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squaresinger

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  • You have a crucial typo in the second line of your transcript.

    Wouldn't point it out normally, but it ruins the joke.

  • Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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  • Mainly a question of money.

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    Too many accessories

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  • Sounds like a capitalist to me.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • The home secretary in my country said during Covid that everyone will have to be more financially conservative during Covid-related lock-downs. She said that then three ball gowns are enough, you don't need more than that.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • Yeah, that company specifically developed a space-capable pen as a marketing gig and then offered it to NASA who paid less for them than they did for the pens they would have gotten instead.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • They fought for their states' rights to dictate what other states were or were not allowed to do. Something that's closely mirrored with similar debates today.

  • 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report

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  • How sad for them. I'm sure the kids who are now not getting their aids treatment because DOGE employees cancelled USAID didn't feel abandoned.

  • Military service will reportedly no longer classify 'divisive' swastika as 'hate' symbol

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  • I hate this so much that politics@lemmy.world, you know the explicitly not-only-US instance, specifically only allows US politics.

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  • Didn't specify. Good luck!

  • Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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  • This, so much this.

    When I think about what limited my performance in the last year it was mostly:

    • Having to get 5 signatures before I am allowed the budget to install some FOSS software on my work PC that the corporation has already approved for use on work PCs
    • Spending 8 months working on a huge feature that was scrapped after 8 months of development
    • Being told that no, we cannot work on another large feature request (of which there are many in the pipeline) because our team said we can only fit that scrapped feature into this year and we are not allowed to replan based on the fact that the feature we were supposed to work on got scrapped by business

    And then they tell us to return to office and use AI for increasing efficiency.

    It's all an elaborate play performed by upper management to feign being in control and being busy with something. Nobody is actually interested in producing a product, they all just want to further their own position.

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  • Are you really asking to get a sandwich forced up some body part of yours?

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • That's exactly it though. For most people using an OS isn't about using the OS but about getting stuff done.

    I don't run an OS because I love writing config files and running obscure CLI commands. I run an OS because I want a working browser, text editor, development setup and games. The OS is nothing but a means to an end.

    If I want to tinker, I got dozens of more fun projects in my life than trying to setup an OS.

    And if there's a good GUI way to do what I need, that's a win, not a downside.

    To put it differently: Do you want a hackable microwave that you can tweak and modify, where you can swap out the guts at any time, or do you want a microwave that heats your food? Most people are in the second camp, and PCs are just like microwaves a tool to get things done.

    Not being forced to know your way around the terminal is an absolute win. Don't be afraid, nobody's going to take your CLI from you. It will always still exist. But dumping on people who don't want to tinker but want their stuff to work without having to google and read through manuals is just elitism and nothing to be proud of.

  • Deep Thoughts [Litterbox Comics]

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  • In maths, writing "a b" is the same as "a * b". Following that logic, writing "6 7" (instead of "67") would also be equivalent to "6 * 7".

    I haven't heard the song that was the origin of 6 7, but afaik they say it as "six seven", not "sixty-seven".

  • Oh the irony.

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  • Do you have some anger management issues? Dude, that kind of behavior is just not right, and no it's not funny, and no, you are responsible for your behavior.

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  • Not a huge amount, maybe. I joined a party in my home country that's supposed to fix things like that. I voted for an underdog candidate in the internal leadership election who had very classical left talking points (among them a vacancy tax).

    The party managed to get into government for the first time in a long time at the next election afterward, but as a junior partner to the conservatives. Now they do hardly anything out of fear that the conservatives blow up the coalition and instead do a coalition with the right wing extremist party.

    So that's that for now.

    Other than that I talk to people and tell them about stuff like that. Because while the majority of the voting public would benefit from e.g. a vacancy tax, the majority is not for a vacancy tax because they neither understand the tax nor why it is necessary. So I educate people and bring them around to the idea. I can't change the country, but I can change people around me. And if enough people do that, movements can form and things can change.

    One such movement managed to ban nuclear power in my country in the 70s (famously, right after they finished the first nuclear powerplant, which then never got turned on).

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  • And now we get back to the core of the problem.

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  • It's a common misconception in this type of discussion. You also get a lot of people who are like "but that would harm the people who own an empty property and can't find a renter". Well, nobody needs to own property they don't use, even if it's only because they can't use it, and not because they don't want to.

    You can always sell property. Nobody is required to own anything.

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  • In the case of DNA, because it's shared with relatives and descendants who might be still alive. In Hitler's case, that might not be that much of an issue, but you were talking about dead people in general.

    If your parents are dead, and thus they get DNA sampled, that information gained is good enough to positively identify DNA traces of all their children.

    Remember how they caught the Golden State Killer? They put a DNA sample into the genetics website GEDmatch and found a few of his distant relatives. They then used publicly available family history records to construct a family tree that included all of these matches. That allowed them to narrow down the suspects to two people. One of them could be ruled out by DNA testing a close relative, which left the last one. They then took a DNA sample from his car, which was a match and that's how they got him.

    Using that kind of stuff to catch killers is likely a good use of the technology, but there's quite a few nefarious things a state could do with a DNA database of all dead people.

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  • You don't have to give it away. Just rent it out or sell it. If you have no need for a property, put it on the market so that someone else can use it.

    It's a massive mistake that the system is setup so that you can profit from owning but not using a property, and this needs to be fixed systematically (specifically, via a heavy vacancy tax).

    If you want to park your money somewhere and want some ROI we already have stuff for that (e.g. stocks). We don't need to abuse a limited and vital resource for that.