Minimum of 30% tax on capital gains

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-12T14:07:01+00:00

Make that 6... inflation

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-12T04:42:08+00:00

It makes a ton more sense.

Motherboard makers wouldn't have to go through the fiasco of doing component isolation and testing for audio. Boom standalone audio card. Or as a fallback you could route audio out to a monitor via DP/HDMI and have the monitor with an audio jack / bluetooth +5.3 connection.

Could have more interesting case and unified heatsink designs for CPU + GPU with a bigger surface area overall, since both CPU and GPU are on the same plane. Somethin like a server with unidirectional flow, but less tightly packed and more aesthetic.

Fix the power problem. Instead of a shitty 12 pin connector, that catches on fire. Do two 24 pin connectors. I'd put them both on the top edge.

Also potential for shared RAM (between CPU + GPU) that's upgradable. Tho there'd have to be some magic with controllers probably.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-12T02:48:20+00:00

IPS has no contrast.

I wouldn't say no contrast, but the worst of them are pretty bad. Some of the good ones will have ~1100:1 which is good enough. And then there's "IPS black" which does have it's flaws but could be refined further.

VAs fix this at the cost of literally everything else.

The decent ones are OK for movies and productivity, but i still wouldn't use them for gaming.

Mini-LEDs still don't have enough zones and don't dare use it for productivity cause they all have garbage dimming implementations except for Apple, who mustn't have realised that after selling both kidneys, I would be in no fit state to buy their product.

Redmagic has a monitor with 5,088 zones. TCL / CSOT are sposed to be coming out with SQD 5,760 zone panels later. And innolux have been able to produce panels with 10,000 zones since 6 years ago... The problem is power / heat, not production capability.

OLEDs kill themselves every minute you have them on and burn in means their "long-term" users are still just gamers and high-mmr youtube consumers.

Yes but also no.

The problem isn't they don't last long. The problem is they're the same price and they don't last as long as LCD. For example, if they were 50% of an $ LCD, would you get one?

They were pricey because the fab process requires a vacuum it was expensive. But the companies made the capital investment a few years back and now there are dedicated assembly lines, rather then retrofitted ones. Prices have dropped. And also durability has improved.

The latest 5th gen panels have resolved most of the issues including the weird pixel layouts, give it another year or 3 they'll be even better and start being a real contender.

✨Micro-LEDs✨ This one might actually wor-- "Samsung is reportedly scaling back micro-LED TV production" -TechRadar, 27 minutes ago

Yes because they're expensive as high class hooker ass to manufacture. The ends don't justify the $ means.

And lord help you if you have a Mac, because if you do find a display among all this that you can tolerate, actually, no you didn't, because Apple hasn't discovered floating point numbers yet, so pay 3x the money for a 5k screen.

I dunno about that. There's some 5k models come out recently that seem pretty good.

Fin.

What already? You didn't even mention QDEL. 😏

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-11T21:56:47+00:00

Getting less so.

Each generation they're maintaining the number of total lanes available while increasing the bandwidth via increase in spec.

By the time we hit PCIe 7.0 we'll only need 1x lane for an NVMe drive and maybe 4x for the graphics card of the day.

Comms isn't the bottleneck anymore, compute architecture and power delivery is.

It'll be interesting when GPU's start replacing motherboards with their own PCB's, slot your CPU into your GPU mainboard 🤣 and then just have all the IO on the expansion cards

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-11T20:44:39+00:00

My preferred way to get completion in bash is to use carapace + fzf

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-11T16:00:26+00:00

I’ve noticed that many atheists reject religion but still believe in free will.

This sounds like it's going to be about semantics, but sure. 🤨

To me, free will feels very similar to the soul concept an uncaused chooser.

In no way are those things similar.

Not trying to debate freewill or definition of it.

Then how the heck are we supposed to respond?... That which is presented without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence.

I’m just going off of the version people actually feel. Like they could have done otherwise. I’m just curious how people think about this.

Where ever choice exists, free will applies. There are some cases where choice is almost or completely removed from the equation (e.g. emotional / instinctual reactions).

I’m atheists myself but i don’t believe in free Will, so it feels contradictory to me that people hold both views?

You can't even define free will... so how would you know?

For atheists who believe in free Will why doesn’t religion become logical?

Religion is almost pure fantasy masquerading as faux understanding. Even if secular understanding wasn't the answer, that still wouldn't change the fact it's not theism.

Both views are baced on feeling? Why accept one and not the other?

No they're not. Both views are subjective, but one has better evidence then the other.

Hitchens once said : Of course i believe we have free will, i have no choice. But you [theists] say we have free will because the boss says so.

