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  • This is the way. Although, when I did this to my Samsung television, it eventually began to display dialog boxes complaining that it was having trouble accessing the Internet. So I had to completely delete all network settings in the TV and give up the ability to control it through Home assistant. Annoying.

  • iOS web browsers

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  • I didn’t know about this until now, but there is a feature called “back tap.“ It allows you to trigger specific actions by tappingeither two times or three times on the back of the iPhone. You can set this to zoom in or out.

    This is where ChatGPT says to go:

    1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap.
    2. Choose Double Tap or Triple Tap, then select the action you want to assign.

  • iOS web browsers

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  • iOS has an accessibility feature where you can tap two times with three fingers and zoom the screen. If you hold on the second tap and upward it will zoom in a custom amount. Sliding down zooms back out. Would that work? It would be independent of all web browsers.

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    Question about server DVD drives.

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  • MakeMKV Works on Linux. I got it working with Xubuntu in proxmox.

  • My BC (Before Covid) Windows gaming box needs an upgrade. Are the days of silent air cooling behind me if I get a 4080 Super?

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  • I love the Dark Rock Pro. Used it in two builds so far, and it's amazingly quiet. I opted not to go with the NVidia 50x0 series because I expect demand to be outrageous and prices to be high by then because of tariffs. At least I can get my hands on a 4080 Super these days. I literally just upgraded my parts list to include the X870 for exactly the reasons you stated. I'm thinking of going with the 7800X3D to save some money now, and maybe upgrade to the 9000X3D in a couple years if I ever notice performance issues. I primarily use it for gaming, and word on the street is that the 9000 series just doesn't add enough to gaming performance.

  • My BC (Before Covid) Windows gaming box needs an upgrade. Are the days of silent air cooling behind me if I get a 4080 Super?

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  • I'm not going to re-use the Define R4 case. I would probably get something like the Torrent (not the compact). My plan is to build the new box from the ground up and repurpose the current machine into a hand-me-down for the family.

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    My BC (Before Covid) Windows gaming box needs an upgrade. Are the days of silent air cooling behind me if I get a 4080 Super?

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • This is what I came here to suggest. Everybody should be using power toys and keyboard entry as much as possible on windows.

  • Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?

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  • I can't turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore

    If you have Hue bulbs, you can buy little radios that attach to your light switch (or replacement light switches) that will still operate your lights when the server is down or the network is unavailable. It’s a worthwhile upgrade.

  • Star Trek Lower Decks S4?

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  • I am in North America.

    I got my preorder from Amazon this week. The error they reported was just the release date being too early on their records.

  • Americans Don’t Care as Much About Work. And It Isn’t Just Gen Z.

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  • Work is less valuable to us because it has literally become less valuable. We get much less in terms of real purchasing power.

    You want me to care more about my job? Make it more valuable to me.

  • Future Student Question: MacBook, iPad Pro, both or something else?

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  • You probably only need the iPad. The iPad is great for giving you access to most stuff until you get home and can do the more serious work. If you absolutely must do your work away from home, get the Macbook Pro, because iPads are great, but as you mentioned, they don’t have a desktop OS, and that’s a limiting factor.

  • Donald Trump uses the slow legal system to his advantage. The Supreme Court is helping

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  • And they are being unusually speedy. The article even says as much.

    Overall, the timetable is fast compared to the regular calendar for high court briefing, oral arguments, and eventual resolution, which typically plays out over many months or close to a year. (Other cases accepted this month for review will not be heard until next fall, with decisions likely in 2025.)

  • Donald Trump uses the slow legal system to his advantage. The Supreme Court is helping

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  • How exactly do you know the motives of the extreme conservative Justices, half of whom were appointed by Trump? Are you a mind reader?

    That’s my point.

    We don’t know what the motives are of the Supreme Court. Yet because people who want to see Trump removed from the ballot didn’t get the decision they want to see fast enough, they’re inventing conspiracy theories of the Supreme Court manipulating things to benefit Trump, and the media is playing right along, saying they’re “helping” him. It’s precisely this kind of behavior that makes me despise the far right. (Well, not just this behavior, but still.)

    I don’t want to see Donald Trump anywhere near the oval office ever again. But I do want to see a decision from the Supreme Court on this specific question, because I want to forever silence the people who have been trying to create a “unitary executive” in the United States.

