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  • what country do you live in and what language was taught in your school?

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  • My schools in the US:

    Only English for all of elementary school. Starting in middle school, students can choose to take Spanish, French, Latin or German (in descending order of popularity). A bus would take you to one particular high school in the county for Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Japanese, etc. For the advanced diploma, you needed to take 3 years of a foreign language course. The full sequence offered for Spanish, French, Latin, and German takes 6 years.

  • Looking for a tool to auto-sort files using INDEX.md as a map

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  • This is one of the mundane scripting tasks I would have my local LLM help with. I would still read through and make sure I understand the resulting script before running it.

  • Do you use vim?

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  • Wanted to, but lacked the motivation to learn it. Was stuck on one occasion without nano, so I pulled up the vim cheat sheet on my phone.

  • Battery tray indicator that takes into account power consumption trends, rather than just instantaneous wattage?

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  • Not going after a bug though, it's just the way the included battery meter in Xfce (and other X11 battery indicators I've found) works, while things like Android track usage over time to give a better estimate.

    But based on the other responses, it looks like I'll have to cook it up myself.

  • How scared should one be of AI deepfakes?

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  • It's scary to think about it, but I don't dwell on it since I can't do much about it without really disrupting my life.

  • OnlyOffice seem to have taken down their Android app source code

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  • As a daily LibreOffice user, I agree with you on the UI. I can't even keep track of how many different settings menus there are and each of them are a labyrinth unto themselves. What ended up saving my sanity was setting the UI to single toolbar and purging every unnecessary button in Calc and Writer. Might be unpopular, but I then arranged the remaining toolbar features the way they do in Google Docs. For Impress, I set it to the tabbed ribbon-esque interface.

  • Battery tray indicator that takes into account power consumption trends, rather than just instantaneous wattage?

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  • Not that I'm aware of

  • Anyone using zram and similar memory management with 32gb of ram or more?

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  • That is correct, IIRC, the mismatch does limit how much of it can run in dual-channel. Even if a single stick is natively 24 or 48 GB, there is additional strain on the memory controller. It is the way it is on my setup since I had planned an upgrade to a full 64 GB and was holding off until a good deal on the remaining 32 GB kit, which will never come unless the AI bubble bursts.

  • What's your greatest regret? Be as cryptic as possible

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  • I should've known he was an iPad kid

  • Battery tray indicator that takes into account power consumption trends, rather than just instantaneous wattage?

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  • I think I could hack such a feature into the tray indicator as a weekend project, but wanted to see if someone already accomplished it before I go reinventing the wheel.

  • Battery tray indicator that takes into account power consumption trends, rather than just instantaneous wattage?

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  • Xfce

  • Anyone using zram and similar memory management with 32gb of ram or more?

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  • What about it? I see it kicking in at least 10 GB before my RAM is full and I haven't noticed any fundamental differences between how zram works on my 48 GB workstation and my 8 GB devices. Maybe I've never had a workload that filled all 48 GB + extra zram capacity, but it's never given me an issue.

  • Anyone using zram and similar memory management with 32gb of ram or more?

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  • My workstation has 48 GB RAM with 50% allocation allowed to zram, no disk swapping. It works just fine. Once I use up the majority of my RAM, it kicks in the same way it would on any other system with less RAM.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Battery tray indicator that takes into account power consumption trends, rather than just instantaneous wattage?

  • What are the pros and cons of dual-booting Android devices?

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  • Pro:

    • do most of what needed two phones on a single phone
    • avoids charging, carrying, and maintaining two separate phones
    • I'd personally put a lot more here if dual-booting Android and Linux

    Con:

    • hard to find a phone that supports it
    • the need to unlock bootloader could still break integrity checks despite using a stock ROM
    • IMEI still shared between ROMs, most of the isolation is already achievable through user profiles
    • have to reboot to use anything on the other ROM

  • What's preventing y'all from moderating a community?

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  • The communities I'm interested in are already well-moderated. I'd probably also be super passionate for a few days then vanish until something sparks my interest again.

  • Just got this popup whilst trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • That really stinks. Does the audio version do anything different?

  • What math operation order do you use?

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  • Until now, it did not occur to me that there are some who believe multiplication and addition come before division and subtraction, respectively. Order of operations clickbait arguments make a bit more "sense" now.

  • Which specs are as low as reasonable possible for local LLM models? Do you recommend some distro in particular?

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  • 16 GB VRAM GPU, models stored on SSD, rest of the computer doesn't have to be crazy. Intel Arc is best bang for the buck at the moment. You can get LLM running on 8 GB cards or even the CPU, but IMO such small models are more novelties than workhorses. I personally use Debian but you'll be fine as long as your distro's repo has drivers recent enough for your GPU.

    For perspective, I'm using such a build to help with boilerplate code, single-use scripts that I don't have the patience to trial-and-error (like ones that have to deal with directory structures and special characters), getting an idea of what's what when decompiling and reverse engineering, brainstorming tip-of-the-tongue ideas, and upscaling images.

  • Is everything in your life the way you want it to be & you're comfortable & feel no angst?

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  • First ignoring everything outside my direct control.

    Still no, but I know what I want in my personal life and I see the path to get there. If the world doesn't fall into chaos first. It'll just take time, but what better use of my youth? If the past few years have taught me anything, it's that trying to get there too fast will wreck my mind and body.

    I think a lot of it now comes down to having a 'Platonic ideal' for myself and not living up to it. Like strictly an internal matter, I'm fine with other people seeing me the way I am. Even if I lived in a secluded bunker, I'd still be bothered that my eating and sleeping habits suck, my time management needs work, my athleticism is lacking, I never finished learning German, and my screen usage is ruining my back and eyes.

    Actually, that would be kind of nice. I'd like to think that if I could be minimally- or un-employed but still well-housed and well-fed for a year, I could finally take a breath and go fix everything that's been nagging at me.

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    In CoMaps, is it normal to have to wait a while for a search to complete?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    I love having a thick glass of water after letting psyllium husk powder sit in it

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Should I subscribe to a data removal service (DeleteMe, Incogni, etc.)?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Anyone else notice that middle click is the first thing to fail on their mice?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Where to start finding what makes unattended-upgrades behave inconsistently on Debian?

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    Quick-and-dirty Libreboot for the T470

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Recommendations for GPU with good Linux support, 8GB or more VRAM, and ~150W TDP or less?

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    Lessons learned on making BIOS backups + restoring stock BIOS after flashing Coreboot/Skulls with 1vyrain without a backup

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Advice, myths, and reality regarding privacy when travelling to China?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Uses for a 2 GB internal USB flash module?

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    A quick-and-dirty comparison of dual- vs quad-core CPU power consumption on the X230

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Advice on deciding what goes on a personally-identifiable portfolio and what stays pseudonymous?

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    Running a command only when resuming from the hibernation part of suspend-then-hibernate?

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    The sorry state of Honor / Huawei bootloader unlocking and some analysis of brute-force methods

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Is there a "healthy" amount of dandruff?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Look ma, no proprietary apps!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Proper way to setup fstab and crypttab for encrypted /boot partition?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Thoughts on becoming self-employed and making a living off my passions?