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and the kernel folks just went “it is the kernel, everything is critical”

tl;dr: this is pretty much an elaborate “go fuck yourself” towards shady ‘security’ companies.

Apologies for my ignorance, but could you elaborate?

I'm sincerely not seeing the connection between saying everything is critical as a go fuck yourself towards those companies.

Is it a 'death by quantity' thing?

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Try Fedora's KDE spin (which uses Wayland).

I always thought it has the best hardware support.

I run a dual monitor setup, with no issues, and game often.

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From the article...

On Wayland, KWin can now be configured to pull color profile information from the monitor’s EDID metadata where present. Note that color profile information in EDID metadata is often wrong, so use this setting with caution.

Can anyone speak towards why the EDID metadata is often wrong?

Edit: TY to all who responded.

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Really happy to see them continuing to improve on their multi-monitor support.

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What do you think of Fedora? So far I enjoy the stability combined with near-arch levels of getting new updates!

I switched away from other distros to Fedora (KDE spin), and am happy here.

Do I wish they were better open-source citizens, yes, of course! But they're still allot better than Microsoft/Windows close-source solution.

And as far as the distro goes, its nice to have solid support for hardware, and a good rolling release cycle that doesn't brick my OS, and that has quick support for gaming, etc.

If you're the type of person who wants a Windows alternative OS to use as just a tool for gaming/business first and foremost, and not to tinker with the OS for fun (unless they want to), Fedora is the best, and what we all should be proposing to others when they ask about moving to Linux.

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The built-in search function works quite well I would say

The UX is a bit funky, but the results are good.

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The disclaimer at the end of your comment doesn’t render properly. At least, on Thunder

Yep, it's an issue with your client.

You'll need to bug the Thunder client devs to support superscript and subscript fonts, per these Lemmy.World instructions.

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That’s not a lemmy.world link

When you hit reply to a comment from the web client, there are several editor buttons you can press, like 'B' for bold font, 'I' for italic, etc. The farthest to the right is a circle with a '?' mark in it. The link I supplied is the same as pressing that button.

So if you don't trust the link I gave you, go to https://lemmy.world/ in your web browser, and hit the reply button for any comment, and then press the circle with a '?' inside of the circle button, and you'll be taken to the same page as "https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media.html".

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Right, so it’s a Lemmy thing, not a Lemmy world thing,

It's a Lemmy World web client editor thing.

It's a help page that shows how to format your comments.

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I feel like you’re missing the point. Maybe I wasn’t clear. Yes, Lemmy World does use it, however it’s a feature of Lemmy itself, not just of Lemmy World. Lemmy World is just one instance of Lemmy and they all use the same markup.

My point is calling it the Lemmy.World markup is inaccurate and potentially misleading. Lemmy is more than just Lemmy.World.

I understand, but also, I was speaking directly to the link that exists in the Lemmy.World's web-based editor, I have no access to any other web-based or otherwise editors from other servers.

If the Lemmy.World web-based editor is maintained by the Lemmy devs themselves, then it is a Lemmy editor, agreed.

I'm not aware either way though if it is/not, and I've been arguing with people that take any slight ambiguity from me as ammo to attack me with, so I was being very specific, based on my own personal use-case and the specific server URL of the link I was speaking of.

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I’m sorry if I made you feel that way.

I appreciate that, thank you for saying that. And no, it wasn't you, its just been a 'busy' week for me here on Lemmy is all.

And TY for the education on join-lemmy.org.

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Not sure if I would want to ask the kind of LLM that's programmed from that site about romance / love life questions.

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I don’t want to ask any kind of LLM anything at all. Ugh.

While my default/off-the-cuff answer would be the same as yours, if I travelled fifty years into the future, and had a 'discussion' with a LLM that was specific to the topic being discussed, I would probably be ok with that (as long as it was programmed properly and trained on good (not cheapest) data).

Time will tell, but the future will pimp slap you if you try to avoid it. Best to surf it the best you can.

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Some people are wired for compassion and empathy, and other people are just not.

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From a comment on HN...

To the outside observer, it seems like it's not a carefully taken business decision but some random engineer who wanted to learn rust and flutter.

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You do know that isn’t how licenses work?

https://lemmy.world/post/14942506

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Wow, makes one fearful to even use AWS. Yikes!

Definately required reading for those who use AWS.

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I'm aware of HDR, but what is Game Color (besides the obviousness of the two words, individually)?

