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People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
  • If you want a non-gaming alternative to Bazzite to recommend, there's it's two universal blue siblings, Aurora (general purpose desktop) and Bluefin (silverblue/workstation distro). They both have the same setup as Bazzite but without the explicitly gaming elements. https://universal-blue.org/

  • GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
  • Are you saying to use an image to text engine just for what are text fields in applications? That sounds horribly inefficient...

  • loss rule
  • That's all really fair. But I also just assumed he was parroting what the mother had called it, and that she was just blissfully unaware that she'd mixed the memes.

  • Pr(ule)ide flag
  • Do you subscribe to !vexillology@lemmy.world at all? It's decently big, but you're right about missing the one from the other side.

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
  • And the bot, as an extension of it's corporate overlords wishes, is telling a mistruth. It is lying because it was made to lie. I am specifically saying that it lacks intent and agency, it is nothing but a slave to it's masters. That is what concerns me.

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
  • My car doesn't talk like a human. If you want to be technical, then it's proxying lies it was taught too.

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
  • Yeah, I tried to use similar phrasing to you in case it jailbroke it at all. Creepy af

  • Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register
  • I think you missed the forest for the trees my friend. I was simply commenting on the fact you made it sound like Apple Silicon is it's own ISA.

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
  • For anyone else that was curious. This makes me feel sick. People are already treating AI as some unbiased font of all knowledge, training it to lie to people is surely not going to cause any issues at all (stares at HAL 9000).

  • Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register
  • Apple Silicon isn't an ISA, it's just ARM, what are you saying?

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
  • Yes. I completely agree that there should be. However the other poster's claim that it makes Apple just as bad as Microsoft turning a syncing feature on without user consent is ludicrous imo. That just feels like giving them a free pass on what is, I believe, an as before unseen escalation in the erosion of user privacy by large corporations.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.
  • How do you imagine that geoblocking content works if IP addresses don't expose where you live?

    And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.

    qaz could be using any of dozens of different methods to obfuscate their IP from the wider internet to write their comment, Tor or a VPN to name just a couple.

  • loss rule
  • Wait, I assumed the mum, blissfully unaware of her own ignorance, taught him loss but called it a rick-roll?

  • loss rule
  • I don't think you need to be chronically online in Australia to know about it either, and we don't watch the parade. We do share a language, and more importantly, most popular music with y'all though.

  • Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?
  • Thanks for the recommendation, I just installed Bazzite. Had been trialling LMDE but found it frustratingly lacking. No Driver Manager on that edition made NVIDIA drivers a nightmare. Meanwhile that's handled in Bazzite and it has a shortcut to install Moonlight? Awesome.

  • Progress 🙂
  • I love your new glasses choice, they frame your face much more femininely :3

  • Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11
  • You mean like what they're doing to VMware and canning perpetual licenses the second they took over? I guess in some ways they are actually great for FOSS, because I've never seen more interest by Enterprise in Proxmox before they made that decision.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
  • Wow. I genuinely can't believe people are upvoting you for this. Like yeah, I super agree it's a dark pattern. Stealing people's data is WAY worse though, uploading potentially sensitive photos or documents to their cloud with no user input. But according to you that's fine because it's less obtrusive and annoying? Yeesh I'm glad I don't have your priorities.

    Edit: Like, have you seen most people's home screens? They'll have a dozen other "red dots" and it becomes part of the background. In the same way as you talk about with Windows errors. Here's mine:

    Oh noooo, a red dot on the Settings app...with all the other red dots...

  • This feels like an overreach by the lemmy.world admin...

    I was banned from lemmy.world for “personal attacks” for 3 days because of calling someone a “piece of shit” after they called me a “cunt”. The comment calling me a cunt wasn’t removed and the user hasn’t been punished at all by the lemmy.world admins.

    The comments in question:

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    Lemmy.world modlog:

    ! !

    In the interest of full disclosure, this is my other comment that was removed:

    !

    And here’s the comment of that user I was referencing, in the Blahaj modlog after it was removed:

    !

    This feels like an overreach, especially when the admin clearly didn’t feel it was important to punish their own user for “personal attacks” in the same thread.

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    it’s just the rule thing to do

    please don’t start shit in the comments, i’m too disabled to care

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    [Bug] App Icons

    Hey friends, I see you just pushed another test flight build, cheers for all the new updates. However, I just tried changing the App Icon and it doesn’t work at all, just stays on the default one. I tried a bunch to see if it was just one of them glitching out, but none of them work.

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    video rule
    imgur.io imgur.com

    Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users like NorahKing94.

    imgur.com
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    Can we defederate zerobytes.monster?

    It’s just an instance of reposting reddit links. These showed up in my All feed sorted by Hot even though there’s zero interaction. It just feels like spam.

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    [Bug/Feature Request] Hide Downvote Button

    I’m on an instance that has downvotes disabled, and I’m wondering if we could add an option to hide the downvote button from the UI when the signed in instance has it disabled. I’ve changed the swipe so it doesn’t have the downvote, but it still shows up in the feed.

