PunnyName@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 08:53
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This timeline? Yes
SourGumGum@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 08:56
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The UK? Yes
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social
on 14 Aug 10:21
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UKKK.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 09:02
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You mean the censorship law was woefully ill-conceived and wonât do anything they claim it is supposed to do? Leay itâs definitely a joke, just not the type youâre asking about.
crandlecan@mander.xyz
on 14 Aug 09:33
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Do you see anyone laughing? Well? Do you?? đ§
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latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Aug 10:04
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Iâm laughing constantly because Iâm losing my mind! Haha!
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Aug 12:04
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Tried to use gpt5 via the api the other day and they wanted me to scan my passport. đ«
Yes. Itâs not clear if this was photoshopped or a bug that has been around for years, I believe related to GeForce NOW streaming. The two clients share some code, and GeForce NOW does have an age requirement.
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible
Doesnât stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Aug 11:02
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Wouldnât it be sick if yâall just responded on voting day?
Hereâs the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
on 14 Aug 12:05
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You do realise that Labour were voted in as the progressive alternative on a bunch of pretty progressive campaign pledges right? The Online Safety Act and treating peaceful protesters as terrorists certainly werenât what people voted for.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Aug 12:09
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I do not realize that, Iâm not from there nor do I pay attention to their politics. This was more so a call to everyone everywhere to show up at whatever booth it may be and prevent shitty policies from being considered, let alone passed.
That said, I do appreciate the info, and moreso appreciate that you archived it and linked a paywall free version. That was thoughtful.
Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.
Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.
This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. Weâre kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.
I hope youâre right. But in my experience, every country ends up voting for 1 of the 2 largest parties because âthat other party will not get even 5%â and the whole population ends up disregarding them. And this is by design.
Honestly, I pray that youâre right and the UK people actually tells the main parties to fuck right off.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
on 03 Sep 16:04
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The game has been rigged.
Voting exists to stop you changing things.
It makes you believed you solved the problem
when youâve actually accomplished nothing yet
The voting is game is lost before it began
with psychometric micro demographic targetting
they can convert money into votes with simple manipulation
itâs just a matter of which money interest push more
on their preferred option
but neither of the two choices is on your side
None of the choices in democracy are working for you
So main issue with this comment is the UK system allows for more than 2 choices.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 14 Aug 17:27
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Yes there are many choices, very similar degrees of ultimately the same thing. Same thing here in Canada.
Often itâs the business elite party and the âbusiness elite but pretending to care about the peopleâs interest partyâ and that second one is also split so the straight up business elite party has a chance to win. Followed by series of do-nothing statistically insignificant, flavour-text parties just for the impression of diversity. Itâs all a little circus to give you the idea the population is in control while being completely out of the equation. It only really serves to dissipate their frustration and make them believe theyâve already done everything they could so we donât get guillotines in the streets.
Make no mistake Fukuyama is right, this IS the end of history, there will not be any democratically elected changes unless the powerful decide change is in their interest and will maintain or increase their power.
Nothing will change until the power is physically taken away from them and history restarts.
Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It's just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they've pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn't matter because it's not for you.
(and if anyone can find an article or screen grab of the following⊠Let me know, I canât find any references :()
I remember a game / joke where you would rub the Commodore 64 gameport with a wet finger, and the faster you went, the nicer the on-screen lady became⊠;-)
Second-world means axis-power (Germany, Hungary, Australia, Italy, Finland, Japan, etc). It doesnât mean something like âhalf-way between first-world and third-worldâ like Latin America or the USA.
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts
on 14 Aug 10:53
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Australia is an axis power!
SalutschĂŒsse.
youngalfred@lemmy.zip
on 14 Aug 10:56
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Australia being a famous axis power
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 11:10
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Second world doesnât mean axis powers, it represented the Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries.
Its a cold war term. The terms represent the two remaining superpowers after WW2.
1st world = The US and US aligned countries
2nd world = Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries
3rd world = Non-aligned countries. Which just happened to be mostly under developed countries, which is why the term is now used for that. It didnât actually mean under developed at first. For example, Switzerland is technically a 3rd world country despite being rich and highly developed.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
on 14 Aug 09:51
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The actual Nvidia driver settings window or all the gamer crap build on top of it that demands you make an account?
Donât get me wrong, this law is awful but also just deinstall that piece of bloat, good old Nvidia control panel is all you need and works entirely offline without account or did something chance since i left windows?
Theyâre gradually moving all the functionalities of Nvidia Control Panel to the Nvidia App. All the new features can only be accessed from the Nvidia App.
What has the setting of nVidia or visiting the Wikipedia to do with child protection? Certainly old guys which confuse a remote control with an smartphone , donât should be authorized to make internet laws.
anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net
on 14 Aug 10:00
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Uh, what??
DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 10:36
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Microsoft could pull this off nicely. One nice foggy morning in the UK, and all Windows boxes go BSOD ⊠Hmm, I think, they do that anyway, most of the time, donât they.
fastfomo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Aug 10:44
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is this real? what the f does a gpu driver have to do with the safety act?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 10:48
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Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
on 14 Aug 11:46
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Youâd have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isnât OS-specific.
EDIT: I meant in general. Software on Linux is also subject to the UKs temper tantrum laws, same as on Windows. The Nvidia driver is just an example, you can also just download the driver on Windows without needing their companion app.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 11:56
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In Linux you can use the open source nvidia drivers if you want
You donât want to, though. Theyâre horrible. Thereâs an insane amount of effort that would be required to reverse-engineer drivers since Nvidia is at best negligent. AMD and Intel are much better about OSS.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 12:02
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I know. The best you can do in Linux is not use nvidia.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 12:20
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That is no longer the case. The Nvidia drivers for Linux are pretty decent, these days. Theyâre still closed source, so if thatâs a deal breaker for you, youâll need to buy an AMD GPU.
Iâm not sure if the closed-source drivers have social media garbage on them at the moment, but Iâm very sure that I donât trust Nvidia not to add it.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Aug 06:45
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when was the last time you used windows with nvidia graphics?
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 15:10
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The problem is not that they are bad, is that if someone makes a project that depends on the specific drivers then it will work much worse if the drivers are closed source. Wayland was unusable with nvidia drivers until recently.
Iâm not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. Itâs luck of the draw.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 17:34
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Itâs not luck itâs pretty well defined what works
There was one for Windows too, but most people donât remember the hundreds of hours of learning that theyâve done to become competent users of Windows.
Just jump in, donât dual boot. Having no option of giving up and booting Windows makes you motivated to learn how to use Linux.
Thereâs a community of people who will help (while also sometimes being insufferable assholes) and the skills you learn will be more durable. Youâre not going to see Linux 11 come along and mandate that you buy a new computer or anything.
Oh Iâve loved it so far. And youâre right on the âwhat you learn is more usefulâ. Like Iâd done a fair amount of hobby/work prototype stuff on rasbian, and eventually went âman, itâd be great if this but more horsepowerâ and wound up Debian.
Anyway, my point is despite doing a fair amount of coding, and circuit level electronics including troubleshooting comms and all the fun things like race conditions that go into that, I had zero idea how a computer was actually arranged. Troubleshooting Debian helped me with that and is infinitely transferable as opposed to being a tip and trick with windows.
But my original comment was just about Nvidia cards. Iâve had some I just slot in and they work, and some I have to spend an afternoon troubleshooting. Still reinforces your point though, troubleshooting it the first time was how I learned how things actually get displayed.
noodlejetski@piefed.social
on 14 Aug 15:51
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NVK is very slowly getting there, from what I've read. if I remember correctly, it's still gives horrible performance (about 50%-ish of the closed source ones, I think?), but it's still miles better than "you're really better off using your integrated GPU" that noveau offered for ages.
Fair enough. I wish them well in the effort. It would be nice if Nvidia threw them a bone, though, what with all the AI money and their GPUs being used in so many Linux supercomputers and servers.
e: Tomâs Hardware links are half the size of the article đ
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Aug 06:43
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they are at a point where itâs not even really limited by reverse engineering, but that only the nvidia-signed drivers can increase the gpuâs frequencies to anything near performant.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 12:00
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Iâm not aware that the Nvidia drivers for Linux require an app registration. If that were the case, Iâd definitely have heard about the uproar.
The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package Iâm 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesnât involve a gui app at all.
No you would not because you donât need to go to the website to download software to use Nvidia on Linux. Also the Nvidia driver on Linux is literally just a driver and settings package it has no online features
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Aug 22:10
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You donât need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidiaâs website.
