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Thanks!

Op as others has commented already, percussion instruments certainly do have a pitch. For a very obvious example of a well known tune, check this video from 5 minutes 30 seconds of Phil Collins performing in the air tonight. It's very obvious that he's got his drums tuned so that he can play a melody.

I think you may have misunderstood your issue. 16 GB is more than is needed on / for a typical desktop Ubuntu installation. For example, here is a partial output of df -h on my Ubuntu 22.04 system- this is a server but it has a full desktop environment installed. I actually originally put 20.04 on it when that was current so it has accumulated some cruft. I also remove snaps:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 47G 11G 34G 25% /
/dev/sda7 84G 26G 54G 33% /home
/dev/sda6 88G 22G 62G 27% /var

The thing you're most likely running into is that whilst everyone quickly realises the advantages of putting /home on a separate partition, it's not so obvious that /var should be on a separate partition as well. This is because /var is where all the logs and caches are stored, and if you have a runaway process that fills up /var/log, it can cause the system to crash. Experienced Linux users will have encountered situations where /var was not on a separate partition and their box broke because of logs not being cycled...

I realise that you may be saying that you have 16GB total for 2 x installations. That is going it a bit but should be possible with some thought and care. Good luck!

So OP has posted this everywhere, even getting it flagged on Hacker News. Article is weak sauce:

I would agree with author that there are many problems with Spotify but concentrating on the artist revenue per stream and then publishing your top hits of the year as YouTube links? Really? Go and find out what the artist share per stream is on YouTube (regular YouTube video) for soundtracks. I'll wait. Hint: there's a reason that soundtracks using unauthorised copyrighted work get muted or taken down rather than revenue being redistributed.

Recommending a paid desktop MacOS music app for local content? There are hundreds of local music players but OK... but none of the criticisms of Spotify were about the client! Foobar2000 (mentioned for mobile playback) supports Spotify streaming...

Article seems to boil down to 'I got tired of Spotify recommendations and I am an aspiring musician at an early stage in my professional career so I am recommending Bandcamp and soap boxing about artist revenue share' . There's a reason that people, some with local music libraries in the TeraByte range listen to Spotify. There's also all the competing services - Apple Music; YouTube; Deezer; Tidal; Amazon; etc...

Recommendation to OP: If you are trying to persuade people on something, then decide what point you want to concentrate on, consider the pro's and cons for your position, and make your point based/reinforced on that. Don't meander around a bunch of inchoate personal gripes and affections that don't really relate to one another or any particular point.

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Microsoft were hardly early to the game with Windows phones, compare BlackBerry or Symbian. They had some early successes, for instance against Palm. The big failure was to keep deprecating the existing version of Windows phone, in some cases many months before the ongoing version was available, and deprecating the existing hardware along with it. Look at the whole mango/tango Windows phone 7 /Windows phone 8 debacle

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Avoiding snark and concentrating on first party features:

  • Domain integration, e.g. ActiveDirectory
  • Group policy configuration

You can do these things to an extent bit not as comprehensively and robustly

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Realistically you will always need to be able to read documentation for:

  • Your language
  • Your compiler
  • Your platform
  • The APIs you're calling

All of this will be in English even if your project is in another human language. Yes there will be translation for some of it available but it will be partial, incomplete, dated, etc. you'll be using English so much anyway and have people from other countries working on the code regardless that you're adding a needless barrier using a different national language.

Look at the French government open source codee for instance. The overall website is in French but the actual repos are covered and mostly seem to be in English

If you look at the price for a Mac versus a Windows computer, I think it's pretty obvious why people might choose a Windows device. For Linux, you really have to know where to look to buy a laptop that is shipped or warrantied with Linux. People tend to buy Windows computers because that's what's advertised available, familiar and in their price bracket.

Disclaimer: my main laptop is Mac. I have a secondary one running Linux and although I have a work laptop running Windows, that wasn't my choice and I don't have Windows on any personal devices.

