Who needs housing, medicare, tourism, foreign relations, chips, rare earths, democracy, independent media, uncensored internet, demilitarized police, social security, general education, affordable higher education, a clean environment, worker’s rights, women’s rights, sexual freedom, separations of powers, separation of church and state and probably a couple dozen other things anyway?

UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even

Yep, they used to. SUSE actually shipped a second version (or maybe just a shortcut with some startup-option) of Dolphin to provide “Dolphin as Root”. I think this was inspired by said approach

There’s coding and there’s coding. Just as you can use English to write fiction, you can use it to write a manual. Programming languages are the same. Well, maybe a bit more concise and confined, but the point is, you can flick around bytes on a bus or thousands at a time in CUDA. You can draw a triangle for a game or create a template UI with the click of a button and fill in the blanks. It’s all ‘coding’, but wildly different.

You might have heard about the meme that coders are wizards comanding magical stones, aka processors. Sometimes, we might as well be. Computer scientists come up with stuff so briliant that even the best of their own can hardly understand it. They write stuff that does stuff for stuff that does stuff for the stuff you wrote, and all of a sudden you did something without even really knowing what happened or how it works.

With that in mind, I can explain what I do in one sentence or countless hours. I write stuff to test stuff that absolutely has to work. The devil is in the detail.

Domino’s is ridiculously overpriced in Europe. So much so that I bought pizza there once and then never again.

Duh, they’re hackers /s

Let’s not protest terrible ideas to not embarrass facists (who may or may not be part of your/our government) or what’s supposed to be the message here?

There’s dutch candy that is basically this. Not too bad, although I liked them more as a child

AV2 provides enhanced support for AR/VR applications, split-screen delivery of multiple programs, improved handling of screen content, and an ability to operate over a wider visual quality range.

https://aomedia.org/press releases/AOMedia-Announces-Year-End-Launch-of-Next-Generation-Video-Codec-AV2-on-10th-Anniversary/

Yeah, what a terrible idea to (quite loosely actually) regulate something that definitely needs to be regulated, and to do so before you wasted billions on it, since you can’t wait to shove that shit down everyone’s throats. Not your own money of course, oh no. You fill your fucking pockets with the money of delusional and/or clueless investors, because hardly anyone is paying for said shit.

You can, but systemd-boot never failed me while Grub did more than once. That might be on the janky distro I used to use, but at least once it wasn’t.

If you’re using GRUB and at the same time live without snapshots, you are playing with fire. And for no good reason.

Should the day ever come where systemd-boot or initramfs break, I’ll just chroot on my main partition, roll back and regenerate. That’s like 3 commands. Easily put into a script for non-tech-savy relatives. Not that this has happened to me in years.

Being a Nazi is not only not banned in most countries, in some like the US it’s explicitly legal (i.e. “Freedom of Speech”). That said, it is (kinda) banned in Germany, yet they are still around over here, because you can’t ban people from believing in stuff.

All a state can do is to try and prevent them from gaining too much traction, and I do not feel like Zionism has all that much tbh. Israel’s recent actions are very unpopulat in the west, even though most people are not even affected by them in the slightest. Many of the people who protest them probably have no direct connection to Israel or Gaza. So what’s the goal of a ban even?

I can only speak for Germany, but here an Israeli sniper and alledged murderer fled the country, bacause he is being persecuted for warcrimes, i.e. the murder of civilians. You also cannot call for the extermination of anyone without riscing consequences. This does not prevent people from being Nazis, Zionists or anything else. It just sanctions them for publicly expressing it.

Post slop, get blocked.

Draw.io allows you to build quite sophisticated stuff. If you use group + lock/unlock + copy/paste, it’s not half bad.

I don’t think AI generated images are art at all, hence I find it entirely justified to treat them differently.

In case you wonder why, try answering yourself this question:

You want to buy art. How much would you be willing pay for

• A painting
• A very ivolved, framed photography
• An original meme
• A nice but generic photo taken with a smartphone
• An AI generated image

and why?

For me, this is in deceding order, from ‘quite a bit’ to ‘next to nothing’.

I instantly block anyone who posts unmarked slop. And marked one as well, if it’s lazy enough.

That is definitely not true for DisplayPort. If you need anything beyond DP 1.4, the cable market is a minefield. I even encountered a monitor that was straight up incompatible with DP 2.1. Would not work with a new graphics card, while HDMI still worked fine.

Woah, woah, slow down there Mr. Freud

What can I say? German ID app just works on GrapheneOS 🤷

(Although my shitty health insurance company thinks it’s not ‘secure enough’…)