If they canât figure this out, they really donât belong on Linux.
Creed: âI donât get it. Why does a driver manager need a social media feature?â
Ryan: âA one stop shop consumer experience. Youâre chatting with your friends, youâre talking about the latest music, about the election; all of it is happening in our virtual driver managerâ
Philus: âDid the police sort the issue?â
Ryan: âYesâ
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
on 14 Aug 11:17
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The final solution to the zoomer question has finally begun
blenderdumbass@mastodon.online
on 14 Aug 11:31
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Imagine if more people actually voted for candidates that shared their policy concerns instead of just complaining into the void. In a democracy, the people get exactly the government they deserve.
colmear@discuss.tchncs.de
on 14 Aug 12:14
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How would under age people vote? Where I am from, you can only vote at 18 (16 for some special elections), so bad luck if you are under 18 and want to be represented
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 12:30
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In a first-past-the-post system, the election outcome does not really reflect the will of the electorate. Which is why things are so fucked up in places that use these systems.
The British donât seem to be doing so well anymore with their parliamentary system. it would appear that there is no governmental system that canât be manipulated effectively anymore.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 13:12
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They have an FPTP system. This is exactly what Iâm talking about.
I get your point, but what those systems do is they donât let massively unpopular candidates win by dividing the opposition and they let third parties compete without splitting the vote.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 15:20
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the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn't have had enough influence to push it through regardless
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 14 Aug 13:44
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the people get exactly the government they deserve.
You are extremely naive about âdemocracyâ
You are taking the fake choices at face value
This is not democracy
Voting once in a while is not democracy, itâs not even politics
Look at the rotating cast of 100 or so loser leading just about every democracy, do you really believe that the current leaders really are these despicable, reprehensible, deceptive and bootlicking politicians are the best people among hundreds of millions of people ?
Of course not, what a crazy idea, and you want to blame the victim about it ? The victim which are US ??? How dare you !
Every country has their own version of first past the post, electoral college and all kinds of rules that ensure that even if they canât apparently influence politics, the politics have nevertheless NEVER left the hands of the power elites. The people who have always owned everything and will always own everything. You might be feeling some protest and the desire to point to some ârags to richesâ story to rebut me, but no you know just as well as I do that these exception are far and few in between and they donât save the system.
The system designed to perpetuate the concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands, as much as possible, stopping just short of monopoly and kings unless we stopped looking.
Face it, our democracy is rotten bull shit ! Itâs NOT OUR FAULT, it was rigged from the start by GOD DAMNED SLAVE OWNERS !!!
So stop repeating the thought terminating platitudes like âthe people get exactly the government they deserveâ, âitâs the worst system, except for all the othersâ, âwestern liberal democracy is the end of historyâ.
This was and always been fake no matter how much the elites want us to believe it.
Democracy was fake then, it is fake NOW and that is not even taking into account just how incredibly WORSE it is getting in recent years. Not only were the elites content with assassination of dissenters of anything that would champion any kind of change everywhere on Earth, from Martin Luther King to an endless series of political activists but now we have even worse and more deadly than assassinations going on.
Here are just a few of the new technology that ensure your old fake democracy will never EVER amount to anything and you will scientifically never matter to any kind of policy. (even though it was scientifically proven a decade ago that the peopleâs preference have no effect on congessâ policies)
The new nails in the airtight, steel reinforced concrete coffin of democracy are
1. Behavioral Microtargeting
Data-driven psychological manipulation that hijacks emotions to steer voter behavior without their awareness.
2. Algorithmic Information Control
Algorithms decide what people see and believe, shaping political reality to favor power.
3. Surveillance-Based Targeting
Every movement, message, and purchase is tracked and fed into systems designed to pre-empt resistance.
4. Neuromarketing & Biometric Influence
Ads and messages are engineered to exploit subconscious emotional and physiological responses.
5. Digital ID & Programmable Money
Financial and identity systems can be weaponized to reward obedience and punish dissent instantly.
6. Rigged Electoral Architecture
Voting systems and rules ensure only establishment-friendly candidates ever make it to power.
7. Deplatforming & Soft Censorship
Unapproved voices are quietly erased, throttled, or discredited before they can gain traction.
8. Algorithmic Bureaucracy (AI Governance)
Opaque algorithms control critical life decisions with no transparency or accountability.
9. Weaponized Legalism ("Lawfare")
Laws are selectively enforced to crush dissent while protecting the powerful.
10. Manufactured Hopelessness
tordenflesk@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 12:28
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I remember in 2019 my workplace was doing large guest lectures from experts teaching how to work with millennials entering the workplace. The teacher early on tried to emphasize that most millennials at that point were late 20s up to almost 40 so everyoneâs been working with them for a good amount of time now and the crowd was not interested in that.
Just venting about their teenage children who were gen z but wasnât a term used much for a couple more years. Just as entertaining were old millennials in denial and certain they were gen x. Not as entertaining were old gen z that thought they were millennials but learned they were actually gen z and it was a moment of shrug shoulder and pretty much being like, âneat.â Like thinking your astrological sign or zodiac animal was one thing your whole life but was off by one.
Similar to like 2021/2022 when I started hearing about how terrible gen z workers out of college were because of growing up on tiktok. Gen z in the workforce at that time grew up on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. Twitter was genz and millennials tertiary social media. When TikTok came out they had been working for years already or just about to finish undergrad college. 2021/2022 gen z who had the brain rot got that well before TikTok became popular
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Aug 16:15
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sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Aug 17:18
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The youngest millenials are almost 30, dudeâs gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials havenât been the in thing for like 10 years now.
Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and donât even understand the concept of folders and files.
Thereâs always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.
This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.
Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generationsâ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.
So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device arenât doing the same until forced to.
zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Aug 04:14
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Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all âwhat app is that?â
Iâd probably be the same if it wasnât for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.
But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesnât seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.
Itâs like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 18:34
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We all need to make what we know freely available in a friendly manner to make the path to Linux easier and more fun.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 18:56
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Up until now, weâve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. đ
There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when youâre new.
Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. Itâs a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.
The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that theyâre unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I donât know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Aug 19:13
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in a friendly manner
Emphasis on âfriendlyâ because thereâs a big âRTFMâ issue on some Linux communities. Sure, it can be annoying getting the same questions constantly. But the âRTFMâ response is condescending and artificially inflates the barrier to entry. People shouldnât be expected to read, understand, and remember 200 pages of dense documentation just to learn how to update their graphics drivers. If someone is learning how to drive, telling them âread the ownerâs manual for your carâ is just toxic. Sure the owners manual will have lots of useful info, but that doesnât actually help the person who is trying to get started.
At the very least, point them in the right direction. You can say âRTFMâ while still being helpful. Oh, you want to know how to do something specific via CLI? Cool, hereâs a link to that specific section, which explains what the command you need does. As it currently stands, a lot of the most crucial info for newcomers is buried in obscure wiki articles and books. And longtime Linux users treat the struggle like a rite of passage. But not everyone is interested in that; They just want to ditch Windows because they canât install Win11, and theyâre looking for friendly alternatives.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 19:47
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I do agree with a lot of what youâre saying.
Linux has historically been a space for tech people and so the default assumption is that the user is competent (jokes asideâŠ) and capable of understanding technical writing.
So, naturally, if a person asks a question which is answered in the documentation then theyâre reminded that the answers exist already in the expected places and asking other people to do your own research for you rude.
The Linux demographic is shifting and we need to adjust, but cultural norms change slowly.
and theyâre looking for friendly alternatives.
I think that this is part of the trap that keeps people stuck in the spyware/enshittification market.
Technology is complicated.
Try to imagine, from a technical point of view, how complex it is to run a service like Netflix. There are a lot of highly trained people designing, managing and maintaining the various systems to run the service that lets a user touch a picture on their phone screen to see a movie.
The user has an easy, friendly experience but thatâs only because Netflix handles all of the complexity. This seems like a good deal initially. I mean, $10$12$15 $19.99/mo is a good price to pay to not have to know how to do all of that.
But, now the user is completely dependent on service providers to stand between them and the complexity of technology so they never have a chance to learn because they never see how anything works.
This Faustian bargain is what lets these companies continue to spy on people and jack up the price of services while offering less service. Where are the users going to go?
Linux and the open source community offer a different bargain. You have to learn how to do things for yourself, but now you have actual meaningful choices about how you use technology and a community of people who are trying to solve the same problems as you.
Sure, it isnât as easy. But easy isnât free, and Iâm tired of paying what they want to charge.
