That seems like a good edit, and fair enough. Good to know that there is also room for people who want to use their computer in a non-fanatical way, simply minding our own business.

I don’t fit in an of these teams, and neither do literally all Linux users I know. Should we have identity crises, or could this be a giant oversimplification?

Och arm ziel, wat een zware examenperiode heb je wel niet achter de rug…

Engels was goed te doen (zoals volgens mij traditie is geworden). Het was wel lastiger dan vorige examens denk ik, maar ik kwam er nog steeds best goed uit. Alleen de tekst over de invloed van romantische poëzie op moderne breakup songs mocht er echt in stikken wat mij betreft.

Heb je trouwens verder nog leuke plannen voor na de examens (of eerder “het examen”)?

Ik was ook veel te lang blijven hangen bij die cosinusregel voordat ik de 1,4d zag. Zo veel moeite voor een 3pt vraag, wie dat ook bedacht heeft zal wel een klein beetje sadistisch zijn.

Ik hoorde dat best veel mensen niet uitkwamen met die oppervlakte in de cirkel. Misschien had het geholpen als ze nog even hadden genoemd dat het dezelfde cirkel als de opdracht daarvoor was, dus dat je die gegevens ook kon gebruiken? Ik was er gelukkig wel uit gekomen na flink wat gepuzzel.

7,5 met N=1 is wel netjes hoor! De N-term zal vast hoger zijn, dus hopelijk wordt dat een mooie 8+ met normering.

Natuurkunde ging ook best goed. Ik geloof dat ik weinig vrienden heb gemaakt in de examenzaal door eerder weg te gaan, iedereen vond het een rottoets. Mocht je op examenblad willen kijken: iedereen had enorme haat naar vraag 7, 8 en vooral 9.

Maandag alleen nog Engels, dan ben ik eindelijk klaar! Heb jij nog iets te gaan?

Ik heb het overleefd, ging eigenlijk best prima voor mijn gevoel. Ik was wel echt stomverbaasd dat de cosinusregel erin voorkwam, gelukkig had ik hem nog wel geleerd (op de dag van).

Het voelde wel een beetje alsof de examenmakers bij natuurkunde hadden afgekeken, daar zaten ook al heel veel sterrenkunde-opgaven. Sommige klasgenoten kregen een soort PTSD toen ze die opdrachten zagen (natuurkunde was lichtelijk traumatiserend dit jaar)

Hoe ging het bij jou? Meetkunde nog een beetje gelukt?

To change the ownership of the files, you should only have to run sudo chown -R user:group directory. -R makes chown run recursively, so it will modify the directory and all subdirectories and files. Do note that changing the ownership to plex:plex or something similar would leave your user unable to normally modify the files. My solution to this was to add both my regular user and the plex (in my case jellyfin) user to the same group. That way both users can easily see and modify the files, as long as the group has read/write permissions (the 2nd column of rwx in ls -Al). If necessary, you can add group permissions with sudo chmod -R g+rw directory.

On a side note: have you considered using jellyfin? It’s a completely free alternative to plex, which recently received a truly massive update with tons of new features. Some people prefer plex’ overall experience, but I’ve been running jellyfin with almost no complaints.

Small disclaimer: I’m writing from mobile, so the commands might not be 100% correct. Run at your own risk, and NEVER POINT A CHMOD/CHOWN COMMAND AT SYSTEM DIRECTORIES LIKE / OR /USR. That’s one of the easiest ways to completely break your system.

Veel succes met WisB! Ik heb hetzelfde examen, hopen dat hij een beetje goed te doen is.

Have you tried the official guide from the jellyfin website?

As for the guide this AI generated: it bothers me that they instruct you to use chocolatey for the *arrs, but still advice you to install docker, qbittorrent and jellyfin manually (all of which have chocolatey packages). I disagree with the comment that external storage would be recommended, as internal storage is generally more reliable (depending on a lot of factors of course). Also, I believe the “adding a library”-section of the jellyfin setup is a bit too short to be of any use, and would recommend referring to the jellyfin docs instead.

