The tension between these two was something else entirely 🙄

The “Me and who?” meme writes itself, especially if you have a low self-esteem to be compared to a cybertruck - a car wholly unprepared to, like, exist.

The link in the OP didn’t work for me, here is an alternative: https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/03/23/utterly-disgraceful-trump-insider-accused-of-using-his-power-to-get-his-ex-arrested-then-melania-link-and-epstein-connection-add-a-dark-twist/

The technically-not-a-pedophile who first met his wife at 18 when he was 33 (she was brought up aged 17 on Eipstein plane, met Melania on it at 18), now used his contact with a senior ICE agent to bag her after being in the US on visa since 2002 (expired in 2019). It’s hard to be more POS than that.

To be fair, they edited in the Microslop logo and also the Firefox icon, making a crying fox look like a narcissist hugging it’s own image, that is not completely out of blue with their recent shitty decisions

XnView MP - cross-platform image viewer and organizer that I love for it batch convert tool. Besides many work tasks that required simple leveling or watermarking automation, I used it to make my couple of underpowered and lowres e-ink books show me manga in the best possible way. I chained up grayscale, rotation to portrait if landscape, posterisation, cutting white borders and resizing the result to the book’s screen, the entire Gutz or Berserk or Uzumaki processed in one go and saved to another folder keeping the structure intact. This way I sprinted through so many works I probably outdid my real wage in the month I started, calculating the price of each tome in Eastern Europe.

TotalCMD - Win darling that I rarely ever use now, but it’s the first thing I think of (and miss on Linux) when I need batch renaming of files. Find&replace, adding counting numbers, using regular expressions (while looking them up each time, lol). It says a lot when I come to task and think of it in a logic that this exact tool allowed me to use.

AIMP - surprise-surprise, another batch editing tool that primarily a music player, and also Win only. It is the slickest way I found to mass convert files to other formar via a context menu item, and it also provides a tool to mass edit metadata of music files, with a pretty flexible data rearranging patterns, e.g. I could fill a blank metadata table sourcing from it’s name deftones_-_shove-it.mp3 and other kinds of manipulation.

I just really like that some programs provide nice GUIs for reliable automatisation of repetitive tasks, that you don’t need to write macros over programs instead. The closest I felt like that from a corporate software is MS Office Word’s Find&Replace in older editions, where you could use regexp, target specific styles and tags, etc, but it still felt too limiting and dumbed down, so for some context aware replacement tasks I wrote macros and was scaredly considering going to either edit their lunatic XMLs on the code level or learning the hell of VBA scripting if I’d have time and zero self-respect. The two only persons I know who wrote some VBAs in my circle actively encouraged me not to 🤪

Hey, Niko!..

I was going to say whoever promises him ONE MILLION DOLLARS, but I guess there is a sporadically formed organism of loyal gatekeepers, privileged abusers and so on, that limits it to a tiny circle and makes it go somehow predictably to further interests of higher bidders.

It’s a fitting gotcha comparison commenters everywhere wrote since he took office again, but GOD FUCKING DAMMIT this senile piece of shit is only relevant as a POTUS and everyone’s henchman, making him look like a biblical character for good or for bad is giving him too much credit, uphelding the cult of personality the least educated and religiously minded individuals seek to believe in. This sensational exceptionism is not doing anything useful. Fucker Carlson continues to mow down every wrinkle on the brains of his target audience, but today he drives right to left instead of the usual opposite.

1. It has it’s DRM implementation, that, albeit weak and useless, was designed to manage what you can or cannot plug these cords into, e.g. capture cards. That’s probably an advantage for Sony and others.
2. HDMI specs are <10m or bust, so for big rooms or video prod on HDMI you need amplifiers. They may be included in the cord itself, but that makes it one-directional, lol.
3. Not to say that HDMI cords are expensive and you also can’t press their ends to the lenght needed yourself, unlike what you can do with SDI cords.
4. No mechanisms preventing them against just popping out from the socket. Anecdotally, I think there’s something weird with their construction maybe, that in my experience made metal connectors suddenly come off completely around 5 times this year, while no other connectors suffered that faith, even dumb VGA that are prone to have their pins wrecked.
5. HDMI is rigidly limited to what it can with what standard and has no interesting things going for it imho, at least no daisy chaining multiple displays one after another that DP can.