My literal job consists of helping other (generally much less technically savvy) representatives provide support to our end users, and it being their literal job to provide âtechâ help to users is still not enough of an incentive for 80+% of them to learn anything beyond basic computing. Sometimes itâs like pulling teeth just to get a fucking click path or screenshot of whatâs actually happening.
Now expand that out to now I am not getting paid to help people and those asking for help are often VERY entitled that they deserve to have their hand held through the entire process. Itâs frustrating and often thankless.
Thereâs an older manual for how to ask a âhackerâ for technical help that I think is so spot on for setting proper expectations: catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.
Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.
locahosr443@lemmy.world
on 14 Aug 21:42
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dropped_packet@lemmy.zip
on 15 Aug 03:09
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Sent you a DM, Interested to hear more about these problems!
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Aug 05:50
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Or raising the polling rate of USB mice above 10 Hz (as in ten - thatâs not a typo).
I donât know the answer, but Iâm interested, what do you use that for?
Fortunately, copying or moving more than 1 GB to or from USB sticks without crashing the entire machine (no matter if NTFS or ExFAT) was solved last year, probably because of a kernel update.
I believe it has a lot to do with the default amount of dirty memory. dirty memory is mostly the write cache, which is unnecessary to have a lot of, as that does not improve anything after a certain point, but at best it can mislead you to believe that a copy opetation started with 200 MB/s and that it finished when it actually did not yet.
you can fix these limits with sysctl files. they are loaded on boot on typical systemd systems. suggestions are in the manjaro post, relevant for any desktop linux system.
maybe itâs worth to set these up even if you are good for now. Itâs good to hear a kernel change could have fixed it though. maybe they have finally revised the defaults, they wanted to do that for a few years nowâŠ
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Aug 17:26
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I will have a look, didnât even know about kernel.org, nobody before you mentioned it.
its mostly developer documentation about programming APIs, but thereâs also admin docs, not only at the admin-guide pages.
if the script would get executed whenever I start the machine or go out of standby. Which is not the case, sometimes it just doesnât happen and I have to do it manually.
what is its current trigger?
if yours is a systemd based system, itâs often recommended to make a service unit file for the script, like this:
[Unit]
Name=restore gamma on resume
WantedBy=sleep.target
[Service]
After=sleep.target
Exec=/usr/local/bin/yourscript.sh
save this in /etc/systemd/system/gammasleep.service (runs services as root), and run systemctl daemon-reload for it to notice the new file. systemctl enable --now to start it and make it autostarted on boot.
I have written this from memory on phone, so it might need corrections, but this is basically it, plus edit the exec line.
docs is in man systemd.service, man systemd.unit. man systemd.directives tells you which man page documents a specific key.
you can check logs with journalctl -u gammasleep.service. an f gives you a running log with shorter history.
probably I could have written all of this after you confirmed you did not use a systemd service yetâŠ
Itâs all those little inconvenient and unreliable things that keep me from using Linux for anything that goes beyond browsing the web or doing office stuff
oh I felt the same when I first tried to switch to linux on my main desktop. everything was inconvenient without my usual tools and the system was breaking down from time to time. I got burned out, 2 years later I retried and now I havenât gone back to the windows install for months, and thereâs not much problems now. probably I was being clumsy and doing things the wrong way 2 years ago, but itâs hard to tell because I donât remember.
not trying to be rude, but itâs easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didnât know their options. they didnât âchooseâ to throw away their rights because they didnât know they had a choice.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com
on 15 Aug 01:38
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I agree with this.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
on 14 Aug 18:40
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The majority of zoomers are 18 or older. The youngest are 13.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Aug 19:29
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Which begs the question: who thinks this is a needed thing and a good idea? Who is pushing this agenda?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
on 15 Aug 00:29
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somebody in another post a few days ago suggested that this was about gaining control of the media narrative by gradually locking down parts of the internet. The idea being that today itâs adult content but tomorrow its about disagreeable narratives on YouTube, TikTok, and other secondary sources of Information.
-Iâd think it were a stretch of the imagination but it was shown that the motives for trying to ban TikTok (in the U.S.) were the narratives shared on the platform about Israelâs ongoing genocide.
Itâs about surveillance and control. Censor what people can see, require ID so you can monitor whoâs viewing what, and let people know you see what theyâre doing so that they become wary of using the internet for political organization. Pedophiles and terrorists are just convenient bogeymen to scare people into assenting to this.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de
on 14 Aug 20:42
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The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.[1][2][3] Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: âYou are all a lost generation.â[4][5] âLostâ in this context refers to the âdisoriented, wandering, directionlessâ spirit of many of the warâs survivors in the early interwar period.[6]
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, Western members of the Lost Generation grew up in societies that were more literate, consumerist, and media-saturated than ever before, but which also tended to maintain strictly conservative social values. Young men of the cohort were mobilized on a mass scale for World War I, a conflict that was often seen as the defining moment of their age groupâs lifespan. Young women also contributed to and were affected by the war, and in its aftermath gained greater freedoms politically and in other areas of life. The Lost Generation was also heavily vulnerable to the Spanish flu pandemic and became the driving force behind many cultural changes, particularly in major cities during what became known as the Roaring Twenties.
Later in their midlife, they experienced the economic effects of the Great Depression and often saw their own sons leave for the battlefields of World War II. In the developed world, they tended to reach retirement and average life expectancy during the decades after the conflict, but some significantly outlived the norm. The Lost Generation became completely ancestral when the last surviving person who was known to have been born in the Lost Generation or during the 19th century, Nabi Tajima, died in 2018 at age 117.[7]
Itâs to do with the amount of people that were killed in WW1, essentially the sheer number of people that died during the war resulted in a generation nearly ceasing to exist.
Iâve let my family know that SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone can have my VHS tape of the original West End production of Cats, my Windows 98 CD-R with the license key written on it in marker pen, my Tazos collection (all 4 of them) and my Haynes Workshop Manual for Ford Escort. Enjoy.
tyler@programming.dev
on 15 Aug 07:27
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damn, a haynes manual. you really are gonna die soon. me too.
Because when you were born correlates with your cultural experiences and therefore your behaviors. Not always, bit broadly. And if you try to define groupings for those years, you can see clearly defined generations, that were really clear with the baby boomers, who were the American children of American soldiers coming back from world war 2, and then their resultant children, generation y/the âmillennialsâ, named thusly for coming of age around the time of the millennium.
Like sure, itâs all social constructs. But, so is language.
Baby boomers generally got some of the biggest economical booms in history, along with the population âboomâ of their births. But that was only if you were able, white, cisgender, heterosexual, and male. The civil rights movements of the 50s, 60s, and onwards were both possible but also necessary because of the empowerment of those demographics.
But also, because of that general success, a lot of baby boomers (cishet white men) took on the behavioral traits of being largely pieces of shit. Not all, just like ânot all menâ. But, itâs enough of a pattern of entitlement and sexism and repression and psychosocial behavioral resultant of lead poisoning, that thatâs what the baby boomer generation is kindâve seen as, now, regardless if any individual does or doesnât fit any of those things.
And so, we can largely group and label the generation and attach it to a current age group and try to predict or explain behavior.
Unfortunately, this is also discrimination in many cases where it isnât true. Personally, I try to avoid profiling entirely because the habit is gross. But, I would be lying if I said I didnât clearly see a solid pattern. I know, that theyâre just people like the rest of us, and if we were in their shoes, we would entirely end up just like them. But then that again brings it to it being generational, and not just age.
You think I like being reminded and disappointed when people end up fitting their negative stereotypes? You think itâs easy to try to be a good person against my own upbringing? Itâs not. But we have to try. And working to understand is a big part of that. More people need to ask âwhyâ, and, I know you were asking rhetorically, but you were close enough that I think it deserves recognition. So, good on you for that.
Whatever the millennial generation ends up being known for, Iâm curious. But until then, we canât give up trying to make ourselves, the world, and each other better. Because once you give up⊠Well⊠We can never give up.
Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why canât a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? Itâs like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.
It doesnât, but the app requires making an account on NVidiaâs website, which also allows you to access their GeForce Live cloud gaming service, and therefore is affected by the law because certain games are deemed unsafe for children.
upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Aug 21:45
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This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 14 Aug 23:32
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Are you actually able to do that now? You used to not be able to or they were sufficiently hidden.
