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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • it doesn’t do none of those things. also, you should include less details, it’s fun guessing what your software stack is, how you installed it, and the term “if I use Wayland” is way too precise. likewise, that sentence of yours is enormously protracted, you should consider shortening it.

    seriously, are you for real?

    edit: hey, if you want people to help you, provide details as to your os, software, hardware, and maybe spend a bit of time describing your issue in detail as well as stuff you’ve tried. cheers!



  • whether telegram was setup as a honeypot or got taken over or somehow is still independent and free of nation-state influence is a) beyond the expertise of any and all participants ITT and b) besides the point.

    the main point is telegram’s honcho when faced with the perfectly valid question (E2EE when?) throwing out one smoke screen after the other, shit noone asked or cared about and conflating unrelated crap to spread FUD - signal is CIA backed, whatsapp turns over metadata, all crypto is blown by NSA so we’re better off without, we can’t have encrypted channels (no1 axed for that), etc.

    if he’s being cagey and lying about plainly evident things, what else is he untruthful about?

    there are FOSS telegram clients out there and adding on E2EE is trivial (remember Pidgin and OTR over Google’s XMPP?). the fact that that’s explicitly against telegram’s TOS and that they’re adamant about leaving all your shit unencrypted “in the cloud” draws but one conclusion.


  • just tried to re-watch “the girl in the spider’s web”, the not-sequel to fincher’s masterpiece that’s “the girl with the dragon tattoo”. I remember hating it way back when and went in with a “how bad can it be” attitude… dios mio, what a colossal mountain of shit. the “hacking” in OP is hard sci-fi compared to this turdistan, and that’s the least of its problems.

    someone posted already the gell-mann amnesia effect and this applies to everything. how guns are portrayed in movies as magical. cars and how they’re driven. the laughable naive cop shows. medical procedures. legal proceedings. journalists and their MO.

    you hafta run your brain at 110% at all times to be able to somewhat disregard the learned idiocy that was programmed into you from an early age. here’s hoping we have the infrastructure in place so generations that are coming can avoid becoming similarly handicapped.


  • doesn’t have to be, it’s enough it’s not propped up by venture capital. all the results of enshittification are directly the result of venture capital wanting a 100x return on their investment.

    a privately owned business that’s not focused on 100x-ing someones investment but content with the profit their enterprise generates (think Steam) is inherently good to its customers.




  • it’s way less neck strain than the usual dual 24" side-by-side. this is like having 4x 20" 1080p screens in a grid but without the annoying bezels, and that’s how I’m mostly using it. plus you have the option to expand a window in any direction when you need it, which you can’t do in a multi-monitor setup. I arrange the windows in a 2x2 grid, or go smaller, usually 3x2 with keyboard shortcuts, by way of Better Quick Tiles for Plasma 6 (Kwin extension). tried the auto-tilers, hated 'em.

    when I’m done with work, jellyfin-media-player in Fullscreen TV mode with a $5 bluetooth remote from the couch for movies and shows.

    gaming sure, I run the games in 1080p and the desktop in 4k, so older games allow me to turn on FSR. had problems with Gnome Shell crashing regularly, zero crashes since I switched to Plasma.