I look at the contributors on Github and check them out. I’ll check out what else they’ve worked on and maybe see if they have an account on mastodon or twitter. Maybe I’ll ask some friends if they’ve used or heard of the product, or know of the devs.

There is indeed malware disguised as OSS and you do sometimes have to vet them. I’ll skim the codebase and see if there’s anything that looks weird or funky, but that’s not perfect (like in the case of the xz) and some stuff can slip by.

What helped me understand QM was spending four years getting a degree in physics then never using it again.

Yeah in the fall, it’s the only dying-looking tree in an evergreen forest

Tbh least favorite conifer. Not even evergreen

I’m not sure off-hand since I’m not too familiar with VLC.

I would imagine it could be an issue in a graphics driver at the kernel (amdgpu?) or user level (mesa?). It could also be a problem in something higher up.

I would recommend posting an issue in the VLC repo and see if you can get better support that way.

Can you turn off hardware decoding and see if it works then?

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Hardware_acceleration/

If you have a memory-mapped peripheral where there’s a readonly register, I could see it being const volatile.

I had a 6th gen Carbon and all the peripherals worked out of the box on Ubuntu. I never used an eGPU though.

I now have a Lenovo P14s (4th gen) and it was a bit rocky at first (power settings weren’t scaling correctly, amdgpu drivers were rough at first), but with the latest kernel and drivers, everything works great. Fingerprint sensor works every time.

Disclosure

G Chevalier and JL Oschman are independent contractors for EarthFx Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research, and own a small percentage of shares in the company. Richard Brown is an independent contractor for EarthFx Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research.

Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but I’ve had friends slowly begin to use it.

One of the most comfortable mice out there.

I hate how tipping is now customary at every single restaurant now, including places without servers.

My older brother got me into Ubuntu when I was around 12. He basically showed me the basics, like the terminal and a couple commands, then just told me to manpage or Google everything else.

Then I got Linux for the Wii and that really got me into the nitty gritties of Linux.

Yeah, title should just be:

Don’t waste your money on an awful Android tablet on Black Friday

I don’t think it’s very useful at generating good code or answering anything about most libraries, but I’ve found it to be helpful answering specific JS/TS questions.

The MDN version is also pretty great too. I’ve never done a Firefox extension before and MDN Plus was surprisingly helpful at explaining the limitations on mobile. Only downside is it’s limited to 5 free prompts/day.

I remember in 2013 building software for HMIs running WinCE and back then, it was horribly outdated and a trudge to work on. I can’t imagine how bad it would be today.

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If you’re not in school and just teaching yourself the material, get a better textbook. There are plenty of exceptional textbooks in physics on libgen. If it’s for a specific subject, I can probably recommend you a textbook.

Lgtm, good luck my dude.

Not really. I’ve lived here for ~30 years and certain spots are better, some are worse.