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So, devuan?

Windows has containers?

I'd argue that's more because the average person has no interest in installing a new OS, or even any idea what an OS is.

Most people just keep the default. When the default is Linux (say, the Steam Deck), most people just keep Linux.

Because latency matters when gaming in a way which doesn't matter with AI inference?

Plus cloud gaming is always limited in range of games, there are restrictions on how you can use the PC (like no modding and no swapping savegames in or out).

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?

Thank you for the correction, I did get that wrong. To be clear, there was no easy solution to get reliable, low latency DNS responses from my own resolver without breaking keepalive by forcibly caching entries longer?

Well that's the experience I had. Obviously caching was enabled (unbound), but most DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless for a single user.

Even if a root server wasn't in the US, it will still be pretty slow for me. Europe is far worse. Most of Asia has bad paths to me, except for Japan and Singapore which are marginally better than the US. Maybe Aus has one...?

Not a hardware issue, but a physics problem. I live in NZ. I guess the root servers are all in the US, so that's 130ms per trip minimum.

Or just run a resolver yourself.

I did this for a while, but ~300ms hangs on every DNS resolution sure do get old fast.

Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?

If I have users that use OpenAI through my API keys am I responsible?

Yes. You are OpenAI's customer, and they expect you to follow their ToS. They do provide a moderation API to reject inappropriate prompts, though.

"Emulator" is the wrong word, but the answer is yes. The word you actually meant was "re-implementation" - writing a completely new, clean-room program which reads Source data files (levels, assets, scripts) and allows the user to play a Source game is perfectly legal.

It is necessary to avoid distributing any copyrighted material, so the user must provide the game assets from a legitimate copy for using the program to be legal. In addition, the 'clean-room' must be maintained by ensuring that no contributors to the re-implementation have ever seen the source code for Source, or they become tainted with forbidden knowledge.

Indeed, it's quite common for beloved old games to be re-implemented on new codebases to allow easy play on modern OS's and at high resolution, etc.

See https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity, https://openrct2.io/, https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz

Then just turn it off. qBT isn't windows, it doesn't demand autoupdate.

That said, you really shouldn't be running outdated torrent clients, like any network-connected programs. Case in point - the topic of this thread.

Without a formal audit on a variety of BT clients, this isn't really an answerable question. Just because this one issue was discovered in qBT, doesn't mean that there are hundreds more in it, and Transmission, say, has none.

Qt isn't just a GUI toolkit - it's an everything toolkit. It's somewhat intended to be used (potentially) alone with C++ to allow the creation of a wide variety of apps. It includes modules like Bluetooth, Network, Multimedia, OAuth, Threading and XML.

See a full list: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/index.html

They're entirely manual. A whole bunch of volunteers write filter rules to block known ads. There's a big github where people can post issues about ads they've found, and volunteers will write filter rules to block them.

See https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues

I live in NZ, there's no standard here. It's damned annoying. I've heard that Facebook Messenger is the most popular, but I only know one person who uses it and I don't have an account myself.

By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.

Tragically, a large proportion of manga artists die early. The lifestyle of spending 12 hours a day bent over a desk, frantically drawing, stressing about deadlines, all contributes to a variety of causes of early death.

Treasure your mangaka while they're alive, as theirs is an industry fuelled by passion - often far too much. (And greedy/demanding publishers, but we'll leave that discussion for another time.)

This sort of nitpicking really isn't appropriate for this time and place. It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.

No, it's just load management. They run a full matrix home server for all their users and a bunch of bridges.

I'm not sure I understand. Your relatives can remember to buy Apple but not Samsung?

Also, Samsung offers lower end phones with lesser but still good update policies. They're good phones but a lot cheaper than any iPhone, which should satisfy your older relatives.

Just buy Samsung or pixel. 7 years of updates guaranteed.

The old terms lock you into the App Store, no?

App passwords still work. There's no need to be hyperbolic.

Note that there are tools to restore the win10 taskbar in 11. I use startisback, but there are more. Also be sure to use a privacy tweaker!

Please excuse me while I become 'that guy', but Proton is a distribution of Wine with a bunch of patches and extra components like DXVK. The vast majority of proton is unmodified wine.

Valve offers a generous refund policy. If the game doesn't work on your system, refund it.

Okay, so perhaps 'all' was a little optimistic. Spark is the old government monopoly, once called 'Telecom'. As such, they have inherited a huge base of users who don't pay any attention to which ISP they are using, or don't even know what an ISP is. As such, they're basically non-competitive.

There's rarely any benefit to using them compared to the competition - they are more expensive and refuse to join free internet exchanges, so Spark users frequently experience bad routing to services which refuse to pay money to Spark to peer.

What I can tell you, though, is that I have never once heard of Spark warning/booting a user for excessive usage, and I have my ears to the ground at various NZ tech forums.

Other ISPs, however:

https://www.orcon.net.nz/terms/broadband

    If you are on an Uncapped or Unlimited Plan, the total amount of data you can upload or download is unlimited. We may use traffic prioritisation policies for these Plans to protect our Network and improve the overall performance amongst our customers. 

https://main.prod.vodafonenz.psdops.com/_document?id=0000018...

    Our policy is to provide you with the best broadband experience possible, so we won’t slow down or throttle your connection.

    One New Zealand does not have a fair use policy for One New Zealand Fibre, HFC, VDSL or ADSL broadband

https://care.zeronet.co.nz/hc/en-us/articles/7436185566863-N...

  Zeronet does not enforce a fair use policy when your connection is used for standard home use.