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BromSwolligans

@ BromSwolligans @lemmy.world

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  • Mac and cheese and smoked sausage

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  • This is a holy concoction, and people who don't fully appreciate that are the worst. My wife being one of them. It's like. You like both things separately. One is cheesy. One is smoky, savory meat. Why in the fuck wouldn't they be immaculate together? And I'm not even interested in the sociological speculation about whether it has the stink of poverty attached to it; it's worthy of all income classes, and a gift to people on a budget because it slaps so hard for next to no money. Throw some broccoli on the side and you can even convince yourself it's a balanced meal. 10/10 could eat every week if someone would let me.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • I like it.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • That's great. I wish Visio/Vizio were not such common names for software and hardware. We done did those already. Do something else.

  • Map of the US after losing world war 3

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  • Disagreed. When the US was liberating people against their will I was shitposting about it in defiance. I'm an American hero.

  • Map of the US after losing world war 3

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  • I'd be so jazzed. Please come liberate UwU

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • I can't find the interview now or remember who it was with because of my brainrot but roughly than six months ago this woman was saying in no uncertain terms things will get progressively darker and more violent. And I've thought of that when every one of these moments has arisen. She was speaking more to the need of a parent whose health premiums quadrupled and SNAP benefits were cut having to care for and feed a sick child and what that might do to their anger and willingness to go do something against the elements foisting this upon them, but of course we never can predict what the precise hinge point moments are going to be during turbulent times. We just knew they were coming. And now they are. And will continue.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • I care. I have Ring because it was the fastest way to get cameras on my property after trouble with neighbors. I found out how liberal they are with user data and handing it over to law enforcement but I couldn't justify the expense in upgrading. For me this isn't a bridge too far in a moral sense but more like a powerful reminder I've been lax in my responsibility. I'm pricing out some Reolink cameras I can host locally at home and put on a private subnet I can just VPN into. I'll have to buy the kit piecemeal because I don't have a lot of money to toss around but I am firmly committed to getting off Ring cameras in light of this news.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I think you're essentially right but sometimes I look at the Linux panels and wish they looked a little less…burdened with aesthetic growing pains or like…aesthetic arrested development. They don't have to be skeuomorphic or frutiger aero or like, keep up with the Joneses, but config menus in Linux are often one of those little reminders, no matter how trivial, that this isn't a polished product but a humble labor of love. It's endearing. But sometimes it feels like holding a toy from the CVS when you want a Transformers from Toys R Us lol.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Bought a used Surface Laptop and didn't think about it being weird proprietary hardware. Just figured it was a good price. Bought AMD because fuck Intel. Well, it turns out you have to run a surface-laptop custom kernel, a big pain to get going for a normie like me, and even then, because I bought the AMD one, my biometrics and touch screen are completely unusable. It's like the one SKU that it's just a bust on and since this is all volunteer maintained, it's likely they've given up on fixing that on this obscure, years old model of laptop.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Whoa I didn't know Affinity could run in Wine. How well??

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I had to do something very basic recently which was to make my single-channel microphone 'mono' in the sense that it was present in both ears. This involved a lot of googling and command line action. I don't mind that in principal but I can't say I learned anything. I don't remember what I ran, why I chose the option I did to make it work…and I know when I have to do it again it will be arcane again. If Linux is ever going to be truly mass market and bridge the uncanny valley of weird little use cases between pro users and Facebook grandmas, this sort of thing needs to be more readily available in settings applets. Call me a normie but there it is.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • My concerns are mostly all unfair. Just want to acknowledge that right up front. Compared with macOS:

    • Cider is an admirable but buggy solution for Apple Music (whose own web player is barely usable)
    • I wish Alt+Tabbing had the option to bring to the fore all window instances for a given app like macOS's Cmd+Tab; as it is I am always having to hunt down stray Firefox or Files windows, which get further buried down the Alt+Tab bar(in Cinnamon) when you minimize them.
    • no OS does common alternate characters (dash and em-dash, accented characters, etc. all accessible with variations on the Alt key) or Japanese language input (Ctrl+space and then just start typing phonetically) as well as macOS does. The composition key is useful to a degree but it feels like second class citizen shit compared to the macOS implementations that make some typing and much language learning basically useless for me on my Linux devices.