Theyâve never been hidden. You just go to the website, put in your model and download it. Thereâs apps that do it for you now which is where this must be coming from. Still doesnât change the fact you can directly download the driver.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 15 Aug 01:43
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Maybe they were harder to find on their site like a decade ago when I first got an Nvidia card and I just never tried looking again.
MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Aug 02:48
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Nope. Always been that way. Enter model, choose platform, download drivers. Ive had to do it for at least a decade and a half since the nvidia program has never not borked out trying to update drivers.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Aug 03:40
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you are speaking about the advanced search page, but I donât even know how would I find it without my bookmark
Itâs been the same for 20 years at least. My first nVidia card was a geforce2 but I had an integrated SOC one that borrowed main board memory before that called a RIVA TNT 2. Prior to that had an ISA SVGA card but canât remember who made it:
Thatâs what in used to use but there are some features you canât access without the physx components so I get the whole package now. For baseline itâs good for sure.
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Aug 00:49
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Not adjusting settings, but definitely auto updates which require a login and theyâve been adding more and more things that require an account so they can track you.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
on 15 Aug 00:55
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All of these people are future linux enjoyers, they just don't know it yet.
The trend has accelerated this year, corpos are data mining and they want to court proof data against you.
It has been at least 10 years coming but it is now very clear for what they are going for here.
Between Israeli genocide and pedos within the power structure, the anti resime sentiment is growing too strong and it seems for once, fake news can't change the narrative.
We are heading into the future where we won't be able to criticize genocide or pedophiles.
Labour hasnât been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader, he grew up a Tory supporter, failed to get in as a Tory politician so decide on transforming Labour into the neo-Tory party which he was successful at, not that Labour before hand was the friend of the average worker or the poor but at least they were better, now they are hostile to the working class and the poor đ
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 15:00
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Labour hasnât been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader
Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.
now they are hostile to the working class and the poor
Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.
AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
on 15 Aug 17:28
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mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online
on 15 Aug 19:59
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They did release Open Kernel drivers, which I hadnât tested. Those are the âopen-sourceâ drivers. Sure, their firmware could be proprietary (though I didnât see any issues with it).
Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then itâs still a problem
ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Aug 12:27
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We donât have geforce experience on Linux (afaik). Ubuntu has a built in âproprietary driversâ app that just pulls the Nvidia drivers for you on first boot after install. Very low effort (on the happy path at least. If you use unsupported/brand new cards, youâre probably going to have a much less fun time)
5redie8@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Aug 15:28
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Linux beginners and Nvidia cards arenât really a good mix in all fairness
mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online
on 15 Aug 20:00
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Thatâs because people donât really learn which operating systems work well for NVIDIA drivers. Iâd recommend Mint, Pop_OS!, Nobara Project and CachyOS based upon their experience with computers. Those all work well with NVIDIA.
Very good point, always forget Nobara exists but it seems like the best âout of the boxâ solution if you really donât want to do it yourself. That being said, to learn anything you need to understand how it works and itâs endlessly frustrating to me that Linux is the one where people just throw their hands up and give up instantly if anything goes wrong and they canât fix it in the same way they did in a completely different platform.
This happens all the time. I still see what I call boomers (likely younger than actual boomers) call gen z millennials constantly. The oldest millennials are like mid 40s but in the popular imagination we are still kids in our 20s. Itâs like society is 10-15 years behind almost
You are in violation of the Community Guidelines due to not marking the comment âNSFWâ.
Of course we are not going to tell you why, but you get 1 strike.
/s
lightnsfw@reddthat.com
on 15 Aug 19:47
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Some of those graphics might be showing boobies. Obviously this must be regulated.
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Aug 20:20
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No it is not. Dont be a fucking ridiculous idiot.
Nvidia app is DEI woke. Gotta protect the kids.
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world
on 19 Aug 10:41
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To be clear this image is faked.
MetalMachine@feddit.nl
on 15 Aug 17:56
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So it sounds like the wall was written to police more than just porn sites? Or is this companies doing this to harvest your data?
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 18:05
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Itâs to prevent autonomous agency. Itâs to prevent people from having privacy and individuality end of discussion. The last system like this was under the gestapo and secret police under Hitlers regime.
minorkeys@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 18:42
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They are denying us the power of the digital age, taking it for themselves.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 20:36
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Lol good luck, the entire thing that makes it so powerful is the collective
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 20:02
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I donât use that shitty application. Just use Nvidia Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel. That application is data collection spyware.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Aug 21:00
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I donât use that shitty application. Just use Linux.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 21:28
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Iâll switch to Linux when there isnât a performance trade off for using an Nvidia GPU.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 15 Aug 21:31
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Just switch to CachyOS and so far Iâve noticed improved performance if anything (on a 3080 10gb). The latency difference between it and Windows is just unreal.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 15 Aug 22:50
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Thatâs the case for DX11 or older games but any DX 12 game itâs 20 to 15 percent less performance and thatâs a no go for me. Once it gets addressed, then Iâll consider switching.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 15 Aug 23:25
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Maybe itâs system to system, or something with the older nvidia drivers, but Iâve specifically noticed the improved performance in Expedition 33 and Jedi: Fallen Order which I think are both DX11/12?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 16 Aug 01:40
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kieron115@startrek.website
on 16 Aug 02:53
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Damn so its gonna get even faster? My Windows install must have been more borked than I thought bc I already get performance parity at minimum. Guess I should have kept up with reformatting annually instead of biennially.
luciferofastora@feddit.org
on 16 Aug 09:22
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Running a 3060, no issues I can tell.
YMMV obviously: There was some driver fuckery I had to sort out because Iâm stupid (curious and clueless is a dangerous mix), and I might not be running the most demanding games or programs (Jedi: Survivor might be one of the heavier ones? I have no idea)
I also might have lower standards: Iâm playing 1080p 60fps and generally donât notice FPS issues unless it drops below ~45, because I grew up using to an old-as-fuck laptop to play Skyrim at 20fps (unless there were too many spells flying around and it dropped to 5-10).
Still, the consensus seems to be that AMD is better for Linux, and Iâm coming around too.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 16 Aug 15:48
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I run a 4080 super and spent 2+ K on my system. I want it to run well.
If there are Linux applications that arenât complete janky shit, Iâll switch.
I need a multitrack DAW recorder that understands older and newer audio interfaces and a good multi-camera video editor.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Aug 02:32
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I use bitwig and davinci and they work great. not sure what you mean by âapplications that arenât complete janky shit.â there are a ton of applications available on linux, both paid and free, and their quality varies as much as anywhere else.
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Is this a joke?
This timeline? Yes
The UK? Yes
UKKK.
You mean the censorship law was woefully ill-conceived and wonât do anything they claim it is supposed to do? Leay itâs definitely a joke, just not the type youâre asking about.
Do you see anyone laughing? Well? Do you?? đ§
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Iâm laughing constantly because Iâm losing my mind! Haha!
Tried to use gpt5 via the api the other day and they wanted me to scan my passport. đ«
Yes. Itâs not clear if this was photoshopped or a bug that has been around for years, I believe related to GeForce NOW streaming. The two clients share some code, and GeForce NOW does have an age requirement.
www.nvidia.com/en-us/âŠ/nvidia-app-accessibility/
Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Reminder that they already responded
Doesnât stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.
Wouldnât it be sick if yâall just responded on voting day?
Hereâs the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.
You do realise that Labour were voted in as the progressive alternative on a bunch of pretty progressive campaign pledges right? The Online Safety Act and treating peaceful protesters as terrorists certainly werenât what people voted for.
I do not realize that, Iâm not from there nor do I pay attention to their politics. This was more so a call to everyone everywhere to show up at whatever booth it may be and prevent shitty policies from being considered, let alone passed.
That said, I do appreciate the info, and moreso appreciate that you archived it and linked a paywall free version. That was thoughtful.
Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.
Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.
This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. Weâre kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.
I hope youâre right. But in my experience, every country ends up voting for 1 of the 2 largest parties because âthat other party will not get even 5%â and the whole population ends up disregarding them. And this is by design.
Honestly, I pray that youâre right and the UK people actually tells the main parties to fuck right off.
Very true. I hope you guys do.
To translate it to American, itâs a similar two party system as yours, and the UK Dems are the ones doing this.
Guess you should be on the street protesting and banging down the doors of politicians then.
Your voting chose have already been scientifically proven to be meaningless, democracy is fake.
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The game has been rigged.
Voting exists to stop you changing things.
