LocutusOfBorges

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by LocutusOfBorges 3mo ago
> Some believe this party is left-wing, others right-wing. Some approve of it, others don't. For a company that puts political principle so fundamentally at the core of its marketing strategy, it's astonishing to see this kind
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by LocutusOfBorges 3mo ago
Eich was CEO for 11 days. You’re wildly misremembering how much of an impact he had in that post.
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by LocutusOfBorges 6mo ago
It fits in with the contemporary mainstream on this site, unfortunately. Whenever politics comes up on HN, it invariably brings all the cranks out to play.
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Linux Mint forks GNOME's Libadwaita to add theme support(osnews.com)
6 points by LocutusOfBorges 1y ago|0 comments
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by LocutusOfBorges 1y ago
I’m surprised nobody has created a way to automate this process - I imagine that any tool that makes it trivial would be quite popular, given what a pain it can be to set up manually.
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Given that this is seemingly the thing for which he’s most known, politically, it doesn’t seem remotely unreasonable to infer that the person I was replying to was talking about it. It’s absurd to take this evasiveness as anything other tha
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
…So it is about the fact that you object to his support for transgender people? Surely you see why this is, actually, directly relevant and important context for your statement. It’s not some general political leaning you’re talking about -
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> But then marcan told his supportes to fuck off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas, which I was not willing to do. Is this about Marcan’s outspoken support for transgender people? If so, why not simply say that in your
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
It only matters insofar as it has the potential to cause people some annoyance down the line which they'd likely prefer to avoid. People don't tend to want to have to actively maintain their old tech any more than they absolutely
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Is this actually enough? I've never been able to find a clear answer on this - it's become increasingly common to install SATA SSDs in retro game consoles, for example, but nobody seems to have ever done any testing to see if the
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> far left ycombonator The sight of somebody, seemingly seriously, describing this site's userbase in this way is the funniest thing I've seen all day.
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Heroic is reasonably seamless - it integrates with GOG and your Steam library, and by extension Proton. Pretty popular among Steam Deck users. https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place. People seeking asylum in the UK receive £49.18 per week[1], and get thrown into mon
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Hyped for Ballmercon 2024!
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Worth nothing that J. Michael Bailey was eventually fired from his post at Northwestern for organising a spectacularly inappropriate sexual demonstration, put on in front of his students [1]. Bailey has, it must be said, worked extraordinar
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Hard to imagine a more pressing case for legal protections for workers against continuous workplace surveillance thaan the prospect of its being automated to this degree.
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
This seems to quite deliberately miss the point of why so many find the effect libadwaita has had on the desktop experience to be so frustrating. Really, it doesn’t matter whether the underlying motivations were supposedly to create a clean
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Honestly, from a moderation perspective, the dropoff has been stark - the quality of work behind the scenes has dropped off a cliff on most larger subreddits, and the quality of the content those subreddits facilitate has reduced in quality
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see. Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all t
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Given that both rent and house price inflation rates often significantly outstrip the interest rates available on most savings accounts, it's hard to imagine this being a particularly viable route in even the medium term.
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> not quite as exciting as extra CPUs Not that it was an official licensed product, but for what it's worth, there was a DS flashcart that bundled a significantly faster CPU than the DS's own - the SuperCard DSTWO [1]. The extr
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> So software sold in September 2022 can no longer run in April 2024, and you somehow try to justify that by "legacy platform"? What? Wii U software still works fine - you can even still download digital purchases from the eSho
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by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
> reviving the console (and its sales). Wii U production ended entirely more than 7 years ago - there's no more stock to sell. It's a legacy platform in every sense of the word.
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The Descent of Elon Musk(wheresyoured.at)
10 points by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago|4 comments
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by LocutusOfBorges 3y ago
Yes, often spectacularly. I can honestly say that I wouldn't have been able to hold down a serious professional career without it - ADHD is a very real thing that some people have to deal with, and its effects can be crippling to life
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by LocutusOfBorges 3y ago
I'm not sure this would even make sense to build - the purpose of a nuclear deterrent is to ensure that a first strike against the power in question is rendered impossible under rational conditions. If both sides have been reduced to a
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by LocutusOfBorges 3y ago
…What?
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by LocutusOfBorges 3y ago
There’s still the option of appeal to the ECHR, but that’s more or less it - and there’s a quite strong push from the right to leave that as well. This was absolutely an intended outcome for a lot of the figures responsible for the UK’s exi
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by LocutusOfBorges 3y ago
As a counterpoint to the other comments here - I’ve been quite disappointed with mine. It’s a wonderfully flexible device, and extremely fun to tinker with - but the ergonomics are shockingly bad. I don’t know if it’s the size, weight or sh
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by LocutusOfBorges 4y ago
> and has the buttons in such an awkward position that I get cramps in my hand after half an hour of playing. Seconding the ergonomics point - between the weight of the thing and the awkwardness of the buttons/trackpads, it’s easily

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