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i like analog media, photography, and steel bicycles. free palestine 🇵🇸

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it’s an extension, right? i would assume it would go away if you uncheck this option in Firefox settings: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/92a756a9-aef4-4276-96c8-5ec4a6b05bb8.png

i’ve had this unchecked so i haven’t seen it pop up in my use

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Nice! What graphics card do you have? AMD generally works well out-of-the-box, but if you have NVidia you may need to install drivers

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I’m not sure if it meets all your requirements, but Dolphin has a dual-panel mode if you press F3 and has lots of other configuration options as well

Laptop not working after installing nimdow

I have installed nimdow window manager. I have auto-login enabled. Nimdow is the default option. The only options I have at boot are (from the bootloader): default, timeout, edit, resolution, print and help (help is not working). How am I supposed to go back to GNOME or disable auto-login? I tried accessing the recovery shell,...

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If the computer boots but you can’t access a GUI, use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to open a console. From there you can use nano to edit the login manager configuration. If you had GNOME installed, your login manager is probably GDM, and its config should be at /etc/gdm/daemon.conf, according to the manual. If that is the case, it looks like you should erase the username under the entry “AutomaticLogin=”.

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If I understand correctly, the filesystem driver is contained within the kernel for all linux-native filesystems (Ext4, XFS, BtrFS, F2FS, etc.), just as drivers for computer components and devices are. But drivers to access NTFS (Windows) and HFS+ (Mac OS) drives are programs in userspace

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Is it just me or does it seem a bit out-of-touch to brag that last year’s $1100 phone is still usable? You would sure hope it wasn’t made obsolete that quickly

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Debian. Huge repository, no bullshit, and basically any software for Linux is packaged/compatible with it.

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The market in smartphones should be expected to decline, and that’s a good thing. People keeping old phones for longer = less e-waste, but they have to introduce a new, fragile gimmick for profits

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Hate speech is an actual problem for online entities to deal with. “Cancel culture” is a slightly vague term that usually refers to applying social pressure to disassociate from someone. This can obviously be good or bad depending on what it’s about, but the term is typically only used by right-wingers when said pressure is applied to them.

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looks like a new 4tb HDD only costs $40 nowadays so it’d be pretty cost-effective to use RAID 1

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I like to make oats in the microwave and mix in peanut butter and banana slices

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do you know literally anything about history or geopolitics? north korea is aiding Palestine, russia is allied with iran and syria, while isn’treal is backed by the US empire and its satellites such as the UK and Germany. without the backing of the west the zionist entity would collapse

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The backend should be the same (Freetype)… only difference I can think of is that GNOME uses Wayland by default while KDE defaults to X11 and offers Wayland as an option. Do you have a HiDPI screen?

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piracy is not that deep… the OS doesn’t really matter in this case as what you’re concerned about is the ISP, not anything in your own PC. if you don’t have a VPN, your ISP could send letters bugging you for downloading stuff. you’d probably have to get dozens of letters before the ISP would cancel your service.

just get a VPN for $5/month and you don’t have to worry about it.

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I would highly recommend using a Wine manager program such as PlayOnLinux. You can have each program in its own virtual drive and can use different wine versions and tweaks for each program. It’ll manage the wine versions in the app so you don’t have to install it systemwide.

Also check out appdb.winehq.org and protondb.com for compatibility, tweaks, etc. for each program.

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Yes, directx to opengl (included in WINE) was used exclusively for a very long time before dxvk and vk-d3d came out just a few years ago. for older games you should be good to go, before i had a vulkan-capable card i ran all kinds of older games, usually without having to tweak anything. in a few games i had to change a game setting to use D3D9 instead of 11.

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hmm, not sure… i’ve heard it referred to as “wined3d”? when i had a non-vulkan card it usually wouldn’t try to run vulkan so i didn’t have to mess with it. what result does disabling dxvk have?

in steam you can put PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 in the launch options, but this doesn’t help for non-steam games

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The version you linked on github is FOSS but it is out of date— newer versions on the play store are proprietary. Organic Maps is a continuation of the FOSS version by the original developers.

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dxvk is available through the distro, if you’re on an ubuntu or debian-based distro just run sudo apt install dxvk. vulkan should come pre-installed on any modern distro.

i’d highly recommend using some kind of manager, if you don’t want lutris than use playonlinux which is more minimal. this keeps things organized and lets you use different wine versions and tweaks for each game. for example, some newer games need proton-experimental or an otherwise very recent version to run, but you may not want to replace your system wine with this.

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So… no gold on NSFW content, why? Just more of the same puritan BS that killed tumblr? I get advertisers don’t want their ads next to just anything, but gold isn’t ad-based.

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This paper looks like it’s essentially run by the US weapons industry. It’s a subsidiary of GovExec who helps military contractors sell to the government. This means they have an interest in drumming up armed conflict and you’d have to take everything they print with this in mind.

A group called Cofacts allows users to forward dubious messages to a chatbot. Human editors check the messages, enter them into a database, and get back to the user with a verdict.