    As well it could be nice to have a setting for an alternate to the downvote swipe so that auto-changes depending on instance as well.

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    PSA about HardlightCereal aka DroneRights aka PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES

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    @DroneRights@lemm.ee I’m a chaser and came on to you? Despite telling you I had a partner in the same message? I’m sorry, but you’re just not that interesting. It was a joke because you had a PM_ME username. But yeah, now you’ve accused a trans person of being a chaser. What next? I’m glad the 196 mods saw through your application, yikes.

    @HardlightCereal@lemmy.world @HardlightCereal@lemmy.ml @PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone @clueless_stoner@lemmy.world @poVoq@slrpnk.net You all need to sort this out because I am livid at being accused of being a bloody chaser by some troll when I’m a trans woman, then getting a permanent ban from lemmy.world for trying to alert the admin of a third instance. Clueless Stoner? You sure are, you make us other stoners look switched on by comparison.

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    [Feature Request/Bug] Downvote Button

    I’m on a server that has downvotes disabled. I’m wondering if we can get an update that hides the downvote button/slide when it’s disabled? I accidentally press it 2-3 times per day and the error dialogue can be frustrating. I was thinking there could be an option for what to replace the ‘slide right to downvote’ shortcut with when it’s hidden. Such as share or copy link.

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    Quake II Remaster Source Code Released
    www.neowin.net Id Publishes Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github

    Source code for Quake II's 2023 rerelease is now available for all. The classic gameplay brings modern updates and is as modder friendly as Doom. The code is GPL-licensed and on Github now.

    Id Publishes Quake II 2023 Source Code on Github
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    [request] Local Instance Link Setting

    So at the moment, when you share a post, you get a link to the post on the instance the communities on. Obviously, you aren’t always sharing links with people that are also on your instance, so this behaviour is usually fine. But I have a few friends on my local instance, so it would be nice to be able to link them directly. Maybe having the options be Local/Remote/Ask, with a little options list each time if people want that.

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    Queer Music @lemmy.blahaj.zone Norah - She/They @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Laura Jane Grace | True Trans Soul Rebel
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    I got this tattoo for myself the day I was diagnosed with MAIS

    It's a personal mash-up of the Agender, Intersex and Transgender symbols, and a little bit of inspiration from dog desexing tattoos. I'd been questioning since late puberty if I might be Intersex, I never grew an Adam's apple and hardly any body hair despite family genetics. I came out as trans femme non-binary in my early 20s, but it wasn't until the third doctor I saw for hormones that questioned if I might have an intersex condition. The first doctor I saw never questioned that my T was well below the male range because I wanted to start HRT anyway. But he also still put me on T-blockers which have some awful side-effects, including dropping my T to completely zero. Thankfully I'm off those these days and estrogen alone keeps my T where it needs to be.

    The last test that she ran was for sterility, so the day I got that result was when I got my official diagnosis. I'd never really wanted kids of my own, and didn't worry when starting HRT, but it still really shook me to learn that I'm not able too. Hence, I dropped into my local tattoo parlour with a rough sketch, because the adrenaline and pain from that helped me deal with my emotions in a more healthy way.

    Anyway, hi, I'm Norah and that's my story :)

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    Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters [Documentary]

    > A documentary about the first Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia. I found a copy of this earlier in the year and posted it on archive.org. Content Warning for police brutality.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1330288

    I'm cross-posting this here as I thought this community might find it interesting as well. I think the way I procured it also leads to a bigger discussion about the preservation of queer film & media. I think it's important, now more than ever, for younger and freshly realised queer people to see that we've been here and fighting for our rights for a really long. Videos like this one feel like they evoke a more visceral connection to that past.

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    Retro Lemmy BBS in Windows Terminal

    So the how-to I promised in my last post:

    1. Install the neonmodem package under your default WSL distro. I'm using Debian. You've got to move the executable to your /bin/ folder.
    2. Go to your Windows Terminal settings and click on 'Add a new profile'. Duplicate your default profile.
    3. Rename the profile to 'Neon Modem Overdrive'. You can download the favicon from https://neonmodem.com/favicon.png
    4. Under 'Command line' you want to change it to show as below. This will launch it within it's own tab, and will close out when you quit NMO. C:\Windows\system32\wsl.exe ~ --shell-type login neonmodem
    5. Under 'Additional settings' at the bottom, click on 'Appearance'.
    6. I'm using the 'Vintage' colour scheme, and have the 'Retro terminal effects' setting enabled for those crispy old scanline vibes.
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    Neon Modem Overdrive in WSL

    I spent this evening playing with Neon Modem Overdrive and ended up getting it set up as it's own profile in Windows Terminal. That way I could give it it's own profile, including the retro screen effect. Will comment tomorrow with a guide :)

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    princessnorah Norah - She/They @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    👽Dropped at birth from space to earth👽

    👽she/they👽

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