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I guess the news is that someone is finally setting up a campaign with an actionable plan to punish some of the shitty unethical practices. And every bit of news in that regard is more fuel for the fire to keep it from sizzling out.

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That’s basically the plan of stopkillinggames.com. It lays out how to contact your country’s consumer protection service.

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Happens all the time on Linux. The current instance would be the shift from X11 to Wayland.

The first thing I noticed was when the audio system switched from OSS to ALSA.

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And the strangest thing about that is that neither PulseAudio nor Pipewire are replacing anything. ALSA and PulseAudio are still there while I handle my audio through Pipewire.

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Don’t need it. I already lie in bed all day.

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A previous infection. Depending on your type of Long COVID you get Post Exertional Malaise after doing stuff. That’s one of the easiest to recognise. Proper biomarkers are being studied but it seems to take a long time to reach the medical profession.

Until then most doctors will mistake ME/CFS (the most common Long COVID type) symptoms for depression and prescribe anti depressants, psycho therapy and above all exercise and make everything a lot worse until the patient can’t leave their bed anymore. Source: me

Edit: Reading the article my prediction is that most patients will come out of this study worse. Overexertion makes the symptoms worse. That’s what their training probably leads to. Hopefully I’m wrong.

Edit 2: Just got newscientist.com/…/2425958-long-covid-linked-to-s… through !health

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Depends. How many As does it have?

Judging by the quality of the trailer about one or two.

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Luckily most installers support installing wherever you tell them to. So if you install from a live image you should be able to set it up the way you want. I’ll definitely try that as soon as a I do my next installation.

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I don’t like that it doesn’t give you a live image by default. It’s kind of hard to find them on the website.

I think my ideal installer would be one that boots into a desktop and by default installs that and copies everything you’ve done there onto the installed system. Like “here you can start using your system right away, we’ll ask you a few questions and then do the pesky installation stuff for you in the background”.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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Was it too much to add some line about the customers who have already paid for the game being locked out? My guess is that the Comission won’t even know what the actual problem is.

At least it’s a first step in the right direction.

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Wow, the animations look terrible. Like cheap early 2000s 3d animated cartoon terrible. Have the animators not heard of acceleration? All the movement looks like it has a constant velocity.

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The one thing I wish every distro would incorporate is the way Gentoo handles config file updates. If there are any changes you get the option of using a very simple side by side merge where you go through all the differences of the old and new configuration where you can decide which one to use going forward.

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That’s the way it should be. But it depends on the software.

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github.com/boredsquirrel/flatalias

Or my PR for that, that makes aliases on every login. I just have to fix it to work with user flatpaks as well: github.com/bjoern-tantau/flatalias/tree/patch-1

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Well, instead of working at Blizzard you should work at Mom and Pop’s Games Inc. Or make your own company with blackjack and hookers.

Both rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Two (presumably) girls lying in bed holding hands and looking at each other. The one on the left, labeled “Me” has shoulder-length hair, an uncomfortable :| expression, and is wearing a black hoodie, grey jeans, and sneakers. The one on the right, labeled “Also me” has longer hair, a subtle smile, a blush, and is wearing...

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OP, that’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself! Take those fucking shoes off before going to bed!

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Me as well, on multiple devices. Now I’ve got to test this out.

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It’s nice. You can visit the cave where all its parts were collected. Apparently this cave has also been a popular party location for the intellectual elites so you can find graffiti of famous German artists and philosophers next to stone age archeology.

And I remember the toilets in the tourist house thingy being nice.

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When I was a kid I was on holiday with my parents in Spain. Since Mortal Kombat was verboten in Germany I went to every shop that might have SNES games to find it. I think I was finally able to find Mortal Kombat 3 in Andorra. And it was glorious!

Nowadays I just emulate on my PC or Steam Deck.

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Forwarded to the only surgeon I know. She even does foot-stuff. No idea if she gets up to the knee.

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Yeah, but you can’t just enable developer mode on the device itself. You need Meta’s blessing for that.

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My favourite cigarette smoking area is my mouth.

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No matter how much I like an alternative to Electron. It cannot save me from bad Electron apps.

non-Euclidean filesystem

I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...

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Unless you have multiple partitions or disks just concentrate on the one for /. So you have 29 GiB available.

Everything else is sharing the same drive for different purposes.

The beauty of BTRFS is that you can partition your disk into different parts but still actually use the whole disk for every “partition”. That makes management of snapshots easier. I think it would even enable you to combine multiple physical disks into one.

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Probably. I never looked into how it actually works with BTRFS.

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I remember when the new German id was rolled out that it could potentially just tell a website whether the user was an adult or not. But nobody seems to use it for that purpose. From the last time I tried to use my ID to identify myself I must conclude that it simply doesn’t work.

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It’s only gay if the balls are touching.

Life Notes - Keeping track of symptoms and medication (github.com)

I’ve recently been given medication for a rash I’ve been experiencing. With this app I can nicely track when the rash starts, at what time I take my medication and how effective it is. Seems to be a single developer who created a solid app. Also available on Playstore.

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Sounds great! So far I’ve only been using github.com/CorruptedArk/did-i-take-my-meds but I never thought about tracking my symptoms.

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Woohoo, so the number of people that can crack Denuvo is now up to three, right? Two if you only count recent iterations.

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I think football manager or some other sports game uses an outdated version of Denuvo and is more easily cracked. I guess they have to crack it often for DLC or updates. I don’t really know.

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Yo momma’s so fat she can fill out a bottomless pit.

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Suburbanite in a proper suburb: “Come child, walk with me to the corner store to pick up some eggs.”

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I was debating with myself if I should say that. But I thought I shouldn’t exclude third world countries.

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This meme is so old all the original internet dogs are already dead.

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Of course, right after he nerfed me with Long Covid, taking my ability to even attend church.

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When you laugh your ass off you also don’t keep laughing for three years. But still your ass is gone and shit continues to spew out of you.

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Do you have any external server available to you? If yes you could use that to set up a VPN connection or SSH tunnel.

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I do regular automated updates. For anything requiring human intervention like the xz thing I trust Lemmy and YouTube to keep me updated. No dedicated news source because if I were to freak out about every new vulnerability found I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.

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If you had it on a computer that is accessible via SSH from the internet you should proceed under the assumption that it was compromised. Which means you should reinstall from a safe medium and change your keys and passwords.

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Damn, we learned about intersex people in biology class. Probably sex ed. Although not explicitly transsexuality. That was in the late 90s or early 2000s.

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The old Might & Magic games are very nice. Especially 4 and 5 that you can combine into an even bigger game with additional quests and an ultimate ending are awesome. And it should even run on your phone through ScummVM.

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No, just Might and Magic. Same universe but different genre. They were RPGs while the Heroes series was strategy.

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