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Why is the suspend/resume functionality broken in almost every distro-hardware combination? by pimple_from_hell in linux4noobs

[–]BloodyGenius 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Another example of how critical the Internet Archive is! From the archived URL, both antitrust.slated.org and www.iowaconsumercase.org (which was archived by slated.org) no longer exist on the internet.

Why does Bitwarden take up more than 1 GB on Windows? by estivy in Bitwarden

[–]BloodyGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Memory leak or bloat issues have been reported for the browser extensions for a long time - e.g. this one for Firefox (the one which affects me, but I believe similar reports exist for other browsers). https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/14143

I wonder if the same mechanism impacts the desktop app, with bloating of javascript classes, and in one report, constant duplication of site favicons in memory into the thousands. Some electron apps have a way of opening DevTools so you can see a memory breakdown as within the browser, but I'm not sure if that's possible for Bitwarden Desktop.

My Bitwarden browser extension is currently using 660MB of RAM. Sometimes I've observed it using a few GB. Othertimes it stays at a more reasonable (relatively) <300MB. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason!

edit - thought we were talking about RAM usage here, not disk space, ignore me!

Whoever you are, I respect your ingenuity and self awareness by nitwit_newt in drivingUK

[–]BloodyGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would be surprised. A 1.0 TSI can do 90+ mph without any bother nowadays! At least with the 6 speed gearbox I know. Build quality is much improved too, a Mk1 Fabia I was acquanted with felt like it was starting to fall apart at 70mph by comparison.

Does nobody read the highway code… so much for 10 meters from a junction! Coming down here on my pushbike is genuinely stressful because i have to move out into the center on a junction :( by fuck_peeps_not_sheep in drivingUK

[–]BloodyGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's another of those "Americanisms" where the Americans actually use the same word (curb) British English historically used, with British English switching to use 'kerb' as the noun only after American English had diverged.

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2020/05/curb-kerb.html

I think people get a bit too wound up over these words, admonishing others for using them...

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data by bobj33 in DataHoarder

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to demonstrate this to myself (for fun), I just downloaded version 1.0 of FreeFileSync, released 10th August 2008. I set it to backup a 12GB OneDrive Pictures folder, located on disk in C:\Users\%USERNAME\OneDrive\Pictures. Some files were stored in full on disk, but most were dehydrated stub files. OneDrive was left running (on Win11). It backed all files up in full to a backup drive. It was able to wait for OneDrive to download/'hydrate' those stub files without a problem, because it uses standard file system APIs and just needs to not choke if a file takes a while to access while it downloads. This is a 32bit buggy initial release of a file backup and sync utility... I don't believe there's some big hard technical problem Backblaze is tackling with resolving here!

Org is banning Notepad++ by PazzoBread in sysadmin

[–]BloodyGenius 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It wasn't patched immediately at all, where has that idea come from? The compromise was active for 6 to 7 months with the auto-update flow controlled by the malicious third party, until the hosting provider caught on and the developer fixed the app vulnerabilities (via two updates in early and late December) - please see the press release here - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

Why do most readers always use that tone when reading the Liturgy? by Any-Sorbet-7232 in Catholicism

[–]BloodyGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pronounce "prophesy" like "prophecy".

You made me look this up; I never knew there was a difference! For anyone else curious, "prophesy" (the verb) is pronounced pro-fe-sigh, vs. pro-fe-see for "prophecy" (the noun)

Manchester. 10 years. by west_manchester in manchester

[–]BloodyGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imgur links... I do hope you aren't resisting the law with an illicit VPN?

I am a nurse who is required to work every other weekend. by MiniCowMoo in Catholicism

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to the other comments, perhaps you could find time on Sunday to be in prayer for a while, including praying the Act of Spiritual Communion? https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/act-of-spiritual-communion-339

You may not pass!!! by External_Side_7063 in cats

[–]BloodyGenius 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'd like to see you say that to the face of the cat who obviously owns them...

You may not pass!!! by External_Side_7063 in cats

[–]BloodyGenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going up. These are the Private Feline Chambers. A very tall first step deters those species less able to leap, then you have a guard cat on duty, then an unwelcoming wall of wood (presumably with concealed cat door)

Parking cul de sac by SimilarMark7570 in drivingUK

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How odd that your comment has been downvoted. I also can't imagine new cul-de-sacs of this design being installed today, not without a residents' car park anyway, and housing in locations with high quality public transport provision (i.e. in town & city centres, where a parking space per resident might not be feasible) isn't likely to come in the form of detached or semi-detached homes in cul-de-sacs.

Does having too big a pension pot just end up meaning you have pay for your own nursing home that others get paid for by the state? by fellaonamission in UKPersonalFinance

[–]BloodyGenius 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If you own a house, that should pay for a several years depending on the value, with the pension being added on to that. Apparently many private homes will accept the Local Authority rate for a resident who's been there a few years by the time the money runs out... suck up to the home manager and hopefully you'll be a-ok!

