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UNY0N OP ,

Thank you for the info!

UNY0N OP ,

Thanks! I’ll try it out.

Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy

I wanted to get printer photo paper for my printer, a Canon. I went to Walmart, They had nothing. Went to Target, they had one pack of photo paper and it was crazy expensive, so I went to micro center. That one was just as expensive. So finally I went back to Amazon, which I was trying to avoid, and saw the price 25 to 40% lower...

UNY0N ,

It’s about how they do it. They achieve this not only by being incredibly efficient through exploiting thier employees, but also by systematically destroying competition, and using thier marketplace to unfairly favor thier own products.

It’s techno-feudalism, here’s a great presentation/interview about it:

youtu.be/X3FdIyNMaFY?feature=shared

UNY0N ,

Oh god I remember doing that too. Those “programs” were the best. I even mad sure to make the code long, so that even if someone thought to take a look at the code they would have to scroll for a while to find the notes.

UNY0N ,

Depends on your requirements. The faiphone 5 has 8GB of RAM, which is more than enough for what I’m doing with a smartphone.

Oh course I totally understand what you are talking about though, for many users (mobile gamers, people who don’t mind google/apple telemetry, etc.) 8GB is a bare minimum.

UNY0N ,

Neti Pots. I clean our my sinuses every night before bed, and I rarely get sick. Of course it’s not a miracle cure, but it’s great at preventing a viral infection before it starts.

UNY0N ,

I don’t have any irritation, but I’m a big robust guy, so perhaps milage may vary.

And sure, I would assume that the sinuses are self-cleaning to an extent, but they are also designed to be a filter to keep junk out of our lungs. The way I see it, I’m just cleaning the filter out before I go to bed.

UNY0N ,

Warm salt water. That makes sure that the water is not pulling salt out of your cells. Doing it without salt is painful and dangerous. Also the salt should be without iodine added.

UNY0N ,

I agree about that today, but it wasn’t always so easy to install linux for noobs as it is now.

It may be easy to forget, but Ubuntu was doing “easy jnstall” better than moat linux distros for a long time. I bet there are a lot of non-programmer-linux-daily-driver folks out there that got started on ubuntu. I’m one of them.

UNY0N ,

Nice.

UNY0N ,

Game: Baldur’s Gate

Book: Dune

TV: Fraggle Rock

Movie: Fight Club

cybersecurity , (edited ) to fediverse

Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

@fediverse

@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.

Those who believe that 's costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done "for free", who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: "advertisers".

Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!

In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their "value", a bit like in the human farm in Matrix...

We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic

In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi's, effective and respectful of users' privacy, has landed here in the .

mastodon.social/

UNY0N ,

That’s a valid criticism.

On the other side: Pay for a year at once and get 3600 searches/year. The rollover also doesn’t happen, but the effect is drastically reduced. Also get a discount overall.

I’m not saying that kagi is perfect, but fuck google sideways. Eat the rich. Pay for the product or you are the product.

UNY0N ,

Bazzite Ich bin auch da und ich bin auch nicht so der Typ der sich so gut auskennt wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe.

Holy shit my keyboard knows me well. Lol.

UNY0N ,

For example, bazzite. I basically skipped the gamecube for various boring reasons, so I’m excited to revisit that era, maybe find some nice games to play with my kids.

UNY0N ,

How about obsidian.md? It’s based on markdown, so edit mode has lots of keybindings, and there are all sorts of javascript plugins to add functionality.

UNY0N ,

Haha, I wouldn’t expect anything less. But I don’t need to install the plugin…well…maybe I’ll just try it out for a few…danmit.

Can THC Turn Back The Clock? Cannabis Reverses Brain Aging, Boosts Mental Capacity, New Study Suggests (www.benzinga.com)

Initially, THC boosted brain metabolism and synaptic protein levels, indicative of heightened cognitive processes. Subsequently, it shifted towards reducing metabolic activities in the body akin to the effects seen with caloric restriction or intensive exercise, known for their anti-aging benefits.

UNY0N ,

Like mamba #5?

UNY0N ,

Well that’s an opinion I xan get behind, placebos are certainly more powerful than common sense would dictate.

UNY0N ,

In addition to rhe other advice, I’d add what helped me the most: install arch from scratch.

Use an older PC you have lying around, or just a VM. Use the installation guide on the arch wiki (or a video on feetube if you prefer to listen to a human explain stuff) and just learn as you go.

UNY0N ,

This certainly isn’t of the same caliber as some of these other comments, but I found it to be fitting to the topic.

