Sports are called “foot” ball because they involve running and aren’t played on horses. And “ball” doesn’t mean “sphere”
I don’t watch association, Australian, rugby or American football, but you’ve bothered the etymologist in me with your nonsense suggestion.
“I tried to keylog myself and the system doesn’t support keylogging.” is a frustrating situation. Because it’s neat from a security perspective and absolutely maddening from basically every other one.
For a second I thought “Maybe I saw it in a different community and TheRealKuni is just being picky about cross posts.”
https://mander.xyz/post/46153727 - nope. In this community.
I had 6 (3x 27" 16:9 monitors), and then wound up with a 34" 21:9 ultra wide for my middle monitor. The side monitors stopped fitting on the triple monitor arm I had, but just barely. Enough that turning the monitors portrait made them fit again… so I’m pretty close to 10 right now.
A lot of animals have a sort of orange/green colorblindness I thought. Tigers being orange are actually well camouflaged for their prey. So orange looks amazing and isn’t necessarily making them stand out.
This is an amazing picture though.
Desktops can be installed on any ubuntu release. you could install xfce on kubuntu, or kde on base ubuntu. And what DE/WM you are using doesn’t matter in a quite a few scenarios, so it’s not worth bringing up in the same way that I don’t mention “Im using cachyOS niri wm”
I personally preferred xubuntu over kubuntu back in my *ubuntu days. etc etc. there are a lot of spins of ubuntu and when the only differentiator is DE (which you can also just install on base ubuntu), it’s easier to just talk about them all as a single overaching entity/family … ubuntu.
Talking about kubuntu inherently requires talking about KDE and ubuntu both, so people just skip the KDE discussion.
“Too many distro options” is already a complaint of a lot of non-linux users, so specifying every last spin can just drive people away.
Doesn’t Ubuntu disable the root user out of the box and expect these actions to be performed via sudo/polkit. There is clearly a precedent for not needing a root password and being able to use your own user’s password for these kinds of things. So it is a monumentally stupid idea to require the system-wide root password, but not one that is done by all of linux, and seems to be a decision made by your distro to not use the modern solution.
The fact is though, you’re right and the pain point is that distros are still doing things the silly way.
If I can sudo apt install without requiring a password, I could generate a package that installs a custom sudoers config file that allows me to do anything, so “passwordless sudo, but just for apt” is potentially easily exploitable to gain full access. But that also still assumes A) you care and B) someone has access to your account anyway (at which point you may already have bigger problems)
It is interesting to me that at this point, because of Waydroid, the primary things keeping me from using a Linux phone are the same things keeping me from de-googling more of my current phone. When running LineageOS in the past, I couldn’t reliably use RCS. Plenty of apps have issues with google’s Play Integrity shenanigans.
Once I hit a point where Im ok with running a degoogled android, I’m basically ready for just going straight to Linux on phone.
RIP stack overflow
When they say repeated, they mean repeated for all time ever. Has someone ever used the phrase “how are you today?” … yes. Has someone ever used the phrase “Pablo Picasso is my favorite brand of watermelon” before? Probably not. There are probably a lot of phrases with varying levels of “have existed before”. That previous sentence might be an entirely original one.
But there are plenty of other sentences that can be conveyed that actually exchange information but don’t generate new sentences. “So, what do you do for work?” “My favorite color is green” are almost certainly not new sentences.
A better breakdown of my sequence of numbers with the exact same values might be
1, 1, 2, 3,
1, 1, 4, 5,
1, 1, 6, 7,
1, 1, 8, 9
1, 1,
1, 1,
1
And now you have a repeated intro section per line and a sequence of totally unique numbers to that line.
“Most numbers are repeated” could mean that if you pick any given number from all the 21 numbers, it more than 50% likely to be a “1” you pick, just because 1 shows up so often.
“Most numbers are NOT repeated” could mean that if you if you pick any given number from the 9 unique numbers that show up in the set, you are 88% likely to pick a number that only exists once. But if any of these numbers were to be repeated even once, for any reason, that part stops being true.
In language, this just means that some phrases are going to be purely templates like “Hello” but some phrases are informational without being new: “I like turtles” and some are completely never happened before.
And depending on where your mental anchoring is, “we have a lot of repeated phrases in our lives, how could MOST sentences be new” or “repeating things would get old” … that stat may be hard to believe or surprising, or very obvious.
