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What's with all the hate for Chinese phones?

I get that Huawei, or ZTE are not a good idea for network infrastructure, and that phones for people in governments, military, large corps and research environments, should be vetted, but for average Joe? Many Chinese manufacturers don’t have close ties to the government, and any non Chinese phone that you can buy also has...

sgibson5150 ,

I just learned this myself. Motorola Mobility is owned by Lenovo.

sgibson5150 ,

Hey, sometimes you need to hose out the cruft.

Why yes, I do maintain a legacy application that still stores user files in Program Files in blatent violation of 15 years of Windows best practices and continues to be done contrary to my repeated advice, why do you ask?

sgibson5150 ,

Forgive the stupid question, but what does this mean, exactly? Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD? Will this enable a release of Bazzite that supports Steam Gaming Mode for Nvidia cards?

sgibson5150 , (edited )

There’s a quest chain in Divinity Original Sin (2014) that involves a cat named Unsinkable Sam, original name Oscar, that I literally played for the first time over the weekend. I had no idea there was a possible historical basis for the character. Crazy coincidence that this was posted today.

Edit: Damn autocorrect

sgibson5150 ,

I’ll try my best to endure said ducking like the idiot man child that I am.

sgibson5150 ,

At this point, every day above ground is a good day.

sgibson5150 ,

Did they find a way to cram even more stuff into the title bar?

DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again (arstechnica.com)

It’s sensible for businesses to shift from physical media sales. Per CNBC’s calculations, DVD sales fell over 86 percent between 2008 and 2019. Research from the Motion Picture Association in 2021 found that physical media represented 8 percent of the home/mobile entertainment market in the US, falling behind digital (80...

sgibson5150 ,

The trap closes.

sgibson5150 ,

Aye, looks like that’s where we be heading, maytee.

sgibson5150 ,

It’s not entirely democratic at the convention, even in a typical election cycle. Recall that 15% of the delegates are “unpledged party leaders and elected officials” (superdelegates).

That aside, I don’t think there’s a constitutional issue here with respect to replacing Biden. If Dems decided to select the candidate via musical chairs or Parcheesi, to my knowledge that’s a party matter (though voters would undoubtedly take a dim view of such antics).

sgibson5150 ,

2018, right? But there hasn’t been a contested convention since the rule change. Could be quite the circus, for good or ill. Multiple ballots more likely? Guess we’ll see.

sgibson5150 ,

Agreed. Also, about the West Wing episode. Used to really love that show.

sgibson5150 ,

Finally got updated 😄👍

Logout still hangs on both X and Wayland sessions (KDE) 😫👎

sgibson5150 ,

I made an effort to learn it. In 2000. Again in 2012 or whenever the last big push was. If past is prologue, I may need to learn it again soon. 😆

sgibson5150 ,

FWIW, I’ve got an i7-8700k with an RTX 3080. I initially had two major issues when I replaced Windows with Bazzite:

  1. Steam doesn’t do great with libraries on NTFS partitions. Supposedly there are workarounds, but I couldn’t get them to work for me. I had to reformat a couple drives as ext4 (and do a bunch of file management in the process) before things would play nice.
  2. I had my CPU overclocked to 4.8 GHz in Windows. BG3 kept crashing on me on Bazzite. Finally occurred to me to drop the overclock and I’ve played 40+ hours since, solid as a rock. Performance is comparable to Windows with OC. GPU temps are consistently better than Windows. Only thing I’m missing is HDR.

Bonus: GreenWithEnvy (for GPU fan curve) won’t run in a Wayland session yet, apparently, so I’ve been running under X11 instead.

