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- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 1 day ago:
There’s probably a nice shell multiline command that does what you want lol. cat + awk unique count + sort
I’m just forgetting is there’s an easy way to keep the line numbers or filename so you can easily go back to the full page reference.
- Comment on India is offering foreign cloud giants a 21‑year tax holiday if they run global AI workloads from Indian data centers 3 days ago:
Ask Pakistan for their professional coup-ing assistance /s
- Comment on LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. 3 days ago:
Probably Fedora, basically modern recommend over Ubuntu and used by Linus himself for being user friendly.
Bazzite is good if you don’t want to mess with traditional linux at all and want something more akin to Android (much harder to screw up).
Mint is great for everything except maybe gaming because their modules aren’t always up to date which can lead to performance issues.
I also think KDE is the better DE to choose, but that’s up to your own preference.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 days ago:
Pretty straightforward actually, plenty of distros even ship their own USB flasher tool so that you don’t have to use rufus.
Definitely step by step instructions available and even official videos now.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 4 days ago:
Sausages and Potatos from their Bavarian Foodtruck
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.
Ironically there actually is if you bother pirating content because that’s the only crowd that will share full 4k Dolby Vision + Dolby Atmos/DTS-X BluRay rips.
Aside from that though, even 4k gaming is a struggle because GPU vendors went into the deep end of frame generation, which also coincidentally is the same mistake lots of TV OEMs already made.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 week ago:
I bought one of these 64GB packs for less than $50 not even a year ago
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
why/how do these guys design a product this way
Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.
Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.
It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.
Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?
iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/process-explorer
Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 week ago:
I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 weeks ago:
Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.
Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.
I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.
Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.
If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 2 weeks ago:
Or China, or Russia, or Ukraine, or any 3rd world country, or even some 2nd world countries.
Actually it would probably be easier to name the places you won’t see a gun than places you can.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
Collecting every item in Rabbids Go Home.
Stupid game made me think there was a secret moon level. I feel like the devs actually forgot to put in at least a trophy or something because it unlocks nothing.
- Comment on Cloud saving huh? 2 weeks ago:
It would be hilarious if they reuse X11’s original server model and just start trying to stream draw events to and from the cloud.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Relax, Americans aren’t used to seeing and responding to an actual oppressive regime nor have the capacity for supporting meaningful change. Plus the military structure is so well defined, there would be very little chance anyone would fragment or opt to join a “side” except for the active government. Most you would see is a bunch of useless resignations.
In true American fashion, everything you fear will just happen really half assed. If there is even a hint of a civil war, it’ll be snuffed out by your favorite 3 lettered agency long before it begins.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
~~Why are these mainstream media journalists going out of their way to make Linux work and look harder than it is?
You don’t need to open the terminal to install software or configure anything, that’s literally the whole point of every big DE that ships well made GUI apps.~~
He solved his problem by switching off of Ubuntu to Fedora, I think I almost shed a tear lmao
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 3 weeks ago:
Ah that makes more sense, forgot Twitter thread order is reversed.
Wanted to vibe check the Pakistan flag and make sure it was actually a Pakistani
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 3 weeks ago:
What is the first reply trying to say?
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 3 weeks ago:
This just seems like a repeat of these companies buying all the similar/unicode like domains to ensure no one can grab a domain with resemblance to the name.
Considering a most of them aren’t even used for anything practical, I wonder if this was just another ploy by ICANN to make money lmao.
- Comment on I'm just here for the memes 3 weeks ago:
Overused image with obvious fallacy implicating voters 2k upvotes
And then top comment is usually someone pointing out how utterly stupid the post is.
Optionally by FlyingSquid or PugJesus
- Comment on u WoT m8 3 weeks ago:
“The M4 Sherman was a capable tank, but it was the far superior T-34 that won WWII”
“Oh this is from War Thunder’s russian bias”
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 4 weeks ago:
You forgot the part where they bribed some Venezuelan defense officials to stand down. Everyone saw this regime change coming, they just didn’t expect the US to get directly involved.
That entire Chinook formation could have been shredded by a single infantry group equipped with some cheap stingers (or equivalents).
Some of the local reporters even claimed that Maduro’s own security convinced him to leave by helicopter, where Delta was already waiting for him.
They key note here is that Maduro was not well enough supported within his own circle. If you want a recent example, they could have done the same thing to Assad since he fled without even notifying the CO of his army.
