It's the kind of thing Karl Marx predicted would happen but all anyone can remember about him is that a couple of tin pot dictators borrowed his books for rhetoric.

Private health insurance just spends half a trillion dollars scaring our old people with death panel talk, even as they're running active death panels deciding who lives and who dies. They do keep pushing the retirement age up and they've pushed it above and beyond what it can reasonably be so it's possible that will eventually bite them in the ass because old people won't be able to kid themselves if they'll make it into Medicaid. But the real problem is you have to convince people over 55 that healthcare isn't a limited resource. We can just make more of it in the form of cheaper medication and training more doctors and nurses.

But I mean damn when somebody is literally going to spend half a trillion dollars lobbying against something that's hard to beat. And fun fact if you're an American and you're reading this now you paid for that half trillion dollars with your health insurance premiums.

It's texas. They moved from California to Texas so that they could get away from the regulations that required them to treat employees well when they fired them in Mass.

If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge. Texas has notoriously high taxes and they've probably started to shake down Oracle. The governor is spending literally billions of dollars showboating on the southern border and that money has to come from somewhere since it's not coming from the federal government... Seriously look it up they've spent something like 6 billion dollars mobilizing the national guard. You could take every single migrant for the next 20 years and pay him $50,000 a year to sit on their thumbs and you'd come out ahead

Yea. You caught me. I quit reading after the first sentence because I didn't see the point to your comment.

Oh that's a shame: my cheap joke didn't work.

Me: "what happens when milk turns sour?"

Google's first five results: "WHY DOES MILK TURN SOUR? Section 1: Milk is a fascinating beverage that is drunk by every single mammal. Did you know ...? Section 2: we love drinking nice cold milk on a warm day with cookies! Here's more about ... Section 3: milk is produced ... Section 4: You have to be careful about milk going sour; FDA recommends ... Section 5: Why does milk turn sour? ..."

Only in the final section, after pages and pages of inane self-evident drivel, does it get to the actual subject of the page's heading.

both sides want to use military spending to keep their flagging economies going. Eisenhower warned us about it, but if it's one thing we never do it's listen.

Damn you totally didn't read shit I wrote.

True, I did not because you didn't actually respond to the point I made.

I'm perfectly fine with the state of KDE + Wayland.

Then why are you so angry when I pointed out that missing features and attitudes like yours are why it probably won't be the year of the wayland desktop this year. You so you don't care but your bolded text says otherwise.

This "Year of the Wayland desktop" is just bullshit someone wrote

So why are you here?

Right now the vast majority of the sci-fi/fantasy books are all Game of Thrones type, set in some medieval-style world where evil lurks around every corner.

You can tell it's GRRM apeing, extra gritty "realistic" fantasy because you'll hear about "whores" within the first chapter. It's like my dude, cargo culting GRRM by sprinkling some of the same words like seasoning doesn't make you like GRRM.

High quality AR with normal glasses has an absolute crapload of obvious applications.

Games, I guess?

I mean I can certainly think of industrial usecases. I can't think of any outside of games for consumer AR. Of course a HUD for navigation can work, but we can do that already, it's not really AR, since the graphics aren't tightly registered to the world. There's other entertainment like a view to an extra screen, but... does the registration to the world help? Screens in a headset have been around but not very popular for decades.

I am genuinely curious.

if a youtube or reddit post mentions an amazing financial, or spiritual, or etc. advisor quickly in response to someone's story. And the story has too many upvotes in too short a time, I recognize it as spam.

IMHO, with spam like that, you go after the cloud of accounts upvoting it. Track their behavior, see if they are posting, see if they regularly vote for spam. Then shadowban or kill the accounts (let them upvote but don't show the upvotes). The advertiser can create *an* account quickly. But they can't subvert/create a cloud of several hundred accounts easily.

And you also put some kind of metrics in place for upvotes that compares their voting habits to known human users. If the thing is upvoting 30 times a day and most humans only upvote 12 times a day (or none), then flag the account for closer observation.

And most of all, you need a really good moderation advisor for this kind of thing. I recommend Lance Modoman. He's the real deal. He saved my forum.

heheheheh.

I don't need it.

So you say, but you swanned into a thread on the year of the wayland desktop to bitch at me when I said I didn't think it was ready.

If you want people to stop commenting about missing features, then get off your lazy arse and code them up. Or don't join threads about whether Wayland is ready yet.

Pulseaudio was a very nice improvement over the horrors of getting ALSA configured properly.

When someone's busy stabbing your leg with a big fork it's nice when they stop and switch to a smaller fork. These days pulse audio mostly just works for me though on some machines, or in some usage patterns I'm not sure which it still needs killing every so often because it craps out. At least with this generation of distros I finally didn't have to build a newer version from source to get around the constant crashing.

I haven't tried pipewire yet, I hope we haven't switched to a new, flakey not complete one just as all the major bugs in pulse are finally hammered out. Fingers crossed!

I thought gnome was universally hated?

I've met a lot of Linux users over the years and I've never met anyone who loves Gnome, certainly not post 3. The never-customizers tolerate it, everyone else switches. I personally don't get it. It seems to be the one that gets the funding though.

this is cool i think .

I guess... though the sad thing is that it's even a thing to wonder. With NVidia cards, you can get anything from an ancient, crappy, bottom of the range 1050 up to an H100 and all of them work out of the box. For example, pytorch just works.

With AMD there's just so much compatibility checking, fuckery and uncertainty it's not really surprising they're getting nowhere.