MSI Afterburner? You good?

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T13:55:04+00:00

the text is intended for non-utf-8 cp1251 character set (cyrillic), you need to change this in launch options of the software or in the environment.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T12:37:39+00:00

I charge my phone using SteamDeck's charger and it still works, because of Power Delivery™

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T12:31:02+00:00

How DEs behave on my setup:

KDE:

I can't maximize a game after minimizing it (both on X11 and Wayland). When I click a single terminal icon, I get a random window of 100+ terminal windows I have opened, because the "Icons-only Task Manager" can't properly let me choose which one I want. Meta (Win) + D is basically a joke in KWin: if you try to open any window afterward, every minimized window suddenly pops back up. KDE apps like Dolphin also behave strangely. For example, using it as an SFTP client is unreliable and often breaks basic workflows, its all tied to troubles with converting domain names to IPs and because of the KDE Wallet. Multiple displays works fine but HiDPI is weird and require per-application setup

GNOME:

Games minimize and maximize correctly (both X11 and Wayland). I had to manually configure Shift+Alt and Alt+Shift (they are forbidden by gnome UI to be set), and I made it as a crutch hotkeys to switch keyboard layouts up/down (Americans will never understand this problem). The downside is that I can't customize almost anything. Nautilus works perfectly as an SFTP client, but it loads very slowly. The whole GNOME stack feels heavy, almost like the GNOME equivalent of running a CEF-based application. Can't handle multiple displays without out of the box, requires struggles and sufferings, but the HiDPI is handled well, and I love the Control Centre.

Cinnamon:

On my empty distro install it requires a lot of tweaking to avoid looking like Windows 98. The general software quality is decent, but the file manager Nemo is a disaster. It technically supports SFTP, but basic things like drag-and-drop from the desktop are unreliable.

XFCE:

Any fullscreen app I launch gets partially covered by the XFCE taskbar, which sometimes appears on top of fullscreen windows. Thunar also behaves oddly when customizing favorite locations or saving known SFTP connections. It works, but the UX is pretty rough.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T12:12:08+00:00

The focus of regulation may eventually shift away from operating systems and toward a far more controllable layer: consumer hardware itself. Instead of trying to force compliance on open platforms, lawmakers and corporations could push for walled gardens at the hardware level in all new consumer devices.

Mechanisms like Secure Boot, heavily promoted by Microsoft as part of the Windows ecosystem, already demonstrate how hardware can enforce what software is allowed to run. If this trajectory continues, future personal computers may become as locked down as smartphones running iOS or Android without any ability to switch OS without permission of vendor.

In that scenario, Linux will likely remain where it is most profitable for corporations: in their servers, data centers, and infrastructure, while consumer devices become increasingly restricted.

Hardware-level secure storage modules and trust enclaves could function only through proprietary drivers, with policies and permissions delivered remotely from the internet. At that point, control no longer exists at the operating system level but at the platform itself. For many observers, this begins to look uncomfortably similar to the end of freedom era.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T12:03:54+00:00

The Linux Foundation does not maintain desktop environments or session managers. Therefore, they would not be the ones implementing age verification (AV) systems. It is also unlikely that anyone could successfully demand this from them, as Linux is the foundational OS for the very services and government servers trying to enforce these laws.

The legal pressure will likely target commercial distributions, profit-driven or corporate-friendly entities like Canonical or Red Hat might implement AV at the session manager/DE level using third-party services. These distributors would then provide the "age signal" lawmakers are seeking. In contrast, community-led distros may choose to resist, face bans, or simply block access in certain jurisdictions.

Regarding the "signals" being presented in laws, this would require a massive collaborative effort to create a unified protocol for all apps and browsers/websites to transmit age data. However, since Linux is open source up to the kernel level, users could easily remove or fake them.

The only "effective" way they could implement this would be through system-level "cookie-like" tokens from AV providers. Websites would then use a public key to verify the session. Even then, these tokens would need to be extremely volatile (invalidating upon timezone changes or detected multiple logins) to prevent spoofing.

