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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

In this world, money is power, and power absolutely does corrupt people.

I've seen a lot a fair amount of people that started off with humble beginnings, got really popular, made a ton of money, and turned into shitbags as a result because they can just fork up a bunch of cash to make problems go away.

Money and power enables you to get away with immoral stuff, if not straight up illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I wouldn't care at all. Her body her choices, if that's how she wants to earn a living I'll go grab the camera.

I just don't see porn and sex work as a taboo, it doesn't devalue her in my view. I have no need for locking her body for my viewing pleasure only. Sharing is caring.

I just want a good partner, that's the only requirement.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

The continuous increases in subscription fees for Spotify and YTM, and the ever increasing number of holes on my playlist is really having me reconsider going back to sailing the high seas or at least ripping my playlists as backup before it's all gone.

The apps have been becoming increasingly more bloated and buggy too, pay more for less and worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They manage to make it so complicated it's a whole thing to even just delete the default keyboard layout it thinks should be the default for your language too, if it stops adding it back at all.

I want "French (Canada)", not " Canadian multilangual english CSA" or "Canadian multilangual french CSA".

It's not like any of them even matches the US keyboards we end up using anyway, everyone knows the labels on the keycaps never matches what key it actually prints. Just let me pick the god damn layout I want.

On Mac it's even worse because you have to install it from some random dude's GitHub, and because it's a third-party layout, it straight up won't let you delete the default one just in case, and I have to switch it back whenever it mysteriously decides to switch to the other one on its own for no reason.

On Linux: loadkeys cf and done.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll take the autotools over Gradle, that's how much it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I would literally donate money directly to Valve if I could for all the good selfless work they're doing.

Their work on sponsoring DXVK, and Proton's development, their contributions to make the AMD drivers even more awesome, gamescope, they've been driving all the HDR and VR work on Linux, and now they're also getting even more hands on with Wayland through frog-protocols.

Meanwhile the others are either doing nothing at all except selling the games, or actively sabotaging Linux gaming and furthering Microsoft's monopoly like Epic Games is doing with their intrusive anti-cheat.

Being on Steam is being strongly pro-consumer and the first thing a developer not publishing on Steam does to me is make sure I'm very unlikely to buy their games because at least on Steam I know I won't get ripped off.

Couldn't care less about whiny developers complaining they make slightly less millions in sales for overpriced AAA games, and still impose their own launcher and shit because they only treat Steam like a store and nothing else. I pick what's good for the players not the developers. If they're unhappy there's dozens of indie developers in line to pick up the slack willing to make games I'm willing to pay for.

EDIT: And a couple hours later, Valve delivers once again: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/?sort=date

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That looks like a normal kernel to me. The mention of the surface is the hostname which comes from /etc/hostname.

Exactly how does it not work? Does the kernel even try to boot? Tried verbose mode?

You might need to regenerate your initramfs for the new hardware, I think on Fedora that's Dracut? That usually does include machine specific drivers that needs to be available during early boot, but just regenerating it should fix that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you can, and I think it makes sense: it would be weird for the compiler to unexpectedly generate hidden variables for you.

For all the compiler knows, the temporary variable could hold a file handle, a database transaction, a Mutex, or other side effects in their Drop implementation that would make when it's dropped matter. Or it could just be a very large struct you might not expect to keep around until the end of the function (or even, the end of the program if that's a main loop).

So you should be aware of it, and thus you need the temporary variable like you did even if you just immediately shadow it. But at least you know you're holding on to it until the end of the function.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Essentially, you won’t have to constantly switch between the Spotify app and your game to adjust volume, skip tracks, or pause your music.

Except literally none of these requires to even switch apps at all? That's what the notification tray is for. Swipe down hit pause swipe back up, easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Doesn't quite answer the question, but what I did back then in school is I had set up NoMachine over SSH on my laptop and just had the Windows client on my MP3 player. I'd just plug it in, run the client and remote into my laptop, and as a bonus I wasn't really using the school's computers, I was using mine remotely. Nothing to see on the school's computer, no history. For IT, I guess I just looked like a kid that's doing a lot of stuff over SSH. Today that'd be x2go, although RDP or VNC would also probably work fine.

I don't know if the remote aspect helped, but the teachers didn't care and definitely knew. A friend on mine did something similar, got caught and ultimately got away with it because the remote desktop software itself wasn't violating the policy, and he wasn't technically bypassing restrictions either, and he wasn't caught actively visiting a site that should have been blocked. YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago

No, the majority of the energy consumption is in the backlight.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

If they want them unintrusive they could just bring back the good ol' notification ticker in the status bar. Zero space wasted by annoying notifications 99% of the time.

 

Testing, I broke the database so bad my posts were federating out but not saving on my local instance, fun stuff

 

I can't post at all now?

 

I can't post at all now?

 

Tried some database tweaks

 

Tried some database tweaks

 

Neat little thing I just noticed, might be known but I never head of it before: apparently, a Wayland window can vsync to at least 3 monitors with different refresh rates at the same time.

I have 3 monitors, at 60 Hz, 144 Hz, and 60 Hz from left to right. I was using glxgears to test something, and noticed when I put the window between the monitors, it'll sync to a weird refresh rate of about 193 fps. I stretched it to span all 3 monitors, and it locked at about 243 fps. It seems to oscillate between 242.5 and 243.5 gradually back and forth. So apparently, it's mixing the vsync signals together and ensuring every monitor's got a fresh frame while sharing frames when the vsyncs line up.

I knew Wayland was big on "every frame is perfect", but I didn't expect that to work even across 3 monitors at once! We've come a long, long way in the graphics stack. I expected it to sync to the 144Hz monitor and just tear or hiccup on the other ones.

 

All the protections in software, what an amazing idea!

 

It only shows "view all comments", so you can't see the full context of the comment tree.

 

The current behaviour is correct, as the remote instance is the canonical source, but being able to copy/share a link to your home instance would be nice as well.

Use case: maybe the comment is coming from an instance that is down, or one that you don't necessarily want to link to.

If the user has more than one account, being able to select which would be nice as well, so maybe a submenu or per account or a global setting.

 

Testing federation stuff after fixing NTP

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