Hope this helps. YMMV. Happy gaming, whatever OS you use!

sgibson5150 ,

When I replaced Windows, I had two other disks with NTFS volumes, one of which was full of Steam games, the other with assorted crap. I built this box in 2017. The SSD where Windows was installed is only 256 GB.

sgibson5150 ,

I’m brand new to Fedora, having installed Bazzite myself just a few days ago. Did you happen to encounter an issue logging out of KDE? discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/119070

sgibson5150 ,

Tangent, but I had a generally positive opinion of John de Lancie based on his work in Trek and Days of Our Lives (I am so old) and various interviews I’d seen over the years until I saw Jenny Nicholson’s video about the last Bronycon. De Lancie had some involvement in a film about the Brony phenomenon and she was in a green room with him a few times. Apparently he was pretty rude and showed contempt for his fans. 🙁

Disclaimer: Not a Brony myself but Jenny Nicholson can make anything interesting.

sgibson5150 ,

Glad you had a good experience. I guess people are never as simple as the boxes we try to cram them into, and fandoms can be both a blessing and a curse.

sgibson5150 ,

Just had my yearly car maintenance at the local VW shop. They’ve started passing on the credit card processing fees to the customer. It’s only like 3 or 4%, but it made me use a debit card instead of a CC. Guess that’s where we’re at now.

Discord: Have you lost access to your email? no worries, just regain access to it! (lemmy.world)

I would have expected them to ask me to message them, in order to resolve the issue of not having access to my old email. Instead, they assume that I still have access to it, by simply contacting my email provider!...

sgibson5150 ,

I get the sense that a lot of commenters here never had an openmailbox dot org experience.

sgibson5150 ,

Eric’s wife became co-chair of the RNC in March. It’s MAGA all the way down.

sgibson5150 ,

I’ve had this happen to me. I suspect it’s one sad MRA type with a pile of accounts bringing the downvotes. He can sense when I post anything remotely respectful of women because his pee pee hurts. 😆

sgibson5150 OP ,

Holy cow. Thank you! Didn’t know that was there. ❤️

sgibson5150 OP ,

I hear you, though I think this is less about education and more about getting folks to fork over $9.99 a month. Like so many others, I’ve a long frustrating relationship with Microsoft. They’re literally the largest company in world atm and they just keep laying off people. I don’t hate them quite as much as EA or Comcast, but it’s getting pretty close.

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I wonder if they ever did the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty series as audiobooks, because that would probably get you where you want to go. 😆

Edit: They did, because of course they did. From Wikipedia:

In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty’s Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched) as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty’s Release was read by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.[2] A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.[3]

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/The_Sleeping_Beauty_Quartet

sgibson5150 OP ,

It’s a little icky.

sgibson5150 OP ,

Now I feel violated. 😬

sgibson5150 OP ,

I caught it before I submitted the post but I figured you guys would better appreciate the low effort correction. 😆

sgibson5150 OP ,

It’s a poor poster who blames his tools so this was definitely autocorrect’s fault.

sgibson5150 OP ,

Do you mean he throws Jews down a well or do you mean he criticized Israel?

sgibson5150 OP ,

What a depressing movie. I didn’t like any of the TNG movies but that one’s the worst.

sgibson5150 OP ,

Oh dear. Thanks for the research. Also thanks to @downpunxx for raising the issue. I wasn’t aware of this.

I stopped enjoying the “change my mind” meme when I realized what a piece of shit Crowder is. I’ll put this one in the same bucket.

sgibson5150 ,

Please clarify if you would. What is a “hipster vibe”?

sgibson5150 ,

Is using Linux a trend? Microsoft must be pissing themselves in fear atop their giant pile of money. 😄

sgibson5150 ,

I use Photon on Android Firefox in light mode. Shocked the hell out of me, too! I use dark mode for everything else.

Testing if VRR is active and working

I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can’t even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If...

sgibson5150 ,

Will your display device or associated equipment tell you? My home theater receiver has a signal info button that will display the refresh rate or VRR, if enabled. Also has HDR mode if any, as well as audio input & output formats.

sgibson5150 ,

Alas. Hope you find a way to verify your set up!

sgibson5150 ,

FWIW, Snopes agrees with you.

www.snopes.com/…/missippi-literacy-program/

sgibson5150 OP ,

🐕 imgur.com/a/eTqzd8z

sgibson5150 OP ,

Yay!

sgibson5150 OP ,

It’s raining Bens! Hallelujah! It’s raining Bens!

sgibson5150 OP ,

I appreciate your definitiveness. Happy Friday my friend. ✌️

sgibson5150 OP ,

“It’s five o’clock and all is well, you cunts.” 😄

sgibson5150 OP ,

Ahh I’d never seen that! How adorable.

sgibson5150 OP ,

There’s no need for insults! 😄

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