Thank god we didn’t elect Dems. Can you imagine?

yandex is about 2% of our total cost, to put things into perspective

I encourage subscribers to check out this thread and weigh in.

I assume businesses only jumped at the chance to enable SMS 2FA to get their greedy little fingers on our phone numbers.

I just sent a test message from my GV to my normal carrier number. It’s regular old SMS. No, not encrypted.

Full output of that command:

amd_atl                69632  1
edac_mce_amd           40960  0
kvm_amd               249856  0
kvm                  1449984  1 kvm_amd
gpio_amdpt             16384  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
amdgpu              20111360  70
amdxcp                 12288  1 amdgpu
drm_exec               12288  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              65536  1 amdgpu
drm_buddy              24576  1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit           20480  1 amdgpu
drm_suballoc_helper    16384  1 amdgpu
drm_display_helper    290816  1 amdgpu
drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 amdgpu
ttm                   114688  2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper
video                  81920  3 asus_wmi,amdgpu,asus_nb_wmi
[    0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device
[    0.330346] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none
[    0.330346] pci 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none
[    2.202336] ACPI: video: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    3.766492] amdgpu: vga_switcheroo: detected switching method \_SB_.PCI0.GP17.VGA_.ATPX handle

And yes, KDE is standard. If I wanted Gnome, that’s a different download entirely and is based on Fedora Silverblue.

• bazzite:stable

• Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)

• Linux 6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64

• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.01 GHz

• AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]

• AMD Raphael [Integrated]

• 6.31 GiB / 62.01 GiB (10%)

• 447.25 GiB / 1.82 TiB (24%) - btrfs [Read-only]

• 7680x2160 @ 240 Hz (as 5120x1440) in 57" [External]

• KDE Plasma 6.2.3

• KWin (Wayland)

The ability to properly wake from sleep.

Not having to set my displayport version back to 2.1 upon every boot.

You’ll see these marketed as monitors sometimes, from what I’ve seen. Mostly it’s for businesses but if you want a dumb screen to connect things to, it might be called a “monitor” even if it has the form factor of a TV.

Was always a gimmick IMO.

iOS friends, check out the Mastodon client Ice Cubes.

It’s free (beer and speech) and it’s very good IMO.

Also, after you settle on a server, consider setting up a recurring donation to your admin to help with server costs. The way I see it, it’s that or ads and enshitification.

On principle, personally. I was done with Reddit after the API shit.

My issue with BS is it took VC money from crypto bros.

What do we think will happen when they come looking for their returns on investment?

Looking like it’s about time lmgtfy to make a comeback.

Check out Vivaldi. Yes it’s still Chromium. Consider reading the link.

What if I flip both at once?

Good point.

Since the first time I heard about FSD I’ve been wondering why Tesla (or others) doesn’t set up a system where drivers opt-in (no opt-in by default) to sending anonymized driving data to help train the model. The vast majority of the time, it’s probably modeling OK driving. At least no accidents. But the shitty driving and accidents are also useful as data about what to avoid.

Maybe they’re already doing this? But then I wonder why their FSD is getting shittier rather than improving. One would think with more driving data, good and bad examples, would only help.

Plenty of good answers here already. Just want to add a funny anecdote.

I’ve had the same USB charging brick for years, using it for different phones throughout that time. When I check the battery settings when it’s plugged in it “warns” me that I could be charging at a higher rate if I plug into a higher amperage charger. Yeah… I know. I WANT to charge slowly. It’s gonna be plugged in all night, what do I care?

I’ve had my phone for a year, 165 charging cycles, and it says it’s still at 100% health. I do cap charging to 80% and that hasn’t been an issue for my day-to-day usage.

Don’t bring your phone.

Get a burner and set up call forwarding.

Kind of like speeding toward a cliff but he doesn’t think we can stop in time. Instead, he wants to floor it in the hopes of hopping the gap and landing safely on the other side.

That is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard.