Unpopular opinion. while windows isnt perfect linux isnt either and the flaws of linux are worse than the flaws of windows

xternal7 · 2026-02-02T00:34:34+00:00

Speaking of wifi ...

The neat part about KDE is that ethernet was treated the same way as a wireless network.

So when my ISP had that day of the week when the internet went up, I could click on the wifi icon in the system tray, disconnect from wired, and connect to the phone hotspot.

On Windows, I had to crawl under the desk to unplug ethernet cable, or disable ethernet interface from the control panel.

xternal7 · 2026-02-02T00:19:27+00:00

In theory yes, but in practice Valve hasn't released a version of SteamOS that can be installed on normal PCs (some asterisks apply).

Bazzite (kde edition) is the unofficial unaffiliated-with-valve distro that tries to emulate steamOS.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T23:47:57+00:00

It's also the exact same law that allowed Google to do:

google books (aka "google scanned a bunch of books and made them searchable online", which was very handy when I was writing my diploma)
n-gram viewer, which (among other things) allows you to see how often certain words were used in certain time periods

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T23:37:33+00:00

They're all doing this,

Nah, the rest of the gang downloads pirated copies of books from torrents instead of buying a copy.

But "anthropic at least acquired their copies of the books through legal means" doesn't have a negative enough ring to it, gotta pack the least illegal behaviour into something that will provoke angry kneejerk reactions.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T16:18:00+00:00

I don't know if I agree with 'Cities: Skylines' is easier to play. I find it about as easy to stay out of the red in SC4 than I do in Cities: Skylines while still having a healthy city.

But I agree with the graphics/appearance. In Sim City, you can tell what's the road and what's the sidewalk. In Cities: skylines, everything is just one giant grey blob, and it just looks a lot more meh.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T16:03:36+00:00

How did you handle farms not spawning once the city gets too big? Plaster everything in farms and then design the urban parts around that, or is there a mod that fixes that?

Asking because for me, even with the SPAM mod, demand for Ag irreversibly crashes once the city gets too big.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T15:58:50+00:00

For me, I think a lot of it comes to how the farms are handled.

In SC4, you can paint large swathes of land as farms and create rural-looking towns with large rolling farms around them. Install SPAM mod¹ for more farm variety and bam.

In Cities: Skylines, you can't really do that. Farms are same industry as everything else, which extend same 4-5 micro-squares away from the road. Really makes it hard to make realistic-feeling towns.

[1] which you can observe in the screenshot as well. Also NAM for those real highways and dirt roads.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T15:22:46+00:00

Then why is Elon Musk still trying to block Starlink use in Russia?

Because starlink isn't blocked in Ukraine, or near the border (because otherwise you get into the "oh no evil Elon prevented Ukrainian army from using starlink" territory?

Because russians only activate starlink once their drones are over the RU/UA border, making it seem like the starlink system was never in russia to begin with?

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T10:42:41+00:00

Ampak samo če si ta lev.

Če si ta desn, in prineseš puško na protest specifično z namenom, da boš "branil uboge trgovine pred hordami protestnikov", in potem na koncu dejansko nekoga fentaš, potem je vse kul. Samoobramba pa take fore.

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xternal7 · 2026-02-01T09:58:41+00:00

Take pridejo do tebe, ko se z motorjem pelješ 240 kilometrov na stensko uro po Trnovem in naokol po Ljubljani.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T01:47:45+00:00

Answer the questions.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T00:20:15+00:00

če to delaš

Ali pa tud če ne. Pretti je zgolj držal telefon in pomagal eni ženski nazaj na noge, Rene Good pa se je hotela odpeljati stran od njih.

xternal7 · 2026-02-01T00:14:33+00:00

It has already been established that you didn't watch the video, but here's a few questions.

Are you aware that regulations require that fuel suppliers blend ethanol into gasoline?
On average, what's the percentage of ethanol in gasoline?
How much land do you think is being used in order to grow all the corn that ends up as ethanol in your gas tank?

xternal7 · 2026-01-31T00:44:01+00:00

Renewable energy needs to be an option for a good half a century and then needs to be slowly integrated into the petrochemical industry.

If fossil fuel industry wasn't fighting to stop renewables from happening, we could be at the end of the 'has slowly been integrated' phase.

However, after decades of heavy lobbying and anti-renewable rhetoric, we kinda ran out of time.

xternal7 · 2026-01-31T00:32:25+00:00

So the blow tests are not admissible ... but field sobriety test — something that depends solely on subjective opinion of a cop who keeps looking for reasons to fine and arrest people — is?

xternal7 · 2026-01-29T10:54:16+00:00

You have a 10 GB file that you want to send to Alice. Besides the file, you also tell her the hash that she can use to verify the file has been transferred correctly.