It makes you believed you solved the problem
when youâve actually accomplished nothing yet
The voting is game is lost before it began
with psychometric micro demographic targetting
they can convert money into votes with simple manipulation
itâs just a matter of which money interest push more
on their preferred option
but neither of the two choices is on your side
None of the choices in democracy are working for you
So main issue with this comment is the UK system allows for more than 2 choices.
Yes there are many choices, very similar degrees of ultimately the same thing. Same thing here in Canada.
Often itâs the business elite party and the âbusiness elite but pretending to care about the peopleâs interest partyâ and that second one is also split so the straight up business elite party has a chance to win. Followed by series of do-nothing statistically insignificant, flavour-text parties just for the impression of diversity. Itâs all a little circus to give you the idea the population is in control while being completely out of the equation. It only really serves to dissipate their frustration and make them believe theyâve already done everything they could so we donât get guillotines in the streets.
Make no mistake Fukuyama is right, this IS the end of history, there will not be any democratically elected changes unless the powerful decide change is in their interest and will maintain or increase their power.
Nothing will change until the power is physically taken away from them and history restarts.
Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It's just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they've pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn't matter because it's not for you.
doesnt matter. they only understand money or force.
Ok but they should still attempt every avenue no?
A huge petition that undermines the governmentâs democratic mandate is never a bad thing, even if they responded.
Makes sense, because with the nvidia graphics card you could generate AI porn.
You could generate AI porn on a 6502; I donât see Commodore or Atari pulling this crap.
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Why would you?? Commodore 64 unzipping still makes my day đ€
youtu.be/Zko10cfXB_k
(and if anyone can find an article or screen grab of the following⊠Let me know, I canât find any references :()
I remember a game / joke where you would rub the Commodore 64 gameport with a wet finger, and the faster you went, the nicer the on-screen lady became⊠;-)
a pen can generate porn
Question: how good do you have to be at drawing to have a successful wank to your own art?
This is a lovely sheet of paperâŠ
You can do that with a CPU, itâs just slower.
Intel! You know what to do!
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You again???! đĄđ€đđđđ
Nuh uh uh!
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Itâs in the name⊠canât access graphic content without ID, can we? /s
On a more serious note, what about AMD graphics cards?
No wonder the Scots wanted to secede from this mess.
And it wouldâve worked too, if it werenât for those meddling
kidsBBC and MSM propaganda machines!Hear me out
Cascotia
Never thought living in a second world country would have itâs benefits
Second-world means axis-power (Germany, Hungary, Australia, Italy, Finland, Japan, etc). It doesnât mean something like âhalf-way between first-world and third-worldâ like Latin America or the USA.
Australia is an axis power! SalutschĂŒsse.
Australia being a famous axis power
Second world doesnât mean axis powers, it represented the Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries.
Its a cold war term. The terms represent the two remaining superpowers after WW2.
1st world = The US and US aligned countries
2nd world = Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries
3rd world = Non-aligned countries. Which just happened to be mostly under developed countries, which is why the term is now used for that. It didnât actually mean under developed at first. For example, Switzerland is technically a 3rd world country despite being rich and highly developed.
No
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World
The actual Nvidia driver settings window or all the gamer crap build on top of it that demands you make an account?
Donât get me wrong, this law is awful but also just deinstall that piece of bloat, good old Nvidia control panel is all you need and works entirely offline without account or did something chance since i left windows?
Theyâre gradually moving all the functionalities of Nvidia Control Panel to the Nvidia App. All the new features can only be accessed from the Nvidia App.
And you donât need an account to use the Nvidia App.
What has the setting of nVidia or visiting the Wikipedia to do with child protection? Certainly old guys which confuse a remote control with an smartphone , donât should be authorized to make internet laws.
Uh, what??
Microsoft could pull this off nicely. One nice foggy morning in the UK, and all Windows boxes go BSOD ⊠Hmm, I think, they do that anyway, most of the time, donât they.
is this real? what the f does a gpu driver have to do with the safety act?
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Youâd have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isnât OS-specific.
EDIT: I meant in general. Software on Linux is also subject to the UKs temper tantrum laws, same as on Windows. The Nvidia driver is just an example, you can also just download the driver on Windows without needing their companion app.
In Linux you can use the open source nvidia drivers if you want
You donât want to, though. Theyâre horrible. Thereâs an insane amount of effort that would be required to reverse-engineer drivers since Nvidia is at best negligent. AMD and Intel are much better about OSS.
I know. The best you can do in Linux is not use nvidia.
That is no longer the case. The Nvidia drivers for Linux are pretty decent, these days. Theyâre still closed source, so if thatâs a deal breaker for you, youâll need to buy an AMD GPU.
Iâm not sure if the closed-source drivers have social media garbage on them at the moment, but Iâm very sure that I donât trust Nvidia not to add it.
This is quite frankly nonsense
when was the last time you used windows with nvidia graphics?
The problem is not that they are bad, is that if someone makes a project that depends on the specific drivers then it will work much worse if the drivers are closed source. Wayland was unusable with nvidia drivers until recently.
been plug and play for me using Nvidia + Linux for years now. Just upgraded to a 5070ti, literally was take out old, put in the new.
Iâm not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. Itâs luck of the draw.
Itâs not luck itâs pretty well defined what works
Thereâs a learning curve, sure.
There was one for Windows too, but most people donât remember the hundreds of hours of learning that theyâve done to become competent users of Windows.
Just jump in, donât dual boot. Having no option of giving up and booting Windows makes you motivated to learn how to use Linux.
Thereâs a community of people who will help (while also sometimes being insufferable assholes) and the skills you learn will be more durable. Youâre not going to see Linux 11 come along and mandate that you buy a new computer or anything.
Oh Iâve loved it so far. And youâre right on the âwhat you learn is more usefulâ. Like Iâd done a fair amount of hobby/work prototype stuff on rasbian, and eventually went âman, itâd be great if this but more horsepowerâ and wound up Debian.
Anyway, my point is despite doing a fair amount of coding, and circuit level electronics including troubleshooting comms and all the fun things like race conditions that go into that, I had zero idea how a computer was actually arranged. Troubleshooting Debian helped me with that and is infinitely transferable as opposed to being a tip and trick with windows.
But my original comment was just about Nvidia cards. Iâve had some I just slot in and they work, and some I have to spend an afternoon troubleshooting. Still reinforces your point though, troubleshooting it the first time was how I learned how things actually get displayed.
NVK is very slowly getting there, from what I've read. if I remember correctly, it's still gives horrible performance (about 50%-ish of the closed source ones, I think?), but it's still miles better than "you're really better off using your integrated GPU" that noveau offered for ages.
Fair enough. I wish them well in the effort. It would be nice if Nvidia threw them a bone, though, what with all the AI money and their GPUs being used in so many Linux supercomputers and servers.
Thereâs a project working on making CUDA work on all (read: AMD) graphics cards. Itâs alpha-level, but the progress makes it look promising.
tomshardware.com/âŠ/a-project-to-bring-cuda-to-nonâŠ
e: Tomâs Hardware links are half the size of the article đ
they are at a point where itâs not even really limited by reverse engineering, but that only the nvidia-signed drivers can increase the gpuâs frequencies to anything near performant.
Iâm not aware that the Nvidia drivers for Linux require an app registration. If that were the case, Iâd definitely have heard about the uproar.
The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package Iâm 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesnât involve a gui app at all.
There is the Nvidia X Server Settings app but itâs pretty barebones
Not really it is full featured under X under Wayland some of the features are replaced by your desktops features exclusively
The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.
aka: the only kind of freedom that matters. lol
You dont even need an nvidia card to open the nvidia settings on linux
No you would not because you donât need to go to the website to download software to use Nvidia on Linux. Also the Nvidia driver on Linux is literally just a driver and settings package it has no online features
You donât need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidiaâs website.
If they canât figure this out, they really donât belong on Linux.
Fake information
www.nvidia.com/en-us/âŠ/nvidia-app-accessibility/
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Creed: âI donât get it. Why does a driver manager need a social media feature?â Ryan: âA one stop shop consumer experience. Youâre chatting with your friends, youâre talking about the latest music, about the election; all of it is happening in our virtual driver managerâ Philus: âDid the police sort the issue?â Ryan: âYesâ
The final solution to the zoomer question has finally begun
@MarcellusDrum This next level #Ageism
Sorry. I thought this was about the Nivea app.
Imagine if more people actually voted for candidates that shared their policy concerns instead of just complaining into the void. In a democracy, the people get exactly the government they deserve.
How would under age people vote? Where I am from, you can only vote at 18 (16 for some special elections), so bad luck if you are under 18 and want to be represented
In a first-past-the-post system, the election outcome does not really reflect the will of the electorate. Which is why things are so fucked up in places that use these systems.
