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ulkesh

@ ulkesh @beehaw.org

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A husband. A father. A senior software engineer. A video gamer. A board gamer.

  • Well, the big Harris-Walz interview was a bit evasive

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  • I found that there were a couple questions I would have preferred very straight answers to, but she knows she doesn’t have the time in that interview to go in-depth on any one topic and anything in the Middle East is always an extremely complex topic to debate.

    I’ll still vote for her and she’ll likely win. Assuming you’re an American citizen, if you want to vote for Trump, that’s your right, but you will be voting for a convicted felon, whose policies are limited to “dictators love me” and “my crowd size is bigger” and “I’m not weird, they’re weird.”

    I’d rather have an adult in the White House, personally.

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    The problems and shortcomings of Cosmic (According to Hyprland Dev, Vaxry)

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  • …he knows it’s an alpha, right? Right?

    Can someone tell him that the main reason hyprland sucks is that there’s no metaphor for hiding a window, but leaving the app running? And tossing it to a not-currently-visible workspace isn’t a solution and is pretty damn asinine.

    Also, create a settings GUI. This isn’t the 1960s.

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges

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  • Anyone with a modicum of intelligence should leave Twitter. It is a cesspool of degenerates now. Best to let it fester and die.

  • The propaganda is falling on us like a hurricane right now. (USA). Should we discuss that here? Should such discussion be forbidden?

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  • Yes it’s all propaganda.

    One set of propaganda is based on lies.

    The other set is based on emotion.

    I don’t buy into lies like so many people seem to.

    While I also won’t buy into emotion, since I try to use logic and reason as much as possible, I will support those who don’t have a campaign built upon lies, deceit, and felonies.

  • He 'disgusts me to my core': Ex-Trump supporters explain why they’re now 'all in' for Harris as the next U.S. President

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  • Make no mistake — there are still millions and millions in Trump’s cult. And they will do everything they can to not lose again and again and again. Even when Trump dies, they’ll find some other horrible person to latch onto because they give the cultists permission to be assholes out in the open.

    This won’t be over until this kind of uneducated nonsense is bred out. And I mean that from all angles: literal cycle of life, as well as improving the education system in this country.

  • He 'disgusts me to my core': Ex-Trump supporters explain why they’re now 'all in' for Harris as the next U.S. President

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  • They didn’t care before because it was in their interest to support him. Now it’s not.

    There are a few who truly paid the price of opposing him and I can at least respect that. Kinzinger, Cheney, for examples…not that I would agree with them on much, but they at least stood up to Trump when it mattered.

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • Okay, challenge accepted.

    I removed Windows from my machine and have been playing WoW on Garuda Linux since April. I installed via Lutris and use GE-proton with umu-launcher (simply using GE-Proton within latest Lutris uses umu) and it works every time without fail.

    First, for WoW there is no separate cheat detector that somehow figures out “oh they’re on Linux, we must ban them”.

    Second, WoW plays considerably better on Linux for me (based on the framerates I’m seeing in various locations in Azeroth). Granted, I decided to dump NVIDIA so I didn’t have to deal with their closed platform garbage.

    Lastly, yes, anti-cheat is an issue, but not because of you running Linux — it’s because of game companies fundamentally misunderstanding operating systems. There is no easier method of cheating on Linux than there is on Windows especially if the game company properly supports Linux. So if a company were to ban you, either you are doing something ban-worthy (and running Linux objectively is not), or the company is garbage because they don’t understand what they’re doing.

    I have seen no evidence to support Blizzard banning people for playing WoW on Linux. Show me a preponderance of evidence of this that isn’t possibly some other ban-worthy issue, and I will happily change my mind.

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  • Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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  • I’ve been using and working with Linux since 1999 (big box Redhat 5.1). It was a hobby at first, but then it became a tool in almost every job I’ve held.

    Now, on my personal PC I’ve bounced between windows and Linux (and some mad attempts at hackintoshing) since 1999.

    But Windows Recall changed that.

    Microsoft is doing what they’ve always done — try to control everything under the guise of “this is what the user wants” when not one damn person said “oh I want my operating system to take screenshots of everything I’m doing, AI-analyze them, store the data in an insecure database, and trust that Microsoft will never phone home about any of this”

    So now I run Linux full time at home and all the games I play and want to play work perfectly fine.

  • Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?

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  • Debian from 1998.

  • Anyone know of any good SMS/MMS/RCS clients

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  • I don't have an answer for you, but I have a caution...

    I once worked for AT&T and worked on AT&T Messages.

    DO NOT USE IT, if it still exists, if you're with AT&T. At the time I worked on it, there was no encryption except in-flight (https) -- which means if I had had production access (and some people who worked there at my level, definitely did), I could have read all messages, blobs, everything. I was told after I quit that they intended to add encryption, but since AT&T would still hold the keys, it's useless.

  • What is your favorite computer OS?

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  • Linux (currently Garuda Linux). I can do everything I want on it, including playing all the games I want.

    And with the Windows Recall debacle (and make no mistake, it’s not at all gone, it’ll just exist in some different form or name), I am ridding my house of Windows.

  • Today, I left windows behind for good

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  • Welcome to the club! We have punch and pie.

  • What should I do about my parents moving closer.

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  • If you don’t think it will end well having a preemptive conversation, then something else is wrong with your relationship to your parents.

    You are an adult. You set the boundaries.

  • Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

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  • And he should be worried. He backed Russia. He has slept with the invader, now he can rot with him.

  • Please recommend a no-sim messenger

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  • I forgot about that.

  • Please recommend a no-sim messenger

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  • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • This is correct. Linux doesn't suck and Windows most definitely does that very well. I'd also add you can do quite advanced things on Linux, as well.

    Also disclaiming: Using Linux since 1999

  • Please recommend a no-sim messenger

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  • I’m confused, why hasn’t Signal been suggested? Pretty sure it works just fine with WiFi only.

  • What factors do you think contributed to the "Reddit Hivemind"? How do you believe it can be avoided?

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  • “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

    — Agent K, Men In Black