[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 41 points 4 days ago

God I hope so

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I just read opinion articles (for those that don't know, opinion articles are intended to bridge the gap; they're articles papers publish to share angles the editors disagree with). The problem is honest conservative media is basically gone. The sides have diverged to little more than fact vs fiction. Even the opinion articles can get totally ridiculous at times.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 21 points 5 days ago

IIRC heat is the bigger issue for lithium batteries.

They're temporarily less effective in cold weather but excessive heat is the battery killer.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 6 days ago

There's also the "other" factor. "Our county", "our state" etc surely does it right but what about the other counties and states?

The fear of the other is one of the worst impulses humans have

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 days ago

But what does having the cursor at the right do for you?

Like, are you just manually adding URL parameters all the time?

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 days ago

So, I don't know... But I'm also curious as to why/what you're trying to achieve and whether you've considered any alternative solutions?

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 6 days ago

Which is insane since they insist on a economic system from 200 years ago.

I think it's just that your argument against communism seemed to be based on its age, i.e. it "being old and out dated."

(Agree communism is not great FWIW)

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@lemmy.world

So, I'm trying to clone an SSD to an NVME drive and I'm bumping into this "dev-disk-by" error when I boot from the NVME (the SSD is unplugged).

I can't find anyone talking about this in this context. It seems like what I've done here should be fine and should work, but there's clearly something I and the arch wiki are missing.

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Hi folks, what sorts of things have you been doing on destiny lately? What are you finding fun?

I thought the new campaign was good, but I'm increasingly finding it difficult to put time into Destiny post campaign. The gunplay is still great but ... the game has felt repetitive and little frustrations like ambiguity about how you get the new exotic class items just really are getting on my nerves. I spent probably 4 hours today redoing the same overthrow and feeling to get the wizards to spawn.

I don't mean for this to be a negative post, but yeah; what do you enjoy about Destiny the most in 2024? Anyone here having similar feelings about the game?

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 225 points 4 months ago

I would argue the top picture is also a big no no.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 153 points 6 months ago

Click bait avoided, a prerelease build of Windows suggests some kind of general advertising in the start menu beyond promoting ads.

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/usnews@beehaw.org

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/news@lemmy.world

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@programming.dev

Hi all,

I'm visiting a relative that has a Google WiFi system with multiple access points. There's an access point literally right next to me that I can see in the KDE BSSID list with 100% connection strength.

For some reason, it's instead picking a BSSID with only 60% strength. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's choosing this access point instead of one of the others? Is this something the Google WiFi controls/suggests to the laptop, is something bugged, or is there a good reason Linux might be choosing this particular access point?

EDIT: It turns out the access point placement was actually just really bad, and the access point in question was not even making it to the rest of the LAN... The speed difference between my phone and laptop seems to be just that, something to do with a difference between the framework and the Pixel's wireless cards (or drivers). Even with everything corrected, the Pixel is significantly out performing the framework.

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Regarding Recent Varlamore Leaks (secure.runescape.com)

(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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Defender of Varrock (secure.runescape.com)

(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 206 points 10 months ago

As much as that makes a great story... The groundwork for lemmy goes back years. It's true that lots of issues were addressed and client apps were ported after Reddit started going down hill, but a ton of work was done beforehand to make that all possible.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 268 points 10 months ago

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

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State of Font Rendering on Linux (social.packetloss.gg)

Hi folks,

I was wondering what people's thoughts are on the state of font rendering on Linux and if there are any important settings/packages I might not be aware of.

I've never been particularly font sensitive. So despite being a long time user at this point... I'm still a Linux fonts noob. However, I know a lot of people are big into fonts.

I recently installed Debian KDE as a desktop for my father. He likes it, but he wasn't crazy about the fonts. We turned the normal subpixel rendering on in KDE Font settings, but some pages definitely had blocky looking fonts (e.g. the Yahoo home page my dad still uses 🙃).

Any tips? The documentation in this area seems to be lacking... and maybe it's just the resolution of the mintors and things (my dad had gotten used to his high resolution phone so jumping back to a 28" 1080p monitor is going to look blocky no matter what). Regardless, if there are any tips or things I might have missed, they'd be much appreciated!

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 170 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not a broad generalization at all. It's a widespread pattern of hypocritical and contradictory conservative outrage, statements, and laws.

  • "I should be able to teach kids about the Bible in school, but you can't teach them about Yoga"
  • "we can't have vulgar language, oh unless it's from our religious book"
  • "I can't make a cake for you because you're gay and that's against my religion. What do you mean you won't make a Christian cake? That's religious discrimination!"
  • "Happy holidays!??! Happy holidays??! You monster, how dare you wage war on Christmas! We have religious liberty in this country! What do you mean that protects other religions? There's only one God and one religion!"
  • "It's totally fine that the polling places in large democratic areas have hours long waits so long as my polling places are quick and easy"
  • "it's totally fine that a county with 10,000 people has the same number of ballot drop boxes as a country with 3,000,000 people"
  • "marriage is between a man and woman ... and may include 17 divorces; they gays can't have it"
  • "we need to teach kids (i.e., indoctrinate them in the ways of) Jesus not this woke (black history, trans, etc)"
  • "let's let white kids off with a slap on the wrist while we throw a black kid in jail for smoking a plant"
  • "I can't believe a president could have such a scandal in the white house as to have had an affair with an assistant! We need to impeach! No, I don't think extorting an ally for information about an opponent is worthy of an impeachment! Trying to overthrow a legitimate presidental victor with a procedural trick? Nah that's not worth an impeachment either! Oh but hey, this Biden guy's son who lost one of his parents and a sibling in a car crash, that lost his brother to cancer, that has a drug problem, called his dad while he was in business meetings to show off... so you know his dad definitely was up to something! We've got to impeach him over that! What do you mean that was before he was even president and that's completely unprecedented?"
  • "We should totally lock her up for those emails! What do you mean the guy screaming that's son and law did the exact same thing?"
  • "We're sorry we can't appoint a supreme court justice just before the election! Psych! We totally can if it's nominated by OUR president!"
  • "We need law and order in this country! What do you mean Trump broke the law? Nah, I'm not hearing it; this is clearly a partisan witch hunt and the majority conservative staff of the FBI is out to get conservatives! Oh but we'll DEFINITELY weaponize the federal government and go after our political rivals full steam if we get the presidency in 2024"
  • "I believe abortion is amoral, that's why I hid the fact that my ex/current lovers have had one"
  • "I believe homosexuality is amoral, that's why I am one in the closet"
  • "we're going to be the party of health care, but don't watch as we strip you of your federal protections for your health care"
  • "we're the party of the little man, but don't watch as we cut taxes for the rich (and you but make sure that expires under the next term (probably while the Democrats are in power)"
  • "the national debt is an outage! Oh let's spend as much as Obama did in half the time! Oh Biden is in power again, spending is out of control!"
  • "the problem isn't guns it's mental health, but we're not going to do anything about that either! Must be because the kids aren't in church, the gays, video games, or hey look over there, a squirrel!"
  • "climate change? Nah. It's not real. Okay maybe it is, but it doesn't matter because look at China! Oh we could make a dent and get the ball rolling? Well, it's too late anyways, we should've been building nuclear plants! What do you mean I just made that up? Clearly I've been trying to solve this via nuclear the whole time, and it's not another dog whistle! Oh and btw all of my top presidential candidates say they don't believe in man made climate change! But yeah, totally serious about this issue!!"

... and that's just off the top of my head. If you're a conservative, wake up, your party is a mess.

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