dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using multi monitors with mixed resolutions and a very old nvidia card (gtx 670).

  The only problem I have is that if I put them to sleep, while autorandr or whatever gets me the resolutions and layout back, the app windows move around like crazy because they all wake up at different times, likely due to a mix of HDMI + DVI + DisplayPort connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What else can they do while waiting for launch windows other than play vidya?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What client do you recommend instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How good is it? Does everything work like on the deck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They always do. Satirical, but real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t. Steam VR is native on Linux, and most of fusion 360 can run in wine. Good news for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’d be no need for drug dealers if drugs were decriminalized, like in other progressive Nations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Next up:

  • Signal getting banned in US govt
  • Signal getting banned in the US
  • Signal servers seized, devs detained
  • Signal protocol repos removed from M$hub
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for not immediately going to “world”, just because it has the most users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve clicked an obvious phishing link once in an isolated environment with a hardened browser on purpose. It had a tracking link and all and the URL was just ever so slightly off. Nothing happened on the target page though. No attempted script execution, no iframes, no cross site shenanigans, no weird popups or a fake login UI urging me to enter my credentials asap.

  Someone from my company’s security department called me shortly, telling me how I’ve failed the obvious phishing exercise and I had to undergo a half hour long mandatory awareness training. Wasn’t getting out of that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just about background though. Could also filter the results for genetic markers of medical conditions, something that may differ between individuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Hungary hunters love them. You get money for every boar shot and they make an okay stew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fairly easy to keep them in check though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. We need a decentralized archive and encyclopedia badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  End.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to crack this and it seems impossible. It’s a black box. You can dismantle every policy by looking at it from a certain standpoint and trying to apply your subjective logic to it. But when Zionist Israel is on the table, all logic goes out the window.

  We can take the presidents one by one:

  Obama - change - doesn’t change anything about relations and policies with Israel

  Biden - staunch defender of Israel. Doesn’t matter what they do, he condemns anything and everything bad, but Israel commits genocide and he doesn’t even acknowledge it.

  Harris - polls showed that she could have gained massive voter support, had she expressed anything in favour of Palestine and acknowledge genocide, but she decided to lose instead for some reason. Proof of what would win her the election wasn’t enough. She could have lost the Zionist campaign funding and still come out ahead.

  Trump - you’d assume he doesn’t care about money because he already has it, doesn’t care about power because he’s literally the president of the most powerful nation. He’s immune to prosecution, so Israel can’t even have something as stupid on him as being a serial child rapist, he’d shrug it off. That stupid Gaza beach resort video. Still doesn’t make sense from fiscal standpoint. He also breaks tradition and protocol on everything.

  There could be better allies in the region, and there have been. But it has to be Israel for some reason, in its current apartheid and genocidal state. My only explanation would be that the Zionist government of Israel and the US government are one and the same on some level, somehow, somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is not even necessarily Electron. I’m running it as Datcord, which is a Firefox based wrapper.

  Discord has a searchble chat history, which is what sets it apart from IRC. Everything else can be emulated by modern IRC clients, such as emoji and embedded / unfurling images and link previews.

  However imagine the chat history as if you had a bouncer that has 100% uptime and joined all possible chat channels from their creation, along with offering you search and buffer.

  If not IRC, either Matrix or XMPP should be capable of this.

  I’m fairly sure Discord’s popularity was due to aggressive marketing, likely during their venture capital funding rounds. Something which FOSS does not have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you write your own (wrong) answers below it in a different hand writing and pen. And call it SEO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t need GPS to track phones. You triangulate the receivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This speaks for itself⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably liability issues with kids getting the stupidest injuries and parents suing them for it.

  I blame the insurance industry and lack of public health care for this, not McDonald’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does not elicit the image of iron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adjecent, probably. Very similar, and seems to purposefully be set a hundred years after Blue Mars ends (2212).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The nomadic colony got expanded on in KSR’s novel 2312. I don’t actually remember much about it in the Mars Trilogy.

  But I’ve seen the concept before in an old EU Star Wars novel, one of the Solo books maybe, where Lando was operating something similar as his new venture.

  And before that maybe mentioned by Sagan. And before that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “How can I send Gmails?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Kate, but I’ve only been using it since last August. Been using npp for a decade before that, even as my IDE, and I felt like it was stronger than Kate.

  Kate has a lot of features that are not well documented or that you have to tape together to make something functional, while npp just works out of the box or with one of its many addons. Additionally the Kate documentation website is atrocious, lacking even basic search functionality. I had to join their IRC channel to get help figuring out something (path to some obscure config file that the latest version actually reads from), and while they were most helpful, I really shouldn’t have had to go through all that trouble.

  Maybe my approach to trying to solve a problem was wrong, coming from Windows + npp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly xkcd’s image has no watermark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they are ugly. The truck is an abomination though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok seems to be working fine. It’s about as competent as… Gpt4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Megagermans just sound evil.

  And milligermans, well there’s a vaccine against that I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they don’t count temporary residents like students and foreign worker permit holders?

  Also can they likely can’t be drafted / join their army?