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Wahaha OP wrote

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Most of this is trash, but not all of it.

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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

Reply to comment by Wingless in What Autism Sounds Like by Wahaha

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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