Last year I was having problems getting the game stellaris working on arch. (I use bazzite now, btw) My solution was the following:

  1. download the game via steam.
  2. switch it to use proton
  3. switch it back to linux version
  4. use the terminal to make the entire game folder read-only, so that steam couldn’t touch the game anymore and screw it up.
  5. add the exicutable to PATH
  6. start the game via terminal

If any one of those step was left out, it didn’t work. I’m no linux expert, so I didn’t have the skills to actuality find the real problem.

UNY0N ,

Blind trial and error, mostly. Making the game folder read-only was the real “duct-tape” part, it occued to me to do that after steam kept “updating” the game and breaking my solution.

UNY0N ,

Indeed. Proton for the win yet again.

Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Hello all! My buddy and I finally finished up Baldur’s Gate 3 this week and we are not left with a giant co-op game shaped whole in our hearts. It was such an incredible experience and it was truly even more fun running through it together. We are excited to hop into another game, but we have no idea what to play. We’ve...

UNY0N ,

Outward is made to be played by two players. It’s a really beautiful survival rpg with difficult combat.

UNY0N ,

You know thwy spelled them all wrong on purpose, right?

UNY0N ,

Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I’m no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.

UNY0N ,

I don’t think accuracy was the goal, it is a joke not a dissertation. It’s more about how it feels to try a language like assembly after working with higher-level languages.

UNY0N ,

Nice comment. I like the detail.

For me, the main takeaway doesn’t have anything to do with the details though, it’s about the true usefulness of AI. The details of the implementation aren’t important, the general use case is the main point.

Here are the best Google Maps alternatives for finding your way: With a number of community-driven, open-source mapping projects, picking a navigation app without ads or tracking has never been easier (tuta.com)

repeated media reports of Google’s disregard for the privacy of the general public led to a push for open source, community driven alternatives to Google Maps. The biggest contender, now used by Google’s direct competitors and open source projects alike is OpenStreetMap....

UNY0N ,

That’s the price of privacy. Google has that traffic data because there are so many drivers with thier app installed. If you are OK with a giant corporation monitoring your every move, then of course that convenience is a good reason to use thier services.

Data is the new oil.

UNY0N ,

For me it is, apparently for you it is not. We have different use cases. That’s cool.

Just to be clear, I’m not here to judge. Everyone has thier own life with it’s multitude of little and big decisions. It would be presumptuous and ignorant of me to assume what applies to me also applies to you.

The focus should be on helping each other to make informed decisions.

UNY0N ,

Dad

UNY0N OP ,

Thanks! This sounds like the best way to do things.

I really appreciate the help. I’m going to spend some time learning about this, and your suggestion is where I’ll start.

UNY0N OP ,

Thanks! Just what I needed. The idea to install an entire DE was my lazy fix idea, but now I’m learning more about how atomic distros work, and finally using the terminal in bazzite! It is such a convenient distro, but it also felt wierd to never open the terminal.

UNY0N OP ,

Thank you for the detailed answer!

Based on all the answers I’ve recieved, I see that’s it’s probably best that I leave the DE alone. At the end of the day, I just need to make sure that I have the correct dependencies for the app in question. Installing the entirety of Gnome was really just my lazy fix idea.

UNY0N OP ,

Thanks! I’m taking the advice of some other commenters about adding what I need without installing Gnome, which at the end of the day works apparently cause more problems that it solved.

UNY0N OP ,

I haven’t seen any hardware issues, but perhaps I’m just ignorant. I’m pretty busy with work and family generally, so I seldom dig into troubleshooting recently. I’m not even sure I’d know how to start with hardware diagnostics on an atomic distro (but that should be easy enough to find in the documentation).

I’ll try turning off steam overlay, thanks for the tip!

UNY0N OP ,

Update: I turned off steam overlay, and set the in-game video setting from borderless full screen to just full screen, and that did it!

So much frustration, and such an easy fix. Ugh. But at least it’s working now. Thanks again.

UNY0N ,

Yes, of ccourse. Thanks for letting us stay, we really need this right now.

UNY0N ,

Star Trek, minus the teleporters.

UNY0N ,

GO FOR THE EYES BOO, GO FOR THE EYES!!!

UNY0N ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/db0acf20-5dac-454b-a5f1-9f0a87b2d946.webp

UNY0N ,

Sorry my dude, you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

UNY0N ,

I understood this without clicking on the link. Someone give me an award.

UNY0N ,

I found the original so funny to say. It sounds like something in a nonsensical rap song or from willy wonka.

UNY0N ,

From the OP’s comment history it looks like they are from Sweden.

UNY0N ,

That’s slowly changing though, as the enschittification of windows continues. They may not care to know about the details, but all of those points do fall under the “it just works” catagory. And they do care about that.

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