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Linux nerd. Music lover. Specialty coffee obsessed. The list goes on; stop using so many gosh darn periods!

  • As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll | Common Dreams

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  • At least link a source or something. AOC has been, to my knowledge, one of the most outspoken people against the genocide.

  • Sacrifice for the greater good

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  • This is what I thought of too, lol. Lemmy is great, I never expected to find le Guin allusions in my doom scrolling

  • Beware

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  • This is the main reason I switched. I got about 30% less performance on a 3060 Ti in Linux than on Windows. And then Counter Strike 2 came out and I was fucked. Now I get about 30% more performance on Linux than on Windows with my 7900 XT (got it on super sale, so worth it). That is ultimately why I switched. And I can use sway and hyprland now, instead of i3. For me, the switch to AMD brought huge improvements.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • Does anyone still talk about Keeper password manager? I feel like I used to hear about that one a lot, and now it has just disappeared off of the face of the earth.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • The beauty of open source

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Well, I unfortunately failed.

    Do they install DNS filters locally on the machines at all?

    No, the kids are allowed to bring their own laptops, because some rich parents insisted on their kids using MacBooks. I tried pushing Linux for the kiddo, but turns out whatever CISCO wifi system the school is using actively blocks Linux (including, for some reason, black listing the arch repos). A lot of stuff is blocked — though easily bypassed by VPNs or the wireguard router proxy I set up — by wifi black lists, including random stuff like duckduckgo and dict.cc

    Actually, I did get an ad for a vibrator on dict.cc once, so maybe that makes sense after all. I, a man. Not sure what I'd use it for.

    I'm unfortunately not a parent, just a relative, so there is only so much I can do to harass the school about it. I also live abroad, so 🤷 — I try though.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • no, I didn’t, thank god. I misunderstood the post, will edit my comment

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • What's wrong with "this show is only available for rent or purchase"? That's how I grew up 😬 back in the good ol' days

    edit: never mind, I misunderstood

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Nah, I managed surprisingly well. In third grade I did really intense dyslexic-specific tutoring (9h a week), and it helped massively. I actually ended up scoring the highest reading comprehension score in my random regional school's class in 5th grade, I think because of it. There were struggles, but nothing I couldn't live with. One of my best friends was trans (not publicly back then, ofc), and trust me their school experience was far, far more difficult. I just felt some camaraderie, finding someone else with a audio processing disorder; I didn't mean to fish for sympathy or anything like that.

  • I want that setup.

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  • cause I feel like there's more important hardware I could invest in

    Well, I can recommend a desk record player, lol. I use the length of my desk-records (e.g., obscure 1€ techno finds) as a pomodoro timer, so I know when to take a break. Actually quite nice, though a little ridiculous as well.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • That is 100% fair. I just wanted to add my two cents. But you're right, regional high cuisine, especially French, is a different league. I don't necessarily think that league is superior, but it is a different class within haute cuisine.

  • I want that setup.

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  • Damn, that is a much more reasonable explanation than I expected. Your life seems much more multi-tasky than mine, but I still kinda want an additional monitor now somehow; you’ve converted me, lol. I 100% get wanting a separate screen for meetings, especially, and the prompter solution sounds great. Maybe it is overkill, but if overkill is the best solution, and you can afford it, I would go for it.

  • I want that setup.

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  • I only have space for one monitor, because the rest of my (large) desk if crammed with speakers, amplifiers, DACs, a record player, vacuum tube phono, and midi controllers. Someday I'll get a super sized desk that has space for two monitors. Four is crazy though, what is the use-case even?

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Fountain pens for the win, nothing as nice as writing cursive with a good, wet fountain pen. I learned in primary and hated it, and then got obsessed with calligraphy in 10th grade and got a proper fountain pen and good ink and fell in love with the experience.

    Learning to write well is really wonderful. I wish I had learned properly in school, instead of having to teach myself. I will teach my offspring, though! If I ever have any — not looking so promising in the current climate. As in political, but also climate change.

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  • There's an argument to be made against standardized testing. Very neurodivergent individuals, for example, can suffer a lot under bad standardized tests. Idk, though, it would be better to just make a better system, rather than letting people opt out. As long as that's not happening, there is, however, an argument against standardized tests.

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  • Same!!! I have the auditory thingy and dyslexia, so writing (words, not math) was hell on earth for me for most of highschool. Getting to use a laptop in 11th and 12th grade was a godsent.

    But in 10th grade I actually did something that mostly solved my hatred of handwriting: I taught myself calligraphy and whole-arm-writing. Now I love handwriting, don't have pain doing it anymore, people compliment my writing, etc.

    Though I still can't listen to stuff while writing 🤷 luckily I was able to use a laptop in lectures (philosophy is very notes heavy), and after college it becomes irrelevant, thank god.

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  • I did! The IT department literally laughed at me. I also tried to get them to let teachers install uBlock Origin, because they apparently will watch educational YouTube videos in class sometimes, and then get random ads for everyone to suffer under. But uBlock Origin doesn't have their support... Ironically, they only support Windows computers and iPhones on the school network. Android, MacOS, and Linux are all officially unsupported.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • Jazz!

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • This depends. In my experience anything processed tastes horrible because of chemical and sugar overload. But you can get great ingredients! Much better than here in Germany anyway.

    And there are many more diverse great restaurants than in most places in Germany, ngl. In the US, you can go to any small town and find a great homemade style Korean place, or something like that. No such luck in Germany, they'll serve you 14€ frozen pizza.

    (In my experience anyway. These are large countries, so none of this is rule, just personal experience)

    The winner is no questions Italy, though. Best pizza I ever had was in 8€ in an Italian town with ~5000 inhabitants. Unbelievable. Only good restaurant there, though, but I'll never forget the experience.

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    UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Oat Milk Branding

    www.techdirt.com /2026/02/13/uk-supreme-court-affirms-ruling-that-oatly-cant-use-milk-in-its-almond-milk-branding/
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    UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Oat Milk Branding

    www.techdirt.com /2026/02/13/uk-supreme-court-affirms-ruling-that-oatly-cant-use-milk-in-its-almond-milk-branding/
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why don’t they null?!?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why can’t I get them to null?!?

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Other Cat Found in Bed

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    I opened the windows in -5°C and this is the cat’s reaction

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the longest audiobook you've ever heard?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    I guess there goes my weekend

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Totally normal book on audible

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    peekaboo

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    Thnickels! For safety!

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    Made with Frontpage 98

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