“This year, because gen AI is just so mailable [sic], they just fine-tuned a language module together that can clarify such disinformation…adding back a context and things like that. So we’re no longer outnumbered,” she said.

I’d be highly skeptical of how well this would work. A language model is not a truth machine, it’s just a program that tries to write like a human. There are countless examples of ChatGPT and similar programs saying blatantly false things and making up citations out of thin air.

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Right arrow key

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Spoof your MAC address, but it will appear as a new device on the wi-fi which could arouse suspicion. Ideally you could spoof a familiar device that’s not currently or often in use (i.e., parents’ or siblings’ old phone or laptop), but of course you would need to acquire the MAC and it wouldn’t work while the actual device is connected.

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sexist facebook-tier garbage. congrats

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I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I’m not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.

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but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.

Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won’t be as dark.

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I could understand requiring an account with Jitsi itself, but needing that account to be Facebook, Google, or MS seems to be at odds with the type of person who would use an encrypted video chat in the first place.

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what do you think imperialism is? the island of taiwan has historically been part of china, the KMT just held onto it after losing the civil war. it’s like if the CSA somehow kept florida

I am extremely curious what the general take around here is on the Singulairty

First, let me say that what broke me from the herd at lesswrong was specifically the calls for AI pauses. That somehow ‘rationalists’ are so certain advanced AI will kill everyone in the future (pDoom = 100%!) that they need to commit any violent act needed to stop AI from being developed....

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There are “boomer” forums I know of where they also generally deny AI is possible anytime soon, claim GPT-n is a stochastic parrot, and make fun of tech bros as being hypesters who collect 300k to edit javascript and drive Teslas*.

i hate rationalists too but this is literally a correct take

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Facebook is both spyware and evil but it seems strange to call it “corrupt”. It wasn’t corrupted, this is what the zuck wanted.

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it looks like the only comments of yours that were removed were for making inflammatory comments about homeless people on public transport in a place you don’t live.

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Post your credit card number and DLN while you’re at it.

So a mod didn’t like a comment you made which was interpreted as encouraging anti-homeless hate. Instead of just moving on you decided to make this about “tankies” despite no one saying anything about Marxist ideology, China, or anything related. I think you’re just looking to pick a fight with us because we’re dirty pinko commies or something.

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Neat! I have a J2ME-capable phone but I haven’t really tried playing games on it much. What are some of the best ones you’ve found?

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I used to use AntennaPod a few years ago, not sure what it’s like now but it looks to still be updated. Nice app as it has built-in search, etc. rather than just taking RSS feeds.

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I haven’t been on Android in a few years but it looks like Librera Reader is still being maintained. Somewhat large app though due to being a full-featured e-book/document reader rather than just PDF.

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do you think NATO is an alliance for gay marriage? if it’s non-negotiable, why do 13 of its members (and ukraine) not allow it? gay marriage is great but has nothing to do with NATO at all

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your meme still sucks. what does this have to do with NATO? do you want NATO to use its military to enforce gay marriage? should it start with its own members? what about ukraine?

i hope to see it legalized in all socialist countries (like it is in Cuba!) but do you think things happen instantly? most western countries have only legalized it in the last 5-10 years and in many countries further from the western core conservative social views can be more of a problem to overcome.

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yes, that’s a tty. why do you need a different resolution? if what you want to do is change the font size, check out this link

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i had plenty of physical space in my computer case and didn’t want to spend a huge amount on drives, so i have my OS and some games on a SSD and have added a bunch of old enterprise HDDs (6TB, 3TB, and 2TB) to store media and games on. having only an SSD seems overly expensive if you want to store large amounts

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I really doubt that the problem is with your actual graphic drivers, but with the wine version of directx. first, make sure you have Vulkan and DXVK installed and working on your computer as it’s required for directx 11. you could also try older wine versions, or you can see if you can force hearthstone to run under directx9 if it’s still supported:

In the Game Settings (in the Battle.net app) you need to enable the command line argument and then type this into it: -force-d3d9

a few years ago when i didn’t have a Vulkan-capable GPU i would have to make a lot of windows games run in D3D9

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Soulseek is the way to go for music, way quicker and easier to find shit than torrents

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cnet’s record is terrible. first they do crapware bundling, then have factually incorrect articles written by machine learning algorithms, now this

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i feel bad for any writer there who’s just trying to do tech journalism

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right-wing trash website. i don’t even like Fauci but your site is slop for maga facebook uncles

Now is the last chance to escape from AI driven captology

With the recent developments in AI technology, we are entering a new era of manipulation through captology. Mainstream websites/apps are well known to utilize captology to manipulate its users. But now captology is AI driven and will reach a new dimension of manipulation. In the very near future, every mainstream OS will be AI...

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there are definitely real concerns to be had about addictive and manipulative software, i use linux and a dumbphone as well. but “AI” is not some genius, it’s a dumb algorithm and i think ascribing these apocalyptic powers to it is ridiculous.

and using the word “consoomer” makes you look like a 4chan nazi whether that’s what you are or not.

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is this how most people dress now? or is this boomer-tier meme complaining about made-up nonsense

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