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floofloof ,

Joke's on them: three times my raise is still zero.

floofloof ,

The chart needs a third dimension: danger to you, danger to others, and convenience for travel.

be4foss , to KDE
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Opt out? Opt in? Opt Green!

50% of consumers buy new devices due to unsupported software, while the "tsunami of " continues to rise.

can keep those devices in use and out of the landfill. Today!

Say hello to the new project ": For Sustainable Hardware".

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-05-29_introducing-ns4nh/

You don't need new hardware for a secure, up-to-date device; you just need the right software!

@kde

floofloof ,

The trick with Android phones, I've found, is to charge wirelessly whenever you can. Otherwise the USB port does wear out quickly.

floofloof OP ,

The academics I know are all pretty miserable these days. They can see that it's a corrupt, exploitative system and they feel powerless to change it. They spend their time writing grant applications and chasing money, then pumping out papers they know are fairly trivial, but they have to write them to keep the funding coming in. Some of the scientific disciplines are in a slow state of crisis due to a serious loss of confidence in the credibility or value of much of the research. And the younger ones know they'll never get tenure and are on a shit career track potentially forever. But even the ones with tenure seem pretty unhappy, working for these organizations that relentlessly seek money and superficial prestige.

This is so far from what academia ought to be about, and from the enthusiasms that brought these people into it in the first place. I got out 20 years ago because I found this stuff repellent then. It's worse now. it's sad that our society can't provide a place for smart and enthusiastic people to do honest research without all this corrupting quasi-commercial (or sometimes simply commercial) influence.

kde , to KDE
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If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/microsoft-now-says-your-pc-is-in-need-of-repair-if-youre-not-using-bing-with-edge

They are not wrong.

To mend your machine:

  1. Ditch Windows
  2. Install Plasma
  3. Your computer is ready.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

@kde

A laptop running the laters version of Plasma, Plasma 6.

floofloof , (edited )

I have rescued several laptops that were struggling with Windows by installing Linux, and KDE Plasma is excellent these days. My 7 year old Dell XPS, which had become unusably slow and hot under Windows 11 despite repastes and cleaning, runs OpenSUSE Tumbleweed like it's a new machine.

floofloof , (edited )

I feel the same about KDE and Windows. I only keep Windows for some music production stuff and legacy .NET application maintenance. The rest of the time I avoid it and use Linux and KDE, a far more pleasant experience.

kde , to KDE
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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is really fighting to curb climate change:

https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

@kde

Poster announcing KDE Eco's monthly meetings, in which like-minded people, like yourself, get together to work on reducing computing's impact on the climate.

Screenshot of a headline of the Verge. A photo shows Satya Nadella talking about Copilot at some bullshit Microsoft event and the headline itself reads: "Microsoft’s Al obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions" The introductory paragraph reads: "After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI."
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    • floofloof ,

    They just need "unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it" appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.

    floofloof ,

    This applies when you're a pedestrian waiting to cross too. There are always those drivers who think they're doing you a favor by stopping one of the lanes of traffic so you can walk out into the other. They smile and wave and look baffled when you don't take the bait.

    floofloof ,

    If you trust every driver to follow the rules exactly and have their eyes open, you can risk your life by walking out. Otherwise you might wait anyway. And the rules about right of way depend on your country and state.

    floofloof ,

    Kit? That one's prebuilt.

    floofloof ,

    Giving raises? My employer quiet quit that more than a decade ago. Meanwhile inflation and price gouging march on.

    floofloof ,

    It's a very small company. About 1/3 have moved on. The attraction is that it's relatively accommodating for other things in your life.

    floofloof ,

    There's also freedom from corporate culture, which I have had enough of in the past. Overall I think I'm happier keeping my perfectly tolerable job in its place and earning less, though I can see how others make a different choice and would negatively judge what I do.

    floofloof ,

    If we can see the dog’s face through those glasses, they’re probably not safe viewing glasses. Safe ones would be entirely opaque (or mirrored) when seen from the front.

    floofloof ,

    Enshittification of the skies. Unfortunately, it kills people.

    floofloof OP ,

    Since there’s a case to be made either way, it would be nice if the publishers could offer two editions and let the reader choose. This might be too expensive in the case of printed books, but for e-books it seems like it should be feasible.

    floofloof ,

    Just to be pedantic, it was 83 years ago, not 93.

    floofloof ,

    Our values are wrong and our entire species strives to elevate practicing sociopaths.

