woelkchen

woelkchen , 1 day ago

What are some reasons as to why I would want to use this over, say, OSMAnd?

Osmand isn't fully free software. Some parts are under CC Non-Commercial license that forbids derivatives to make life harder for potential forks: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/blob/master/LICENSE#L39 That's both against the Open Source Definition and Free Software.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

He can rest easy: I don't know who that is and how he looks.

woelkchen , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

States can establish religions. Federal government can't.

Edit: Forgot that federal government can indoctrinate religion just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

woelkchen , 1 day ago

Let's see if the don't kill command deters school shootings.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

State law can’t supersede federal law.

And Congress cannot pass laws on that. Constitution says so.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

Mandatory "one nation under god" pledge in school classes disagrees that religion cannot be established.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

That is an extremely narrow view of the First Amendment that goes against over two centuries of judicial precedent.

Mandatory "one nation under god" pledge in school classes proves that establishing religion in the US is fine.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

Those are literally not mandatory.

Except when they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Legal_challenges

• "the Pledge of Allegiance does not violate the rights of those who don't believe in God and does not have to be removed from the patriotic message"

• "As a matter of historical tradition, the words 'under God' can no more be expunged from the national consciousness than the words 'In God We Trust' from every coin in the land, than the words 'so help me God' from every presidential oath since 1789, or than the prayer that has opened every congressional session of legislative business since 1787."

woelkchen , 1 day ago

I’m not sure what you think those quotes prove.

That it's perfectly fine to for the government to promote Christian religion, i.e. what the submitted story is about.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

There are so many cases of promoting Christianity by the US government, a few cherrypicked cases of "trouble" doesn't disprove any of this.

• "As a matter of historical tradition, the words 'under God' can no more be expunged from the national consciousness than the words 'In God We Trust' from every coin in the land, than the words 'so help me God' from every presidential oath since 1789, or than the prayer that has opened every congressional session of legislative business since 1787." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Legal_challenges

Also, the US print religious indoctrination on their currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

woelkchen , 1 day ago

That would also be false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_deism

Nah, that's a bullshit excuse for religious indoctrination.

Now, will you admit you were incorrect about the pledge of allegiance being mandatory in schools?

No. If the pledge must be taught in school and some individual students can opt out of repeating that indoctrination, doesn't mean that the pledge itself is not mandatory subject in school. I did not write that all students must recite it.

All your "ceremonial deism" reference proves is that there is a giant loophole for the federal government to indoctrinate on religion and not just state and lower levels.

woelkchen , 1 day ago

I’m just going to stop talking to you.

Good, then I won't have to deal with notifications that some forms of religious indoctrination are just secular ceremony.

woelkchen , 3 days ago

always prefer used console versions or pirate.

Or pirated console versions in an emulator ;)

woelkchen , 3 days ago

I’ve played the Sims on Linux before and haven’t had such severe issues with origin…

Out of curiosity I've looked it up on ProtonDB and there it says that EA Launcher regularly breaks on updates.

woelkchen , 4 days ago

Sandwich: 🥪 (two disconnected slices of bread cut from a larger loaf 🍞)

Wrap: 🌯 (one continuous flat bread)

Burger: 🍔 (a halved bun, therefore it's also Chicken Burger, not Chicken Sandwich)

Taco (🌮) feels like belonging broadly in the wrap category being based on flat bread.

woelkchen , 4 days ago

Maybe I'm doing injustice here but I've always thought of soft tacos as a lazy wrap.

woelkchen , 4 days ago

It's not two slices of bread from a bigger loaf, so no.

woelkchen , 4 days ago

those poor sandwich shop owners are all going to go out of business when they hear the news

Yeah, with that hard competition by taco stands...

woelkchen , 3 days ago

A chicken sandwich is a sandwich when the chicken meat is between two slices of bread cut from a bigger loaf. It's a chicken burger when it's between two halves of a bun.

