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BananaTrifleViolin

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  • JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’

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  • Bizarre comment in my view - I think anyone would regard war as an issue with morality.

    Trump posting that bizarre AI image of him as Jesus, referring to himself during Easter as being king like and like Jesus, and then attacking the Pope is just ridiculous.

    I'm not religious but I was raised Catholic and I know that the pontiff is regarded as the supreme voice of the Catholic Church (the concept of "papal supremacy"). So for Trump to attack the Pope and JD Vance to double down is basically an attack on Catholics. And for the republicans and Trump, Christian voters are a significant part of their voter base.

    Attacking the Pope may ironically play well in some other parts of his Christian base. However even outside the catholic part of his base, Trump portraying himself as a god or Jesus like character will be repugnant and very difficult to role back from.

    Trump is looking very weak and irrational over Iran, then posting bizarre imagery as him as a god and attacking the Pope. I thing it's pretty clear he is off his rocker, potentially even showing signs of advanced dementia because this is way above even his background level of crazy over the past 15 years. And Vance is looking increasingly like an idiot - defending the indefensible, doing bad jobs over things like the Iran negotiations, and going to Hungary to interfere in an election campaign.

    I don't know if Trump will make it to the end of his presidency. But regardless Vance may have hoped he was in the best position for the 2028 presidential election as Trump's deputy. Instead I think he's stuck trying to be loyal to Trump while Trump sets everything on fire - his base, the USA and even the American Empire.

  • we're cooked

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  • Yeah it makes no sense; he literally posted something as bad as this:

    Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

    We don't need a fake variant of it.

  • Guy just wants some cookies

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  • Just keep the cookies on the counter top?

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • They will never learn because they make Windows for Microsoft not for users. They do whatever suits them and they think will maximises profitability and their share price. They have to keep "growing" so they have to find new ways to make money.

    As for the article; what shill bullshit is this?

    It probably makes sense for a lot of users to have their default browser of choice open automatically at login, as most people spend the majority of their time in a web browser. Windows already automatically preloads Edge in the background by default to increase its startup performance, so it's not a huge leap to automatically display the app itself if Windows knows you're going to open it anyway.

    No, it does not make sense to do this. Apps can be set to auto launch if users want them to. This only makes sense from the perspective of Microsoft trying to push Edge onto user so it can grow it's market share and harvest even more data.

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • Yeah, could also have two Pi-Hole instances. One is network wide and block ads for everyone, and the other is the DNS the kids PCs use, set with a white list of approved sites only. You can set Pi-hole to block everything (set * as the a RegEx filter) and then add domains to the white list to be allowed through.

    Groups is probably more efficient but two instances could be offer more options/nuance on how you run things.

  • a bomb in london

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  • Subnautica 2 set for early access release in May as Krafton signals surrender: 'We look forward to working with Ted Gill to support a smooth transition and work toward a successful launch'

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  • They not sacking the Krafton CEO who used ChatGPT to strategise how to cheat the devs out of their money, overruled his legal team and has embarrassed the company?

  • World's fastest hater

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  • Comics are just like soap operas - when you run for so long you have to try every permutation of every story. Including "time travel to kill mom, pose as social worker and raise barry as his own son". Probably twice.

  • made my first bash file to make yt-dlp easier

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  • That's great! Here's a few tips to take it a bit further; the world is your oyster!

    Open your .bashrc file (e.g. /home/yourusername/.bashrc) and add the following:

    alias get="/path/to/your/bash/file"

    Now open a terminal and type get, and it'll launch the script. No clicking needed, it'll run anytime from any terminal!

    And if you do use the alias then you can use another refinement, you can drop the echo: instead of $a, you can use $1 and remove the echo & read as you no longer need them:

    #! /usr/bin/bash yt-dlp -x $1

    Now for example you can type in a terminal:

    get http://url.to.video/

    And yt-dlp will do it's stuff. $1 passes the first parameter after starting the script as a variable to it.

    You can use the keyboard shortcut Control+shift+v to paste a URL into the terminal, no mouse needed; just remember to add a space after typing get

  • Is there a Chromecast equivalent?

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  • Miracast (e.g. vis Miraclecast on linux) is a wireless standard for streaming video and audio from one device to another however this is not quite what youre talking about. Miracast basically runs the video on your phone and uses a remote device as a display via wifi. Chromecast actually mostly sends a link to a google device and then launches it on the device to play; there isnt a direct replacement to that. You could run Chrome or Chromium and cast to the browser but im not sure it'd work like a chromecaat device running the video locally.

    I have a living room linux PC and I generally use Firefox on my phone and the PC to send links/tabs via firefox sync.

    In addition KDE Connect (app on phone and also running on your linux PC) allows you to interact with your PC directly via your phone. You can send files back and forth, but also control media, share the clipboard, and send URLs from your phone to your PC to open in your default browser. This should work for Youtube and Netflix etc.

    I personally usually send a tab to my firefox browser via firefox sync, but you could also share link instead via android share to the KDE connect app which will send it to your device and it should open in you're default browser.

    Also fyi KDE Connect doesnt need KDE to work - it works with any desktop environment.

  • My brother grew up to become a homicidal freak. Are violent men common in the general population or was our childhood ROYALLY fucked?

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  • Holy shit. Less than 1% of households. This is not normal for the vast vast majority of people.

