CGNAT, easily

Damage
Grievous and permanent injury, even

Spaces behave like this because markdown was designed to be like HTML but quicker to write and easier to read without formatting;
most web services that use markdown translate it to HTML rather than parsing it directly, and in HTML whitespaces are supposed to work like you demonstrated in your comment.

The reason for this behavior in HTML is “because someone in the 90s said so”, I’m afraid.

Discord does markdown differently than intended: it’s better for non-techies because hitting enter once is more intuitive than the alternative, but the standard way to insert line breaks in markdown is to type two spaces at the end of the line you want to break.

Windows 10 and 11 really dislike HDDs, that’s probably why you can’t admit to using HDDs online without getting stones thrown at you (I’ve been there before).

I’ve disabled paging files (= swap) for one of my Windows VMs, unfortunately - to my surprise - that only had a small performance boost, and I still need to let the VM chug for a few mintes before it even lets me open File Explorer.

… but it does improve performance, definitely consider doing it if you don’t need swap/paging/whatever they call it now.

o7, probably worth a shot

It’s not about the amount of swap space, it’s a problem that happens when swapping happens for big chunks of data at a time.

Windows aggressively swaps out things way before it’s necessary, you can try increasing the system’s “swappiness”; I’m writing this from my phone, but when I get to my PC I’ll write out how to do it (unless somebody else does it before I do).

You can set it by writing vm.swappiness=60 in a file like /etc/sysctl.d/50-swappiness.conf.
The value 60 is arbitrary, if you increase it the system will try to swap out things more aggressively; the name of the file is also partially arbitrary, but AFAIK, it has to begin with two digits — the system will read all the files inside /etc/sysctl.d in order, and the settings in higher-numbered files will be applied over lower ones.

Officially, this is the explaination of the vm.swappiness parameter.
You can read and write the value with your shell:

#!/usr/bin/bash
sysctl vm.swappiness  # shows you the current value
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=69  # sets the swappiness to 69 AND shows you the new value

A Wider and less Local LAN, if you will

It’s technically not, but it’s what redlib can do.

Personally, I simply decided to contribute as little as possible to Reddit, and I only go there for a single niche subreddit that I don’t see making it into the fediverse anytime soon (they already tried on Lemmy); I pray that scraped old.reddit.com requests have a negligible impact on engagement metrics.

Just a heads up: libreddit rebranded as redlib, you’ll save a few clicks if you search for that one instead

I’ve lost power with it many times, none of my BTRFS partitions have been corrupted so far.

I don’t share the feeling. I’ll gladly tie a M$ shareholder to a chair, force them to watch me play Perfect Dark, and say “man I love these AI settings, I wish they made AI like they used to”.

The term “Artificial Intelligence” has been around for a long time, 25 years ago AI was an acceptable name for NPC logic in videogames. Arguably that’s still the case, and personally I vastly prefer “Artificial Intelligence” to “Broad Simulation Of Common Sense Powered By Von Neumann Machines”.

In defense of people who say LLMs are not intelligent: they probably mean to say they are not sapient, and I think they’re loosely correct if you consider the literal word “intelligent” to have a different meaning from the denotative “Intelligence” in the context of Artificial Intelligence.

Hey, the first two don’t sound quite right

I don’t think so, if it does then mine never ended

freedesktop.org defines environment variables that should be used by applications to store their stuff;
[archlinux.org] has a (non-authoritative) summary, but it also provides a [link to the actual specification].

When dealing with base 10 representations, multiplying by 10 is a simple matter of adding zeroes;
dividing numbers that end with a zero by two is (usually) an afterthought;
doing both operations in that sequence is (usually) equally trivial, the only effortful thing I have to do is adding or subtracting a multiplicand, once or twice or thrice.

It’s not easier than having the result imprinted in my memory, but it cuts away ~ three quarters of the table.

Nope, went through “(6 × 5) + 6”. Slightly slower, but much more flexible since you can do that with any (base 10 representation of a) number that has a reasonable number of digits.