Aganim @ Aganim @lemmy.world

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Definitely a case of 'to each their own'. I've got one at home, I never want to go back to mucking around with two monitors whether it is for work or gaming.

Forcefully mutating innocent larvae to bee larvae and silkworms and forcing them to work for me indefinitely while I ship off the fruits of their labour and cash in those sweet, sweet Terra Tokens.

Screw those critters, I terraformed this planet, gave them life and I'll most certainly make sure to exploit every single one of them. My only regret is not being able to lick all the neon coloured frogs, that should give a nice trip.

Okay, perhaps I should cut down on my Planet Crafter time..

klap*

Snoop has wares, if you have coin.

This is incorrect. Traffic is not 'routed through a pihole', it is a DNS resolver which returns a localhost address for blacklisted domains. Basically it causes your browser to try to load blacklisted content from a webserver running on your local PC, which (for the average user) doesn't exist and so it gives up loading instead.

More and more websites do detect this and it can be as simple as checking for the presence of a variable that should be set if some piece of JavaScript from an external domain was loaded. In such a case it wouldn't matter if you refused the tracking code due to PiHole or an adblocker extension. Actually the adblocker would even have an advantage here, as it would be capable of manipulating any client-side scripts that trigger these warnings, whereas Pihole has no interaction with your browser at all.

They most certainly do unfortunately, I speak from experience. Haven't delved into the specifics, but I suspect some websites check if a piece of JavaScript or other resource was loaded, if not a 'you are using an adblocker' message is shown. It is annoying, but as I can live without these websites they go onto my personal blacklist and I move on with my life. They need us harder than we do them.

Yeah, sorry, my dark sense of humour didn't combine very well with typing it out before my first cup of coffee.

Unfortunately I just want to be able to work though and Wayland keeps hanging and crashing without producing any relevant logging, despite the fact I'm working on an AMD iGPU.

In the end Wayland and X are tools, if a tool doesn't fit the job it gets replaced. I don't care X is dead, at least it works for me. Probably not the most popular thing to tell around here, but it's what it is.

Ah yes, the good old Russian defenestration windows. I assume you have the FSB-mandated variant that is capable of both tilting and swinging, for.. ease of access?

Trolling. I hope.

Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD's. 😱

Either watch ads or pay for Premium

Unfortunately though it is 'pay for Premium and still watch ads'. So many videos have the ads baked in by the content creators. Yes, you can manually seek forward, but that's annoying and defeating the purpose of Premium. Especially for the price they ask in my country.

Either watch ads or pay for Premium. Or don't watch Youtube. Those are the three choices most people will have. And it's Youtube's right as a private platform to give them those choices.

I fully agree, never suggested otherwise. But fortunately free speech allows us to have an opinion about a product.

5 bucks? If only.. It's 12 euros per month here, which is simply too expensive for the kind of content I watch on YT. Especially considering the amount of baked in product placement (VPN, diet plans, that kind of crap) that I come across, I'm not paying that kind of money just to still get hammered with commercials. Sorry, but YouTube Premium is a bad deal here.

Seems the CPU has become the bully these days:

CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
Keyboard: E
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
CPU: hey keyboard do you have anything for me?
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Depends, in my country ionization detectors have been banned over 20 years ago, you'll mostly find optical / photoelectric detectors here.

when was the last time you heard any such news for PC

A few seconds ago, when I read that the new Linux kernel contains TCP related performance improvements!

That sounds quite uncomfortable.

It turns out it is toxic to humans in large doses, but despite that it is still widely used by industry because it is such a cheap, abundant and potent solvent.

Takes me back to the days of Morrowind. Saving in Vvardenfell was also better enjoyed while not moving. Must be that NetImmerse legacy. 😋

This could be shorted to if your device has no driver it wont work which is obviously true.

What I tried to tell is that if you have to rely on community driver projects, don't expect fun times, at least not when it comes to Realtek in my recent experience.

If you have very recent hardware and you find it doesn't work out of the box on stable options the easiest thing to do is install a more recent kernel.

I already had the latest available kernel at the time, as in: the very latest officially released kernel by kernel.org. Ubuntu was just a last-ditch effort as it will sometimes have drivers included that other distros might not have, normally I wouldn't touch it with a ten-feet pole and go either Arch or Manjaro. The driver simply wasn't included in the kernel. How do I know? Because I stumbled upon some discussions that mentioned the lack of support and 3 kernel releases later support for my card was specifically mentioned in the changelog.

Respectfully if DKMS wasn't automatically kicking in then you configured it incorrectly. It's a lot easier to just rely on a package that sets this up for you properly.

Yes, like a Realtek-XXXX-dkms package, which simply didn't work. I've configured stuff for DKMS before, scripting stuff for Linux is part of my daily workload, so yeah, you don't need to tell me scripting beats doing stuff manually.

The fact that getting an f*cking wifi card to work takes this much effort is what I meant with 'not fun times' and for me validates the meme, anecdotal as it might be.

Resorting to other distros, configuring additional repos so you can install a different kernel version, having to try different community projects to see which gives you a working driver, having to deal with getting DKMS to work, this is all stuff which hampers Linux adoptment. And without more adoptment we won't have to expect more support from manufacturers for desktop related consumer hardware. So yeah, that does make me cry a bit. It's a catch-22 unfortunately.