“Hello, how are you?” has been repeated plenty. But after that things start to vary.
In the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Most numbers only appear once even though most numbers are a repeat.
If we assume “hi, how are you?” is “1” and most sentences are another number, we can see how even with common phrases being repeated frequently, most sentences may tend to be original.
(I’ve not done the math and I’ve definitely not studied language enough to say how dubious or accurate the claim is, you just piqued my interest and I started trying to rationalize it all)
I agree. But that’s wrong because lying about current events is wrong. This is what I meant about framework. AI is a tool in that regard and not the problem. There is plenty of “real” journalism out there spreading lies too that I have problems with.
I’m fortunate I guess that most of the AI slop I dismiss is things more akin to baby panda sneezing scares mom panda. Where it doesn’t REALLY matter if it’s real because there are no consequences. It’s either funny or it’s not.
If someone were to say to you “why did the chicken cross the road?” You wouldn’t demand that there is actually a chicken. You would accept it as a framework for a joke.
The same holds true for staged videos or AI or anything. Is the framework important to the point? A video claiming people can fly and using AI as proof… That’s problematic. A staged bit where it would still be funny if it was just told verbally by a standup comedian? Who cares how real it is, the realness was never the point, the concept of the situation was.
Almost all comedy movies are just long staged bits.
And “how funny would this be if a standup comedian told this as a joke” vs “the context of this potentially actually happening is very important to the underlying humor of it” is a variable line for people. And that’s ok. Unless someone is in danger (don’t let someone jump off a cliff because ai said they can fly), other people’s lines don’t really affect you
Indeed. But for me, I have to ADHD myself to do it. I will never just casually peruse screenshots.
However I was chatting with some former coworkers and they were talking about pictures from a previous company on-site. So I started scrolling my photos and screenshots. And then once I found what they were referencing… I kept scrolling. Was very fun.
Speaking of fsync vs esync vs ntsync.
As someone else has mentioned, proton or wine or games should not be able to cause “OS crashes”. If they do, its either an error happening somewhere else in the stack (a driver perhaps?) being triggered by the game, or you’re dealing with out of memory issues, and its struggling to clean itself up. I would suspect drivers (ie, make sure the system is updated) or memory, because those are the 2 aspects of a system that games tend to push the most.
But to your actual question: It’s a few things. The main thing that differentiates proton from wine, is that wine aims for maximizing global compatibility. Proton is focused on games, and is therefore able to make tradeoffs.
What if a new feature breaks MS Office because it changes how a function works, but doesn’t impact any games, and in fact, makes games fun 2-3x faster on average. Wine would not include this new feature. Proton would. They would put this into proton experimental.
But now they find out that while it makes MOST games faster, some games it causes to crash. Some games might use that same function MS Office does. so they don’t run properly. That might warrant a hotfix release. The point of numbered releases is to have points in time where most things are known working. If this feature had shipped into Proton 123, valve could pin the broken game to Proton 122, so now having different number versions makes sense to keep each individual game working optimally, while experimental and hotfix can be used for testing out new code (literally experimentally).
A great example of this was fsync. TBH, I have no idea what fsync is, but generally speaking, the games make a Windows function call that didn’t have a direct equivalent Linux function. Wine made a workaround to make sure this windows function did what it was expected to do, and there were several versions of the workaround. Some faster, some more reliable. And then eventually the function was actually added to the Linux kernel, so no work around was needed. For a while there, fsync vs esync was a big performance and compatibility concern. And now ntsync tends to cover this. Some games worked better with fsync and some with esync, and some with it all just turned off. But we need experimental proton versions to validate all of this.
That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.
In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we’d still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.
If she is actually depressed, then she should be receiving mental health aid, and there’s nothing to be “at fault” for. Perhaps there might be better suited facilities to help her, but it sounds like she does need help if she’s that depressed.
If she is in perfect mental health and you’ve somehow got her put in a psych ward anyway, then sure, you’re causing problems and it’s your fault.
Lol.
“Foot means played on foot” is not the same as “every other sport must be played on horse”. Football naming etymology has no impact on the naming of other sports. Chess is often played in a chair, not on foot, so it already is a non foot game. The lack of distinguishing may be to allow some chess players to optionally stand, or play from horseback if desired.
It DOES mean though that you are not allowed to play American football on horseback.