Yup.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released

Wine for Android hasn’t seen too much work in recent time. Back in 2024 was talk of Wine on Android with DXVK/VKD3D-Proton plus FEX for running Windows games on Android but not too much on that “Cassia” effort since. Going back over a decade were original efforts to get Wine on Android and running Solitaire as an example.

The answer is: It’s basic, Windows/Android-looking, and it’s not Ubuntu with snap and shit

And for me it was right. I left it after some time with it, when it served as a comfortable middleground for a Windows escapee. I needed it to feel security in my pretty extreme choice, not to bounce back in the first weeks. Only then I felt like I’m staying there and can explore different things and actually know what I’m looking for.

At first, Mint gave a relief in having a simple visual software manager (~app store) that had both regular versions and flatpacks, where I first encountered the critical difference between the ways you can install the same app and underlying mechanics of dependancies etc. Then I got to know app images, that are less android-like and more windows-like in a sense you download executable files and fire them up. Having some problems and needs I started to google around, saw frequent mentions of archwiki, AUR, pacman, etc, and it just went on.

But for a little while I feared it’d be a neverending challenge, it was comforting to know, that it would just work on the basic level, for browsing, surfing web, playing games. And that I can then pick my challenges to serve my needs. Like a safe zone where most MMOs put their newbie players at first to learn the basics.

Well, no, but the amount of browser-based apps due to their convinience in development is stupid.

What if that’s not so linear? We need to get to the bottom of it!

It gives a nice perspective into how generic 3d cartoons came to look. It’d eventually cause a backwards association of everything Disney-alike with a slop.

Or VRAM, or a dying power supply, both experienced recently.

I’d be pretty surprised if ambassadors of AI technologies would send their kids there themselves. Usually you hear the opposite about bosses of tech giants. And the concern the author of the article had - that her neurodivergent daughter could benefit from that more than from traditional learning environment - leaves me even less inspired, for the failing of the latter is generally in the lack of teachers, 1-on-1 personal work with a student, while this “personalized” approach removes teachers even further.

Link? I think there should be something exceptional to excuse the pager attack. Being a week old account, you should know how to post links [like](that).

I find it funny you default to moral difference or failing for the second time, while talking about a country that casually continues to genocide semites in Gaza well after the ceasefire in a way even the failing austrian artist couldn’t have thought possible.

Preceeded by israeli terror mass attack they boasted about for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device_attacks

I wonder why Israel has no friends. Maybe because they are an even worse neighbor than russia? And that’s all by design?

First as a tragedy, then as a farce.

Video. If there is something mindlessly excessive, it’s always video. And if you have tree leaves for budget, instead of slightly more expensive hardware controllers or PCIe cards that can combine multiple inputs and outputs, and do it right, you default to cheap usb dongles per device used, and compose them on software level. If you collect inputs from several devices and output these to something like displays on a scene, while also collecting audio from mics, DJ deck, and outputting these too, numbers add up quickly. This clownshow is further expanded by unreliable software, usb power limits, Microslop Windows in most cases - because pros use it or Mac, no penguins. I have no pride in greatly exceeding what some random PCs could predictably do, for fixing random errors here and there when USB and USB hubs hit their practical ceiling is just another level of Dante’s hell, for all us time- and harware-restricted tinkerers.

I hope I won’t come off as a combatative redditor-type, but I pretty much dislike the framing sewn into your comment.

When you put a regime that has proven it does not care about civilian lives or human rights into a situation where they have nothing to lose, you are putting innocent lives at risk.

Of course Trump and Netanyahu don’t care about human lives, either.

You can put a Hormuz strait between these two lines, ooof. No, full stop, just no. The opinionated tone skewed towards western terrorist states who started it all is unbearable.

At some point you have to ask yourself, “is this about winning or about saving lives?” … how many innocent lives are you willing to put at risk to “win” this battle of masculine wills?

It is a good general perception of any war, but in this case we know for sure nothing moral was taken into consideration. It is barbarians pillaging land and resources, showing their power. There is no single thought about liberating iranian people from the yore of authoritarian fanatics, but the opposite - both US and Israel would only benefit from having a foe for their forever war, and they put decades of agression into it, that waves back and support their new fascist endeavors.

Your SunTzinian message of letting the foe escape is fitting, because once again the stable state US topped would likely become either more authoritarian or a distributed free for all incubator for civil wars and terror acts. Both radical leaders and western warmonger would feed from that like vampires. They always win when we suffer.