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ennemi [he/him]

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Cake day: December 29th, 2022

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  • The backing comes at a crucial time as Lindner’s Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, announced in June that all ties with the bank were to be frozen pending a government review over claims made by a former Canadian top executive at the bank, who reported widespread “communist dominance” within the institution since its foundation in 2016 — allegations that the AIIB denies.

    You mean the investment fund that was literally founded by the Chinese government because China had less voting rights in the existing “Asian Development Bank” than the fucking United States of America? The one they have minority voting rights in?

    The full depth of this reasoning is just “China bad”, that’s it. That’s the quality of our public officials. This country is a fucking joke.



  • I’d still recommend getting an AMD graphics card and generally prioritizing hardware with upstream drivers. As in, drivers that are included with the kernel itself. The experience is always better. Overall it’s still a good habit to look up how any hardware runs on Linux before buying it.

    Gaming in a Windows VM is possible but it was a big ordeal when I did it. You have to make sure your CPU and motherboard support IOMMU for PCI passthrough. It’s less of a problem nowadays but there are still some pitfalls with PCIe lanes and whatnot. You need two video adapters, one for the host and one for the guest (because the host has no access to the passed-through GPU) and if you want to game on both Windows and Linux that can be a pain in the ass. It goes on. I personally don’t recommend it. If you have to play trashy eSports that ship with built-in anti-cheat malware then just Windows for that.












  • People where I’m from (Montréal) are mostly sympathetic with Ukrainian refugees and willing to spend some effort helping them integrate and make ends meet. I’ve been asked to donate a couple times.

    I haven’t heard any hard opinions about the conflict beyond the default Putin bad/hope Ukraine wins stuff and also a lot of comments about how messed up improvised drone warfare is.

    All in all the reaction is very similar to when shit goes down in Haiti or Africa for example. Bad shit from far away that people can’t really do anything about, and since we don’t really see ourselves as participants in geopolitics most people just don’t care all that much.