and most people are frankly too dumb or lazy to properly verify outputs.

This is my main argument. I need to check the output for correctness anyways. Might as well do it in the first place then.

It doesn’t matter if you voted Republican. These problems are a direct consequence of Republican policies that they announced before the elections. Fearmongering about “any party left of us will take away your freedoms to limit your resource consumption” is a trait of far-right parties. My point was not about Democrats. It was about people who vote Republican.

The US has a political problem with its voting system that benefits two parties, and they won’t get rid of it. As long as this is the case, no other party matters. Also, Dems usually enact more regulations for the environment; see also California.

I voted neither Reps or Dems because I live in the EU, and my vote always went to Greens or other environmental parties.

At least mining did create some local jobs, though I do think that the area itself loses out because it’s a finite resource and the environmental impact is always there. And as you said, these modern examples don’t really require a big local workforce. It doesn’t stimulate the local economy a bit.

While you might have a point somewhere, I’m not sure it applies in this particular case.

PulseAudio was or still is (I don’t know actually) developed, but you don’t just change a system’s architecture.

creating a new project is easy, and even getting that project into distros can be easier than evolving older projects.

I think this downplays the achievements of PipeWire. Not only is it, contrary to what you write after, backwards-compatible; but if such a project was easy, why aren’t more people / companies doing it?

In my opinion, PipeWire turned Linux systems from being last in multimedia to maybe first place even. Remember capturing the screen or a window before? In fact PipeWire was only extended to audio because the design proved itself so well, so it actually did evolve. Just not from audio to better audio, but from video to video and audio. Saying that starting such a project [edit: is easy] might be technically correct, but then doesn’t make any point.

PipeWire doesn’t need replacement, which can’t be said for its predecessors. PulseAudio, OSS and raw ALSA had their shortcomings. PipeWire blows Windows audio out of the water in my opinion

People should be angry and upset about this. Similar to the story some weeks ago where residents of a small Texan town (seemingly rightfully at first) complained about the noise pollution of a Bitcoin mining farm. Turns out they all voted Republican. It’s always “we’ll deregulate and bring business” just that the modern businesses they bring are a net negative for the area except for the politicians and the companies. Is almost like these regulations were there for a reason.

Both Bitcoin and AI are stupid VC money that only matters in a very small bubble, and they’re not business in a traditional sense. They just leech resources at their compute centers to make the people who own them and live far away rich. I pity all this who didn’t vote for this kind of bullshit. The rest, enjoy your shorter showers and everything else! But remember, it’s the Dems who want to dictate stuff like water usage. Not in my free country! Oh, the water is gone because a greedy Corp stole it? That’s fine, one day it’s my turn to be rich.

No group in history has had it worse than the modern white heterosexual

Except gamers

They lack the commitment and the personal investment… which doesn’t put them above it, which is why the the post might be offensive to them. Hence the two hornet nests remark

You’re both seeing the character differently. It wasn’t only about the murders for the OP. Bateman, in a superficial society, tries to be something special among his peers through meaningless acts (most notably the business cards scene, but even his self-care and self-improvement are ultimately means to the end to be better compared to others). It’s not that he isn’t closer to men than women - he or rather his archetype generally is - but that for these two subgroups within the genders, it’s reversed. (Whether the statement is correct or not is a topic for debate)

Checkmate, socialists

How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?

By removing Character.AI NSFW filters

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Too steep

JPEG is surprisingly decent considering its age (it’s actually Alien technology from the future). Gif… not so much. Gif is horrible

Solution: just stop it once you’re in power, finance it with taxes on the rich. Done

I read only part of the URL and thought this was about puzzles. Never knew the guy made Putty as well

Okay, maybe I misremembered since the trial was some years ago.

Anyhow, just to make it clear, I think her original sentence and the trial were fair. I was just going on a rant about current reporting on her. Which helps the current admin spin the story on her. Let’s see who believes it…

Not the fact that she was probably witness and participated in the rape and abuse of the girls.

You can leave out the “probably”. She’s a convicted felon. She’s not in prison because she was Epstein’s romantic partner. She was accused by raped girls and found guilty by the court. That’s why she’s serving 20 years. She’s just lucky she’s a woman because otherwise this whole affair would be called “Epstein / Maxwell” but it’s like when a hot female teacher commits statutory rape and everyone calls it “had sex with one of her students”.

Not sure how you can read my comment that way, but you do you.

The discussion was implicitly around the changes brought by Vulkan and DXVK which enabled playing Windows Direct3D (this part is important) 11 and later 9 games without performance penalty. You could previously play Windows Direct3D 9 titles using Gallium Nine if you had an AMD card, though this was a bit iffy.

WoW mostly.

That’s OpenGL, so not affected.

Some StarCraft.

Not 3D even.

Minecraft.

Neither Windows nor Direct3D, but Java with OpenGL.

True, if all the games you played were OpenGL-accelerated, these changes didn’t matter. But about 95% of games on the market weren’t.