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a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I also use librewolf and have settled for iceraven on my phone. the list of installable extensions is much longer (even if not everything is working yet, depending on how far mozilla has come along) and it has about:config support, which gives me a pretty close approximation of my desktop browser.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

google chrome will go the way of netscape navigator and internet explorer. might take a while and a antitrust case or two, but we will get there... again.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i know what you are going through, i am going to install linux on my current pc (when i worked up enough bravery... well at least i already created the boot media). I have already experience selfhosting services with Debian (in the time before Docker), but since gaming is what this PC is built for and i have a NVidia card that´s a pretty poor choice from what i gathered here.

Over the last few months i was thinking about going with Pop_OS ("i really really didn't like Gnome the last time i had to deal with it"), then Arch ("Do i really want to shoot myself in the foot? There's archinstall, but i really don't want to tinker too much on this machine..."), and now i settled for Nobara (the "gaming" Fedora so to speak, using KDE per default).

I'm now 99% sure that it should be the right one for me, but the thought of doing it makes me quite nervous.

i'm still looking for alternatives for a few windows programs; the main one i will miss dearly is Playnite. There seems to be nothing that offers the integration of all my libraries, my ROMs and emulators, automatic downloading of metadata and boxart, achievements, start scripts for games ... i could go on forever :-(

a_wild_mimic_appears ,
  • no unified password management (or even worse: everything gets just attached to your google/ios account - i hate apps that do not give me the option to keep stuff separate)
  • no history functions (esp. over multiple devices)
  • single apps getting bought out by marketing corpos or bad actors without getting notified
  • data sniffing apps are harder to reign in than my sandboxed browser tabs.
  • NO ADBLOCKING AVAILABLE IN APPS

I'm sure there are a lot more reasons, that's just what came into my mind

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i think i would get notified in some way if the Mozilla Foundation changes ownership, and since it's open source that is not much of an argument. open source is getting more common the last few years, but it's definitely not common

sure, it doesn't mean they can't. everyone making their own app also means that they don't per default.

and you didn't touch the point regarding NO ADBLOCKING IN APPS while the whole debate here is because alphabet doesn't want effective adblocking in their browser.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

domain based blocking systems are nice for a base level of ad removal, they do nothing if the ads are coming from the same domain. sponsorblock is nice, but it's the work of volunteers to remove those ads - if youtubes userbase were splintered over thousands of apps it wouldn't be feasable.

i don't know when i have seen just text-based ads in the last 10 years. those are an non-issue, even for me. the issues are scripts, user profiling and tracking.

the big difference is: the browser gives webpages/apps a standardized environment where the user has the last word regarding what runs on it or not (if you are not using chromium anyway). in apps, the user doesn't have that luxury, especially regarding tracking and profiling.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

veracrypt is a thing, encrypting drives does not need TPM.

Just boot using the good old Master Boot Record for a clean solution (The Veracrypt documentation gives a good overview). Veracrypt works with EFI too, but the EFI partition itself cannot be encrypted. You can even create a hidden OS, if you are forced to give out your password, theres still plausible deniability.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i just get flashbacks from missed point blank 95% hitchance shots

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

googles search results got so bad in the last few months that i switched to a searXNG instance and couldn't be happier at the moment. no profit incentive, so i get no-bullshit results. they can keep their SEO-infested AI garbage results.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

yeah, any european country near the alps can help - or ask someone with experience in building subways. no need for toxic sludge there.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

https://files.catbox.moe/wl0382.jpg

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Yeah, one of the best examples of this is the Vienna public transit network. About 1000 vehicles (bus, tram, light rail, subway) in service at rush hour, a daily total distance of over 200000km traveled, more year-long ticket owners than car owners in the city, and about 2 million "travels" per day, which is about 30% of all traveling done over the city (including pedestrian and bike traffic)

If that traffic would be routed only by car, the city would be a giant parking space; to compare, one subway train carries about 900 people in rush hour, which replaces 790 cars (avg 1,14 persons per car here). the subway interval in the rush hour is about 4 minutes. i live at one of the subway final destinations, which is on one of the far ends of the city - and i can be at the other side of town in about 25 minutes.