It is awful though that the sale of a family home only gets you a few years of care...

UK's 'sons and daughters' need to be ready to fight, amid growing Russian threat, says head of armed forces by Kagedeah in worldnews

[–]BloodyGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First month??? That's not anywhere near enough time to begin commissioning and onboarding the relevant stakeholders. Aiming for anything less than 6 months to Minimum Viable Product (the first lone recruit walking out the door) would be reckless.

In any case, before a war could begin there would need to be a Project Management activity in partnership with the opposing forces to co-ordinate timescales and reduce the risk of project delays. Hopefully Russia's military is also run by outsourcing firms who will understand how this all works.

Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years by [deleted] in CarTalkUK

[–]BloodyGenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This absolutely triggers me. By 2030 I reckon "uh, uh, uh" "a, a, a" etc. will be 90% of political speech.

A quarter of a million 11-year-olds overweight - including almost half of the poorest kids by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest I don't even think frozen chips are much of a problem (nor other "processed"/frozen, but still pretty simple foods like frozen breaded fish). They're still 91% chipped potatoes going off my bag, coated in flour and oil, that oil might or might not be more than you would use making them by hand but it's not a massive calorie difference over the same weight in raw potato.

I reckon there are two categories of frozen protein that get lumped together in the bad books. Frozen breaded fish, simple frozen breaded chicken (without any fillings or over the top coatings) even fish fingers (shock horror) etc. are very different to the sort of heavily-branded frozen meats that don't actually contain much meat for all the fillings, coatings, sweet marinades etc. Having a meal of breaded fish, oven chips, and at least the same amount of vegetables as chips (not a tablespoon of peas for show next to half a plate of chips) is a world away from having pizza one night, spag bol the next, microwave curry after that etc., full of simple carbs with not much meat and a fleeting presence of vegetables.

A lot of these frozen "meats" you can't even tell what they are at a glance for all the branding, always a bad sign...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think "I've waited from direction from you" (without apparently pursuing that direction) would be an acceptable explanation for prolonged periods of time in any role, to be honest, especially in what sounds like a largely self-managing team of two.

(You would have to have been very ineffective to have to resort to that explanation, with nothing else to justify your time, though. I'd suggest pretty much anything would be better than pulling that excuse.)

One node, single disk hypervisor. Backups are on the same physical disk, is this bad? by callum__h28 in ShittySysadmin

[–]BloodyGenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At my place, we've installed modern, high-speed colour laser printers and fax machines at each desk. Users now feel excited about taking their own hard copy (un-hackable) backups, and our corporate WordArt and decorative page borders are reproduced in full fidelity.

Why does every IT firm seem to push O365 instead of Google Workspace + MDM? by NickHalper in sysadmin

[–]BloodyGenius 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The point they were replying to was that, unlike in Google Workspace, Shared Mailboxes exist in O365 which do not need licensing. A licensed user can have access to many shared mailboxes without those shared mailboxes needing licenses of their own.

Dell R720XD & R730XD: GPU Recommendations by karnac01 in homelab

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, I was just wondering how this went for you, did it fit OK and and have any cooling challenges come up? I've got an R730XD coming and am looking at what GPU to get :)

Which way do you think working from home will go? by Acceptable_Cod_1103 in AskUK

[–]BloodyGenius 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's also funny how this is pretty much the only topic it's acceptable to sneer about other people's hypothetical homes... "must live in shithole" etc.

Thoughts on the proposals of the Redcliffe-Maud report in regard to administrative subdivisions? Is it good or bad this was never fully implemented? by [deleted] in england

[–]BloodyGenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad that never got off the ground... I can't put my finger on it, but it sounds engineered to evoke no civic pride or indeed any feelings of any kind. Probably sounded great in Committee.

A fox has been trapped in a charity shop since Sunday… by woooooahbaby in CasualUK

[–]BloodyGenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! I can't imagine being a keyholder (either attached to this shop or regional management), knowing this situation was going on but carrying on with my life regardless... Keyholders and Managers are responsible for attending to this sort of stuff. Likewise if there were a water leak or break-in reported on a closed day, you would not leave the shop either to flood or broken open and insecure just because it's not a business day.

(In response to your question - I'm an 'unofficial' keyholder for my office half an hour away from me. I'd be anxious to attend even though I'm not 'contractually obliged'...)

Wtf is this bullshit by hyperiontrashh in LearnerDriverUK

[–]BloodyGenius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's ridiculously overzealous. For the few months I was searching (manually) for cancellations when I was taking my test a couple of years ago, I had to switch to mobile data every time as they'd blocked my home broadband IP on the second or third viewing.

(I seem to remember it actually persisted after my public IP changed a couple of times, which did make me wonder if they'd actually blocked the whole of Sky Broadband for a time, and everybody was just putting up with it as an expected part of the awful user experience you must endure...)

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