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  • Getting an ID in the US is not as simple or cheap as it can be in Europe. A lot of people simply can't afford it.

    Most people don't travel abroad (expensive) so they don't have a passport.

    Usually the drivers license and social security card (not valid for id on its own) is all they have. Even getting a copy of your birth certificate can be time consuming and expensive.

    Everything is done on paper. You need to go to the court house and wait in line during the day when you need to be at work (and can't get time off). You have to update your registration every time you move, even if it's a few blocks because of gerrymandering. Your voting location changes and is not always intuitive. Parking can be limited and lines long.

    You need paper copies of multiple other forms of id. And then they can make you do it all again by taking you off the voter list for "reasons".

    This is all intentional. They don't want poor people to vote.

    This is on top of the combo of a complicated electoral system that honestly most Americans don't even fully understand, partially because it's not taught well in schools.

  • Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?

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  • Old and tired: use the release year in your product version.

    New and exciting: increment all your past product versions as they age!

    Your users will love it!

  • NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer to optimize Vulkan driver performance, focusing on improving efficiency, power consumption, and latency.

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  • I agree with you, and in particular the general "they're cooking something" sentiment. The rest of this is just my personal take, so take it with a grain of salt. I do not have any inside knowledge of this.

    Nvidia currently rules the AI space, but they don't have much of a "moat". In theory, anyone can swoop in and make their gold-rush shovels obsolete--or at least too expensive. They probably also look to what Apple has done with vertical integration and want some of that stability.

    I predict they will focus on:

    1. AI (as they already are)
    2. Cloud workloads, like cloud gaming, but also business workloads (beyond what has already been moving to the cloud at a dizzying clip), e.g., workstations. Basically, we're back to thin clients (again).
    3. Mobile gaming. Maybe mobile CPU/SoC.
    4. Handheld gaming. These last two are important since the desktop gaming market will be stagnating with component prices being so ridiculous.
    5. Desktop gaming. This isn't a priority for them right now, but If/when desktop gaming snaps back, there will be a huge backlog of demand.

    Linux runs the majority of items 1-4 and is gaining in 5. Windows will probably remain the platform of choice for business desktops for a while. But, Linux runs great on ARM. Windows can run on ARM and should handle business desktop workloads just fine.

    Most likely they're hiring for mobile gaming first. That would be the quickest bang for the buck, in my opinion. However, that work (improving performance on Linux) will be useful for all of the points above.

    We're entering interesting times in computing. It will be interesting to see how Apple fares since they had a lead in ARM development, but don't have much of a hold on gaming.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • That is helpful, thank you! I will look into the master server option. I can spin up Docker containers on the NAS.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • I also use KeepassXC, and it's great. I'm interested in setting up Syncthing between my Android, Linux desktop, and NAS. Do you have any tips or articles/resources that you used to set it up?

  • All US Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

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  • Yeah my first thought too was this is just a way to introduce voter id under the pretext of national security. It will create chaos, give plausible deniability for throwing out votes, sow doubt and fear, and prevent poor people from registering to vote. Business as usual, in other words.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • My employer leases our computers for 3-5 years. I get a new model when my lease runs out. I don't really mind the guaranteed refresh except having to move all my stuff over. I would be way more pissed if they moved to BYOD.

  • Hrmmm

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  • Very insightful, thank you. I'm mainly looking to deter or stop an intruder. I'm too old and weak to put up a close combat fight. My area is pretty safe for now, but we're in deep red territory so who knows.

    Your advice jibes with what I've read online and been told by other experienced gun owners/ex military. Thank you for the straight forward recommendation.

  • Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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  • I love it, but it does not work for everyone

    I have my own separate office in my basement with plenty of privacy. I stick to a normal work schedule. And perhaps often overlooked: my team is all remote as well.

    The last point is important: if your team is both on and off site, it can be difficult to make sure everyone is included in all the casual information sharing. My team uses a shared Teams chat as a low friction water cooler, which works great for us.

    We often jump on a voice call with screen sharing too work together. It works even better than in person because we can both have our own computers instead of one person looking over the other person's shoulder.

    If you have a good manager, they may be able to mitigate this, but it's more difficult than it sounds. If not handled correctly, this can lead to team segmentation and isolation. Working hybrid can sometimes get around this while still being flexible enough that people can wfh when they need to. For any business it needs to be the decision of the direct managers so they can decide what is right for their team.

    That all said, I love not having the 1.5hr commute anymore, no walk-in interruptions, being able to run errands or go to appointments without taking the whole day off etc. It's a major part of my job satisfaction.

