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ulkesh

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A husband. A father. A senior software engineer. A video gamer. A board gamer.

  • Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?

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  • Up front: I am not a doctor.

    Seriously, seek a second opinion, and if you are a woman, and it sounds like the original doctor is a man, find a woman doctor. I know this sounds sexist, and I’m honestly not trying to be, but it has been shown many times how male doctors tend to overlook or not listen to female patients. You must advocate for yourself.

    Anecdotally, my spouse has had this happen numerous times. And it is extremely frustrating every time because it’s effectively a waste of time and money. And, something could be seriously wrong (not saying anything actually is), so you should make very certain at minimum that certain testing is done such as various tests from blood work and/or urine testing.

  • I made a local APT repository that automatically fetches DEBs and AppImages from anywhere

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  • It’s a cool concept, but automation breeds laziness (by design, to an extent) and lazy end users tend to shoot themselves in the foot. So it isn’t great for security, but it also isn’t that much worse for security :)

    Since some people with money tend to be litigious, and, of course, I am not a lawyer, I would advise a warning message (or part of the license if you don’t want to muck up your CLI), if you don’t have one, to force the user to accept and acknowledge that the software they are installing using this tool is not verified to be safe.

  • Touch Typing

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  • What a weird way to open a post.

  • How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"?

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  • When there exists an operating system that can satisfy that qualification, I'll concede the point. Until then, OEM and retail support is what matters.

  • How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"?

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  • Whether any OS could ever just work isn’t even going to solve the issue.

    Getting OEMs to sell laptops and desktops in Best Buy (or the like) that have Linux installed and is properly supported — that is what will help solve the issue.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • Things don’t just work on any operating system.

    With Windows, you have to hope there’s a solution that you can implement that doesn’t require rooting around in the insanely-outmoded registry and doesn’t require uninstalling some specific KB12345678 update.

    With MacOS, you will do as Apple says, and you will like it. Otherwise, enjoy the $3000 doorstop. Granted, there is plenty you can tweak, but when there is a problem, and you find some Apple Communities post with a copy/paste official reply that has steps to take, none of which ever actually solve the problem, you will be treated with a cheeseburger on your way to the insane asylum. Full disclosure: a MacBook Air is my daily work driver.

    With Linux, you are in charge — for better and for worse. This means that when there is a problem, while there is likely a solution, it will depend on many, many factors such as hardware configuration, kernel version, desktop environment, graphics card, display manager, etc. But, you can fix it with research and perseverance with no company getting in the way.

    The main difference with Linux, is that you are given the freedom to deal with problems as you see fit.

    So, yes, to me, Linux is as good as I think it is — not because it’s better or more stable (though subjectively I would say it is), but because it respects us by keeping the ownership and power where it belongs.

  • Intel: Laptop Processors, Future Chips Not Affected by CPU Bug

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  • The damage is done, though. And the fact that Intel wouldn’t do anything about damaged CPUs (edit: without requiring the customer to call over and over and over about the RMA) or recall affected CPUs is quite telling. So I’m jumping ship to AMD for my next build.

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    The problems and shortcomings of Cosmic (According to Hyprland Dev, Vaxry)

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  • Yes, I know.

  • You Should Show Grave of the Fireflies to Your Kids

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  • My child at age 8 knew exactly what the reality was when her great-grandmother died and saw us all grieving.

    She knew exactly what the reality was when, at age 9 and 14 respectively, she saw our cat had to get injected with fluids every day just to live, and our dog had to get euthanized.

    She knew exactly what the reality was when in elementary school two kids died in a house fire and she knew them.

    I would probably agree that typically only a teenager and above could properly appreciate a movie such as Grave of the Fireflies. And I completely agree children should not be purposefully traumatized, but not all of them have the luxury of being sheltered from traumatizing experiences. Some could handle such a movie and understand what is going on. But to be fair, I have never shown this particular movie to my kid.

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  • …he knows it’s an alpha, right? Right?

    Can someone tell him that the main reason hyprland sucks is that there’s no metaphor for hiding a window, but leaving the app running? And tossing it to a not-currently-visible workspace isn’t a solution and is pretty damn asinine.

    Also, create a settings GUI. This isn’t the 1960s.

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  • Yes it’s all propaganda.

    One set of propaganda is based on lies.

    The other set is based on emotion.

    I don’t buy into lies like so many people seem to.

    While I also won’t buy into emotion, since I try to use logic and reason as much as possible, I will support those who don’t have a campaign built upon lies, deceit, and felonies.

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • Okay, challenge accepted.

    I removed Windows from my machine and have been playing WoW on Garuda Linux since April. I installed via Lutris and use GE-proton with umu-launcher (simply using GE-Proton within latest Lutris uses umu) and it works every time without fail.

    First, for WoW there is no separate cheat detector that somehow figures out “oh they’re on Linux, we must ban them”.

    Second, WoW plays considerably better on Linux for me (based on the framerates I’m seeing in various locations in Azeroth). Granted, I decided to dump NVIDIA so I didn’t have to deal with their closed platform garbage.

    Lastly, yes, anti-cheat is an issue, but not because of you running Linux — it’s because of game companies fundamentally misunderstanding operating systems. There is no easier method of cheating on Linux than there is on Windows especially if the game company properly supports Linux. So if a company were to ban you, either you are doing something ban-worthy (and running Linux objectively is not), or the company is garbage because they don’t understand what they’re doing.

    I have seen no evidence to support Blizzard banning people for playing WoW on Linux. Show me a preponderance of evidence of this that isn’t possibly some other ban-worthy issue, and I will happily change my mind.

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  • Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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  • I’ve been using and working with Linux since 1999 (big box Redhat 5.1). It was a hobby at first, but then it became a tool in almost every job I’ve held.

    Now, on my personal PC I’ve bounced between windows and Linux (and some mad attempts at hackintoshing) since 1999.

    But Windows Recall changed that.

    Microsoft is doing what they’ve always done — try to control everything under the guise of “this is what the user wants” when not one damn person said “oh I want my operating system to take screenshots of everything I’m doing, AI-analyze them, store the data in an insecure database, and trust that Microsoft will never phone home about any of this”

    So now I run Linux full time at home and all the games I play and want to play work perfectly fine.

  • Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?

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  • Debian from 1998.

  • Anyone know of any good SMS/MMS/RCS clients

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  • I don't have an answer for you, but I have a caution...

    I once worked for AT&T and worked on AT&T Messages.

    DO NOT USE IT, if it still exists, if you're with AT&T. At the time I worked on it, there was no encryption except in-flight (https) -- which means if I had had production access (and some people who worked there at my level, definitely did), I could have read all messages, blobs, everything. I was told after I quit that they intended to add encryption, but since AT&T would still hold the keys, it's useless.

  • Today, I left windows behind for good

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  • Welcome to the club! We have punch and pie.

  • What should I do about my parents moving closer.

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  • If you don’t think it will end well having a preemptive conversation, then something else is wrong with your relationship to your parents.

    You are an adult. You set the boundaries.

  • Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

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  • And he should be worried. He backed Russia. He has slept with the invader, now he can rot with him.

  • Please recommend a no-sim messenger

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  • I forgot about that.