Very ironic. I installed Avast after removing Vipre. They both use around 1.08 GB of program files application size. They both also consume around 300-500 MB Ram and spin up 3 processes exactly, but I will give Avast here for the CPU usage during scans: Vipre can go as high as 10-20%, whereas Avast better manages this. Otherwise I'm quite torn, because while I could disable the smart scan and find schedules in Avast, I did like Vipre's Firewall even if it was noisy and brutal at blocking things. But once I had it right boy did it work well, and I would be alerted if a strange process even tried to get outbound traffic. Avast, I installed just the antivirus only, it is very likely that the program files folder for the full security suite would consume well around 2 GB disk space and spin up a few more processes as well, potentially. Vipre's security does not include "AI protection" and all the other stuff like Avast is claiming, and beyond a Firewall / e-mail blocker it doesn't include other things (Avast I believe can even run an extension for you in-browser for tracking protection and greater privacy.) To me, these two AV solutions are very close and neither is "bad", just depends on what jives with your personality and your desires.
oh no, haven't heard of that one! At this point any firewall is probably a better one than Windows built-in, since that one doesn't even block the traffic as it asks you about, ironic to me considering that if a Ransomware does get passed the guards, it would have unfetthered access to the network until you hit "block" in that little pop-up, facepalm moment. xD
looks like avast's folder in program files if you have the security one installed like I do is 1.42 gig. I am not using the ultimit one as I don't need a VPN.
Well well. On Linux, to get Virtual Audio Cable like functionality, I just had to have GPT write me a .sh script for it, and now I can output Orca to that relay. It used pactl load-module module-null-sink to create it. I'm shocked, but this did work out for me and way more dead simple than I thought. It can use a mike for apps as well so any app using the microphone of that virtual device just pipes back to source. So that's one more thing down in Linux land that I had on Windows. Eventually, I'm making this switch. Still determined to especially as Orca and Firefox browsing are great together now that polite live regions and things like that are better honored. Winetricks or a Win7 VM works for games or other smaller Windows apps, and everything else like SMB shares, streaming, Ollama, TeamTalk, ETC can be done from the Linux side.
A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.
I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client. The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.
I don't even use the network connection flyout anymore. These days I just type in, run dialog or CMD, "Netsh wlan connect <profilename>" (your network's name) and I'm there. I don't need it. It makes me sad that we cannot get the Windows 8 flyout in Windows 10. So I don't use it. I use explorer.exe from Windows 7 through Explorer7. I try to keep ram usage light. Today I was able to get it to 1.81 GB out of 64 GB with Mem Reduct. I again repeat. You all don't know my obsession ffor this low ram usage comes from wanting to run a mini desktop PC off a Sherpa 100-watt AC battery pack. If you did, trust me, you'd feel the same. I need Windows RAM usage to be as low as Linux RAM usage. (and to be fair to RAM: RAM that's sitting there, in a process which is not using it or is using very little CPU threads and power is not the same, I'm more measuring against Ram at cold boot, not RAM throughout using programs.)
@tspivey because by nature it means more processes running and poling the CPU. It's not about ram usage but ram usage showing that process counts are growing too high and I want CPU usage to be 0% when idle at all times, not 1% or 5%. 0%
@tspivey well yeah, if it's cached ram by the same process, and that process is just sitting there, then yes, the RAM is effectively serving as storage, but data itself isn't moving in and out of it. That's for sure a different story.
I tried doing that, running a mini PC off a 100 W battery pack, and I had no issue and never touched the RAM/CPU, though I probably should have. Everything worked well, but the problem was I could never tell when the battery was about to die. The thing would be going on quite happily and then suddenly just turn off. I mean of course it did, the battery would run out. The battery was more than happy to be pass-through charged, but I did need to know when to plug it in and I couldn't determine that. I finally just gave up and started using very low-power laptops with NVDARemote/Sonobus. If I were to lay the foundations now, I wouldn't bother, I would just use one of the gaming handhelds which run off a USB C power bank.
@techsinger ahaha yeah! That's the downside. It's not for serious work that way but more gaming, although it would suck for that pack to die right as I'm in the middle of a boss run or something! Youch. For a very low-powered laptop, I do have the Asus Expertbook which has the Core Ultra 288V. Intel's first actual low-powered-but-doesn't-suck chip. Now that thing, no matter how conservative I'll ever get my K11 and throttle CPU to 50 or 60% max, will blow it out of the water, think one time I got 14 hours on it when making a cross-atlantic flight. xD But for being at the airport lounge and freaking sighted people around me out with a mini-desktop where I'm only on the keyboard and headphones? sign me up!