    Not our entire species. Only the fans of capitalism. Unfortunately a few of them are quite powerful.

    floofloof ,

    Every bug tracker seems to do this, and if you submit it again yours will be closed as a duplicate.

    floofloof , (edited )

    There’s something wrong with your formatting: all the sentences after the first paragraph appear as long single lines of text that require scrolling sideways. You probably just need a > character at the start of each paragraph to mark it as a quote.

    floofloof ,

    Right at the top it says “A Blog on Elections in Taiwan”. But putting that in the Lemmy post title would be useful.

    floofloof ,

    Amazing that they can still think of new ways to demean and humiliate the workers who make their profits.

    floofloof ,

    As one commenter to the clip put it: “There’s a demon alright and he grabs pussies, doesn’t pay his taxes, rapes women, steals classified documents and manipulates dumbasses like this one.” Amen.

    Fascism has always been very dumb, but also very dangerous. This feels like watching Hitler come to power and thinking “any day soon, people will see how stupid this all is.”

    floofloof ,

    Trump also kept a book of Hitler’s speeches beside his bed, according to his ex-wife.

    floofloof ,

    Has to be a bird because mangoes aren’t real.

    floofloof ,

    Just another real issue they’re hijacking to undermine their opponents’ discourse by rendering words meaningless. I really don’t like these gaslighting fascists very much. Apparently lots of people do.

    floofloof ,

    “They’re nothing to do with me.” - Jesus

    floofloof ,

    I did an image search: this one has been kicking around since mid-2017. There are various captions with it.

    floofloof ,

    You will be, once they’ve abducted you.

    floofloof ,

    Every day a new rich cunt demanding the enslavement of the poor. It’s pretty tiresome.

    floofloof ,

    If you keep a plastic bottle under your desk you can save money by reusing last night’s alcohol.

    floofloof ,

    The center should put you on an out-spiraling bridge that feeds traffic back into the outermost lane. Then even the most indecisive drivers are accommodated. Or just a deep pit of punishment.

    floofloof ,

    You could reverse down the road, or would there be a moment between forwards and backwards when you’re stopped?

    floofloof ,

    Remember this?

    cnn.com/…/josh-hawley-video-january-6-running-dlt…

    floofloof ,

    “I got hit with a strap. Bam, bam, bam—and I’ve never been to a shrink—by my father,” Hannity told his guests, while conceding that Peterson “went too far” with his own son. “I would tell you that I deserved it.”

    “I had welts when my father hit me in the legs with his belt,” Hannity told his guests as they detailed the allegations leveled against Peterson.

    “My father punched me in the face when I talked back to him once, and I deserved it,” Hannity later said in the discussion while defending his dad’s alleged actions.

    What a weird thing to brag about: being abused by your father but never seeking any help. I guess in conservative world if you admit something troubled you or you might need help, or if you question the authority of violent men, that’s perceived as weakness. What a miserable way to live.

    floofloof ,

    one House Republican told White House correspondent and Fox anchor Jacqui Heinrich, “No one can stand him at this point. A smart guy without morals.”

    So… is it the “smart” bit that bugs these Republicans? Because the other bit surely can’t be the issue for them.

    floofloof ,

    This is an amazing photo. Thanks for posting!

    floofloof ,

    I get the impression plenty of these ultra-rich techbros come to believe that they’re there by merit. They don’t see all the luck that went into their riches, and they habitually take credit for the work done by those beneath them. People like Bezos and Musk may genuinely believe they’re better (smarter, more insightful, more capable) than others. I expect many ultra-rich CEOs get like that, not just in tech companies. And certainly many of those investors who do nothing but mess around with the stock market think they’re more brilliant than everyone who doesn’t.

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