brucethemoose

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Avatar: The Last Airbender lemmy.world

The original is all a parody, though. That's the point.

5h ago

Trump Demands Death Penalty for Reporters in Unhinged War Rant

Or imprisonment.

Point is, that's not what the quote directly said. And that's what distinguishes journalism, and tabloids like DailyBeast (or talking heads/"analysis" like Fox News). Hence, every actual news outlet on this topic went with a factual headline, and quoted Trump directly instead of making a jump.

This distinction is very important to me. Ragebait like DailyBeast is why Trump is in power and the world sucks now, because it works.

5h ago

Trump Demands Death Penalty for Reporters in Unhinged War Rant

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116235861005528220

The source is a Truth Social post:

click to expand full quote:

Iran has long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations. They are Militarily ineffective and weak, but are really good at “feeding” the very appreciative Fake News Media false information. Now, A.I. has become another Disinformation weapon that Iran uses, quite well, considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony “Kamikaze Boats,” shooting at various Ships at Sea, which looks wonderful, powerful, and vicious, but these Boats don’t exist — It’s all false information to show how “tough” their already defeated Military is! The five U.S. Refueling Planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to The Wall Street Journal’s false reporting, and others, are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying the skies. Buildings and Ships that are shown to be on fire are not — It’s FAKE NEWS, generated by A.I. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination with the Fake News Media, shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious Ships in the World, burning uncontrollably in the Ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at — Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information! The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they “win” are those that they create through AI, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets. The Radical Leftwing Press knows this full well, but continues to go forward with false stories and LIES. That’s why their Approval Rating is so low, and I can win a Presidential Election, IN A LANDSLIDE, getting only 5% positive Press — They have no credibility! I am so thrilled to see Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic “News” Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES, both in News and almost all of their Shows, including the Late Night Morons, who get gigantic Salaries for horrible Ratings, and never get, as I used to say in The Apprentice, “FIRED.” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

5h ago

Trump Demands Death Penalty for Reporters in Unhinged War Rant

Quoting Trump's post, the nugget of truth is from:

The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!

Which they turned into "Demands Death Penalty" because DailyBeast is a tabloid.

TBH I'm sick of DailyBeast and Rawstory showing up in my Lemmy feed. I'd argue they violate this community's "credible sources" rule.

5h ago

Converting HDMI to composite

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/usr9su/is_there_a_known_working_way_to_convert_vga_to/

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 5h ago

Mmmm, yes, but for composite it's not trivial like it'd be for S-Video. To quote some random Redditor:

You need a device called frame buffer. VGA signal are sampled (ADC) and store in a memory. This memory is read by another circuity, at NTSC/PAL frame rate, and RGB converted to NTSC/PAL. For a standard VGA (640x640@60Hz) a line converter (only a FIFO memory) can be used to convert to NTSC. More details here.

https://www.epanorama.net/circuits/vga2tv/vga_to_tv_techniques.html

6h ago

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 6h ago

Mind letting us know why or how? When I installed it almost a year ago on my desktop, I did install it as a dual boot option with no issues. Of course this doesn’t mean there aren’t issues I just didn’t run into. I’m also not new to Linux and didn’t pick a fully default install, if that makes a difference. So I could’ve probably fixed it if it did break, but it never gave me any issues.

Well in my case, using systemd-boot:

Window's default EFI partition was too small to hold the kernel, but CachyOS setup didn't check for this and just failed to boot linux. You wouldn't run into this issue on a second disk I suppose, but I did on a single NVMe shared with Windows.
Sometimes, if you do share an EFI partition between Windows/Linux, Windows Update will randomly nuke it and break your linux install.
I also had an instance where systemd-boot just stopped detecting Windows after awhile, and it needed some manual fixing.

Basically, trying to install linux on the default EFI partition next to Windows is a risky default, and Windows users new to linux aren't going to know anything about how to fix it.

