droopy4096

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[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

effective city planning would be better like a lot better. Having environmental clues and enforcement techniques is way more effective as it prevents and not punishes. Person injured from speeding incident is not going to be saved by $500 or whatever fine. When driver physically feels unsafe crossing certain speed limit - there's no reason to monitor or fine him/her. "More cameras" is a cheap brand bandaid that peels off two hours later. It is trying to save people "after the fact", when it's way too late

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

there is available independent research, but since it's an expensive endeavor and industrial complexes funding "their own" research to say "it's fine" (insert meme here) chances of quality research dropping into our laps are slim-to-none. So best we can do is by experimentation and observation ourselves. Several chronic conditions magically disappeared for me by paying more attention to my food origins and methods of preparation, moving away from pollution centers etc. People around me report very similar outcomes so I'm willing to trust those scarse and rare "contradictory" reports pitting industrialized lifestyle against "simpler" life.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago

high horse? Hardly. Not having principles and being opportunistic is how they lost last election. Sitting on their hands all this time approving republican bills is a confirmation to that. Epstein has ZERO impact on average worker at this point. Yes criminals have to be in jail and human trafficking is a disgust. However this will affect lives of hundreds while millions are still not protected and Democrats have no intent of protecting working class. Biden flirted with more pro-worker stance and with Haris things were back to status quo. So no, my friend no high horse, just looking realistically.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

that probably goes along with that $20M zuck offered to AI professionals. Yeah, we'll pay you $20M a year, you'll be spent around 6mon into the job your productivity will be 60% so.. (taps calculator) we get f#ck all for a sh%t ton of money and destroy people... letsdoit!

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tech could be an answer, but you have to also pause and think about the impact here. When FB or twitter screws up we shrug and move on, when people get improperly audited it could be literally life and death situation, or approval of drug grants for those with "exotic" illnesses. Modernisation of work has to happen however "just throwing tech" at it won't work. Instead of laying off 60k people they should be trained and equipped with better tools to do their jobs faster and better. So tech would be part if that, tech alone is a sure recipe for disaster. Now if we add government tech procurement standards - I see no hope in tech at all as surely winner of any contract will deliver past due date, over budget and with missing features.

One way to flip it would be mandating procurement OSS products only, produced in the open from day 1. This may help expose deficiencies early on and call BS o over-billed hours if all commits are accounted for. Still you need people with domain knowledge to steer those processes and to be able to actually scope future solutions.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

China has aggressively acted towards neighbouring countries, redrawing borders and setting up for outright occupation. Assuming that now is not the time of military unity is reckless and dangerous. Yes we do have other problems we need to tackle but even if we do tackle them and not China expansionist politics we soon will find ourselves outgunned and with no allies. It's a tough call but oversimplifying it down to "we don't need to spend more on military" is very uninformed.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Couple of wild guesses: lack of exposure to industrialized food chain, settlements outside of cities designed for "pollen storms", lack of exposure to chemicals... "stupmed"? Hardly. We all kind of know it just rarely admit that progress comes at a price.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (27 children)

nah, opportunistic as ever. Main goal here is to stick it to republicans not some "principles"

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Market is over-saturated with devs at the moment North or South 🙁. SRE-style jobs is a lot less co.petitive if that's

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (6 children)

tramping religious rights of locals is fine, but don't you dare to touch christianity. Christian churches get tax exemptions etc. I'm an atheist but this is a glaring discriminatiin. You either disregard all religions or tiptoe around all of them there's nothing in between

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

coming from the guy who helped to pay the way into trumpism... yeah they should "toughen up" but it should've come already in his tenure.

 

Fedora 40 running on Dell laptop with KDE spin has done it twice on separate occasions: after rebooting for updates it just hangs after applying them. Is this something known? I've looked on google but could find only similar queries in other places with no answers or "just hard reset it" answers. I've been running Fedora for over a decade now and haven't seen such behaviour until recent releases. Some config drift? something else?

 

Pi Cap has everything I need for my project in terms of function, however their howto page has 2022 update stating that Bullseye does not work with it and one needs to use Buster. I would appreciate any pointers.

 

Is there an abridged version (1-2 pages) of main game math mechanics for v3.5 or v5?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by droopy4096@lemmy.ca to c/fedora@lemmy.ml
 

Does anyone else experience "avalanche" of app crashes on each thunderbolt dock unplug with Fedora 41 KDE edition?

I have file an issue and linked some of the crash reports already ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329570 ) but I am curious whether it's something specific to my setup or a general problem?

 

I haven't looked at youtube content for a while, however lately I can't watch any videos using libretube. Something about "prove you're not a bot" which I assume is a consequence of google's crusade against add-ons and 3rd party tools. Is there a way around it or are we done with YT?

 

I'm trying to make my own window sills in our new house. We have windows rather deep so depth is around 9in and wide - 42/60in. I'm looking at read oak vs douglas fir. Red oak is mainly available in sub 8in cuts. The only one I found in 9in is 3/4 thick. Would that be sufficient to support plant pots or potentially human sitting on them? However Fir I can get in various sizes so I was looking at 1in thick.

Which one would be more practical? Oak at 3/4 or Fir at 1in?

My reading was that fir is sufficiently softer so plant pots may leave imprints etc. or am I wrong there?

 

I've tried several clients now, and unlike Reddit clients I cannot locate any of the posts/comments I've upvoted in the past? Is that a bug/feature of the platform?

 

I just found out that sometime in the last month or so while doing regular updates Wine got bumped to 8.12... (likely from 8.0) and my games have gone haywire: Neverwinter Nights and Diablo2 would kind of start but then halt. Switching to desktop and back unblocks games for the next few seconds and then things repeat.

I've downgraded wine to 7.12 and things are working back.

Question: should I have done some migration step for 8.12 to work properly or is it even a known issue?

I am using PlayOnLinux for Diablo2 with System Wine and Vanilla System wine for NWN.

(crossposted from reddit)

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