Mereo

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Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

I transferred to this instance from https://lemmy.world. My previous profile: <a href="">https://lemmy.world/u/Mereo</a>

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Mereo,

Thank you for the upgrade. Lots of new features and truly needed features are in this release: join-lemmy.org/…/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19…

And thank God, I can now block instances that are a nuisance.

Mereo,

Very insightful! /s

Mereo,

Explain your thought.

Mereo,

Basically, the game is telling players to stop wasting their time.

Mereo,

Exactly. We have to remember the old saying of Hippocrates: prevention is better than cure. Preventing a disease will save the system an enormous amount of money because it will reduce the number of hospital admissions. Hospital admissions are the most expensive costs.

Mereo,

Non-paywalled article: archive.today/qa4v0

Mereo,

Because of Valve, Linux is finally my main OS. I’m a PC gamer and it was a pain in the ass to dual-boot between Windows and Linux.

Mereo,

Yes, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Analysts say these sanctions will backfire because now China has no choice but to become more advanced in chip production.

Mereo,

Indeed. I always read in forums people asking if NMS is worth playing now. Imagine if it had a great launch from the beginning. It would’ve been much more successful and wouldn’t have a bad reputation like it does know.

Mereo,

The UK is in the Eurasian plate: cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/…/29268.jpeg

Mereo,

Being the lowest rates means nothing. As long as people keep buying and ordering the game, they will keep on releasing Shit games. Money talks in business.

Mereo,

The story behind Senerenity OS is quite amazing:

It was October 2018 and I had just completed a 3-month rehab program at a state addiction clinic in Sweden. I was unemployed, staying with family, and had basically nothing going on.

With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long. I struggled to find activities to fill them. I enrolled in school for a while, but it wasn’t for me this time either. Eventually I turned to programming, since it’s always been my big interest in life.

Until that point, my career had been focused on web browsers (WebKit at Apple & Nokia). However, I had always been interested in low-level things so I began tinkering with some of that. I wrote a little ELF executable parser… And an Ext2 filesystem browser… And a little GUI framework with an event loop…

Out of this tinkering, an operating system began to take shape. I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. I was quite worried about my future at the time, and I figured that this name would help me stay on the good path.

My general idea was to build my own dream system for daily use. It would be a combination of my two favorite computing paradigms: the 1990s GUI and the no-nonsense command-line of late-2000s Unix.

Source: …substack.com/…/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-serenit…

Mereo,

Same here. Everytime I go to Montréal, I’m amazed by their transit.

Mereo,

The problem with this is that the battery capacity will be greatly reduced, meaning it will need to be replaced sooner than normal.

Mereo,

For the life of me, I don’t understand why they rebranded themselves. HBO is such a recognized brand. I was confused at first about what Max was.

Mereo,

But the problem is the general public. People who have it enabled won’t be able to visit his website.

Mereo,

Well, you vote with your wallet. This is what happens when gamers pre-order incomplete games and scream about the state of the game on social media: you get crap products like this.

Money is the only thing that appeals to companies. If people would just vote with their wallets, we wouldn’t have this situation.

Mereo,

Slowly but surely. Reddit has had 18 years to build a base of 500 million.

Mereo,

The non-paywalled page: archive.ph/…/philippines-drops-china-railway-deal…

Mereo,

Voyager is best in iOS at it was heavily inspired by the ex-App Apollo.

Mereo,

I avoid them like the plague. My last flight with them was from Toronto to Dubai. Absolutely horrible service. They ran out of chicken and only had a vegetarian dish and only served us one meal, which is ridiculous for a 14 hour flight. And the customer service is awful.

I am now trying to find alternatives, even if they are a bit more expensive.

Mereo,

Makes sense. The proletariats are monkeys. That’s their food /sarcasm.

Mereo,

Indeed Lemmyverse.net is the way.

Mereo,

For me, it’s like if it means freedom or frieden in German…

Mereo,

We are an extreme minority who really have the know-how to get around this. The majority will just give in and subscribe.

This is what happened with Netflix. Everyone thought that Netflix would lose subscribers with the crackdown on password sharing. On the contrary, they gained subscribers and is bringing even more revenue.

Mereo,

Thank you for your hard work! Is there a new Test Flight code? I don’t see the new version yet.

Mereo,

I had the same problems until I switched to an AMD card. Since then it’s been smooth sailing in Wayland.

Mereo,

Article without paywall: archive.today/mdUQf

Mereo,

You make a good point. With immigration, Canada’s population will grow. Toronto cannot be the only city to which people move to.

Mereo,

It was more about the Quebec independence referendum. Before that, Montreal was the economic capital of Canada.

Mereo,

But I always ask myself, do I really need all these features? Am I really going to use them?

After this introspection, I realized that one-handed use is much more important to me than many futures companies suggest.

Mereo,

This question should be posted on r/askreddit…

Mereo,

Lemmy instances are run by VOLUNTEERS! Lemmy.world is not a COMPANY. A company can have an army of lawyers. An instance run by VOLUNTEERS cannot.

Mereo,

Good for you… anyways… what were we saying?

Speaker's Nazi veteran invite 'profoundly embarrassing' Trudeau says, as Rota faces calls to resign (www.ctvnews.ca)

Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.

Mereo,

This is embarrassing. Russia is already taking advantage of it.

Russia blasts Canada over ‘outrageous’ reception in Parliament for Ukrainian who served in Nazi unit

www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6977248

Alternative ways to run Plex?

Context; So… Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to “smart TV’s” not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with...

Mereo,

No thanks: killedbygoogle.com

Mereo,

Apple cases aren’t worth the top dollars. People should just get a Spigen case or any other case than Apple ones.

Mereo,

I’ve been an iPhone user since 2017, so I’ve been out of the loop. Are battery issues due to misbehaving apps (like flashlight spyware apps) still a thing on Android?

Mereo,

I’m glad I got the basic iPhone 15 to replace my old iPhone 8 Plus. I don’t need all the bells and whistles of the pro line.

Apple definitely should have added a bigger battery to the Pro lineup.

Mereo,

I wish there was an option to limit it to 60 Hz. You’d still have the benefits of variable refresh rates, but with lower battery consumption.

Mereo,

sigh This option shouldn’t be hidden in accessibility.

Does it reduce the frame rate to 60 HZ?

Mereo,

I have the normal iPhone 15 so can’t test it, but according to people, low normal mode introduces a lot of lag.

It just feels weird that regular iPhones are the one to recommend right now.

Mereo,

Return it, it is really not worth the premium price. Get a much cheaper Spigen or any other case.

Mereo,

Lobbyists for the gas boiler industry are trying to delay the introduction of new government measures to speed up the take-up of heat pumps, a leaked document shows.

Source: theguardian.com/…/gas-boiler-lobby-uk-heat-pump-p…

Mereo,

Yup. Saudi Arabia has launched Vision 2030 to diversify and open up the economy. But to achieve their goal, they need high oil revenues.

Mereo,

To conservatives, a real American is a white person with white eyes and blond hair. Anyone else is inferior.

This is why I hate the term “African-American”. We don’t call white people “European-Americans” while we call black people “African-Americans” as if they’re not American enough.

It’s sad.

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