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From the article ...

Fixed input issues with Worms Armageddon.

Interesting that normal keyboard and mouse input would have a unique issue with just that one game.

I wonder what they do that's not normal for handling input?

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What do you use to automatically add that licence to your comments? That’s really cool! Big fan of creative commons.

Its a manual copy/paste of the following text...

[~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

I use the Lemmy web client, and they don't have a signature section on the account to set once and forget.

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Why do you put strikethrough the text though?

The single ~ reduces the font size.

For example

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Strange.

On the Lemmy web client its two tildes ~ for strikeout.

One tilde is the subset font size.

Before ^superset^ After
^superset^

Before subset After
~subset~

Before strikeout After
~~strikeout~~

Edit: Per this web page.

What client are you using?

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What formatting text do they use for subscript/superscript?

The Lemmy help page for formatting has the formatting text I'm using.

Seems like others are having the same problem. Looks like the non-web clients need to add support for subscript and superscript to themselves.

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Seems like clients vary wildly in how they interpret this markup. This is how it shows on Sync:

Yeah it looks like the subscript and superscript fonts are not being supported on third party android/apple clients properly, but only the Lemmy web client.

My goal was actually just to make the font smaller, and not so much subscript/superscript.

I may have to revert the change, and just make the font for the link regular sized.

Either that, or just wait for the android/apple clients to catch up to the Lemmy web client.

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Paywalled

Thank you citizen for letting us know.

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Ty

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Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn’t make it to the party, in case you were wondering.

Any word as to why?

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Java.

(ducks and runs)

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Just for the record, the cat actually knows you're playing, right? 😋

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What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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Trying to solve any Linux problem via ...

Copying and pasting from Stack Overflow

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Hot take incoming...

Another daily "Eat the Rich" post.

There's too much emotion on this topic to be able to have a serious and honest conversation about it (either/both ways).

Like with everything else that has to do with human beings, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

And yeah, I know, "Centrist, kill him!!!1!!". But seriously, neither extreme has it 100% right.

Fix the supply of available new homes to purchase so that the costs come down, and stop just sitting on the couch bitching and moaning and go earn the money to buy the houses at the cheaper prices (and while you're off the couch, contact your elected reps and tell them to fix the housing shortage).

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People's default setting is to stay in their bubbles, yes. But I'm hoping that we can actually get people to talk through the issue in an honest non-emotional way, and see if any resolution could be had, vs. what we get now, the repeated daily posts of raw emotion to enhance conflict and prevent good discussion.

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Centrist, kill him

Oh, look… a “centrist” has shown up to lick boots in public.

Yawn.

Not that there's anything wrong with being a centrist, but for the record, I'm a 70's/80's liberal. But you do you (for real, or for the /s's).

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If you’re not aware of it, LessWrong is a good forum for enhancing your knowledge via discussion in a rational way.

Thank you. I had not heard of it before, I'll check it out.

Edit: This was an interesting read.

You can lead a horse to water, you can’t make them think deeply about ‘boring’ things.

You might be right. But at the end of the day, when everything goes to shit, at the very least I can honestly look into the mirror and like what is looking back, someone who tried to make things better. /shrug

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That’s a good point. I need to stop being so jaded, it never leads to anything positive.

For sure its not easy, especially when there are those with a personal interest to have anarchy via psyops/propaganda, but its something we all really need to strive for.

But it is hard, having fought time and time again to get a single person to halfway see the reason. I can only hope that a seed has been planted when I do, and eventually it will grow.

That's all we can do really. That, and participate, again for no other reason than for self-respect. Any extra good that comes out of that is just a bonus.

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A good read, your comment was. /yoda

It’s the earning enough money part that’s difficult. We’re not getting paid commensurate to our value because what used to be skimmed off the top of the value we produce is now being gouged out in big, ragged chunks.

I agree, totally. If the price of goods don't go down, then the incomes earned must go up. But we (assuming Americans for this comment) live in a society where its ok for a company to "charge whatever the market will bear", they have no insentives to 'take care' of their fellow citizens. So then individuals have to fight harder/smarter for more income.

The other side of that equation is lower the costs of goods, which in this case is housing. There's currently a weird conjunction of shortage of housing and real estate corporations buying up all available housing to rent that is causing the pricing woes. The latter reminds me of how there was a shortage of computer GPUs for gamers to purchase at a reasonable price, in the recent past, and the market did not correct (much) because it didn't have to, no competition pressure.

