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Just another ordinary, average guy.

Este perfil es de un servidor federado y podría estar incompleto. Explorar más contenido en la instancia original.

Alright, you know what? I'll be switching. (kbin.social) en

Hello there. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I have an old laptop (something like 10 yo). It has an HDD, 4 gigs of DDR3, an i3 4th gen 1.7 GHz and an NVidia Geforce 710M (Windows Game Ready Driver 391.35 WHQL which I think doesn't support Wayland). It also has CSM BIOS so yeah. It has the option of UEFI but the GeForce (I...

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Have fun.

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/*
 * Yeah, yeah, it's ugly, but I cannot find how to do this correctly
 * and this seems to work. I anybody has more info on the real-time
 * clock I'd be interested. Most of this was trial and error, and some
 * bios-listing reading. Urghh.
 */

Ah, those were the days.

The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com) en

The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....

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"Winning"

lol

Stuck between distros right now. (kbin.social) en

So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...

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I haven't noticed anything different.

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 116.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Candidate: 116.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Version table:
     1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
 *** 116.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 1001
       1001 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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The oil industry is facing its own extinction, so of course this well-funded hate-fest is just getting escalated. Their desperation is frankly pathetic and obvious.

Nobara Gnome is just a terrible experience. (kbin.social) en

So, after EndeavourOS's GRUB comitted suicide, me being too stupid to understand chroot despite wiki "tutorials" and the community rather trolling & gaslighting me instead of helping I decided to give Nobara a go. Usually I am a Plasma KDE guy, but thought since it's been a long time I try it out, especially since you can have...

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I think it would help if you showed us the output of inxi -b in a terminal.

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When people complain about crashes, that is usually the first thing that springs to mind. Of course, your hardware is fairly new, so I think you should be good in that respect. The problem might just be a Xwayland/Gnome thing, now that I think about it.

IceCube announcement: Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane (icecube.wisc.edu) en

Observations of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos have shown that they mostly originate from extragalactic sources such as active galaxies. However, gamma ray observations show bright emission from within the Milky Way galaxy, and astrophysical gamma rays and neutrinos are expected to be produced by the same physical...

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I'm wondering what the impact of "deflection by interstellar magnetic fields" really is. Describing it as "random" feels to my mind like a bit of a cop out. I understand that we're struggling to understand what magnetic fields are, but there really ought to be some way to math it out.

Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sales and ad revenue. (kbin.social) en

most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...

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The larger subs are already starting to become a war between different groups of spammers. The smaller subs can get by for now, but when the war in the larger subs gets to the extent that spammers start needing to branch out, they'll likely invade the smaller subs, as well.

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I'm bracing for disappointment from IceCube, but hopefully NANOGrav will more than make up for it.

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If either the particle properties or the fundamental constants were changing, then our laboratory measurements would be changing as well: according to these reformulations, over a ~14 year timescale (since 2009 or so), we would have noticed variations in the observed properties of these well-measured quanta that are thousands of times larger than our tightest constraints: of about 1-part-per-billion.

This argument doesn't sound very convincing with such a lack of precise explanations of the conditions. I'm really not convinced they've thought this through.

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We have to pay the people to do that work — those passionate contributors grinding through those long hours and nights who believe in open source values.

This all sounds a little too melodramatic for me to get behind. It's nice that they want to pay people for their work, but to imply that the only way to do it is their way seems to me to be the disingenuous side of the argument. A lot of free software organizations get by just fine on donations.

Simply repackaging the code that these individuals produce and reselling it as is, with no value added, makes the production of this open source software unsustainable.

The narrative that repackaging adds "no value" is a disingeuous one, as well.

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