    If your commute is reasonable and you get satisfaction from going to the office then maybe you're happier on site or hybrid. Full time wfh can be lonely at times.

    If you hate going in to the office, make sure your environment at home is set up so you can focus and work as effectively as at the office and give it a shot. Talk to your manager. You may need to convince them it's a good idea first.

  • Hrmmm

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  • As someone who doesn't know much about guns: if .22 is not enough, then what is "a proper rifle"? Why would I need a rifle, pistol, and a knife/baton? If I am just defending myself and my family, will I still need all of these things?

  • Hrmmm

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  • Thank you! So many people don't realize that. It's even one of the citizenship test questions used when you go through naturalization:

    1. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
    • freedom of expression
    • freedom of speech
    • freedom of assembly
    • freedom to petition the government
    • freedom of religion
    • the right to bear arms

  • AltaVista?

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  • Metacrawler ftw

  • Would you be willing to finish a project or creation instantly, in exchange for losing any experience or materials you'd otherwise have doing it the long way?

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  • This was the first thing that came to mind when they mentioned a program. I very rarely create programs that don't need to be updated later, unless they're single use throwaways.

    I've inherited support for programs that we had lost the source code for, though, and that sucks.

    So that's a no from me.

  • How is this real?

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  • Quite a few as it turns out.

    Edit: of course someone created this: DaxDucDex

    I'm a little disappointed that I found in Wikipedia it was AI generated:

    Throughout 2025, DuckDuckGo rolled out a series of Easter eggs featuring AI-generated images of Dax (DuckDuckGo's duck mascot) dressed up as characters from popular culture (or on 2 occasions replaced by them) when users search for the respective characters. There are currently 661 discovered pop culture logo variants.[64]

  • Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

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  • Thank you, I found it here. I'm a little bit surprised it's not in the media more.

  • Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

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  • I honestly don't keep up with them much, so I can't say what the current status is. I didn't even realize until today that Mette-Marit had been connected with Epstein already back in 2019.

    It's not just about money, though. When I still lived there ('90s), the common sentiment seemed to be that though they have no political power (even less so than the British), they were good, wholesome ambassadors for Norway and served as a sort of cultural focal point that "everyone" shared pride in. (Obviously not a 100% true, but if you're Norwegian you know what I mean.)

    Importantly, one point of pride was that they weren't as embroiled in scandals as other royals. They were "of the people", with one example often cited that King Olav during the oil crisis took his skis on the bus instead of driving. That kind of thing.

    The current line of Norwegian royals is even pretty new, so to speak. King Haakon VII was chosen by committee in 1905 after the dissolution of the union. At the time, they passed on becoming a republic. So, it felt more like they had been selected by us rather than they just inherited everything.

    But: the whole Epstein business, greed, political influence and all that flies directly in the face of all that pride. That's why I think that case is probably lost now. The trust is gone, the monarchy is tarnished. It's become a liability and expense rather than a point of pride.

  • Norway’s crown princess had years of contact with Epstein, files suggest

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  • I've traditionally been a supporter of keeping the monarchy for its diplomatic functions and (mostly) unifying force among people, but this does feel like a sea-change. Maybe opinions in Norway are more forgiving, I don't know--I moved away many years ago. In my opinion, it's probably time to re-evaluate whether we (Norway) want to keep this going. It was decided decades ago to keep it at least until the current Crown Prince had his turn, but now that's looking like a bad idea. They need to do something, and hopefully they can still wind it down with some dignity. Maybe it's possible to make a nice, clean break when King Harald passes on. Either way, it should be up to the People.

    I'm not 100% convinced having a President will be better, seeing as some Presidents like to act as if they're kings. But with all the scandals, I think if anyone still believes monarchs are immune to political influence, they should wake up now.

    PS: I was wondering if you have some more information about the hearing (e.g. news article). I can't find it in the Norwegian media. (I read/speak Norwegian).

  • Wrong number... hopefully

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  • Maybe he's not talking about his face.

  • My KDE Neon becomes unresponsive almost daily

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  • I see. My concern was with security scanning tools often put on computers by enterprise IT departments but it sounds like that's not the case here.

    In your situation, assuming you're not finding what you seek with journalctl, I think I would use a tool like vmstat or sar to collect periodic snapshots of CPU, memory, and io. You can tell it to collect data every X seconds and tee that to a file. After you reboot you can see what happened leading up to the crash. You should be able to import the data into a spreadsheet or something for analysis, but it's not very intuitive and you'll need to consult man pages for the options and how to interpret them.

    There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread. I would lean towards a hardware or driver issue, maybe bad RAM. Unfortunately these things take a lot of trial and error to figure out.