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Well, yeah. The real advantage is only having a single file to transfer, makes eg. SFTP a lot less annoying at the command line.

Lossless compression works by storing redundant information more efficiently. If you've got 50 GB in a directory, it's going to be mostly pictures and videos, because that would be an incredible amount of text or source code. Those are already stored with lossy compression, so there's just not much more you can squeeze out.

I suppose you might have 50 GB of logs, especially if you've a logserver for your network? But most modern logging stores in a binary format, since it's quicker to search and manipulate, and doesn't use up such a crazy amount of disk space.

Can't find the original original, seems to have been reposted a lot starting a few weeks ago...

It's not a million miles away, but it's still got some problems. The 'extract archive' functionality seems to do it for me; think it must be wanting to pop up a (nested?) file chooser, but causes a session crash.

Cinnamon legacy for getting work done, and KDE wayland for playing games, for me. Nice to go 100% cinnamon though, for sure.

Indeed, one of the big things holding Wayland back is that you don't really 'support It', you have to support every damn desktop environment, and they're all moving targets. Gnome should fix their shit.

Am afraid it's not even the king. Eris is both substantially more massive and further away. In fact, it's the discovery of Eris that led to the realisation that Pluto shouldn't be considered a planet at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)

... and it's been doing it for long enough that it, and all the other plutinos, have settled into a 2:3 resonant orbit with Neptune, which takes 165 years to orbit the sun by itself.

Space is really big and the timescales are really long, in a way which doesn't really make sense on human scales, except for things which are so fast that they also don't make sense on human scales, like core-collapse supernovas.

The good news is that we're good at doing maths and we've built some big computers to do that maths, so we've no problems 'popping a few zeros' into the sums that we do.

Yeah, considering how dusty and hard-to-clean normal laptops are, this thing looks like hell. If you need a decent keyboard for extended typing, it's not so hard to carry a USB / Bluetooth one, this just looks like the worst of all worlds.

I understand that things have changed a bit since I first moved over to Linux - moving from Red Hat Linux to Ubuntu 'Warty Warthog' was such a revelation in overall user-friendliness and usability, back in the day. But upgrading my graphics card from an NVidia one to an AMD was a similar change. I might have only just installed the base operating system and a desktop environment and haven't got around to a web browser yet, but I've already got full hardware accelerated graphics - that's crazy.

Most distros now make the NVidia drivers a complete non-issue, I think? My 6600XT is requiring just a few too many compromises on new games, so I'll need something new too, sooner or later. I used to hold off on graphics cards updates until I could get something twice as good so that it was a noticeable upgrade, but I could buy a pretty decent second-hand car for all the ones which are 'twice as good' now.

An upgrade from a 1050 Ti shouldn't be such a problem. Well done on keeping it alive so long - I had a GeForce GTX 970 that would have been a similar age, but it let out its magic smoke years ago.

It's a lot compared to a year ago, no? And yeah, agencies tend to be very risk-averse, don't want to move to an unproven platform. A few success stories will help the rest follow.

'Ty chuju jebany', nice.

Our Polish taxi driver does a very solid line in 'kurwa' every other word, but it's always nice to expand your horizons.

Indeed - most Java IDEs have FernFlower built in, so it's dead easy.

Decompiled Java is surprisingly close to the original, especially compared to eg. decompiled C++; good luck with that. You get all the class, function and variable names back on the original line numbers.

What you do not get back is any comments. So you can see what and how, but not why. Admittedly, most comments are kind of useless and do not explain 'why' very well, but for weird-but-critical code they can be essential.

Indeed - I've seen more people recommend Hannah Montana Linux (apt-based) than any of those for newcomers recently.

You are entirely right that a Linux distribution is really just its package manager, the default packages installed, and some remote repositories which may (or may not) have had some customisation applied, which will have been pulled and built from a source repository somewhere. All that's really needed to swap between eg. Arch, Manjaro or Cachy is to update the repo files and issue a package manager update command, although I'd probably like to verify my backups and get a stiff drink first.

The House of Linux is built out of bricks, and the bricks aren't that scary - you can take them to bits and look at them if you like, they're usually zipped-up folders of text files and the binaries you'd get from compiling them yourself. But if that's not what you're used to, then yeah - 🤯 .

In all seriousness, I wish that most distros had art half as good as what Void Linux has - got some really gifted people, there.