I'm in the UK. Spotify family subscription is £17.99/month (US$ 22.84). Same price as Netflix premium, although I have Netflix standard at £10.99 (US$ 13.96). Now, I know that they give a high percentage to the record companies, source says 70% but really? What are they doing over there? They seem to have some fundamental problems. With Netflix, my history, watchlist, search results, etc. are consistent across sessions and devices. Spotify can't manage this. Netflix of course produce a significant quantity of original content. Spotify do a few live music sessions. I don't think that the user experience with Spotify has changed significantly in the last 6 years that I have been a customer.

So they're not making money. They're not improving the user experience or meeting the market standard for it. They're not producing original content and they seem unable to comply with local laws. Why have they not been disrupted by one of their competitors?

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I don't follow your line about an intern. I don't see it in the article and even if it were the case, an unqualified person being able to do this is on the seniors/leads. Throwing the intern under the bus is what scummy companies do to shift blame - see solar winds , where (spoiler) this strategy doesn't seem to be working out

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Coming from what looks to me like a different perspective to many of the commenters here (Disclosure I am a professional platform engineer):

If you are already scripting your setups then yes you should absolutely learn/use Ansible. The key reasons are that it is robust, explicit, and repeatable- doesn't matter whether that's the same host multiple times or multiple hosts. I have lost count of the number of pet Bash scripts I have encountered in various shops, many of them created by quite talented people. They all had problems. Some typical ones:

Issue Example
Most people write bash scripts without dependency checks 'Of course everyone will have gnu coreutils installed, it's part of every Linux distro' - someone runs the script on a Mac
We need to pass this action out to a command-line tool, that's obvious Fails if command-line tool isn't available, no handling errors from tool if they aren't exactly what's expected
Of course people will realise that they need to run this from an environment prepared in this exact (undocumented) way Someone runs the script in a different environment
Of course people will be running this on x86_64/AMD64, all these third party binaries are available for that Someone runs it on ARM
Of course people will know what to do if the script fails midway through People try to re-run the script when it fails mid-way through and it's a mess

The thing about Ansible is that it can be modular (if you want) and you can use other people's code but fundamentally it runs one step at a time. You will know for each step:

  • Are dependencies met?
  • Did that step succeed or fail (in realtime!)?
  • (If it failed) what was the error?
  • (Assuming you have written sane Ansible) you can re-run your playbook at any time to get the 'same' result. No worries about being left in an indeterminate state
  • (To an extent) It is self-documenting
  • Host architecture doesn't really matter
  • Target architecture/OS is specified and clear

This is a feature available in outlook desktop application at least for Mac

The irony is of course that Gmail did used to be essentially an instant messenger until Google decided in their wisdom that on Android you should not be notified immediately you receive a message

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Look into ssh

Simulated CP is legally considered the same as 'actual' CP in the UK

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with ActiveDirectory ad group policies you can centrally configure the entire windows installation to the point that it isn't possible for a local user, even with admin to leave the domain. User groups in Linux don't really cover the use cases for installing and uninstalling applications and configuring options within all of those applications. Yes you can do some similar stuff with, e.g. FreeIPA or even binding to AD but fundamentally you have a local system with remote admin added on.

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It seems that you've misunderstood what the issue is here from cloudflare's perspective. The customer was using cloudflare IP addresses, which is causing a knock-on effect for the rest of cloudflare's customers and putting cloudflare as a business themselves at risk. The alternative was for the customer to use their own IP addresses as cloudflare advised . I'm not sure what you think 'Business development' teams do but I certainly wouldn't be expecting engineering advice from them.

I had a Plex subscription and switched to Jellyfin. Same reasons as everyone else- it was all about Plex's content and recommendations running on my equipment when the whole point for me was to have something with only my own content.

From the UK, actually born in Essex. Yes, 20-30 years ago people laughed at these, me included. These days you wouldn't tell them in public, if at all. Same as for 'Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman' jokes.

Anytime you're picking on someone for a characteristic that:

  • They didn't choose
  • They can't change

That's a bad look. These days if you tell a joke like this at work you're likely to get bad looks and your sudden employment will look bad.

My reason for stipulating that is that lot of people saying it do so either from ignorance (they simply don't believe/understand that you might not be able to opt out) or on the basis of outdated information, e.g. "I bought my TV ten years ago and never had to do this". Your experience being in the recent past I guess I could try this as a sale stipulation point, thanks.

