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Dealing with uncooperative people. Most work related stress comes from other people.

People who don’t communicate what they want but it needs to be done. People who don’t listen unless it’s coming from themselves. Or people who are simply too incompetent for their job.

Linux don’t need anything to challenge Windows. Windows is doing great on their own.

This is kind of how it works in countries that haven’t been infected by Amazon Prime. In Sweden for example most e-commerce is done directly from individual stores. There are aggregation sites like prisjakt which lists prices of all different stores so you can find the best deal.

It’s not perfect and maybe not as convenient as Amazon Prime, but I don’t see how a fediverse alternative could do it better.

Every time I’ve tried ”fractional scaling” on X11 it’s just a blurry mess. Like as if it renders at a lower resolution and then scales it up by 125%. I don’t want all my text and icons to be tiny without having to configure every single application I’m using (with mixed results).

With Wayland it’s sharp even with 125% scaling.

I know a fair bit of gang signs. From left to right you have P, L, A, S, M and A.

For most ”laymen” Wayland works just fine. I prefer Wayland because it has proper support for fractional scaling, which is a must for monitors with higher resolution than 1080p.

There are a few flags you should never display.

The Nazi Germany flag. The ISIS flag. The Japanese rising sun flag.

The confederate flag is one of these flags.

If you haven’t logged in to your WhatsApp through any third party applications you should be fine.

it’s the kind of dependency developers install without a second thought

I got a feeling this is an attack vector that will continue to grow, as now there’s vibe coding frameworks installing random dependencies without a thought at all.

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That’s fair. I live under the assumption that dark mode users don’t know how to change the brightness level.

I prefer light mode.

Just be in a properly lit room. Open your window curtains. Don’t blast your display on max brightness. It’s actually easier on the eyes.

Imagine one new chess game is played every second. It would take until the heat death of the universe to finish all possible games (more than 10^100 years). That’s just chess. Human genome is magnitudes more advanced.

Why bundle HL3 as launch title? Feels a bit too much to develop the most memed game ever + trying to figure out the logistics of 3 new hardware products at the same time. People won’t exactly rush to buy Steam Machine for HL3 if they already have a decent PC.

Crysis 2. I don’t think the game would’ve been much without the bombastic Hans Zimmer theme.

I think it depends on how dirty it is and how easy it is to replace. A decent solution now is better than waiting for the perfect solution that may never come.

I like to use unwrap_or() to define fallback values. The Option API is quite expressive.

Being frustrated because nvidia drivers sucks

From the FAQ:

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So yeah, they’re basing of browser user agents.

Can it be fingerprint spoofers skewing the results? In that case the data is worthless.