what’s Ron Vara’s take on this?

Canadians won’t forget (sometimes).

JBL sounds like your audio gear, depends on what. Bluetooth, USB audio ot 3.5mm jack connections generally work fine without issue. (Installing PulseAudio Volume Control will help you with finer grained volume control). Some DACs that require custom Windows drivers might not work.

Gaming stuff, Steam will have you covered, Lutris, Heroic, or itch.io for non-Steam stuff. The one unintuitive thing you have to do once you log in is to go to Steam Settings and check the “Use Steam Play for All Titles”. Just like that, 75% of your library that only have a Windows version will suddenly be playable and you’ll hardly notice a difference: just Download then click Play, that’s it (maybe a bit slower launch time).

I would recommend Firefox or Librewolf over Chrome as you have done already, but you should know that Chrome and Chromium do work on Linux FYI.

Mark my words: Office Online will “adopt” these advertising and cloud-save only features within 2 years.

(If this happens and I remember this comment I will try to link it).

If this really will never happen, Putin should promise the same, and see what happens. :)

All hail Canada’s notice-and-notice-and-notice-and-notice-and-notice system of copyright enforcement!

Reddthat has downvotes turned off, only upvotes are recorded on your instance. Jerboa (if that’s the client you’re talking about), has options to display downvotes as a percentage, up and down or net score only. Those options will only function if your instance records downvotes.

You can’t just get scores from other instances, that’s not how that works. The scores shown from each instances varies slightly due to different instances being linked. That’s helpful because if an egotistical admin spins up an instance with 5000 self-made accounts that all upvote a post that admin made, defederating that instance will remove the stuffed votes from the score.

The only update to the drama (as Steve already prepared a lengthy response in written form), is that investigative and advocacy videos similar to Honey, NZXT or ASUS will move to a new channel called Gamers Nexus Consumer Advocacy.

I think that even if it risks diminished reach, this is for the better. On the main channel Linus’ concerns for proper tech journalism can be assuaged. On the new channel, Steve can be as biased as he wants, for all our benefit. I just hope he doesn’t get burnt out running 2 channels simultaneously.

Mastodon’s filter system works wonders, where if you’re seeing too much of some keyword you can block that temporarily or permanently, and either erase it entirely from your feed or hide matching posts in a spoiler. It would be awesome if something like that could be adapted for Lemmy.

For current client-agnostic solutions, you can do any of the following on Lemmy:

• wait until the drama dies down
• select Top [time period], Active, Scaled, New Comment sorts until you find something you like
• change your scope to Local (for you that will be lemmy.ee only so nothing from the shown communities), or curate the comms you like to see and change scope to Subscribed.
• block the community you don’t want to see, then set a calendar reminder for when you can go to your settings on the web, find the blocks tab and unblock it.

If it’s up to each and every one of us to solve pollution, then we individuals need to get together and take down the highest polluters, through collective action (and hopefully not violence, but allegedly Luigi has shown us its effectiveness when everything else doesn’t work).

If Elon can go fsck himself that would be great. I sense a systematic lack of integrity from him.

Can it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?

Based on ATX standards https://xdevs.com/doc/Standards/ATX/ATX12V_Power_Supply_Design_Guide_Rev1.1.pdf,

Each 12V circuit from the PSU should deliver around 150W and definitely not more than 240VA (over current protection kick in rating). One cord runs on that single circuit so it can’t deliver more than that much power. I experienced this when I foolishly thought I could reduce cable clutter building my friends’ PC, only to realize the 3080 ran terribly and was drawing about 150W, not unlike OP, except in my case it was clear this was the issue.

Just that game or all games performing poorly?

Just that game: verify or reinstall the game.

Other games too: if it’s a software issue, check Graphics Driver? For potential hardware issues, check if a GPU power cable is loose, reseat it, and make sure you don’t have two pcie power connectors from the same cable connected to both ports.

faced delays in obtaining Australian visas after being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war

Well, they were involved in war, no matter how much lipstick this article wants to put on the pig.

Yours to make, yours to break.

Like the invasions and occupations of Poland and Czechoslovakia were “forward defences” of Nazi Germany, of course.

Damascus is Hamascus or something? What’s the rationale this time? Because the disengagement agreement might not be enforced, Syria is free real estate?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrlx5yxr60o

The same group behind this hilarious stunt