Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.

My nvidia card prevents suspend working properly, but to be fair my previous nvidia card had the same problem when it was in a Windows machine.

Oh shit I noticed the exposed CPU but totally missed that part.

You’d presumably be happier if they got monies and you didn’t have to see ads. If you’re not intending on acting on the ads, the end result is the same. It’s just you have to give up some of your time. You’re paying a middleman with your time (which is not worthless, I hope) and they’re paying Ecosia. The people advertising their product spend money and don’t get anything in return from you, so it’s difficult to present this as a system that would make sense to any outsider.

This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime). You’d install adblockers for real life… and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you’re about to cross the street.

My kid had assumed that the hideous intrusive ads were some form of malware attack.

She was spot on.

I don’t think this is anywhere near the “endgame”, it’s a blip on the way to something way worse.

Ah, makes sense. You’re right about firmware updaters, and I don’t know if I’d trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you’re running Windows 95 or whatever.

What do you mean lacking support for keyboards and controllers? Maybe for doing weird custom stuff like RGB, but for anything else they’re standard HIDs and will work with anything, no “support” needed. You can plug a USB keyboard and mouse into your phone and it’ll work if you want.

I’m currently playing Clair Obscur on linux through steam with a cheap fake xbox controller I got off ebay, and it works perfectly. I’m using an Nvidia card too, and I haven’t had to do any customisation or anything.

Easy anti-cheat won’t work, so Valorant/Fortnite, etc. are out of the question for now, but any games that don’t use that kind of malware are probably fine.

W?

his party shouldered much of the blame for the historically long shutdown last year

“much of”?

I don’t even mean the USA, loads of EU countries, Australia, etc.

You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.

The government can decree that ISPs have to block the IP addresses of known VPN endpoints. That’s perfectly possible. They did something similar with piracy sites before (e.g. if you go visit piratebay on virgin media you’ll get an error page). It’s a game of cat-and-mouse because if it’s done with DNS then aliases pop up immediately, and if it’s by IP then other proxies pop up, but the fact is they could make is so difficult for average users that people give up.

The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?

Repurposing words like that is underrated.

The Fellowship of the PNG.

I thought Control was excellent, but the original Alan Wake was a bad joke.

I’m torn on this discussion. Full disclosure, I don’t really understand GUIs and get confused with icons and such. I’m a command-line person and have been for decades. I’ll use image editors and IDEs and so on but they often leave me frustrated.

That said, I totally get that other people are not the same, and that’s completely valid. If a regular task can only be done from the command line then there’s an opportunity to fill in the missing piece, the GUI. It’s not a waste of time, even if the GUI is “less efficient” - it’s what a lot of people find comfortable.

Where I fall on the other side is the rise of ChatGPT and its friends. People are overwhelmingly positive about typing their problems into a text box, but when the response is “paste this into a terminal window and press enter” they bail out. They’re happier to go through a dozen screenshots showing them where to click through menus to get to the option visually, even if they have to try multiple times because the GUI changes with the direction of the wind and the terminal stays consistent.