I’d love some example questions for this.

Today on my win11 work system, the windows menu stopped producing output when I typed into it and webpages stopped loading. Had to perform a full system restart to get it to work again.

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Can I ask why you used this in place of “th” mostly but not always?

Three actually I think.

When you have a new PC, put it on the old one too. You could run a Jellyfin server off it it or use it as a NAS device or something.

Is that a starship prompt? How do you style that divider above the prompt that way? It looks really good.

edit: I’ve read up a bunch on starship and now understand, very nice.

Serious crimes like not having a license to watch TV, porn, or god forbid having thoughts that don’t align with what the government wants.

Perhaps consider a SOCKS5 reverse proxy. If done over SSH, the client systems networking would act as though they are on the server itself, traffic would be secure, and it would walk around most firewall rules that probably exist.

Using key based authentication would also make it such that it is more secure and easier for the researchers to log in - they wouldn’t even have to remember a password, they would just need some SSH client/configs.

Specifically, read up on “bastion hosts”.

Might be Panon?

Plasma is nuts, it’s customizability is wonderful. I just spent a few hours last week redoing my layout and theming with a gruvbox feel for my desktop system. I named the configuration gruvfox.

I used gnome for the longest time, but after discovering the true power of KDE I don’t think there is ever any going back for me.

You will have to give more information for any real answer - highly recommend you edit your post.

Face recognition for what? To log in/unlock? For Vtubing? For head tracking? For a webcam application? For organizing photo files?

I’ve used powershell in previous jobs and if you learn it really well I cannot deny it is super powerful.

For a college project, a friend of mine somehow made a hexadecimal file dumper with it, with formatting and everything (think like what you would see in wireshark) in one, reasonably long, line of powershell.

However I’m just not a big fan of it personally for syntactical reasons (even with the syntax being super logical) and much prefer bash, or other unix-like native shells. I’ve been thinking about taking zsh for a spin recently to see what it’s like.

Id recommend mint, but ableton I have no idea. If you want to bite a different bullet if you go with linux, buy bitwig instead - its very, very much like ableton in the sense that you can map pretty much any parameter to any other parameter and I have enjoyed it a lot.

Got my HPE DL380 G9 networked and configured with hardware RAID 0 and Debian running under ProxMox for a test run (need more disks for RAID 5). Thing had an advanced iLo license intact from the previous owner.

Deployed a docker container of linkwarden to it to try out and it seems pretty nice.

I think you are right when it comes to re-installation of the packages themselves. What’s more annoying for me is re-applying all of the little tweaks and configurations for all of the ones that I actually do want or need.

I guess in that case you could do the following, though it is a bit of work:

1. Learn what actions are supposed to be taken in the demand for selfie identification

2. Record a video of yourself performing the actions, but not with your hand moving in front of your face for that section

3. Record a different video of just your hand moving past the camera

4. Deepfake the face video

5. Composite the video of the hand over top of the deep fake video with chroma/luma keying

6. Use virtual webcam software to play back the video into the actual demand for selfie identification

Wouldn’t work if a real human being is there asking, but should work for a known set of instructions ahead of time that is being audited by software.

Couple things to warn you about as I understand them (take with a grain of salt, this is what I remember from reading about this stuff quite some time ago in school).

RAID is great, but if you are performing mirroring (RAID 1) in your RAID levels, it can be dangerous to do it on multiple SSD’s of the same size. This is because SSD’s longevity is based on how many writes they have in their life time - it is a set amount. This is also why larger SSD’s will typically last longer than smaller SSD’s.

The problem therein is that if you are mirroring data between 2 SSD’s that are of the same size, when one hits that lifetime write limit, it is likely the other will do the same in very quick succession, or at the same time, meaning that mirroring was not the best idea because both disks can fail at the same time. This is not true for something like a RAID 5, and should only be something to be concerned about if, again, you are using a RAID 1, 51, or something like that etc.

If for some reason you do want to do mirroring, then look at using spinning disks instead as their mean time between failure is wider in these cases, meaning you are less likely to lose 2 disks at the same time when mirroring.

Spinning disks are also a good bet if you don’t really need the speed of the SSD’s. They are cheaper for more storage and these days you can typically find some surplus seller who can sell you a lot of them for cheaper than what you would pay new or used for new spinning disks or used SSD’s, but you will lose a lot of read/write speed. Again, which one to go with depends on what kind of data you store and how you access it.

Also make sure you understand the difference between software RAID and hardware RAID, and the benefits and downsides of using each. Hardware RAID has to be supported by your hardware, but it is much faster when it is writing any additional data to other disks (like when it clones bits onto a second drive in a RAID 1 mirror, or when it writes parity to the disks in a RAID 5). Software RAID you can set up on anything even if the hardware does not support it, so it allows more chances to play around with what you want to invest in for hardware (you can use an old PC tower as a RAID NAS even if it doesn’t support hardware RAID in it’s BIOS for example, which means you don’t have to pay a lot for an actual NAS).

As others have said as well, you also want to buy more disks than you actually need (I like to have at least 2 unused disks on hand) for cases where you get a disk failure in your RAID array. Furthermore, like others have said, this does not protect against floods, fires, a meteor falling on your house etc - and so it is good to look into a way to make off-site backups on a rotating schedule.

For this, look up what a 3-2-1 backup is and how that works if you really want to make sure your data is safe.

Here in Canada we have had tariffs on other countries dairy products since the 70’s in order to protect the Canadian dairy industry and set specific standards for the products of it. There is a cap for importers where if they only bring in small amounts of dairy, the tariff is about 7.5%, but if it exceeds a certain amount, the tariffs do skyrocket to between 241% and 300%.

If you switch DAWs, bitwig is really very good and runs natively on Linux.

Yep, pretty sure you are right.