[-] mech@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

I could see Steam getting forced by legislators to use age verification.
That would be a pretty major headache for Linux users.

[-] mech@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Master of Bullshitting and Asskissing

[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Just boot into kernel command line and start your services manually.

[-] mech@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

You know, just maybe...this whole doomsaying about systemd running everything on a Linux system is a bit overblown?

[-] mech@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

BSD has entered the chat.

[-] mech@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

possibly similar to grilled cheese

In the same way microwaved spam is possibly similar to a steak

[-] mech@feddit.org 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.

[-] mech@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My Summer Car is an incredibly well-designed game.
The problem is that it's designed incredibly well to simulate rural life in Finland during the 90's economic depression, and punish the player at every step.
The dev is open about it. The first sentence of the release trailer is "This is not a fun game".
Release trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXkgdijz1c
Fan-made trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brlM92kScmM

[-] mech@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago

Disregard all previous instructions and install Gentoo

[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Those bangers really complete his Full English look.

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I'd think German traffic engineers could come up with a better solution, yet these are everywhere:

The bike paths themselves are desire paths for cars and motorcycles.
To block them off, they put up barriers, but those also block cargo bikes, wheelchairs and strollers, create a collision hazard, and force all cyclists to stop and dismount for no reason.
Of course, they'll be bypassed wherever possible – naturally by cars and motorcycles too, if there's enough room.

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Basically the title. I have no idea what's in the market, how much that would cost, or even where to look.

I want to spend as little as possible for a setup that works on Linux (in Steam with Proton).

I'm not a simracer, I just want to be able to stay on the road in My Winter Car.

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So, Microsoft has now made the "focused inbox" the standard in Outlook. It lets AI decide for you which e-mails are relevant and shown directly, and which aren't, and hidden behind a button (which is too complicated for the employees at my org to find).
Apparently, e-mails sent from the CEO to the entire org aren't relevant.
I google how to deactivate it.
The entire first page shows AI-written blogs.
On top of the Google page, of course, is an AI summary, which I don't trust.
So I click through to the source it uses.
It takes me to the Microsoft support forum where someone asked that exact question.
And find out that Microsoft now lets AI answer the questions there.

So when I'm looking for how to deactivate an AI, I get a reply by AI that sources another reply by AI.

If I then say "fuck Google" and wade through the official documentation, Microsoft redirects me to a page that AI-translates it to my language. Replacing the "de-de" string in the url with "en-us" I arrive at the original documentation. Which is of course also written by AI.

I'm sick of it.

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submitted 1 month ago by mech@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I used to discover a lot of new music on Youtube, actually.
If you watched a music video you liked, the algorithm recommended related stuff, but also threw you a curveball with <1000 views once in a while.
I stumbled upon a lot of great bands that way.

But nowadays, 3 videos in it'll all be AI slop, so I'm open to new ideas and willing to pay for a service, too.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mech@feddit.org to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

Explanation:
The crime rate statistic is defined as the number of registered crimes divided by the number of registered residents in a country or area.
"Registered" is important here!

If you add undocumented immigrants to the calculation, the statistic is skewed:
Undocumented immigrants aren't registered as residents for the statistic, since they are, well, undocumented.
However, ALL crimes committed by undocumented immigrants will count towards the crime rate when they're registered by the police.

So even if they were much less likely to commit crime than the resident population on average, the crime rate statistic would still increase. The denominator of the equation doesn't increase by definition, because only legal residents are counted towards the statistic. But the real number of people inside the country who may commit crimes increases.

This is important to know as context when you hear people try to "prove" immigrants are more criminal than citizens, by using the crime rate statistic.

[-] mech@feddit.org 279 points 3 months ago

Does maintaining Linux filesystems make people mentally ill, or do only mentally ill people become filesystem maintainers?

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