Yes.

Great news! I tested with a VM and no GPU except iGPU, apparently my issue may have been no Vulkan support. I’ll need a new machine to fully explore it

I realised recently that I seem to have a significant emotional response to someone stomping up stairs. It could’ve been as a result of a very mildly abusive parent during my childhood, stomping up stairs to confront me and/or physically punish me.

I don’t think of that person as evil, just… Damaging in some ways. Kind in others.

Some people are a detriment to society, enforcing destruction and devolution to slow the progression of humanity. Harmful to others. I believe those intentionally harming others are cruel and should be removed or banished, in order for the community in general to stay healthy. But for a being to be evil, as I would define it… They must be monstrous. They must create devastation, such as serial murdering of multiple beings for personal gratification; subjecting an immature mind to physically sexual environments; generating and leading an army of people into a witch hunt; directing a coalition towards maximum profit at the cost of the wellbeing and livelihood of thousands, even millions; or grooming, brainwashing people into oppressive, gated environments that breed fear and lies… If someone who causes PTSD does it repeatedly, they can also be classed as evil by my definition.

I test-ran EndeavourOS for a future PC and like it. I am a Steam gamer though, so my work’s cut out for me in getting it to work on whatever hardware I choose.

I don’t think many people on the Arch forums have that outlook on EndeavourOS. It is Arch with benefits

This should quell a few more folk saying the universe doesn’t have a centre lol

Posts from Lemmy do come up with searching, at least on DDG, so the best thing people can do is stop adding reddit at the end of a parameter and start adding lemmy

You could just not retain it? Delete account login details and forget about it?

I have 1,000 Cummies just for a gag. I don’t expect it’ll ever rise above what I paid for it and I’m not looking.

A 1.8 year old article.

Lol what a weird company. China-based, forces US systems. https://www.blackview.hk/blog/tech-news/emergency-alerts

I often say you get what you paid for, but if you pay for Chinese garbage you get significantly less and everyone except the owner of the company suffers.

Privacy and Apple don’t often mix…

It could be the keyboard you use, if you’ve activated STT recently, or an app has been installed secretly by another app.

Edit: Found discussions on Apple.com:

1. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255504146
2. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254804172

Three potential fixes courtesy of Reddit:

Oh yeah, that’s insane. One sub’s mod banned me because someone was confused over an “F word” someone else was being ambiguous about. I educated them with “I believe they mean “faggot”.” Lol I took that bait but I believe education and strong community spirit is more important than bending the knee to excessive censorship.

An absolute fuckton of services use AWS somewhere down the line, it’s not that simple to avoid it unfortunately.

I knew about Lemmy, but didn’t migrate until months after drama in Reddit.

I got permabanned from the CasualUK sub for insulting boomers. In a response to the query of the word being a slur, as one person on Twitter felt picked on, I said the ones that act like the stereotype (aka self-absorbed, demeaning others) deserve the nickname the stereotype was given. I was banned for ‘identity-based hate’ despite the fact that being an asshole to anyone younger than you is not an identity.

I also got banned from GirlGamers for questioning the authorities, which made me realise that some mods really are pricks who rule the subs by removing people that they don’t agree with, and I decided that I didn’t want to reside in a site where moderators are borderline fascist, no matter how wholesome the other users are.

Someone asked if it’s worth avoiding media because you don’t agree with the creator. I voiced my opinion, saying that I don’t think so, as long as the media makes you happy. I referred to a few examples, including “my love for the Wizarding World, despite its creator being rather toxic”. This got removed for ‘mentioning Hogwarts Legacy’, VERY loosely tying my comment with a sub rule. I reposted the comment twice, once omitting the Wizarding World, and once a copy of the original, adding “(not the game, the whole franchise, power tripping mods!)” which resulted in a three day ban. (For those who don’t know, the Wizarding World means the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. This is a very large media franchise spanning a significant more mediums than one game. There are seven more games, in fact). I contacted the mod team, and they said I cannot question them, permabanned me from GirlGamers, and blocked me for thirty days, as if that wins the disagreement.

This kind of leadership, and the controversy over Reddit becoming a walled garden of censorship and run like a corporate cash cow, ended my support. I deleted my account and cut ties emotionally with the communities there.

I can be negative. But I love people and want the best for everyone. What I don’t like are the toxic systems of control that some people are under, and some people follow. Aand sometimes I can be swept up in the injustice, and lose my patience with extreme followers.

I apologise in advance to this community if I make someone’s mood worse, instead of better. I can often fail, and yet we should all strive to be a healthy member of the communities we inhabit!

world on fire
people in fire
OP: Why aren’t you smiling?

Good thing your government isn’t the world police - we have multinational organisations that handle that

South of UK, been fine here for several years throughout the issues elsewhere. They’re either not bothering with banning uBO in my area or it’s scattered and I’m lucky

I take my first experience at a motorcycle dealership as a baseline. To work on my bike they charged £55/h labour for the two of them. So I just think, minimum wage x 3 per person is a good price for mechanics. Now it’d be about £75.

The instance I’m on :)