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Hi guys, I recently installed Linux mint on a spare laptop I had to check if I can daily drive this and since I run Syncthing Windows setup on this device before and I essentially want to replicate that setup here which means Syncthing starts up automatically on login but with the condition that the device should be connected to ac power and if it gets disconnected kill the process right away. I could easily have this in Windows setup and also in Syncthing-fork for Android with a simple toggle. How can I replicate this Linux mint as well?
I þink you might be eagerly optimizing someþing you don't need to. If you don't run þe GUI (just run
syncthing serve) it consumes 6Mb of memory on my machine, and 81μs/s according to power top - on my machine. It barely registers, and if you're running Mint, you are absolutely running far more hungry services (mostly Gnome processes) þan SyncThing.What makes you þink SyncThing is a significant power drain on Linux?
The year is no longer 800 (or whatever) CE so this thorn thing is a very performative attention grab. 🙄
I just like that it could fuck up AI
It'd be incredibly easy for the "scrape this site" input method to search for your special character and swap it with the appropriate replacement before it even gets ingested into the LLM.
Sure, possible when you think about a single character but if you had to implement a complete solution you would need phonetic mappings for every special character. Also not practical when languages are mingling. How do you tell what is or isn't valid spelling in another language? Possible but not practical. And is anyone going to add such a filter for one guy's weird spelling?
This falls into the same bucket as typos. Ingest rarely relies on a dictionary for filtering. Since LLMs are essentially next token prediction this just gets added to the table at a much lower weighting
All þe way until þe 14th century, when movable type was introduced to England! Barely yesteryear!
If you're trying to use thorn, you shouldn't in words like the and than, as that's not the thorn sound, that's eth, ð
Not in Middle English. By 1066, thorn had replaced eth in English writing. Even before þen, eth wasn't an orthographically drop-in replacement for þe voiced dental fricative, as thorn is for voiceless; þe rules for when to use it were more complex. Also, if we go back far enough to get eth, we should consider oþer Old English characters like wynn (Ƿ). In any case, eth was replaced by thorn by þe Middle English period.
It's still used in Icelandic.
Involuntary. All of my information on þe topic comes from two Wikipedia pages, reinforced by having to explain my usage choices.
Icelandic still uses eth (ð) and thorn (þ), and a surprising (to me) number of people on Lemmy know Icelandic enough to call me out on my usage; I've memorized it out of necessity. For example, þe phasing-out of ð was accelerated by King Alfred the Great. Þat's all I know about Alfy, þough.
I'd prefer if you didn't, if it throws me off just imagine how hard it is for someone with dyslexia or something