The fix is to just make a second EFI partition on the drive, but the installer doesn't do this by default. And I encountered this a long time ago, but noticed the issue was still present when testing Cachy on another PC, by chance.

7h ago

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 7h ago

Also, the folks behind this are nice..

CachyOS originated in the Polish Arch community IIRC, but all the discussion I've seen from them is just... cool.

Nothing weird or dramatic like one tends to see in linux projects, just folks really into building this stuff.

7h ago

Converting HDMI to composite

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 7h ago

Does it take VGA? And do you have a spare PCIe slot in a desktop?

You can slap in an old GPU to power it directly, with no latency or conversion issues. I know my old Nvidia 980 TI supports VGA directly, albeit with a passive dongle. As a bonus, this would save VRAM for your other displays, and (if you wish) offload whatever you do on your CRTs from the main GPU.

Now, if you want a GPU with composite output, you have to go waaay back to the GTX 200 series or the Radeon 4000 series. Getting working drivers for these on linux might be an... adventure.

7h ago

Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 7h ago

Now, I know what the woke deep state is going to say, and I want to save you the trouble of listening to them.

“The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?” Never ratified it. Even if we did, who cares. Next.

“The environmental impact?” Mr. Secretary, Iranian oil is leaking everywhere. Tankers are on fire near Fujairah. This approach is constructive destruction.

“Radiation?” Radiation is the most overblown left-wing conspiracy since climate change. The Plowshare’s 1962 underground Sedan test fallout reached South Dakota in 1962 and South Dakota is fine. Went for Trump by thirty points. Plus, the residual glow keeps Iran from trying anything funny near the new channel.

The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells.

This is hilarious. Heh.

I don't buy Gingrich's earnesty. He must be trolling too, like the article explicitly was. Most Republicans are doing it on Twitter now, and that would fit Gingrich’s history, too.

...And it kinda worked. It looks like Lemmy swallowed the hook here, and I'm sure Twitter did too.

8h ago

Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future | TechCrunch

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 8h ago

I dunno... my sibling can make it a long way on a single charge, all the way to me and back. They haven't had to use a fast charger yet. But if they do, my understanding is that Hyundai optimized the battery for charging speed instead of capacity.

12h ago

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

It's a lot more than that. It doesn't fork Arch like Manjaro, but they have tons of custom and extremely convenient and useful packages in their repos. It's also a living "optimization experiment" in the vein of Intel's Clear Linux (may it rest in peace).

Theoretically, you could replicate it in vanilla arch, but I can't imagine how many man-hours it would take.

12h ago

Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'

The message is "Games need to get cheaper to make, not shittier and more expensive."

And asset reuse can be a great way to do that. Or a trap.

12h ago

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

I am a CachyOS acolyte. It's my end boss distro.

If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.

Yeah, they do need to clean up the installer a bit. It's also not quite turnkey for a Windows dual-boot.

12h ago

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

Everything.

Mostly, it's just too convenient, but it's way more than just a preset. I wouldn't go back to vanilla Arch if you paid me.

12h ago

Tucker Carlson Facing ‘Foreign Agent’ Charges, He Says—’They Read My Texts’

I'd rather have Tucker than J.D. Vance. Vance scares the shit out of me, in a "cyberpunk horror" kind of way.

I'd like to think neither are particularly electable, but that's not really true anymore, is it?

14h ago

The 49MB Web Page

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 14h ago

uBlock Origin is the gold standard, but you need something that supports the full version. Plain Chrome (and most forks) are not good enough.

Firefox, Helium, and/or Orion would be my top picks.

14h ago

The 49MB Web Page

brucethemoose @lemmy.world 14h ago

On top of three letter agencies, basically every cybersecurity expert that publishes a "basic tweaks" article recommends uBlock Origin.

14h ago

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 14h ago

Well its working, isn't it?

Lots of views.

Hell, 415 upvotes on Lemmy.

15h ago

Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future | TechCrunch