systems. I sometimes use a 2.1GHz? C2D laptop as a secondary system (now with SSD) and some sites are a bit slow but it's still usable.
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  245.  @brunoais  Charge once but it will take a lifetime to charge. Because I was crazy enough to do the calculations, if you could charge at 100 Watts (USB PD max AFAIK) it would take just under 46 years to accumulate 40MWh.
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  246.  @VDavid003  Only with devices and special cables supporting the "Extended Power Range" present in the new PD 3.1 spec from 2021. Standard cables can only do 60 watts and existing 5 amp electronically marked cables can do 100 watts. This is the most I've seen in person. I did a quick search and the original Steam deck power supply is 45 watts. So 90 years to charge assuming no power losses.
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  247. Some of us needed to make due with Mendocino.
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  248. Can't you use XWayland for 99.9% of X-only user applications? I've never tried but this was my impression.
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  249. The whole point of the home directory is to store your personal files, it's the only place your user has write access to.
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  250.  @framegrace1  I tried using Xming probably around 2014 and it worked just fine for me.
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  251. I would suggest mtPaint for that purpose. It has proper support for paletted images and transparency. I haven't tried but I believe it also does animated GIFs.
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  252. On more modern systems it's a teeny tiny buzzer, on older systems it's an actual speaker with a sizeable cone (maybe 3 inches).
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  253. I think some levels of basic guards makes sense. If I slip on a banana peel I'd rather not die. Something like a literal guardrail or just an access panel which is on a hinge is minimally easy to bypass if you do need access.
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  254.  @mademedothis424  Chrome stopped supporting Windows 7 a couple of years ago, and with Firefox it's only an older ESR version still supported. Using Windows 7 without special community-developed browsers means using an older browser. The older browsers still "work" but more and more websites will be broken as time goes on.
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  255. Makes sense.
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  256. Common constructs such as referencing an array are essentially pointer manipulation.
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  257.  @dakka76  Yes, Wayland, Mass. The reference compositor is Weston, which is not coincidentally a town that borders Wayland.
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  258. They haven't had the colored enter key for over a decade.
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  259.  @jonathanbuzzard1376  My experience with this was in 2018-2020 so it probably still has the same behavior. Not using ISO format was in this case ignorant. The user was just typing dates as they otherwise would and I'm sure sorting wasn't a concern. The real problem is that it lets you use a slash even though it breaks things. To a typical user there's nothing abnormal about using a slash.
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  260. Yes, they specifically mentioned so in one of the posts Brodie showed.
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  261. And that's why somebody from Lenovo (who is selling such a finished physical product) was in the middle of this.
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  262. Emoji belong in passwords. I don't know why anyone would put them in filenames.
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  263.  @BrodieRobertson  If the displays are different sizes it should be obvious why you can't. An 1152x864 layout doesn't fit on an 800x600 display.
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  264.  @BrodieRobertson  Everything gets moved to the sides and corners and it's annoying if you have lots of windows open.
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  265.  @ukyoize  But how do you know if a certain piece of software is good or not? If I'm trying out new software I'd rather it not have the ability to mess anything up.
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  266.  @markusTegelane  Shell expansion doesn't work with "junk" in front of the filename. So the command given will only do anything if you have a subdirectory named 'of='.
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  267. ​ @SkyFly19853  ClamAV by itself isn't realtime but can be used by other programs. Samba for instance can call ClamAV in realtime so your file server doesn't share out infected files.
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  268.  @SkyFly19853  Like I said Samba combined with vfs_virusfilter and ClamAV should do just that, catch viruses while in transit. Other programs like mail servers have similar hooks. The only thing which AFAIK doesn't exist is realtime scanning for when local Linux programs are accessing data. If you want that without writing any code you can run an instance of Samba listening on localhost and than mount that locally.
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  269. The big problem with servers is that they take forever to POST but kexec takes care of that.
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  270. Running software in a Linux container (or even a completely separate system) does not stop it from having total access to the X server.
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  271.  @khai96x  This is largely a misconception. Regular usage of swap does not excessively wear out SSDs.
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  272. I think I have a Q6600 but I've never used it. My basement PC has a newer gen C2Q and I have it overclocked probably around 3.8GHz.
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  273.  @theepicslayer7sss101  If any half-modern CPU is idling at 70C then either it's not idling or your cooling is crap. "Crap" cooling can also be a feature by only ramping up the fan as much as needed.
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  274.  @theepicslayer7sss101  The closest processor I have is an E6300 which runs much cooler but is also lower clocked and half the cores. With your idle temps so high and your load not much higher I would need to assume you had all the power-saving features disabled. This was (unfortunately) often the default on performance motherboards. If you enabled the power-saving features your idle temps would probably be in the 40s.
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  275. There's no penalty because it's 100% legal to do that.
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  276.  @SisypheanRoller  I don't think I've ever actually used it but apparently it has infinite scrolling. That means you can't use a browser search and if you reload the page you'll lose your place.
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  277.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  For most purposes I much prefer the idea of only forwarding specific applications. You're right that persistent systems like Xpra largely make X network transparency redundant. However, it is still handy to be able to run programs remotely without extra intermediate software.
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  278.  @CyroTheSpider  15-20 seconds in EFI is basically nothing if you've ever seen a real server boot?
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  279.  @yogimew  From what I can tell AntiX is only for newer systems like a Pentium II with 256 megs of RAM. The one with the butterfly keyboard only has a 486 and I don't recall what the RAM limit is.
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  280.  @amputatedhairstrands  Kind of. If you have an old device there's probably not a Win64 driver, making it basically useless under modern Windows. If there was ever Linux support for a given device years ago it will probably still work. One example is my external webcams.
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  281.  @guss77  When you connect to Windows using RDP app mode there is no need for Explorer to be running, so I wouldn't call it a full desktop. You can also run multiple applications over a single connection. I don't know if the underlying protocol requires a dummy framebuffer or not (it might be an implementation detail) and from a user standpoint it doesn't matter. VNC is definitely a dumb framebuffer and is no fun. For X applications Xpra works pretty well. I imagine it's possible to add support for Wayland applications. If nothing else, a "reverse xwayland" could be used as a shim.
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  282.  @marcogenovesi8570  Per-slide speaker notes are a feature built into PowerPoint as well as other similar programs like LibreOffice and Google Slides. The presenter view also includes a timer and a preview of the next slide or two. I haven't used it recently but I believe there's also a menu to jump to an arbitrary slide and not just the next/previous one. Presenter view is far from a useless gimmick.
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  283.  @angeldude101  I don't think it's trivial to add "real" miniature window previews without a lot of rework of the window manager to add compositing. A cheap alternative could be made by capturing a picture of a window right before hiding it. This would be uniquely easy with a tiling window manager because then there's no such thing as an occluded part of the window. As for the actual amount of support needed, I don't know. All the native GUI coding I've ever done is for Windows.
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  284. One problem with long spelled-out options is that many will start with the same letters, meaning you need to type more before you can tab-complete. Also it fills up your entire screen instead of having a whole command able to stay on a single line. Fortunately there's a compromise which has been around for a long time: have long options like --ignore-case as well as an equivalent short option like -i.
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