And as you said, hamburger derives from the German city of Hamburg, so Germans, not Americans, have the authority here.🤪

woelkchen , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

You have weird Ciabattas if you think that Ciabatta is a kind of bun and not a bigger loaf. Croissants are pastry. And yes, burgers made with Kaiser rolls are totally burgers:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7a/a3/1c/7aa31c21b7b0f546ea7ebe4ac0a59b12.jpg

woelkchen , 7 days ago

What way do you imagine would be more precise?

Unavoidable analytics, apparently. Yay?

woelkchen , 9 days ago

The headline is misleading. It's only about the kernel module. The driver itself will stay proprietary.

woelkchen , 9 days ago

It's the part that can legally be distributed with Linux distributions (including in-car OS) due the kernel's license. The actual functionality is in the proprietary user space driver

woelkchen , 9 days ago

It's the legally required minimum to ship cars with Nvidia hardware and an embedded Linux OS.

woelkchen OP , 10 days ago

In a sane country there would be laws to prevent this monopoly shit.

The problem is that Microsoft is no monopoly in gaming.

woelkchen OP , 10 days ago

Their gaming division isn’t a monopoly, but with their parents funding yeah they could be and that’s the problem.

I agree it's a problem but without Microsoft being a monopoly in gaming, no watchdog will do anything about it.

woelkchen OP , 10 days ago

So you want to do something about it after they are a monopoly?

Me? Why me? You were talking about countries and I was explaining that countries don't apply monopoly laws to non-monopolies.

woelkchen OP , 10 days ago

Microsoft is buying up companies to stockpile IP. Simple as that.

And then they do nothing with that.

woelkchen OP , 9 days ago

Their history is full of hold my beer and EEE.

Is it still EEE when they're shooting themselves in the foot all the time? Xbox 360 had a good run but then during the cycle they dropped the ball and even got overtaken by PS3 late. One and Series S/X don't matter that much.

woelkchen OP , 9 days ago

The gaming division isn't. Last good ride was Xbox 360.

woelkchen , 10 days ago

The US Republican Party went so far to the political right, they're in all seriousness neo-nazis now, not conservatives.

woelkchen , 8 days ago

CentOS which doesnt even exist anymore lol

CentOS changed focus but definitively still exists: https://www.centos.org/

CentOS is where AlmaLinux gets its package sources from: https://wiki.almalinux.org/FAQ.html#where-does-almalinux-get-package-sources-how-almalinux-is-built

woelkchen , 12 days ago

I had an Xperia XZ Premium once. Got fooled by their AOSP commitment only to later find out that their camera sensor comes with DRM and installing a ROM will result in severely degraded photo quality.

woelkchen , 12 days ago

Good to know. Too bad for them that other vendors massively increased support cycles in the meantime.

woelkchen , 13 days ago

I had a Garmin hybrid before. Didn't like the OLED screen at all. Fossil's e-ink is just so much superior in the sun.

woelkchen , 15 days ago

I have the Apple dongle. Can't comment on the audio quality, though. The audio output is way too silent.

woelkchen OP , 18 days ago

If it's sabotage, it would be kind of caring.

woelkchen OP , 18 days ago

Again? Aren't Mate and Cinnamon enough Gnome forks already?

woelkchen OP , 18 days ago

Don't advertise the theme as standards compliant then.

woelkchen OP , 18 days ago

Cinnamon was forked off a very early Gnome 3.x version. It diverged a lot since then.

woelkchen OP , 19 days ago

There is no Bixby button any longer. There is a configurable side button. On my S22 it's set to act as power button.

woelkchen , 24 days ago

Who in the hell thought it was a good idea?

Marc Shuttleworth

woelkchen , 24 days ago

I have serious doubts about that due to the role of early Ubuntu in popularizing desktop Linux.

Ubuntu didn't move overall Linux market share at all. It just took the "gateway drug" role from Mandrake/Mandriva.

woelkchen , 23 days ago

Her father was a defense lawyer for OJ Simpson.

woelkchen , 23 days ago

It irks me that she and her family uses the fame of OJ Simpson lawyer Ropert Kardashian to profit off it. Nobody knew the name Kardashian before Simpson murdered two people. A double homicide shouldn't be the launch of a business empire. I find it immortal but I respect other views as well.