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  • Trudeau opposes allowing Russia to keep ‘an inch’ of Ukrainian territory

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  • Only works if your adversaries also cut military spending. Unfortunately countries like Russia have shown that they'll happily attack those unable to defend themselves. This also means that increased military spending can cause less war if it deters those who would otherwise attack.

  • What's better than GOG Galaxy?

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  • Related question - will any 3rd party launcher allow for multiplayer authentication? Right now I install each game manually but sometimes I want to play on online servers.

  • A/S/L

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  • Early 90s, male, North America

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  • That only works if the carbon in the plastic originally came from the atmosphere, but we use oil to make plastics. So increased demand for plastic = increased demand for oil, and that oil was already sequestered to begin with.

  • Pro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red State

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  • Think of it this way - imagine nationally the election is close and how your state distributes EC votes determines the outcome. Let's further say 70% of your citizens voted for candidate A, but for candidate A to win nationally they need all your EC votes. Given that your state laws should primarily be for the benefit of said state's citizens, would you really want an outcome that 70% of your state's voters don't want? All it would take is one election where this determined the outcome before the voters would make it "winner takes all".

  • Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself

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  • Many distros (at least Ubuntu) auto-installs security updates, and here a mislabeled "security update" was auto-installed. This is not the fault of the sysadmins.

  • Voters agree to remove same sex marriage ban from Colorado's constitution

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  • Looked it up myself - they're still counting votes but as of now 63.8% of voters supported it.

  • Voters agree to remove same sex marriage ban from Colorado's constitution

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  • Article didn't say - how much did it pass by?

  • Is there any good, free search engine left?

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  • No. They have a trial of 100 one-time searches, but that's it.

  • The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today!

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  • The extended support updates aren't available to end consumers but is a paid product for enterprises that need more time to update.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • That's hard for me to answer because I'm usually at home plugged in, and I set the max charge in the bios to only 65% so the battery will physically degrade slower (I don't need the charge). A few hours is really all I can say with any accuracy. Worth noting a few things -

    1. Since I bought my laptop they came out with an improved battery I could upgrade to, so you'd get a better experience.
    2. I believe(?) battery life is improved a fair bit at least with the AMD ones; less sure on the newer Intel ones.

    I will say that if long battery life is your #1 concern this may not be the laptop for you.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • I have a 12th gen Intel Framework running Arch. I love it, although as others have pointed out the battery life could be better. Early kernels shortly after release had some incompatibility issues that required specific kernel arguments to fix. Also I had to blacklist the light sensor as it conflicted with the brightness function keys.

    The Arch wiki has a page with details on Framework laptops you may appreciate looking at.

  • Officer Demoted After Writing Traffic Tickets Gets $175,000 Settlement

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  • The police literally have 'courtesy cards' they hand out to friends and family to avoid getting them ticketed - that's a practice that absolutely needs to stop.

  • Air Canada prepares to shut down as talks with pilots union near deadlock

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  • Yeah I'll agree that on its own it's not a good measure because of situations like this.

  • Air Canada prepares to shut down as talks with pilots union near deadlock

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  • Because percent change uses the previous value in the denominator, which here was negative. (2.33- -0.5)/(-0.5) = about -5.66, or -566%. What number do you think would make more sense?

  • Turns out, I wanted a tiled window manager all along

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  • Out of curiosity - what laptop maker is installing Sway by default?

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • I pay for the Softmaker Office suite, it's pretty good and has Linux native versions.

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  • I had a few false starts before, but MS force-updating me to the objectively worse and user-hostile Windows 8 triggered my latest (and successful) switch.

  • Is the Great Resignation 2.0 coming? Nearly 3 in 10 workers plan to quit this year

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  • I switched jobs earlier this year for a 47℅ 'raise' - I'm absolutely loving my new role.

    My understanding is that a potential sale of my previous employer fell through because I was basically the brains that developed / maintained the only innovative thing they had done in the past 15 years, and given their lack of investment in anything else there was nothing else of value for the buyer.