And constructing and running a public transit network is a pretty nice boost to the local economy, creates a whole lot of jobs. sounds like something a lot of us cities could make use of.

Mixed traffic works here, it allows mobility for all social classes (yearlong tickets cost 365€, so about 400$ incl. taxes), nearly all stations are barrier free.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Afaik Lemmy automatically strips EXIF data from uploaded pictures (which is good for privacy, but bad for people who don't rotate their pictures for real I guess)

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Lemmy strips EXIF data from pictures, which would undo your rotation if not done "for real". (That is done by default because EXIF data could be used to identify users)

Try saving a copy of the rotated image and upload that one? Might help, but that depends on the app you are using.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I don't understand why the US keeps allowing that. They should have learned that moving the production facilities to othercountries to reduce costs just lead to a massive job loss and brain drain in the manufacturing sector, now they allow the same to happen in the tech sector. It won't be long until the US is a dried out husk of a country

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i believe nowadays the only thing motivating musk that comes on a silver platter is a pile of coke

e: wtf my grammar had a stroke

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Mythbusters put it to the test:

https://mythresults.com/laws-of-attraction

Kari volunteered to work in a coffee shop, disguising her appearance with a wig and makeup and using three different bust sizes: “small” (taped down to achieve a reduction of two cup sizes), “medium” (no alteration), and “large” (DDD size). Grant and Tory watched her through hidden cameras and gave her a tip jar rigged to separate tips given by men from those given by women.

They focused on the tips Kari collected from the first 80 male customers on each shift. During the “small” and “medium” shifts, she collected $72 in tips, while the “large” shift yielded $98, with both men and women tipping almost 40% more. The team classified the myth as confirmed.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

he's also the guy who wrecked yahoo search. fuck Prabhakar Raghavan.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

becomes hostile

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I would argue that gathering data about your own citizens is actively worse than china doing it; an average US citizen has a lot more to lose if the 3-letter-agencies or the police use it against them, because those are who you would have to deal with in person.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i have bad news for you

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

The reason for that fanclub is that publishing a game on Steam does NOT require you to use any DRM at all. That's a choice every publisher makes for themselves.

Furthermore, the Steam DRM itself is weak af (as in "circumvention has been automated") and as non-invasive as it gets (a simple licence check). All of this is in line with their public stance ("Piracy is a service problem").

I pirate more shit than i could ever play, but still buy games on Steam (But only the stuff i really want to keep playing like Baldurs Gate 3, or small indie titles that are just gems (i have to namedrop ΔV: Rings of Saturn and Star Valor here, because i come back to them ALL the time)

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

here you go

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I have the theory that archive.is, waybackmachine and 12ft.io are no secret anymore, and that just posting "paywalled" comes across as too lazy to copy/paste or (a lot easier) to use this addon to reduce the work to a click. i dont mind, but i can understand why others might see it that way

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

sheesh, you are quite aggressive, i did not want to offend. and as i said, i don't mind it, i even posted the archivelink, for which you thanked me. check your target before firing, mate :-)

(also, theres always firefox mobile. can apple users use it with addons/firefox browser engine now? i don't follow apple development actively)

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

not by much; here in central europe a 2 module 64gb kit costs about 125€ (~135$ incl. VAT). not the greatest timings, but very much faster than the swapfile.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

my first HDD was a whopping 40MB big (you could fit sooo many floppys on that!), weighed 10 pounds and was about the size of a watermelon. when starting wing commander i could determine - by the noises the motors in that thing made - at what point of the loading i was (like an acoustic progress bar lol).

