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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI tried out KDE for a while due to a missing feature on GNOME, but KDE then broke a similar feature, so I went back to GNOME.

Yeah, that's exactly my experience. I really like the Gnome workflow, but because of disliking some of the dev's attitudes/opinions, and the fact that there's a lot of people hyping KDE (and now companies like Valve funding it), I keep an eye on every KDE release, but it's always the same: I try it, it breaks, I regret.

Maybe it's a "me" issue, but even on Windows, if I use it a bit, I find some bugs, even doing nothing. Gnome is just fine.

I just hope that Fedora Cosmic become a fantastic distro.

I really like GNOME, but it has a few deficiencies that are unlikely to be fixed for a very long time. I like KDE too, but the UX is not as good. In some places it's much better, but overall it's not as well-constructed. Both have bugs.

COSMIC is a great desktop. I ran it as my main desktop for a few weeks. I'd love to try it again when it's stable and has more features like support for graphics tablets and integrated input methods :)

My needs are fairly simple, so I ended up using Mate. When Mandriva died I was looking around for a bit, and found myself using Mint. At the time
--Gnome UI was weird and for me counterintuitive; they had just gone to Gnome 3, with the unofficial motto "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". So that was out.
--KDE was theoretically great with everything I could need, but wonky; whenever I tried it there always seemed to be things that annoyingly didn't work right. That was out.
--Mint's flagship Cinnamon was still kind of rough and also at the time wouldn't let me put an extra panel up the right hand side of the screen. With wide screens, I figure that's a good place for a panel; I like to put my launchers there. That was out.
--Mate was comfortable, not buggy, let me do my panel thing, felt like Gnome 2 or maybe Windows without the annoying shit and with better customization. Went with that. Since then, has never gotten in my way so I've stuck with it.

If I had to decide today, the state of various desktops is way different, so don't know where I might have ended up.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: PenglingNintendo behaving like they are here won't change any opinions over on that side of the fence, unfortunately.

That is unfortunately very obvious, since this is not the first time that they do what they usually do.

And it is the reason that I'm amused by the data-breach. Like the weird Sgt in It Ain't Half Hot Mum says – Oh dear, how sad, never mind. I wonder if they believe in Karma…

Well, since they're Japanese upwards mobilized peasants, I would guess they're practitioners of both Buddhism and Shintoism.
Specifically I think that they're Japanese pure land Buddhists and Shintoists.
Shintoism has no real definition of an afterlife.
Buddhism is quite clear about Karma and reincarnation.
Shintoists believe in ascension through effort.

I think they do believe in Karma, but my knowledge about Japanese religious practice is insufficient to determine whether this results in positive or negative Karma in their eyes if they do.

I think most Japanese people's caring about religion is limited to going to a temple at New Year's and deciding whether they want wedding pictures taken in a traditional Japanese look or a Christian/Western style bridal gown look.

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Quoting: WoodlandorThe article isn’t about Stellaris having two Dick Versions? 🫢

(I can have a child’s sense of humour sometimes, please forgive)

Far more than two, I would imagine. All those aliens.

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Are there people in the world who have the slightest chance of wanting to play Civ V, that don't already have Civ V?

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Which country is that? Sounds like human rights violation to me.

I can't believe he made a false equivilancy and compared the gathering of some machine statistics to the state butchering people alive.

This is a topic where being ignorant and opting-in have serious reprecussions.

There is a difference between the date on a death certificate, and the reality. And strictly speaking from a cold truth & surgical perspective -- the organs are optimal for successful use when they are not harvested post-death.

With that in mind take for example this recent news article from just 3 weeks ago

QuoteNatasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”

The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

https://npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive

Denial is a powerful drug. Truth is sobering. If anyone thinks opting in is still a good idea after considering the facts -- best of luck.

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country [...] and that's right approach as well

Also, could we just not do the "My country is better than you & your country thing" -- if you have to do the "Go My Team" thing, stick to the Platform Wars, or Software or something else that is not divisive if you would kindly.

Hang on a minute. So if I understand correctly, your comment is in opposition to opt-out organ donation, which you characterize as the state butchering living people. But--what state?! Your example is a private hospital ("Baptist Health hospital"), in a place with opt-in organ donation. In the United States, notorious for utterly unethical private health care. It's not clear from the article that the guy was even an organ donor!

So this strikes me as an example supporting exactly the opposite. It shows that it is indeed the state, not the private sector, that should be doing health care. And what your example says to me is, opt-in organ donation is going to tend to result in a shortage of organs, and lead to scrambles to grab whatever organs become available without paying much attention to safeguards. If organ donation is opt-out, so that most patients are organ donors, there will be no such shortage and more care can be taken.

And finally, it drives home for me that the "my country is better than you & your country" is awfully tempting when "your country" is the United States, self-proclaimed indispensable nation, greatest country in the world etc.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NibelheimCheck networth and how AMD is crushing Intel since 2022. Sales don't mean anything.

I would want to claim that sales do in fact mean something, and indeed that things like stock market valuation can often be deeply misleading, especially these days when it can often reflect cannibalizing the firm by using all the profits for share buybacks instead of investing in the firm. Boeing's net worth was sky-high until certain unfortunate incidents revealed they no longer have the ability to build decent planes.

If a company is in the selling chips business, and it is selling chips, you should have a lot more confidence in it than if it is not selling chips.

This is not to say that I have a ton of faith in Intel right now in particular. Just, in your haste to rubbish them don't create a bad rule of thumb that will mislead you.

The present seems make you wrong.

16.3 billions loss last quarter for Intel and now American government think about fusion Intel with AMD.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/01/2024/concerns-grow-in-washington-over-intel

Well, believers are caught up by the reality.

You . . . didn't read what I wrote, did you?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo they say, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean it would stand up in court, so they often prefer not to push it too hard.

They don't push it too hard because it would be terrible publicity.

That too, certainly.

Quoting: GamallMaybe you have more hope for the courts than I do. But my point was that if even the most basic right to access anything at all you paid for is in question, and sadly it is, then "an update broke the game on my Linux and this is bad because, legally, I paid for it" is unlikely to have any impact, and certainly not from the legal angle, because it's a strictly weaker argument.

There's no simple answer to this--it depends very much on the country. And in some countries where strict "property" arguments would fail, there would still be applicable consumer protection laws . . . even if something isn't your "property", someone selling you something and then taking it away could still be violating some law.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Yeap. Here in the UK organ donation was swapped to opt-in for the same good reason Manjaro should use opt-in for their telemetry. Lots of people who aren't bothered either way, will never opt-in, but those who care will always opt-out

I feel like you swapped one or two "out" and "in" somewhere in there.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

I was with you until "as well".

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