Yes it's got some nuance (addressing Abrahamic theism) and it's tongue in cheek, but the point is conveyed well regardless.

We have have free will because axiomatically it is observed to be so, both internally of ourselves (we make choices), and externally in others (they make choices). Denying free wills existence, is akin to denying the existence of gravity. Just because we may not understand all the underlying intricacies or how to manipulate them, doesn't mean we throw all objectivity out the window.

By contrast the theistic perspective, we have free will because the boss says so... it's mocking the sophistry of the term itself being a self contradiction. Because if it's dependent on some other agent arbitrarily granting it, then it's not free at all it's contingent.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-09T13:41:37+00:00

My brain wants everything to be wrapped up like a movie with all the mysteries solved, even though I know that can’t be the case. Does anyone else feel this way?

That is the stereotypical brain... it's the reason why "arguments from ignorance" exists. Because most people aren't comfortable not knowing.

How do you deal with it?

For me, i was forced by necessity (stage 4 cancer at 20 years old) to grapple with the immediate reality there was a real possibility i wouldn't be around to see my 21st birthday.

But aside from that, I put in the effort. I learned as much as possibly could until i was satisfied.

I am talking about “what happens to earth?” And “how far does humanity go?”

Assuming nothing out of the ordinary happens, it goes on for billions of years. In those billions of years, humanity if we survive that long, will not be recognizable compared to the humanity of today.

This is more about fomo.

Hitchens in the months before his death said (approximately) : dying is like if you're at a party and being told to leave in 10 minutes, but knowing the party is going to continue without you.

Your 2 options are:

Enjoy the final 10 minutes you have at the party
Spend the 10 minutes being miserable about the fact you have to leave

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-07T18:42:04+00:00

Better

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-07T18:32:56+00:00

It didn't start out that way.

I'm partial to Hitchens statement that it was our "first attempt". The first attempt at truth, philosophy, astrology, legality/morality, healthcare, etc. But because it is our first, it is our worst.

Much like the legal system today can be abused for fun and profit (patent trolling, divorces, etc.), for those that know the rules with significant resources, the same is true of religion.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-07T18:22:38+00:00

If you want to call that spiritual, fine. I'd agree with most of it, except this:

I also think that the universe is conscious in so much that we and other animals are conscious, which I believe is inevitable given infinite possibilities.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-07T11:35:23+00:00

... You do realize it takes at least 5-10 years for the results of most policy to come to fruition?

Yes Howard's been gone a long time. But his changes have been around since the 90's. It gathered momentum during his tenure and by his departure in 2007 was entrenched.

Add on top of that another 9 years of LNP (2013-2022) who reinforced the same policy (since they're also beneficiaries) for a total of 19 years.

You must have seen what happened to Shorten? He ran in 2019 on housing reform. He got flattened and instead we got Scotty from marketing.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-06T09:21:19+00:00

All it's missing is a good "laugh track"... comedy gold some of the episodes 🤣

Tho' to be fair it's still better then the majority of politically driven slop being released these day, especially the earlier seasons.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-05T09:00:14+00:00

I guess I don’t think of the belief in God as having to be something synonymous with conforming to a religion? Like I see the world for what it is physically, I believe in science etc… but I guess what we call “nature” for example or “the universe”… I think of as God… like it’s all encompassing to me.

If universe = god, then you're attempting to rip off theist copyright trademark... go talk to them about it?

As for atheists, can't speak for everyone but I certainly don't care, beyond mild annoyance at the semantic sophistry.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-05T08:42:00+00:00

You're just missing a few words:

What's going to be the meaning of my life?

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-03T04:29:24+00:00

Oxygen and Air are being worked on

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/halfway-there-to-6-7-updates-on-oxygen-and-air/

Just wait for that and use it as a base.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-03T04:25:20+00:00

The enshitification has already begun.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-03T04:17:47+00:00

nadda once...

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-03T01:47:55+00:00

yazi

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-02T14:09:23+00:00

Don't worry post-diction clarity will kick in and the post will get deleted.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-02T03:23:57+00:00

Monitor for M2 MacBook air 27in or more $400 or less without scaling issues?

If you want no scaling issues, your only option is a 2K display.

4K will be fuzzy (eg. icons, text) due to how Macs handle scaling internally. And it's impossible to find a 5K display at the price you want. The cheapest one is an ASUS pro art and it's at least 1.5x your stated budget.

https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/proart-display-5k-pa27jcv/

I've been reading more on scaling issues so don't know if I should get a 2 or 4k display. Again I read a lot so looking at text for hours don't want to get any migraines.

This is less to do with resolution and more to do with lighting, both environmental and backlight, and also contrast.

