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Originally from Portland 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎

  • World rejoices as MAGA boxer Jake Paul finally beaten senseless

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  • Anybody seen Mythic Quest? Seems truth is identical to fiction sometimes.

  • Bernie Sanders calls for a pause on new AI data centers in the US

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  • How is this guy always right on every issue?

  • App devs ask the EU to fight unfair Apple app store fees

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  • Are you French or Italian perhaps? In this context, if you meant attendre / attendere, the word in English is expect. 😊

  • Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in

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  • Because it’s cheaper to be wasteful. Who cares if future generations have a planet? AI make line go up now!

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • Weird how every show / movie shows up in a full 4K rip on usenet the next day still. It’s almost like DRM doesn’t stop piracy.

  • Line must go up

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  • Is this a metaphor for something? Hmm.. I dunno, can’t figure it out. Let me ask ChatGPT.

  • ich🎢🤑🆚👩🏼‍🔧👷🏻‍♂️iel

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  • Ich dachte, diese Memes sollten Witze sein.

  • The pie don't lie

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  • Hi, I’m colourblind, but I’m assuming the joke is that the colours in the legend are unrelated to the colours in the chart. Right?

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • That’s actually a really good idea. I’m not the person you replied to, but I’m taking notes.

  • Type-2 Diabetics of Lemmy: What were some of your symptoms that you only realized after your diagnosis were symptoms of diabetes?

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  • Damn, I’m really sorry to hear that. I hope it will improve for you with time. For what it’s worth I understand symbalta can be combined with pregabalin/gabapentin. The combination may help. I’m getting by on gabapentin alone and it’s definitely not 100% with the tingles and pricks, but far better than not taking it. I’m contemplating asking to increase the dose.

  • Type-2 Diabetics of Lemmy: What were some of your symptoms that you only realized after your diagnosis were symptoms of diabetes?

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  • Are you taking anything for the neuropathy? Are you experiencing any improvement over time? My neurologist seem to think that while recovery as such is not feasible, that at least modest improvements are possible through long term healing and medication. Granted, this sounds like a particularly bad case, and I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this.

  • Type-2 Diabetics of Lemmy: What were some of your symptoms that you only realized after your diagnosis were symptoms of diabetes?

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  • Mine was found completely randomly - I went in for blood work because I was having stomach issues after returning from a trip and my GP wanted to rule out an infection. I was really surprised to learn it, because I wasn’t overweight nor did I have a family history! But it just happens sometimes, I guess. In retrospect - I was always very thirsty and had to pee much more than a normal human.

    It’s been controlled for a while but unfortunately I now have some tingles in the feet, which developed a full year after I started medication and got everything under control. My neurologist believes it’s basically the delayed effects of the previously uncontrolled sugars. Fortunately, it’s been stable for several years since and seems to be every so slowly improving slightly.

    I imagine I would have much worse neurological issues had I not discovered it until later.

  • New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it

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  • buy it the same place you buy your radium!

    edit: this is a joke, I do not possess radioactive material

  • Dutch is not a serious language

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  • I got this much:

    Wir haben ein seriöses Problem mit den politischen Entwicklungen [???] und ich hoffe, dass dies in den kommenden Tagen gelöst[?] werden kann

    So like 85% understandable 😁

  • Multithreading

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  • That intersection could have used a … semaphore. 🙃

  • Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

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  • Yes - but will it become a permanent crutch? That’s the double edged sword. A necessary risk, of course.

  • Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

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  • Maybe that’s actually the right approach, counter-intuitively. Though it does make me wonder how many devs actually test against Proton, versus just taking the lazy option and saying it’s Windows only. Officially stating they support Proton would go a long way to help justify the lack of a native port.

  • Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

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  • My experience so far is that it already is! Most of the titles I play (admittedly not cutting edge), I get 5-10% higher framerates running under Proton-GE on Fedora than I do natively on windows. Pretty wild to think about.

  • Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

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  • Cool but I wonder if the Linux initiative is almost a victim of Proton’s success, as even previously Linux friendly studios like Paradox have stopped supporting it natively in recent titles.