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vithigar

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  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • For a while (maybe even still, I haven't kept up with it) you could unlock paid features with a modded client, so they absolutely have a history of using client-side verification.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • Matrix does have a bot API, but there is not even close to as robust an ecosystem of bots to choose from. Whatever you want is probably possible, but depending on your needs you may have to write it yourself.

  • "Protests don't belong in church"

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  • ...why hold back from saying it though?

    I get it. There's social friction in that kind of altercation, but fear of that social friction is a contributing factor for the current state of things.

    Sure, you can't walk out on your job to start protesting in the streets because for all practical intents and purposes everyone is a single paycheque away from financial ruin, but Jesus Christ people, you can stand up to the batty woman in your local parish telling you that trans people are grooming children.

    Yes, there are social consequences, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere, right? Are you seriously going to tell me that quiet acquiescence is preferable to ostracism from a sexist/racist/homophobic/etc social circle?

    There are countless tiny opportunities to stand up and none of them are easy, but we're long past the point where they're necessary.

  • If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

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  • Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.

    As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn't really impede it.

    I won't say it's not a silly idea, because it is. It's fun to think about though.

  • Always rule been

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  • Satanic is not the same as satanistic.

  • Minute Maid is discontinuing frozen juices after 80 years

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  • I never cared much for the orange juice, but minute maid frozen lemonade concentrate is amazing. I'm going to miss that one for sure.

  • Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations?

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  • For reasons similar to why plain bread doesn't show up in sandwich recommendations.

  • Removed

    The Filthy Rich

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  • I offer that it's actually worse, since it requires acting on it and knowing it's wrong.

  • France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

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  • ...what do you think the point of marriage is (or was)?

    You know you can have sex with someone without being married. The two concepts aren't actually requisite of each other.

  • What Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question

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  • If you're using vague, borderline nonsensical phrases like "install files" when trying to find out how to do things that might go some way towards explaining it.

  • it's a simple question

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  • Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It's got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn't even have a second memory slot.

  • it's a simple question

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  • I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it's generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn't feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.

    CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn't used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.

    As for the Windows machine, it's a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn't quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can't be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It's almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.

  • it's a simple question

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    • Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
    • Surface Go 2: Mint
    • Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
    • NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
    • Steam Deck: SteamOS

    Non-linux:

    • Gaming tower: Windows
    • Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS

  • Denominator, go Mercator

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  • True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.

    You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One or the other can be correct, but never both.

  • Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale

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  • I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I've put Mint on it now and it's actually a nice little machine.

  • ai generated logo

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  • Ugh, I've run into this as well.

    Several times now I've commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I've run campaigns with. I'm in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI "portfolios" is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I've settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It's insane.

  • make it crispy!

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  • A lot of food preparation techniques of ancient origin come from efforts to store or preserve food. Pickling, smoking, and salting being among the most obvious.

    Bread likely shares a similar lineage. Wheat that has been ground to flour is much easier to store, keeps for a long time, and can be reconstituted into more appealing food in small batches as needed.

  • Cursed plumbing

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  • SUPER

    HOT

  • Developer appreciation time!

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  • I don't really disagree, at least in principle. You're absolutely correct that workflows should be clear and developers often do not make good UI/UX. You just didn't really qualify your original statement with any of that and made it an absolute, but you've clarified now and I'm pretty sure we agree.