[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure I get your question. More natural... is more natural better? The desert itself is natural, and it's expanding due to winds carrying the sand away - desertification. That's also a natural process, but it's not good for living things like vegetation and animals. It's hard for life to flourish in the desert.
"Making the desert bloom" we can argue is less natural, because it's made through human intervention. But it sure as hell will be good for the flora and fauna that will be inhabiting that area. And it'll be good for us humans too, and for "the planet/the environment" we can say, because food can't grow in the desert, humans and animals can't live in the desert, etc. There's no water, no shade, no food, nothing in a desert.
Afaik (and I'm no expert in the matter, I just saw videos and articles about this) Spain is also having issues with desertification, and so is Africa, and other places too probably. Humans there are trying to stop the process too, by building "green walls" and stuff. I think it's a good endeavor.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago

Israel needs that oil for genocide.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

They can and they will do that, but they're manufacturing consent ahead of time, so that when they do it people will cheer for it.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 41 points 7 months ago

Lol what a hot take.

No, we expect them to regulate a multi-billion dollar industry because that's what governments do. Healthcare is a multi billion dollar industry. So is agriculture, and many others.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 47 points 9 months ago

Wow, real mask off moment, though they were using the "German law" pretext for a while now.

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submitted 11 months ago by highduc@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Is it just me, or are lots of mods just banning anyone with a dissenting opinion?

I like to be a bit contrarian, play devil's advocate, stuff like that, so sometimes I know what I post isn't going to jive with the community I'm posting in, but I think there's value in that. It starts a discussion and it offers a different pov.

Maybe I'm wrong and stupid, and someone can reply and explain why. I think that would be a net benefit. But what happens instead is my post gets deleted and I get banned. :/

I genuinely think this is a real issue and it leads to echo chambers, but am curious to see what other ppl think? Am I just salty? :)

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submitted 1 year ago by highduc@lemmy.ml to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hello everyone!

I have the events from Nextcloud show up in the calendar, and that all works fine, but every update (at least I think it's due to updates) it all gets deselected and I have to tick the boxes again for events to show up.

I wouldn't mind even a hacky solution like a cron job to run at every boot or something like that - but I don't know where calendar settings are stored/configured.

Any help/advice is welcome!
Thanks!

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 years ago

Oh no, not the golf courses!

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Afaik the charges were just a tool fabricated to be used against him.
He exposed US war crimes and therefore they made him an enemy of the state and want to make an example out of him, to show others that when going against the US you have no rights - they can torture you, imprison you forever, etc.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 78 points 2 years ago

I think people who dislike the headphone jack must be young and not have (good) wired headphones.
Older people (older than teenagers and young adults I mean) often have a few pairs of good headphones they got over the years, and it's a massive waste to just throw them away and buy wireless because that's what the trends demand. And in most cases wireless won't sound as good, because the budget needs to go to bluetooth chips, and dacs, and batteries and all that crap, instead of just focusing on audio.

According to Wikipedia, 'The original 1⁄4 inch (6.35 mm) version descends from as early as 1877', and it's been an industry standard since then.
You can use it not just for headphones but as a line out, to connect all kinds of audio devices between them. You can hook up your phone to a car audio system, an old radio (if it has input, I think most do), a guitar pedal or an amplifier, a reverb or an effects unit, etc., just with the "magic" of wires.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by highduc@lemmy.ml to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hello folks! I’ve been having this issue seen in the screenshot. I get this Wayland window and krunner and other things run in there. After a time I even get the login screen inside the wayland window. If I close it I lose krunner, alt-tab, and other keyboard shortcuts.

Not sure how this is happening or how to make it go away. I did try Wayland at one point but it wasn’t quite working out for me and since I reverted back to X11 I get this issue.

If anyone’s wondering, my main issue with Wayland was that it wasn’t setting the DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variables for some reason, and this would cause all kinds of software like Steam and Firefox to not even launch. I tried setting them manually but that didn’t go do well either.

Edit: Thank you all! With your help I managed to find and fix it - it was my fault due to a systemd override launching a service after kwin_wayland.

[Unit]
Requires=plasma-kwin_wayland.service
After=plasma-kwin_wayland.service
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

That was the issue. Remved the override and everything works!
I even tried Wayland again and now the display variables are defined correctly from the get go and everything works - although this has been on again off again so it might stop working at one point.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 years ago

Regarding the Android bit, it's so cancerous because everything is locked down and users have no control over the OS. They don't have admin rights on their own device. Nothing to do with Linux, that's jus the kernel. Android + GNU utils & root access would be completely different.
People shit on the GNU/Linux meme, but Android actually proves that just the Linux kernel can be put in an OS that's just as hostile to the user as anything proprietary.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 73 points 2 years ago

If you're considering buying one you might want to take into account that they removed the headphone jack so they can sell their own wireless buds and headphones.

[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Garry pulled Linux support from Rust so imho he can get fucked too :)

Edit: to clarify I mean after I and other people purchased it with Linux support.
So now he knows what it feels like when you purchase something and the seller changes terms on ya. Nice!

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