The British donât seem to be doing so well anymore with their parliamentary system. it would appear that there is no governmental system that canât be manipulated effectively anymore.
They have an FPTP system. This is exactly what Iâm talking about.
Any time you have an election, the winning choice is always âfirst past the postâ. No matter how many rounds of voting you place in the way.
there are other methods, ranked choice for example
Americans will literally do anything rather than implement proportional representation.
I get your point, but what those systems do is they donât let massively unpopular candidates win by dividing the opposition and they let third parties compete without splitting the vote.
Uh, no, thatâs not how this works at all.
the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn't have had enough influence to push it through regardless
Time to become swiss
You are extremely naive about âdemocracyâ
You are taking the fake choices at face value
This is not democracy
Voting once in a while is not democracy, itâs not even politics
Look at the rotating cast of 100 or so loser leading just about every democracy, do you really believe that the current leaders really are these despicable, reprehensible, deceptive and bootlicking politicians are the best people among hundreds of millions of people ?
Of course not, what a crazy idea, and you want to blame the victim about it ? The victim which are US ??? How dare you !
Every country has their own version of first past the post, electoral college and all kinds of rules that ensure that even if they canât apparently influence politics, the politics have nevertheless NEVER left the hands of the power elites. The people who have always owned everything and will always own everything. You might be feeling some protest and the desire to point to some ârags to richesâ story to rebut me, but no you know just as well as I do that these exception are far and few in between and they donât save the system.
The system designed to perpetuate the concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands, as much as possible, stopping just short of monopoly and kings unless we stopped looking.
Face it, our democracy is rotten bull shit ! Itâs NOT OUR FAULT, it was rigged from the start by GOD DAMNED SLAVE OWNERS !!!
So stop repeating the thought terminating platitudes like âthe people get exactly the government they deserveâ, âitâs the worst system, except for all the othersâ, âwestern liberal democracy is the end of historyâ.
This was and always been fake no matter how much the elites want us to believe it.
Democracy was fake then, it is fake NOW and that is not even taking into account just how incredibly WORSE it is getting in recent years. Not only were the elites content with assassination of dissenters of anything that would champion any kind of change everywhere on Earth, from Martin Luther King to an endless series of political activists but now we have even worse and more deadly than assassinations going on.
Here are just a few of the new technology that ensure your old fake democracy will never EVER amount to anything and you will scientifically never matter to any kind of policy. (even though it was scientifically proven a decade ago that the peopleâs preference have no effect on congessâ policies)
The new nails in the airtight, steel reinforced concrete coffin of democracy are
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The internetâs inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.
Most zoomers are adults. 96 to 2010 means only the youngest zoomers are minors. In 3 years, every zoomer will be a legal adult.
Also most zoomers are adults now, so no
First they did it to millennials, now theyâre doing it again to Zoomers
âAdultsâ
Theyâre out of college and approaching 30
Yeah but Iâm older so naturally I look at them as adolescents still
alright grandad
Sure thing, infant being
I remember in 2019 my workplace was doing large guest lectures from experts teaching how to work with millennials entering the workplace. The teacher early on tried to emphasize that most millennials at that point were late 20s up to almost 40 so everyoneâs been working with them for a good amount of time now and the crowd was not interested in that.
Just venting about their teenage children who were gen z but wasnât a term used much for a couple more years. Just as entertaining were old millennials in denial and certain they were gen x. Not as entertaining were old gen z that thought they were millennials but learned they were actually gen z and it was a moment of shrug shoulder and pretty much being like, âneat.â Like thinking your astrological sign or zodiac animal was one thing your whole life but was off by one.
Similar to like 2021/2022 when I started hearing about how terrible gen z workers out of college were because of growing up on tiktok. Gen z in the workforce at that time grew up on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. Twitter was genz and millennials tertiary social media. When TikTok came out they had been working for years already or just about to finish undergrad college. 2021/2022 gen z who had the brain rot got that well before TikTok became popular
sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now
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The youngest millenials are almost 30, dudeâs gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials havenât been the in thing for like 10 years now.
Relevant XKCD
xkcd.com/973/
*Theyâre
nope, their kids. the MTV kidâs kids
âTheyâreâ is a contraction of âthey areâ
âTheirâ is possessive
âThereâ is a directed place
âThe problem with the MTV generation is they are kidsâ wouldnât make any sense
From Alpha to Beta in No Time Flat: Consequences of the Online Safety Act
Nearly positive that the youngest are still minors, but most of them are adults for sure.
These delineations are quite silly especially when used in a derogatory way. But if one plays that game, there are still âzoomersâ who are minors.
Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and donât even understand the concept of folders and files.
I personally know several in that age group (minor zoomers) who game on Windows and Linux.
Thereâs always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.
This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.
theverge.com/âŠ/students-file-folder-directory-strâŠ
So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device arenât doing the same until forced to.
Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all âwhat app is that?â
Itâs not an app, itâs a website.
But thereâs no website app.
You use a web browser? Like Firefox?
Whatâs a a web bowser? Is Firefox a new furry?
Iâd probably be the same if it wasnât for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.
But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesnât seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.
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How would Gopher side step this?
My best guess is through complete obscurity :)
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You can on Linux just saying
Itâs like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
We all need to make what we know freely available in a friendly manner to make the path to Linux easier and more fun.
Up until now, weâve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. đ
There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when youâre new.
Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. Itâs a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.
The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that theyâre unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I donât know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.
Emphasis on âfriendlyâ because thereâs a big âRTFMâ issue on some Linux communities. Sure, it can be annoying getting the same questions constantly. But the âRTFMâ response is condescending and artificially inflates the barrier to entry. People shouldnât be expected to read, understand, and remember 200 pages of dense documentation just to learn how to update their graphics drivers. If someone is learning how to drive, telling them âread the ownerâs manual for your carâ is just toxic. Sure the owners manual will have lots of useful info, but that doesnât actually help the person who is trying to get started.
At the very least, point them in the right direction. You can say âRTFMâ while still being helpful. Oh, you want to know how to do something specific via CLI? Cool, hereâs a link to that specific section, which explains what the command you need does. As it currently stands, a lot of the most crucial info for newcomers is buried in obscure wiki articles and books. And longtime Linux users treat the struggle like a rite of passage. But not everyone is interested in that; They just want to ditch Windows because they canât install Win11, and theyâre looking for friendly alternatives.
I do agree with a lot of what youâre saying.
Linux has historically been a space for tech people and so the default assumption is that the user is competent (jokes asideâŠ) and capable of understanding technical writing.
So, naturally, if a person asks a question which is answered in the documentation then theyâre reminded that the answers exist already in the expected places and asking other people to do your own research for you rude.
The Linux demographic is shifting and we need to adjust, but cultural norms change slowly.
I think that this is part of the trap that keeps people stuck in the spyware/enshittification market.
Technology is complicated.
Try to imagine, from a technical point of view, how complex it is to run a service like Netflix. There are a lot of highly trained people designing, managing and maintaining the various systems to run the service that lets a user touch a picture on their phone screen to see a movie.
The user has an easy, friendly experience but thatâs only because Netflix handles all of the complexity. This seems like a good deal initially. I mean,
$10$12$15$19.99/mo is a good price to pay to not have to know how to do all of that.But, now the user is completely dependent on service providers to stand between them and the complexity of technology so they never have a chance to learn because they never see how anything works.
This Faustian bargain is what lets these companies continue to spy on people and jack up the price of services while offering less service. Where are the users going to go?
Linux and the open source community offer a different bargain. You have to learn how to do things for yourself, but now you have actual meaningful choices about how you use technology and a community of people who are trying to solve the same problems as you.
Sure, it isnât as easy. But easy isnât free, and Iâm tired of paying what they want to charge.
My literal job consists of helping other (generally much less technically savvy) representatives provide support to our end users, and it being their literal job to provide âtechâ help to users is still not enough of an incentive for 80+% of them to learn anything beyond basic computing. Sometimes itâs like pulling teeth just to get a fucking click path or screenshot of whatâs actually happening.
Now expand that out to now I am not getting paid to help people and those asking for help are often VERY entitled that they deserve to have their hand held through the entire process. Itâs frustrating and often thankless.
Thereâs an older manual for how to ask a âhackerâ for technical help that I think is so spot on for setting proper expectations: catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.
Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.
Man you are doing <insert deity>'s work there
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Sent you a DM, Interested to hear more about these problems!
