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Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait till the chronic wasting disease shows up. Until then enjoy the venison.

Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The click and distortion is the auto degaussing. Probably happens because the power button is stuck down. You used to push and hold on some models to degauss.

"You should probably just throw it away" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Mint runs on a 17-year-old Acer Aspire One I have. Slowly, very slowly, but perfectly.

Snap out of it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OK that's better than what I've seen. Notepadqq I think was 2.4gb and I said no to that one. But again I don't run Ubuntu.

Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Everything is just mitigations. There is no zero risk.

Snap out of it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The snap store is some proprietary store Canonical runs, and snaps are friggin huge in size. I don't really know though as I don't use Ubuntu anymore

So that's where cows come from huh TIL in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Sort of map-related, but the Longitude series/book is pretty fascinating. This map was drawn without really being able to calculate longitude except by dead reckoning.

Off-Topic Friday in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Anyone pick up any of those cheap Quanshen radios to listen to ATC traffic?

Price and Specs. For new gaming PC in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah OK not really a problem for me then.

Price and Specs. For new gaming PC in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Can you expand on this please? I am on Tumbleweed and just install the nvidia driver and have never had any issues. I go full AMD otherwise but in the land of old crap where I live, I pick up things like used 1060s for cheap.

Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Every now and then a website doesn't work on Firefox.