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Norgur ,

Gosh, Dude! Can you finally buy a holster instead of keeping it in your ass?! If you're rich enough for a deadly firearm, you're rich enough for something to carry it in!

Norgur ,

That's where the hedonistic firearm owner keeps their weapon!

Norgur ,

The visually impaired will certainly agree that not helping them with a local AI model is a sacrifice worth being made for the purely moral stance of “no AI at all”.
/s obviously

Norgur ,

Accessibility is “no reason”?! I never called someone ableist before, but… gosh, you're coming close.

Norgur ,

How exactly do you think stuff around you works? Machine learning is everywhere gobbling up massive swaths of data wherever possible. Insurances, work shift planning, goddamn Spotify. All are using ML and have for years. To think you can just stay away from those Models is ridiculous.

Norgur ,

it's a bunch of loose files, basically. If you wanted it actively hosted, you'd just need to put them into a web server, basically.

Norgur ,

Yeah, I think you're looking for Monica at this point.

Norgur ,

How can any world government still uphold “Israel's need to defend itself” at this point?

Norgur ,

Well, if you're stupid enough to tell valve about the death that is

Norgur ,

Hey valve, so, Uhr... Funny thing... I'm actually... Uh
.. kinda dead

Norgur ,

You didn't read the article and act smug nonetheless, my. Dude.

Norgur ,

The content of the fucking article, mr. smughead.

Norgur ,

The shelter diagnosed the liver thing, started a GoFundMe, treated the dog and then put it up for adoption instead of telling the grieving owner one wird about any of this. Instead of doing their fundraising, getting new owners and such, the previous owner said she would have happily paid for the procedure and taken her dog back home. That's what you are missing. It's really clearly written out in that article, so...

Norgur ,

Well, that's why raw or flash pasteurized milk is almost impossible to get into supermarkets here in Germany. The regulations are crazy, if it's possible at all.

Norgur ,

They have me by the wallpapers!

Norgur ,

Oy! Before you spew out shit that is frankly disgusting in the context of what happened in Uvalde, maybe think for a split-second about what you're about to say, eh?

Besides, if a whole nation continues to fail it's “tired, poor, it's huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, blaming parents for just not parenting enough is misguided at best and delusional at worst. Do you think parents just don't give a fuck when their children suffer? Do you think parents will just let their kids down and let them fall into the void that results in school shooters? No. No, they will not. But there is only so much a parent can do if the entire rest of society doesn't give the slightest of fucks. You don't have kids, have you?

New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?

Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...

Norgur ,

Okay, there will be people disagreeing with me, but I can't let a new user be misled by us nerds talking distros all day.

So, you want to choose a distro because you expect it to do things differently than your current one? Thing is: Ultimately, they (mostly) don't differ that much, really. There are extremely few things one distro can do that you cannot do in any other distro. Yes, some files will be in different places, they might use special versions for some packages (which often can be overridden) or use older and more stable versions of stuff (Debian). Yet, in the end, they are all the same OS. They all use the same window managers, the same kernels, the same drivers (mostly), the same logic behind many things. Another distro only feels really different, when you know a lot about the ins and outs of Linux systems. If you don't, the difference will often be that you have to type either "pacman" or "apt", or either change /etc/program.conf or /etc/program.d/foo.conf.

Play with the distro you already have and like. You ain't missing anything. Just don't get the wrong idea that Distros are like windows: monolithic monsters that can't be really changed. Like mint but want Gnome as window manager? Go for it. Dislike the way the standard terminal software does colors? Get another one. Don't like how Program X does some GUI thing? There will almost always an alternative that just plugs into your system exactly as the preinstalled one did.

A distribution is basically just a pre-selection of packages that can be changed at will. Hell, you could in theory get pacman on Debian or Apt on Arch. I don't know why you'd want to, but in theory you could.

Don't waste your time reinstalling your machine. Play with the things you already have!

Norgur ,

Glad I could help :)

Norgur ,

Isn't that comparison asinine? I mean... Yeah, no shit. One is a handheld PC and the other isn't.

Norgur ,

I mean, I wouldn't buy into a decade old ecosystem either if I hadn't already. But by that logic, there is less games on my WiFi router than on the Xbox. Same form factor after all.

Norgur ,

I beg to differ.

Form factor is a hardware design aspect that defines and prescribes the size, shape, and other physical specifications of components, particularly in electronics.[1][2] A form factor may represent a broad class of similarly sized components, or it may prescribe a specific standard. It may also define an entire system, as in a computer form factor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_factor_(design)

What do you think of as "form factor"?

Norgur ,

Do a subnet router running on Debian in a data center with an ATX board and my gaming PC have the same form factor?

Norgur ,

See, your "argument" so far has been "you're wrong" without ever answering anything or engaging on anything. I repeat my question: what is a "form factor" in your mind? Because yes, to me a "form factor" is exactly that: size, shape, dimensions. Wikipedia confirmed my definition. You just keep telling me how ridiculous I'm apparently being without ever telling me why...

Norgur ,

Yes! Exactly! A comparison between two things based on form factor is not useful! My original point

But by that logic, there is less games on my WiFi router than on the Xbox. Same form factor after all.

