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kbal,
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I like the way he captured my eyes.

kbal,
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I'd use ext4 for that, personally. You might also consider using full-disk encryption (redhat example) if there's going to be any data on there you wouldn't want a burglar to have. Obviously it wouldn't do much good if you don't encrypt the other disk as well, but having a fresh one to try it out on makes things easier.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Journalists: The student protestors appear to be college-aged individuals. Most of them are wearing Columbia sweatshirts. They're carrying overpriced textbooks. We have verified that they are enrolled in classes and are paying tuition to the university.

NYPD: Wow these Antifa agitators are using alarmingly advanced infiltration tactics.

kbal,
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Antifa, you think? My elderly TV-watching relatives are convinced that it's actual Hamas agents operating in Canada to infiltrate the university student population.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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It sounds wrong, but it's not.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

kbal,
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That's what the Time Prophet told me.

kbal,
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Good for Mullvad. Long overdue, as they say. Wish I could still be a customer. Whoever induced them to turn off port forwarding did the world a disservice.

kbal,
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As well as Denuvo please also make it rely on Windows-only bugs so that we can be extra sure that those dirty Linux users are kept away, and it's not fair that foreigners get to enjoy things in their own language so make sure there's no localization for other countries. And I'd rather not have to know that disabled people can also play so make sure there's none of that "accessibility" crap in there slowing things down. And I heard that telemetry makes everything better so please make sure it records everything we do and reports it all back to headquarters, that really makes games better. Also it'd be nice if there were more ads to keep us entertained while it loads. Okay thanks. You guys are doing a great job. — Signed, a perfectly normal user

kbal,
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"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.

kbal,
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The one time I've asked for a refund on steam was when I mistakenly bought the remastered instead of the original version of an old game I wanted, and found that it had been ruined by the addition of a (not easy to bypass and wouldn't run under wine) "launcher" that was there for the sole purpose of getting you to register an account and log in so they could collect whatever data they wanted.

Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? (slrpnk.net)

A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up....

kbal,
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Most of the fediverse already has polls, and can post things to lemmy groups. So yeah it would be nice to be able to see them properly.

kbal,
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There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.

kbal,
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It's not as if encryption would stop them being able to infiltrate and observe criminal gangs, and generally catch the bad guys. There are all kinds of other tools they can use without having instant push-button access to all communications data.

Encryption doesn't stop them spying on you. It stops them spying on everyone in the world simultaneously all the time with no effort.

kbal,
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Normal people: Gladly give google maps access to location data at all times and never think about it

Me: Instinctively worry that on the rare occasions I do use google maps it's somehow identifying me and keeping track of all the locations I look at, so I sometimes look at random places I'm not really interested in just to throw off the algorithms.

But most of the time I prefer osmand.

kbal,
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Wow, cool, even NBC is catching on to the Fediverse now?

... nope, it's just another blockchain fueled social media system, the main use of which so far seems to be as a haven for QAnon types (according to Wikipedia,) rapidly burning up venture capital. Good luck to them, I guess.

kbal, to linux
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Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

kbal,
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I was considering keeping xscreensaver and just blocking any network requests it makes at the firewall, but if jwz is going to be like that I guess it's enough motivation to actually look for a replacement.

kbal,
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xfce4-screensaver isn't packaged for debian stable as of yet, but I've built it from source with only minor hacking required to get it to run with the current version of everything else. Problem solved.

kbal,
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I know, it's hard to believe. The confidence with which it announced that an update is available suggests that the actual screensaver was checking for updates on its own. So far as the system package manager is concerned there isn't one.

kbal,
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As it turns out, it's just printing that message if more than 510 days have passed since the timestamp in version.h was updated, which it wasn't when the debian maintainers last applied a patch. So I guess it is taken as given that the program will forever continue to need updates that frequently and that those updates will be forthcoming.

Anyway, in keeping with the author's wishes I'll just use xfce4-screensaver instead. It seems fine.

kbal,
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What this galaxy's physicists don't yet understand is that if you want to combine all those other forces into one grand unified theory, what you need to do is get in touch with your feelings and become a space wizard.

ibboard, to linux
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I understand why you might want to refresh your package cache independently of performing an update.

But why does Apt effectively force you to do two commands just to update?

If my package cache is three weeks old then I'm going to need to do an update before an upgrade, because otherwise packages aren't there. So an update on its own is pointless. It's just going to try and update to non-existent packages.

Yum, DNF and Zypper all have the sense to fetch the latest package list.

kbal, (edited )
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Before moving to debian stable, I was long accustomed to systems which sometimes pushed updates which for my purposes seemed better left for others to try first. So for me it's still three steps rather than two: Update the package index, decide which ones to install, and then do the upgrade.

kbal, (edited )
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That's quite a lot of comments so far with nobody saying
IFS='
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kbal, (edited )
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Sure, or IFS=echo "\n" if you like

kbal,
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've added Verdant and am liking it so far.

Also:
*Landscape Fixes For Grass Mods.esp
*Complementary Grass Fixes.esp
*NoGrassINCities.esp

... one or another of which probably helped make the roads stop being so ridiculously overgrown in places. I still have "3D Forest Grass" and "Skyrim Flora Overhaul" installed as well. Not really sure how they all interact, but whatever, grass is looking good.

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