I agree. This was, to be fair, a bigger issue before constant low-bandwidth, low-latency, connectivity. Now, I'm using a surface Go with a complete garbage CPU but I don't care, the point of its existence is to support a keyboard, an audio card, and a network connection so I can talk to my real desktop processors wherever I am. Really, there's no reason you can't do this with a phone, but the latency is just that bit over target for audio. With NVDA remote, the latency hits the "don't care" level. Frankly, I'm just a perfectionist and like character echo, if either of those didn't apply, there's no reason I wouldn't want to do it through the phone. Of course, at that point, it doesn't matter anymore, if the client chooses to crash, you lose nothing except the time it takes to bring it or something else back up. If I wanted to go back to using reasonably high-end processors, what's wrong with the GPD win 5? Keeping in mind, of course, that I have no interest in screen size. With most of the new stuff having at least two USB C ports (3.x, 4.x, whatever), you can carry a bunch of batteries and go on for, basically, as long as you like.
I knew it would happen sooner or later, and it did. You guessed it. Everybody's favorite troll, whose real name I believe is James Popov (according to his emails anyway), just impersonated my account. If you got anything from it, it's most definitely not me. The account in question has been blocked and reported.
It's very likely almost always stupid Ramon from Bahrain... Several of the blind community know of the nasty name of his. I'm surprised nothing if anything was done to him over there. Pretty idiotic, I have to say.
@ChrisDuffley I think Ramone, JimmyTruth, etc., are the same person. In looking up Ramone's name, I saw it was the name of a bad guy from a video game series. Regardless, this individual has attended some of TGV's shows via Zoom under the name "JimmyTruth", and he definitely had a Russian accent with quite the speech impediment too. All that, of course, doesn't excuse this behavior, which he thinks is a joke according to a conversation I saw earlier today in TGV's chat room.
This is correct. The name is Ramon Salazar. Even @tysonsylvester@mastodon.stickbear.me / @Tysonsylvester can tell you since he saw his real IP address at one time on another TeamTalk a long time ago. Pretty much hell on steroids. I totally agree and wish that we could get the powers that be over there to help him find a life. This is more than unacceptable.
Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.
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Civilization’s algorithm is simple:
centralization tightens; we merely pick a softer prison.
To attempt the impossible is the last chivalry.
For curiosity, tried pricing out this laptop preinstalled with Fedora, and it won't let you choose any ram option other than the lowest unless you switch to Windows.
For residents of the U.S., health insurance open enrollment is beginning.
Good time for a reminder that, if you have the option of enrolling in a high deductible health plan, those policies come with Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ded… "HSA contributions, unlike other tax-advantaged investment vehicles, offer a triple tax benefit – tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses."
I suppose I should max mine again, but I don't know when I'll end up using the money that I'm adding to it, and the investment options that HealthEquity gives me aren't that good imo, so I've been feeling kind of 'meh' about it, although I could use it for therapy for one thing.
Your options will depend on where you have the HSA (I was complaining because I only have target date funds available and don't like them, but I think that each provider is different). If you log into your account, then there should be an option in the menu to set it up.
I'd make a video of myself burning an American flag or something American-flag-adjacent but I don't need a constant reminder of what country I'm in so I don't actually own anything that looks like a flag
Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
TT-RSS is going away. It was the first feed reader I hosted and used in a regular basis and it was great. Sad to see it go, but I understand the reasons. community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end… #selfhosting #selfhosted
interesting. I moved away to FreshRSS a year ago as I already felt kind of stagnation in the development. But on FreshRSS I am still missing a good android client.
"Lo aquí planteado busca ayudar a entender la situación poniendo énfasis en la construcción de masculinidades crueles, bajo la idea de que no es un suceso aislado, sino que responde a un contexto y una dinámica social en donde crecen grupos como los autodenominados incels, fratría masculinista con fuerte base en redes sociales que reproduce discursos misóginos y enaltece comportamientos violentos."
There was the equivalent of a Youtube call-in show, where you win stuff for correctly answering weird questions without looking them up with a search engine. They had ways of knowing if you do.
