princessnorah

princessnorah , 1 day ago

To move it to Feb 29th you’d have either a 9-month shorter term, or a 3 years and 3 months longer one.

princessnorah , 4 days ago

I believe it does crash the system eventually as important buts start to go missing?

princessnorah , 7 days ago

Okay, here me out, but the other day I accidentally rebased my nvidia Bazzite system to the testing version of the deck image. It would fuzz out before even the bios splash. So yeah, you can still mess it up lol

princessnorah , 11 days ago

I don’t think they really existed yet in his era. You’ve got to remember that Australia, a much younger country, invented the secret ballot. It was known as the “Australian Ballot” for a long time.

princessnorah , 11 days ago

Well yes, obviously. The issue with today is that the incumbency of the system makes it hard to change

princessnorah , 12 days ago

why ask for a password.

To give the user an extra second to realise they’re doing dumb shit, and should stop?

princessnorah , 12 days ago

It really is. The fact “up to” can mean either a maximum value, or an increase to a value, is stupid.

princessnorah , 12 days ago

We don’t have it in Australia either apart from Aldi.

princessnorah , 12 days ago

Aldi announced that it it looking to hire thousands of new workers, as well as increasing their minimum wage to $18 and $23 an hour.

My read on this, is that they are discussing the minimum for two separate positions. Potentially cashier and team leader. Would make sense as they don’t have many employees on shift at a time.

princessnorah , 12 days ago

How can a window manager position things if the program doesn’t communicate with it correctly?

princessnorah , 12 days ago

I kind of think that’s QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

Potentially, but that doesn’t really matter, as you can match the signatures of the two versions and see that they are the same. You cannot fake that and have one version have different code, it’s not possible.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

Scroll down and there’s a section about Australia on here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club

Basically, they fucked it up so bad in Aus no one’s ever tried again.

princessnorah , 12 days ago

Yeah basically. But part of why no one has tried again is because the judge made it very clear he wasn’t going to just roll over and let them pull their BS. Including setting a bond of $600k for them to even try litigating it. Another part of it is that ISPs used to hand out IP addresses and PII in response to requests from media companies. This was found to be in breach of privacy laws and now those companies would have to apply for court orders, proving malfeasance, to get that information.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

As an Australian I genuinely find European football salaries obscene and a bit disgusting tbh. Over here both of our major codes of football, NRL (rugby) and AFL (aussie rules) have had salary caps since the late 80s. It’s not something implemented per player, but instead for the total roster of a club. The point is to make the competition fairer and well, more interesting, because you don’t have all the good players concentrated into a few super clubs. In 2022 it was $13.5m for AFL clubs and $10m for NRL clubs. As well, if you breach it you generally don’t get to earn points on the ladder until the following season. If you did it in the past, won a premiership and it’s discovered, the title will be stripped.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

Reddit from 2009 called, it wants it’s “pretending to be helpful but actually contributing nothing to the conversation” grammar complaint comment back :)

princessnorah , 13 days ago

See then you have the whole thing in the US where the local TV market, including streaming services, won’t allow you to catch a game playing at a local stadium. It’s called a blackout, I guess to encourage you to go in person. Basically those services only make sense if you don’t follow a local team, or you watch a bunch of other games each week.

princessnorah , 12 days ago

I mean yes, those numbers are fairly low because they’re designed to keep the sports sustainable in the Australian market.

Even if the cap were €100 million, that would still be a lot fairer than a free-for-all.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

There is, check out the Music Assistant add-on for Home Assistant.

princessnorah , 13 days ago

It does still have some issues, but it is being heavily worked on and has been for 12-18 months at this point. Has taken huge strides, and if you’re in the beta channel you’ll see lots of work being done.

princessnorah , 14 days ago

Could I ask what the first time was?

princessnorah , 17 days ago

I’ve not heard taking keys done as a strike action before but I love it.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

And you know what bloody sucks? ADHD meds are one of the few that you can not and probably should not make at home. Why? Without watching the whole video, I can tell you the medication he can’t get ahold of is Lisdexamphetamine. The precursor chemicals of which are the same as for Methamphetamine. It’s also in the same schedule as opiates. So I’d imagine that even the guy the article is about wouldn’t mess around with those publicly, and perhaps even privately as the DEA heavily monitors sales of the precursors.

I’m so fucking sick of the meds that make my brain work being out of stock :(

princessnorah , 21 days ago

…Are you a bot? Your account is less than a day old and this comment… almost made sense. But what the heck does this mean?

…that one pile of neurons deserves for life the rights to a computation.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

Or, and hear me out, they know what the risks are and have assessed that they are reasonable when the alternative is death? I do disagree with them asserting they are higher-quality though, or I would at least like to see incontrovertible proof of that.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

The shortage is happening internationally. I am in Australia. I would have to pay money to see a psychiatrist again to change meds. I would need to restart a 12 month period where my GP can’t be the prescriber.

Prescription medication advertisements are illegal here too, so I think I just extra don’t appreciate unsolicited medication advice. I get you’re trying to be helpful. However, I did not ask for help.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

Cool. Yep. You aren’t wrong mate.

