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TheGrandNagus

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  • TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker

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  • This.

    I'm really tired of people letting perfect behaviour the enemy of good in every single online discussion.

    I'm very well aware that parental controls aren't a 100% foolproof protection for my daughters, but that certainly doesn't make them useless.

    Based on that mentality we may as well not ban murder, because some people break the law anyway. We may as well not have vaccines, because no vaccine is 100% effective for all people. It's so brain-dead.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • The US is crazy, but I struggle to believe most voters fantasise about going around shooting people to death.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • The woman was shot in the head three times at point-blank range. There's nothing an ambulance could've done.

    Red flag? Lmao

  • Humanoid showdown: Chinese firms make up 55% of robot exhibitors at US tech event

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  • Which is now owned by Hyundai.

  • This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000

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  • That pronunciation took off because Top Gear was going to record a segment about Dacia before they hit the UK market.

    Top Gear did reach out to Dacia and ask how it was pronounced, but Dacia took so long replying to the email that by the time they did, Top Gear had already filmed it saying Day-see-er. It was too late.

    And because of the enormous reach of Top Gear at the time, that pronunciation became solidified in people's minds.

    Or at least this was the story told by Richard Porter, the ex Top Gear producer, on his podcast.

  • UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow

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  • Of course we should. And so should everybody else.

    Unfortunately though, it'll take a huge amount of time. These things always do. Anybody who thinks we can do this within even 10 years are kidding themselves.

    It is, of course, still worth doing. Second best time to plant a tree is right now, and all that.

    We'd best start funding open source, and exploring domestic/trusted country-of-origin alternatives ASAP.

  • 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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  • Hey now, you've got to use something to download Firefox a Linux ISO on a brand new windows install.

  • Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC

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  • Young drivers make more claims primarily out of lack of experience in driving. It's an issue that automatically resolves itself over time.

    The same is not true for the elderly.

  • Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

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  • Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

    In addition to being owned by the CCP, they purposely installed rootkits on consumer hardware for intense data gathering, and it ended up getting compromised.

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • I don't know how you could possibly look at Gnome and think they're trying to be the same as every other OS.

    They're seemingly the only one with the balls to move away from the WinUX way of doing things.

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • One dev without any go-ahead from Gnome did.

    And let's not forget System76 employees, as well as System76 themselves, have done the exact same thing.

  • Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?

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  • I've been using Wayland for years (2019), and I've not had any problems aside from Discord screen sharing, which was fixed a while back.

    That's on AMD hardware, mind.

    Whenever I've used X11 since, it's felt janky and not smooth. Random bugs, tearing, issues with multi monitor, issues with trackpads, etc.

  • Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)

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  • Switzerland

  • UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union

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  • I hope that as the integration of the now nationalised rail companies continues, this shit gets cut out. It'll probably be a matter of waiting for contracts to expire, though.

  • Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’

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  • You think HMRC is conspiring with Uber with the goal of making less money for HMRC? And that after years of this, it's never been leaked or alleged?

    Dunno mate. Seems more likely to me that tax-dodging internationals are just experts in dodging tax.

  • NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026

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  • Adjusted for inflation some of them did.

  • Installing Linux on friend's new PC, which distro should he use?

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  • Fedora is IBM.

    Sure, Fedora has lots of ties to RedHat, but so?

    Ubuntu is Canonical.

    Between the two, I know which has done more for Linux and open standards, and I know which is more likely to send your data to Amazon and put ads in your start menu...

  • Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted

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  • I don't like System76's past actions with regards to Gnome, or their spreading of misinformation about Gnome, but shitting on Cosmic in response seems just as petty.

    If you don't like it, don't use it.

  • Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials

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  • Good.

    People shouldn't be seeing crypto as a means to not have to pay towards society.

    If Joe Bloggs has to pay capital gains for making £50k profit selling shares, it stands to reason he should also pay it if he profits £50k selling whatever shitcoin is trending at the moment.

  • Lord of the memes @midwest.social
    TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

    where did it go