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some humans are just hungry for power and walled gardens, no matter if it's just power over one person sitting on a square meter patch of grass.

wow, that puts a pretty different light on Eric's blogpost, at least for me. putting screenshots of private messages in a public blogpost without asking the person is SUCH a HUGE dickmove.

still happily waiting for my Core-Pebble to arrive, but i am getting so sick of people in general.

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sounds very similar to a stoner-roommate to be honest. a bit chaotic, but peaceful. hungry, and bored.

fast and reliable (and encrypted) communication is so important in such conditions.

not sure how important that is next to not dying of hunger, being blown up, loosing friends, family and strangers, being erased and treated like an animal, but, you know. it's a start...

> Herzlichen dank!

Gern geschehen! Mach ich doch gerne :)

maybe also add a toggle, in addition to the option you choose? option 1 would probably be the best use of your time, just don't use text for non-english generated images.

i deleted the pics in the top-row with the dev-console and i personally would prefer it that way[0] (also because i'd visit the page on an eInk screen sometimes, where no pics would be beneficial anyways, especially if they're just placeholders).

[0]https://imgur.com/a/IM0fm2I

i see a lot of dismissive comments towards Firefox in general in this thread, so i just wanted to mention that i use it since over a decade on all of my devices. on desktop devices i've recently switched to Zen which has rekindled my love for FF. not that i stopped loving it before, but it feels nice to use a completely different UI after all this time.

very cool idea, but the AI-generated images really irk me. firstly because they're AI-generated images, secondly because they're just flat-out wrong for the example i clicked on.

Take this[0],

DATENSCUNTZ-EINSTELLUNES should be DATENSCHUTZ-EINSTELLUNGEN

ALLE AKZIETTREN should be ALLE AKZEPTIEREN

you get the point, basically almost all the text is wrong...i think AI-generated images are annoying and vapid enough, but if they don't even show actual text then what's the point? the english ones seem to be fine, can't judge the spanish ones. images feel like a lazy business-powerpoint.

anyways, cool site in general :)

[0]https://europedigital.cloud/_next/image?url=%2Fapi%2Fnews-im...

i mean the building data centers is kind of a bummer, yeah. but if Europe misses out on AI and space travel, well, so be it. i could name 20 more important issues than these buzzhypes.

i would be sooooooo sad if we get a challenger #2 while sending musk up. depends on if he's the only one on board.

> because there wasn't enough money in it

i wonder what the world or progress in general would look like if profit-incentives didn't matter (as much as they do), and instead just "would this take us forwards as societies?"

or in a different way, what are we missing out on just because some people think stuff has to be profitable in order to be "good".

same here. newer saw such a fleshed-out ssh thingy. i just HAD to buy it. a bit weird to see this story on the frontpage now, just ordered tons of techy stickers from AliExpress two days ago...

i must say that the shopping experience on stickr.shop is way better than Ali, haha.

why is it surprising that people feel like showing their own politics with stickers when the government they live under currently deports random people, blows up boats based on vague accusations, tries to reform the country with Project2025, ..., do i have to go on?

nice for you that you're able to ignore politics - you should maybe be aware that this is a privilege. lots of people would probably want to ignore politics, but instead they have to fear for their existence, dignity or way of life.

"but not everyone on HN is american", well, other countries also have their fair share of political issues. and if you don't see them as issues, then again, you're just showing your own privilege.

high-wage, male, (often times white) tech-workers wonder why people are upset. "i'm fine, what's the problem?"

500 remote indian workers (/s)

it definitely is. talking to non-tech people, even a password manager or adblock extension for a browser are magic. installing a basic OS is magic. freaking debugging something which isn't working is magic.

i've had to show people that they have to plug in their HDMI cable into their GPU instead of the motherboard, that they have to manually set the Hz in windows settings. how to install basic drivers.

so many more easy examples we IT-workers or nerds just take for granted. taking this to the extreme, my grandma asked me if i could search recipes online for her, because [insert your favorite search service] seemed too complicated.