So I’m guessing you believe people should choose death instead, right? Or you’re going to pay for all these people’s medications?

princessnorah , 21 days ago

“Simple” for the everyday home chemist? Or “simple” for someone who is already a drug dealer…?

princessnorah , 21 days ago

I’ve tried enough meds in my life to know which ones work. Vyvanse is the only things that does. But if you mean it genuinely, while it’s in stock atm I’ve been skipping some days a week. I now have a 3 month supply saved up so 🤞

princessnorah , 20 days ago

Did you read the article, the part where the author’s close friend died from a treatable illness? What other alternatives do you suggest?

princessnorah , 28 days ago

Don’t forget about the people in all of the other cars on the road. For example, Tesla’s have repeatedly plowed into stationary emergency vehicles.

princessnorah , 29 days ago

Disk encryption doesn’t protect against what Secure Boot does. They are very different, often complimentary, systems.

princessnorah , 29 days ago

What do you mean by an escape hatch. Valve have been messing with hardware and Linux for way longer than the Steam Deck.

princessnorah , 29 days ago

Huh. That’s actually a pretty good take.

princessnorah , 29 days ago

Yeah no, it makes heaps of sense. It just initially sounded to me like the person was implying the Steam Deck is Valve’s escape hatch from running the Steam store. Which would be ridiculous, the two business sectors aren’t even close to the same order of magnitude.

princessnorah , 29 days ago

Thank you for the history, I appreciate it. Hopefully Valve releases SteamOS properly soon, it could be the resurgence of the Steam Machine!

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Wow. I don’t think I’ve seen a dumber take than “Windows good because it prevents an Apple monopoly” in a long while.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Yes, the word free in English both means free as in gratis, without cost, as well as free as in freedom.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

No, it doesn’t, because the cost of that software is on the business because it makes them money. This person is literally smoking crack if they think it should ever be on the employee. There is never, ever, ever a situation where an employee paying an employer is a good thing.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

This is why Microsoft made WSL, they knew they were losing ground big time amongst devs.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I’d imagine there would have to be script support, as KDE runs on many distros that all have very different update flows.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I’m actually wondering if it’s not just applications. That text talks of installing drivers to devices, so I’m actually wondering if this is about better support for hardware that’s paired to specific software. The recent use-case that’s got it on my mind is Rekordbox with Pioneer DJ decks. My housemate was curious so I tried running it under WINE and it launches just fine, but it could not see the decks at all, nor the encrypted license key verification it does with it’s driver. And I did manually install the driver into the prefix first.

However, I’m not positive this is it. It’s just a hunch.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Australia’s ‘right-to-disconnect’ law actually comes into effect on Monday :)

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Because we aren’t actually that similar? Not that I blame you, a bunch of my own countrypeople are convinced of the same thing. In my opinion, Australia is the example of what the US could be with actual election laws:

1. We have Instant Runoff Voting (ranked choice). I’m in my late 20s and have never voted for a major party, without messing up my own future.
2. We have mandatory voting. We can argue about whether that’s good or not, but the important outcome is that the government is obligated to make voting easy.
3. We have a fully independent federal Electoral Commission. It is against the law to be influenced by a political bias in your job if you work there, or to be a current party member.
4. When they redraw electorates, they must try to get them as close to a “0% swing” as they can, while following other rules around them being usual shapes.
5. Electorates are redrawn when they hit a standard deviation from the mean population.
6. Unions were never crushed in the same way here. They hold a decent amount of power in the political process, as the major left wing party gets the majority of their funding from union donations.
7. We have strict campaign funding rules.
8. The right-wing can’t even elect one party to government. They’re a permanent coalition between two right-wing parties. They are constantly infighting. When in Government, the larger party’s leader is Prime Minister, and the smaller party’s leader is Deputy Prime Minister, always playing second fiddle.
9. We have elections of the full house and half the senate every three years. That means the entire senate are up for election every six years, instead of eight. We have 76 Senators across a much smaller population.
10. Neither of the major parties has had a majority in the senate in over a decade. The current government holds 25 seats while the crossbench is composed of 20 seats, including 11 Greens senators.

So yeah, our politicians do get up on their soapbox and bluster on a lot like your politicians. But the will of the people is much closer to reality here, and there are no undecided voters. And when you threaten popular things like universal healthcare, or ignore 65% of the population approving of gay marriage, you tend to lose elections. Hell, our right wing party tried some of the transphobic rhetoric at the last election and they’re now in Opposition…

I do want to strongly note, that my country is FAR from perfect. Even the US has treaties with it’s indigenous populations, which enjoy some level of self-government. Australia still does not. Progress slows down here, and it takes steps backwards at times. However, we aren’t exactly goose-stepping our way back to the 1950s like y’all are.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person’s comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation? The OP already uses Linux Mint Debian Edition. This person mentioned “flavours” of Linux, clearly meaning the various 𝑥-based families of distros (ie Debian, Fedora, Arch etc). Which is pretty solid advice when it comes to learning the CLI in my opinion. I think they were trying to gently nudge OP away from their second EndeavourOS install, as even though ArchWiki is great (sorry KDE but it has better Plasma docs), OP would end up pretty lost on trying to use those skills back on LMDE.

But to circle back around, Debian, the distro, actually is a good choice for learning the CLI because it can be installed without a desktop environment, potentially using something like Distrobox. That way OP could learn the CLI within their LMDE installation in a sandbox, so they don’t risk messing up their main computer.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

C’mon, that’s like, worse than not reading the article.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Look, owning that means you’re already doing better than 99% of people who do this :)

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Honestly, I really should have already, but spaced on it. Thank you for reminding me.