I donât know the answer, but Iâm interested, what do you use that for?
I believe it has a lot to do with the default amount of dirty memory. dirty memory is mostly the write cache, which is unnecessary to have a lot of, as that does not improve anything after a certain point, but at best it can mislead you to believe that a copy opetation started with 200 MB/s and that it finished when it actually did not yet.
web.archive.org/web/20220828115647/âŠ/62513
www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/âŠ/vm.html
you can fix these limits with sysctl files. they are loaded on boot on typical systemd systems. suggestions are in the manjaro post, relevant for any desktop linux system.
maybe itâs worth to set these up even if you are good for now. Itâs good to hear a kernel change could have fixed it though. maybe they have finally revised the defaults, they wanted to do that for a few years nowâŠ
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its mostly developer documentation about programming APIs, but thereâs also admin docs, not only at the admin-guide pages.
what is its current trigger?
if yours is a systemd based system, itâs often recommended to make a service unit file for the script, like this:
save this in /etc/systemd/system/gammasleep.service (runs services as root), and run systemctl daemon-reload for it to notice the new file. systemctl enable --now to start it and make it autostarted on boot.
I have written this from memory on phone, so it might need corrections, but this is basically it, plus edit the exec line. docs is in man systemd.service, man systemd.unit. man systemd.directives tells you which man page documents a specific key.
you can check logs with journalctl -u gammasleep.service. an f gives you a running log with shorter history.
probably I could have written all of this after you confirmed you did not use a systemd service yetâŠ
oh I felt the same when I first tried to switch to linux on my main desktop. everything was inconvenient without my usual tools and the system was breaking down from time to time. I got burned out, 2 years later I retried and now I havenât gone back to the windows install for months, and thereâs not much problems now. probably I was being clumsy and doing things the wrong way 2 years ago, but itâs hard to tell because I donât remember.
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not trying to be rude, but itâs easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didnât know their options. they didnât âchooseâ to throw away their rights because they didnât know they had a choice.
I agree with this.
The majority of zoomers are 18 or older. The youngest are 13.
Relevant: <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/2f8678bd-35df-48e6-92d2-be339d95c933.webp">
So 1 in 3 Zoomers are under 18. A little less, since birth rates fall every year.
As one of the first Baby Boomers, itâs somewhat surrealistic for me to proof that Iâm old enough to access an fucking web page.
I hear that - I was around when Arche and Fido-net and BBSâes were king. You want my id? Great Iâll just fax it to you.
As a millennial, it, too, is insane.
Which begs the question: who thinks this is a needed thing and a good idea? Who is pushing this agenda?
somebody in another post a few days ago suggested that this was about gaining control of the media narrative by gradually locking down parts of the internet. The idea being that today itâs adult content but tomorrow its about disagreeable narratives on YouTube, TikTok, and other secondary sources of Information.
-Iâd think it were a stretch of the imagination but it was shown that the motives for trying to ban TikTok (in the U.S.) were the narratives shared on the platform about Israelâs ongoing genocide.
Itâs about surveillance and control. Censor what people can see, require ID so you can monitor whoâs viewing what, and let people know you see what theyâre doing so that they become wary of using the internet for political organization. Pedophiles and terrorists are just convenient bogeymen to scare people into assenting to this.
Why is it called âLost Generationâ?
Going into WWI was a bad time to be coming of age.
Personally, I donât know.
From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation :
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.[1][2][3] Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: âYou are all a lost generation.â[4][5] âLostâ in this context refers to the âdisoriented, wandering, directionlessâ spirit of many of the warâs survivors in the early interwar period.[6]
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, Western members of the Lost Generation grew up in societies that were more literate, consumerist, and media-saturated than ever before, but which also tended to maintain strictly conservative social values. Young men of the cohort were mobilized on a mass scale for World War I, a conflict that was often seen as the defining moment of their age groupâs lifespan. Young women also contributed to and were affected by the war, and in its aftermath gained greater freedoms politically and in other areas of life. The Lost Generation was also heavily vulnerable to the Spanish flu pandemic and became the driving force behind many cultural changes, particularly in major cities during what became known as the Roaring Twenties.
Later in their midlife, they experienced the economic effects of the Great Depression and often saw their own sons leave for the battlefields of World War II. In the developed world, they tended to reach retirement and average life expectancy during the decades after the conflict, but some significantly outlived the norm. The Lost Generation became completely ancestral when the last surviving person who was known to have been born in the Lost Generation or during the 19th century, Nabi Tajima, died in 2018 at age 117.[7]
Tldr: looks like life shit completely down their throats. Kinda feels familiarâŠ
Itâs OK, they were saved in the end ⊠by a war that killed 100 million people.
Life and the wealthy have been shitting on people for ever.
Itâs to do with the amount of people that were killed in WW1, essentially the sheer number of people that died during the war resulted in a generation nearly ceasing to exist.
Oh great, a graph telling me Iâm going to die soon. Iâm not even that old.
I know we donât know each other very well, but⊠Can I have your stuff?
Iâve let my family know that SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone can have my VHS tape of the original West End production of Cats, my Windows 98 CD-R with the license key written on it in marker pen, my Tazos collection (all 4 of them) and my Haynes Workshop Manual for Ford Escort. Enjoy.
damn, a haynes manual. you really are gonna die soon. me too.
The little dance I just danced. This is all Iâve ever wanted. Happy day. Praise the god of the toilet.
Why donât we just say people in their 20âs, 30âs, teens, why we gotta have an extra fucking label
Because when you were born correlates with your cultural experiences and therefore your behaviors. Not always, bit broadly. And if you try to define groupings for those years, you can see clearly defined generations, that were really clear with the baby boomers, who were the American children of American soldiers coming back from world war 2, and then their resultant children, generation y/the âmillennialsâ, named thusly for coming of age around the time of the millennium.
Like sure, itâs all social constructs. But, so is language.
Baby boomers generally got some of the biggest economical booms in history, along with the population âboomâ of their births. But that was only if you were able, white, cisgender, heterosexual, and male. The civil rights movements of the 50s, 60s, and onwards were both possible but also necessary because of the empowerment of those demographics.
But also, because of that general success, a lot of baby boomers (cishet white men) took on the behavioral traits of being largely pieces of shit. Not all, just like ânot all menâ. But, itâs enough of a pattern of entitlement and sexism and repression and psychosocial behavioral resultant of lead poisoning, that thatâs what the baby boomer generation is kindâve seen as, now, regardless if any individual does or doesnât fit any of those things.
And so, we can largely group and label the generation and attach it to a current age group and try to predict or explain behavior.
Unfortunately, this is also discrimination in many cases where it isnât true. Personally, I try to avoid profiling entirely because the habit is gross. But, I would be lying if I said I didnât clearly see a solid pattern. I know, that theyâre just people like the rest of us, and if we were in their shoes, we would entirely end up just like them. But then that again brings it to it being generational, and not just age.
You think I like being reminded and disappointed when people end up fitting their negative stereotypes? You think itâs easy to try to be a good person against my own upbringing? Itâs not. But we have to try. And working to understand is a big part of that. More people need to ask âwhyâ, and, I know you were asking rhetorically, but you were close enough that I think it deserves recognition. So, good on you for that.
Whatever the millennial generation ends up being known for, Iâm curious. But until then, we canât give up trying to make ourselves, the world, and each other better. Because once you give up⊠Well⊠We can never give up.
âWhy not?â Etc etc.
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Why does a graphics card app know how fucking old you are?
Well, if you use an ATI 3D Rage card in your PC it can be deduced, or buying a Graphic card with you credit card.
Well now that the real question, isnât it?
Because you playing gooner bait for 10 hours per day, and they want that info to sell you more gooner bait.
Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why canât a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? Itâs like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.
It doesnât, but the app requires making an account on NVidiaâs website, which also allows you to access their GeForce Live cloud gaming service, and therefore is affected by the law because certain games are deemed unsafe for children.
This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
Are you actually able to do that now? You used to not be able to or they were sufficiently hidden.
Theyâve never been hidden. You just go to the website, put in your model and download it. Thereâs apps that do it for you now which is where this must be coming from. Still doesnât change the fact you can directly download the driver.
Maybe they were harder to find on their site like a decade ago when I first got an Nvidia card and I just never tried looking again.
Nope. Always been that way. Enter model, choose platform, download drivers. Ive had to do it for at least a decade and a half since the nvidia program has never not borked out trying to update drivers.
you are speaking about the advanced search page, but I donât even know how would I find it without my bookmark
lol. Yeah navigating any driver website is a pita. I just search nVidia driver download and it drops me there.