Countries like Russia and NK have a complicated internal political structure that revolves around the leader ensuring he can never be couped. The US wouldn’t be able to just buy them off to create such a situation.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
Another day of weebs trying to vindicate themselves within the gamer community smh my face
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
Most of these answers here are not viable because the US has leverage in almost every nation on earth.
Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, etc are the exception, hence why they are sanctioned (and constantly suffering problems with every new CIA project) bar China which is locked in a trade war and has a sizable military to back themselves up.
You would realistically require a counter world power that offers an alternative to the US system, which used to be the USSR which no longer exists.
China is poised as the next superpower, but they haven’t made any significant moves in that regard because they are wary of the USSR’s downfall, and have no intention of engaging the USA in that manner (yet).
Everyone in the UN, despite all their cries, will fall in line when threatened, aside from the aforementioned exceptions.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
I really don’t want Apple to enter this market because then all the current OEMs will just be even more incentivized not to make generational advancements, and to just copy Apple’s Chinese grade quality to sell more slop because idiots will buy.
Google already threw a grenade with their subpar pixel fold and then Samsung magically swapped off snapdragon for their zflip. If Apple joins, next they’ll start using plastic for the shell and still charge $999.
People who think this won’t be a competitive product can just look to the past 20 years of Apple successfully selling stupid shit for exorbitant prices. I would even bet money it comes with an even deeper crease than current gen foldables against the “new hinge tech” hype this guy is claiming.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 5 weeks ago:
Okay so step one is to take GNOME and throw it into the trash where it belongs, and replace it with KDE which is a complete DE and not a bunch of plugins disguised in a trench coat of bash scripts.
Step two is to recommend a distro that targets both user quality and latest stable kernel releases for the most updated modules (Like Fedora or OpenSUSE)
Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web
Is the wrong problem because that’s what Flatpak accomplishes without creating distro dependency hell. Regressing to .run and .appimage files for everything is why windows updates suck total ass, and it would nuke one of Linux’s most killer features.
Users are already used to an appstore on mobile, I can personally guarantee you that they have no trouble getting accustomed to a desktop app installer, especially since they find it so much easier to search and click install without opening a bunch of websites. Since it shows both package manager and flatpak apps, they don’t even have to be aware of the backend system.
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The only thing holding back linux at this current point in time is honestly just vendors using it standard in consumer hardware. The dependency hell issue was resolved years ago by both huge improvements in package repos and the widespread support of Flatpak. The leftover baggage from X11 has been replaced by Wayland, which finally became viable around end of 2023. Even stuff like pulseaudio has been replaced by pipewire to handle every edge cases scenario.
I would not have said the same thing 2 years ago. The evidence is that the linux desktop user base is growing at an increasing rate. All they need is to hit a critical share (6-7%) for bigger vendors and OEMs to follow.
The good news is, as mentioned, there are a lot of vendors that are starting to do this. Valve’s steam machine by itself could be enough to add another 10 million users if they play their cards right.
My other anecdotal evidence is that I successfully changed several of my friends and family members over to Fedora just last year because I finally found it viable to throw at any former Windows user.
The only dissatisfaction I caused was one “dependent” person who couldn’t play Fortnite (the only game in their library that didn’t work), which I audaciously told it would be possible in 2026 via waydroid/lepton (valve plz dont fail me lol).
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 weeks ago:
This is even funnier considering the fiber element in toslink is actually plastic which was chosen to make it really cheap since the distance was not of concern like a proper multimode fiber cable made with glass.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
I actually have a really annoying problem in that I cannot find any universal adapter that has a real ground pin.
All of them only have prongs for the hot and neutral wires, and sometimes a dummy plastic ground to grip the socket better.
I understand that 99% of the time, modern electronics don’t need a ground cable and its only there for safety, but it would still be a lot more comforting knowing the ground is actually connected.
I even considered modifying an adapter with a ground cable I can manually insert into the socket.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
zswap and zram becoming highly critical software again:
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 month ago:
iirc they weren’t even the first ones to discover this because there was already someone on the blackmarket selling data collected from exposed cameras and endpoints which included PII of entire police departments.
- Comment on Solidarity 1 month ago:
“What kind of insane court system did the devs of ace attorney dream up?”
looks at Japan’s 99.9% conviction rate
“Oh”
