Notices by Alyx Hinata ??? (alyx@gameliberty.club)

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Just discovered that Tim Pool sponsored a Nascar car... what is this world we live in?!

@Breaking911
Electromagnetic radiation is studied all the time, and nothing ever comes out of it. So that's gonna be a dead end.

SSRis... while likely too many people take them, I don't think every chronic disease sufferer out there takes them. In general worth investigating their effects more, but I don't think this will help his cause.

I have my doubts about vaccines, since I doubt there's any of them not used in other parts of the world. But if they think they can find a particular unique thing about how US vaccinates people that maybe has an effect, I'm not against doing studies.

My bet would be on processed foods and maybe pesticides.

@j @bajax @Humpleupagus @p @TeaTootler @lanodan @Noraweed

I can only play CED vinyl discs.

Jokes aside, my browser (Vivaldi) plays only the AV1 one.

@PinochetsCommieCopter
If your church wants women ministers that's fine. It's still weird considering... well... the whole of Christianity. But whatever.
What I don't get is... why the fake beard?! I feel like the Christian God had something to say about lying.

@LukeAlmighty @matrix Is this about it being a reference to how Indian scammers will steal from you via gift cards? Or is it something else?

@j @icedquinn
Uh huh... Sure. Let me ask you something. How many mirrors do you think a Kenyan household has on average?
I'm sure the study is accurate, because it does make sense when you realize children from US or Canada are gonna come across far more mirrors and shiny surfaces on a daily basis, and get a chance to "exercise" their ability to recognize what is going on in those reflections.

Maybe you think this proves something about the inherent genetic potential for intelligence in people from Kenya, or Peru, or whatever. But I think the title referencing culture is more accurate. When you live in poverty, in dirt houses, you're not gonna have the privilege to play with shiny mirrors. So a cultural effect.

@kaia
Watch me trigger everyone: Windows.

@j I don't get it. Is this supposed to be a joke, or just straight up racism?

@LukeAlmighty I mean, what did you expect? The Fedi psychos, racists, and trannies to come together and hold your hand?

@icedquinn One that gets anxiety when it needs to come to your door to ask you to pay your taxes.

@Suiseiseki @j
Bro, stop coping. GNU is the biggest failure around. Literally nobody takes it seriously.

@j At least with Windows, when USB 5 comes out, I'll know it's gonna be supported from the get go. Meanwhile, with Linux, I'll think it has had support all along, only to discover a year after the tech dropped, that they're finally finishing up the drivers.

Literally had this experience with USB 4. It was all in the news for a while and everybody made the hype videos on it with the brand new devices that supported it. And then after the news died off completely, I find a story in phoronix that they've finished adding something regarding the USB4 standard, and now Linux finally fully supports it. And I had a massive WTF moment. Something similar happened with support for some feature of older Intel CPUs.
Of course this is not actually about USB4. I haven't even encountered, let alone used an USB4 device. But it's a big example for me for how badly things are actually being run behind the scenes. Every once in a while I hear news about Linux finally implementing something that was considered standard on Windows for long enough, that I didn't even second guess it that Linux must have support.

Sometimes Linux is great with driver support, but other times it is utter shit, and the people involved seem to be making conscious decisions as to do the exact opposite of taking logistical measures to improve things. Didn't you share an article about how the single maintainer of some WiFi drivers decided to quit? Like how in the hell do you allow a single person to be responsible for that in the first place?! Let alone get blind-sighted by the guy taking his leave, especially when WiFi support has been a notorious issue for Linux? Why didn't the community take active measures to get more people involved in that part of development before?

Whether Windows is good or bad, at least I know that it is the way it is by choice of the people up top. Linux and open source are good my mere chance, not because of the competency of everyone involved. That's how I see things, and that's not a good position to be in. This entire thing is being kept aloft thanks to Linus. When he goes away, if things don't improve in leadership, Linux is gonna flop faster than Windows 8.

@j The only reason I'd participate in such an auction is if I could burn the sketch right after receiving it.

The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
The entire free/open/whatever you want to call it ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape (not even proper Scotch brand tape, no, that's proprietary of course, can't have that. Cheap, knockoff tape).

If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus. But they won't even be able to do that right.

@matrix At least the right wing puritanism isn't gonna get my kids sterilized.

@pomstan @matrix
That's a thing only in 'Murica. And even there, it's not mandatory. Just a shitty practice kept in place by nurses and shitty feminists.

@djsumdog @j
They can still have a better performance/$ than nVidia, but that doesn't mean they'll compete at the high end too. I don't want them to abandon the high end market either, but let's face it, when was the last time AMD really managed to be on par with nVidia? On the GPU side, we might have to end up putting our hopes with Intel.

@j Yay! More broken hardware on launch!
Nvidia has not been having a good time. At the very least, hopefully nothing starts burning this time around.

@LukeAlmighty
First mistake: having your mom in your Facebook list
Second mistake: having a Facebook account.

Otherwise, yeah, I feel you. I used to have that same problem (but not cosplay pictures).

@LukeAlmighty Cute, but I'm getting a "designed by AI" vibe from it.