Why?

It makes no sense for a government/military to use a proprietary system made in another country when there’s a very strong movement inside of said government for an open system. They have incredibly smart people at SUSE, Manjaro and KDE right on the inside and you are telling me they can’t do better than hitting subscribe on Office365?

Assume the EU and US have a conflict, now the EU is stuck with an entire ecosystem made in the US. Assuming they don’t already have all your internal data, they can just get it with a single click.

Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.

If you are willing to put in some work, Valetudo is fantastic: https://valetudo.cloud/

My two robot vacuums have been working for 5 years with no intervention other than emptying the bin every 2 weeks and dusting off the sensors when it complains.

Assistants?

Same as above, if you are willing to put in some work, Home Assistant includes a voice assistant and they ship devices now with everything preinstalled so you can plug in and go: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

Yeah, the announcement made me remember that I never played part 3.

I started playing Darksiders 3 (2018) over the weekend. Never got around to play it on release because my PC couldn’t run it back then.

Hmm, that’s strange. Can’t think of much else that could prevent that system from displaying anything.

Since you mentioned safe graphics work, can you try enabling the automatic login for your user in GNOME/KDE so the login screen gets skipped?

If that doesn’t work: After booting in normal mode, wait a little bit until it should be at the login screen and then hit Ctrl + Alt + F6 a few times. Does a terminal appear on your screen?

Sure, KDE can do this for a while now:

You should have absolutely no issues with that hardware on Fedora.

Could you try switching the display cable out? If that doesn’t work, try switching the cable to a different type (e.g. DisplayPort instead of HDMI or vice versa). If that also doesn’t work, try with a different display if you can.

It’s more about visibility, their spins tab is fairly hidden and most users won’t find it unless they know about it.

Their KDE version definitely deserves a spot beside their GNOME version.

Same here, VRR and HDR support on Wayland were the main reason I switched to KDE.

(I also quite enjoy not having to install any extensions now.)

IMHO the Plus version is a downgrade since it is made for consoles and does not require you to modify files on your own system.

I’m thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I’m researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.

If you ever figure out how to use AI to determine the genre(s) of a song, let me know. Have been looking for something like that for quite a while.

Android also encrypts the user data by default since Android 10 (2019).

Android also has different permissions the apps need to ask for just like iOS. Including not allowing background apps to use the camera/GPS/mic by default.

But why does it end up washing out colors unless I amplify them in kwin? Is just the brightness absolute in nits, but not the color?

The desktop runs in SDR and the color space differs between SDR and HDR, meaning you will end up with washed out colors when you display SDR on HDR as is.

When you increase the slider in KDE, you change the tone mapping but no tone mapping is perfect so you might want to leave it at the default 0% and use the HDR mode only for HDR content. In KDE for example, colors are blown out when you put the color intensity to 100%.

Why does my screen block the brightness control in HDR mode but not contrast? And why does the contrast increase the brightness of highlights, instead of just split midtones towards brighter and darker shades?

In SDR, your display is not sent an absolute value. Meaning you can pick what 100% is, which is your usual brightness slider.

In HDR, your display is sent absolute values. If the content you’re displaying requests a pixel with 1000 nits your display should display exactly 1000 nits if it can.

Not sure about the contrast slider, I never really use it.

Why is truehdr400 supposed to be better in dark rooms than peak1000 mode?

Because 1000 nits is absurdly bright, almost painful to watch in the dark. I still usually use the 1000 mode and turn on a light in the room to compensate.

Why is my average emission capped at 270nits, that seems ridiculously low even for normal SDR screens as comparison.

Display technology limitations. OLED screens can only display the full brightness over a certain area (e.g. 10% for 400 nits and 1% for 1000 nits) before having to dim the screen. That makes the HDR mode mostly unuseable for desktop usage since your screen will dim/brighten when moving large white or black areas around the screen.

OLED screens simply can’t deliver the brightness of other display technologies but their benefits easily make it worth it.

Sodium-based batteries currently have a lower energy density than lithium-based batteries so they are only useful in some applications.

When I worked help desk, a coworker of mine took a call where someone called in because one of the thin clients was on fire. The user was advised to call 911.

Well, did he try to turn it off and NOT back on again?

And yet I do not think I will be using my Bosch in 25 years because some cheap internal plastic part will have broken down while the Makita would still run.

I don’t think you can import pfSense configurations into OPNsense. I switched from a DIY pfSense box as well and redid the config.

You can look for a converter or install pfSense onto it though.

Because it’s dope.

Also, according to their website the 10 and 25 Gbit/s packages cost the same per month.

Also, still cheaper than my 1 Gbit/s connection.

The RFC you linked recommends that no new X- prefixed headers should be used.

The paragraph you quoted does not say you should use the X- prefix, only comments on how it was used.

See section 3 for the creation of new parameters: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648#section-3

I still work on software that extendively uses X- headers.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The reason they give is mostly that it is annoying if a X- header suddenly becomes standardized and you end up having to support X-Something and Something. Most likely a non-issue with real custom headers.

We don’t have many unit tests that test against live APIs, most use mock APIs for testing.

The only use for this header would be if somebody sees it during development, at which point it would already be in the documentation or if you explicitly add a feature to look if the header is present. Which I don’t see happening any time soon since we get mailed about deprecations as well.