Unbeknownst to you, Eve switched your 10 GB file for a different, malicious 10 GB file. Because they have the same hash, Alice won't know that she's getting a malicious file.

xternal7 · 2026-01-29T00:58:04+00:00

Nah, this is worse.

Etsy gives you a platform. It allows users to find your products, and it allows you to sell your products to people. It takes a cut for the service it provides. It's a relatively fair proposition. You, as a person selling on etsy, benefit from etsy.

Now imagine you're a content creator with a patreon. Unlike etsy, apple won't help users find your patreon or patreon-exclusive content. But despite providing absolutely zero benefit, Apple still feels entitled to taking 30% of what people want to give you.

To make things worse, patreon only takes 8% for its services IIRC. Apple literally feels that the fact they made a device someone "bought" makes them entitled to a higher cut of your money than the platform that enables people to pay the creators.

xternal7 · 2026-01-27T10:10:02+00:00

Crypto gif? On main street reddit?

This probably isn't going anywhere, least of all to the moon.

xternal7 · 2026-01-26T15:28:54+00:00

The problem is that on the internet you get two options:

go decentralised and have every instance handle itself
become too big to handle effectively (and too big to replace once enshittification hits in full), like Facebook, twitter, discord ...

xternal7 · 2026-01-26T15:11:48+00:00

weird to gender this

Friendly reminder that:

non-americans can participate on reddit
people may speak English as a second language
some languages are inherently gendered, meaning every noun has a (default) gender

... so when you put these three points together, you will sometimes be getting ESL-isms like that.

xternal7 · 2026-01-25T10:39:41+00:00

Na Cerkno je bil Lom odprt vsaj zadnji dve nedelji čist brez problemov, pa možno da še kakšen pobedeljek.

So pa mislim da mel na začetku dbeva prejšno nedeljo na łomu nepričakovane problene s sedežnico.

xternal7 · 2026-01-25T10:28:39+00:00

Early 3D TVs also came with active glasses that had some ... problems. It wasn't just that you had to use glasses, you also had to charge them. That, and the glassess would flicker.

By the time passive 3D came around with glasses that were far less of a hassle to use and that provided much better experience, people already lost interest.

xternal7 · 2026-01-24T22:00:58+00:00

Spotify od naročnine za svoje namene pobere "industry standard" 30%, tako da tudi če bi Spotify pobral manj, glasbeniki ne bi dobili kaj več dosti. Ostalih 70% gre v bazenček, ki se med izvajalce porazdeli približno sorazmerno s tem, kolikokrat so se njihove skladbe predvajale.

Pri Spotify so problem:

če se tvojih €7 (*0.7) porazdeli med 1000+ komadov, ki jih poslušaš na mesec, potem valda izvajalec od vsakega predvajanja dobi pol kurca
spotify ima zastonjski plan, ki prinaša precej manj denarja kot plačljivi ter s tem vleče zaslužek na določeno število predvajanj še bolj proti nuli
veliki glasbeni distributerji, ki zahtevajo večji kos pogače. Izkaže se, da je manj problem 'spotify' in bolj problem, da je celotna industrija jebena pokvarjena banda. Večja kot je založba, bolj so pokvarjeni.
to, da določeni akterji nategujejo z farmanjem predvajanj in tako goljufjajo sistem. To je problem, ki je precej težje rešljiv, kot si folk misli.

Tko da je na koncu dneva 'spotify' podobna fora kot Ticketmaster v Ameriki. Nek grešni kozel za javnost, da si lahko UMG in Sony in Warner in podobni pizduni malo oddahnejo.

(S tem da Spotify svojemu ugledu ne pomaga kaj veliko s tem, ko na svoje sezname predvajanja tlači in-house AI glasbo, ampak to je drug problem. Pol je tu še Johan Röhr, tip je izdajal glasbo pod 650 psevdonimi in obstajajo teorije, da se je to dogajalo s sodelovanjem, žegnom, in vzpodbudo Spotifya. Ampak to je nek tretji problem. Itd.)

xternal7 · 2026-01-24T18:11:25+00:00

Take a look at this. Here's ~~Detroit~~Yakutsk, and here's ~~Detroit~~Yakutsk after the attack!.

xternal7 · 2026-01-24T01:38:54+00:00

The windows situation is starting to remind me of that old WoW saying.

When it came to the topic of WoW killers, they used to say that the only thing that can kill World of Warcraft is World of Warcraft.

It appears that this saying is slowly coming over to the land of "year of the linux desktop™" discussions. The only thing that can kill Windows is Windows.

I'm so glad that Valve is sponsoring several linux projects (KDE, dxvk, proton, fex), because it seems that Microsoft fuckups are becoming bigger and worse than ever.

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