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tyrant ,

Yeah I don't see it. I'm assuming Duolingo messed up your game but it's not obvious?

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Rwanda is $1 million per migrant? Total costs $30 mil? I have a feeling there were not very many Rwandan migrants deported

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What do the whales need this oil for? Is there oil in other animals? Is there human oil?

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Glad the dude swimming in sewage run off, doing cocaine from toilet seats, and had a parasitic brain worm is in charge of our health

tyrant OP ,

US answer is perfect. thanks for the info.

tyrant OP ,

High price and no bargaining doesn't seem like a good thing.

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Unless the servers can have separate channels and interface like slack or discord then it's not going to work for most people. Correct me if they have implemented this. I tried using it for quite a while and it was just clumsy. Most people want/need a server with channels that can have categories

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Just tried and failed to install cinny flatpak. Something about an error dispatching to Wayland display. The screenshot looks nice though

The race to save Wikie and Keijo: the mother and son orcas left in a shut-down aquarium ( www.theguardian.com )

In a sprawling aquarium complex in south-eastern France that once drew half a million visitors a year, only a few dozen people now move between pools that contain the last remaining marine mammals of Marineland Antibes. Weeds grow on walkways, the stands are empty and algae grows in the pools, giving the water a greenish hue. ...

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What would happen if they were just set free?

Hey, guys. Is it a good idea to dunk PC parts in isopropyl alcohol?

I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular ...

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I don't think you'll get the results you are hoping for. I'm not sure it would harm it but you'd need some sort of agitation or scrubbing to actually get it clean. I'd propose a soft toothbrush and iso. Or if you're dedicated to dunking it, maybe try one of those ultrasonic tubs

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Matrix is good but not as simple as discord. Lots of users aren't going to like it.

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All the options you listed are downstream from a company. Fedora is from red hat, mint is a fork of Ubuntu, open suse is from... Suse? I can't remember. That's not necessarily a bad thing but figured I'd mention it.

Any distro you choose can look however you want. This is something I didn't understand at first. Your version of Linux lives below the desktop environment. You can install (almost) whatever desktop environment you want on top of your version. Then you can tweak your desktop however you want. Some distros come pre-tweaked but don't pick a distro on looks alone.

So really your deciding between 3 base Linux distros. Most "distros" are just the base system with some choice drivers and software to help you get going. A few of them are tweaking at the kernel level. You can do the raw version of any of the base Linux versions if you prefer to control and limit any software on your system.

Debian - updates slowly but stable, focus on testing before stable releases. You might miss new Linux features but unless you're running the latest hardware you probably won't know the difference. Distros based on Debian: Ubuntu, mint, popos, elementary os (looks like macos!), a hundred other ones.

Arch - updates rapidly with the risk of something not working. If you want bleeding edge features or every drop of performance choose an Arch distro. Just know that you MIGHT need to help it along. I don't think arch distros being difficult is as true as it once was. There are some excellent distros out there making arch accessible and easy for the masses. Notable distros based on arch: endeavor, cachyos (my personal favorite right now), omarchy

Fedora: kind of a mix giving you fairly up to date software with a stable system. Honestly it's probably the best place for a newbie to start. It's not perfect though and you'll want to read up on install if you have a Nvidia card. Fedora based distros: nobara, bazzite, but most people just use vanilla fedora.

Does Podcast Piracy Even Exist??

Podcasts seem to be the only type of media impossible to find on torrent indexing sites. I listen to a lot of podcasts since I have no friends and want to still engage parasocially. I'm fine with ad supported ones, but would like to explore some of the HBO-style ones. I'm not even a lost customer for them as I live below the ...

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I just use antenna pod and if I wanted to I'm pretty sure I could download the episodes through that and put them on a server. I'm not sure what that would really accomplish for me though.

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Oh no is that his hair I see?! How rude

Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch ( hackaday.com )

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distinct visuals that make these different systems easy to distinguish. Yet whereas the N64 mostly suffered from a small texture buffer, the PS’s ...

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I've not bought this in my adult life but was recently reminiscing about it and was planning on buying some. I better do it now!

Senate Dems Who Pushed Meatier ICE Reform Shy Away From Criticizing Schumer’s Softer Package ( theintercept.com )

The Democratic leaders unveiled their official list of demands ahead of the deadline on Wednesday, calling for ending indiscriminate arrests, prohibiting masking, requiring ICE and CBP officer identification, protecting sensitive locations such as churches and schools, halting racial profiling, upholding use of force standards, ...

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Dems are on thin ice!

Looking for a good 2 or 3 in 1 coat for commuting

Looking to get a coat as my last one has stuffing coming out the sides, but its lasted for a solid 10 years. Looking to get a coat that has multiple layers and an outer shell to use for various weather in winter biking for commuting. Looking to wait towards end of season to try to find some end of season sales, but want to know ...

