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themoken

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  • Why is AI so wrong all the time???

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  • Eh, I'll agree that quantum computing hasn't delivered much yet, but it shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as LLMs. There's a difference between tech that hasn't become practical yet, and tech that is a gigantic grift pretending to be something it will categorically never achieve.

  • Black screen on wake from suspend on game mode

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  • It would allow SSH if the desktop is locked, they're separate. If you can get in via SSH then you can poke around logs like dmesg and see what's up. There will probably be some messages to give you something more specific to search with.

  • Would it have worked?

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  • mfw third account banned because I play just like Stockfish

  • Americans are struggling with layoff anxiety: It's causing workers to 'burn out faster,' experts say

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  • Jesus. Good luck finding another job, it sounds like it literally could not be worse than your old one.

  • What was the worst apartment you've ever lived in?

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  • I love that song and yeah, nailed it.

  • What was the worst apartment you've ever lived in?

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  • I'll bite. Austin, TX circa 2007. Sublet. Moved my (now) wife and one year old into a one bedroom, one bathroom house the size of a shoebox. Cooled by a single window unit, had to steal wifi, and roaches crawled in through the gaps under the doors.

    Ironically, it's now a fond memory. First place I lived with my new family, it was just for the summer, we had cool neighbors and were like 200 feet from a bunch of really cool local businesses.

  • Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

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  • I couldn't find the specific reasoning for this change, but I feel like QEMU is probably just too holistic to be appropriate for this kind of project.

    QEMU needs to be able to emulate all the ARM hardware with enough fidelity to boot a naive operating system. For the purposes of running userspace applications almost all of that is not required, you really just need to convert one ABI to the other and translate the instructions. No need to handle firmware, the MMU, interrupts, disks etc.

  • What is that random movie that you watched multiple times throughout your childhood only because your family happened to own it's DVD (or VHS) ?

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  • By myself, probably Apollo 13 - I used to watch it like once a day over the summer. With my dad, we watched Predator every time my mom had to work late.

  • What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard?

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  • Yes! It used to be so hit or miss with Wine, but I played WoW in it around the same time and it was crazy that it worked (at least most of the time).

  • Fedora X11Libre change proposal withdrawn after 'overwhelmingly negative feedback'

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  • There's just no reason to do this work. Even if you ignore the fork's controversial maintainer, and just favor the fact that it's maintained at all (which is what the proposal's author is suggesting) just... Why?

    X11 is basically over at this point, why throw a last minute wrench into the existing, working Xorg infrastructure?

    When we dropped XFree86 back in the day there were license issues, packaging issues and a real alternative didn't exist - all justifying the effort to switch. None of these are a problem today.

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • That's hilarious, but not really the same thing.

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • Proton is amazing, but it's entirely overhead translating library/system calls to Linux. It's accurate to say they run better on SteamOS, not to say Proton is making it run better.

    Now maybe Proton makes them run better than a janky but native Linux port, but that's a separate statement about games being better optimized on Windows.

  • Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

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  • Also, does anyone seriously think they'd do this without some sort of carve out for Steam to work? I can't imagine a worse idea at this time than for a desktop oriented distro to break the gaming use case that hard.

  • VPN recommendations, Summer 2025

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  • It's more of an issue with torrent seeding. You need to be able to accept incoming connections to seed, so you need a VPN/router to allow incoming traffic to a certain port to reach your torrent client.

    So, not a problem for leeching, but if you are trying to meet ratio requirements, could be a big problem.

  • HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months

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  • Oh, I see what you mean, fair enough.

  • HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months

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  • Duke Nukem Forever did ship... Years late and it was a total mess of a decade's worth of gimmick mechanics that killed the franchise, but it did make it out the door.

    Still fits as a cautionary tale about switching engines, I just had to double check I didn't hallucinate that game.

  • I was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office. I feel responsible for my team and customers.

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  • I still feel like it's idiotic to do work after you've been let go, I don't care how much your colleagues rely on you, the corporation decided you weren't worth keeping around. At least he's getting paid, but he could effectively be on a 9 month paid vacation doing literally anything else with his time.

  • what goes in this chart in your opinion?

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  • Probably due north.

  • Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds

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  • I know you're joking, but it's going to be something dumb like this that gets deniers to rethink their position. It may be some staple that disappears from shelves, or has to be replaced by an inferior substitute, or made with weird ingredients.

    If lite beer had to be made with rice, or it got to $100 a case because of climate change fucking up the wheat crop, it would do more than every science paper in the world.