CRTs just plain don’t have a native resolution. They just reach a point when you cannot tell two neighboring pixels apart any more.

Why the he fuck am I sitting here, looking at this pic and getting nostalgic about those stupid bulky, power-hungry, washed-up picture producing, x-ray-emitting CRT shit boxes?

It would be pretty mean to not pay him that point – but technically, I’m pretty sure he cannot legally demand payment after quite that much time. Pretty sure purely civil claims expire after some time of not being pressed.

I don’t even know which Linux specific fork you are referring to, it could be either a git fork or fork(2).

The original is a lot lamer than I thought it would be…

It lags for me whenever I access some filesystem that takes a while to respond. That could be a faulty or old device, or it could be an NFS share with multiple large file transfers going on in the background.

And when I say it lags, I don’t mean it just takes a while to show me a directory’s content, I mean the entire UI freezes and kwin will grey out the window because tha application isn’t responding any more.

This does not happen a lot, and if your file browsing is largely limited to a fast local storage, like a SATA SSD or even an NVMe, you may well never see this problem at all. But it does happen.

I think I know this meme template from somewhere, but I cannot quite recall from where. Could you give us a link to the original?

Okay, I’m generally on the side if dolphin UI-wise, but when it comes to the topic of lagginess, it has to be said that dolphin, and in fact, almost everything using the kio infrastructure, is the one shitting the bed here. You’d think a bit of multithreading will keep the UI from freezing up whenever the underlying I/O has some minor hiccup (which can absolutely happen in practice with network filesystems or USB sticks in combination with large file transfers), but apparently dolphin can’t do that.

The Scrooge McDuck avatar lighting a cigar with a dollar note makes me think this was either satire to begin with, or the original poster has lost any and all contact with reality.

Something is compressing this house sideways. The tiles have no give, so the floor with them bulges up.

If any person actually typed that they aren’t sane at all.

That doesn’t actually rule out anything.

Maybe he means that he took that photo on the sly, through a keyhole or something? In that case, “peeked” makes sense again.

Wut?

The reason I gave up self hosting email was because all my emails kept going to spam for everyone I emailed.

You need to set up DKIM, SPF and DANE, then most big email providers will accept your mail. Worst case, you may need to contact them to unblock your mail server’s IP if that has been used by a spammer prior to you.

Plus incoming email needs spam protection.

Both SpamAssassin and Rspamd do a decent job of that.

Note: I’m using rspamd, and for some time at the beginning, it looked like it wasn’t really doing anything. Turns out it needs a couple hundred training emails before it will start using the Bayes function. Just feed your Spam folder into the learn_spam command and any of your normal, not-spam folders into the learn_ham command.

Domain registration information can usually be found out somehow, although these days you have to jump through some additional hoops to get it, and those hoops are designed to discourage automated lookups. The privacy gains you get from hosting your own email server, though, are massive and IMHO more than worth it. If you are not hosting your own mail server, then the most you can expect from having your own domain is nicer looking email addresses. Depending on what your hosting provider supports you might also get unlimited aliases, maybe even regex aliases, which can be very helpful when handing out mail addresses to various companies and internet services.

If your main concern is that your email address should not be associated with your real identity, your best bet is to just use a VPN to connect to any large email hoster, like ProtonMail. (Obviously don’t use Proton Mail if Proton is also your VPN.)

How much of this stuff is made up? I know Venmo is real, but a lot of the rest sounds like parody names.

RIP David Graeber.

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

Against who? Themselves?

Against people and media outlets who reported the issue or reported on the issue.

Their handling of the situation is close to as bad as it gets. Starting with taking 14 months(!) to address a wide open security hole.

* edit: security hole, not security home

There is no wise way to use that information.

But the foolish ones could be entertaining.