Seeing porn/nudity is seemingly quite common but this… this is just different enough that I felt uneasy after reading it.

It’s so obnoxious. I hate researching a topic only to be fed results leading to useless AI spam. The entire thing is clogged up like this. Searching on the internet absolutely sucks, now.

I thought this was going to be about what’s happening in South Africa where they are just immediately arresting and deporting what are now emaciated illegal miners with not even a second’s consideration to their well-being.

But no. It’s just a westoid complaining about the west losing control of natural resources in African countries.

Open curtains and a full morning sun

The element zapper

It’s not absolutely shit, it’s a Thinkpad t440s with an i7 and 8gigs of RAM and a completely broken trackpad that I ordered to use as a PC when my desktop wasn’t working in 2018. Started with a bare server OS then quickly realized the value of virtualization and deployed Proxmox on it in 2019. Have been using it as a modest little server ever since. But I realize it’s now 10 years old. And it might be my server for another 5 years, or more if it can manage it.

In the host OS I tweaked some value to ensure the battery never charges over 80%. And while I don’t know exactly how much electricity it consumes on idle, I believe it’s not too much. Works great for what I want. The most significant issue is some error message that I can’t remember the text of that would pop up, I think related to the NIC. I guess Linux and the NIC in this laptop have/had some kind of mutual misunderstanding.

The resistfingerprinting option works well but as you said breaks a lot of stuff. Sometimes subtly in ways that are hard to trace back to the fact that you enabled it. It should only be used by those in a special profile they created specifically for the purpose of using it, IMO

A rule they could have, and should have, discarded the moment they took the senate.

Whoa, that would mean the democrats have to actually wield their authority in alignment with their purported popular agendas – the very thing they absolutely must never do!

Baldur’s Gate 3 is probably the best game of the last decade or so so highly recommended. It’s not open world…

And that’s probably exactly why it’s good. Most open world games I’ve played are absolute snores.

I replace the <default, slow, annoying to use> image viewer with qimgv, which is ergonomic and very fast.

Deny. Defend. Depose.

It’s also a bit sad when it has a facade that looks like a competitor’s proprietary offering, but you then peek under the hood a bit further and the finer details of polish, functionality, and taste are missing.

Love it all the same, but I can’t pretend it’s not a shortcoming.

in 2016, WOULD have

Scooby Doo style:
The boogeyman is a centrist who is neither left, nor right!

Pull mask off

oh it was a right-winger all along.

You’ve gotten good responses already, but I just live and let live with Gnome’s Mutter & KDE’s Kwin. It’s worth mentioning that they’re both highly polished offerings. But I would also understand why one wouldn’t want to use either.

Is the photo of Goebbels?

fuck me. lmao.

I use Firefox as I actually like it more, except for the lack of Chrome-style tab groups (in development). But it does seem like it’s mismanaged and I wonder what that means for it in upcoming years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

I am reminded of this old (forgive me) The Atlantic piece. It has two through-lines. One is the story of a dentist that was doing malpractice, finding issues in people’s teeth that didn’t exist so he could milk their insurance (and ruin their lives). The other is the story of why dentistry is separate from the rest of medicine.

If you have a Mac the free app Tomito in the App Store is a genuinely good pomodoro timer. There are plenty other options, even websites, but this one is my favorite so far.