Like the other replier and GP, my Linux and Mac desktops run for months at a time without a restart. I only restart when there’s a software update that demands it. I don’t have much experience with modern Windows, but I expect that’s the norm from a modern OS.

If you’re running into runaway resource issues like this then you may want to spend a few minutes hunting them down and maybe replace the programs responsible. Daily restarts shouldn’t be necessary.

Apparently not in Windows settings:

If the BIOS says it supports Modern Standby, Windows takes it at its word and completely disables the ability to enter S3 sleep (classic standby). There’s no official or documented option for disabling Modern Standby through Windows, which is incredibly annoying.

Side note: for a while, there was actually a registry setting you could change to disable Modern Standby on the Windows side. Unfortunately, Microsoft removed it, and to my knowledge, has never added it back.

I’m not a Windows user, so I can’t confirm one way or the other, but toward the end of the end of the article the author gives vendor-specific instructions for disabling the S0 Low Power Idle capability from BIOS.

I had the same experience with News.

I use RSS very selectively, though. General news sites are too much of a firehose: instead of RSS I just picked a few favorite sources and check them occasionally – usually once in the morning/evening. I also read The Economist’s briefs (requires a sub) to catch up on stuff I missed.

For anyone as confused as I was: yes, this is indeed a link post on lemmy.world pointing to an article on kbin.social hosted by kbin.projectsegfau.lt and ultimately linking to social.bbc.

The old Fedi switcharoo.

I like the mini but this table highlights its major disadvantage. I still find its battery ample for a typical day, there’s just not a lot of headroom for degradation.

From the title I was hoping for an investigative piece on Apple’s payment model and whether it treats classical musicians any better, but it’s just a comparison to other streaming services padded with trademark New Yorker bloviation.

tl;dr: they don’t like Apple’s editorials, prefer Idagio’s search results, and everything invented after the phonograph was a mistake.

Alex Russell is a good read on React. His position gives him a broad view of its impacts and has kept him from being sidelined. This Changelog podcast is a decent distillation of his criticisms – it was recorded earlier this year, a few days after his Market For Lemons blog post.

(Sorry for the late reply! I’ve been a bit swamped lately and away from kbin.)

“Good vibes only” seems to be embedded in the culture of web development today. Influential devs’ Twitter accounts have strong Instagram vibes: constantly promoting and congratulating each other, never sharing substantive criticisms. Hustle hustle.

People with deep, valid criticisms of popular frameworks like React seem to be ostracized as cranks.

It’s all very vapid and depressing.

Thanks for this. I skimmed the proposal doc itself and didn’t quite understand the concern people have with it – most of the concerns that came to my own mind are already listed as non-goals. The first few lines of this comment express a realistic danger that’s innate to what’s actually being proposed.

“Casual rescue mission” is a fun phrase. It fits, though. The first bloke I “rescued” in the demo was snoozing like Gulliver when I found him.

Just tried the demo yesterday. The tutorial’s integrated into the gameplay in a way that didn’t feel obstructive to me. It’s less like an old-school sandbox tutorial and more that the game makes it obvious what you have to do for the first mission. And it seems to focus on the new mechanics since the basic stuff is already made obvious by overlays showing the controls.

There will be people who have no capacity for nuance and see this as a boolean thing, and for them: the tutorial’s not skippable, no. But for most people, it shouldn’t be an issue.

Pikmin 4 may be worth a look, then. The time limit’s been removed for this one.

This got me to look up iFixit’s guide to Switch battery replacement. It’s better than some of my devices, but as soon as a replacement involves spludgers and adhesive it crosses a “yuck” line for me, going from something that looks kinda fun to sort of dreading that I’ll break it.

For contrast, past Nintendo handhelds made this a doddle, even in the post-AA era: here’s the New 3DS battery replacement guide. The DS Lite even had a little battery door.

The Verge article is paywalled for me, but the screencaps Alex shared in his toot don’t really support his summary. The article mentions that Threads can import content from Mastodon as an example of the sorts of things ActivityPub supports, and that’s about as close as it gets.

And then there’s this:

The company is planning to create a roundtable for administrators of other servers and developers to share best practices and work through problems that will inevitably arise, like Meta’s server traffic putting strain on other, smaller servers.

Emphasis mine. How would Meta’s server put strain on other, smaller servers if it’s not federating with them?

I’m fully willing to believe Meta wants to EEE ActivityPub, but this particular claim doesn’t seem to check out.

Anyone found any decent wireless ones with replaceable batteries? I was interested in the Fairbuds XL but it’s not well reviewed.

For a while I had a pair of Sennheiser TV headphones that took AAAs, but they required a dedicated transmitter and weren’t great for music anyway.

Yes but note the specific details of that assumption and their reasoning: it’s based on reddit’s announcement of the security incident a few months ago which starts:

Based on our investigation so far, Reddit user passwords and accounts are safe…

Now, look again at what BlackCat has promised in this leak:

Instead, BlackCat is teasing such revelations as “all the statistics they track about their users,” and data concerning how Reddit “silently censors users.”

80 GB of “statistics and data” about Reddit’s users is a lot. It may not contain raw IP addresses, but we know that IP matching is one of the ways Reddit catches sock puppets, so there may at least be a hash that could be used to identify accounts held by the same users.

Am I going too far worrying about PMs and other details? Maybe. It really depends on the honesty and competence of BlackCat and Reddit, and the article author’s assumptions based on their statements.

I’ve seen a few sites welcome the news with glee, as though Reddit’s leadership is going to be strongly affected. That’s childish and myopic. This is bad news for everyone.

Whether or not Reddit pays, we should assume the data will make its way into the hands of people who (further) weaponize it against Reddit’s users, e.g. people who’ve posted risque photos of themselves or shared compromising details through throwaway accounts can be doxxed or matched to their normal accounts via their IP or other common details. PMs and other private account details might contain mailing addresses and other private or compromising information, too. (Edit: as Phoeniqz points out in replies, the article author assumes this is not the case based on Reddit’s and BlackCat’s statements about the leak.)

If Reddit knew about the breach earlier and didn’t do their due diligence to alert users, then that’s further condemnation of their leadership and priorities, but it doesn’t undo the damage this might cause users.

If Reddit were to pay BlackCat, then it would further enrich, reward, and encourage them. If, as is more likely, it doesn’t, then the blowback it receives (especially from any high profile consequences of the leak) might encourage other companies to pay up in future.

Yep, it’s fixed. Thank you!

Looks like this has sorted itself out now!

This comment thread is behaving very strangely right now: comments with the same ID are showing up multiple times in different places, and I just received a notification about a reply that I don’t see in the thread.