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solrize

@ solrize @lemmy.world

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  • Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?

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  • If you have a hard drive, replace it with an SSD? And, can you add more memory?

  • Will the Community Help Me Find a Clock Movement with Pendulum with WiFi or Atomic?

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  • Will the Community Help Me Find a Clock Movement with Pendulum with WiFi or Atomic?

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  • Um the idea of a pendulum in an old fashioned clock is that it is actually the clock's frequency reference. It's purely mechanical, no electricity or radios. The length of the pendulum determines the frequency (usually 1 hz). You can slide the weight up and down a little bit to adjust the speed. The spring unwinding gives the pendulum a little kick on every swing so the clock doesn't stop. You wind up the spring every so often so it doesn't unwind completely, and the swinging pendulum advances a little ratchet that moves the hands a little on every swing. If you lived in a town in the pre-electricity era, the local church would ring its church bells at noon, 3pm, etc. and you would use that to set or adjust your clock as needed. The church clock itself was directly or indirectly set using solar noon (as observed with a transit telescope or dipleidoscope) as a reference. Fancier pendulum clocks had various sorts of thermal compensation and could be very accurate. It was a highly developed technology that is now mostly forgotten.

    Connecting wifi to this would be at best purely decorative. I guess it would be a cute hack but meh. You could look on hackaday.com which is full of projects like that. I've mostly found them kind of pointless, but that's just me being a grouch.

  • Activism through open source.

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  • What is it that you want to talk about? There's plenty about programming, math, and stuff like that. Maybe other stuff too, but that's the stuff I'm into. Hacker News is definitely overrated and always has been though.

  • Massive data backup question: What Linux software do you folks recommend for helping sort out and organize terabytes of files and remove duplicates?

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  • You can turn off Borg encryption but maybe what you really want is an object store (S3 style). Those exist too.

  • Massive data backup question: What Linux software do you folks recommend for helping sort out and organize terabytes of files and remove duplicates?

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  • I'm using Borg and it's fine at that scale. I don't know if it would still be viable with 100TB or whatever. The initial backup will be kind of slow but it encrypts everything, and deduplicates it too if I'm not mistaken. In any case, it deduplicates the common situation where you back up another snapshot later. Only the differences get written in the second backup. So you can save new snapshots fairly quickly and without much additional space.

  • Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted?

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  • How do you imagine your experience compares to that of those with minimal or extraordinary agency?

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  • Somewhere in the middle I guess. Same answer as for almost everyone, I imagine?

  • Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

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  • If Mozilla died would I quickly be finding a larger chunk of websites that aren’t supported?

    Likely yes, as Google will keep enshittifying the web unless stopped by antitrust or whatever. Which isn't looking so likely.

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    I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice?

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  • Is there any libre open source website like Rumble where l can create my own channel ?

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  • Is there any libre open source website like Rumble where l can create my own channel ?

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  • I believe I was thinking of Clubhouse but I haven't checked into it much.

  • Is there any libre open source website like Rumble where l can create my own channel ?

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  • No, Jitsi is a chat program. I must have been confusing Rumble with some other thing. But as with youtube, the video collection is much more important than the software. Releasing all the youtube software wouldn't change youtube's dominance even slightly.

  • A quick question

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  • Start a blog instead. I'd rather read it than listen to someone babbling.

  • got any recommendations for games

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  • Lichess.org for online chess, or (most private of all) a physical travel board if you're with a friend who wants to play. Lichess isn't very private but definition though. Not sure why you asked in c/privacy? Anyway what happened to reading a book on a bus trip?

    Oh try universal paperclips if you haven't. 5 hours is about right for finishing it. That's pretty private.

  • Is there any libre open source website like Rumble where l can create my own channel ?

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  • Rumble is real time voice chat right? Closest I know to that is Jitsi Meet. For text chat there are many irc networks.

  • FSF to hold free software hackathon in honor of its fortieth anniversary — Free Software Foundation

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  • Wow cool, I don't have a project of my own to submit, but can maybe help with someone else's.