Get “live DVDs” for a distro that offers both GNOME and KDE (Fedora is a great one), and see which one you like best. Get a spare USB stick, install Ventoy on it, copy both ISOs across (a KDE one and a GNOME one), and try them out.

This post violates rule 3.

I’ve been using JS for a long time, and have worked on some date and time libraries, and only got 12/28. Wow there’s a lot of edge cases.

They’re likely not intentionally crawling Lemmy. They’re probably just crawling all sites they can find.

Won’t the bots just switch to using that instead of the heavier JS challenge?

tbh I kinda understand their viewpoint. Not saying I agree with it.

The Anubis JavaScript program’s calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware.

The Anubis site thinks my phone is a bot :/

tbh I would have just configured a reasonable rate limit in Nginx and left it at that.

Won’t the bots just hammer the API instead now?

Some jurisdictions don’t allow people to mess with bird nests if there’s birds using it, so check that first.

I’m surprised they allow power cables so close to a downspout. That wouldn’t be allowed where I live.

Great article! This helped me understand a lot more about D-Bus.

List it on a Buy Nothing group in your area? I give away a lot of stuff that way.

As a buyer, I do this to annoy scalpers. Keep sending them offers far below what they’re asking. The more time they spend dealing with me, the less time they can spend scamming people.

Does Thread support pairing two or more devices so they can control each other directly without going through the coordinator? I do that a bit with my Zigbee network.

You can flash the SLZB-06 to use Matter over Thread too. I like those because they use Ethernet and can be powered via PoE, so you can put them practically anywhere you can reach using an Ethernet cable.

Do you mean Matter vs Zigbee? Matter and MQTT are totally separate things.

The mentioned products have had major releases recently. Has anything major happened with Proxmox recently?

Some apps have weird names and I forget what they’re called. Showing a “new” badge, even if it’s just for the first few times I open the app, makes it more likely that I’ll remember the app’s name.

Their bosses booked the team into the Motel Mo.om in the Italian city of Milan but had confused it with the nearby Mo.om Hotel.

I’m surprised that two hotels in the same area are allowed to have essentially the same name.

I’m confused as to why T-Mobile is on that list but neither AT&T nor Verizon are.

A lot of restaurants add on an extra fee if you pay by card

In the US, this is pretty recent… It’s only been allowed since last year. Previously, MasterCard and Visa’s merchant agreements both said that merchants must not charge a fee for paying by card, and the store could have their MC/Visa agreement terminated if they were caught charging fees. Some stores got around this by offering a cash discount rather than charging a fee for cards. There was a big lawsuit and the rules got changed as a result.

In Australia, there’s a lot of rules around card fees/surcharges. I linked to an article in my previous comment. The business can’t charge more than it costs them to process card payments, and they’re only allowed to list it as a separate fee if they have a fee-free way of paying (like with cash). If they only take card, they need to include the card fee in the advertised prices.

This is one of the reasons merchant fees are so high in the USA.

In Australia, merchant fees for a medium-sized business are an average of 0.75 to 1.5% for credit cards and 0.25% to 1% for debit cards, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia (https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/card-surcharges).

In the USA they’re often over double that. Some payment processors charge 3% or more for credit card processing.