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  • Well the reason to auto-close is that this is not an entirely unlikely resolution. When I inherited a project with a bunch of issues and started going through the backlog, around 50% of tickets were duplicates, already solved, unreproducible, etc etc

    When you’ve only got limited time, having less of those issues to analyze and then close anyway is a very valid reason. It leaves more time for fixing real issues. Of course it comes at the cost of ignoring perfectly valid issues as well, that’s why this is obviously never an optimal policy to implement, and should only be done in desperate situations.


  • That’s why the “easy way to reopen” is so important. Your concern is theoretically valid, but if tickets are usually ignored for years, then it really is a desperate situation for the project whichever way you handle it. You can decide between an endlessly growing list of issues that likely aren’t valid anymore, or pissing some users off.

    I don’t really see why it would be harder to find an existing or similar bug. You should be looking (or rather you should be automatically notified) before/during creating a new ticket for existing tickets describing the problem. If a closed ticket describes the exact problem, you should be finding that too, and then should just be able to use the easy way of reopening if necessary. You should also be able to find the workaround in there if someone posted it.

    It’s definitely not a beautiful solution, but if you implement something like this, the project is already in a desperate state, there’s not too much good choices there anymore.



  • I don’t think so. It should have an easy way of reopening - if it has, and you’re flooded with tickets on an open source project that you can’t possibly handle all, then it’s a good way to prioritize. Of course it doesn’t have an easy way to reopen here, which sucks, it’s some kind of locking instead of just closing it with a possibility to reopen.

    Old tickets have a non-zero chance of the reporter being the only one to run into it because of a weird setup/usecase (and then abandoning the project), it being fixed by other work, or probably a bunch of other reasons it could be obsolete.

    If no one cares enough to reopen it once every 6 months, then it’s probably fine to ignore it indefinitely.






  • That is for you to decide.

    The way you decide is to go to a reputable review website like https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=Graphics+Cards&manufacturer=&pp=25&order=date and select one of the reviews of a relatively recent, unrelated card, for example the XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

    For this specific site, you then go to the “Average FPS” (or “relative performance”) page and look for your models you actually want to compare to in the list. Since you picked a relatively recent review, you can also see newer cards, so you can also see how much of an upgrade you’d get with newer cards you maybe haven’t considered yet.

    In this case, the average fps of the 5700XT is 49.2, while the 6700XT gets 60, an improvement of ~22%. Now, you either know what 49 and 60 fps look like, or you go into one of your older games and use an fps limiter to limit to those fps values and play a bit and compare.

    In any case, the final decision is up to you and no one can really tell you what you think your money is worth.

    Edit: of course, this assumes your CPU is not a bottleneck. These tests always go with the most powerful CPU. You haven’t said anything about yours, so I assumed it wouldn’t be a bottleneck.






  • I’m pretty sure most torrent applications have a “set location” button on the torrents, which automatically moves the torrent to the location you choose.

    I know that qbittorrent also allows you to rename files and folders within the torrent.

    The only thing that I have not seen possible is to change the directory structure within a torrent - i.e. move files one directory level up to “flatten” it. If a file is within three nested folders, then it is always like that, but you are able to change both the file and folder names, just have to do it from within the torrent client so that it can pick that change up.

    But what you can always do is use filesystem links instead of moving the actual files around, keeping the actual torrent files in some invisible data directory and only “operating” on the links. Works more or less well depending on your OS :D


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    It’s absolutely not a skill worth having. If you ever run into issues and need the CLI, you can always get your knowledge right in that moment. If you already can do everything with your GUI and get the same results, getting the knowledge to do it some other way is just wasted time and duplicate work.