This guide also doesn’t explain how to make jellyfin accessible outside of your LAN. Once again, I’d recommend referring to the jellyfin docs if you want to do this.

I personally have only set up qbittorrent, jellyfin and docker (not the *arr suite), so I can’t comment on the completeness of the guide, but I wouldn’t trust it too much (seeing the previous oversights).

And finally, as someone who started their selfhosted server journey on windows: don’t. There is a reason why almost all guides are written for linux, as it is (in my humble opinion) vastly superior for server usage once you get used to it.

didn’t know that was a part of bisexuality

I should probably flee before I get eaten by an army of blahåjar (apparently that’s the correct plural?)

Oh I don’t mind the nitpicking, thanks for the explanation! I (apparently erroneously) thought “demake” and “decompile” were synonyms. Guess I’m one of today’s 10000.

In that case the (now taken down, but forked a gazillion times) portal64 project would be a correct example of a demake, right?

interested in females

Username checks out, though I’m assuming you meant “demakes”?

Anyways, the demake I’m most familiar with is the in-progress Lego island. The YouTuber behind it documented part of the process in vlogs (linked on the GitHub page), so that might be an interesting starting point.

Interessante analyse, al heb ik (als mede links-progressieve rakker) wel een paar kleine opmerkingen:

• Verlagen van lasten door een schijf toe te voegen klinkt heel leuk, maar ik ben heel benieuwd hoe ze dat willen combineren met de extra uitgaven voor kinderopvang, de halvering van het eigen risico en de 4.7 miljard bezuiniging. Misschien blijkt dit kabinet over een klein legertje briljante economen te beschikken die deze extra uitgaven (zonder duidelijke extra inkomsten) in goede banen weten te leiden, maar tot nu toe hebben niet alle partijen (kuche BBB kuche) blijk gegeven van dat economische inzicht.
• De 130km/h is alleen “waar mogelijk”, wat dat ook precies mag betekenen. Marginaal minder slecht, maar nog steeds een verergering van het stikstofprobleem die we echt niet nodig hebben.
• Het schrappen van subsidies voor elektrische auto’s had ik wel aan zien komen, maar ik zou het toch zeker in de categorie “erg jammer” plaatsen. Als hun plan is om het OV zo verschrikkelijk goed te regelen dat auto’s overbodig worden vind ik het helemaal prima, maar met de VVD aan boord betwijfel ik dat. Elektrische auto’s zijn niet perfect, maar wel een flinke verbetering ten opzichte van auto’s met een verbrandingsmotor; het zou dus mooi zijn als meer mensen die overstap kunnen maken.

Om dan nu wat van het artikel af te dwalen:

• In de peilingen van eergisteren staat de PVV op 47 zetels, dus 10 zetels winst. Ik ben eerlijk gezegd best verbaasd dat ze zo veel lijken in te leveren, gezien zij de enige partij zijn die baat zou hebben bij herverkiezing (VVD -6, NSC -12, BBB -1). Ondanks dat leek de onderhandelingspositie van de NSC haast de sterkste van de 4; je kan veel zeggen over Omtzigt, maar hij lijkt een ijzersterke onderhandelaar.
• Ik ben positief verrast over het ontbreken van voorstellen omtrent de LHBTI+ gemeenschap (voornamelijk transgender personen). Na de enigszins achterbakse motie om de transgenderwet in te trekken had ik wel iets in het akkoord verwacht. Overigens heeft NSC het kleine beetje respect dat ik voor hen had verloren door die motie in te dienen. Is dit de fraaie politiek die NSC beweert te willen beschermen?
• Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe dit kabinet de EU een beetje te vriend wil houden. Aan de ene kant zou het kunnen dat ze haar handen al zo vol heeft aan Orban dat het kabinet vrijuit krijgt. Aan de andere kant zie ik het ook wel gebeuren dat ze alles dat in de globale richting van een 2e Hongarije gaat in de kiem smoort.
• Mijn levensverwachting voor dit kabinet is iets minder dan 2 jaar. Omtzigt lijkt het hele proces lang bereid geweest te zijn uit de formatie te stappen; wie weet doet hij dat alsnog. Ik zie het ook gebeuren dat de PVV plotseling een ruggengraat krijgt en het kabinet laat klappen omdat de migratieregels alsnog niet ver genoeg gaan (flashbacks naar Rutte-I en Rutte-IV).

