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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

It's at a lower level. Re-logging in also doesn't fix sound, though it does show missing batteries and sensors. The script that parses function key presses seems to get confused, and I think that's related to the machine's general ACPI spam. That might be fixable, if I can identify sequences to ignore instead of letting it build errors over time.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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Wahaha OP wrote

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It's not like Adobe gave up because of the security holes. Flash always had security holes. The way I remember the history Apple blocked Flash on their phones, which gave others an excuse to also kill Flash. It then only took an entire decade for Flash to finally disappear officially.

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Wingless wrote

Opiates should be legal, because banning them fuels the Taliban / Mexican cartels and does great harm to innocent people smart enough not to use it. Opiates are also next to worthless when it comes time to deal with real pain like bone metastasis - don't believe the liars when they say they can help your relatives; they'll get to the maximum and shrug when it happens.

Kratom may be not as bad as opiates according to some sources, but should be avoided by anybody not already addicted to opiates (or Kratom). People are slaves too many ways already without being physically slaved to some shitty class of drug that gives them painful constipation all the time. (Opiates do work for that!) The law can't and shouldn't help you - your brain can and should!

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Wingless wrote

Wow. I never heard of "Ruffle". An experimental software meant to play files for Flash, which was so hopelessly insecure that the giant company Adobe gave up on maintaining it despite the black eye that gave them. What could possibly go wrong?

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Wingless wrote

This is awful, but so predictable. Barrett Brown is much too brave for my taste - the brooding island empire with no constitution and censorship laws against everything is no place I want to visit nowadays, let alone protest in. I was thinking he might come to his senses and do something more sensible, like fly off to court lovely Alexandra Elbakyan. They could have done great things together.

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Wingless wrote

I think she might have been nonsurgically amplified with a trapezoidal filter, but you never know. There are a lot of pretty girls (and guys) on Tiktok. I forget who was the one that gives the explanation about what short girls have to do to get something off a high cabinet...

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Wahaha OP wrote

If you run Linux and have audio trouble, chances are you run pulseaudio, whose troubles can be fixed by running "puleaudio -k", which restarts it. For me, for some reason pulseaudio decided to select the wrong devices upon each restart, so I wrote a script that selects the correct ones which runs at startup.

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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

Printing is easy. ACPI is hard. People who try Linux might be put off by shitty sleep or audio support in their new or niche hardware.

I put up with having to reboot to have audio because I got this machine cheap and it's really neat, and I'm too lazy to figure out if it can be fixed in software.

Other people won't put up with that. That's why they wouldn't stick with Linux: because it doesn't solve itself. Never mind that neither does Windows.

Most people never try.

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Rambler wrote

Fulltime Linux user since... 2010, part-time (dual boot) from probably 04-2010.

Hardware wise, I've never had any major issue. Nvidia cards sometimes cause relatively easily fixed issues. Some Linux distros such as Pop_OS! I believe come with Nvidia drivers and related packages installed, as well as Wine (useful for Windows programs/games).

As far as GUI goes: I stick with XFCE, Cinnamon or MATE desktop environments. Pretty familiar UI. Taskbar, menu, etc.

As far as support and fixing errors? Probably easier than Windows. My limited experience with Windows in recent (10 years) has been dealing with customers for a company that sold servers. Some users had Windows servers, but the company didn't have any specific Windows based staff/support available at all hours. Searching the web for the errors shown on their stuff would very frequently yield forum posts / threads with someone else asking the same question, but no one responding. Was incredibly frustrating at times. (And other times you'd find the answer, and it was a quick fix...)

Linux? Just copy/paste the error in your search engine of choice and you'll find a ton of discussion about that error. You'll find the resolution. You'll find someone else saying, "Well, that will work, but you can also do this." and someone else will respond giving you an opinionated history lesson on how the change from X to Y in a recent major update of the program in question was stupid.

Run Linux in a VM or try it on a USB stick first. If you kind of like it, then install it alongside Windows (dual boot).

I ran Pop_OS! for the first half of 2020. I liked it, and it worked great out of the box with my card and desktop build. I'm not a gamer by any means but I'll go through random spurts about once a year where I may spend a month playing Kerbal Space Program or City Skylines or something like that... and it all worked very well via Steam. I don't specifically recall any obstacle in getting it all to work that may be challenging to a newcomer, I think it all just sort of worked.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

You would have to make the browser engine run through the Tor proxy (socks5://127.0.0.1:9050), including DNS requests to resolve onions. But why no one forked Tor? It's probably because Firefox and its Gecko browser engine aren't dead yet, but it might be in the future, so it's probably a good idea to use Pale Moon as a replacement, especially with the Proxy Privacy Ruler, which allows for applying the proxy only for private windows and/or certain domains. But they'll probably not do that and just accept to use Chromium and its Blink browser engine (I mean, Pale Moon is bad... but it's still better than what Chromium is trying to do).

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Wahaha OP wrote

Hokuto no Ken was pretty cool. It's originally from the 80s, but it got many seasons, even as late as 2016 or something like that.

Anime kind of exploded during the late 1990s and early 2000s, there are so many anime made around that time that it's hard to name all the great ones. Among the generally overlooked ones, I really enjoyed Gallery Fake (2005) and Master Keaton (1998).

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Mrwarmind wrote (edited )

It's a bit hard question, a lot of old anime shows I watched recently and can't exactly tell whether they're from the 80s or 90s

I just watched violence jack a month ago

However, I watched fist of north star back in the early 90s and it was the best thing I've seen, but I recon its older than that

As for 2000s, there were many great things like code Geass, death note, Fullmetal alchemist, guren lagan

When it comes to the last couple of years, I'd say Dr.stone

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dontvisitmyintentions wrote (edited )

I've followed the kerfuffle from afar, reading the most popular articles and comments on the "LiberaChat" side. And one theme dominates these stories, like a poorly-written comic book (which is how all drama plays out on this side of the Current Year):

Rasengan pisses off the right people. Every bad decision he might have made makes me chuckle. This Korean dude might actually be based.

I can imagine good reasons for doing all the terrible things he does (like dropping a bespoke, byzantine ircd nobody else uses for something normal people can configure, an ircd which was even controversial a decade ago when there were more people hacking on ircds), but I don't need to. He angers the people who got so angry that they died their hairlogo trans colors and moved out of their parents' house so they could stay up late and put their dildos on a shelf. At least, I'm 41% sure that's what happened.

Edit: (two days later) It turns out they anonymize IPs now like Rizon and other mainstream networks do. Based.

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