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MonkeMischief

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  • Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • parents should be put in charge of their own kids,

    So convenient that governments and their corporate masters take such a keen interest in watching our kids, after making all their parents spend most of their lives at miserable jobs.

  • Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • On your feet, comrade. This is no place to die.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

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  • That's so cool. This should also help with all those roguelikes that map vim navigation!

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

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  • Is there a good place to start learning regular expressions as if I'm a young kiddo who just learned to finally read? Lol

    ...I have a wee one on the way so I'd like to get ahead of this knowledge myself lol. 😅

  • I get a lot of ideas in the shower. Do any of you use any kind of waterproof note taking pad and pen so you can catch those ideas before they vanish in the steam?

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  • Comments like this I wish I could upvote for the laugh and simultaneously downvote on principle lol. XD

  • society

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  • But I would maybe consider using Linux for everything except for specifically games that require Windows.

    That's the way. I started this way too, and as I got more comfortable well, my Windows partition hasn't been booted for a couple years now because OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has run all my games beautifully.

    Vermintide II even stopped crashing the entire system when I used Linux instead of Windows! On Nvidia BTW.

    Even though sometimes it feels like I might be missing out on playing some of the newest hypey-est multiplayer games, I also remind myself that I don't want something on my computer like the new Battlefield's or Riot Games' incredibly creepy and invasive anticheat, no matter the OS!

    ... Plus, I got like a thousand games to enjoy anyway. Maybe you'll feel the same, idk?

    I will say though, Linux starts to just feel fun to compute on. It feels like a machine that's yours instead of some licensed appliance. I missed that feeling from the really old Windows days when it was fun.

    Do a little exploring, but picking a distro with KDE should feel at home really quick coming from Windows. :)

  • Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR

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  • That's AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I've been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like

    "Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"

    It's worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.

  • What's the most impressive video game mod you've ever come across?

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  • Oh that's neat. I remember someone just saying "Cut out 3 yellow triangles, tape them to the TV, and have Link jump and get them." Lol!

  • BombShell: The Signed Backdoor Hiding in Plain Sight on Framework Devices - Eclypsium | Supply Chain Security for the Modern Enterprise

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  • Ah I see what you're saying.

    Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I'm sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

    I also know they're a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that's still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

    Every time they've seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

  • Free iphone

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  • Yeah, there's billions, maybe trillions or beyond, of dollars' worth of investment put into making sure everyone "Really needs this job." which can be ripped away from them in an instant, so they won't be inclined to risk any "insubordination."

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • I don't blame you. I'm even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I'm pretty sure they've cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

    They're making some progress on WMR's controllers right now but they're the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

    Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

    VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.

  • KDE Plasma 6.5 released

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  • BigSkreen

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Often, when it grows past that, it can become.. unsavory.

    Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Because I mainly game in VR and that's still so far behind on LInux :(

    This is a major sticking point for me too. I've got a dusty Win10 partition I haven't booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

    Monado is making impressive progress but it's a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

    I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn't another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

  • My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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  • Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called "ArcGIS."

    I called it "Arc-jiss." Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like "Arc-jizz." XD

  • What was hacking like in the '80s and '90s?

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  • They just expected us to know how to use them.

    And they still do. The "kids these days and their compyooturs" fallacy. Irks me to my core.

    I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)...but that "career path" of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.

    Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.

  • What was hacking like in the '80s and '90s?

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  • Maybe I just don't know where to look or what.

    I always hear these stories but companies in my city tend to donate old machines to charities (cool if it works that way) or trade them in to their vendor or something.

    I'm actually kinda afraid with all the tarrifs and crap that we're gonna see secondhand hardware turn into speculative inflated eBay fodder because average folks can't afford new anymore.

    Still looking for this supposed mountain of <TPM 2.0 machines that are supposed to surface for next to nothing any minute now. 😅

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Oh that's a lovely game! We really enjoyed that one too! The voice acting was sublime and the characters were so loveable. It was so endearingly quirky without going way over the top.

    Exciting to hear that there's a sequel coming!!

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • X-COM 2: War of the Chosen:

    I've played this game off and on for years. Fondly wishing I could get back to it and just not having the time. Then I caught strep throat and literally couldn't do anything but just play games.

    Honestly? Finally. I felt like crap, but I was so happy to have an excuse to just enjoy myself instead of being obsessed with what I "had" to do.

    The game changed a lot since I last played so I had to start a new save, and I'm having a blast. I love this game so much even with some of its flaws. Do your squaddies miss a 90% shot sometimes? Yes. Infuriating.

    But when they make that hail-Mary hit that saves a teammate, or you sneak through a compound to break out an imprisoned comrade and exfil, it's ADDICTING.

    Also, not gonna lie...the game hits a little different in 2025, seeing as it's about being resistance fighters waging insurgency and a propaganda war against an alien occupying authoritarian regime that is kidnapping people and hauling them to blacksites. Man, that uh, is a little uncomfortably close. (But it's only a game...The aliens are actually competent.)

    The custom voice packs are incredible too. (My sniper with a Bob Ross voice calmly saying "Let's do a little painting today." Or "Let's get a little crazy." When setting up a shot from across the map never gets old.

    This game's complete version I've seen on Steam for like $5 before. This is one of the best tactical experiences there is, and at first I hated the "pressure" this game puts on you, but I've come to enjoy the urgency and being forced to weigh difficult decisions rather than just sending my "A-Team" of snowflake OCs to clear every single mission at a leisurely pace haha.

    And the soundtrack. Oh man. Once that "Ready for Battle" track hits where you select everybody's loadout, you really feel the weight of assembling the right squad when you never know 100% what you're about to send them into.