knfrmity @ knfrmity @lemmygrad.ml

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I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

And yet it took until 2020 for any MSM to report that all of Crypto AG's equipment was backdoored and that it was indeed a CIA cutout the whole time. That information was available since at least 1993 when the West German intelligence sold its share to the CIA and the Swiss government as well as some reporters caught wind of it.

The "maintaining privacy" is just a bit. It's about gaining complete access to everyone's private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.

/s

The Android private DNS setting is just for a DNS-over-TLS resolver. The only thing about it that's private is your queries are encrypted en route to the server (traditonal DNS is cleartext). There's no filtering or blocking.

Some Android versions also have a hard coded DNS server set to Google, which based on my tinkering uses DNS-over-HTTPS. Not only is it annoying but I find it awfully insecure - even if you think you have stuff locked down it might just not be. I fixed that issue by blocking all DNS-over-HTTPS servers in my router, and also have all outgoing requests to port 53 redirected to my local resolvers (Pihole + Unbound).

If the NYT would stop cheerleading imperialism we'd be off to a great start.

All the nice switches are already made in China, and typically cost less than Cherry.

secure anonymous access

A VPN doesn't provide this on its own. Nothing does.

"Better than a VPN" but it looks more like some decentralised social and content network. So not a replacement or alternative to a VPN in any way. It just preys on the people who already bought the "VPNs make you private online" marketing.

Looks like a silicon valley VC cash grab.

[citation needed]

I use whichever editor is convienient at the moment and which I lile the UX of (Micro on a terminal, Pulsar on desktop, Markor on mobile), and commit the markdown files to a privately hosted git server (Forgejo). The git server is backed up regularly.

The editor doesn't matter too much as long as it doesn't have spyware and/or AI "features" like vscode.

When I'm on the go and need to read or write notes I have a clone of the repo on my phone, and if I absolutely need to pull/push to origin I connect via VPN.

I'm not sure how syncthing or similar work with merging different versions of files from different devices, so I've just stuck with git for that reason as well as version control (I make notes about homelab configs and issues so being able to go back is handy).

In what way? For which use case? What threat models would exclude TP Link products?

Wasn't there also a little bump in temperatures during the Covid lockdowns, because we weren't generating as much particulate pollution thus also "unmasking" previously created warming?

An LLM, just like any technology, is in itself neutral. What's important is who controls the application of said technology.

When the people own a technology, both directly and via the means of production applying and producing it, it will be used to improve the lives of the people.

When the capitalists own a technology, it will be used to improve the lives of capitalists.

I looked briefly but couldn't find any reason for the DKP not being on the ballot. They don't even show up in the list of parties which applied to participate and were denied.

The DKP exists because the KPD was declared anti-constitutional and banned by the West German government.

More recently, a tiny socialist party was found anti-constitutional by a judge because the constitution enshrines liberal private property rights and socialists don't.

Especially since they still insist on paper ballots and counting manually.

Die Linke seems to be gaining some traction this campaign, and the (pat-soc?) splinter party BSW may not even get a seat. But the real draw for the AfD right now is the migration issue, not realpolitik vis a vis Ukraine and Russia. So much of a draw that all mainstream parties except for Die Linke have effectively signed on to the AfD's immigration policies.

Let's play the thought experiment forward one election cycle. What if the AfD were to win say, a coalition with the conservative CDU? Merz has already shown his willingness to cooperate with the AfD, so let's assume they get a significant amount of their migration agenda done. The problem is that they'll only be able to do so much in five years, meanwhile conditions for Germans will worsen. At that point the voters will either reject another term of AfD-CDU at the next election because there was no improvement in their lives, or they double down because the billionaire propaganda pushing fascist policies and parties keeps going and keeps convincing people that if just one more migrant (read PoC) man were to be deported everything will be fixed.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if being open to a relationship with Russia actually does the AfD favours in terms of opening up possibilities for trade again. Then again, the average German is at this point so Russopobic and such a Putin hater that this would be a non-starter. It's probably also the case that any trade gained with Russia is trade lost with the US, so it could be zero sum.

No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn't be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won't have much flow anyway, as it's meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Same in Canada. I remember being taught about the Tiananmen "massacre" in a really graphic and honestly traumatizing way in sixth grade. What I don't remember is being taught about the genocide of American indigenous peoples with nearly the same level and type of emotion attached to it.