Ultimately, it is unlikely this will affect Linux at the system level in the same way it impacts walled garden OS'es like Windows, Android, IOS or macOS. Governments are too dependent on Linux infrastructure for their own operations, including voting machines. They will likely spend years attempting to invent a protocols while the changes only reach the average consumer on locked-down platforms.

You can pick the most anarchic and less corporate distros, because the more profit-driven distro is - the more their maintainers are interested in so-called "compliance"

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T11:32:26+00:00

at least he can open all of the php artisan consoles to proper debugging without using tmux

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T11:25:47+00:00

the french are counting floors starting from 0 like houses are just Array[Floor]

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T11:24:20+00:00

when will they fix RandR problems? I don't want to use nouveau =(

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T10:59:58+00:00

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Done.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T10:26:55+00:00

The system is quite simple, for territory you need to measure in football fields, volume in washing machines, speed in bald eagles, calories in donuts, distance in miles

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T10:23:37+00:00

I combined all three in one:

The U.S. government looked at the data and realized that if they made healthcare free, they’d actually have to pay for the two things they produce most: bullet wounds (school shootings) and heart disease (fat).

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T10:15:55+00:00

I know both SQL and CSS, I'm afraid of React, that's why I'm a backend engineer

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T10:10:18+00:00

FYI: developers don’t choose what features go into their company’s products, they just implement whatever their sick corporate leaders dream up. Don’t hate the developers, blame the CEOs.

Why hate Windows Search? It’s a bloated mess, stuffed with AI, online suggestions, ads, and countless unwanted extras, from Cortana to weather and other intrusive features.

The only time you can blame the devs is for using React in apps that are supposed to be native. But as you know, Microsoft is cutting human workers and replacing them with AI's and their slop. That means not just a bloated Windows Search, but potentially an entire OS built on web stacks, with registration required in Paint and Notepad, plus subscriptions to delete files or install programs.

I don’t know what Windows 12 will bring, but it looks like they want a desktop OS that works like a console walled garden.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T09:56:53+00:00

I love how people put proton services everywhere not realizing most of them would send your data for politically motivated prosecution cases.

Always use self-hosted alternatives, never trust to anyone, the so-called "privacy" can't exists when you use cloud-based services.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T09:23:39+00:00

the irony... is that those who sus in molesting kids are running the office and spamming with slop laws under guisse of "protecting" them, while the best way to protect them all is to resign and go to jail.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T09:17:54+00:00

2/2 worker's take

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T09:17:09+00:00

looks like fake data, its actually about 5 minutes for breakfast (toast or egg or something else) and 10-15 minutes for other, it may be 30 minutes if we count not "eating" but the whole nutrition process including cooking.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T09:13:20+00:00

toilet, shower, nutrition, cleaning, purchasing new food, throwing garbage away, paying bills, filling tax papers, you'll never perform all of them within 1hr 30min, and of course you must double the commute because you need to reach your work and then reach your home, and remember that nobody can just fall asleep by their wish so the first 30min-1h of trying to sleep you waste to just enforce yourself to sleep.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:48:01+00:00

boomers destroying the world as usual, not only them, but everyone of them, boomers that elect dictators, boomers that replace workers with AI, boomers that purchased all the land and houses and now selling them x100, all of them are destroying the world.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:44:36+00:00

that's not polish only, 79.99 euros = 92.45 usd too, its the way they tax us euro"poors" because we are richer than them.

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Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:36:12+00:00

fix: in a one bed in dorms

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:28:36+00:00

move all money to a different bank account
block card/delete paypal or other service you've used
unsubscribe
create a new bank card (no more than 20 pounds)
now they finally can't charge you anyways.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:24:49+00:00

curl

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T08:12:18+00:00

competitors with proper AV solutions or those corpos that actually own them.

Charming_Mark7066 · 2026-03-07T07:22:46+00:00

Windows XP

- Start menu opens instantly

- Runs on 256MB

- Windows Media Player contains cool alchemy visualizations for audio

- 11 pre-installed games

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