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aleq

@ aleq @lemmy.world

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  • The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day.

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  • Top #1 sign(s) that you're spending too much time on YouTube.

  • Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

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  • What does unofficial recognition mean? Can a country do anything unofficially?

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  • For me last phone I thought: "I've never dropped a phone so the glass or screen protector broke, and I don't care about scratches. Why bother? It's much nicer and thinner without."

    Guess what, I dropped it on some gravel week #2 of having it. It still lived a long life, but with a very ugly crack in the bottom right corner. Lesson learned.

    Plastic screen protectors suck though, you're right. Wouldn't get one that's not glass.

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  • Of course not, to even entertain this idea is ridiculous.

    An EU-China summit will be held in July, both sides announced.

    Don't know why, but this feels hype.

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  • I will hack Google

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  • What's the problem exactly? There are many ways to do it, and I think saying you run apt-get update is quite fine even if you're not explicitly saying that you run it as root. And he may not have flatpaks.

  • China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time

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  • TFW Chinese EV makers aren't even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.

  • ‘Tariff shockwave’ leads to collapse in ocean container bookings

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  • I guess MAGA people will see this as a win? Since imports are down 2x much as imports. If the value of the goods in these containers are roughly equal, that should mean smaller trade deficits?

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Do you remember any examples of things that made you turn away from those other distros?

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Most big distros are old enough to drink though. Ubuntu is 20yo, Fedora 21yo, openSUSE 18yo, Arch 23yo, Gentoo 23yo. (I got curious and a bit carried away…)

    But sure, Debian does have them beat by roughly 10 years (31yo).

  • EU OS

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  • This OS isn't made by the EU, but it's goal is to become sponsored by them:

    Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

    Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

    The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

    Personally I don't see why EU wouldn't just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it's a good system as far as I know and it's home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

  • Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules

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  • What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?

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  • Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting...

    Otoh, I really don't want to learn chinese, meh

    It's unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you're likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.

    Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There's no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you're done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.

  • Finland votes: Social Democrats take the win as Finns Party (far-right) support collapses

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  • My impression as an outsider (some, but limited, exposure to Finnish politics) is that the Finns have the right way of dealing with these far right, maybe. What they always do it seems like is to create a coalition government of the largest parties, including the far right. This keeps them from riding the underdog wave of support for years, and exposes their incompetence in real political issues (usually these parties only have one well-formulated stance, and that is anti immigration - that's the solution to every single other issue).

    I'm welcome to criticism if my outsider perspective is misinformed. (-:

  • TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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  • I used to be in this camp, but will now avoid public toilets whenever possible. Not having to sit on others pee and butt sweat is pretty awesome.

  • Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions

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  • If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

  • The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests

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  • Of course. I mean why doesn't Gizmondo wait for the review to finish?

  • The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests

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  • Their work is detailed in a paper, posted April 1 on the preprint server arXiv, that has not yet been peer reviewed.

    Rebuilt ancient device and tested it feels like the kind of thing that should really be peer reviewed and not just accepted at face value, doesn't it?