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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Lol Red Hat had been X.org's largest contributor for years...
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Dunno lately FreeBSD has been making a push to be compatible on more laptops and to install desktop environments on install.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
> Anything outside of the stuff required to make a graphical desktop work? That's kinda big, no?
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Ish. Most FreeBSD installs still make use of stuff like Wayland and a lot of Linux parts.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
> wonder how it compares, if at all, with Godot nowadays. It doesn't. Godot is a 3D game engine and editor. Monogame is more like SDL or Raylib: just a library to make writing games from scratch easier.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Let's be real, this won't be solved by reducing consumption, only carbon capture technology (likely well into the future). It's in no nation's interest, from a game theory perspective, to stunt their own growth to reduce
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Rich countries will never feel it. Look at the middle east. Already scorching desert, they build indoor ski hills... On the plus side, I think we'll solve global warming, with technology, in a few generations.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
> afraid to recognize Taiwan's independence No one is afraid. Taiwan themselves still claim to be the Republic of China and not separate from the rest of China.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
In Canada this is the same price as something like this: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/acer-aspire-14-ai-copil... So not bad, maybe a tad underwhelming but for those in the Apple ecosystem it's a dece
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
All this is game theory top to bottom. The only way to really quantify productivity is to look at "how much" of a thing has been created. In this case, lines of code, features, files, etc... So of course people who want to maxi
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Ok. Take something like Gnome software or KDE discover, where you can add different sources. You can point to both your distro's repos AND Flathub. Is the store the app? Is it Flathub? Theres different sources depending on which d
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Metal and glass are overrated. Glass cracks, metal bends and stays bent... Plastic, especially high quality plastics combined with a magnesium chassis in a ThinkPad, is way more durable.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
LLMs copied this style of writing, no doubt by training on blog content. Blogs have been doing it forever now...
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Did they? Or is it regulatory capture? MS is really pushing their online MS account thing, Apple and Google already have online accounts associated with your OS profile. It feels a lot like regulatory capture...
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
No one could interpret yum or apt as stores on their own. The "store" would be the repository that the software is coming from.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
LaTeX is probably annoying as a Word replacement however RMarkdown with embedded LaTeX saved me sooooo much time on my economics homework in university. Being able to put code, equations, graphs generated by said code, etc... all in one fi
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
And no one uses WhatsApp, Telegram, Line or another cross platform messaging service?
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
> the ability to reliably send quality video to iPhone users. Just curious but why? Is it iMessage lock in?
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
https://e.foundation/legal-notice-privacy/ Read this. They still collect much of the same data Google does. Why should I trust them over Google? And even if they might be morally better, it's basically impossib
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
I was young but I do remember during the 90's my really nerdy computer/programmer friends being into Apple stuff until around the time Steve Jobs left, then getting into Unixes and eventually messing around with Linux or going bac
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
To add to this, midrange phones and laptops are now more than "good enough". You can get a phone for a couple hundred dollars that plays just about any game, runs any software, takes good enough pictures. Laptops too. Look at th
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888274 Grok predicted it. The signs were there. Plans changing is their story, but the US buildup had just finished days prior.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
You thinking anything OP did improves security or data privacy proves the midwit meme...
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Saying "someone lost $500k" definitely implies one person. 10,000 people losing $50 isn't noteworthy. And someone at the door? If you see 3 people, you don't say someone. You'd only say someone if you're exp
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
So you don't know anything about gambling lol. Yes, generally both sides of the book balance (minus a cut for the bookie). But there's not automatically another exactly opposite bet of the same size lol.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Doesn't mean everyone's always paying attention. Also, do you have a link that someone lost $500k? Because it's not in the original link.
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
It was pretty obvious it would happen this weekend, no corruption needed. The Iran protests happened, Iran massacred a bunch of protesters, Trump said "Help is on the way". Then US aircraft carriers started moving towards the mid
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
In a similar but slightly different vein, I found that doing things with my own child (now 3.5 years old) is far more rewarding than I ever imagined. Nothing makes me happier than seeing the joy in his eyes when he discovers something new,
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
On Samsung phones you can skip making a Samsung account. All the Google bits still work and it's basically the same as having a Pixel, except you'll have a few unused apps, a different camera and phone app and a very slightly dif
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by dismalaf 8mo ago
Customizing it to your liking is different than "setting it up".

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