Yet, we need to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the women and people demanding the basic rights we take for granted and enjoy every single day.

We must try and save the lives of those sentenced to death by raising the political cost of their executions and making sure that those languishing in prisons are released.

I’m calling on the international community and media to keep shining a spotlight on my country to demand that the regime stops using torture immediately.

Let’s hope MLS solves some of this, but there is a certain amount of necessary complexity with syncing encryption keys for groups as people come and go.

I’m very annoyed by issues decrypting messages in private conversations. Nothing is changing, so it should just work after the first message, but no. Random messages can’t be decrypted unless I refresh. Very frustrating.

Myst, Superhot VR, Beatsabre

1. Code in Emacs or Jetbrains (depends on language and laptop cpu)
2. Run make to build, run, debug, or clean (I like makefiles for documenting basic tasks)
3. Commit with git when chunk of work is done

I tend to do everything locally on bare metal. I never liked putting stuff in containers or running a vm.

VS Code is a great editor, though. It actually feels a bit like Emacs.

Thank you! Here’s the actual PDF doc of their clarifications and here’s the original DSA

The specific language for number of users is:

average monthly active recipients of their service in the Union, calculated as an average over the period of the past six months

And the definition of active recipient:

(p) ‘active recipient of an online platform’ means a recipient of the service that has engaged with an online platform by either requesting the online platform to host information or being exposed to information hosted by the online platform and disseminated through its online interface;

So you just need 45 million EU citizens looking at a platform to qualify as a VLOP. Amazon probably qualifies, but it would be easy for them to prove they were unfairly discriminated against as well.

Did the EU even define the term “Very Large Online Platforms”? I think this is the bill, but it doesn’t ever define the term. Amazon may be right, purely because the legislators are incompetent idiots.

It’s not any battery. They just didn’t do the original manufacturing, so you can find compatible replacements elsewhere.

I bought the System76 Kudu laptop back in 2016, but it is actually a W670RZ model laptop manufactured by Clevo Co. in China (unlike my previous laptop which was a MacBook Pro manufactured by Apple in China). System76 wasn’t the only company selling the W670RZ, so they’re not the only ones you can go to for replacement parts.

The main thing I like is the hardware support. I knew before purchasing that everything would work, and that helped me feel okay dropping a pretty penny on a new laptop. Besides that, I’d say they’re fine. They aren’t designing and manufacturing their own hardware (at least not back when I bought one); the laptops are pretty standard off-the-shelf stuff. System76 just promises that it’ll all work out-of-the-box. I’ve never used Pop!_OS, so I can’t speak to that. Arch and Debian work great, though.

The only negative I can think of is: once the battery started to go after several years, they didn’t have a replacement in their store, but because it’s a generic laptop, there were new ones available on Amazon. It just would’ve been nice to get it from System76.

All-in-all, I’m a happy customer. I’m keeping my eye on Framework, though. The MNT Reform is also interesting. I don’t like how thick it is, but that’s because it uses 18650s for the battery, which would solve the problem of buying a new battery just to find that all the batteries were manufactured at the same time, so there are no working replacements.

Yeah, I have a couple T420 ThinkPads, and for $100 they’re pretty sweet, but they show their age.

I’m relatively happy with my System76, but based on your needs you could get a lot of value from a $500 used ThinkPad on Ebay.

I can’t find the page that lists blocked instances on kbin, but lemmy.ml may be blocked. lemmy.ml (and lemmy in general) are controversial to some people, and those that dislike lemmy for those reasons have gravitated to kbin.

In short, the lemmy devs and lemmy.ml admins are considered “tankies”, so they don’t want anything to do with them. Thought-stopping newspeak to me, but I’m a strict “separate the artist from the art” person, especially if you’re not paying them.

EDIT: A comment from Nepenthe@kbin.social you may not be able to see:

With full knowledge that OP is unlikely to check the comments from a non-ml instance, so they’ll likely never see this, I think in light of this sustained situation, we need to discuss whether or not we actually do defederate from lemmy.ml.

Some people over there do know about the dev’s weird scummy coding. Some, like OP, don’t. Either way, neither of the devs have said a word about it in over a week despite being repeatedly asked and the topic repeatedly coming up even on their own instance. They may be bogged, but I sense they would have by now and it’s likely to stay like this.

I think I’m going to give them a little more time, and then (maybe over the weekend?) I’m going to raise the question if someone else doesn’t, about how their contributions to the apparent activity of kbin feeds weighs against our wholesale inability to fully interact with any of it. We can talk with each other there, certainly, but I don’t think that’s enough and it gives a false impression.

I fully support this. You do you. It’s your computer; you can do what you want with it. Whether you’re using it for work or play, if it’s the way you like it, then it’s not wrong.

Frostpunk is phenomenal! It sucked up all my free time for a couple weeks.

Oxenfree is gorgeous.

Oh man, there are so many great games if you’re willing to play old stuff (although it looks like the summer sale is over):

Still on Sale

• System Shock (remake)
• Psychonauts 2
• Myst 25th Anniversary Collection
• Death Road to Canada
• Alan Wake
• Alan Wake’s New Nightmare
• Project Zomboid

Classics

• Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
• Contra Anniversary Collection
• System Shock: Enhanced Edition-
• System Shock 2
• Grim Fandango Remastered (I can’t recommend this one enough; best game ever)
• Mortal Kombat 1+2+3
• The Settlers 2: Gold Edition (this one is also fantastic)
• Theme Hospital
• Dungeon Keeper Gold
• Dungeon Keeper 2
• SimCity 2000 Special Edition
• SimCity 3000 Unlimited
• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

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The Brits ate all the mummies, and they seem just fine 🤷

https://musicforprogramming.net is a classic.

These days, I just pop on some Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, or Nine Inch Nails.

I’m an emacs user. I setup my configs with stow, committed them to a new git repo, went to bed, and now I look like this guy. Help.

As a software dev, so much this.

PWAs are super fucking cool, but current web browsers are a SuperFund disaster site, so they make PWAs suck, and PWAs are partially to blame as Google and Apple keep adding features to browsers to mirror their phones’ native features. Every PWA is going to be slower than a native app for the foreseeable future, regrettably, and they’ll always be nothing more than a browser with the decorations hidden.

I hate this reality with a passion, but native apps are faster because it’s an app on your phone and not an app in a browser on your phone.

PWAs are great, because Apple and Google have no say in whether or not you can use them, and they get no cut if you spend money through them (scumbags at Apple taking 30%).

Because phone manufacturers don’t open source their firmware, you probably won’t be able to get Linux on an off-the-shelf phone. (Please someone correct me if I’m wrong).

Your best bet, if you want to go down thus route, is to get the PinePhone Pro. It’s relatively affordable.

Before you try anything, think hard about your relationship with your phone and what you expect from it. Does work require you have an app installed? What kind of apps do you use regularly? You won’t have things like: CVS for meds, AA for flying, Steam for 2fa, Signal, Telegram, google maps, etc. Some you might be able to use their webapps, but the browser might be a bit sluggish because it’s the full desktop version. Firefox isnt fully mobile friendly. Battery life won’t be what you’re used to. Linux on the phone is just like your regular Linux, so you’ll have the stuff your used to from there, and you’ll having calling, sms, mms, and voicemail.

I have the PinePhone and the Librem 5, but I still use my android.