Could it be that the /usr/local/bin directory doesn’t exist? If that’s the case, you’d either have to create it or replace that part of the command with some other directory in your $PATH (make sure to change both occurrences in the command if you decide to go with this latter option). Though I must add that this kind of manual install isn’t great if you want to keep track of installed apps and pending updates, since you’d have to do all of that manually too.

If the installer is small enough (<650MB I believe), you can upload it to virustotal.com to have it be scanned by ~65 antivirus programs

Disclaimer: I have exactly 0 personal experience with eGPU’s.

According to the archwiki:

While some manual configuration (shown below) is needed for most modes of operation, Linux support for eGPUs is generally good.

Yes, some minor formatting changes occur when opening a docx file in libreoffice. Hardly sounds like a deal breaker to me. And yes, you do get a pop-up when saving to docx in libreoffice (with the toggle to disable the pop-ups right there in the message). Microsoft office does the exact same thing when saving to an odt file though:

Once again, if you have to collaborate with office-users (and you cannot deal with the horror of having a different amount of space between the items), just use office online. How many times do I have to repeat myself?

Let me guess you’re someone who works in IT and never had a typical “office job” that includes spending 90% of your time writing reports and pushing spreadsheets around.

1. No, I do not work in IT, nor do I aspire to work in IT. I’m just a regular PC-user, who just so happens to have other opinions than you do. HOW DARE I?!?
2. Wouldn’t IT-workers of all people know what the more optimized editors are?

This is why you don’t get it, you’re not the typical user of MS Office and you don’t share the same use cases the OP, the article author and myself share.

1. The article you shared was talking about gaming, the adobe creative suite, virtual machines, electrical engineers, labs, architects and sysadmins/developers. Please don’t try to claim that the article author and OP ever had “the same use cases”.
2. I guess you are finally correct though, I’m indeed not the typical user of MS Office (thank god). The typical user pays $70 a year just to edit word docs, while calling the family tech support each time they try to add a horizontal page in word. If your use case is being trapped into a proprietary office solution, where you have to provide a reason before microsoft allows you to shut down your onedrive, where all your documents are saved in a mythical “cloud”, then I am glad that our use-cases differ.
3. I hope you see the irony of you using markdown in a comment describing why I am “out of touch” for using markdown.

If you want to use windows, that’s fine. But please don’t share such blatantly ignorant articles, and don’t try to defend them when multiple people point out why it is wrong about so many things.

I probably won’t reply to your next reaction (should there be any) unless you come up with some actual arguments, instead of “the line spacing is broken, you’re out of touch, not me”.

Yes, libreoffice doesn’t really work for live collaboration. But office online is a good solution for that collaboration, and it works in any browser (including Firefox on Linux). Therefore, the author’s conclusion (you need windows to collaborate on word docs) is still wrong.

I personally also believe that WYSIWYG editors are highly overrated: markdown is significantly better for note-taking and similar small documents, and reports would often be better off with LaTeX or something similar. But I understand why the “4 commands is too much hassle to install VirtualBox” crowd might prefer word.

People who need MS Office because once you have to collaborate with others Open/Libre/OnlyOffice won’t cut it;

I use office almost daily, Libreoffice is fine for local editing and office online works if I have to collaborate.

