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teawrecks

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  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • Yeah, I'm open to any valid arguments for why it would matter, but I haven't seen any. People who think land size should correspond to representation are....to be more diplomatic: not making any effort to think things through.

  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • CMV: this movement only matters to stupid people, and does not qualify as something "I should know".

  • Under the hood (not de's or gui) what REALLY separates linux from windows?

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  • Note: Gaming performance is purely based on money spent. There's no fundamental reason windows would have better gaming performance, it's just that there is more money being paid to engineers and vendors to support DirectX and related tooling.

    Then there's the self-fulfilling aspect that, windows has the largest marketshare, so devs are going to spend the most money targeting it, so that they can get the most money in return, which means more people will use it, which leads to the high marketshare.

    The ONLY reason Linux use is seeing the few percent blip in gaming is because Valve has dumped truckloads of cash into making it viable.

  • Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

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  • Ugh, can't wait to post about how sick this is to my insta story....and tomorrow I'll vlog my trip to the beach!

  • Are distros really different or is it more about preference?

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  • The better comparison is that distros are the operating systems (like "windows", "macos", and "android"), while "linux" is the kernel under the hood that end users likely never interact with (like "NT", "XNU", and..."linux").

    A distro represents an intended user experience. If you want a distro that has an intended user experience that is similar to windows, go with Mint or OpenSUSE. If your desired experience is like the SteamDeck, install bazzite (with an AMD GPU ideally). If that's all you care to know, then that's all you need to know; go use your new system how you would any other.

    But if you want to dig deeper, yeah, the fact that all the distros are based on linux (and more importantly, are posix compatible) means that a lot of the software is portable across distros. But that doesn't mean your experience on all distros will be the same. Different distros organize their filesystems differently, they might ship with different versions of core utilities based on the stability testing they've done, and they likely offer varying means of installing and managing new packages.

    The tl;dr is, go use one distro, and then later try doing the same stuff in a different distro, and inevitably at some point you'll go "oh, this didn't work exactly how I expected because the other distro I'm used to handles this differently". That's the difference.

  • LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

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  • The CEOs you're talking about are the CEOs in the analogy.

  • LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

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  • The analogy I use is, it's like a magician pulled a coin from behind a CEO's ear, and their response was "that's incredible! Free money! Let's go into business together!"

    Literally no one ever claimed it had reasoning capabilities. It is a trick to produce a string of characters that your brain can make sense of. That's all.

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • Thank you, that's super helpful info.

    If you're not worried about evil maid attacks and just want secure boot...

    It is sad to me that that is my situation actually lol. Or rather, a random windows app just wants secure boot to work and is otherwise not worried about evil maid attacks.

  • YSK that in 2024, Kristi Noem publically bragged about shooting a puppy

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  • That's true, but you see why you can use that argument to take every single post from any other political community, slap "YSK" in front of it, and post it here, right? That's not really the point of YSK. At least not why I'm here.

  • YSK that in 2024, Kristi Noem publically bragged about shooting a puppy

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  • What about people who have a habit of hitting dogs?

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • Cool, good to hear!

    A few questions:

    • is this with grub?
    • if so, and I make edits to grub, do I need to trigger a re-sign manually?
    • have you ever had any issues with the pacman hook?

    I think the part that has me most spooked is the "Replacing the platform keys with your own can end up bricking hardware on some machines" warning.

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • Yeah, so that's possible because Canonical has enough sway to get their key to play nice with manufacturers' firmware. If you are on almost any other distro (arch included) or if you build your own kernel, it's a headache just to get it to work at all even without dual boot. It also just might not even be possible due to a bad implementation on your motherboard (results ranging from dual boot windows refusing to boot, to a bricked motherboard).

    Here's the process for enabling secure boot for arch users. Make sure to peruse the section on dual booting.

    If you're wondering why it's so complicated, it's because of what secure boot is: you want to be sure you're booting into binary that's signed by a set of special keys. But Linux is not one binary that can be signed by Linus Torvalds, it's a bundle of source code that is built by end-users. So if you decide to make any changes to the kernel you have on ububtu, you won't be able to convince Canonical to sign your build, and you will need to jump through all the hoops on that arch wiki.

    There are many reasons for the headache, but primarily I'd say it's because UEFI is closed source, and msft designed Secure Boot for it, and then manufacturers didn't care about supporting it any more than the bare minimum. And all of that together results in an ecosystem of devices that favor MSFT. That's why Linux users don't like secure boot.

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • So the second option? What distro?

  • Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active

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  • Are you saying this as someone who has gotten a self-signed key to work with their BIOS + kernel + bootloader + dual boot with windows, someone who runs a mainstream enough distro that they convinced manufacturers to ship with support for their key, or someone who doesn't run linux with secure boot at all?

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • In theory the US Federal govt should be split into branches so that it has power, but the checks and balances between branches prevent any single branch from dominating. Which sucks when all 3 branches collude to hand all the power to the executive branch, which then wields the Federal govt to dominate the states.

    For the record, a similar system where the states remain separate with a centralized governing body, but with less power than a Federalist one is called a Confederacy...so yeah, we tried that in the US once too. On the flip side, Switzerland's Confederation seems to be working out pretty great for them.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • What your describing is called a Republic. There are several benefits to such a model.

    The most relevant was well summarized in MIB as "a person is smart, people are stupid". A simple direct democracy is great until you are relying on an uninformed population to make a time-critical decision that requires expertise. If we instead elect people who are then expected to use tax dollars to consult experts, and then represent our interests by voting accordingly, we can theoretically avoid problems (such as the tragedy of the commons).

    The downside happens when the representative takes advantage of the public's ignorance, fosters it, and wields it for personal/oligarchic gain. Ideally the people are just smart enough to see that happening and vote them out before it becomes a systemic issue...

  • GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

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  • The performance is relative to the user. Could it be that you're a god damned genius? :/

  • Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT

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  • Man, we're gonna have to change the name of the AUR because bad journalists keep thinking this has something to do with the distro.

    "Arch Linux Users who go out of their way to install RAT at risk of installing RAT"

  • YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

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  • Yeah, i couldn't find anywhere on their site that indicated I would be able to download tracks I own. That would change the equation I think. Then maybe they only charge for streaming and track download bandwidth. I could behind something like that. Then it feels like a better version of Bandcamp.

    Currently I use Tidal to supplement my self-hosted library, but that's primarily due to music selection and artist compensation. If they didn't have random tracks I want to play, I would use something else.