valaramech

Every accusation is an admission.

Weird, I found the Arch-based one once but now I can’t find it. Everything keeps pointing me back to that page…

EDIT: All I can find now is HoloISO - which seems to be in a reasonable place, I guess.

I’ve been wondering for a little while now if WinApps will work for gaming. It uses a VM in the background but, supposedly, has a “native” experience. Thoughts?

You can also install SteamOS which is literally what the Steam Deck runs.

EDIT: Disregard, I can’t read.

My understanding is that running most of BlueSky is possible on small to moderate hardware. However, running all of BlueSky requires basically cloning 100% of all the content on BlueSky (which, as of Nov 2024, was ~5 TB).

So, like, yes, one can run part of BlueSky or a clone of BlueSky which has none of the main instance’s user’s content without much trouble, but actually running an entire BlueSky stack is eventually going to become cost prohibitive.

I found this write-up to be enlightening on the subject.

Ah, yes, let’s make the already illegal thing even more illegal. As if that ever stopped anyone…

We don’t do that here

Unless you live in California, they kinda do.

I use uMatrix (uBlock’s big brother), so sites that do this generally lose first-party JS privileges real fast.

I read a decent rebuttal to the “paradox” of tolerance. To summarize for those that don’t know, the idea is that tolerance is a social contract. You tolerate everyone that’s behaving according to the contract. Refusing to tolerate someone that has broken the contract isn’t a violation of the contract; it’s required in order to enforce the contract.

You break the rules, you lose the protections. Simple as.

NASA gives SpaceX fat government paychecks. He doesn’t want anything to happen to them.

The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there’s no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.

The only potential loophole that I can discern is that there’s no clear consensus on if Trump would be allowed to run as Vice-President on someone else’s ticket. If he can, then, theoretically, he could run for VP and then have the elected President immediately resign, making him the President again.

We’ve actually discovered a few of these! Though, nothing quite so catastrophic as you might be thinking.

My expectation is that the “mass deportations” will quickly morph into “mass incarceration” will quickly morph into an enslaved workforce.

There will probably be one wave of deportations just to “show we mean business” or something and then the news will move onto the next distraction while the remaining undocumented immigrants are quietly sent back off to do the jobs they were doing only now the business don’t have to pay them.

Best I can do is cyber-psychosis and some shit from 10 years ago

Protip: when you’re looking for something and you find it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it in the first place you looked.

There’s a massive amount of ongoing research into lithium-free batteries. Sodium-ion has gotten a big boost recently and real solid-state batteries are starting to see commercialization.

Social Security Numbers were never intended to be used the way they are. They were expressly for identifying you to the Feds for the purpose of SSI. Business just looked at that and said “hey, that’s a good way to identify people” and ignored the feds when they asked politely for them to fucking not.

The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration

This is, effectively, how oral flee/tick medications work in animals. It basically turns the animal’s blood into a mild poison. The poison is mild enough that it doesn’t affect the animal but it’s enough to kill small insects like flees, ticks, or mosquitoes.

Most of the rest of the civilized world effectively banned individual ownership of guns. Aren’t you more worried about getting stabbed?

Canonical and Debian both target the professional server space. I’ve spent pretty much my entire career working on Debian-based distros.

Hell, the one company I worked for that I expected to use RHEL used Ubuntu for everything, so 🤷‍♂️.