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Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 28

CenturyLink customers can say goodbye to stable, reliable, uncapped cheap fiber Internet

If "Lumen" is the same as "Quantum", then since I was forced to drop my slow-but-rock-solid DSL for the quantum "upgrade" a year ago, it's been neither "stable"
  nor "reliable." (And a double fuck-you for blocking *INCOMING* 25. WTF is that all about?)

And the hits just keep on comin'

Comment Re:Still dual-booting? (Score 1) 65

> Since Ubuntu Server doesn't typically have any Wifi drivers baked in you need to (hope that you can) use your LAN port or otherwise sneakernet the required packages across

Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but I just did a 24.04 server install two weeks ago. I was expecting to have just that problem when I did the initial setup on my workbench (currently lacking a hardwire after an incident with the puppy), but it supported my USB wifi dongle OOTB.

Comment Re:Is Gabe the hero of prophesy? (Score 1) 53

Has Heroic made it possible to paste a password into the store login yet? Last time I tried it on my Deck, a couple months back, it was a non-starter, since I couldn't be arsed to transcribe the 32-character random string from Bitwarden on the on-screen keyboard.

There was a github issue open for a while, but it seemed to be being ignored.

Comment they got me this week (Score 1) 91

the support team i'm on got fucked onto win11 this week, despite the fact that the entire company just got acquired on April 1 and we're all getting new laptops by the end of the month, with current laptops going into the trash. it's so stupid and i am so goddamn mad (you can put that in the paper).

like, i was resigned for the new laptops to be running 11, because ofc they would, but for someone somewhere to decide, hey you know what fuck those guys, let em eat it, and force-upgrade out shit with a month to go seems downright malicious to me.

what's really odd is that it appears it was done by the old company, because we're still joined to that domain, not the new company.

Submission + - Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC (tomshardware.com)

DrunkenTerror writes: Donald Trump announced plans Monday night to impose massive tariffs on Taiwan-made chips in an attempt to incentivize companies to relocate production to the United States. On the one hand, this could reduce American companies' reliance on Taiwan in general and TSMC in particular. On the other hand, building a semiconductor fab takes three to four years, so the effect of production moving to the US due to tariffs may not be felt for some time.

Submission + - Hostile Takeover of Federal Government Underway (dailykos.com) 9

An anonymous reader writes:

I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.

I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.

Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.


Submission + - More than 50 subreddits ban X links to protest Elon Musk (nbcnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.

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