apprehensively_human @ apprehensively_human @lemmy.ca

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I thought I was finally finished distro hopping after I landed on Fedora, but then I found Nobara and then the whole RHEL drama started so I went back to Debian stable but then NixOS caught my attention.

It will never end

oh, sorry, I’m a very dead pan person and I was trying to make a joke, I guess it didn’t come off that way, my mistake

This kills the joke

It's a bit weird to me how, on a post regarding a GNOME update, people feel the need to come out of the woodwork to explain how they prefer to use Plasma or any other DE or WM.

This is Linux, you can use whatever you feel like using. Let people be happy with what they're happy with.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise uses phasers, which seem to be close to light speed

A phaser beam is made up of nadion particles, which to my eyes seems to move through space at about the same speed as a Star Wars laser bolt.

I think a more fair fight would be a Danube runabout vs. the Falcon, but my money is still on the Starfleet ship.

There's a concept in road design that says the engineer must first determine the design speed, which is basically how fast they want traffic to be able to flow. This part of the process is generally not part of any public hearing or put to a vote by public officials - it is just decided on and then they move on to the next step.

There's also a prevailing concept in road design that seems to indicate that high traffic speeds are a design issue, but low speeds are an enforcement issue. The road is designed to accommodate the highest amount of traffic anticipated in the future without really thinking about if that's even a good fit for the area.

Once the road has been built to exacting standards (which means it is far too wide and flat,) the city steps in and slaps a speed limit on it, often at odds with the design speed.

When residents get worried about all the speeding cars, they petition the city for a traffic study to see if anything can be done. The engineers conducting the traffic study determine that the road is capable of handling higher speeds than the current limit, and so to cut down on speeding the recommendation is to increase the posted limit.

It's amazing to me how much influence the engineering team has on the design with basically no accountability. You can try to reduce speeding by putting up speed traps and police patrols, but at the end of the day people will drive as fast as they are comfortable with and that is often a result of the design of the road they are driving on.

Just make sure you physically disconnect all other storage devices while installing windows. The windows boot loader seems to make itself comfy on any drive it can find.

O'Brien Kim must suffer

To be honest, even Reddit doesn't really feel like Reddit anymore. I have a certain nostalgia for how the site used to be a decade ago, it feels far too corporate now.

Detached single family housing don’t belong in major cities, and suburbs shouldn’t be subsidized by the downtown core.

Truer words were never spoken. If you want to be able to live on your own little plot of land surrounded by other people wanting the same thing - then development, upkeep and maintenance of all infrastructure and services needs to be paid for directly from your property tax. When you drive in to downtown to get to work, you should not expect to find parking. Downtown should belong to the people who actually live there, it's crazy how far we bend over backwards to support a lifestyle that's inherently unsustainable.

They go fast enough to outpace bikes. There is absolutely no reason these should be on a sidewalk.

I mean really, infrastructure should be in place to allow for proper mixed use transport where bikes and scooters wouldn't need to share the road with cars, but the solution is not to instead share the sidewalk with pedestrians.

It's an alt-right leaning bias driven by engagement. Hank Green made a video a while ago showcasing a similar issue on Google Image search. Basically, normal users scrolling through content will see a thumbnail for something outrageous so they will click on it out of curiosity which boosts engagement. The algorithm takes notice and starts feeding similar content.

Well I for one found this just facetious enough to warrant a chuckle

I imagine it will be playable with Proton/Wine. It doesn't look like there's a native port for Linux.

Hopefully this includes bug fixes and more compatibility with linux?

I've been trying and failing to get my Debian host to stream to an Nvidia Shield Pro

Everybody say it with me now. Introversion ≠ social anxiety.

Just because I'm a social recluse does not automatically mean I don't know how to strike up a conversation.

I have to imagine a comment like this does absolutely nothing to their sales figures. People who were going to download a cracked version of their games anyway remain unaffected now that they have a blessing, and I doubt people who weren't going to pirate would now feel more inclined to do so.

This seems like good PR and frankly it should probably be the default position for games studios.

Wait a minute, my sarcasm detector is going off here

Also I love watching commercials before getting to watch my commercial

Thank you for this. Some of these songs have been stuck in my head and I was getting tired of skipping around the video stream to listen to them.

Just when I thought my opinion of the big three couldn't get any lower. At what point is the federal government going to realize how bad these companies are? Any smaller competition that gets a foothold in the sector is just gobbled up, and I seriously doubt Bell and Rogers have 6000 vacant positions available.