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TheGrandNagus

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  • Westerners and western propaganda. Name a more iconic duo.

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  • Are you serious? North Korea kills people for all kinds of things. E.g. Watching foreign media

    Edit: they were never heard from again 🤣

    Sorry I'm not terminally online like you. I actually have a life outside of simping for North Korea online.

  • What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better?

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  • It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.

    Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they're committed to.

    Not everyone likes it, and I get it's very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.

    Extensions break with every update.

    Sort of.

    When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome's default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you're upgrading to the first Beta releases, you're unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.

    You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.

    If you just use the stable branch, you're unlikely to ever get broken extensions.

  • Protestation

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  • Are we going to be ranking people on a fascist to antifascist scale using ohms now?

  • Westerners and western propaganda. Name a more iconic duo.

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  • One is a democracy with a figurehead monarch that the populace could get rid of if there was popular demand for it.

    The other is an absolute monarchy that will kill you for criticising the monarch.

  • Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone

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  • No, it isn't.

    Some parts are open source. Much of it isn't. And it's certainly not limited to just UX.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • Leonardo DiCaprio (51), whose girlfriend is 27.

    I'm a little grossed out on a personal level (as someone who is "only" 40) at being in a relationship with someone that's 27. To me we'd be culturally different enough that it would probably bother me.

    Though that's probably less of a factor when the culture you've been in for decades is the Hollywood lifestyle, unlike the average person who predominantly hangs around with people close to themselves in ages.

    But come The fuck on. The reality is that they're both consenting adults and can do whatever the hell they want.

    Fucking a 14 year old is not even in the same universe as fucking a 27 year old. What are you smoking?

    DiCaprio clearly finds women in their mid 20s attractive. Newsflash: most 51 year olds will be attracted to an attractive 27 year old.

    I've never quite understood the anger at DiCaprio over this. Women in their mid 20s are not children. They have brains. They are more than capable of consenting. Neither are doing anything wrong.

  • Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

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  • It absolutely did not start here only after Brexit, and it's absolutely not alien to Britain.

    God forbid the state rail company uses state branding.

  • Replace One Word In A Star Trek Quote With Sausage

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  • Good sausage. Nice house.

  • Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year

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  • ChromeOS isn't successful.

  • Firefox 147 Promises Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification, Beta Out Now

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  • I use the flatpak so it makes no difference to me, but nice. That used to frustrated me.

  • For whoever needs to hear this:

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  • It's worth noting that Pressman wasn't alone in this, he had approval, it was just kept hushed.

    I'm going to do something a little different from the rest of the comments here and think about it from a strategic realpolitik perspective: the Federation played an absolute blinder with the phased cloak device. It was a genuine strategic and political masterstroke.

    They knew the Romulans, who they signed a treaty with not to develop cloaking technology in exchange for peace, were becoming emboldened and expansionist... they were gearing to break the peace anyway. They knew the Romulans, in their arrogance, thought the treaty held them back. That their agreement to peace was a mistake, and that their empire was suffering because of it.

    So the Federation says yes, develop this cloaking tech that is vastly beyond anything the Romulans (or Klingons) have.

    The Romulans see it, and they can't believe it. They can't believe how woefully outmatched they are.

    Suddenly it dawns upon them that breaking the Treaty of Algeron is something they really don't want to do, and that confrontation is not in their interest.

    The Federation then says, so how about this treaty, eh? Should we scrap it, slap this phased cloak on all of our ships, then go to war? Or should we bin this cloak and both agree stick to the treaty? Put yourself in the Romulans' shoes... what would you do when you're faced with that choice? The Federation have just given a clear demonstration of their technical prowess... would you want to go up against that? The Romulans had no real choice but to tuck their tail between their legs and put out a statement saying they're committed to the treaty.

    Both parties silently agree that the event didn't happen. But the Federation comes out of it top dog. Their enemy has been put in their place and knows that a war would not go well for them.

  • Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone

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  • That's hard to do given the driver issues, how locked down phones are, and the fact you're completely reliant on the benevolence of another faceless multi-billion (or trillion) dollar company.

  • Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone

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  • It's proprietary with some open source components.

    They've said they aim to be fully open source some day

  • Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

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  • Blame the HDMI consortium. Bastards.

    That said, I'm not sure why it'd be a deal-breaker. In 2026 this will be a low-end PC. It's using a 2 year old laptop GPU that Valve has dumped more power into.

  • Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

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  • Because TV OEMs are the ones in the HDMI consortium.

  • Jolla Phone Pre-order Voucher

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  • You can optionally donate money each month.

    They call this a SailfishOS subscription, but in my mind a monthly donation with no strings attached doesn't really count as a subscription.

    You don't get anything from it directly, it just goes towards software development, funding the forum, etc.

  • Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel

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  • I don't really think it's the same.

    Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn't have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron's RAM, there's been no actual reduction in supply.

    If Intel did the same as Micron did, it'd be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff under their own names (say, the Corsair 5 XYZ), and Intel only sold Xeons directly.

    The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they're the ones who bought 40% of the world's RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it.

    I don't like the killing of Crucial, fuck Micron for that, but OpenAI is who triggered the RAM shortage, and Micron is actually the least to blame of the big 3 RAM manufacturers for the issues we're having.

  • RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

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  • OpenAI abruptly bought 40% of global supply, and announced it.

    Other companies found out about it when OpenAI announced and thought holy shit, if we hadn't heard of this massive deal, what else haven't we heard of?!, and so they started panic buying.

    On top of that, because of US tariffs and trade restrictions, the Chinese "B-tier" memory companies, who usually buy old machines from the big 3 (SK-Hynix, Samsung, Micron) and sell this lower spec RAM at lower margins, didn't buy up these machines as much as they usually do. They weren't sure they'd be able to make a profit given their lower margins, should tariffs suddenly change again or other restrictions get put in place.

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • On the one hand, I actually think this is a very good thing. Social media is especially damaging to children.

    However:

    The government says platforms must take “reasonable steps” to keep kids off their sites and use age assurance technologies, such as uploading official ID or facial/voice recognition, but they haven’t specified what technology platforms should use.

    I hope the law stipulates that Meta is not allowed to keep this data, or use it for any purpose other than the verification itself. Not for training, not for building a profile on someone, nothing. Unfortunately the article doesn't elaborate on that.

    If they're allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It'd be all kinds of fucked up.

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