unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission

This is a best practice on Windows, too. Apps don’t run with admin permissions unless you either explicitly run them with admin permissions, they’re configured to always run as admin (rare), or they request elevation via a UAC prompt.

Wow, this is an unusually long, high quality article from NBC news. I didn’t realise they have a great investigative unit.

for example maybe AV1 takes even more off,

I know this was just an example, but Intel 11th gen and newer has hardware acceleration for AV1.

GPUs have their place, but they significantly increase power consumption, which is an issue in areas with high power prices.

If you want to self-host email or websites, I’d use a VPS for those use cases. For websites, a $30/year VPS would be more than sufficient. You can try host at home, but hosting those things from a residential IP doesn’t always work well.

QuickSync is more than sufficient for most users. It can handle several concurrent 4K transcode. It’s also not that common to have to transcode, unless you stream your media content when away from home a lot, and have poor upload speed.

If going Intel, there’s different models of Intel iGPU, so I’d go for the lowest-end GPU that has the higher end iGPU. My home server is a few years old and has an Intel Core i5 13500. The difference between the 13400 and 13500 looks small on paper, but the 13400 only has UHD Graphics 730 while the 13500 had UHD Graphics 770 which can handle double the number of concurrent transcodes.

Intel iGPUs also support SR-IOV which lets you share one iGPU across multiple VMs. For example, if you have a Plex server on the host Linux system, and Blue Iris in a Windows Server VM, and both need to use hardware transcoding.

I’ve heard AMD’s onboard graphics are pretty good these days, but I haven’t tried AMD CPUs on a server.

You can share the node with them, and use an ACL to control which ports they have access to.

This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don’t use the product if you don’t agree with them. Niantic’s ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.

AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses (and clauses that aren’t typical)

I miss playable demos, where you could play part of a game to see if you like it. I played so many shareware games and demo CDs when I was young.

I once worked in a team that had both an Aaron and an Erin, and it was confusing for the Americans since they pronounce both names very similarly (in Australia we pronounce them differently enough to disambiguate). I think Aaron ended up being referred to as “A A Ron”

This is why I’m glad my TV has some inputs on the side. When wall mounting it, I ran HDMI cables for all the inputs on the back, to avoid having to go back there again.

If you’ve been in bed for 45 minutes and haven’t been able to fall asleep, you should get up and do something boring/uninteresting until you get tired. If you stay in bed, mentally you’ll associate being in bed with not sleeping, and it’ll just get worse.

If it happens a lot, it’s worth considering CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) and getting a sleep study done (to see if you have sleep apnea).

It’s the default on Messenger so I’m not sure why it wasn’t made the default on Instagram.

I’m not your buddy, friend

I’ll be sure to subscribe while connected to my NordVPN account.

lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

They sold Google Domains to Squarespace.

You shouldn’t wrap potatoes in foil when baking them. It makes them soggy and doesn’t noticeably decrease cooking time. If you want to keep them warm then wrap them in foil after cooking.

What’s the power consumption when completely idle?

Make sure C-states are enabled, so the CPU cores can switch to low-power modes.

Run powertop and check that the cores are actually entering low-power modes (although, powertop is an Intel tool, so I’m not sure how well it works for AMD).

Some systems have the CPU power limits editable in the UEFI (“BIOS”). No other tools needed.

Yes! All the wheels turn! It’s nice.