zurohki @ zurohki @aussie.zone

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don’t use masks, wait use masks

IIRC this one was about ensuring the supply of masks for medical staff early on before production ramped up.

Pointing a desk fan into a computer works fine and is a useful troubleshooting step if you suspect something is overheating, but if you need to do it that probably means heatsinks are clogged with dust, aren't sized appropriately or aren't making good contact. So you really should fix that problem.

The free trial isn't a business model. It's a demo.

You only have a F2P model after you add the aggressive monetisation.

Okay, but if they packed it full of microtransactions and premium currency, it'd be a worse game.

Unless you mean you just want the publisher to make less money, which isn't an option they're going to be interested in.

I for one definitely feel like big corporations are pissing on me.

IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.

Voting third party under the US system doesn't improve society so, like you, the meme kind of misses the point.

I mean, it's bits of configuration all over the place that I've built up over time. It isn't a single script on one machine, and you'd need to change a lot of things if you weren't running Slackware. I can't really copy and paste it all.

Network namespaces and policy based routing are black magic, IMO.

I've got a VPN set up on my router and separate VLANs set up for ordinary traffic and VPN traffic. A device doesn't need to support VPNs at all, I just connect it to the VPN VLAN and all its traffic goes over the VPN whether it likes it or not. I've got separate wifi SSIDs for each VLAN.

My desktop is connected to both VLANs with a network namespace set up for the VPN VLAN, so sudo vpn rtorrent runs rtorrent in the namespace that's connected to the VPN VLAN.

My setup is nice, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to learn quite a bit about networking.

Our lizard people see how much money their lizard people are making torturing their peasants and want to get in on the action. That's why we have the push towards private health care.

It's been 30 years and jokes about Windows expanding to fill available space still work.

Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it's chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don't.

So we're getting the arms race either way.

Ugh, hydrogen.

Hydrogen vehicles are the magical combination of expensive to buy and expensive to run. They just get mothballed when trials are over and the funding runs out making the whole thing a waste of time and money.

Battery electric vehicles are cheap to run so they get used for whatever workload they can do, even if they can't do the most demanding jobs yet. BEV bus can't do the longest route all day? Put it on a shorter one. It'll get used for something.

Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.

I'm not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

at least, not with my 1080p monitors, which I prefer over higher-res ones

Blasphemy!

4k monitors are beautiful for normal desktop usage, making text crisp and clean with smooth curves and none of that blockiness that comes from low resolution, and with modern scaling settings you can even have 4K text and 1080p graphics at the same time with the same performance as native 1080p.

Born too late to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born too early to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born just in time to watch the collapse of the Russian empire.

Nobody went and flipped the breaker for the jacuzzi? People like that obviously need practice dealing with inconveniences.

The devs have been working hard to hammer out those troublesome edge cases. There's a lot less of them than there was a year or two ago.