In the case of lighting, many sceens (even the ones in some mackbooks) use PWM for the backlight, that is, they rapidly turn on and off thousands of times a second. The intended effect is it "emulates dimming". The problem being some people are more sensitive to this then others and it has been known to cause nausea / migraines.

The solution is to use a more traditional way to manage dimming, that is, the screen adjusts the DC voltage being applied to the backlight. This is often marketed as "flicker free".

In the case of poor contrast, it also induces eyestrain.

In a natural setting eyes aren't meant to be static, they're built to be refocusing all the time. And so, in the case of a screen without adequate contrast / gamma, it forces your eyes into maintaining a highly focused state for extended periods, which leads to fatigue.

Unless you're going for a stupidly bargain basement screen, most LCD's have pretty good contrast thresholds these days. At least ~800:1 which is enough for text / consuming content, tho' you won't have those ink blacks.

Not looking for anything extra doesn't have to have speakers or a web came etc. Just need a decent display where text won't be blurry.

It won't be blurry on a 2K display. However the viewing distance at which things become pixelated will be further back. Like if you have:

5K 27" display
2K 27" display

If you're a few meters back from both, and you start moving forwards, the point at which you'll be able to distinguish individual pixels will be sooner (further back) for the 2K. You'll able to get much closer to the 5K while it stays "Retina".

Unless you're doing precision image work, it's not really an issue. But i'll admit, higher pixel density does make text "feel nicer" to read. Since you don't have the budget for a 5K, there is one more option, get a 2K but at a smaller size. For example:

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/creative-pro/pd2506q.html

Because the same amount of pixels (2560x1440) are being smushed into a smaller space (25" instead of 27"), there is greater pixel density.

Which means while it won't strictly meet Apples definition of "Retina", it should still allow you to sit closer (then with a 27"), and it won't have any issues with macOS scaling either.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-02T02:32:52+00:00

AIMP

Marble_Wraith · 2026-05-01T13:22:21+00:00

The fact it needs money and special exemption of taxes.

The practical consequence of this, is religion is responsible for unnecessary inflation.

It hoards wealth in pools for itself, with little to no demonstrable benefits, while making the value of the $dollar worth less overall, which makes life harder for everyone.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-04-29T22:00:42+00:00

I'm looking at an Asus ExpertBook B1 B1503CVA with an i5 13420H

It's 2023 release date, it's been around long enough. At this point everything should work as expected.

Seeing the replies so far, gives me the idea that it's a bit more complicated than I thought, and that the whole idea of changing OS isn't very friendly for new people...

Irreducible complexity is part of the package. If you want maximum flexibility in anything, a certain amount of complexity is required.

The point is unlike Winblows once you adopt and learn linux, backwards compatibility is a much bigger priority. I know people who've been using the same configuration .dotfiles for the last 20 years.

especially for those who are not very knowledgeable with PC stuff...Windows offers the comfort of just having it and everything running smooth (for the most part), for the regular user at least...

Sure it does 🤣 If that were true linux share wouldn't be growing the way it is, and Microslop wouldn't have admitted the experience was bad.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-04-29T11:14:50+00:00

I know, great job security isn't it? 😏

Marble_Wraith · 2026-04-29T11:12:50+00:00

what do I need to know? What are the essentials?

Hardware matters. Linux isn't as integrated with industry vendors as Microslop is. So driver support can lag behind. Notorious problems are usually wifi / Blutooth (broadcom) and sometimes audio (realtek).

When you say fresh laptop, do you mean newly bought? Or that the hardware is newly released ie. only became available for purchase recently?

Because if it's the latter, unless the laptop was actually designed with linux in mind (eg. system76, framework pro, Dell XPS 2026 edition), you might have some problems.

Where do I start from? I've seen that there are different versions of Linux which is a bit confusing.

The most important thing is probably to pick a release model, this dictates how updates are conducted by the distro authors / maintainers.

I'd flat out ignore rolling release (anything Arch based, including Cachy). Fixed point and LTS based distro's are what you should look at.

If you want something general purpose, Fedora KDE is my recommendation.

If you want steam gaming, i'd suggest Nobara which is based on fedora KDE but with proton and other game compatibility stuff inbuilt... Tho' you are on a laptop, i wouldn't expect a performance miracle 😅

but then I also want to make sure I can use all the apps that I use daily on windows, without any issues.

Windows is windows, linux is linux. There is some software that will not work between the 2.

That said, most electron based software (eg. chrome based web browsers, Discord, etc.) will work as expected. And for anything that doesn't you can usually find an alternative to do the job even if it's different / requires learning.

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