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  • do you miss anything from windows?

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  • An IME.

    I'm sure it's possible to get it to work, but all I found the one time I tried to set it up was solutions that completely replace my existing keyboard, which is an issue because I use a custom layout. I tried making something work but only succeeded in somehow breaking everything (I forgot how I fixed it but I eventually did)

    Arch with KDE btw if anyone happens to have the solution

  • Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language?

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  • It's likely not that this attitude results from his politics, but that his politics result from the same views that result in this attitude. It's a narrow world view, perpetuated by propaganda and the american civil religion (not that this is exclusive to the US, but it sure seems prevalent there).

    Ignore him best you can, and do what makes you happy. Not sure if there's a way to convince him to help you save for it, but if he thinks that murica is the greatest country on earth, it seems unlikely he'd ever support you wanting to leave that - temporarily or permanently.

  • My PC boots faster than my monitor turns on

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  • Afaik it's a displayport issue (because DP has the feature to detect if PC is on). I've had the issue on multiple monitors that it wouldn't turn on the next time I booted the PC. After a lot of unsuccessful googling I finally found that the pc off-> monitor off -> pc on-> pc doesn't see monitor -> monitor stays off apparently happens because of a capacitor not discharging properly, getting the monitor stuck in "pc off" state. Flipping the monitor power switch (or disconnecting the power cable) for 15-20 seconds has so far always fixed it for me.

    But maybe there are other reasons too.

  • "China is AuThORItAriAN!" - Liberals

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  • That's not what fascism is either lol

    I wouldn't call china fascist, though doubtlessly authoritarian. But I don't have nearly as much info on china, it seems to me the persecution of minorities is less of a central political scapegoat and more some weird side thing. But without speaking chinese, I might be wrong. The US had plenty of fascist characteristics at this point and is rather open about the persecution.

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • It's just p2w with extra steps. Pay to get stronger, or pay someone to play for you to get stronger. When games are designed to either make you play a lot or pay to get stuff to make you stronger, some people will gladly pay to either feel powerful, or just skip enough of the grind that they can focus on what's fun.

    I kind of get it, but at the point where I'd be spending hundreds or make someone play for me, I'd just look for a different game.

  • The Next (De)Generation

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  • Just fyi you cannot really stop seeding completely, torrents work in tiny chunks and the moment you have one of them you can provide it to others.

  • No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts

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  • My problem isn't my job, I am completely fine with that, it's the way I barely function in my personal life, and a lot of that isn't related to the structure of our society at all. There could be less friction in a few places yes but that wouldn't completely fix my issues either.

  • Wow wow wow... European Gas prices just surged 50% after Qatar said LNG infrastructure is under threat

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  • Heating. Swapping which is far above the price of a used car.

    Edit: i realize now you said water heater, but switching off gas generally involves swapping the entire heatinf system, the costs of which are usually 5 digit for a single family home.

  • A product of his environment

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  • HOA plus calling a priest to have the house blessed certainly point in that direction though. But I don't think that would be legal everywhere even there. Isn't much use to you though if the neighbour is the kind of psycho to shoot someone over this.

  • Studie zeigt, wie Tierhalter Vermögen verlieren: Veganer machen Ställe wertlos

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  • In nem ökonomischen Kontext könnte man das schon so bezeichnen, wenn jetzt plötzlich jeder veganer wäre, aber selbst dann ist aber ganz klar mit Absicht so formuliert, um das als was schlechtes darzustellen.

    In solchen Fällen macht die freie Marktwirtschaft halt mal das, was sie so macht bei sinkender Nachfrage. Das passierte ja auch nich von heute auf morgen, man hätte ja schon vorher auf was anderes umsteigen können. Mal davon abgesehen, dass Deutschland insgesamt immer noch verdammt viel Fleisch isst.

  • Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

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  • It would need to have an atmosphere, so asteroids and most (all? Idk not an astronomer) moons are out.

    Mars might be feasible at some point in the far future, but there's still the lag problem of 3-20 minutes depending on time of year, so not very useful for anything user facing.

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  • Same in germany. One of many things that disproportionately affect poor people.

  • New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes

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  • I should've clarified, with "this" i mean more the general sentiment about regulation of these lootboxes that I've seen in other contexts as well - other than the general topic I don't really have an opinion on the lawsuit other than it seeming a bit ridicous to reimburse every customer in full.

  • New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes

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  • There is one core difference to most other lootboxes, and it's that the skins you get from them have a tangible real world value. It is actually, in every way, resemblant of a slot machine. Put in money, receive an amount of money that is less than what you put in on average (though I guess it's never 0).

    I'd have far more support for this if we didn't have something matching this entirely for decades, completely legal for kids, with the only difference being that you get a physical item instead of something digital. Of course, I'm referring to trading cards. By all means regulate both, but regulating the digital version while not touching the physical one is insane.

  • Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

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  • Which studies? A quick search doesn't seem to confirm that at all. From checking some of those studies, there seems to be a weak/low certainty correlation of lower meat consumption with lower cancer risks, a correlation (with geographical differences) of meat consumption with being overweight, but also other factors like smoking and low physical activity which really call into question whether other studies took that into account, and also a correlation between higher meat consumption and lower risk for depression (which I would also call into question given meat consumption's correlation with high socioeconomic status).

    All I can get from those metastudies is a big nothing burger of "maybe"'s in either direction.

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • I've always acted assuming this to be possible, but it used to require either an unhinged individual or some other reason for a very dedicated investigation. The barrier being potentially that much lower is scary, particularly for anyone with a bit of internet fame that would rather stay anonymous

  • huh. didn't expect that

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  • Having steam installed both ways was the easiest way to be logged in to 2 steam accounts simultaneously.

    But also why does it matter, the whole point of arch is that you can turn it into whatever the hell you want. If that means using discover as your main source for programs, then so be it.

  • Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona

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  • You need to fill tax info and everything, which is a very good reason to not need ID because your tax number should be identifying already. I guess they want to combat fraud, but this still seems like a complete overreach.

  • Discord’s new blog post shouldn’t change your mind on them at all.

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  • Nitro is pretty popular. I know a lot of people including myself that cancelled it over the age verification bs.

    They still clearly make money through ads and at the very least they scan messages for spam prevention, but also the fact that they are able to guess users age based on discord usage implies they're profiling users. For which they probably also utilize message content.