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Because the people who care already know, and the people who don't know don't care, being somewhere between 'apathetic about the US descent into fascism' (they might be foreigners, or Americans who are alienated), and 'actively supportive of this descent into fascism'.

A server can just be a PC left working in a corner, depnding on what specifically you're doing with it. Hardware designed to be a server tends to have more power in the places that matter for that job and less (if any) power dedicated to home use stuff like graphics.

I have a server for my family (WELL mostly me and my father). It consists of an old gaming PC with Linux Server Stuff installed on it. Doesn't need to be anything more, it's just Emby (media, mostly films) and NAS stuff.

It's mostly intent and what you run on it.

• Religion can be a force for good. For social cohesion and a feeling of belonging. That it often isn't speaks more to the samesuch cultural and emotional rot that has affected literally everything than to religion unto itself.
• It actually makes perfect sense for a country to want to limit or tariff importation of goods. This, if done right, can bring industrialisation into the country. You can't have a nation that is all middle-managers, despite the First World's best attempts to become that, it's just fundamentally unsustainable. And while you can have a nation that just produces/exports raw materials, this is ultimately bad for the people in that nation.

Shinto's "head god" was Izanagi, who was very much a man.

But there were plenty of very powerful feminine gods anyway. And Izanagi was the head in more a 'fathered the others' way than anything.

It's really not. You say fascist things, you get called a fascist

The only people saying it has lost meaning are, in fact, fascists who are butthurt they were called what they are.

And from your other posts on this subject you're not just a fascist, but straight up a psycho who gets off on violence.

I hope you seek help.

Yes and no

I know how to turn it off on KDE Plasma Wayland which is the DE I use. Different WMs and DEs will do it differently. X11 will do it differently. I'm sure it can be done, I just have no idea how.

With the controller connected, Plasma-Wayland reports the touchpad as like. A laptop touchpad. So you can shut it off by just going into its settings programme and turning it off like you would a laptop touchpad.

.... Unless of course you ARE using a laptop, at which point that would possibly turn off both your laptop's actual touchpad as well as the one in the DS4.

I just use a Dualshock 4

It like.

Works. Linux games and Emulators recognise it as a generic SDL-compatible controller 99.9% of the time (and for that .1% there's ds4drv in emulate-xpad mode). And Windows games on Proton use Steam Input which is not just functional, it even works with things like the motion sensors and shit.

Not much else I can say to it. It never gave me Bluetooth problems (and I use a generic bluetooth USB adaptor from China), its battery lasts long enough to not bother me, and it never shut off during a cutscene.

I love Linux because it's good for everyone -- Even insufferably annoying internet personalities who are also somewhere between 'carelessly edgy' and 'actually a fascist'. 💩💩💩💩💩

Perhaps, but our laws ban people who are in trouble with the law™️ from running for office at all.

Bolsonaro literally cannot be president again until he is formally and officially cleared of all charges, which -- Yeah, will take a while. Even if he does get away with it (tbh he might. For all my blustering I have very little faith in someone from the ruling caste ever experiencing consequences--), he definitely won't in time for the next election.

See America? That is how you do it.

Brazil is a very large place with each state/region having its own type of food.

So if I may make a suggestion of my hometown's favourite snack (which I think originated in the state of São Paulo)

We call it Prensadão -- It's a Brazilian take on a hot dog, and like everything Brazilian... It is very extra.

The hardest part to get outside of Brazil is probably the bread. It uses a bread that is a bit like a hamburger bun in texture, but instead of being round, it's a rectangle and it's large.

You start with hot-dog sausages. Cook them up, then slice them in half longitudinally (so you get two long half-sausages). Get like three or four of those and put them in the bread.

Then you add Potato Straws, Cheddar Cheese, Little Tomato Cubes, bacon (fried until crispy), and optionally some chicken (grilled and then cut into tiny shreds)

(Other optional additions: Calabrese sausages, sweet corn, ham, mozarella, cream cheese)

You know you reached ideal Prensadão density when it looks like you CAN'T CLOSE YOUR DAMN SANDWICH.

