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baggins

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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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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.

baggins ,
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So repair it.

With Linux!

baggins ,
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Sad though this is, I can't help wondering why on earth people are visiting as tourists. Is it because it's edgy? They want to boast to their friends? Now they are dead, someone has to sort out all the issues their murders have caused, and their families and friends are mourning their loss. All for a stamp in a passport.

baggins ,
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That is good news.

Cynical me says there's some sort of catch though. They are commiting themselves to sell fewer phones. How else are they going to make their money?

Then again perhaps they are accepting they can't keep going on as they have been.

baggins ,
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Ah yes, the subscription. I'd forgotten about that.

baggins ,
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Oh very yes, and making it all taste like grapefruit FFS!

baggins ,
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Who they gonna call?

baggins ,
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Fire mission all available!

baggins ,
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Interesting to note Andy Serkis is making a new LOTR film as well.

There is already a film called The Hunt For Gollum though. An amateur production made on a shoestring budget a few years ago. It's surprisingly good.

baggins ,
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Why on earth would they need Chinese policemen? Is there a problem with Chinese tourists or a disproportionate number of Chinese immigrants that would require such a presence?
Sounds like they are looking for tips on how to keep tabs on people. With all the downsides that will generate.

baggins ,
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Yeah, that shouldn't be a thing. Ought to be left to the host nation. We don't want Chinese law in Europe - or anywhere else for that matter.

baggins ,
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I read that in the voice of Jackie Chiles. Along with 'Yet another of my embarrassing architectural failures'.

baggins ,
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Yes and it was a pile of steaming hotspur.

talesofaprinny , to KDE
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Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing

It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).

Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.

Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall

@kde

baggins ,
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Had issues with it. I seem to remember it not waking from sleep or similar.

I'm sticking with EndeavourOS and Plasma ;-)

baggins ,
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Child workers or child care workers?

It sounds pretty scummy whatever one it is.

baggins ,
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Have to play devil’s advocate here. I totally agree that naming your chatbot Aryan is a bit of a giveaway, but does it say that exactly anywhere? All I can see is Arya. That is a legitimate name, even more popular since Game of Thrones. This crap is bad enough without making false claims about it. We’d be quick enough to call the other side out when they made a false claim. We shouldn’t adopt their practices. We’re supposed to be better than that.

baggins ,
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Thanks - and it’s no doubt intended and they might has well named it Fuhrer, but we need to stay better than them.

baggins ,
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Non gamer alert!

Started watching and have only see one and a bit episodes so far. I fell asleep so will have to go back to episode one and catch up.

Bearing in mind I know pretty much zip about the Fallout universe other than when I’ve seen it mentioned online, it looks pretty good from here - there’s definitely a lot going on and it’ll take a couple of watches before all the little details are picked up.

Seems to me to be a fun programme that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hope it continues.

baggins , (edited )
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Skimmed through the video and will watch at a later date. Absolutely fascinating. It used to work at a Raytheon company (Cossor in HarlowvUK) on kit that had similar electronics, back in the 70s. It was like being back in the factory :-)

When I was in the Royal Artillery (80-97) we had a system called PADS (Precision Azimuth Determining System) that was used for survey of gun positions. It had some fancy gyroscopes inside. I now know where that originated ;-)

baggins ,
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The computer used by the Artillery (the one I was trained on in the 80s) was called FACE and had a magnetic core memory of about 8k nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm

baggins ,
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Yes, they had a million and one things designed to catch your head, knee, elbow, eye etc. What that diagram doesn’t make clear is the bench seat running down the centre for the operators and Command Post Officer (CPO) to sit on. Underneath that were the batteries for FACE, 8 (or possibly 6) great big 12v 100ah lead acid things. Space was at a premium. In this pic I’m sitting with my back to the teleprinter and Bob Cooper was sitting on the commanders seat - it used to drop down and become a seat for a signaller :-) This would have been taken about 1983/4 https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/2efa6209-1f32-49f8-abb2-dabda1bb9ce8.webp

baggins ,
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None. Just the one built into Samsung.

Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions ( lemmy.ml )

I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....

baggins ,
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Excellent work - I currently run Endeavour on a PC and laptop. This article has almost made me brave enough to try a bare bones build of Arch on the laptop :-)

baggins ,
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Upvote for username before I’ve even read the article!

baggins ,
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If you’re in the TNT market, I can understand why you’d need a tough phone 😉

baggins ,
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So say we all.

Been waiting to use that ;-)

baggins ,
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I’d try another distro - I’ve had issues with Mint and wifi in the past. MXLinux saw wifi when Mint didn’t. Or maybe Ubuntu.

Mehrad , to KDE
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Tbh, I'm still super impressed with smoothness of :kdenew: KDE Plasma5 on :postmarketos: PostMarketOS on such an old phone (Samsung Galaxy A300FU). Truly an achievement. Of course it is far from optimal (e.g notifications can clutter the screen and their close button are out of bound of the display).

Well done @kde , @kde and @postmarketOS 👏🏼

baggins ,
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Excellent. I still can’t find a version to load on my Samsung SM-T510 tablet though. Released 2019 so designed 2018. It’s not that old.

It’s so slow, you’d think it was clockwork.

And I hate to just bin it.

baggins ,
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Exactly. We need The Belt. Sa-sa ke?

baggins ,
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Endeavour OS KDE. Sorry ;-)

baggins ,
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Same here on Lenovo Ideapad(I think) and EOS. No problems at all.

baggins ,
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Now imagine it printing out adverts whilst you’re not using it.

baggins , (edited )
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amateurphotographer.com/…/ricoh-gr-iiix-review-40…

www.techradar.com/…/fujifilm-x100vi-review

www.sony.co.uk/compact-cameras

baggins ,
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Dressed as a German style soldier, not even SS or Gestapo, does not automatically make the images Nazi. Only one is in German uniform.

Just shows AI isn’t as wonderful as some would make out, but unfortunately some people will accept that it’s factually correct. That’s where the danger lies.

Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....

baggins ,
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Been doing this for a while now.

I go back to Gmail every now and again to check if I’ve missed anything, it’s just a cesspool of junk and spam.

Good to be away from it

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