    Get out and get out fast. Get your personal documents together (birth certificate, passport) and leave.

    Its going to be hard and scary at first, but the world outside your family home is far safer than the one inside it.

  • A Republican with a conscience

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  • Minnesota is a Democratic-leaning swing state where Republicans have remained competitive, which likely pushes the state party toward moderation compared with places like Texas. While this isn’t representative of the entire party, it does suggest early cracks a year after Trump’s win. It’s not meaningless; it highlights how difficult the midterms may be for Republicans, especially in swing states, where extreme national behaviour makes it harder to compete in states that are nowhere near as extreme.

  • Immersion ruined because of black people? 🙄

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  • Americans are so weirdly racist. Both Europe and Africa are along the Mediterranean. From the southern most point in Greece to the North most point of Africa is less than 400km. The whole region of North Africa and Southern Europe is an ethnic melting pot dating back 1000s of years.

    But regardless of that, it's Mythology - not a documentary. I'm not looking to be "immersed" in American racism. I have zero issues with the cast representing the world I live in now, because it was made in the world I live in now, and features the people I live with now.

  • GenAI has started to kill open source projects

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  • This is a wierd article. It was originally Googles fault, then it was AI and google is now sponsering the project?

  • New phone

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  • Google pixel phones are crap. I had to get rid kf my 6a because of a dangerou battery.

    O dont have an alternative to offer as I bought the fairphone 6 (which im very happy with). Hooefully they will expand beyond Europe soon. They've just started selling their ear buds in the USA via a partner company for example.

  • Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux?

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  • Yes you can do loads with your Raspberry Pi. Certainly you can install ARM based linux distros onto it, but with an older model you're best using a Pi specific linux distro.

    The official Raspberry Pi OS is linux and is compatible with all Raspberry Pi models - there is a universal 32bit version and a 64bit version for newer models 3+.

    There is also Dietpi which tries to be more lightweight and optimised.

    You can image either distro onto an SD card and run it on the Pi. If you connect the pi to your network you can run it headless and access it via SSH on your PC.

    However, if you main aim is to learn and play with Linux, then it is worth considering alternatives. For example, you could install VirtualBox on your Windows PC, and create a virtual PC to run any X86 linux distro you'd like on it. That can include small systems with command line only or a full desktop environment of your choice. That would likely give you much higher performance and options than a 10 year old raspberry pi can offer.

    The Pi is good if you want an always on server device to play with Linux on. The Virtual machine route is good if you want a more powerful system to play with occasionally when you feel like it.

  • me_irl

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  • It's insane to me that the US small is almost as big as the UK large.

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  • Not really - if a woman came in with a gunshot wound, she'd be asked if she was pregnant. Why? Because she'd need a CT scan or an X-ray, which are ionizing radiation and have a risk for a foetus. She'd need a scan or x-ray to ensure there was no shrapnel in the would before closure even if superficial, and to assess for damage to vessels or bone etc if deep wound.

    It's a standard question that any women would recognise from trips to the emergency room. It's pretty ineffective as a punchline if the cartoonist is trying to make the point you say they're making.

    Instead it just makes the woman in the cartoon appear dumb/ignorant which totally undermines the message it's purportedly trying to put across. She is giving a fed up or even patronising look over something that would be essential question in any hospital.

  • The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer

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  • Out of interest, which aspect don't you believe? The article is clear the broken update effects a specific subset of enterprise users, on a specific mix of base versions and cumulative updates.

    This seems like a classic windows update issue. In fairness to Microsoft it is difficult to prevent bugs when there is a huge install base, with a huge range of hardware, with a huge range of users on different mixes of updates and updating at their own. I personally think that's totally believable.

    What's not clear is perhaps the implied overarching story that W11 is worse for this than other versions of Windows. I can't answer that about windows updates themselves, but I certainly believe W11 is the worst version of Windows I've ever used (and I've used every version back to 3.11 as a kid). I have to use W11 at work: the UI is absolutely terrible and unfriendly but far worse it constantly and inexplicably slows down, programs become unresponsive repeatedly and I come across errors constantly.

    I work in a big organisation and I don't even bother to report most errors now - we hop between PCs because of the nature of my Job, and I've come up across so many I just can't be bothered opening more tickets. I'd describe it as a mostly large volume of minor issues and inconveniences that cumulatively, on top of the bad design, that make it a shit experience. But I've also had numerous major errors since we moved from W10 to W11 on different PCs - they all have the same hardware and software yet the problems are different on each. I've given up reporting the problems and just avoid the PCs, and I think a lot of my colleagues are the same.

    My organisation (I work in a large Hospital), is already stretched due to high work volume and low staffing and we now have a constantly little drag from Windows 11 on everything we do. It's like Microsoft sprinkle a little bit of shit onto every computer, every day, all day. The cumulative effect in just my organisation must be massive - I shudder to think how bad it is across the whole economy.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Linux Tip: Making GTK apps use KDE (or other desktop environments) load/save boxes

  • Data is Beautiful @lemmy.world
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    UK Electricity Generation: 2009-2024

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    New York Times takedown domino effect hits nearly 2000 Wordle clones

    www.eurogamer.net /new-york-times-takedown-domino-effect-hits-nearly-2000-wordle-clones
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    VLC Scaling issues on 4K KDE (Fix)