    Compared to Windows:

    • pretty basic (and again Cinnamon centric) but Files / the file browser in other apps could use some love. Typing the first few letters of a file name in Files takes me there and highlights it which is great but if memory serves (not near machine now), I can't just hit Enter from that point to open the thing. Equally annoying is when browsing for a file to open or save, there is often not a create folder option or button, and when there is, it isn't tied to a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+N or F12. I sincerely hate switching input methods when it isn't called for, so having to grab my mouse just to click the new folder button and return to typing or worse, to leave that browser altogether to go to Files and create the folder because the button or command to do so didn't exist in the browser window is a real drag.

    In general:

    • the least fair complaint of all because it seems especially like the answer is "well then why don't you pitch in and help?" (The answer to which is, "I don't have the skills, I'm sorry, I'll be quiet"), is trying to replicate workflows in off-brand software. I love LibreOffice spiritually but trying to do some basic PowerPoint stuff recently, it really let me down. ONLYOFFICE was much more usable but it still has a lot of jank and, I suspect, a memory leak because the longer I use it, the slower and less stable it becomes. Krita seems more usable than GIMP, but neither is as usable as Affinity Photo, let alone Photoshop. Put another way, it's tough to be constantly reminded you're compromising in order to live a largely faster, stabler, freer computing experience. MacOS is a pile of shit these days but when compared to Windows (since I'm not gaming with it) I never feel like I'm compromising. It can do everything Windows can, and often better. If there isn't Windows specific software, macOS may have competitive indie darling software to fill the void. Pixelmator for example (before being gobbled up) didn't feel like it was a somewhat rudderless, good faith effort by a tired gaggle of volunteers…it felt premium. I'm still waiting for that experience on Linux.

  • China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy

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  • China no. 1

  • Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says

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  • there's more than one amendment that has an opinion about that

  • Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

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  • Yeah our household is never doing a crooked ass payment plan again. It's never worth it.

  • 'Around Half of Oblivion Remastered Players on PS5 Played For Less Than 15 Hours': Nostalgia Is Powerful, But Only So Much

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  • I had all this Nostalgia and bought it so my wife, a Skyrim head who never played Oblivion, could try it in what should have been the most accessible manner available. After like 90 minutes she apologized to me, said it just made her want to play Skyrim, installed that on the Xbox, played for fewer than 20 hours, and abandoned that too. For my part I also only got to the end of the sewer and I have a lot of good memories with Oblivion, was looking forward to Skyblivion, and just short circuited those two feelings with my wallet by buying the remake, which I didn't end up playing really at all.

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  • I heard of it from this video. The video creator is too much for me like 30% of the time but I think there's very often decent information in his content. His energy is just up there.

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  • Yes, you're absolutely right.

    Right now I'm super interested in the Minimal Phone, and the SLEKE Phone, and to a lesser extent the Communicator (lesser of course because but for its wonky screen size, it can essentially 'do' everything a smartphone does). I understand the Minimal Phone's often clunky compromises and that it can also technically install any Android app but as you said, the amount of friction introduced by the e-ink screen is severe enough one would hope it would help. If I had to pick one to buy today, it would almost be the SLEKE phone, because to me the idea of simply perma-banning all the apps I struggle to keep deleted myself seems just about perfect, and they also have a Communicator-esque 'notification-forward' home screen with no icons trying to incentivize you to open apps just to pass time. The one and only thing holding me back is that because they've de-Googled the phone, they appear to have broken Android Auto, and in the spirit of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I'm not too proud to say I don't find GPS mapping to be a terrible drain on my life (even though it's increasingly used as a data point about a kind of thinking that has atrophied in our modern-age brains) and I simply will not give up its inclusion in my car. I know Garmin still exists, but...that's just a little too boutique, even for me. Any in-car mapping solution I've ever used short of Android Auto and Apple CarPlay has taken way too long to input or adjust destinations, been to quirky (I'm specifically thinking of a BMW I once borrowed and its awful built-in nav), and of course, AA and AC give you that 'single pane of glass' to manage not only your maps but also your music / podcasts / audiobooks through. I just can't give that up for a minimalist phone.

    But if SLEKE can figure out how to add AA back in, I'd jump ship on my old iPhone the second my Clicks Power Keyboard arrives in the Spring.

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  • You're right. I was thinking of the 'report a bug' page.