gasp

I’m shocked

I highly doubt people are uninstalling their ad blockers. If anything they’ll just disable it on YouTube if it’s that big of an issue to them.

Firefox + uBlock still works for me on desktop. For my SmartTV and my phone I’m using other frontend applications to get around the ads.

Update the OS and all installed applications using a single command.

Perfect depiction of downtown Vancouver.

This.

I just went from Arch to Debian 12 Bookworm. Running the stable branch, but so far most of the packages are rather recent. Kernel is 6.1 instead of 6.4, but I could switch to the Testing or Unstable branch to get the “bleeding edge” packages/kernels if I need to. But honestly so far it’s been a real pleasure to use. Everything is just working and is stable.

Not saying you have to or anything, and I can understand and respect using something like MX Linux to save time on the customization. Just know that because it’s based on Debian, any core OS updates will be delayed while the MX team rebases them into their fork.

Honest question, but why not just install Debian with the Xfce DE? Why rely on a fork for updates?

From what I can tell both by testing MX Linux and by reading about it, it’s nothing more than Debian with a few pre-installed packages and some customization. All of which could be done on Debian directly without much trouble.

I kind of hear what you’re saying, but other than the GPU, and it’s waterblock, the rest of the system is not new. I originally bought the motherboard in 2019 with a 3900X when the X570 AM4 platform and the Ryzen 3000 series CPU’s came out. Then upgraded the CPU to a 5800X3D just over a year ago.

Why the 5800X3D? 1) Because at the time I bought it, it was THE fastest gaming CPU. It’s still an incredible CPU that has a ton of performance. 2) I got the 5800X3D because I primarily play games on my PC. I don’t do any video editing, streaming, or productivity work. My rig is custom built for gaming, and only gaming. Even going as far as running a customized Windows 10 install with a bunch of background processes and analytics bloat stripped out. This is what the 5800X3D was made for. You look at benchmarks and reviews of the 5800X3D and it was beating or matching the 12900K, for less money, and most importantly, for less power draw. Performs better, runs cooler, costs less. I see that as a no brainer, not a compromise. There was nothing budget friendly about any of this platform when the parts were bought.

If I was buying the platform now, new, yes… then I could see why you’d think that. Honestly at this point, I’d have to go to the AM5 platform, and the 7800X3D to get any better performance than I have already. Since the AM5 platform is brand new, I’ll give it a year and wait till the Ryzen 8000 series chips launch and look at the X3D variants then. I went bleeding edge with my X570 and the Ryzen 3900X and there was definitely early adopter pains. I get more than enough performance from my system, in the games I play. I judge my happiness based on how the games feel to me. If the games load fast, feel smooth, and perform well then I’m happy. I don’t look too closely at framerates, it’s just about the experience for me.

Honestly, if Intel launched a platform and a CPU that had the better performance per $ with less power draw, and better thermals than AMD, then I’d probably buy that platform, but as it stands that hasn’t been the case, for a while now. If the 13900K beats my 5800X3D by 10% in a game, but the difference is 270FPS vs 300FPS, I honestly see that as a null win for Intel. Because those extra 30FPS will never ever be noticed or seen. Especially when I cap my FPS to my monitor’s refresh rate. Anything above that is just wasted electricity.

Yup, Yubikey is the way to go. Rock solid hardware, and lots of support.

Zabbix stores all it’s data in a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. However… there are 2 ways that Zabbix Agents work. Either in passive mode, or in active mode.

Passive Agent = “poller” process on the Zabbix server sends a request to the agent asking for values for the items it’s monitoring (based on template applied to host). Depending on the number of hosts you’re monitoring and how many poller processes are configured to start with the Zabbix server, you may run into a situation where requests are queued because the poller process is too busy. Increasing the number of poller processes will fix this, but it also adds additional load to your DB as each poller process will connect to your DB to write data, and each poller process will consume a certain amount of memory. Too many and you’ll run out of RAM, or bog down your DB.

Active Agent = “trapper” process on the Zabbix server listens for item values from being sent to it from the agents. Agents will query the Zabbix server to see what templates are applied to it’s host, and will figure out what items it’s supposed to monitor. The agent will actively query the items without the Zabbix server requesting it, and will send the item values to the server as scheduled. This puts a lot less load on the Zabbix server.

Item values are not read from the DB to activate the trigger. When a value is received that matches the trigger’s expression, then the trigger is activated. Live values are used to activate triggers and trigger actions (alerts).

I’ve been playing PC games since 1986. Started off with Kings Quest, and Heroes Quest. I can honestly say that no game has caused me to upgrade my PC until last year when I bought Cyberpunk 2077 because it was on sale. At the time I was running a 1080Ti, which is still a capable card, but I’m a whore for fancy graphics and visuals, and when I saw what CDPR was doing with Raytracing in that game I needed to have that. Pulled the trigger on a 4090 in January and haven’t regretted it for one minute. My 1080Ti lasted me 5 years, I’m anticipating my 4090 will do the same.

Pixel 8 Pro is going to be my next phone.

My Pixel 4 was amazing, switched to the Pixel 6 Pro 2 years ago and never really fell in love with the phone. Not a fan of the rounded screen edges, and in the past few months I’ve had mobile data issues with the phone. Phone shows I have decent 5G or LTE signal, but data doesn’t seem to work.

Was with a friend one time when this happened, they’re on the same carrier as me but have a Samsung. Both of our phones showed the same 5G signal strength. They were able to playback YouTube and browse the web with no issues, but my phone wasn’t doing anything. Pages timed out, and YouTube failed to load.

I replaced the SIM card and that didn’t fix it. Then I activated an eSIM and still having the same issue. The only “fix” I have found is putting the phone into Airplane mode for 10-20 seconds. After disabling Airplane mode the phone works properly again for a while. Wifi works fine.

Fair enough.

Not arguing your point, because flash storage is so cheap now, but honestly why do people need so much local storage on their phones?

I’ve got a Pixel 6 Pro with 128GB, and I’ve never come close to filling it in the 2 years I’ve had the phone. That’s with offline maps, YouTube downloads, Spotify downloads, tons of photos and videos. My local storage is less than 50% full still.

I’m genuinely curious as to what people are storing on their phones that is requiring them to have more than 128GB of local storage.

“Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let’s get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta’aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He’s well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.” - Commander Zavala, Destiny 2 (RIP Lance Reddick)

This is also my only gripe with it.

Would be nice to see which post they’re replying to, and a quick way to get to the post.

Also yet another version with the address book not implemented, but I bet the sign in button is still on the client to continue to confuse new users. Almost 2 years that button has been there to do nothing.

Day-to-day use: Bitwarden, YouTube (Revanced), Liftoff.

Productivity use: Duo Authenticator, JuiceSSH, WireGuard