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hdnclr

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  • Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear

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  • I had to make a newsletter for work for a while, and the template I was given was in Publisher. It was a little bit of a pain sometimes but actually fun to use once you figured out its quirks. And it had some quirks- like, you know how you move an image 1mm in Word sometimes and the entire document gets lanky? Well, Publisher is like if they kinda fixed that but the regular word processing was actually the janky part. It's a Microsoft office product through and through, and you can definitely tell.

  • What are your biggest annoyances with the Lemmy client you use?

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  • No real annoyances on either the desktop site or the mobile website tbh. I don't even need a client for my phone because the mobile site is that good - which I wish I could say the same about for other social media apps/websites who've intentionally kneecapped their mobile web UI to force users onto their app. Glad Lemmy is fully accessible and usable in a smartphone's web browser, I hope it stays that way.

  • Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun

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  • And, like, what do you do on Linux about that key? Is there a way to just make it act as an additional Super key, or do anything at all without Logitech's program?

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • There’s people who think parts of my lifestyle are a mental disorder. That’s their problem, not mine tho.

    It must be nice that there's not a dedicated ideological movement hell-bent on making it your problem.

    Who did he want eradicated from public life?

    Transgender people.

    Honestly it seems like you're pretty dedicated to just defending this guy's ideas and ideology, so you know exactly what you're doing and why it's wrong, and it's a waste of time to talk to you.

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • His videos where he called empathy a sickness, said homosexuality is a disease, or the ones where he said that People of Color were less capable than white people? Or maybe you haven't stumbled across him saying that Black people were better off under slavery. Idk, I might just be biased, as someone who he wanted to see eradicated from public life. Maybe if you have a friend who's black or gay or trans, they might help you out with being able to spot plain and open bigotry that is apparently going right over your head.

  • Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27

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    1. A shitton of people have lived economic realities that don't allow them to splurge on a phone at all, even if they'd really like digital freedom or privacy. See: half of the global smartphone market, where Android Go and KaiOS enabling cheap smartphones lead to millions of sales.
    2. People who can and want to don't even make the jump because the reality of owning a non-iOS/Android phone is that it requires sacrifices. I went to a concert last night that required me to have the Ticketmaster app to even get in. Everyone at that concert had to have either an iOS or Android phone, myself included. I'm testing Ubuntu Touch on a second phone, but if I make it my daily driver, I'm going to have to keep a second phone around for stuff like that. Ecosystems are too locked down now, and unfortunately you will have to either miss out on some things, or adapt hard-core.
    3. The devices and software have to be there. Right now there are only a handful of truly modern devices thar you can load Ubuntu Touch or another Linux distro on, and they're... not quite straightforward for non-techy people to get up and running. Which is, believe it or not, the vast majority of users.

    2025 being the year of the alternative smartphone OS seems just about as likely as any other year being the year of the Linux desktop.

  • what questions do you have but don't feel you can ask trans people?

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  • The comment alluded to Transracial identities as a (very cherry-picked and extreme) example. I do really, genuinely wonder whether we should uncritically accept the validity of people who identify as transracial, especially people who benefit from whiteness but self-identify as a member of a marginalized race. What is the instances stance on transracial identities? Another question- do you have racially marginalized mods, and how do they feel about the subject?

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  • Oh Gods, I learned the hard way to never roll back a package unless you really know what you're doing. And I learned that lesson way back in 2013 or 2014, when I'd only been using Linux for a year or two full-time. Now I'm on a rolling distro and have everything as purely the latest version, and if I come across some weird thing that involves rolling back a package to an older version, I will simply not do that and will look for other solutions instead. Sometimes it's as simple as creating a symlink so that when a program looks for libWhatever2.1.5 it gets quietly redirected to libWhatever2.6.0

  • how can we make Lemmy as popular as Reddit

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  • Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the "All" tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.

  • The left really needs to get more proficient with using AI. The IQ benefits alone are staggering.

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  • Ah, yes, the IQ benefits of letting machines think for you and blindly trusting what they spit out, while you atrophy your own critical thinking skills and lose the ability to have independent critical thought or produce any kind of useful analysis without said machines, so you develop a need to consume gallons of water and burn square acres of forest every time you need to do any kind of analysis or write anything of substance... yeah, those IQ benefits. Sure.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    hdnclr @beehaw.org

    Has anyone pirated their internet?

  • Firefox Forever

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  • While I do agree that their focus should absolutely be on the browser, I do actually really like that they offer a paid Wireguard-based VPN with endpoints in dozens of countries. I think that makes sense for them, given their mission and everything, and actually gives them a revenue source.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught, and are still running a shady-ass business. They're at the intersection of crypto, bigotry, and dishonesty.

    Not using or advocating for Brave is pretty simple.

  • People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

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  • In this US, yes, we generally trust our tap water (although there have been notable incidents of water infrastructure failures, such as major lead contamination in Flint, MI), to the extent that if you get a drink in a restaurant here, 99% of the time it's going to be mixed or made using tap water, with ice made from tap water.

    Some folks will use a filter (Brita brand filter pitchers used to be popular at one time, with TV ads and everything) but that's more for filtering out chemicals/toxins/minerals than anything else.

    In rural places, every now and then the local government or water company (yes, a lot of places here have privatized water infrastructure which is not super great) will put out a 'Boil Water Notice' but this is generally considered outside of the norm, and you usually expect to see that kind of stuff resolve within a couple of days unless it's a result of a major disaster (we were under a Boil Water notice for 2 weeks after hurricane Katrina in my area, the longest stretch I ever remember). Boil Water notices are usually a result of either a breach of the infrascture (a pipe collapsing and the water supply getting dirty), or a water supply failing its regular quality/safety tests. Our water (can't speak for everywhere in the US, and don't really know the specifics of how they do it) is chemically treated and filtered before it goes into the tap, and the supply mechanisms are usually regularly tested to make sure they're within safe standards.

    All of that being said, I know people who refuse to drink tap water, mostly because it tends to have a distinct taste from treatment and from having minerals in it, but also because they've heard horror stories like in Flint. Two things: those folks normally drink bottled water, which is usually just bottled-up tap water from some other place; and I usually see those folks gladly drinking fountain drinks/tea/etc at a restaurant, which is made with un-boiled tap water and served on tap-ice.

    TL;DR - the tap water in the US is generally considered safe to drink, in most places, with notable exceptions, and for now (our mostly-privatized infrastructure is getting worse and worse, and very public failures have started to appear in not only water infrastructure, but everywhere)