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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Democracy isn’t the problem; it’s the money in politics, which is an intended effect of capitalism.

  Capitalism is the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can sub for basically any cream of blank. Just think of something that goes well with green beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I firmly believe all 3-4 letter acronyms will eventually be used for evil.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YYZ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cake brulee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two solutions for that. One is Waydroid, which is basically what you’re describing. Another is android_translation_layer, which is closer to WINE in that it translates API calls to more native Linux ones, although that project is still in the alpha stages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure your phone before attending a protest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ideally also leave your car at home and take public transit while paying with cash or walking. CCTV and facial recognition are still issues, but you would be reducing your fingerprint a ton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just Google, but the community has been hard at work with porting mainline Linux to phones. postmarketOS is the main OS that devices are initially ported to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More generally, the founders wrote the constitution as if every leader will act in good faith. That has proven to be a bad idea, but also how do you even account for that? Their idea was a system of checks and balances, but that failed to account for when one party has control over every branch, and for when one branch goes rogue and starts ignoring the other two branches, as we are seeing now with the executive.

  IMO, limiting power (money in the case of a capitalistic society) is the only way. The founders had the right idea with the limitation of power, but they didn’t take that idea to the economic side of things. Force all corporations to be worker owned coops and have a hard wealth cap of $50 million by taxing anything over at a rate of 100%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but DXVK is a very, very good translation layer and is very performant. I can vouch for it as a Linux user who uses it on a regular basis.

  Some people even use DXVK to make older games run better on Windows (most notably GTA IV)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, you can run RADV in Windows using an experimental patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/…/29945

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC Intel is using DXVK for their drivers on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The goal is to destroy government entirely so that a fully privately owned “government” is in control instead.

  It’s all about personal enrichment for Trump/Elon and their friends, and it has always been that way on the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All that needs is some flux and more solder per joint.

  Alternatively (and what I personally prefer), you can tin both ends and then join them together. In chemistry, the rule is called “like likes like”, which means that similar materials like to join together, and dissimilar materials don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, but… you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After the War on Terror was declared, it meant that the executive branch could essentially go to war with any country if they call them terrorists without former approval from Congress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry weekend yall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like some kind of addiction, possibly?

  I’m not sure, but I’ll think about it while I heat up my dab rig to take some massive fat dabs so I can smoke a joint while loading a bowl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mainly a mix of economic frusteration and a divide and conquor strategy by the rich in order to have the masses blame immigrants and people of other races/religions/genders for all of their problems instead of blaming the elite class and capitalism.

  There is another angle, though, and that’s sexual frusteration. When a teenage male has issues getting laid and they look online for some kind of support, they find people like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson who tells them that men who “get laid” are “alphas” or whatever and that women should be treated as subhuman or as slaves. These incels have likely never actually attempted to make friends with any women outside of a sexual context, because if they did, they would learn that women are the same as them, even when it comes to their struggles (even pertaining to dating/sexual frustrations).

  I think the latter reason sparked the fire that made the first truely possible on a scale that we haven’t seen in our lifetimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a Linux user for over a decade. Do you just not know that Proton and WINE exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hiw much of that growth is bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Laser health and blank CD quality just aren’t what they used to be (especially after Taiyo Yuden shut down). This is still what I’m doing with my PS1, but I plan on upgrading to an ODE when I get the chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you prefer original hardware, flash carts and optical drive emulators.

  MiSTer is another great option that’s like a halfway point between software emulation and real hardware. It’s still emulation, but it’s done in hardware instead of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're in the endgame now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They just have that sticker for show. I doubt a single one of them ever read the constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The new Indiana Jones games has the Nazis as the enemies as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body horror, the skull kid, the impending doom when you look up at the sky...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing you’ve never played the game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK someone created a site to endlessly scroll Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a banger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or how it’s currently going with Elon’s installation of unauthorized, networked hardware in many vital government agencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  for f in \find .`; do sed -i ‘s/wokeness//g’ $f; done`

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved the first half of the first season, but I feel like it got a bit stale by the end of the first season. I haven’t watched the second.

  Would absolutely recommend, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly easy to stop a train, but yeah.

  Granted, that’s also an issue with human conductors, though.