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banazir

@ banazir @lemmy.ml

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  • Guess what came in the mail yesterday?

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  • Oh my, that looks like an amazing portable audio player! If I didn't have my two trusty devices I might get one. Hope it serves you well!

  • Tea is basically just salad water.

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  • Coffee is bean soup.

  • Why did PinePhone fail?

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  • I'd say it didn't fail. It was never really a consumer phone. It was an attempt to get hardware in the hands of developers, and it achieved that.

    Other posts here discuss why it didn't receive wider adoption.

    I daily drove my PinePhone until I could no longer receive MMS messages, since my service provider has a different APN for the internet and MMS. That, and the modem became more unreliable over time. I like my PinePhone, but an average user would never adopt it as it is.

  • Who is the enemy?

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  • This brought to mind a collection of asshole admin stories from the early internet. With a bit of googling, it was The Bastard Operator From Hell. God, I haven't thought of those since the 90s. I can't believe I could even recall something like that.

    Anyway, fuck users.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • I recently installed Windows 10 after a few years of Linuxing and holy shit, the updater is just bad. I had more fun running Gentoo updates back in early 2000's. How is Windows updater so slow? How is it so bad at informing the user what's going on? How is it that every open source package manager I've used handles update infinitely better? Microsoft has a lot engineers, what are they doing with their time? Why is it so bad? Like, just, why?

  • They'd just appear out of nowhere

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  • Yes, my migraines are mostly "silent" these days. As a teenager, I just had the headaches without aura, but that changed with age. Nowadays I get all kinds of weird and uncomfortable pro- and postdrome effects, like ocular aura, but rarely pain. I have a family member whose only migraine symptom is a crippling stomach ache. Migraines are super weird.

  • They'd just appear out of nowhere

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  • Well, yes and no. It's kind of an area you can't see, but it's there. Also, it starts as a small dot and them starts expanding/moving. It's also flashing, kind of like static noise on an old TV. Luckily those things usually last like 15 minutes or so. Still, not a fun experience.

  • Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs

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  • It's a very important realization to have though. Now incorporate this vital information and make peace with your fallibility. Everyone is susceptible cognitive biases and it pays to know yours. Stay vigilant.

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    Please don't promote Wayland

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  • Use Wayland!

  • This seems applicable to quite a few things

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  • Dee Snider's speech at the Senate Hearing is a fucking banger.

  • This seems applicable to quite a few things

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  • Yeah, there's nothing new under the sun. These conversations are likely as old as humanity. It's an ongoing and living discussion about societal boundaries. I don't see it being "resolved" any time soon either.

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    The Oval Office, then and now.

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  • Jesus, that is so gaudy.

  • TIL something that is mind blowing yet totally useless

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  • Well, at least the year 2025 isn't some boring number, like, say, 1729. What an unremarkable number that is.

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    Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released

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  • Depends wholly on the situation. Right now, I needed Windows for a piece of hardware with no Linux support, so I installed Windows and just steamrolled my earlier openSUSE Leap installation. I will now dual boot with Debian for a while until I no longer need Windows.

    When switching distros, you can usually copy your config files over. Or you can have a separate /home partition that doesn't get wiped. This can cause issues though, due to version and structural differences between distros.

    Personally, I only save what I absolutely need, like say browser bookmarks, and prefer to just get a fresh start. So, I just wipe everything. How you want to go about it is up to what you feel comfortable with, however. There's rarely any one true way to do things in Linux. Free as in Freedom.

    Always remember to backup any data before switching distros though. Always.

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    Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released

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  • Oh yeah, gonna slap that bad boy on my laptop soon.

  • After uproar, 'South Park' pummels Trump again and hits at JD Vance, Kristi Noem

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  • While I find this season hasn't been terribly well written or even all that funny, I really enjoy watching these episodes. In this time of instability and chaos, it feels somewhat cathartic to see them just go balls-to-the-wall with their insults on these absolute bastards. On a meta level, they seem to be dropping nuance to get reactions from their targets and even hoping to get sued, perhaps looking to shed light on some hypocrisy in their targets. Or maybe they are just Trey and Matt, frustrated at the current political situation and not inclined to give a fuck anymore. Cartman's confusion is probably just them acknowledging their difficulty parodying people whose entire life is a farce.

    The end credits were a fucking riot, though.

    Illegitimi non carborundum.

  • i am really worried about what's going on in eu

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  • They're looking to install Nigel Farage as their prime minister. The island is derelict.

  • i am really worried about what's going on in eu

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  • From the fact Britain produced Orwell, Huxley's Brave New World, and Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, I figure the UK has always been some shade of "Orwellian".

  • Hey, Libs

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  • Are you not triggered‽