So now you put it in a hot pan, get a large piece of metal, and squish that bitch down using your body for leverage (our local restaurants have dedicated presses for doing this, but you can and I HAVE improvised with just. ANOTHER PAN.) -- Flip. Press again to toast and squeeze on the other side.

Serve with a sauce made of mayonnaise blended with garlic and chives for added flavour.

Or if you want the meal traditionally associated with Brazil, you should try feijoada. Made with black beans, pork, and sausages. Served with some oranges to take the edge off.

Go into their computer

Cause glitches and errors that just arbitrarily disappear or change whenever the user tries to troubleshoot. Which follow no pattern to speak of.

People who bitch about being banned/blocked are always the most blockable/bannable human beings imaginable, istg.

Insert SpongeBob clip of Mr. Krabs saying "MONIE!"

Ah I wouldn't know about THAT. I just download and convert epubs from the likes of z-library/libgen, and have done so since getting my first Kindle circa 2012

What for? Cuz loading pirated books is trivial?

Only if you want to synch reading progress between multiple devices.

Well damn. A person who disagrees with me and is nice and eloquent about it, even teaching me some new information.

Mad respect, stranger.

It isn't. It has its own Driver model. DOS drivers are installable and can be called up for backwards compatibility, but windows drivers are different and incompatible.

Windows 95 was still just another dos program on top of a shell.

That's just straight up misinformation. Even 3.1 wasn't really like that anymore (though, it was closer). Windows 9x uses DOS as a bootloader, and retains the original DOS components for backwards compatibility, but loads into a fully 32-bit kernel with preemptive multitasking and many features DOS couldn't dream of touching. It is built atop the original 16-bit DOS, and inherits a lot of jank from that, which is why eventually they ditched it to use the developed-from-the-ground-up NT kernel everywhere instead (and broke compatibility with a lot of old hardware and software because of it, much to the chagrin of the users--)

Huh? Coming from an Amiga it really didn’t seem innovative. Or OS2 or BeOS (which ran circles around Win 95) or Macs.

OS/2 and Windows are siblings, with most of OS/2 being written by the same people within Microsoft. Windows NT is what happened when Microsoft decided to backstab IBM (again) to increase their profit margin (as I myself have said, Microsoft has always been bad from the 'evil megacorp' angle).

BeOS was, at the time, an operating system only for Be's own PowerPC based workstations (and workstation != desktop, especially in those days) -- Though there were talks to bring at least parts of it to desktop as the basis for MacOS Copland, that didn't go through (instead Apple vored NeXT and used its nutrients to make OSX). -- It didn't get a public, user-facing, desktop release that a mere mortal could buy until 1997 (on PPC Mac. 98 for the x86 PC version), which in mid-90s tech terms is like a geological epoch later. Are we also going to compare Doom 2 to Half Life and shit on Doom 2 for being behind HL?

MacOS at the time was still using Cooperative Multitasking (which is what Win 3.0 used, and is unreliable af because any crashed program takes out the entire OS with it) and wouldn't get true Preemptive Multitasking until OSX in '99.

The amiga did get Preemptive Multitasking to the desktop first (in '86, even. Commodore seriously didn't know what they had, or they would have ruled the roost), but preemptive multitasking wasn't the only feather in 9x's hat.

DirectX was so good at doing what it did (acting as a layer of abstraction between gamedevs and hardware, allowing them to just ask the library to draw and play stuff, and it would figure itself out with the hardware) that alternatives like SDL took another 3 years to exist and much longer to catch up -- And it was necessary, because the PC space, unlike the likes of the Mac or Amiga, was an industry standard rather than being controlled by one company, and users could have any combination of wacky third party video and soundcards, and DirectX just dealt with it.

And Plug-and-Play, while buggy as fuck to the point that it really only worked when it wanted, was something that hadn't been done before. Adding new hardware and the OS just figures that shit out, no reboot required? Unheard of.

Edit: BeOS in 97, not 98. Still retains the whole 'this was a geological epoch by 90s tech standards' comment though.