When I mention contacting your elected representative, its for things like to talk to them about lowering the price of goods by enacting laws to prevent monopolistic behavior and promote competition. Right now those reps are not doing that because they are getting paid NOT to do that by the companies. Who you elect to office really does matter in the long run, and even moreso your active participation in the process.

The kicker is there’s absolutely no good reason we shouldn’t have economic conditions at least similar to my parent’s generation at this stage in our lives.

Well, you're right, and you're wrong at the same time.

You are right that if Capitialism was working optimally the market would be saturated with product and competition would keep pricing down. But we don't have that, since we rely on goverment to regulate 'bad behavior' Capitalism, and they are not doing that right now.

But at the same time you're wrong, as Capitalism is not a guarantee, its a variance, its random(ish), and there are no guarantees that the good market that exists today will exist thirty years from now. Its one of the reasons that IMO Capitalism kind of sucks (as practiced today), for the welfare and happiness of all human beings.

–Privileged bitching alert–

My personal story was from being a high-school dropout who had to go find work, to being a very poor "rich" homeowner person today. I lived very frugally at first (really cut down on having meals delivered to you, etc. etc.), and over time my money 'snowballed' (there really is truth to that strategy). So I know its possible to overcome any market situation, but its definately not easy, and it takes a toll on you, both body and spirit.

P.s. this comment helped me realize my wife and I have professionally turned into my parents. Gross!

The other day I was visting my 30's son, and he was in the kitchen yelling at his fiance for where some cooking ingredient was (it wasn't angry yelling, just for volume, as she was at the other side of the house). And then he stops, turns his head away from the kitchen pantry cabinet to look squarely at me sitting on the couch nearby, and says the exact same thing you said, "I've turned into my parents." I won't lie, I laughed my ass off, and felt good inside a little bit, in a misery loves company ironic comedic parental revenge sort of way. "Its the 'Circle of Life', bay-bbeeee!". We both laughed.

Bottom line, you just gotta surround yourself with loved ones and ride out the bad storms, and seek happiness where you can, day-by-day. And learn to fish, and not just ask to be given fish all the time (unless you're really in trouble). Oh, and try to pay things forward. When things are better for your neighbors, they tend to end up being better for you too.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

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GreaterWrong is a nicer way to read LessWrong, IMO.

Thanks for that too.

Damn, you're really sending me down the rabbit hole. 🤔 😀

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I’m a 70’s/80’s liberal.

So you’ve always been a right-winger. No surprises here.

I guarantee you that a 70's/80's right-winger would not consider a 70's/80's liberal a right-winger.

Personally I'm still pissed off at Reagan for calling ketchup a food group.

Not that there’s anything wrong with being a centrist,

Yes, there is. Lots. If you are “in-between” two right-wing ideology you are still a right-winger - ie, an apologist for and/or functionary of powerful elites.

That's a very narrow and unwise way to see the reality of things, but again, you do you. But I got to warn you, raw rage won't fix things, it just destroy things.

Centrists are citizens too, and your blind anger can't magically make them disappear. We need consensus on things that all citizens can agree to, and abide by.

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You're definately on a mission, I'll give you that. lol

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Some moreso than others. 😜

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For the most part I think we all have a common enemy in boomers.

For the love of all that's right, stop letting them divide us into camps, so that we fight each other, instead of them.

There are plenty of Boomers out there who don't like the raw deal that the latest gens are having to deal with right now.

Not everything files into neat little category boxes.

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Curious as to why someone would downvote this?

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DAW?

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Ty

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Majority of people just dont care about being spied upon unless it directly affects them somehow,

Remind them that strangers know their porn fetishes, and see if that changes their minds.

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Highfalutin

highfalutin
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Pompous or pretentious.
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Literally give them what they want: fast solutions at the expense of quality. Then don’t worry about it when things eventually break.

You're not wrong, but the problem with this is that the worker will be blamed for the bad quality, not the manager.

In fact, it'll be the manager rating the worker poorly because of the quality at review time, and they just won't care or won't connect the fact that the worker is not being given enough time to have a level of quality that would be acceptable to the manager.

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I'm not talking about the literal who's right or who's wrong/fault, I'm talking about the politics, about who has the power, who doesn't, and who can get away with mistakes by putting the mistakes on others.

That’s not how reality works.

I've literally seen what I've described happen, on multiple occasions, throughout my career.

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