1984

1984 , 6 months ago

Why do we care what Taylor Swift says…

1984 , 6 months ago

No, people. What makes her worth listening to?

She makes music. :)

I don’t get the celebrity thing I guess.

1984 , 6 months ago

Always bet on black. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

I love how it’s we when it’s convenient, otherwise it’s “you” . :)

1984 , 6 months ago

Land of the fee.

In Sweden there is no cost for this whatsoever. Most things are free or have tiny bills. I’m not saying it to make you feel worse, just pointing out that America is bordering on not being a civilized country anymore.

As a bonus, we don’t have any Musks here.

1984 , 6 months ago

I mean, who are we talking about? I admit I don’t follow news much but which Swedish guy is rich like Musk? I know we have wealthy bank families and so on of course, or Axfood etc.

1984 , 6 months ago

Yeah I know. It’s just such a contrast between how the country markets itself VS reality. We have almost exclusively American and British TV here and it really is quite a shock when you see what the country actually is.

But if there is a world war, we will appriciate support from the US of course. One thing they are awesome at is armies and weapons.

1984 , 6 months ago

Ah yes. But he didn’t succeed. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

I haven’t followed it but it’s hilarious to read about:

unions across Sweden banding together against the carmaker, blocking imports at ports and refusing to repair damaged Tesla chargers, among other actions.

Postal workers have stopped delivering mail to the company, including license plates. A local court of appeal also overturned Tesla’s attempts to have license plates directly delivered from the Swedish Transport Agency.

unions in Norway, Denmark, and Finland have now said they’re also ready to stop unloading cars from ships, according to the Financial Times.

futurism.com/elon-musk-destroyed-sweden-unions

1984 , 6 months ago

No but the US has always been bad at guerilla warfare. Same in Vietnam. Whatever nomads the US are fighting at the time are using intelligence rather than raw military power, and it’s the only way to fight a more powerful force.

1984 , 6 months ago

I don’t know what this is since I dont use windows, and it makes me happy.

1984 , 6 months ago

I think it’s because it’s two thirds of the area left of the tower (67%) and one third to the right (33%).

1984 , 6 months ago

Sounds like humans, so I guess it’s AI progress? :p

1984 , 6 months ago

For me it was Linux - > Done. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

It also matters what Linux distro you have. Some of them are horrible. I’m super happy with amd graphics on arch, and have no issues whatsoever, with probably 30 games in steam library that all works very well.

So I think it may be your system and what drivers you installed, or some other config.

I have a 6900 XT card, latest kernel, latest drivers. But I’ve had this graphics card since kernel 5.8 I think, with no issues.

1984 , 6 months ago

Wow, look at that full screen ad behind the text… Lols.

1984 , 6 months ago

Because he is the same in all movies. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

Proxmox with latest Debian i guess, but all virtual machines are on Ubuntu 23.10. It’s just the easiest to install things on, and have a semi-recent kernel, even though I would never use it on the desktop.

I actually wanted to run arch in the vms but I couldn’t find any image with the latest arch. The latest I found was with kernel 6.3.

1984 , 6 months ago

Google is spelled Kagi now. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

Oh shit, it’s 5 dollars? That’s like… A cup of coffee. You are right, way too much, so much money.

1984 , 6 months ago

You are a source. I am a source.

1984 , 6 months ago

Slippery slope guys. Soon we have tags like “windy” or “landscape” or “table”. :)

I think they did it because “let’s play along” but it’s still not a smart move. I guess they had to go along.

1984 , 6 months ago

Bush Sr is even more evil.

1984 , 6 months ago

Cheney is one of the most evil people on the planet. No PR plots are going to change that.

1984 , 6 months ago

The only way to get away from this is to use some kind of FOSS operating system

Been doing this for like 10 years now. It was easy to see the future of windows when windows 8 and 10 started sending user data to their cloud. Next step is always serving ads.

And people pay for Windows too. :)

It’s not too late to switch to Linux but you are very late if you haven’t done it.

1984 , 6 months ago

I think it’s great. I think it’s impossible to use dolphin with single click since it goes into folders or starts files when clicking on them once.

Anyone knows the historic reason for single click? Plasma was inspired by some older system?

1984 , 6 months ago

Oh work. That other “family”.

1984 , 7 months ago

It’s a joke.

1984 , 7 months ago

Looks like my own used to look before. Just pure fun to try all of them because why not. :)

1984 , 6 months ago

Yeah I agree, that would be the best, but also slightly annoying. No more common shell history or web history and stuff like that.

I haven’t had any major breakage using both Gnome and Plasma myself. It works fine. But it’s annoying to see Gnome apps in the Plasma menus (when typing program names).

1984 , 6 months ago

Yeah I know. I use plasma icon themes, they seem to work much better in both Gnome and Plasma than using Gnome themes.

1984 , 6 months ago

Yeah but it’s a lot more things. Every thing I do in one account would have to replicated in another, pretty much. Becomes hard.

Even though using github and online storage makes things a lot easier.

1984 , 7 months ago

Here we go again… Point the finger at other countries while spying massively on the entire world.

1984 , 7 months ago

I don’t think GM has a single good car though.

I did a lot of research about cars and GM is never on any lists of great cars.

1984 , 7 months ago

The point is that he got born and got to live with you for many years.

Don’t focus on the end, focus on all the great moments you had together.

1984 , 7 months ago

It would be great if cats could fix cars… :)

Even though we would probably employ them and make them work 9-5 like another species I know.

1984 , 7 months ago

American yeah?

1984 , 7 months ago

They don’t trust that medical companies have their best interests at heart, and are motivated by profits. Making people sick is profit.

It really isn’t so strange.

And if you google on vaccine side effects, you will find a lot of them. They are rare, but they happen, and when they do, there is no help to be had.

So why is it stupid to be careful? I think it makes sense.

1984 , 7 months ago

I think that’s up to each person to decide. Similar to how it’s rare to die in a flight crash and most people accept the risk, but not all.

Whats so complicated about probability? They know it’s a low probably, but it’s higher than zero, always.

Almost all people who didn’t vaccinate against covid are still alive and well you know.

People take a risk either way. Taking the vaccine or not taking it.

1984 , 7 months ago

The point of listing side effects on medicine is so the person can make a decision if it’s worth the risk.

I personally got some pain pills once and after reading the side effects list, I didn’t take them.

1984 , 7 months ago

Sure. I haven’t been truly sick. I would probably take anything if the decease was painful enough. But that’s not what we are talking about here with vaccines, specially vaccines against the flu or something that isnt dangerous to most people to get.

1984 , 7 months ago

Yeah covid was worth vaccinating against if you were above 50 or had other deceases since before, or were overweight and so on.

There was a lot of interesting info in the statistics over deaths. I went over it a lot during covid.

Basically just followed the numbers and made decisions based on that.

1984 , 7 months ago

I think it’s about having control over the risk too.

If you take a plane, you are not in control. When driving a car, you are. I think the latter makes a lot of people feel more comfortable.

Anyway, all these analogies are not really fitting. I think when it comes to covid, it’s each person’s decision what to do. Makes sense to me. :)

1984 , 7 months ago

Jeff Pezoz

1984 , 7 months ago

My account allows me to enjoy benefits, but not the actual benefit of not having an account. Or the choice to create an account or not. Got it.

1984 , 7 months ago

People are not too bright I’m afraid. I feel sorry for them, but it is what it is…

1984 , 7 months ago

Yes of course. If desperate, then of course people would sign up for this.