Just from personal experience: there seems to be an undercurrent of opinion that sarcasm and irony lead us into narcissistic dystopia fast.

As witnessed by the many ironic Redditches that turned bloody fast: There are just too many Psychopaths willing to take over and use it to lure the apparently plentiful masses of stupid people in (Biden-Bro and The-Donald come to mind).

I know certainly myself have tried to make this place less toxic by beeing less sarcastic. It’s not about getting it and more of a conscious choice for me. As a side effect, I feel less bitter or disconnected from my life, so that is a net win.

Do I miss beeing an ironic, sarcastic ass sometimes? Absolutely. But it is not the good place I want to hang out at.

To anyone as confused as I was: This is an alteration of an image of senator Josh where he supports the treasonous mob on Jan. 6th, 2021

I personally think the unaltered image should be powerful enough.

That looks like he is practicing some comedy skit.

Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.

Yeah. Thats what the extensions to TR-069 like TR-369 / 181r2 etc. are there for. Total router control.

I mean some ISP just give full control to law enforcement via REST interface. So not even a shadowy Insider needed.

Re WiFi home security: don’t do it. All the burglars have full spectrum wifi/cellphne jamming devices bc they are like 175 bucks on ali express (last time I checked four yrs ago). I expect them to have gotten a lot cheaper.

Never heard about the “burning out WiFi” attack, but it makes sense. WiFi chips in modern routers are so warm, adding extra cycles might kill them.

Well, when Cheney of all people walked on stage and the democrats welcomed him, that was political suicide too. Unfortunately democrat big corporate donors see nothing wrong with turning the ratchet to the right, so democrats like her will be the new normal I suppose.

Image ref: The ratchet effect.

A Tip: some IT departments allow software from the Mac app store, so I would recommend UTM for easy Linux virtualization . Other apps have better features, but are a little more involved to set up.

Oh I see. Sorry I misunderstood your usecase. Then customising XQuartz (Apples X11 Server) or just running a VM with a shared folder seems to be the best option (if your employer allows them).

Oh that’s sad. Last version of MacOS I used was 11 or 12, and things like keyboard shortcuts and mouse behaviour stopped working randomly there too. Guess the detoriation of their GUI hasn’t slowed down.

For what it’s worth I used some drag and drop shelf tool, closed source, a mix of macboard and dropover, can’t find it right now.

But on Mac if you already selected it, why not drag it to copy? (No mod key in terminal, alt key for all other cases)

Does XCode still have Emacs shortcuts? Otherwise I recommend learning the platform specific shortcuts. It gives a much better idea what the platform can do for you.

I’ve used Mac keyboard layout successfully on Linux. “Input Remapper” for one beligerent key that refused to work otherwise.

I did not remap command and Ctrl keys, is that what you are referring to? I found learning the DE- keymappings helped me navigate the different DEs better (I used GNOME and KDE) and it was less error prone since some apps would hardcode some keys that were nonesensical as Mac layout.

As someone who worked IT, confusion is good for business. I’m only half joking.

fedora says it’s a bug in kiwi. I presume they are waiting for upstream to fix this. Parsing this glancingly, found this issue with kiwi and it’s beeing fixed. Thank you for the pointer, I’ll wait for the next release of Live Images. (Install images are not effected).

Yeah scrcpy is a lifesaver. I have successuflly used scrcpy-GUI (together with an OTG adapter for a mouse) in the past, but my screen was partly usable, so I could see and did not have to do too much adb/fastboot magic.

If OPs screen is broken and they did not do anything beforehand, I would have no idea how to proceed, since HDMI alternate mode seems (still) not very widespread.

Thanks for typing it out! Doctors jumping to conclusions that are demonstratebly false by facts happened far too often to me too. Adapting by choosing a different one seems often the only solution.

At this occasion I think it adds to the insanity. It makes it look like the nurse is a pationt too, with her trying to roll away a normal chair

4090s are what price now? Didn’t keep track, I’m astonished. never thought I’d see the day when Apples RAM pricing is seen as competitive.

Just FYI: The “Mac Studio” when equipped with 32-core M3Ultra processors can have up to 512GB of RAM.

It costs like 15k after taxes, so not exactly the scope of this thread, but it exists.

As someone who was denied treatment for my ADHD because I am able to hold a job (diagnosed late in life) I’m curious: why on earth would doctors deny treatment the other way around too? That sounds so illogical.

If I’m intruding too much - just dont reply, I understand.

That is so good and satisfying to hear.

I’m also currently almost exclusively on Linux. My Spouse has a Fedora powered Notebook with a super fast 8/16 core amd processor and loves it dearly. (Cannot remember the maker, but since the BIOS/setup was huge PITA I wont be buying from them again.) I used to love the simplicity and light-weighted -ness of apples setup, but over the years Linux systems made it far easier to use them as a “digital hub”. Turns out I did not enjoy selling my soul to Satan (Oracle Virtualbox) or pay an extra 100 bucks per year (Corel Parallels) just so I could use a few windows only tools I had.