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G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

This is the nature of modern day proxy conflicts. Both actors can continue easily but the "battlefield" like Gaza and South Lebanon are the ones that lose.

Why do some people hate drinking water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm on the opinion that marketing anything related to addiction is immoral and should be illegal. This includes cigarette, gambling, sugar, drugs (looking at you oxycontin), alcohol and even caffeine.

There is a backdoor into people's brains that should not be used. Allow people go get their own coffee and sugar but don't remind them it's missing when they're quitting.

(Coffee has been shown to be beneficial in reducing the overall death rate in adults when consuming something like 2+ cups a day so marketing it could be beneficial but the chance kids getting addicted to caffeine is something to avoid regardless.)

Why do some people hate drinking water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Those people are parroting harmful ideologies or have shitty sense of taste.

Why do some people hate drinking water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'd still recommend a filter. It's not just for drinking it straight but pasta, rice, soup and other boiling makes a huge difference.

Eating a spoon of rice and have it taste like sink water with carbs is not a good vibe. I want it to taste like rice or rice with minerals.

Why do some people hate drinking water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You should try it in Iceland. Tap water is so clean you practically ruin it by putting it in plastic.

But I remember it! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

One excerpt I enjoyed reading.

Michael Jackson guest-starred as Leon Kompowsky, but went uncredited (credited as John Jay Smith) for contractual reasons; his role was not confirmed until later. Jackson was a fan of the show and called its creator, Matt Groening, offering to do a guest spot. Jackson pitched several story ideas and wrote the song "Happy Birthday Lisa" for the episode. Leon's singing voice was performed by a Jackson soundalike, Kipp Lennon, due to Jackson's contractual obligations with his record company.[3] The episode references Jackson's career, with Kompowsky singing portions of the songs "Billie Jean" and "Ben".

Side note, why does this link above go through Google? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad

TIL the highest paid athlete of all time was Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles, earning total ~$15 billion over his career in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

You have to do some extraordinary mental gymnastics to expect paying for all soldiers in the roman empire is comparable to paying for all soldiers in the US.

TIL the highest paid athlete of all time was Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles, earning total ~$15 billion over his career in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Even calculating based on the silver content when sestertius is 2.5g silver gives 90M grams of 90 metric tons. Each gram is valued around $1 so that's a 90M USD there.

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

The guy who wrote this is an idiot. Vehicles with self driving should always follow the driving law to the letter regardless of what normal human behavior is. Human drivers do an immense amount of stupid shit in cars so imitating them with a computer is extremely dangerous.

If anything people should have extra safety requirements for self driving cars such as "always 5km/h below speed limit", "2s stop at stop sign" and "slow down to -10km/h below speed limit before an intersection".

Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

This could mean that it's the year of thy Linux desktop 🤔

Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. The drivers in the kernel are already released and free to use and can be linked to as long as the software linking it retains the GNU license or can claim that it's a separate service (such as an API or separately installed service) or it has to be installed afterwards like proprietary nvidia drivers.

Either way the source code is released and if the drivers want to retain the proprietary license they the community can make a way to download and compile the driver for the current OS after install. This will save a ridiculous amount of dev time and make Linux phone OS development much easier.

Gotta grow up sometime in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Just read the tard wrangler with the morning coffee. Excellent read, very entertaining.

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Virgin Orchestra - Venus in scorpio, (youtu.be)
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The economy could really use a state run video library online where it's mandatory for all movies and shows are sold for pay-per-view for media preservation and access. (lemmy.world)
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Musk just managed to Fox News-ify twitter (lemmy.world)
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Werewolf/mafia games, is anyone here able to win them? (lemmy.world)
 

I consistently lose and always fail the vibe checks. I have given up on trying to win and now I sow chaos for fun when people insist on playing them.

It's a fun trick to enjoy the game even if winning is off the table.

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Sleeping tricks (lemmy.world)
 

I'm looking for sleeping tricks and thought some other people here might have similar issues or good tricks. Can be anything from getting the motivation to go to sleep to actually tricks to falling asleep.

My current trickbook is basically this:

Podcasts, but it has to be in some goldilocks zone of interesting to enough to keep attention but not too good so it gets exciting.

I've also done meditation in bed when falling asleep that tends to work.

Consistent routine is good. Shower, brush teeth, lights off, episode, sleep.

I'm curious to see what other autistic people are working with here.

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beavers have infiltrated (lemmy.world)
 
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Chrono Trigger (SNES 1995) (lemmy.world)
 

I'm born in 1992 so this game is a bit before my time. I started playing it and got completely hooked. It's an absolutely fantastic game that would still hold up as a quality indie game today.

Music is amazing. Characters and character development is amazing. Story is very good. Combat is genuinely fun instead of feeling like a chore that cuts you off from the game. Art style is amazing.

I was surprised how much quality they could fit onto the SNES back it the day, it's a really good game and everyone with a potato can ploy it.

Pro tip: Remasters have some UI unpleasantness so it's best to stick to SNES emu version. I tried the Android and they used some native android font that ruined the immersion a bit. There's also a tight running section that's particularly unsuited for the mobile version. SNES is best, as originally intended.

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Help wanted: Girlfriend said she was feeling Khorne-y (lemmy.world)
 

So I of course screamed BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD and SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE like any reasonable human being. Then maimed some people with a knife, drank their blood etc.

She won't talk to me now and I don't understand why. Do you guys think the knife was to small?

Any help very much appreciated.

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Activities destroyed when swapping apps HyperOS (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Does anybody else experience that Android activities get destroyed and rebuilt all the time when switching between apps?

Browser page gets reloaded and form values disappear.

Authorising a payment in different app can make the payment fail.

General bad experience when multitasking 3 apps and swapping between.

(I'm on Redmi Note 12 with HyperOS)

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Who of you guys are on an "Unknown" OS? (gs.statcounter.com)
 

I've been wondering how many Linux users are being listed as unknown by statcounter out of curiosity. There has been a big global bump "Unknown".

Obvious ones are UserAgent spoofers Vpn users but I feel like that's pretty niche. I'm wondering if SteamOS, Endeavour and BSD show up as Unknown. Furthermore, will just all non-Ubuntu based OS?

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Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
45 comments fedilink
 

I'm looking for a specific distro to handle some tasks.

I got a second hand rig with Nvidia GTX 1050 that I want to use as a home server. I wanted to use HoloISO but it doesn't support nvidia. If someone says "do it anyway, it's fine" I'll install it though.

The idea is to support a Jellyfin server and Steam Link gaming but steam is not big on Nvidia so it's hard to narrow down "black screen" issues etc. I'm also planning to manage it via VNC and SSH.

I'm familiar with Ubuntu based systems since I develop software on Ubuntu based KDE distro but never had a graphics card.

So it boils down to:

  • Ease of setup including nvidia drivers
  • Ease of update via command line (I'm not going to download nvidia drivers from their website to update proprietary drivers)
  • Graphics performance
  • Prefer Ubuntu based

I'm up for Gnome, Xface, Cinnamon, KDE or whatever DE.

Edit: Changed title to better reflect requirements and not have misleading "headless" and "server" in it

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ai🧘rl (lemmy.world)
 
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