The Realtek RTL8125B on my year-old motherboard has been doing fine with Linux’s r8169 driver.

I’ve only used it at 1gbit/second, though; I haven’t tested its 2.5gbit mode.

Intel is probably still the gold standard.

I guess you’re not familiar with the i225-v and its variants. Intel burned their reputation for good NICs with that fiasco.

The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff.

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If you use wooden cutting boards / blocks, rub mineral oil into them every once in a while. This will reduce the water they absorb and make them less likely to warp or split.

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Thank you for the source link conveniently placed at the top. <3

“While AT&T and Verizon only provide notice of surveillance of phone lines paid for by the Senate, T-Mobile has informed my staff that it will provide notice for Senators’ campaign or personal lines flagged as such by the [Senate Sergeant at Arms],” Wyden wrote. “Three other carriers — Google Fi Wireless, U.S. Mobile, and Cape — have policies of notifying all customers about government demands whenever they are allowed to do so. The latter two companies adopted these policies after outreach from my office.”

You might be surprised how many informed geeks will defend mass surveillance until their last breath, if it’s built with or adjacent to a technology that they feel connected to in some way.

I think most of them mean well, but unrealistic idealism and naïveté are definitely in play.

But they didn’t, and considering the contours, bevels, and the additional costs that glass would bring, they almost certainly won’t.

I think my favorite part of Cyberpunk 2077’s open world was that it was full of activity. The encounter variety might have been a little disappointing, but I was impressed with how they made the city feel dense and populated. It was much more convincing than the miniature towns full of locked doors and fake windows that are passed off as “cities” in so many other games.

Just what the world needs: More unnecessary plastic.

It depends on what aspects of an open world are important to you.

Exploration is at the top of my list, and Skyrim is a good example of doing it well. Its world is full of unique things/places/characters to find, whether through an NPC’s directions, or a roughly sketched map picked up while adventuring, or following your curiosity toward an area that looks interesting, or chasing a fox, or simply by wandering off the beaten path.

Map markers appear after you’ve already been somewhere so you can find your way back again, but since most of them are hidden until then, they don’t spoil the experience of discovery.

And, when you find something, it’s often genuinely interesting. Not yet another copy/paste monster fight or “hold the button to follow your witcher sense to the lost thing” quest. Not just checking off a task list item (or pre-placed map marker) so you can rush to the next one. The experience itself is rewarding.

Mind, I have criticisms of Skyrim, but it did exploration and environments (including sound) very well, and I wish more open world designers would learn from it and build upon its strengths.

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I would love to play a game that reached or exceeded Skyrim’s bar for exploration and environmental immersion, Breath of the Wild’s bar for freedom of movement and wildlife, and The Witcher 3’s bar for characters and story.

This is absolutely not uplifting news, and does not belong here.

Trump encouraged and signed this bill so he can use it to silence criticism. He said so himself.

It’s also yet another example of bad legislation, in this case a censorship tool, disguised as something intended for good.

Yet before posting, I searched for words in the headline and got no results in this community. I guess Lemmy doesn’t always work right. Oh well.

IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre at best:

• Sluggish controls
• Character movement that is unrealistically limited without offering anything to make up for it
• Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
• Bland combat mechanics
• “Open” world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
• Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth finding has a map marker
• A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct while the tasks to perform are mostly identical

This game’s strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story. (All the things that could be had from reading the books, or maybe watching the live action adaptation.)

Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.

If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there’s not really multiple fields like it appears.

Sure enough; I just discovered this for myself when running some tests. I also noticed that Lemmy offers an Alt Text field, which it looks like the bot is already populating.

Test 1 : The URL field and the image attachment field were used; the latter overwrites whatever is placed in the former. I guess this might be modeled after Reddit.

Test 2: A direct link to the image at xkcd.com was placed in the URL field, and the source link placed at the top of the body. Result: This is similar to the bot’s current format, including the flaw that a desktop browser with strict privacy settings won’t show the comic image as part of the post when the thumbnail is clicked, because it’s an off-site image. Having the source link at the top of the body does at least make it a little more convenient to click through to xkcd.com’s single-page view.

Test 3: Only the image attachment field was used; the URL field was left blank. Result: This allows a desktop browser to show the comic image in-line when the thumbnail is clicked even with strict browser privacy settings, if the post is being viewed on the Lemmy instance where the post was made, because then it’s not an off-site image. Unfortunately, it’s still an off-site image when viewed on other Lemmy instances. The source link was again placed at the top of the body.

(Side note: I used m.xkcd.com links instead of plain xkcd.com links in these tests, just to see how the mobile site looks in different browsers. In practice, either ought to work.)

Conclusion: I don’t have one just yet. It would be nice if we could direct all Lemmy instances to make their own local copy of a post’s attached image, to avoid the off-site image problem. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a way to do this, and I suspect it would be too burdensome for some small instances.

Having the source link at the top of the post body is helpful, at least.

I’m not sure the current comment votes are representative, due to the selection bias that forms as people engage (or don’t) with idea comments & their replies, but I acknowledge that it is possible that a proper vote would end up as you expect.

EDIT: Lemmy posts have both an URL field and an image field. What would happen if the change I suggested was made, and the image field was used for the coming image? Hm… Maybe that’s worth a test.

If directly linking to the full comic page as the main link is a no-go, how about putting the source link at very top, as the first line in the body? That would at least make it a little easier for desktop users to target the link they need for a single-screen view of the whole comic.

You might be able to prevent a particular touchpad from affecting the desktop with an xinput disable command. Run xinput list to show the available device names and IDs, or man xinput for more details.

Another approach, assuming you’re using an X11 session (not Wayland), would be to disable the device in xorg.conf.

A custom udev rule could also do the trick, although it might be more complicated than an xinput command.

Have a look here:

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart#supported_devices_pcs

AMD GPUs have better all-around compatibility on Linux, but if you’re mainly gaming, Nvidia GPUs can be made to deliver good performance as well.

I read somewhere that Thermalright’s Helios line includes pads equivalent to PTM7950. (I don’t know if it’s Helios V1, V2, or both.) Maybe they’re worth a look?