Was that a comparison between Nintendo switch and steamdeck because "they have the same form factor" is not fitting, which I tried to illustrate with my router to Xbox comparison!

Norgur ,

I don't think it's bosses actually. I think this is the runaway click bait machine of "business outlets" trying to recapture the unexpected success of the whole "quiet quitting" thing they celebrated themselves for reinventing. "Stille Kündigung" is the literal translation for quiet quitting in German and it has been around for years, referring to an employee who has already decided that they wanna quit and mentally cut all ties to their jobs but haven't acted on this yet. But even in Germany, the business media kept yapping about 'quiet quitting ' as if it was something new and something to be afraid of...

Norgur ,

You should read up on the Non-Disney version of Peter Pan and why the kids never grew up before you agree to that.

Norgur ,

That's what media tried to sell as "quiet quitting" here as well. They used the English term instead of the German one to make it appear as something new, cursing "gen Z" for not wanting to do overtime and such (which in reality is not a gen Z, but a Baby boomer thing here in Germany) which came out of fucking nowhere.

On the other side, someone who's gotten into a "Stille Kündigung" mindset might not even quit. They'll just withdraw to a point where the barely meet the minimum requirements for their job, become passive and inflexible. It's usually seen as the ultimate consequence when employers disappoint someone too often and seen as something unrecoverable and to be avoided.

Norgur ,

Am I the only one who finds it super annoying, that "detection through sound waves" (Sonar) does video things while "detection through light" (lidar) does the sound things?

WHY?! Swap names already! It's driving me nuts!

Norgur ,

Close as "won't fix". Easy. That's what their customer service does to your ticket, too, if it's too much to handle, so...

Norgur ,

Two things:

  1. Do we know if fuels the urge to get real children? Or do we just assume that through repetition like the myth of "gateway drugs"?
  2. Since no child was involved and harmed in the making of these images... On what grounds could it be forbidden to generate them?
Norgur ,

You need to toake into account that we're talking about a Kirby game here, which are all 2/2.5/sometimes 3D platformers. So The real effect of Dolby in such a thing would have been close to zero.

Norgur ,

oh, it was the racing game? I must have gone through the text too quickly then. Yet, if we're pragmatic: How many people would have really enjoyed that game (which wasn't stellar to begin with) more with properly encoded surround sound, and how many would have enjoyed it a tad less because of the annoying logo spam on startup? I don't think Surround-Sound-enjoyers were the target audience for that one.

Norgur ,

luckily, most games are easily modded: Just put a 1-2 frames black video file where the brand logos used to be. Done.

Norgur ,

I got the impression that “removing” means removing before it was really implemented. Like, it was planned and decided upon, but it wasn't ready. He checked the license and went “nope, not having it” and scrapped the feature. It doesn't truly become clear in the text, of course, but that's how I read this.

Norgur ,

Publishers will like a database because it can be modified. If they were forced to implement such a system (thus abandoning all 'sell the same game to the same person twice' for different platforms), they'd oppose a blockchain system hard, since it would make it pricier to:

a) publish seven bazillion versions of any given game
b) revoke ownership of games just because it's cheaper to do that than honor the deal they made with customers
c) correct any data-fuckups they will inevitably make because they went for the cheapest route possible to implement this, and it went pear-shaped from day 3 onwards

I'm very much on the database-side here as well. I work for a Telco company here in Germany, and we use several such databases that are regulated by external bodies and government agencies to communicate between carriers (for number porting and such). Works great overall.

Norgur ,

Do I have to enable backports for that package?

Norgur ,

RGB. Lots and lots of RGB.

Norgur ,

I don't get the premise of posts like that. We scold Google and other corps for not following the laws they are supposed to follow (data protection for example).and then we scold them for daring to follow lawmakers, when we don't like the laws they follow. Which is it?

Norgur ,

So we want Google and such to ignore laws when we think they should be ignored? Who decides which is which then?

Norgur ,

Or Trump up some wild charges about tax fraud or something

Norgur ,

There is exactly one Taco Bell in Germany. For Ramstein Air Base:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-bell-ramstein-miesenbach?hrid=hv10pQ0zMLUBd7Ot1Al5SQ

Norgur ,

Yes, doesn't the very existence of those "food courts" underline the caricature?

Norgur ,

I haven't been using pluseaudio for an eternity, since the Linux machines I use are mostly headless,.yet I was a pluseaudio fanboy when it was.just replacing ALSA. Yet, the hours and hours pulseaudio cost me to fix some upmix that had stopped working or some other weird shit... IDK if I'd still preach it's upsides would I be in the same situation now.

Norgur ,

I'd expect them to properly comment it with "#-------Begin malicious shit--------".
COMMENT YOUR CODE, PEOPLE!

Norgur ,

Those malicious coders are too sly for that. Some write "Sh1t" to throw grep off, others even do a "B3g1n"... They are always one step ahead!

Norgur ,

Or you overdosed your insulin... Again... How many times does that need to happen before you finally pay attention when the doctor explains the correct dosage, Jeff?!

Norgur ,

How can this be damaging if you ain't trying to sell it to us in the first place?

Norgur ,

disable the edit button. easy.

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