I was watching Linus Tech Tips, something I usually don't do, because they annoy me, and was the first to correctly answer the question: "What is the city of origin of VoIP equipment manufacturer Grandstream?"
The answer was Brookline, Massachusetts.
Unfortunately, I woke up before I got to learn what I won. Oh well.
So I found the secret to getting Google to listen to us! See, you have to join their Discord servers lol.
So Gemini on Android is less accessible with TalkBack than Gemini on iOS or even Gemini on the web. And I'm tired as fuck of sucky ass technology shit for the day just trying to do BSI on this iPhone because obviously having both hands on either side of the screen is having more than 3 fingers on a single side of the screen or some bullshit. Crem of the storming crem, Apple. So St'm not going into detail about the issue here because anyone who's kept up with the complaining I do knows the issue. Anyway, so I join the Gemini Discord, and I thought I'd posted that issue months ago, but apparently not. I know I reported it from the feedback part of the Gemini settings, but this is just proof that they don't read that shit.
So I post the bug report in the bug channel, and within a good hour or 2 I get a reply. Because of course. Now Google, make a TalkBack Discord server lol. Fucking insane. But yeah y'all if you have issues with Gemini, go to their Discord lol.
Version 0.4 of Paperback, my lightweight and efficient ebook and document reader, is out! Changelog: * Added CHM file support! * Added bookmark support! You can have as many bookmarks throughout as many documents as you like. You can jump forward and backward through them with b and shift+b, set one with control+shift+b, and bring up a dialog to jump to a specific bookmark with control+b. * Added an installer alongside the portable zip file! The installer will install Paperback into your Program Files directory, and automatically set up file associations for you. * Text files with BOMs should now be decoded properly, and the BOM will no longer be displayed at the beginning of the text either. * Added far more information to the status bar. It'll now show you your current line, character, and reading percentage. * HTML comments, as well as the contents of script and style tags, will no longer be shown in text output. * If passing a relative path to Paperback on the command line, it will now resolve it properly. * Percentage movement is now handled by its own slider-based dialog, accessible with control+shift+g. * Documents without known titles or authors will now always have a default. * The position saving logic is now much smarter and should only write to the disk when absolutely necessary. * The document you had focused when you closed Paperback is now remembered across application restarts. * Input into the go to line and go to page dialogs should now be sanitized more strictly. * Fixed table of contents navigation in epub 3 books with relative paths in their manifests. Zip download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback… Installer download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback… Donation page: paypal.me/tygillespie05 Enjoy!
How do I select an entry from an epub TOC? I got it open, there's the tree view, I press enter on a section and nothing happens. I press OK and it says please select something from the TOC. My input is an epub generated by the FicLab browser extension, I can send it to you if you need help with repro.
@x0 You've found an edgecase. I've solved a couple of these with weird epubs, but someone just reported another on GH. Hopefully fixing that will fix yours too.
Would it also be possible to, when opening the TOC, automatically move the cursor to the nearest enclosing TOC item? So that, E.G>, if I'm reading chapter 15 of volume 2, opening the TOC will place me on the chapter 15 item inside volume 2? Obviously if I were to actually click on this I would likely be shot back to the beginning of chapter 15, but it makes navigation easier if you want to do relative.
@x0 I struggle to understand why you'd want this. It's supposed to take you to the closest toc item to exactly where you are. If chapter 15 has subheadings, just hit left arrow and you'll collapse it and get to the chapter 15 root node, which you should then be able to press enter on. Or are you telling me you've found an epub that always puts you at the start of the TOC when you press Ctrl+T? In which case that's a bug.
Fiiiiixed! TOC activation now works, and I used heading nav to move sections after I went somewhere and scrolled a bit, and then opened the TOC again, and it kept up with where I went. So you are now capable of parsing the output of the FicLab browser extension.
A test would be to see if this works with nested TOCs, E.G> if I'm in section 2, subsection 4, subsubsection 3 and open the TOC, do I end up focused on subsubsection 3 inside those two, auto-expanding as necessary to get me there?
Yup. And I don't know enough about epub to construct such an intricate test case, plus what the hell would I put in all the sections? I think using the fanfic harry potter and the methods of rationality, official epub, I might be able to test level 2 anyway, it has divisions in the TOC for arcs.