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I seem to have similar use as you but use layers. I've had best luck with chrome wool hooded sweatshirt with a rain shell over the top. If it's really cold I'll put on a wool base layer too. It's really warm and lasts a long time. I wear the sweatshirt nearly year round.

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Here's my combo, the rain shell could be swapped out for any of the other million brands that make basically the same thing. It's kind of pricey but versatile, warm, and lasts a looonnnngg time

Wool base layer: https://www.smartwool.com/en-us/men/base-layers/tops/mens-classic-thermal-merino-base-layer-crew/SW016349.html?dwvar_SW016349_color=001
Wool blend hoodie: https://chromeindustries.com/products/mens-merino-cobra-3-0-hoodie
Rain shell: https://www.outdoorresearch.com/collections/mens-rain-jackets/products/mens-stratoburst-stretch-rain-jacket-300893

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News ( store.steampowered.com )

When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must ...

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They should just release the steam controller while they figure out RAM stuff.

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Maybe try The Fisherman by John Langan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisherman_(novel)

I usually read sci Fi stuff but that was a good horror mysterious one.

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I'm old and have never experienced a lady smelling "fishy". Don't worry about this. There's definitely better things to worry about.

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This one thing!! We could tell you in the title what it is, but we won't!

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Have you tried setting a filter for "act blue"? Might be helpful. I donated $10 to one particular charity and I swear they spent $50 in postage asking me to donate more.

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I strongly disagree with the order. To me, nobara has broken more than any of these (quite frequently actually), pop os is clunky and not intuitive, cachy is surprisingly the most stable for me and easiest despite it being arch based. Bazzite I use on my home living room computer and it's been pretty solid. I'm a little concerned with it though because I believe they are having some maintainer issues that might impact future releases.

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You might just want to recommend fedora with the caveat that he'll need to do a little setup with drivers. Bazzite and nobara are both fedora distros.

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Once I tried to install a different desktop environment and that didn't go well. Another time it just... Stopped working? I hadn't changed anything. It seemed like a Nvidia thing but I never did recover it. Ended up doing a fresh install. If you're 2 months in you've done better than I did! It might just not like my machine

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Yeah I thought it would be great and bought into the hype. It ended up being one of the more frustrating distros for me. Maybe your right about the de being included in base packages? Regardless, it lost me after the second issue. On cachy now and happy. Plus I really like the little terminal update animation thing if pacman C eating the progress bar.

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That's not what I said. My experience with nobara personally hasn't been great and while I use bazzite at home for gaming PC but wouldn't recommend it at this moment because it seems that the dev team is having some drama. I use cachy daily and find it wonderful and super easy. Not the arch difficulty that I was expecting. It's a downstream.

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I too was scared of the arch but it's been as easy as any other distro so far

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ICE Director Says Officers Are Now Allowed To Make Arrests Without Warrants ( www.techdirt.com )

The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking for anyone non-white enough to be foreign, all rights were considered expendable. ...

tyrant OP ,

Great context and additional info. The archive link is throwing an error for me

tyrant OP ,

The archive link is still throwing an error for me saying it's not safe and then dead ends but the nyt link works. I'll add it to the main post

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With 18 dollars you can be stressed about rent. That's something

I have the privilege of making up my (5yo) son's baseball team name and logo this season.

Someone got visited by the good idea fairy and now I have a hilarious opportunity here. Its a mixed gender, 3-6 year old team, I get two words, 3 colors, and a logo. What's the funniest thing I could do for my kiddo? We vote on the name in a couple days but I want to come loaded with 3 or 4 options. ...

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They lost me already. I've migrated away from base Firefox.

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There are many stops between mint and arch. I'd personally point a new user towards fedora or maybe another Debian distro

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For the life of me I can't find the alien spaceship or 2001 a space Odyssey. Granted, I've had several drinks and looking on mobile....

The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after Super Bowl LX ( www.espn.com )

The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after Super Bowl LX, league and ownership sources familiar with the arrangement told ESPN, ending years of questions about when the team would seek new ownership following the 2018 death of former owner Paul G. Allen. ...

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE ( www.404media.co )

The tool lets ICE populate a map with potential deportation targets, bring up dossiers on each person, and view an address “confidence score” based on data sourced from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other government agencies. This is according to a user guide for ELITE 404 Media obtained. ...

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We have thought about this but we opted out, since we do not see all too much benefit from our side. Handheld stuff is not our major focus. Also, we had some concerns that this could get a "burocractic loophole", which seemd to be more or less true so far.

Additionally, to us all this "initiative" locked like an emergency rushed thing, so that Bazzite finds new kernel maintainers and for other technical stuff after kicking the maintainer, which basically made most integration work for them

We neither want to be associated with "Playtron" too. There are more reasons, but Ill keep them out of the public

tyrant OP ,

I had no idea this was a triggering topic! I didn't even know what the editions were before this thread.