AnUnusualRelic

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You just gotta think different in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

That's what you get for dabbling with computers. Of course there's many ways to do one thing. There's many ways to do one thing with Lego, for fucks sake. Do you really expect computers to be simpler?

Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I remember that thing, we wrote the network stack for it. I'm still not sure what it was supposed to achieve.

Is Elon crying now? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

So, I had to look it up, and first grade in the US is children that are 6 to 7 year olds. Which means that oddly enough, Donald seems to have told something true in his biography.

Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don't think Apple makes any game consoles.

I see these MFs on a daily basis in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's because the computer most people actually need is a tablet.

I see these MFs on a daily basis in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Installing Windows machines 10+ years ago wasn't much more fun either... (I'm not sure it's any more fun these days, but I haven't done it in ages, so I've no idea).

I see these MFs on a daily basis in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In the last twenty years, I've pretty much only had nVidia hardware for graphics with very few issues.

Of course that wasn't in laptops. Having a GPU in a laptop is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion.

I see these MFs on a daily basis in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've been using Linux for over thirty years and the nice looking App Stores that have appeared those last few years have always been shit and have always been mostly broken in various ways. I don't know why.

On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

Stephen Miller throws on-air tantrum after MSNBC analyst dares to question Trump in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A hunter2?

Ukraine updates: Expectations high ahead of Trump-Putin call in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I don't think that the expectations are actually that high. Not since everyone has heard the various Russian declarations.

.#EverythingHappensForAReason in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Is that what the kids called it back then?

Frontline report: 50% of Moscow’s fuel supply at risk after Ukrainian drone strike on its largest oil refinery in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The fuel rations have been increased to two litres!

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Loony religions in the US and consequences. (lemmy.world)
 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

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Is there a way to fix scrollbars in Plasma 6 (lemmy.world)
 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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