WackyFighter

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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> International law clearly states that a sovereign nation has the right to self-rule, without external intervention. The UN Charter doesn't differentiate between democractic and non-democratic nations - it's up to the people o
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> TL;DR: 2026 is going to be The Year of The Linux Desktop for me. I haven't booted into Windows in over 3 months on my tower and I'm starting to realize that it's not worth wasting the space for. Similarly I haven't
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
> Stop creating sock puppet accounts to push your agenda, please. I don't keep logins for this site. I don't really care about have a consistent presence here. I don't have any sock puppet accounts. If I was pushing an age
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by WackyFighter 9mo ago
When I read comments like this, I honestly think that people are only complaining about this because the "bad people" are doing this (in this case Microsoft/Gnome Team). Neglecting the fact that almost everyone else is doing
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
I use this script here and it will remove the stupid bing search feature. https://github.com/musman96/win11debloat
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
It is more likely they have no conceptual understanding that the PDF is a file format. They likely assume that whatever is shown in the interface is what is exported.
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
Maybe in the late 90s and early 2000s. These days hardware from over a decade ago works fine. I am typing this comment on a 2011 Dell E6410. Install Debian / Arch Linux and the machine is surprisingly capable. Just running HTOP I am us
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
What laptops though? Most people end up getting either Thinkpads, old Dell business laptop or something like a framework. Most people learn that using some crap top will leave you with stuff on the laptop not working e.g. volume buttons, wi
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
That isn't it. Generally whatever the majority of users tend to use that where the majority of focus goes. The vast majority of people that were using Linux on the desktop before 2015 were either hobbyists, developers or people that di
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
You are deflecting from the original point, while saying nothing. It simply doesn't work for a lot of people and never will and you were trying to pretend these are niche things when they are not. People generally don't like publi
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
It doesn't matter who does it. To stream you need to send the player input across the net, process, render and then send that back to the client. There is no way to eliminate that input lag. Any game that is requires high APM (Action P
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
The lag is high. Google was doing this with stadia. A huge amount of money comes from online multiplayer games and almost all of them require minimal latency to play well. So I doubt EA, Microsoft, Activision is going to effectively kill th
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
Right. So you didn't watch it and instead cherry picked the comments. You missed a key thing in the video. It isn't really any cheaper using public transport. BTW my experience was roughly the same as in the video but replace buse
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
It seems you really didn't understand the point of the video.
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
If you watched the video. The point is that it was something like a 2 and a half hour commute via public transport, it was much shorter while driving. It isn't a "super commute" if you are travelling less than an hour. A comm
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
Bari Weiss is well known and influential Journalist if you are an American Politico, I never found her particularly interesting. Outside of that she doesn't have much name recognition. It is like Glenn Greenwald, if you care about Snow
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
> And that is perfectly fine, nobody should be exerting themselves needlessly. Where a car makes the most sense, use it. That wasn't what you were suggesting by the way we worded it.
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
> And only after that should we have cars. Cars should also be reserved for very heavy loads (more than 50kg), groups of people (not single drivers, 2+ people in the car), and various other niche uses. There is a (slightly) tongue in che
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
I find it is the opposite way around. I come up with <simple solution> based on open source tooling and I am forced instead to use <expensive enterprise shite> which is 100% lock in proprietary BS because <large corporat
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
Quite a lot of people understand more nuance than you would give them credit for. You are falling for the narrative that most people can't understand these things. Many just understand complaining about it won't do any good. I was
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
Normies will circumvent this when it becomes too onerous.
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
As a British Citizen I've just decided I don't care what the law is and I will just circumvent any of these laws. The current government have basically told everyone that OSA, Mandatory Digital ID etc. is going to happen whether t
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by WackyFighter 10mo ago
It is because the vast majority of the people don't understand really what the internet is, how it works and therefore cannot understand the consequences. However the effects of immigration (both positive and negative), inflation and n