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Pyongyang would be more safe, Crimea is a literal war zone. This is like taking vacation in Khartoum
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Pyongyang would be more safe, Crimea is a literal war zone. This is like taking vacation in Khartoum
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`checkinstall` my beloved
Joke is on you, my distro doesn't allow me to install from tarball because everything is installed into the Nix store
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Young Chinese are getting paid to be 'full-time children' as jobs become harder to find | CNN Business
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China doesn't even have a free healthcare system. Everyone still needs to pay, even though there are subsidies. In real life, there's little difference between the US and China
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Is Ukraine’s offensive stalling?
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It's basically the Russian offensive backwards, taking back Andriyivka, Klischiyivka, going towards Bakhmut. But it's playing back about three times faster
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`checkinstall` my beloved
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I can't let you do that, Dave - NixOS, probably
lots of folders on the system are read-only and get changed when you run rebuild
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NixOS musings
I do overlays of software to patch it all the time. Eventually I'll package it, but it needs upstream fixes, so I'll try to package my own fork
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Best monitors to buy right now (RTINGS)
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Yes, but the 4090 is the "best" GPU with only minor trade-offs (DP 2.1 support?)
Monitors don't yet have an ultimate "highest res, refresh, brightness, contrast, color volume" champion. If they made a 240Hz 4K QD-OLED it would come close, but it wouldn't be as bright as the best Mini-LEDs, have burn-in, weird pixel positioning (but at 4K you can just use monochromatic AA for text)
The ultimate monitor might have to be Nano-LED, with self-emissive quantum dots. But we won't see those until at least 2025, or maybe even later
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Journalist's death prompts Russian outrage over Ukraine's alleged use of cluster bombs
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AFAIK he was standing right next to an MRLS shooting at the Ukrainian forces, and the Ukrainian forces shot back.
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Best monitors to buy right now (RTINGS)
I don't get what a "best monitor" is supposed to be. They have six different categories themselves, and there's also pricing. The "best" they listed sucks at HDR gaming and costs $550. In my opinion, if you're going to have a "best" category it's gotta be the Samsung 240Hz 4K monitor, but they mentioned issues with it
So currently, there's no "best" monitor. They all have trade-offs.
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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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I upgraded Ubuntu 20 LTS to Ubuntu 22 LTS in place and it broke everything including the Wifi drivers. Left with a black command line with no Internet, so I just wiped the drive
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Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it
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No, fuck red hat, use something else.
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Ukraine war: Two dead after 'attack' on Crimea bridge
Nice picture, but it looks like this now https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1680838126292414466
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X11 vs Wayland
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Talk to a hardware youtuber, they might do a story on your shady GPU OEM
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It's not as hard as you think, since you can just copy some other package for a skeleton and substitute your own files. There are just a few files to do a basic package
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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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My man, my laptop sometimes turns off the screen when I tap the touchpad in Windows. It's far more broken than Linux is. Let's not go into how slow it is on an HDD in Windows 10... I have given up on booting into Windows since it's unusable
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Thousands of Chinese tourists go there for a very strictly controlled vacation every year. As long as they think you're not a threat it's much safer than going to a place with literal warfare going on
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What distro(s) do you use?
I am switching everything I own to NixOS. Part of the reason is I can use my configuration on different computers and have everything set up the way I want. But I can also have separate config files for the parts that are different.
The killer feature is whenever I fuck things up I just roll back, and I always have the config files in version control so I can always work on the changes that didn't work later and make it work.
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70 House Republicans voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine
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I responded to the wrong comment, I thought this was the thread about elections in Ukraine, haha. I deleted it, but deletions don't propagate between servers quickly
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Ukraine moves Christmas from January 7 to December 25
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Jan 7th is because the Church uses an outdated Julian calendar. On that calendar, there are a different number of leap days than the modern one, so the Julian Dec 25th is the Gregorian Jan 7th