  • Donald Trump uses the slow legal system to his advantage. The Supreme Court is helping

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  • No, the Supreme Court is not "helping" Donald Trump. This is just a rage-bait news piece, and the people who swallow the intimation that the Court is taking the case in order to get Donald Trump elected are falling for it. The Supreme Court isn't playing kingmaker. They are doing their job.

  • [MacOS] Anti-virus recommendations?

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  • clamxav

    ClamAV has a maximum size for files that it will scan, which I believe is 20MB. I can’t tell if clamxav has the same size limit baked in, but it might! So it may not be the best solution if you have large files in your system.

  • Wendy's is introducing Uber style surge pricing.

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  • In an environment of painful (almost insulting) food price increases everywhere, Wendy’s decides to remove price predictability from the equation, ensuring that I never know what I’m going to pay, except that I can guarantee I’m going to be gouged when I most want to eat.

    Yeah, I don’t care what they sell. I don’t want to be treated like that.

  • Beginner looking for NAS advice

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  • First things first: Synology as a beginner NAS is perfect! It’s what I recommend to everyone that is getting started out. So good move there.

    I think you should get a four-bay NAS. You don’t have to put four drives in it; you can put two drives in it and have an upgrade path for later. Plus the drives are far easier to install and remove. The processor will also be better in a four-bay NAS, which will give you more options if you want to play around with a docker container or run a VM.

    To answer your questions:

    1. If the NAS you choose has a USB port on it, you will be able to connect things like external hard drives, thumb drives, etc. NASes with USB3 connectors support USB 3 drives. Just be sure to use a file system that is not proprietary. So NTFS is out, but exFat is fine.
    2. I have connected to volumes on the NAS and have connected the NAS to other volumes without issues. It will work fine.
    3. I had two NASes sitting right next to my head in my office at ear level — probably the worst case scenario for noise. I barely noticed them. I could hear them crunching away during backups, but it wasn’t bad. I never heard a fan running — just the internal drives making their read/write noises.
    4. The drives fail before the NASes do. Synology had some issues with bult-in power supplies going bad after a few years. Their modern NASes now have plugs with a power brick on the cable, which I assume was in response to this issue. It’s a lot less expensive to replace a power cable than a whole NAS! But beyond that one issue (which affected one NAS of mine), the NASes I’ve been using have lasted for … oh, 8 years now.
    5. There are many choices for syncing data with your synology NAS. They provide Synology Drive, which gives you a local drop-box-like folder syncing option. They support rsync, and they provide HyperBackup, which is a block-level backup utility. You can choose a Synology shared drive as the destination for a Time Machine backup on a Mac. (I assume you can do this with Windows’ backup solution, but I’ve never personally used it.)

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    Why do some people think Lindsey Graham is gay?

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  • This came from a gag Jon Stewart used to do on the Daily Show. It started with the Larry Craig scandal. The Daily Show was good at showing hypocrisy in Republican candidates who were anti-LGBT. In the late 2000s, it seemed like there was a story of an anti-gay Republican being outed as gay every month.

    Stewart compared Graham to a melodramatic southern belle and got huge laughs. It stuck. I wan to point out that Jon Stewart never explicitly said Lindsay Graham was gay. But he was an expert at hinting it, and paired with the clips of Lindsay Graham, it was hilarious.

  • Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges

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  • However it should be said that a 25mph road should really be designed as a 25mph road, with suitable traffic calming measures. Far too many low speed limit roads are big and wide open, practically encouraging people to speed.

    Sorry, but this is nonsensical. The wide road did not make that cop drive 75 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone. That officer was responsible for his own actions, and would have found a way to drive at an unsafe speed regardless of how the road was designed.

  • David Tennant Is Down to Play 'Jessica Jones's Kilgrave Again, and I have Big Feelings

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  • I started rewatching Season 1 after I heard this news. I can confidently say I want this very much. Just ... not as a flashback. He can't be as viscerally threatening if we know this is all in the past and he eventually loses.

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    Gen Z is unhappier at work than any other generation. Here are the two things they want.

    www.businessinsider.com /gen-z-job-satisfaction-unhappy-work-salary-promotion-loyalty-2024-2
  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    I run a homelab and have no trouble finding enthusiasts who go super in-depth about how to use the hardware and software. Where are the good Apple ecosystem enthusiasts?

  • Entertainment @beehaw.org
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    Hasan Minhaj Responds to The New Yorker article