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- Comment on Is spreading. 2 hours ago:
Linux Mint if you want something nice and easy out of box.
Fedora if you feel like taking the plunge
Bazzite if you want Fedora’s advantages for gaming but don’t want to mess with a conventional Linux install (kinda more like Android, lots of guardrails)
- Comment on Is spreading. 19 hours ago:
Fedora or Bazzite
- Comment on Is spreading. 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Is spreading. 19 hours ago:
Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu
Step 2: Refer to Step 1
Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 day ago:
Next year’s CES is gonna be every AI product from this year’s CES but with no progress on release date because they can’t even buy the consumer grade hardware to produce it since it all went into data centers lol.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
Not to ruin people getting off of streaming, but the biggest bang for buck in storage will be regular old hard drives unless you need to backup like >500Tb of storage (then tape drives).
DVDs are cool but they only have a 4/8Gb capacity.
BluRay pushes it to 70/100/120gb which is great for one 4K movie lol.
- Comment on A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash 3 days ago:
Use our easy bash oneliner to install our software!
Looks inside script
if [ $(command -v apt-get) ]; then apt-get install app; else echo “Unsupported OS”
Still less annoying than trying to build something from source in which the dev claims has like 3 dependencies but in reality requires 500mb of random packages you’ve never even heard of, all while their build system doesn’t do any pre comp checking so the build fails after a solid hours of compilation.
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 3 days ago:
Percy Jackson did this so much better by explaining only imperial gold or celestial bronze can be used to craft weapons that could harm powerful entities.
So naturally some dude loaded celestial bronze bullets into his warplane’s (probably .50 cal M2) machine guns lol
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 5 days ago:
I completely blame ChromeOS.
Even on AD snafu’d windows, the first thing we all did was figure out how to bypass any block and do what we wanted to.
Kids are growing up not knowing there are things you can do aside from accessing the internet and loading crappy webpages.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 6 days ago:
I forgot already but doesn’t he work for MSFT now?
I swear the moment he got a new job is when he came out with run0
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 6 days ago:
Go Go Gadget zswap!
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 6 days ago:
firearm blocking technology.
grep -r “gun” - Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 1 week ago:
Have you tried sfc /scannow ?
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
I’m still waiting for them to use the F-35 against an actual competent adversary with an actual airforce, but I think the only possibility would be China.
Maybe Pakistan if India buys the F-35, but even they know its a Lockheed money scam.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
I’m using Rocknix on an android handheld and it feels so powerful to be running 6.18 mainline kernel with all the modern features I want despite having to build stuff from source since the package manager only has a small list of stuff mostly meant for networking (Entware).
Even though its in beta for my device (AYn Thor), it works so well after only 4 months of development that I’m genuinely reaching the point of perma install and removing the stock Android install from the device.
I would pay cold hard cash for an OEM to do the same with PostmarketOS. Throw in proper open source kernel modules and use Steam’s upcoming waydroid fork for Android compatibility, and then throw that sucker in the market and watch Google try to litigate it out of existence.
- Comment on Get on my level 1 week ago:
PAF looking at the Rafales in the background:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The last time this was posted, it was PugJesus, and he barely agreed to my live example of Imran Khan.
And as a Pakistani, go fuck yourself. My democratically elected leader is in a jail going blind because American imperialism is universal amongst both parties, and Biden signed off on his removal without a second thought.
Even more insult to injury, Imran Khan won his election against a corrupt, voter fraud heavy, and FPTP system as a 3rd party that upset the duopoly after 70+ years.
Twice. Second time while he was in jail.
So now all that manure you people scream about RCV for 3rd parties in the US is laid barren as propaganda from the DNC & RNC to convince you never to vote independent or 3rd party.
Despite the fact the DNC was caught rigging their own primaries to ensure Bernie, a populist independent, would never win.
Twice.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 1 week ago:
Removing or vandalizing a Hollywood star won’t accomplish much, and the star that you’re probably thinking of was already damaged daily back in 2016.
Asking this question on lemmy without a darknet is also a stupid easy way to get caught if they feel like investigating you lol/
- Comment on We dont talk about what happened to Alex Pretti enough. 1 week ago:
3rd world immigrants watching Americans deal with American fashion protest crackdowns that also killed their leaders/journalists/family members:
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 week ago:
No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.
They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
I’m more surprised this isn’t Microsoft lol
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
My personal choice for security stuff is ubiquiti, but I’m sure someone here can find a super cheap doorbell camera that saves to an SD card and accomplishes the same thing.
I’m really glad people didn’t just fall over for this ad, and connected the dots on what Amazon is doing
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I did my desktop but skipped my server.
Even decade+ old used surplus server DDR4 didn’t escape the apocalypse.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 2 weeks ago:
inb4 text files from the internet now get a MOTW warning banner like macros in Office lol
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
Nothing, i’m just saying that most people don’t understand this and don’t know that their individual skills with a firearm just won’t matter much if you don’t organize into a proper group with modern vehicles at your disposable.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
Not saying it’s a bad idea in any way, but there’s a significant portion of the American community that I could not imagine being able to walk 10k despite stockpiling a platoon’s worth of ammo.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
Gulf War 1 was literally the king of all curbstomps and the Taliban fell just as fast to a swarm of CAS, even though they had the NWA completly surrounded.
Only Vietnam survived because surprise surprise they had a hefty mechanized supply line provided by the USSR via China.
Gulf 2 and the aftermath in Afghanistan was still a ridiculously long occupation that all hinged on the idea that the US no longer had any meaningful interest to commit resources and would eventually leave.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
IFVs exist for this exact purpose and they typically have minimum 1 per tank if not 2.
You ain’t gonna get very far when theres a 25mm auto cannon spraying and praying in your general direction.
Plus the coaxial 7.62 MGs
Plus the hull mounted M2 .50 cal MGs.
Why do you think separatists and resistance movements have to rely on IEDs and forcing fights in urban environments with a metric ton of cover available?
Why do you think they get steamrolled by mechanized armored units like almost every time that forces them into guerilla fighting tactics like digging tunnels and using mountainous terrain?
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
I grew up on D-pad and mouse so any of my controll skills fly out the window when given a c-stick.
Love gyro aim though lol. More akin to a mouse.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Wow I guess I get to finally dump Discord as my last proprietary chat app.
There are lots of self hosted alternatives like Mattermost, Mumble, and Matrix (decentralized).
There’s also the new Freenet River demo: freenet.org/quickstart/
Maybe I’ll make my own discord clone lol.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
No sweat, try mirroring a private tracker and you’ll very quickly run out lol. You need a couple of petabytes worth.
The real problem is the price of HDDs not going down due to lower production in light of SSDs.
I fully expect WD to drop this as some stupidly expensive SAS drives that almost no consumer will buy. They should at least apply the dual heads for speed tech so we get faster HDDs for the same price.
