Yeah I was bit surprised too, are people/bots just starring any repo with "Github" in the name?

That's interesting, didn't know that existed. I know OP didn't ask about cost but I was curious if you've been paying for major version upgrades or subscribing for the yearly support? According to their pricing page only minor updates would be automatic for the free installs

https://fydeos.io/pricing/

so you'd need to manually upgrade the system whenever you need a major OS update to be done. It doesn't seem quite as automatic as OP was hoping for but maybe it's not a bad tradeoff if you only need to touch it once a year or whatever the software release schedule is.

Those who bought an Office license back in 2019 are very much likely to have upgraded their packages already

You'd be shocked how often that's not the case. So, so many people and small businesses don't feel like buying another new license of MS Office and instead just re-install an old licensed version on their new system when needed. Just in my own bubble of working at different small businesses or helping people with computers I've repeatedly encountered ancient versions of MS Office that people cling on to. People that do lots of IT support in the field must encounter this fairly regularly.

When I ask/question people on using their old outdated MS Office it's some combination of "I don't want to learn something new" or "I paid for it so I'll keep using it".

And nowadays, besides LibreOffice, people also have the option of using MS Office Online or Google Docs but that still falls into the category of needing to do things slightly differently vs what they're used to.

!mediashare@lemmy.world
!plexshares@lemmy.world
!plexshares@kbin.social

Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.

Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you'd need to check the individual projects to be sure.

In August, Canoo moved its headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to Justin, Texas — asking 137 of the office’s 194 employees to relocate, while cutting the remaining staff.

Yikes, not great for all those employees that moved their entire lives out to TX just to get laid off. They weren't even working in TX long enough to qualify for unemployment. Hopefully they were getting paid enough to deal with relocation and maybe have enough saved up to get the hell out of TX after this.

That's interesting, apparently it was mentioned on github but nothing seems to have changed in the end

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

Haven't used that software in a long time but maybe there's an opt-out somewhere during runtime? Although I don't see why a user needs to be required to opt out of nonsense like this when just writing firmware to a USB disk.

Only ever touched balenaEtcher when some project or distro recommended it. Overall prefer Rufus for this sort of thing when working on Windows.

Same here.

Interestingly back when myself & others were moderating subs on Reddit, & we locked the subs during the protests, the majority of PMs us mods would receive were from randoms that found a link via Google or wherever & were trying to view the post. It did make me wonder how often people browse Reddit just because they stumbled into a link via Google or whatever search engine.

I can't see how Reddit would survive without the big search engines, without those random visitors the ad revenue would plummet.

That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.

The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.

Maybe you meant Reddit admins?

Reddit moderators don't have access to IP addresses nor have the ability to ban someone based on an IP address.

I have a 13 series chip, it had some reproducible crashing issues that so far have subsided by downclocking it.

From the article:

the company confirmed a patch is coming in mid-August that should address the “root cause” of exposure to elevated voltage. But if your 13th or 14th Gen Intel Core processor is already crashing, that patch apparently won’t fix it.

Citing unnamed sources, Tom’s Hardware reports that any degradation of the processor is irreversible, and an Intel spokesperson did not deny that when we asked.

If your CPU is already crashing then that's it, game over. The upcoming patch cannot fix it. You've got to figure out if you can do a warranty replacement or continue to live with workarounds like you're doing now.

Their retail boxed CPUs usually have a 3(?) year warranty so for a 13th gen CPU you may be midway or at the tail end of that warranty period. If it's OEM, etc. it could be a 1 year warranty aka Intel isn't doing anything about it unless a class action suit forces them :/

The whole situation sucks and honestly seems a bit crazy that Intel hasn't already issued a recall or dealt with this earlier.

Kind of seems like an ad, every link to their site has a referral in it ( /?ref=news.itsfoss.com ), guessing itsfoss gets paid for those clicks.

Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?

Not sure if it's exactly what you want but I've used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I've never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.

Again with this? You're just spamming /c/Piracy at this point (and probably breaking rule #4).

That's not all of Lemmy, just your specific Lemmy instance with those restrictions (lemmy.world).

Talk to lemmy.world admins or sign up to a different Lemmy instance that allows VPN usage.

My network has reset several times and I’ve narrowed it down to an apparent DDOS attack

It's not. You will need to lower your torrent client's incoming connections limit and/or set lower limits to your incoming/outgoing bandwidth in your torrent client. It is clear your network router is unable to handle too much torrent traffic hitting it at the same time, hence the issues you are experiencing.

For qB

Tools / Options / Connection / Global Maximum Number Of Connections

Tools / Options / Speed / Global Rate Limits

There's no specific number to enter there, you just have to experiment a bit and set lower numbers until the problem goes away and your network is stable.

shutting down the client doesn’t help

It will, eventually. It does take a bit for other torrent clients to realize you're no longer online and stop sending you traffic / sharing your IP with other peers.

No according to admin, see the comment thread in the other post

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/399136

Not really. Decentralized does not mean anonymous.. and I doubt people sharing that type of content are doing it publicly with their public IP addresses.

Looks like PeerWeb uses WebTorrent - so that means every single IP address serving the website is easily found in the peer list of the torrent swarm. Nothing anonymous about this.

Lemmy world is turning into Reddit v2

Not really, even Reddit still has piracy related subreddits (at least for now).