HakFoo

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HakFoo,

I had a similar positive experience with Gamescope, which tamed a game that freaked out every time I moved the moude onto the other monitor.

Maybe Wayland’s healthy place is as a secondary window system you launch inside your normal X11 session.

HakFoo,

Could someone post a [rice list? I’ve got $35 right here and a hankering for the abolition of copyright.

HakFoo,

If they’re so awful, why do we need aggressive tarrifs to keep them off of American streets? I don’t think anyone was making people buy them over domestic alternatives…

(muffled sounds of discord)

WTF?! Xi Jinping himself busted down my front door, grabbed my debit card, and put down a deposit on a new BYD. And what’s worse, he picked one in that really insipid grey that you can never find in a parking lot.

HakFoo,

Cents since 1982 are mostly zinc with a thin shell of bronze. They’ll rot badly if compromised with a hole.

HakFoo,

So the Nippon Ham company is starting with sausages with bones, and working their way up to the perfectly round cylinder of roasted meat with a large straight bone through the centre that anime and video games have teased us with for decades.

Gotta start somewhere.

HakFoo,

Dark, pee-pee soaked heckholes please.

HakFoo,

And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

HakFoo,

And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

HakFoo,

I sort of liked GTK back in the day when it was still the Gimp Tool Kit first and foremost. When it was 1999 and your other choices were a broken Lesstif, an early C++ centric Qt, clumsy Tk, and pre-Cambrian Xaw, it was nice to have something full-featured and tasteful.

Now I hesitate to pull in a GTK app because it won’t theme right (I want to use the same bitmap fonts I liked in 1999, but apparently Pango stopped supporting them) and runs the risk of convincing the package manager to dump several gigs of GNOME crud on my drive.

I gather even the GIMP itself no longer tracks current GTK-- it’s become solely in service to GNOME and their absurd UI whims (* * * * client side decorations)

HakFoo,

GNOME always seemed to be a solution chasing a problem, particularly once the licensing fears for Qt/KDE were settled.

But now it’s one of the things Red Hat seems to impose on the world. Feels like everything controversial comes out of them or Canonical. I guess they have the commercial cash to prop up things like GNOME and Wayland and systemd and snaps until they gain traction, while more community-focused products can’t break the world for no reason.

HakFoo,

So next they’ll use AI-generated infantry?

HakFoo,

Xbps on Void does it for sure.

HakFoo,

I always wanted to see a dentist with the branding “Sharp Fangs - Dentistry for Goths.”

They’re like gyms-- all the marketing materials are 1000% interchangeable.

HakFoo,

Why can’t we subsidize American carmakers more?

HakFoo,

Monster Musume. It’s far better than the premise would lead you to believe. Rachnera best girl, incidentally.

HakFoo,

Someone needs to register a .owo filetype and use it for Very Important Business Things.

HakFoo,

There’s no circle to square.

American liberals are incapable of going for the jugular. Biden can’t do squat, and is surrounded with a party that doesn’t know how to do squat. Trump and the GOP has an easier time because outside of maybe a wall, they don’t have any deliverables to build; he goes in knowing his mission is to bust the place up.

Now, I can see why they’ve learned helplessness: there’s very little on a lot of real economic or envitonmental issues they can touch that won’t get capital riled against them.

But they seem to have gone the same way on the low-risk social issues too. They had 40 years to say “Roe is a compromise we’ve all agreed to shirk behind, maybe we should codify it to take it out of the discussion.” Ditto trans rights, gay marraige, etc. These could have been safely vaulted 10 years ago, before they became the bugabears they are now.

I think they revel in the “more-civil-than-thou” righteousness of inaction. Thry didn’t have to go too aggressive to protect that stuff because it would cause needless conflict. Actually closing the door to the henhouse isn’t respectful to the fox.

HakFoo,

Holding out for orc husbando myself.

HakFoo,

I’d love to know what the domestic spin is on this.

What specifics is he promising this will deliver domestically? I can’t imagine Buenos Aires is on Putin’s shortlist even without the threst of NATO, and it’s not like Americans are goung to start beating the doors down for Argentine imports.

There’s tactful good relations, and then there’s “sempai notice me”. Although, the Cosplay Crusader may well be familiar with that trope.

HakFoo,

I meant more how Milei is selling it to Argentina. The absurd political overweight of the Cuban self-exiles in Florida is well known.

HakFoo,

I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.

Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.

I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it’s been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.

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Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoked as another reason why just such a system should be set up. The French collecting...

HakFoo,

What’s sickening is that in some sense, this could be a way to solve a lot of legal hassles in one fell swoop. They get a predictable rate card, and then there’s a clearly defined legal window for generative-AI products, saving decades of fights in the courts.

But it won’t ever be that. The rights industry will never be satisfied, and it will just be the foot in the door to ever higher fees and restrictions. This is exactly the same fiasco as blank-media levies: they never fully evolved into a full “you paid once” sanction for free copying, so all it did was become a tax for a specific private beneficiary.

HakFoo,

I do like that there’s a reasonably comprehensive website with docs covering a lot of common pain points, which is more manageable than fighting with searching through a galaxy of wikis of varying degrees of currentness and relevance.

Reminds me of the celebrated docs of BSD systems.

There’s also a case that going a bit away from “easy Windows replacement” is useful because even trivial users need to get some bearings shifted to avoid floundering when they reach something not-quite-Windowsesque. (I. e. dealing with updates and software distribution is an important lesson that isn’t obvious if they hide everything in an ersatz App Store)

Of course, my first proper Linux setup was Slackware with a 2.0.30 kernel. I wanted the Unix-like Experience.

HakFoo,

There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.

HakFoo,

Check my post history, posted the laptop a couple weeks ago.

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