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  • When news stations bow to Trump

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  • Not a bad idea for Cards Against Humanity, actually.

    • Trump gives children with terminal cancer 20 day deadline for returning to the Holy Land
    • Trump gives teenage moms 20 day deadline for hands-on sex ed lessons.
    • Trump gives consensual sex 20 day deadline for sex.

    None of those are out of place, neither in the game nor in reality.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Does Steam Deck not have rpm-ostree (or an arch equivalent since RPM is fedora-specific)?

    Steam Deck has a custom solution involving an A/B partition scheme of immutable btrfs filesystems and overlayfs for layering changes on top of that.

    Also, what about distrobox?

    If there's a way to install containerization software with Flatpak, maybe. Docker isn't available out of the box, though.

    I haven't really tried to do anything package manager-related on my Deck, so I'm going on what I know from Bazzite, but there are several ways to install non-flatpak software on it. In fact, I even installed yay on an Arch distrobox, and I can install things from the AUR (as well as the official repositories).

    You can use pacman, but it's volatile and requires making intentional changes to restore its functionality.

    The first option is to disable the read-only flag on the root filesystem, then set pacman back up so it can pull packages. Whenever the root filesystem image is updated, you'll lose the changes, though.

    The second option is to add an overlayfs to persist the changes in a different partition or inside a disk image on the writable storage. There was a tool called "rwfus" that did this, and it worked well enough if you were careful. If you ended up upgrading a package that came installed on the base image, though, it would end up breaking the install when the next update came around.

    With all the caveats, when Valve made /nix available as a persistent overlay a couple of years ago, I just bit the bullet and learned how to use Nix to install packages with nix-env -i.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Don't forget the Mach heritage! Darwin is the mutt of kernels.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Fun fact: if you have a Steam Deck, Nix (the package manager) is pretty much the only vendor-approved way to safely install extra packages that aren't otherwise available as a flatpak.

    Trying to screw with overlayfs to make pacman usable is/was a thing, and it was a very good way to break the OS install despite it having atomic updates.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new 'I use arch btw'.

    "I use Nix btw"

    Rolls off the tongue in the same way. And, honestly, "I use Arch btw" just isn't the same hipster know-it-all contrarian meme that it used to be. It has a graphical installer now, and a popular retail device (the Steam Deck) comes with a user-friendly derivative of it installed out of the box.

    Meanwhile, NixOS has a huge learning curve that's off-putting to most non-technical users and even Linux hobbiests. I mean, really—having to configure everything through a functional programming language masquerading as a configuration file format? That's just the kind of thing that would attract masochists and pedants!

    I use Nix btw.

  • "Legality Is Not The Defining Factor": Steam Censorship Campaign Details It Seeks Removal Of Games Whether Legal Or Not

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  • It's hard to not despise Collective Shout. On top of the morality policing, they're unapologetically arrogant about it in the most regressive ways possible.

    "it is clear many of the men defending their r*pe games perpetrate crimes of violence against women, because they are doing it to us right now."

    Conservatives already tried that line in the 90s, claiming violent games cause violent children. Guess what— it's now a trillion-dollar industry.

    Our objection has always been clearly stated - rpe, incst, and child sexual abuse.

    "Oh, won't somebody think of the children!"

    Roper stated, "If Steam and itch.io had been moderating their platforms as they should have, there would have been no need to temporarily delist games to ensure they were not in violation of their policies.

    Oh, look, DARVO. Let's blame the platforms that temporarily lost their ability to take credit card payments for developers losing money, not the people bitching to Visa and Mastercard.

  • House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias

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  • Conservapedia? No.

    Truth-Pedia would be more this admin's style. If they're not personally profiting off of it as well, it's not a good replacement.

  • Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.

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  • Oh, absolutely.

  • Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.

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  • I would understand paying for online news as an alternative to ads, and only if the news organization does actual reporting free from political or billionaire interference.

    Off the top of my head, I can think of exactly one news website that seems to meet that criteria at a surface level.

    For everything else, fuck 'em— archive.is :)

  • Spotted Linux on the back of a car

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  • there's a fork of Termux that puts Nix in a user space sandbox

    You're going to mention this exists but not say what it is? My disappointment is immeasurable!

  • First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite detected in the U.S., HHS confirms

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  • "Working on it:" Promoting Long-Term Suitability and Co-Evolution of Screwworms in Primate Hosts (2025, Kennedy, R. F., et al)

  • Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system

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  • there's a read error and now you will be in prison for five more years.

    Prisoners don't have to be paid minimum wage, and there's an entire industry around using prisoners as dirty cheap labor. Anything that makes it harder for them to get out of the system is additional revenue for private prisons, not something the people who have the power to change it want to see solved.

  • I have an Nvidia GPU, can I game on Linux?

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  • when you do have big problems its still kind of annoying

    Or small problems. Very annoying small problems. Like GTK 4 windows freezing when you try to close them.

  • Appeals court throws out Trump's $500m civil fraud penalty

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  • He sure can! The cultists love holding him accountable for all the positive things Biden and Obama actually did.

  • Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

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  • “I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit

    It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn't entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn't quite at that level, but it's still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.

  • DOJ to start turning over Epstein files to Capitol Hill

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  • Not fuzzy enough, which—coincidentally—is just how he likes his women.

  • Trump vows to target 'woke' museums with same playbook used on Columbia, Harvard

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  • When did Fox News get its broadcasting license, again?

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • Here's a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.

  • ‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a War

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  • My money is on Canada.

    • Nice, desirable natural resources like fresh water, lumber, and oil.
    • Plenty of non-immigrant immigrants to feed the legal slavery prison industrial complex.
    • Control over arctic trade passages.

    And he's been laying the propaganda and groundwork for months now:

    • "joking" about Canada being the 51st state.
    • Claiming Canada is the source of illegally imported Fentanyl, despite overwhelming evidence that almost all of it comes from Mexico.
    • Harsher tariffs than other allied countries, using Fentanyl as the justification for it.
    • Factually incorrect statements about unfair and "illegal" trade restrictions imposed by Canada.
    • Claims about Canada "taking advantage" of the country in regards to national security and a trade deficit that ignores the population and GDP difference.