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conorab

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  • 32 GB of RAM Could Become the New Standard for Gamers, According to Steam Survey

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  • I was able to stick to 16GB on my Windows 11 gaming VM for ages. Only recently cracked because I was using the OBS replay buffer that was using 2-4GB so I upped to 24GB.

    I would never recommend somebody build a new gaming system with less than 32GB now though since you will need an upgrade at some point. If you’re already running 16GB then it’s probably fine to just wait until you do a full re-build.

    That said, 16GB is probably the new standard for normal PCs if you’re hoping to get 5 years out of them.

  • Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10

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  • You can work around it in both cases. SecureBoot will only prevent you from running non-signed boot loaders. If that breaks then you just turn off SecureBoot while you work on the issue (assuming SecureBoot failing isn’t due to a compromised boot loader) and the machine will boot normally minus any data stored in the TPM such as the encryption key. For the encryption key, this is something you are supposed to keep a copy of outside the TPM for scenarios like this. On Windows consumer PCs, this is stored in your Microsoft account or the place you specify when enabling it. For Azure or AD-joined PC’s this can be stored in Azure or AD.

    The only ways SecureBoot and encryption will burn you are if there is data stored in the TPM that you don’t have a backup of or way of re-creating, or if the encryption headers on the drive are lost. That said, if you aren’t using a TPM some Windows features will break regardless and if the drive is so messed up that the encryption headers are lost then you’re probably back to backups anyway.

  • Reddit will block the Internet Archive

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  • As somebody who often ends up using Reddit like Stackoverflow and in some cases needing the Internet Archive (IA) to find the original post after it’s been deleted or garbled, I think this is a wakeup call for those go to Reddit both to get technical help and to post it. More than ever, Reddit is becoming an unreliable place to find answers for old obscure issues and if they are going to lockout places like the IA then I think it’s time people stopped contributing their solutions to Reddit.

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • For the vast majority of users Linux is just a worse deal. Only thing that really comes to mind that Linux does that users care about is that it will support that hardware that Windows 11 will leave behind, and even those users will happily just run Windows 10 without updates and if that bites them in the ass then maybe they’ll upgrade or just ask their IT friend to use a bypass to make Windows 11 at least work on their old hardware.

    Otherwise, of the things users actually care about, Linux has worse app support to the point that even pro-Linux users would rather dual-boot that lose access to their games and worse hardware support. Linux also has a problem of not being well understood by a lot of tech folk so if you bring somebody onboard you better be ready to be their only point of support.

    ChromeOS is probably the best example against this since it is basically just a browser, the laptops it sells on are substantially better value than their budget counterparts and realistically a lot of the people buying them are parents for their kids so the user’s preference is substantially pushed aside in favour of cost. The SteamDeck is another good counter-example since it essentially refuses to compete with the PC gaming market by calling itself a handheld.

    Linux is stuck in the crappy position of needing more users to get more software and hardware support but users need better software and hardware support for Linux to make sense compared to Windows. It’s getting better and Valve’s efforts have steadily brought the Linux gaming percentage up but it’s still the enthusiast OS.

    By all means encourage it’s usage though. Linux is a far more open and privacy-respecting option and the more tech folk and basic-usage users that adopt it the better!

  • Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor

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  • Sounds like this is not the same as S mode but only related to it based on the article. I hope Microsoft kill the cancer that is S mode.

  • Microsoft lifts Windows 11 update block for Easy Anti-Cheat users

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  • As somebody who games on a VM, good. Easy Anti-Cheat has become an immediate no-go unless it’s a friend group game. I’m not dedicated a whole PC for that garbage and dual-booting for it is a PITA. Microsoft should have left it unpatched and made them fix their shit.

  • Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - Nextcloud

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  • What about second broken web office suite?

  • Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

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  • Just hope they (Facebook and friends) give you the choice to delete OR verify those accounts and not require verification to delete it.

  • Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

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  • Same in Australia. From memory the law has already passed, it’s just got a delay on it to give companies a chance to implement it.

  • Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot

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  • This seems a bit convoluted as an explanation if I’ve understood it correctly. If Telegram as using a compromised hosting provider then you could have the strongest crypto in the world to prevent a man-in-the-middle from seeing the unique identifier for each device and it wouldn’t matter since they already who which user is which IP from the servers they control. They don’t stand to gain anything by exposing the unique string to MiTM attacks when they already control Telegram’s servers unless their goal is also to allow other countries to see which user has which IP too. It just seems like an incompetent implementation.

  • Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers

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  • I might be mistaken, but isn’t using a mixer considered money laundering in the US?

  • 2025-05-10 - Glebe & Haymarket

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  • They seemed pretty well hidden initially despite being purple and heavily contrasting. Wasn’t until I started editing that I noticed.

  • 2025-05-10 - Glebe & Haymarket

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  • It’s one of my favourite buildings in Sydney but oh boy does it have issues. I swear they have the scaffolding/footpath cover active most of the time.

  • 2025-05-10 - Glebe & Haymarket

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  • The markets were on at the time. :)

  • 2025-05-10 - Sydenham & Central Station

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  • Should be much better now. I've re-exported all the images in slightly lower quality and it's drastically reduced the file sizes.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • It sucks that rural Australia’s part of the NBN got kneecapped down to Skymuster. I’ve played with Starlink quite a while ago and unless it’s really heavy rain it works really well up to the point of being able to stream games on GeForce NOW. Obviously a fast wired connection is preferable but as you say Starlink really is the only good option for a lot of people.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • If you only care about having a static IPv6 address take a look at TunnelBroker by Hurricane Electric. They give you free /48 IPv6 blocks tunnelled through their network. Words of warning though: 1) some ISPs block using this service (prevent the tunnel from working), 2) in my experience I’ve seen high latency due to weird routing, 3) those IPs ending up on blocklists due to abuse and 4) the tunnel is unencrypted so traffic between you and Hurricane Electric is trivially intercepted, though if that was a problem in the first place then you wouldn’t be hosting from your home network anyway so this is mostly moot.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • IP blocklisting is still very much a thing as well so you can expect any mail originating from a residential IP to be rejected due to their /24 or larger having previously sent spam, and that assumes you can send server-to-server mail (destination port 25/tcp) in the first place since many ISPs and server providers block traffic destined to that port by default to prevent users from getting their IP blocklists. My home ISP blocks outbound SNMP traffic (or at least did 10 years ago) presumably to also prevent abuse. That said, things like blocking inbound port 80/tcp and 443/tcp is purely a measure to prevent people running servers at home which I’m not a fan of.

  • VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

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  • Same is true for any tech thing. Sure, you can buy a perpetual licence for something but if you’re running it on anything but an isolated device then you will at minimum need security updates or the source code to fix it yourself. Same is true for things like console games where eventually the hardware will just die and it may become too expensive to replace it. Even emulation is case-by-case since some games use obscure calls which have no adequate emulation. Software doesn’t exist in isolation. For that, you have to revert to pen, paper and some analog tech.