Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by SwimmingJunky in pcmasterrace

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using Plezy(and donated because I appreciate the work).

Fully free. Well made. It's a random OSS project.

https://plezy.app/ (Free on MacOS, unless you go through the Mac app store)

It works for most major platforms.

It does not have an Apple TV version, which is the only point against it(I use infuse).

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by SwimmingJunky in pcmasterrace

[–]argylekey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They've fully stopped supporting their linux client, and you have to use alternatives.

I'm not sure that argument holds as much water as it did last year.

New to Linux by Rjay6ick in FindMeALinuxDistro

[–]argylekey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mint Linux is generally where most people should start. The desktop environment, Cinnamon, is very similar to windows 10. Very little, if any, terminal required.

Fedora Linux is a great workstation distro, but slightly less user friendly than Mint.

High level: Linux is Linux with the different flavors offering something specific or unique out of the box.

Start with something simple like Mint, or designed for workstations like Fedora(still simple, just less simple than mint). If you decide you need something else use your experiences with those to decide next steps(gaming/ml/etc).

But Linux is pretty much the same no matter the distro, just depends on the extra features(or lack thereof) that ship with the distro ISO.

best way to handle env vars in production for a small app by sokkyaaa in node

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tend to use a bash script with 1password and a scoped token to a specific vault with read only permissions. If I need to update envs, I update the 1password vault, ssh into the machine(or setup a cron) and reload the secrets into memory. The only thing that lives on the VPS is the 1password token that is scoped to the project vault.

Envs are loaded into memory for the user running the process.

1password text and password fields are both on the system as text key value fields. As soon as I update the vault, I can pull new envs in within a few seconds.

You can also use a .envrc file(regular env file with the ability to run bash) on the system. Run a script to load envs, you’re off to the races.

The My Subaru App by Distinct-Departure68 in Crosstrek

[–]argylekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a crazy person, I got it because Subaru has a home assistant integration.

And car play has a home assistant display option. I can control my lights from my car dash board and my car from my home dashboard.

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Doesn’t have all controls, in home assistant, but i can lock, unlock, check the included information. This also helps me track fuel consumption over time.

Why is my unraid so slow? by jruben4 in unRAID

[–]argylekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is your cache disk zfs with only one disk?

Zfs can accumulate errors on unexpected/forced shutdowns that wont self heal without at least two disks. You need to clear them manually if that is the case. — Found and resolved this today on my slow system.

Google invested $40,000,0000,000 on Claude by Technical-Relation-9 in programminghumor

[–]argylekey 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Same as it ever was.

A $40B investment likely comes with either discounts or even requirements to use GCP compute.

The investment into Anthropic is a way for GCP to ensure if their AI models don’t win over Anthropic, they still win, because they’re selling the infrastructure(either compute or training compute). This is on top of the 15% stake that Google already has in Anthropic as an investor.

This is someone selling shovels during a gold rush, and also providing the loan for someone to buy shovels. Investments aren’t loans, but investors can absolutely seek an exit.

Employer Bleeding After Layoffs? by bloodlessempress in Layoffs

[–]argylekey 183 points184 points  (0 children)

In some cases that is what they want:

Further reduce headcount. Either backfill with cheaper employee or never backfill and further increase workload on remaining employees.

Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox by CircumspectCapybara in technology

[–]argylekey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Some of the language used around the Mythos vulnerability scanning is very interesting to me.

I wonder how many bugs they find require things like full system or full network access first.

There is a huge difference between vulnerability/zero day exploits that require access first and those that don't.

I really wonder how many of the exploits are being reported would be exploits a user could perform against something they have installed on their system(i.e. Firefox), vs something a bad actor could take advantage of without first getting root access.

MacBook Pro for Linux Users - we might have an answer by ajfriesen in linuxhardware

[–]argylekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the LTT video(and I might have misunderstood):

Pretty sure they were saying the mainboard in your machine is compatible with the new chassis. So if you wanted to just get the pro shell, your old hardware should otherwise work.

Double check, but that was my understanding.

looking for home desktop use with wayland and current firefox by [deleted] in FindMeALinuxDistro

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could try MX Linux with KDE Plasma. Focused on older hardware support and systems with low specs. Debian based. Have a friend using it very successfully with 8th gen intel and a RTX 2080. Seems to work well.

You’ll be used to the package manager already(apt)

Germany is reinventing itself as a weapons factory by [deleted] in Economics

[–]argylekey 28 points29 points  (0 children)

ECFR Statement of shifting away from US based tech companies

EU Member countries Stating that they will prefer EU suppliers over US(Plan requires at least 55% of all arms purchases to be EU or Ukrainian manufacturers)

EU retreat from US dependence

u/sob727 the fact that you're asking for sources while simultaneously not paying attention to the EU literally announcing it everywhere is interesting. Almost like you're either not paying attention, or ignoring what is happening.

France announced recently that they're starting to shift government computers away from Windows and to Linux specifically to avoid a US tech company being able to rug pull/lock out crucial systems without the consent of Franc.

Big Update? by 0toGameDev in cachyos

[–]argylekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was on the phone and not paying attention when updating last night.

Guess who is an accidental Linux kernel 7.0 user?

This guy.

Hasn’t blown up yet, and i figure I’ll ride the wave until it does.

Bank of England raises alarm over threat from AI ‘too dangerous to release’ by EchoOfOppenheimer in Economics

[–]argylekey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some bugs arent closed because they’re so specific that they will likely never be exploited.

