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Comment It's a bit incompetent (Score 1) 55

I use Bluesky, and I have been kicked off of Twitter for saying not so nice but also true things about Elon Musk (no fact checking to speak of, just got the boot) so I can't compare them now. But some things don't work right. Their algorithm shows me a lot of kinds of stuff I never interact with, though it always is showing me new accounts. I guess by "we don't have an algorithm" they meant it was very primitive. When I try to post images they come up as all black in the correct dimensions. It worked for a couple of days and then stopped. This includes thumbnails for webpages. Apparently this only happens in Firefox so it's tempting to think it's their fault, but it doesn't happen to me on any other site so clearly Bluesky is doing something weird and problematic. Other people have reported the same problem, so it's also not just me.

Comment Re:"Today, we're bringing you Android 16" (Score 1) 8

Today, they are bring it to specific devices.

Later, others will bring it to others.

I do feel a bit left out, though. Most android users do definitely get a shorter stick when it comes to update lifespan. I am still on 11 or something. How long before there's a serious security issue that can't be fixed with a play store update?

Comment Re:A fork in the road. (Score 1) 66

I already have 1 foot in the grave via systemd, why are they trying to take my other foot?

It's mostly their fault you have systemd as well if you're not a redhate user, because Debian's main excuse for adopting it was that GNOME was doing so. If you are, well, you can only blame yourself. Though also, at this point, you have non-systemd options.

Comment Re:Well, Wayland on Nvidia is still fsck'd (Score 1) 66

So, of course, now stop supporting X and force me to use something that won't work going forward as the devs blame Nvidia and nothing gets fixed...

They're probably not wrong about it being Nvidia's fault. Nvidia drivers have been decreasing in quality relative to AMD's (they only have to work well for CUDA for 90% of Nvidia's current revenue stream to be secure, at least as far as the drivers go) and they have never put much effort into supporting Wayland. I find I'm actually looking forward to my next GPU coming from AMD, but that comes with a couple of caveats. One, I am not going to run Windows. AMD's Windows driver is still bad by most accounts. Two, this is quite some years after the last time I tried an AMD card and found it didn't work worth a crap. That is, not only am I not involving the OS where AMD is weakest, but a lot of time has passed.

Given that AMD has only recently open sourced their GPU virtualization software, I will want to wait a while anyway, and I have no plans to buy a GPU in this generation. I bought a 4060 Ti 16GB as adequate for 2k gaming, and the cheapest Nvidia card of its generation to have 16GB, which I wanted for LLMs. In older games I can often do 4k60 Ultra, and I play mostly older games, so for me even the gaming performance has been surprisingly decent. Pity about the price, it was too much even with $50 off.

Comment Re:Never say forever? (Score 1) 46

With half-lives of 2.7-5.3 years for major PFAS compounds (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS), it would take approximately:

It seems like you're accounting for only very short-lived examples, but there are over 10,000 of them. Even if production stopped today, they would still be coming out of products in use and people's bodies for years, and since it's easy to make new ones and we tend to ban specific products instead of classes of chemical, they will be difficult to control if we exert our usual minimal effort.

Comment sigh (Score 1) 66

I am having a problem on my system where file requesters won't open.

I looked around and found it's a problem with gnome-gvfs. I killed it and boom, requester opened.

So I went and looked at the issue and they have declared victory and closed it.

I wanted to report that it's still an issue in 1.50.3 when they thought they had it fixed in 1.46.2.

So I try to log in and...
"Signing in using your GitLab.com account without a pre-existing account in gitlab.gnome.org is not allowed."

Your gitlab account isn't good enough for them, you have to have a gnome gitlab account. Fuck, these GNOME dildos are self-important.

Comment Re:The final jump (Score 1) 66

Many Linux distros often don't detect 4K displays properly and render at 100% causing everything to be small.

This happens to me only when there is an EDID problem. For example my TV claims that it is much larger than it actually is, because they apparently used one EDID for an entire line of displays. This causes text to be the wrong size. When the EDID is fixed, everything displays properly.

Over 50% of PC users are still on a 1080p display.

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