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  • This might be a hint

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  • I really dislike using a browser on my phone. I have Firefox always set to auto delete everything when I close it. Mobile browsing is only to check quickly a link when my computer isn't around. If it needs more thought or it needs to be bookmarked, I send it to myself on Signal and open it on my computer.

    And on my computer, I have Firefox autodelete all site data and history on close. But I have a shit ton of bookmarks organised into folders. Also, I just can't deal with having too many tabs open. The moment I start needing to scroll the tab bar, I look at what I can close.

  • EU to include UK and Japan in ‘Made in Europe’ plans

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  • That rock Canada and Denmark were warring over could be the ideal candidate for selling/donating.

  • NASA (Now Another Silly Acronym)

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  • For those looking for a translation -

    I Think That: a bunch of Unidentified Flying Albatrosses.

    You're welcome.

  • When and how often do you update your system?

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  • Maybe try the DKMS version of your video drivers? It automatically rebuilds every time you install a new kernel. For Nvidia the package is nvidia-dkms. I don't use AMD (yet) but I guess the package name would be something similar.

    But yes, it is a good idea to babysit your installation and pay attention to errors/warnings during the update. It is also a good idea to periodically check Arch news for breaking changes.

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support

    https://archlinux.org/news/

  • What's yours?

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  • And I'm a raving lunatic with no respect for authority who happens to be commanding a group of equally mad British commandos. See you on the African coast. Maybe.

  • GUI library for C?

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  • You probably love Rust as much as I do, but this is such an unhelpful comment. Dude mainly programs in C, asks about libraries for C, and you don't even bother to list any native Rust libs that may give OP an incentive to even consider learning Rust.

  • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

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  • I've got news for you, mate. You might be a bot. Have you visited your neighbourhood robotologist to get a diagnosis?

  • Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’

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  • I am an active World of Tanks player and Russia did not seize the World of Tanks publisher which is Wargaming. World of Tanks has a bunch of servers: EU, NA, ASIA, and RU. Each server is independent of the other, so if you play on EU, you don't meet accounts made on NA, for example.

    After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wargaming decided to leave Russia, giving players who were on that server a chance to migrate their accounts to European servers. Lesta took over the Russian servers, and for all practical purposes, develop the Russian version of World of Tanks independently. Wargaming still is the developer of the other servers. Neither have anything to do with each other anymore.

    But I do agree with the overall point of your post. Please look up who owns and has stakes in the publishers of the games you are interested in, folks.

  • the welsh are fish

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  • Dunno mate, seems like a dragon to me.

  • Day 400 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • How do you play a different game every day? Don't you have a campaign in one game that extends over multiple days? I could never juggle games the way you do.

    But kudos to you, and congratulations on 400 days! I always upvote your posts whenever I see them in my feed.

  • Epic Games Store is coming to the Play Store as Google loses in court appeal

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  • TIL Jazz Jackrabbit was made by Epic! I thought the only game by Epic I had played was Unreal Tournament. I have fond memories of spending hours in both those games. Didn't play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 as much, but I remember I liked the soundtrack.

  • Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal

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  • Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps?

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  • Assimil is a great way to throw yourself into the language. Each lesson is in the form of a conversation with audio and the pdf has the text along with the translation.

    Listen to the lesson without reading the text first. This gets you used to the sound of the language. Then read the text, then text with audio, and finally read the translation along with whatever notes on grammar (don't focus too much on the grammar aspects when you are first starting out), neither on spellings. Later on you'll be asked to go back to earlier lessons and reproduce the text. The first phase is to internalise the language. You can read the recommended Assimil way of learning and adapt the steps to something that suits you.

    Assimil works well along with Language Transfer for me. Assimil is more immersive while Language Transfer is more explanatory.

    I find that music is also a great way for me to learn new words. Once I listen enough times to a song I like, I start humming along, maybe repeat a word or two. The important thing is to not stress yourself out trying to sing along to everything. Maybe there is a catchy chorus or bridge section that is memorable. That is good enough to form associations with words. In this, I find pop songs are a better genre because they are catchy.

    Something else I do is have a notebook where the only rule I have for myself is: no using my native language. I try to explain new words to myself using a sketch or whatever basic words I have already learnt. Don't worry if you can't draw well, neither can I. But I can draw something that looks like a spoon or a hill. Then I label them, and bam I've already learnt two new words. To build on that, I can draw a stick figure on the hill - this has taught me the verb climbing. You get the general idea. Just don't stress yourself out trying to journal every new word you come across. Be creative and you'll have fun.

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  • DivestOS has ceased maintaining Mull if I remember correctly. I use Ironfox on Android now.

  • YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager

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  • I'd pay for Youtube if Google would guarantee to not track me. I donate to open source projects that I use, rotating every month whom I choose to donate to. I even donated to Manjaro recently even though I don't use it any more, but it was something I had used in the past and I was poor and couldn't donate them then. But I refuse to feel any guilt for watching Youtube for free.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • I decided to use my phone to read after my Kindle broke. I use KOReader. I would like to not support proprietary products as much as I can, just my personal philosophy since the last 7-8 years. So far I can't complain about my setup, and there is one less device to lug around. I do miss an e-ink display sometimes though.

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  • Got any grapes?

  • Don’t get me wrong…

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  • I switched after development ended on the package manager I was using on neovim. I didn't at that moment want to simplify my vimconfig, so I looked into helix.

    Helix highlights the action you take, so if for example, you are deleting 5 lines, you select the lines first then hit delete. Sometimes the vim actions end up taking fewer keystrokes though. And I still prefer some ways vim does things. And I don't always agree with the kakoune inspiration of helix (I haven't used kakoune, just going by what the docs say) - for example, movement always selects text which I then have to unhighlight.

    But the biggest reason I stuck to helix was sane LSP defaults out of the box with minimal config. I was tired of having to fix LSP related bugs in my vim config after package updates.

    TLDR: saner defaults for helix + lazy to fix my bloated vimconfig.

  • YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.

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  • I've been using KOReader on my phone now, ever since my Kindle one day decided to be unrecognisable on my computer. Couldn't find a solution to fix it so it became a glorified paperweight.

    The screen real estate is slightly degraded, but fuck if I give Amazon any more of my money. Besides, I get to store epubs as epubs instead of converting to that god awful mobi format.