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  • Swiss vote to give themselves a bigger pension

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  • As someone from the USA, don’t you know how this works? Congress votes for stuff without worrying about how to pay for it all the time. When there are hard years, you issue more debt. When there are easy years, you issue less debt but still don’t really reign in debt because your constituents demand more stuff and less taxes.

  • HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.

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  • Last year I could cast episodes of DS9 I get from Paramount+ through Amazon Prime to my parents’ TV. This year I can’t, likely as an anti-piracy measure. So I hooked my device up via HDMI. Still couldn’t watch it on the TV. You know what? I’m gonna go complain to them before I stop subscribing.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • Compared to those pain points building a modern PC should be a breeze. CPUs go in Zero Insertion Force sockets so as long as you remember to lift the little lever you won’t bend any pins. People don’t even wear static discharge wrist bands anymore (all though it couldn’t hurt) or worry about shorting things out. And power connectors only fit one way unlike the AT power connector.

    Speaking of breeze your only pain point might be making sure you have enough air circulation for cooling all that gear.

  • Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition

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  • He ran out the clock for the rape charge against him in Sweden? What a scumbag.

  • lemmy.sdf.org expired certificate

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  • Guest payments? Like a PayPal payment without a PayPal account?

  • lemmy.sdf.org expired certificate

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  • PayPal’s been around for like 25 years now. SDF is the sort of organization that sticks to solutions that meet their needs, not switch to whatever new thing is becoming trendy. If you’re feeling all anti-corporate and PayPal offends your sensibilities, they’ve been accepting payments by check for even longer than they’ve accepted PayPal.

  • Considering Starting Linux

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  • But literally any PC that’s within your budget. OK maybe that’s not true, there might still be some crap WiFi cards out there with weird firmware that don’t support Linux very well. Find an older name-brand PC within your budget. Before buying it Google “[make and model] Linux WiFi” and see whether there’s tons of complaints about the WiFi. If not, go ahead and get it, put Ubuntu or Linux Mint on there, start banging out JavaScript projects, profit.

  • lemmy.sdf.org expired certificate

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  • There's also going to https://sdf.org/?subscribe, scrolling to the 2nd from the bottom row "Support SDF's efforts in the fediverse", and use that form to send them money specifically to support the fediverse services. If they get more money for the fediverse, they'll pay more attention to the needs of the fediverse. Right now they're more focused on migrating to a new array for their MetaARPA subscribers.

  • Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day

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  • Definitely true for the iBooks before them. iMacs were hip and trendy transparent plastic colors but no one wanted that clamshell affront to aesthetics in their lap.

  • Howard Zinn people's history of America, I'm reading it at the moment, is there any alternative?

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  • That is the book that is very critical and severe toward the United States. I think the problem is that that book was written as a counterpoint to the history of the United States we learn in secondary school. If you haven’t learned U.S. history from a U.S. high school history textbook, it is going to feel unbalanced, prejudiced, because you are not the target audience, who has grown up with an uncritical, unbalanced, prejudiced but in the other way, curriculum. I would imagine a book by a European scholar of U.S. history would have more potential to give a neutral outside but critical point of view.

  • Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day

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  • Yeah, Apple stuff doesn’t usually get good enough for widespread use until the 3rd generation or so. That was true for Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone, et cetera.