@Aryan Meh. I dislike plaintext views for that kind of thing. I like to have links and lists and block quotes and such. I've never totally understood the seeming obsession of any accessible desktop reader dev to immediately go and let's just strip all the semantics and output raw text! I still make CHMs of the Python help documentation. I *need* to see the semantics in something like that, and navigate them.
@x0 @Aryan IMO, plaintext fields fall apart completely when tables are concerned. Everything else can be worked around, kind of, tables are a complete no-go.
@miki @x0 @Aryan Yeah, that's the problem with QRead, it doesn't really tell you that unless you t and shift t. It'll require some thought to get right, but I think I'll be able to pull it off.
@x0 @Aryan My concern is whether there's anything in the epub specification that might require loading the whole document for the table to display properly.
Same-page links are definitely one feature that wouldn't work with this arrangement, wondering if there are others.
On normal webpages, that is definitely the case (because of Javascript if nothing else), but I don't think epub supports that.
@miki @x0 @Aryan No, I don't think we'd need to do that. What's hard is if the table has hyperlinks in it, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Just FYI: my only account which is still active for me is from AllOverthePlace.ca. If anyone notices a David Goldfield from other accounts who follow you, please do notify me so that I can investigate it. Now there is a Civil War historian named David Goldfield who is, of course, welcome to establish a Mastodon presence but barring that, other accounts with that name are likely fakes.
My DV advocate has been working to find us safe housing! In the meantime, I'm also working on an application for a part-time job that could be a great fit, and continuing to look for legal help while doing as much as I can independently.
PLEASE help us get legal help, a car, and everything else we need to survive ♥️
Unfortunately we didn't get the transitional DV housing we were hoping for 💔 and still can't go home as emergency restraining order was denied. This goal is for legal funds but housing support is also urgent!
DV survivor & baby in urgent need of funds for legal aid! We haven't been able to get a restraining order yet which puts a huge strain on stability. Consult w sliding scale lawyer is today!
When Andre (@Onj) randomly reached out offering to produce drums for a collaboration, it just so happened that was working on a song and was having trouble getting drums that sounded right. It was perfect timing and he did an amazing job. Check out the links on Andre’s profile to check out his work! He’s a real talent and an awesome human.
Our collaboration is now up on #Bandcamp for #BandcampFriday if you want a copy for yourself.
@VE3RWJ According to a conversation earlier today in The Global Voice's public chat room, he claimed that all the "parodies", as he calls them, are “funny” to him. When he was told that what he was doing was pathetic, he basically responded with “that’s your opinion”, or words to that effect. In case you want to look at what he wrote, the room can be accessed at theglobalvoice.info/chatroom.h…. He definitely has problems, that’s for certain.
@kjsapergia @VE3RWJ I see it, is there a way to go back in the history? The fact that he uses Fahrenheit to measure temperature makes me wonder if he is in the US.
@VE3RWJ I believe his real name is James Popov. That's what he's known by in his emails. He's also an extreme Trump supporter. As far as the history goes, you should be able to scroll up through the page. I think it stores what was said for up to a week, but I could be wrong about this.
@kjsapergia @VE3RWJ I am not surprised at all that he is a Trump supporter. I'm sure there are Trump supporters that are decent people and that don't behave that way, but they do seem to be an awful lot of them that enjoy being trolls just like him.
@kjsapergia @VE3RWJ yeah well, I dont really talk about that guy, I just let his spam accounts flood my notifications and that's that. though i will not deny at all that what he's doing is completely not ok. I think his name is ramon salizar or something.
In Japan, trees in the path of urban development or road construction are often relocated rather than cut down. This reflects the country’s deep respect for nature and commitment to environmental preservation.
Using specialized techniques, experts carefully bind and protect the roots before transplanting the tree to a new location.
This approach ensures the preservation of greenery while allowing infrastructure projects to move forward.
🇩🇪Ein starkes Zeichen aus Slowenien: Die Regierung lehnt die #Chatkontrolle nach Protesten u.a. der #Piraten ab. Hier siegen Grundrechte über den Überwachungswahn!
ever wonder why Linux distro images are so darn big? I do, a lot, because we have silly rules about it! here is the investigation for #fedora 43's workstation live: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c… . It boils down to: "Firefox, LibreOffice, firmware, translations, CJK support, printing support, and podman/skopeo"
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