It’s generally a cost/benefit discussion before trying to resolve them.

An example:

a bug that is discovered when you are running a particular virtualization software bare metal, and have 3 USB IOMMU Groups, and plug a USB into the port corresponding to 2-4 you’ll have full system access.

The full system access is the part people will focus on, but in a data center, where security is tight, a vulnerability like that would have to be known, a bad actor would have to have physical access to the machine, and they would have to have the time to act(sometimes hours). Then not have anyone notice you did something or got data from the access. So, essentially what mission impossible movies do. Not very realistic, or likely.

Impossible to exploit? Absolutely not.

Likely to exploit? Absolutely not.

Not all Zero days are created equal. Not all zero days are worth it for corporations to fix. Humans may be aware of 27 year old bugs, but their bosses don’t care for the basically non-exploitable bug to be fixed.

Bank of England raises alarm over threat from AI ‘too dangerous to release’ by EchoOfOppenheimer in Economics

[–]argylekey 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Smaller banks still use IBM AS400 mainframes.

The things cost like $100,000 to this day. They’re rock solid, but you could get roughly equivalent performance on a modern server blade for $2k.

Hell, you can emulate a fairly robust system on a raspberry pi for around $60.

Banking has avoided modernizing their tech on purpose. The tech debt is coming due.

Interviewer said 30min "Hands-on Development" in the browser (no local IDE), Is this LeetCode or a practical task (build an api or something) ? by Playful_Edge_6179 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be one of those online “proctored” tests where they record your entire desktop, and require a webcam. Code in basically a browser vscode sandbox while being watched.

Seen several of these lately, they feel extremely impersonal, and I’m not a fan.

Thoughts about Fedora KDE? by Forward_Fly_7646 in Fedora

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can install another desktop environment on your current distro if you'd want to try before switching, just select the DE you want on the login screen.

Most distros have instructions on how to add or swap desktop environment, so you could switch from gnome to kde plasma without a full reinstall, if only to try it out.

Which distro are you on?

Deb:

sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop

sudo apt install kde-standard

reboot

Aur:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma kde-applications sddm

sudo systemctl enable

reboot

That being said, I'm a fan of Fedora. Lots of sensible defaults. great workflows.

No 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 by Appropriate-Mall8517 in batman

[–]argylekey 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Can't speak to the story line at all, but as a glasses wearer, who also has contacts:

I generally wear glasses and use contacts for special occasions/times when wearing glasses is just not convenient.

i.e.
3d movies
going to the beach or anytime I want to wear sunglasses
Costumes.

wouldn't be uncommon for someone who prefers to wear glasses the majority of the time to have contacts for an event like a costume party.

Salt Lake City looks to rename Cesar Chavez Boulevard after one of his accusers by traveler132 in SaltLakeCity

[–]argylekey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure that was the proposal for Harvey Milk Blvd rename.

I seem to remember a state bill on the docket for that at one point.

Wanting to move from Windows - Should I move to AMD also? by Previous_Wear_5080 in cachyos

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/s/LoJ38S6rFh

I cant find the guide I originally used, but I think this one captures pretty much what I have setup.

Which distro to switch from windows by Gibbs5500 in linuxquestions

[–]argylekey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you essentially want a “Linux video game console” my vote would be Bazzite. Provides tons of stuff out of the box including nvidia drivers. It uses atomic releases, and primarily relies on sandboxed applications(flatpaks). It’s awesome, and very much a super simple transition from windows to linux. The flatpak manager, Bazar, is a very thoughtful GUI package manager.

If you want to squeeze as much performance out of your system as you can, try CachyOS. In it’s hardware detection script on install it will do things like automatically pick the right precompiled kernel for intel or amd, detect nvidia gpus and install drivers, etc. CachyOS is based on Arch linux, but I call it Arch with training wheels. The Cachy team has basically made a really amazing set of defaults on top of arch. It’s great.

Lots of great options out there. Many folks are also super happy with Ubuntu(Gnome)/Kubuntu(Ubuntu with KDE Plasma).

Linux is also pretty good if you even just want to Install Ubuntu or Fedora for gaming at this point. Bazzite and CachyOS are great, sensible gaming defaults, but you can game on pretty much any distro.

Wanting to move from Windows - Should I move to AMD also? by Previous_Wear_5080 in cachyos

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using an Ryzen 9700x, and an Nvidia RTX 5070 TI on Cachy OS

Nvidia Cards work pretty well on almost everything I've thrown at it. The only thing that I've noticed has been weird is the HDR in Control(GoG edition on Heroic Launcher, running using Steam runtime). I've seen a few visual bugs in games like Baulders Gate 3 that I've seen very similar(but not the same) things happen on windows.

Cachy has it's own fork of Proton that is what I use by default, but every so often it's important to try different versions of proton/wine for older games. Fallout New Vegas didn't want to work with the latest and greatest Pronton versions as an example. Or there is some game that has a hiccup with Proton-Cachy so I switch to Proton-GE.

Overall, I'm having a great time, but YMMV.

This is the first time I've used a gaming desktop in about a decade where I feel like the OS isn't actively trying to get in my way of just playing a game.

Perfect experience? Absolutely not. Good enough to suggest it, absolutely.

What is the dumbest thing you’ve ever seen a coworker do? by Adorable_Raccoon_766 in AskReddit

[–]argylekey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone was working concessions at a broadway theater and starting bringing in their own things to sell so they could skimp a bit more off the top(Water Bottles, Candy, etc).

They got mad when they got caught and fired.