Itâs been the same for 20 years at least. My first nVidia card was a geforce2 but I had an integrated SOC one that borrowed main board memory before that called a RIVA TNT 2. Prior to that had an ISA SVGA card but canât remember who made it:
Windows will do it for you as well but you have to enable it.
Thatâs what in used to use but there are some features you canât access without the physx components so I get the whole package now. For baseline itâs good for sure.
Theyâre hidden in the same sense that the real âdownloadâ button is hidden on most torrent sites.
You can just use the manual search tool on nvidia to find your driver. My understanding is the 9 & 10 series support is going to end soon.
www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/
When you run the installer you have a choice to install their app or not.
Zoomers need to learn they donât need to use Nvidiaâs app for this. Just download the driver directly.
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Not adjusting settings, but definitely auto updates which require a login and theyâve been adding more and more things that require an account so they can track you.
All of these people are future linux enjoyers, they just don't know it yet.
The trend has accelerated this year, corpos are data mining and they want to court proof data against you.
It has been at least 10 years coming but it is now very clear for what they are going for here.
Between Israeli genocide and pedos within the power structure, the anti resime sentiment is growing too strong and it seems for once, fake news can't change the narrative.
We are heading into the future where we won't be able to criticize genocide or pedophiles.
Unfortunately it actually just means less computer literacy. If you canât use a computer you just stay on your phone.
any phone that aint grapheneOS, aint worth using imho
however, i doubt grapheneos team will be able to bring a phone to market. looks like US and EU will outlaw them anyway here soon.
You mean outlawing buying a second hand pixel phone and flashing it yourself?
Something like possession of in sanctioned device either related to terrorism or child abuze.
They will start light but it will have a cooling effect where only the brave will still do it and they will die off eventually.
which is also easier to fingerprint!
Literally nothing about their software should require a login.
Itâs asinine
Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
They did the thing they were supposed to do. They voted for the Ultra-Far Left Woke Labour Party.
Shh
Labour are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.
Dumb take, here take my downvote.
Labour hasnât been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader, he grew up a Tory supporter, failed to get in as a Tory politician so decide on transforming Labour into the neo-Tory party which he was successful at, not that Labour before hand was the friend of the average worker or the poor but at least they were better, now they are hostile to the working class and the poor đ
Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.
Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.
I cannot tell if you are serious
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This is why you Linux, point blank.
Nvidia is still closed source, even on LinuxâŠ
Use the nouveau drivers of course
They did release Open Kernel drivers, which I hadnât tested. Those are the âopen-sourceâ drivers. Sure, their firmware could be proprietary (though I didnât see any issues with it).
Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then itâs still a problem
We donât have geforce experience on Linux (afaik). Ubuntu has a built in âproprietary driversâ app that just pulls the Nvidia drivers for you on first boot after install. Very low effort (on the happy path at least. If you use unsupported/brand new cards, youâre probably going to have a much less fun time)
Linux beginners and Nvidia cards arenât really a good mix in all fairness
Thatâs because people donât really learn which operating systems work well for NVIDIA drivers. Iâd recommend Mint, Pop_OS!, Nobara Project and CachyOS based upon their experience with computers. Those all work well with NVIDIA.
Very good point, always forget Nobara exists but it seems like the best âout of the boxâ solution if you really donât want to do it yourself. That being said, to learn anything you need to understand how it works and itâs endlessly frustrating to me that Linux is the one where people just throw their hands up and give up instantly if anything goes wrong and they canât fix it in the same way they did in a completely different platform.
nvidia drivers in linux can be a monumental mess
That certainly was the case for a long time. Iâve havenât had any issues for 5+ years. Devs made it a priority.
Just donât use a monitor thatâs DRMâd for Windows only. I made that mistake with an FI27Q-SA (AORUS monitor) once, and that was a $600 US waste.
How does that even work, is there just no video output when you boot in to Linux?
On Linux you have no official GUI companion app for your graphics card from NVIDIA AFAIK.nvidia-settings is official
<img alt="" src="https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/68ab0eca-6a58-4e46-8efd-e706482f51d5.png">
On X11 you do (I think some distros ship it). Otherwise, thatâs not necessarily the case on Wayland.
You are right. I forgot, that there actually is a GUI panel for NVIDIA. Itâs pretty simplistic, but still that makes my previous claim false.
gen z is pushing 30 btw
feels so grimm
This happens all the time. I still see what I call boomers (likely younger than actual boomers) call gen z millennials constantly. The oldest millennials are like mid 40s but in the popular imagination we are still kids in our 20s. Itâs like society is 10-15 years behind almost
For the curious 1997-2012 28-13
most video games are mostly slop, the last best video games was done before clinton was elected.
This is why I am AMD fanboy
This is why I wish I was AMD fanboy :((
NVCleanInstall lets you install NVidia drivers without using their GeForce Experience software
Zoomers canât be bothered to spell Nvidia correctly. I wouldnât let âem install my drivers either đ„Č
You can download the Nvidia driver directly from their website
People who care about privacy wouldnât use the Nvidia app. (And wouldnât be on Windows)
Yeah, but Nvidia Cards on Linux are âfunâ. Fuck Nvidia
They have worked for a while now. They just arenât as good as AMD cards but thatâs true on all platforms
How the fuck does this protect kids? Adjusting graphics settings? Why not bar them from adjusting volume while theyâre at it.
wow, wow there. no loud music after 8. If the nightstand mic doesnât pick up the nightly potus prayer, your front door is getting bust open
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Some of those graphics might be showing boobies. Obviously this must be regulated.
No it is not. Dont be a fucking ridiculous idiot.
Nvidia app is DEI woke. Gotta protect the kids.
To be clear this image is faked.
So it sounds like the wall was written to police more than just porn sites? Or is this companies doing this to harvest your data?
Itâs to prevent autonomous agency. Itâs to prevent people from having privacy and individuality end of discussion. The last system like this was under the gestapo and secret police under Hitlers regime.
They are denying us the power of the digital age, taking it for themselves.
Lol good luck, the entire thing that makes it so powerful is the collective
I donât use that shitty application. Just use Nvidia Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel. That application is data collection spyware.
I donât use that shitty application. Just use Linux.
Iâll switch to Linux when there isnât a performance trade off for using an Nvidia GPU.
Just switch to CachyOS and so far Iâve noticed improved performance if anything (on a 3080 10gb). The latency difference between it and Windows is just unreal.
Thatâs the case for DX11 or older games but any DX 12 game itâs 20 to 15 percent less performance and thatâs a no go for me. Once it gets addressed, then Iâll consider switching.
Maybe itâs system to system, or something with the older nvidia drivers, but Iâve specifically noticed the improved performance in Expedition 33 and Jedi: Fallen Order which I think are both DX11/12?
gamingonlinux.com/âŠ/nvidia-are-working-on-a-generâŠ
Looks like they are working on it.
Damn so its gonna get even faster? My Windows install must have been more borked than I thought bc I already get performance parity at minimum. Guess I should have kept up with reformatting annually instead of biennially.
Running a 3060, no issues I can tell.
YMMV obviously: There was some driver fuckery I had to sort out because Iâm stupid (curious and clueless is a dangerous mix), and I might not be running the most demanding games or programs (Jedi: Survivor might be one of the heavier ones? I have no idea)
I also might have lower standards: Iâm playing 1080p 60fps and generally donât notice FPS issues unless it drops below ~45, because I grew up using to an old-as-fuck laptop to play Skyrim at 20fps (unless there were too many spells flying around and it dropped to 5-10).
Still, the consensus seems to be that AMD is better for Linux, and Iâm coming around too.
I run a 4080 super and spent 2+ K on my system. I want it to run well.
If there are Linux applications that arenât complete janky shit, Iâll switch.
I need a multitrack DAW recorder that understands older and newer audio interfaces and a good multi-camera video editor.
I use bitwig and davinci and they work great. not sure what you mean by âapplications that arenât complete janky shit.â there are a ton of applications available on linux, both paid and free, and their quality varies as much as anywhere else.
âI tried nothing and Iâm all out of options!â
b-but how are they going to protect us minors
from the evil NVIDIA app?!
serious talk tho the overreach was unsurprising
That is a lawsuit.
The funniest thing about proprietary nvidia drivers on linux is that theyâre still easier to install than using the GeForce app lmao.
No sign in to a fat game launcher ad ridden app to upgrade your GPU driver