I don’t think there is a better “default” because the default has to be the general setting everyone can live with. But that of course also means it’s not particularly good for any use case.

In general desktop users prefer lower values for snappy behavior when switching thorugh different apps (~10 often recommended). People mainly focusing on preformance of the primary running app prefer higher values (which may, depending on setup) include gamers.

Also there is zram/zswap now (basically compressed swap in memory instead of on disk) which is faster than tradittional swap.

But in the end you can only try out values and watch your systems behavior or run benchmarks to find the proper value for you personally,

wtf?

Pleass tell me you are just talking about discord channels instead of proper issue trackers and not something even more stupid…

Oh, I assumed you already had setup OBS…

And WHIP is probably unneccessarily complicated anyway.

I was able to stream the output of my V4L2loopback-device (the virtual camera created with OBS’ output) to a browser accessing localhost:<port> with Motion without any setup other than creating a single-line config file defining the port…

Teamspeak and Mumble (which I prefer because it’s free and open-source… also already vastly superior sound quality years ago when Teamspeak was stil the common option most peope used) are indeed “separate applications” doing only one of the jobs… voice communication in this case.

Discord alternatives are complicated, because Discord is conceptual bullshit. It started as voice communication, yet became popular for the text communication.

So you won’t find a good replacement (unless something new created in particular to mimic discord), because the things it now provides are better handled by seperate applications.

PS: OBS should already work on it’s own, without a dedicated webserver on your side. Basically every media program (also browser) should be able to handle streams

OBS’ WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion) support should allow direct connection to web browsers.

(I’ll will take a look at it when I’m home)

Fun fact: Contrary to popular believe you are better off using a channel already used by a strong signal than a weak one. Your router will be better at filtering which packets do not belong to your wifi when the signal is strong and clear.

Because the default is set for healthy performance. But users in actual reality don’t care for raw performance but want responsive systems. If you are opening a browser to pass time while some longer process runs in the background, you are less interested in that background process being done 10% faster than in your browser not being sluggish.

PS: Sidenote… Many recommendations are based on older kernels. Since 5.8 swappiness is not measured from 0 to 100, but 0 to 200. So the 60 default is already half of what it was many years ago.

I couldn’t find one. The closest thing would be the running bet on when Tim Walz is being arrested and charged.

“It’s not a professional’s job to read the manuals they need to know for their job unless I specifically tell them to” is an interesting take. A really stupid one but interesting non-the-less…

Protests only work if they are at least irritating, better actually damaging to whoever they are protesting against. People gathering on weekends in pedestrian areas aren’t anything like that.

So they achieve nothing more than generating some cute pictures while patting themselves on the back becaue they are doing something… never mind that this something is purely symbolic and only helping their own egos.

“Smile, nod, peacefully wave some signs and be extra, extra careful to not create even the slightest inconvenience as the MAGA regime is just waiting for a pretense to use force and cancel elections” is probably one of the most successful propaganda operations in decades…

Good idea in general but coming with a big caveat:

Neither is this the first regulation making an open format mandatory, nor is Germany the first country to do it.

In the end it always fails because either a complete lack of enforcement or -even worse- an implementation so stupid it borders on malicious compliance (like using MS Office ODF compatibility that is so convoluted and broken that files are now saved as ODF but totalls unusable outside of MS crap).

For reference: see the EU’s support of open formats for more than a decade and compare it to actual reality.

Shiny!

“There’s no war in … Dubai”

No, that’s just the latest official nvidia driver still supporting those cards provided as a regular package for that distro.

Basically the moment nvidia dropped support for some cards, they split the nvidia package. They are now provinding nvidia-open (all cards still officially supported by nvidia are also supported by the new open soruce driver) and ‘nvidia-580xx’ for older ones. And although the actual driver by nvidia doesn’t change anymore the package isstill maintained in the sense that they look out for it to work with up-to-date Linux kernels.

Arch Linux at the moment provides (via the community maintained repos) nvidia drivers all the way back to ‘nvidia-340’. That’s GeForce8800 or QuadroFX age from 20 years ago.

I don’t know how Ubuntu in particular handles their drivers, but I would assume that at some point support of your card ends end you will then have to install nvidia-<number of the last driver version with support> or nvidia-legacy or something like that, which automatically replaces nvidia.

Nvidia ends support at some point, no matter which OS.

Your card is one of the oldest series still supported (Turing), they just cut support for roughly gtx750 to 1080 (Maxwell, Pascal, Volta).

So 10 years from now, you won’t get working Nvidia drivers anymore and will have to rely on older driver versions.

But unlike Windows -where you will have the same problem and MS won’t care at all, so when an old driver has problem with Windows then, you will be on your own- you will have distros or their communities still providing those older drivers regularly and also there is now an open source driver. And your card is the first generation supported by that driver, although with still some hickups. That one will not go away and get better over time, too. Probably also including some work to increase performance on older cards if there is demand - and if I take a look into my crystall ball (or at the hardware prices shitshow) I assume there will be demand.

TL;DR: I can’t absolutely guarantee that your card still works in 10 years as Nvidia’s support will just end at some point. But your chances are a) very good and b) definitely much better on Linux than on Windows.

No warning, no siren

And at the same time morons have spend the last few years of war in Ukraine to hallucinate about the new transparent battle field that makes so many systems obsolete…

And this exact type of trust me bro idiot is in charge of the US military now.

Yeah, that’s the plan… for the few days the total stocks last.

Iran has shot two times the amount of projectiles (most of them cheap flying mopeds…) in just that short time as the US’ (already upscaled) capacities produced over the whole last year.

And anyone with just two brain cells would have known this beforehand if they just looked a few seconds at Ukraine in the last years. (In fact several states in that region opted to make a lot of money instead by selling Gepards back that have been proven to be very effective against those slow moving mass drone attacks - Qatar for example sold their 15 back to Germany for twice the amount they originally paid, so those could be delivered to Ukraine.)

Objects is too unspecific, so I will just assume something like this:

No, there is no rift.

Just momentary confusion when reality clashes with the narrative. And that’s easily fixed once the cult gets instructed on their new reality.