TheGrandNagus

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TheGrandNagus,

*Nvidia didn’t support Wayland

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

TheGrandNagus,

I’m like this with windows these days tbh

I get to the desktop and I’m like how the fuck do I even use this thing

TheGrandNagus,

All of Europe, and a bunch of other places, are swinging to the right. It’s not an Anglosphere thing, you just read english-speaking news more.

Funny enough, the UK is in the process of swinging back leftwards again at the moment. Roll on the 2024 general election.

TheGrandNagus,

[Gently pushes an Engineering Ensign against the wall, staring at them with a cold rage]

“If you mess up my engine I’ll come down on you so hard you’ll need to be reassembled by fucking air-crash investigators.”

TheGrandNagus,

Still chromium and therefore supporting of Google’s stranglehold on web standards

Still have cryptobro stuff in the browser (admittedly, though, it’s not difficult to turn off)

And the CEO was fired from Mozilla for being massively homophobic, so I’ll pass on supporting him.

TheGrandNagus,

The life of a skinny man. Do I choose the clothes that fit me right, or do I choose the clothes with usable pockets?

TheGrandNagus,

Not just America. There are non-urban places everywhere.

TheGrandNagus,

Probably my favourite Babylon 5 line ❤️

TheGrandNagus,

26!

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I mean it’s implied that Q is just from a super advanced civilisation, rather than being innately magic. One of the first things we learn from Q is that he believes humanity has a chance of being a society that will some day be on the same level as them.

IMO the Q are presented as more of a Clarke’s Third Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”) kinda thing. Think about how the Mintakans view Picard in the episode Who Watches the Watchers - they view him as being a magical, god-like being, due to them looking at him through the lense of a primative society. That’s how the Q are meant to appear to us.

The Force in Star Wars is never presented that way. It’s literally just a magical force that you can either tap into, or you cannot.

TheGrandNagus,

Crusher eying up those chains 😩

TheGrandNagus,

Crusty jugglers

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Don’t forget when she tortured Tom Paris by giving him 30 days of solitary confinement, no reading material or anything to stimulate him, and gave him purposefully bland food the entire time.

That was already considered a breach of human rights in our unenlightened 20th century, but Janeway saw it as a fitting punishment for… checks notes… saving an entire species of sentient alien life, albeit ones whose ruler decided that they didn’t want to be saved.

TheGrandNagus,

Stones = feet but for weight not length

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I didn’t say the US did… I’m explaining it in a way Americans would understand, because they use feet but unusually don’t use its weight equivalent, and ask in comment sections wtf a stone is (bit of a funny role reversal considering it’s usually US units people are asking wtf they mean)

It’s pretty much just the UK and Ireland that use it, and even then, it’s only used for weighing people, boxing, and horse racing.

A lot of people just say their weight in kg, stone is used less and less as older people die out.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Gnome is amazing, without it I probably wouldn’t bother with Linux. Honestly nothing comes close UX-wise for me. I don’t want yet another Windows clone.

Minimising is a misuse of the gnome workflow, ideally you’d move a window to another desktop. Better than hiding it in some dock IMO.

Maximising I literally never used the button for anyway. I double clicked the title bar, dragged the program to the top, or pressed Super+Up. Aiming for a relatively small button just feels worse than all of those. It’s literally a pointless button and I feel like the only reason anybody has it it just because they’re used to seeing it/having a Windows UX.

It’s fine that you want your UX to work like Microsoft’s, but that doesn’t mean others are bad.

E: people get really upset when you point out that their Windows clones are windows clones lol. It’s not an insult.

TheGrandNagus,

And people keep making up bullshit about him.

He’s not in prison, he’s in a mental institution getting therapy because he has issues and was violent. He straight up told the judge he intends to commit more crimes.

I have zero love for Rockstar’s bs and I do have admiration of this young man’s skills, but he clearly presented himself as someone who can’t just be free without any further intervention.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Exactly, all these redditors and lemmyers (lemmings??) keep saying “oh he should be working for MI5 or a cyber security firm, not getting court-ordered mental support!”

And it makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Even if we ignore him purposely breaking the law while on curfew from breaking the law previously, has been violent, and straight up said he wants to commit more crime, even if all of that is ignored, no company would trust him.

His application would be thrown straight into the bin in my company, and we don’t even deal with stuff that’s that sensitive.

Like seriously, have these people ever heard of the concept of insider threats?

TheGrandNagus,

It’s probably one of those toy cars where pulling it backwards winds up a coil thing inside, then releasing it drives it forward.

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah no. Your typical worker arriving on a ship would not have been fat/overweight, and it’s unlikely that typical native Americans looked like they spent serious time in a gym lol

I also dunno why you’d think only Europeans have age-related hair loss

TheGrandNagus,

Hold on a second, that’s not Gandalf

TheGrandNagus,

Taking a bob the builder joke seriously, cringe af

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah, I’ve seen that. Dubbing Oprah over Attenborough.

I don’t really get it. It’s not like the language is different. Imagine how bizarre it’d be if the UK dubbed over the Simpsons and made them Scouse or something

Actually that’d be pretty funny, I’m all for scouse Simpsons

TheGrandNagus,

Despite running an incredibly busy bar/restaurant/holosuite parlour, as well as dabbling in other legitimate businesses, Quark still finds the time to smuggle in a shitload of contraband.

He has the lobes for business.

TheGrandNagus,

A Christmas Carol was just Picard’s holodeck program. Change my mind.

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