It’s for boosting Wi-Fi reception, don’t worry about it.

Fish are not real. Salmon is a kind of bird.

What people commonly refer to as “fish” are in fact government spy drones designed to detect and stop seaweed smuggling.

(/joke)

Afaik it wasn’t a temperature problem, it was voltage related. Obviously cooler temps help, but you would probably still be vulnerable to this.

Wow, I’ve actually never seen this disc. However, funnily enough, I have another disc with that program burned into it. Someone didn’t read the notice, it seems.

This. The guessing part comes from the time it takes to do the tasks, but you know the number of tasks. So a progress bar should only reach 100% when all the tasks are completed.

For example, you might have a big process that performs 3 other small tasks and then finishes. You could reasonably assume that each small task is 33% of the big process, so after the first finishes you get 33% progress, then 66% after the second and 100% after the third. When the bar reaches 100%, the third task has finished, so your process has finished too.

What you don’t know is how much time each small task takes, so if the first task needs 20 seconds and the following tasks take just 5, you’ll spend 2/3 of the time on the first 33% of the progress bar, and then the remaining 66% gets done in 1/3 of the time.

Wait, what happened now? Do they want to ban Lemmy?

Side note for Arch (btw) users: If you run xz --version, it will report to be version 5.6.1, even if it’s the updated version. This is because the updated and presumably safe package is xz 5.6.1-2.

The backdoor didn’t really affect Arch, because it only compromised SSH when it was linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn’t link it that way, so it’s safe to use. You should still update though, because we don’t know if the backdoor could be used in any other way.