So next to these examples, setting up syncthing with a VPN is next to impossible :( and even if they manage to set it up, good luck when you run into issues after a couple of months.

one of my favorite games i've ever played is Enderal: Forgotten Stories[0], total conversion mod for Skyrim. liked it way more than Skyrim, includes some new gameplay elements and the story is absolutely phenomenal. while playing it i was constantly in awe of the fact that this was a free conversion made by a low amount of people. played it for about 90 hours over a couple of weeks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enderal

woah there, didn't watch it yet, how about a spoiler warning?

you're describing this during an age where trillions of dollars are spent for the military industrial complex, which makes it hard to believe that there's not enough money. priorities are just...the way they are.

> Sometimes this blurring ends up looking absolutely great, and other times it's just lazy, obnoxious, and awful

yeah, maybe i should give this way of setting the graphics a try. should try to find a game which looks great with it.

> I find a 32" 3840 pixel wide monitor to be good

just looked them up, surprised that they're quite a bit more expensive (800+ vs 600-750 for an ultrawide), but i guess the panels are more expensive due to the higher resolution. but your comment now makes me think what path i want to go. gotta read up on some opinions :D

> Hope you don't have much trouble with it

luckily i work on and with unix systems, so the new things are just the those related to gaming. but bazzite really has been very nice so far :) and as you say, the only times i had to boot up the windows on a separate disk are when i wanted to play games which don't run on linux at all, especially the kernel-level anticheat slopware.

but enough is enough. i've kept using windows at home just because of gaming, but i'm sick of M$. can't spend the whole day making fun of windows and then go home and game on it, feels dirty.

yeah, that really confused me as well. the whole 4K, 2K, 2.5K, ultrawide, ultrahigh, microwide, 8K shit just gets confusing, especially because it's neither accurate nor standardized.

> set the output resolution to 4K, and the render resolution to something smaller

doesn't that make everything blurry? that's the gripe i have with circa post-2020 PC gaming, barely any pc can run a AAA or AA game in native resolution and instead has to use artificial upscaling and whatnot. haven't specifically tried it.

also can't test it anymore, as my gaming monitor is now our TV (48 inch OLED gaming TV, what a blast it was). now using my "old" 32in 2560x1440 IPS display, really miss OLED :( which is why i want to buy a new monitor. but i can't decide if i should take a 27in one (seems to be the 16:9 standard right now, but seems so small to me) or a ultrawide one. i switch games very frequently and also sometimes like to play old(er) games, so a bit scared of the "ultrawides are cool if your game supports it"-vibe...

> I've heard good things about the Fedora variant known as Bazzite

haha, this message was written on Bazzite, so i got that part covered :D switched about a month ago, funny to get the recommendation now.

i'm actually going to do the reverse move, was gaming on a 4K display, but going to downgrade to 3440x1440 to get more performance. but of course the gaming displays i find apparently aren't ideal for working, because text looks worse. add to that that the internet seems to be split if wide-monitors are the best thing ever or actually horrible. why is it all so complicated, man.

as a gamer 8k makes me sweat because i can't imagine what kind of hardware you'd need to run a game :O probably great for text-based work, though!

> Steam Big Picture mode is unusable, runs at about 2 fps

can apparently be fixed pretty easily, https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/issues_and_resolutions/#stea...

that's interesting to know, wasn't aware of this :) but then i'm even more confused what's wrong with my Bazzite, Steam Big Picture mode is unusable, runs at about 2 fps. i could debug it, but don't really use it anyways, just noticed when starting it.

If I could install SteamOS on my PC I'd do it!

...Project Silverfish[0] is really entertaining so far...

[0]https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfis...

+1, now using Bazzite as my main OS in general and for gaming, and only use the dualbooted Windows on a separate SSD when I have to play a game which contains a rootkit. There've been two of those, and I can live without them. Rotate games quite frequently, mostly just works.

I think if you like checking it out and customizing the settings of your OS, then try it out! Or at least look up the games you care about on ProtonDB.

Even encrypted the Bazzite SSD just out of paranoia caused by Windows. Even partner-proof so far.

Only ever used Nvidia so far, probably going to switch to AMD in 1-2 years, as I hear that they're better on Linux.

ahhh, rainy sunday and i get a recommendation for abstract indie games, today is going to be a good day...

i 100% get what you mean, it's still funny to me that you indirectly use a Windows update death spiral as an argument against using Linux :D