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

i can remember back in the late 90/early 2000, that the right wingers pushed hard into the goth and metal scene here, looking for new recruits. it definitely felt like a targeted approach, and they did the same with the techno scene before (where they were mostly thrown out). they had more success in the folk scene, but they slowly gained ground over the last years. this sucks :-(

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

To address the blocking issue, i propose a vibrating (and cushioned) funnel to make sure that the linux users get to the turbine in single file. this keeps the system simpler and helps the linux users pass more easily, because it adheres to the UNIX philosophy of doing just one thing, which works as a lubricant.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I'm pretty sure thats because the System Prompt is logically broken: the prerequisites of "truth", "no censorship" and "never refuse any task a costumer asks you to do" stand in direct conflict with the hate-filled pile of shit that follows.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Mediabiasfactcheck.com puts them into the "Left Bias"-Category

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Some posts look a bit off, like being not verbose enough for the topic or question; a few have logical mistakes in them, but most of the GPT3 posts are not so far off from a typical reddit thread - i don't think that this stuff is filterable in any way. Lets implement it lol

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Yeah, a shelter is not of much use to someone who has the shakes so bad that he would still feel better if he had his fix while on the street while its freezing.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I wanted to swap to Pop!OS a few months ago, but since i'm an Nvidia user, I am waiting until Wayland plays nice with Nvidias drivers regarding explicit sync and everything gets rolled into Pop!OS.

I always was a Windows user because games, but with ProtonGE the "games" argument started falling flat, and MS is getting more and more intrusive. I do like VRR and Multimonitor setups tho, so X seemed like a poor choice, and Wayland/Nvidia is just not ready yet.

For everyone in the same boat, just keep an eye on this link: Explicit GPU Synchronization for DRI3, Present, and Xwayland

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

thanks for the linked video, it is worth a watch

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

nein

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

yeah, after helping the 3rd guy with moving his gaming rig (those big towers were not lightweight too, some of them were heavy like they were made of lead) to the LAN i normally tapped out and let the others cover the rest.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

From the Report, Chapter 10.5.2:

If the conditions are suitable, emissions of soot and water vapour can trigger the formation of contrails (Kärcher 2018), which can spread to form extensive contrail-cirrus cloud coverage. Such cloud coverage is estimated to have a combined ERF that is about 57% of the current net ERF of global aviation (Lee et al. 2021), although a comparison of cirrus cloud observations under pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic conditions suggest that this forcing could be smaller (Digby et al. 2021). Additional effects from aviation from aerosol-cloud interactions on high-level ice clouds through soot (Chen and Gettelman 2013; Zhou and Penner 2014; Penner et al. 2018), and lower-level warm clouds through sulphur (Righi et al. 2013; Kapadia et al. 2016) are highly uncertain, with no best estimates available (Lee et al. 2021).

The 2 papers listed which quantify the effect:

  • Lee, D.S. et al., 2021: The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018. Atmos. Environ. , 244, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117834. Link to paper
  • Digby, R.A.R., N.P. Gillett, A.H. Monahan, and J.N.S. Cole, 2021: An Observational Constraint on Aviation-Induced Cirrus From the COVID-19-Induced Flight Disruption. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 48(20) , e2021GL095882-e2021GL095882, doi:10.1029/2021GL095882. Link to paper
a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Makes the Fallout Executable aware of memory above the 4GB RAM limitation of 32-bit systems, which helps with the RAM-leaking bucket 'o holes Bethesda engines are

anders , to Memes
@anders@rytter.me avatar

Brute force protection

@memes

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Used beginning letters of the words in song verse sprinkled with special characters for the rythm, feels good while typing

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

Conservapedia views Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism, ...

ithinkihadastroke

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

5G ("Connected Cars" for lower insurance rates have been a thing in central europe for over 20 years) and Wifi.

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

yeah, kidney and gall stones are two of the things where answering 10 on the pain scale is fully accepted by doctors, nurses and everyone who has ever experienced them. source: gall stones. i legit needed help dressing up for the ambulance ride.

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

he lures all bots from the net into Xitter, and then shuts it down!

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

I'm waiting for the first time their LLM gives advice on how to make human leather hats and the advantages of surgically removing the legs of your slaves after slurping up the rimworld subreddits lol

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

yeah, using tampons for bullet wounds is like putting a spout in the hole

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

for example: corridors that overlap (forming a crossing) but never meet, or rooms that are larger on the inside than on the outside

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

My Win10 PC with just my default apps open, which is mainly Firefox, Steam, a few other Launchers, Obsidian and Messaging clients - 8GB definitly doesn't cut it today anymore. Running a newer game smashes the 16GB border easily.
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