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Article seems to be mainly about Timnit Gebru. I struggle to see ANY business wanting her on the board. Sasha luccioni, appears to be another AI Doomer, i.e. Up there with Helen toner who

said that if the company was destroyed as a result of Altman’s firing, that could be consistent with its mission, the New York Times reported.

And additionally reported:

The New York Times reported this week that in the weeks leading up to Altman’s firing, he and Toner had discussed an October paper she had co-authored for CSET.

In the paper, OpenAI is criticised for releasing ChatGPT at the end of last year, sparking “a sense of urgency inside major tech companies”, like Google, to ensure they did not fall behind and prompting competitors to “accelerate or circumvent internal safety and ethics review processes”.

Seriously, look at the people in the article, the organisations that they're associated with and the opinions they've publicly stated. The Doomers at open.ai tried a coup and failed. The Accels won. The current board surely wouldn't welcome or be welcoming to the Doomers. We're clearly well past the point where people can sensibly pretend that they can hold back the avalanche of A.I. from the board of a single company in the space.

It's very mass market, not particularly well informed general news source and this is a specialist community where this is relevant to its specialist field

Because it's not principally about privacy. I don't want adverts or forced changes to the product I purchased made after sale.

I fail to see the use case for Centos stream full stop. I wouldn't want a rolling distro in an enterprise environment and I wouldn't want a an enterprise distro outside of a server setting. Sure you can run it on a home or personal server, you could also run Debian Sid, Arch, Gentoo, etc.

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Or be home in time for breakfast

Paper boats on a lake or river?

Blogrolls and webrings

Who came up with this ridiculous headline?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge here. Am I under to understand from your post that software that you have purchased from another supplier will check from files that you have bought from this supplier and refuse to use them based on their attestation?

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Ok I'm British and I don't get this. Yes there are specific turns of phrase or idioms that are different in British/American/Indian but really, is anyone who can actually read and write going to stumble on them?

Example of British English (since I'm guessing most readers here are American): "oh, we suggested Wednesday by accident, shall we meet on Thursday instead". Is anyone really going to struggle with 'translating' to "oh, we suggested Wednesday on accident, shall we meet Thursday instead"

Thanks, further information could be interesting. Do you know if it requests connectivity on every startup?

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LOL, easier interface, sure, but:

HandBrake uses FFmpeg under the hood

More reputable sure covering this and related stories https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

Great location for a music video

Really poor article. Could swap out mention of phone lines for e.g. high street bank branches and nothing would change. What would be useful:

  • What's the legal requirement regarding power cuts?
  • What are the regulatory requirements regarding panic buttons etc?
  • Why the focus on the over 70's within the article?
  • What's different for a user for VOIP compared to analogue (apart from the power issue)?
  • What are some possible mitigations, e.g. a battery backup and a fallback mobile connection?

What are you basing your 'guess' on? IKEA typically design their own products. They already produce Smart home speakers. Why do you suppose that this would be a rebranded product from somebody else?

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Hmv are basically a vanity project for record labels at this point. They've gone bust twice since 2013. Their peers e.g. tower records and virgin megastore are long gone.

My favourite story about him, from years later:

Keith Flint kept a swearbox above the fire in the pub he used to own (The Leather Bottle in Pleshey, Essex). ‘Whenever he put the logs and kindling in and someone piped up with the obvious joke, he’d point to it and charge them a quid. RIP.’

Are you able to provide an example as to how greater complexity makes it easier

Edit: Thanks for the explanations. I get that multiple languages use gendered nouns to mean something that is clearly not 'gender' in the biological sense but key to understanding context. Seems strange as an English speaker where noun gender is vestigial if it even exists at all and even then it doesn't matter if someone gets it wrong

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If there's 'nothing stopping' it then why has nobody done it? Apple moved from x86 to ARM. Mobile is all ARM. All the big cloud providers are doing their own ARM chips. Intel killed off much of the architectural competition with Itanic in the early 2000's. Why stop?