People that just installed a password manager (KeePassXC) and a browser (Firefox/Ungoogled) via flatpak only to find out that the KeePassXC app can’t communicate with the browser extension because people are “beating around the bush” on GitHub instead of fixing the issue;

I simply installed the Bitwarden extension in Firefox and it worked flawlessly. I’m not quite sure why you would want a desktop app for a password manager (never needed this even on windows), but if you do, basically distro ships a regular Firefox package which will work just as on windows.

Anyone who wants a simple Virtual Machine and has to go thought cumbersome installation procedures like this one just to get error messages saying virtualization isn’t enable when, in fact, it is… or trying to use GNOME Boxes and have a sub-par virtualization experience;

4 commands doesn’t seem that cumbersome, it can quite literally be done in 30 seconds. Add to this the fact that it will be updated together with all other apps managed by you package manager, which is incomparably faster compared to windows update (or even most apps’ integrated self-updater)

My experience with gnome boxes was also one of the most hassle-free one ever when working with virtualisation. Worked without advanced setup on a very low-end laptop (i3 4th gen, 4gb DDR3), so I’m not quite sure what would be “sub-par”.

Designers because Adobe apps won’t run properly without having a dedicated GPU, passthrough and a some hacky way to get the image back into your main system that will cause noticeable delays;

Adobe doesn’t have a monopoly on design software. I’m not an artist though, so it could be true that the Linux alternatives aren’t full replacements. I would like to point out that, IIRC, Linus Media Group (a company with 100+ employees) uses macs for Adobe apps; windows would constantly crash, so even here the author’s conclusion (just buy a windows key) doesn’t hold up.

Gamers because of the reasons above plus a flat 5-15% performance hit;

In my experience running games though proton, this is more like a 5% difference in either direction. Native games generally run significantly better for me. Though I will admit this can depend on specific hardware and games (and proton has improved a lot over the years).

People that run old software / games because not even those will run properly on Wine;

Wine is actually starting to support an API which Microsoft has deprecated (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.16-Released). These apps might only work on Linux in the future, not on windows anymore. I will admit that I’m not much of a retro gamer, and other API’s might be a different story.

Developers and sysadmins, because not everyone is using Docker and Github actions to deploy applications to some proprietary cloud solution. Finding a properly working FTP/SFTP/FTPS desktop client (similar WinSCP or Cyberduck) is an impossible task as the ones that exist fail even at basic tasks like dragging and dropping a file.

Want to start using a new language? Just apt install the new interpreter/compiler and start right away. Want to use sftp? Just type sftp into your terminal. Also, most regular file managers just support these protocols out of the box; not having to install a separate app to use these protocols sounds like a Linux win to me. Furthermore, when developing software intended for server use, linux is simply superior due to its similarity to the environment the software will eventually run on.

Just to make it clear, I understand that Linux is not perfect for everyone. But this article appears almost wilfully ignorant to multiple facts. It almost sounds like the author tried Linux for 2 hours, had a single issue they couldn’t resolve during that time (probably nvidia related, which is nvidia’s fault), and decided to give up and write salty articles instead of seeking help.

The more you compress the longer and more CPU intensive it is to decompress

I believe this is becoming less and less true with modern algorithms. Take for example ZSTD: while the compression speeds differs by several orders of magnitude between the fastest and slowest modes, the decompression difference is only about 20%. The same holds true for flac, where the decompression speed is pretty uniform across all compression levels.

These algorithms probably aren’t used by repacked like fitgirl (so your answer is generally correct in the context of repacks). I do believe it is still interesting to see these new developments in compression techniques.

I have had decent experiences with TiLP on linux. According to their website, it “can handle any TI calculator (from TI73 to V200) with any link cable.”. Their website also explicitly states support for the NSpire and NSpire-CAS, but the NSpire CX II isn’t mentioned. It might be worth a shot?

If it doesn’t work, the easiest solution would probably be a windows VM with USB-passtrough (which wine doesn’t support as far as I know). You could then use the webapp I linked earlier.