Nursie

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by Nursie 10mo ago
Because it is massively exaggerated by those with an agenda to distract from the US. But go on, tell me about how “free speech zones” are meaningfully different to this. You won’t be arrested so long as you stay in your zone down the street
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> 20 years ago if you had told someone … you might get your messages and emails scanned in case you send something that the government deems suspicious to someone else, people would have laughed at you. 20 years ago we already knew the U
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by Nursie 10mo ago
From the link - This is possibly due to better reporting practices by the police as well as an increasing willingness of victims to come forward, including historic victims of sexual violence. Not definitive, but certainly a possible explan
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by Nursie 10mo ago
But only for some highly specific searches, when what it should be doing is checking if it's any sort of medical query and keeping the hell out of it because it can't guarantee reliability. It's still baffling to me that the
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by Nursie 10mo ago
Xfce and MATE are fairly similar in a lot of ways. Back in the day Xfce had more emphasis on being lightweight than Gnome 2 did. In terms of being able to put your UI elements wherever you want, being simple, configurable and non-opinionate
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> The settings feel like you're almost in a config file. What on earth? No, the config has dialogues and intuitive controls. There is a settings-editor you can go into if you need to, with a bit more of a regedit kinda feel, but I
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I concur with the author - XFCE is a great desktop. I first used it on an eeepc because something light was the order of the day. But then Gnome 3 happened and I made the switch on my full-strength machines too. It works and it works well
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I like the greybird and greybird-dark themes, I think greybird is the default with xubuntu. (edit - there are a ton of themes out there: https://www.xfce-look.org Though personally I would avoid using their app)
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by Nursie 10mo ago
You can do some xrandr magic to make it better and set a virtual rendering target that keeps things consistent across screens. It's a bit of a pain to work out though.
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> In the Wayland era (which I must assume is the baseline context) But that's not where we are, a lot of people still haven't moved and XFCE only has premliminary support for wayland at this time. But it doesn't matter, xf
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by Nursie 10mo ago
That was a standalone piece though, rather than some sort of trend. The choose-your-own nature of it was integral to the story and referential to the contemporary books which were CYO. Your theory fits fine with “We’re not going to make a
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by Nursie 10mo ago
So, it's obvious where the money goes, it's welfare, because everything is welfare. 0% insight there then.
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by Nursie 10mo ago
It's not my contention really that the UK or other nation can or can't afford to do things differently, it's more that that is the constant refrain coming from mainstream politics, along with a multitude of other excuses for
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by Nursie 10mo ago
Yes, that is the other side of the coin, that people are not just attracted to change because of loss of faith in the mainstream, but actually going over to support the populists. And this is not aimed at you, but I do see all too often tha
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by Nursie 10mo ago
That's about 25% of UK government spending. 33% if you include pensions. The UK does have an issue with a lowering number of people in productive work and ever more on various kinds of disability payout, it's true, but this - >
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> Starmer’s winter fuel allowance for example. To me this is a prime example of the problem - they were really just fucking around at the edges anyway. It wasn't any sort of major reform. That old scene from Futurama often springs t
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by Nursie 10mo ago
Agreed. I am not a supporter of Nigel Farage and his many different parties in the UK ('Reform' just being the latest incarnation), and I don't believe his policies offer any real answers. But what the rise of Reform does sho
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> In the US you can often buy houses with no money down. Presumably you can't just walk up to a bank and say "I'd like finance to buy 10 houses please!" with no collateral beyond the houses you're purchasing? Her
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> There are people who bought a house for $100k in 1990 where that house is now worth $2M. Are you $1.9M richer? No. This is often repeated but not 100% correct. You are in fact richer, and you can leverage this $2m in equity to take on
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I can keep a v4 in my head, briefly. v6 not so much. Or shout one across a room to someone. Of course that’s due to the relatively small amount of information it contains and having a larger address space is always going to break that.
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I think the problem comes when someone makes a cool, fun, silly little game that is otherwise great when played with randoms, and cheating just sorta spoils it. Case in point from a few years back - Fall Guys. Silly fun, sloppy controls, a
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by Nursie 10mo ago
You comment as if having windows ensures you have perfect laptop power management every time. It doesn’t. I’ve had windows laptops that burn power when closed and apparently sleeping (in fact we still have it, a Lenovo yoga device), or just
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I tried a load of different versions including blu-ray rips IIRC, and it was all just as bad. When I last rewatched it (early pandemic), as far as I could tell at the time there was no HDR version available, which I assume would fix it by b
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by Nursie 10mo ago
Game of Thrones S8E3. Could barely tell what was going on, everything was so dark, and black crush killed it completely, making it look blocky and janky. I watched it again a few years later, on max brightness, sitting in the dark, and I go
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> a single person working full-time will earn enough to support a household of four including housing (mortgage/rent), food, healthcare, and education. Here’s the problem - some people will still make the choice to have ‘get ahead’
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I upgraded to windows 11 as soon as it was offered. Even went out and bought a tpm addon for my motherboard - not that I needed one 100% but activating the onboard one on Zen 3 at the time was thought to cause stuttering… Anyway, why would
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Good god no. The iPhone was out two years ago before the N900. Nokia was already fucked because it had set up a system in which internal divisions designed competing phones, as a result it had flooded the market with similar but-not-quite-t
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> A quick glance at the forums also confirms that USB port was poorly designed and is prone to breaking. That was the death of mine. I had an external battery charger that I could use to charge the machine overnight, but it was too much
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Yeah it reads almost like something Terry Pratchett might have made up :) And I agree, he’s got a way of providing reactionary, contrarian soundbites, which keeps the papers going back to him.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> The ban only targets ten services. This is considered a startup phase AFAICT, with others being looked at as necessary. > The ban applies only to actually logging into the service - everything can still be viewed when logged out. Us

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