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- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 6 days ago:
He certainly running the country into the ground like one of his businesses
- Comment on Mexico: 200 pairs of shoes found at clandestine crematorium 4 weeks ago:
Across Mexico, more than 100,000 people are registered as disappeared. But that figure could be an undercount, given that many fear to report cases to the authorities.
Bloody hell that’s grim
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 5 weeks ago:
I guess that skype-zoom clip was prophecy
- Comment on Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents 1 month ago:
That makes sense, thanks for sharing. We tried fully free buses here for a while but scrapped it because it was super expensive (the way it worked was that the government paid the bus company for all the tickets - and they chose to write a new app you could use to claim these free bus tickets)
I didn’t hear anything about crime or vandalism rising in this case. I wonder if the registration process was a deterrant; passengers still had to scan their tickets as they boarded, and getting one required identifying yourself.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
I would think it’s a good thing that there are a lot of greybeards in FOSS? If the claim is true, then it should mean that once you get into FOSS you tend to stay there.
The article seems to be referring to FOSS code contribution more than user adoption, but the same idea holds. The more I learn about my distro and its packages, the less scared I get about something going wrong that I can’t fix and the less likely it is I will go back into an OS riddled with ads and spyware.
For code contribution I only ever managed to do a PR for a Kodi plugin, and even then it was only because this amazing guy from their team walked me through the whole thing step by step. It was quite intimidating figuring out how to do that stuff for the first time.
- Comment on Cross-platform Nexus Mods app expands Baldur's Gate 3 support plus further UI improvements 4 months ago:
OK this is pretty good news. I did not have fun trying to mod PoE. In the end I found a guide that showed me how to use UnityModManager, launch it with proton, choose DoorStopProxy then launch with the winhttp override option. Have no idea how ppl figure this stuff out.
- Comment on We're Back! 5 months ago:
I have decided that now is the time, finally, to read those Buffy and Angel comics.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 5 months ago: