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TheGrandNagus, to risa in eight months to go

Can’t believe all those eugenics wars happened in the 90s and the press didn’t report on it

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%

I appreciate GIMP but nah, it’s objectively inferior to Photoshop by a long shot and development is really slow. I mean they’ve only just got to GTK 3.

It’s comparatively difficult to use.

Plus they insist on sticking to that infantile name. I don’t know how they’re expecting to get industry support with a name like that.

Don’t get me wrong I use it every once in a while but damn they’re so far behind it’s a joke. And the worst part is they seemingly don’t want the project to advance.

TheGrandNagus, to risa in Malcolm "Trip" Tucker

[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, to risa in Q intentionally leaves his cart in the blind spot behind the most expensive car in the lot

Quark: returns the shopping trolley, but only to get the coin deposit back

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) to risa in Nerds of equal standing.

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, to risa in Nerds of equal standing.

26!

TheGrandNagus, to risa in Nerds of equal standing.

Probably my favourite Babylon 5 line ❤️

TheGrandNagus, to memes in Almost got me there Google!

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, to memes in Duh !

Imagine not being part of the SCART masterrace

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) to linux in Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)

Been on Wayland since 2016 and to this day my only issues (apart from when I had an Nvidia card for a few months, that is…) was video sharing in Discord/steam in-home streaming, both of which still don’t work right.

Other than that, it’s been great. Multi-monitor works way better, far fewer bugs, my desktop feels a lot more fluid and smooth.

On laptops, Wayland+Gnome gestures are exceptional, putting even Apple’s gestures to shame. I cannot stress enough how good of a job Gnome+Wayland does with trackpad gestures. It makes other gesture systems, especially ones under X11, feel like they were cobbled together by a Fallout 3 modder.

Overall Wayland has been great for me. I just wish Discord would fix their shitty app.

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) to risa in Competency on a four shift rotation.

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, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future

*Nvidia didn’t support Wayland

TheGrandNagus, to memes in How could the EU do this??

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, (edited ) to piracy in GTA V source code has been leaked.

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, to piracy in GTA V source code has been leaked.

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.

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