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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up "low water pressure" as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write "water splashes out of the sink" as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Pop!_OS uses COSMIC (a modified GNOME), not KDE.

Linux Mint uses Cinnamon (a modified GNOME 3) or MATE (a modified GNOME 2), not KDE.

The answer to "why not Debian" is that I try to install Debian first every time, but if it doesn't work for whatever reason I grab Kubuntu instead of trying to troubleshoot it. 3 of the 4 desktop computers I've tried to install Linux on lately ended up with Kubuntu instead of Debian.

(For my personal desktop that tends to have a bleeding-edge graphics card at the time of building/installing, that's understandable. For the other computers, for other members of my family who don't need the latest and greatest, Debian's failure to support several-year-old hardware -- at least in the installation environment, without fiddling -- was less forgivable.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, hostile design (or "hostile architecture," which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it's not just when it's bad, it's when it's intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.

The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can't (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

When your adventuring party Mansa Musas the local economy.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I already know about it, so there's no need to tell me.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Keep reading, down to the "Chrome/139.0.7258.158" part.

For historical reasons, Chrome's user-agent string says "Mozilla" and then "AppleWebKit" and then "KHTML" before finally saying "Chrome"

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (10 children)

What's a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I would be surprised if Newt Gingrich even knows what Minecraft is. At best, maybe he will have heard the word and guessed enough context to make a Hillary-esque out-of-touch joke about it.

I think we can safely assume he isn't getting his ideas about how nukes work from the game.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don't.

The only way a community project can cease to be "stable" (in the "not going away" sense you're using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that's the case, was anything of value really lost?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

You've got that backwards. Community distros are more likely to be stable than corporate ones.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think Duolingo requires it in order to do speaking exercises.

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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by grue@lemmy.world to c/noncredibledefense@piefed.social
 

I literally posted the same suggestion in this community three days ago as a joke!

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56316494

Cost? More than $3 million.

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1823177/3d-printer-reviewers-being-honest-in-this-industry-will-put-you-out-of-a-job

This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won't send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations. > > tl;dr Anycubic uses open-source software for their firmware, but doesn't make it public as per license agreement, and they don't seem to be friendly to anyone who calls this out. > > More info: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMpZTkXqFo0H6pDwhZpdYqMYvLhPvWA5?lc=UgxA-4LYvwrnonXuXsZ4AaABAg >

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979

More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.

 

My phone started malfunctioning the other day, where the screen suddenly displays "snow"/white noise instead of a proper image. Sometimes it seems to fix itself for a while, but then does it again, which makes me think it might be software rather than hardware.

While researching the problem, I ran across this article showing the same issue on Pixel 10s, and concurring with my guess that it might be a software thing.

(My phone screen looks just like that, except tinted blue instead of pink.)

But mine is a different model, running non-stock firmware. Is this also a known issue on Pixel 7s and/or phones running GrapheneOS, or is it specific to the Pixel 10 and stock firmware? Has progress been made on diagnosing or fixing it since last September when the article was written?

 

My Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS has a malfunctioning screen (it intermittently displays static/white noise instead of a correct image -- I didn't damage it; it legitimately randomly failed). I managed to get Amazon to accept a return for it, but now I need to figure out how to wipe it and reinstall the stock firmware without being able to see what I'm doing. Any advice?

Edit: I was researching the problem and found this article talking about Pixel 10s doing the same thing.

(My phone screen looks just like that, except tinted blue instead of pink.)

It made the point, which I had also suspected, that it might be a software problem rather than a hardware one because it sometimes fixes itself. Is this a known issue for the Pixel 7 and/or phones running GrapheneOS, rather than on only the Pixel 10 on stock firmware? Has progress been made on diagnosing or fixing it since last September when the article was written?

(Should I be worried about flashing the stock firmware back on "fixing" it, such that my return might be rejected even though I still need to replace it since I can't trust it anymore?)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43269077

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/41329789

You wouldn't just out of the blue completely drop support for something existentially necessary for someone to live their life and get to their job day to day would you?

Wait, you would? What the fuck? Weren't you the one lecturing me about the ethics of downloading a car?!??

Before Fisker’s 2024 bankruptcy, just 419 Fisker Oceans made it into British driveways. One unfortunate buyer, a marketing manager from Southampton, experienced the worst of the brand’s teething troubles. After taking delivery, her Ocean was plagued by persistent software glitches. Following a call to Fisker, engineers were dispatched to collect the vehicle for repairs, but when the car was due to be collected, it refused to start. Mere days later, Fisker declared insolvency, leaving the Ocean stranded as a 5,500 lb (2,500 kg) driveway ornament for the next ten months with no solution in sight.

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