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There is no way to define Christianity objectively. It's extremely diverse and pinning down features is theology so your leaving objectivity.

The only thing left is to accept any group that identify as christian.

Yes the Joseph Smith story is colorful, but so is speaking in tongues, believing the earth is six thousands years old, that bread becomes the literal body of God in your mouth or the Trinity. Not all the group that claims to be christians believes all these things but you would recognize most of these as christians.

on IYKYK · c/progressivepolitics · 4 pts · 118d

No clue about the context but ironically the abbreviation is "If You Know, You Know".

I manage multi user systems and try to be on top of this and no, privilege escalation with a working public exploit are very rare. There's quite a lot of CVEs with potential privilege excalation, but most of the time there is no real world exploit. And a large part of those are related to user namespaces in one way or another.

This one is truly scary, at least the immediate mitigation is pretty straightforward.

I'm a bit surprised an Nvidia 9x0 would struggle for web browsing. On a PC this old I would first check other things before swapping the GPU:

  • Is it clean? Physically clean? Restricted air flow can make your CPU throttle down to avoid getting too hot.
  • Is the operating system on an SSD or a spinning disk? I'm sure prices are insane nowadays but a small data SSD just for the OS will dramatically improve performance.
  • How much RAM do you have? Again, prices are not good right now, but 8GiB is the minimum to run a modern desktop+browser.
  • Do you have the proprietary drivers installed? I haven't touched an Nvidia GPU on Linux in a long time, but I would expect those to be basically mandatory for a smooth experience.

As for the GPU, if you are not gaming on big modern titles, anything released in the last ten years should be enough. I had a good experience with AMD over this era for out of the box Linux compatibility, but I can't say much about codecs, I never had issues and never bothered to check.

Intel is probably good enough also.

Another thing to consider is maybe your CPU has a built-in GPU, I use low/mid-range Intel CPU from this era without a discrete GPU as an HTPC and it performs fine.

I remember begging my parents, at the age of 12, for the cash to put together my first gaming-capable PC.

When I was a teenager in the nineties in France, it was a big deal that there was some PCs under 10000 francs (~1500€). PC parts pricing has been rough for years.

Was there really a time when a decent budget gaming PC could be built so cheap compared to middle class income? I'm not saying it's not getting worse, but I'm wondering if the past is not idealized.

And this figure is bullshit, streaming is not a very energy intensive activity. It's so much bullshit that the original estimate mixed up bit and bytes giving a 8x overestimation.

This IEA estimation place the final figure at around 100m of driving, and that is even less if your local grid has a low carbon footprint. And they conclude that in most cases the actual footprint comes from the viewing device itself.

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-streaming-video-fact-checking-the-headlines

Datacenter energy use is concerning but it's not because of streaming itself.

on No comment · c/fuckcars · 43 pts · 254d

5km in an hour is a brisk walk. In 45 minutes it's probably closer to a jog. It's not super human but it's not a normal walking pace.

The show gets to a sweet spot in these seasons (6 included). It has a rich lore while the power creep is still under control. The special effects are a lot better. This is peak original cast.

Don't get me wrong, I like the later seasons, but it tends to go in the "over the top" direction.