Lets_Disco

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[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yep definitely AI slop.

Basic definitions, 'not only x but so many sets of three' -

"Power, duty, and an honour

elections, referendum and political initiatives

institutions, private entities and peers

a particular perspective, prioritizing certain needs and choosing the way we interact with technology"

That was only the first few paragraphs. Gave up after that, such a worthless read. I've got more important stuff to do, like watch paint dry.

At least take something useful from it - at least we know thelibre.news is pure trash.

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 3 points 12 hours ago

She is also Malevola from Dispatch!

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Although that site has him on 15 league goals n ive checked a few other sites and they have him on 14. So likely that pic is using some dodgy stats from a crappy site like that.

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This site says he's scored 10 in the conference league and apparently he actually has 35 goals including Ireland goals -

https://footystats.org/players/republic-of-ireland/troy-parrott

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is absolutely not 'the only way forward'. Hardware attestion is much more secure and doesn't rely on third parties to give you permission on how you use your own device.

Lets hope enough developers boycott this awful initiative. Graphene are asking devs to boycott this and hopefully they can get enough momentum behind getting this blocked -

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/03/10/grapheneos-calls-on-privacy-focused-app-developers-to-boycott-european-unified-attestation/

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What's insane about this is that the US are actively or accidentally targeting their Gulf allies and then blaming Iran as well...

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/patriot-missile-involved-bahrain-blast-likely-us-operated-analysis-finds-2026-03-22/

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think there's also an important distinction to be made here, especially for many of these examples.

Ripoff - "a usually cheap exploitive imitation"

Homage - "something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another"

I think many of the examples of "good ones" would likely be homages, rather than ripoffs. Although thats not to say, some ripoffs can't be good on their own too.

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The charges against him were obviously Israel trying to get him discredited. He had brought arrest warrants against the Israeli leaders earlier in the year.

You can read a great long form article from before then, about the tactics they were using against his office, especially in light of the charges he was bringing (relating to the genocide and the many crimes against humanity Israel were committing) -

https://archive.ph/83wqp

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Say what ya want about the Swiss... But their flag is a big plus!

I'll see myself out

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cachy OS uses Limine by default.

Pretty sure Fedora and Nobara both use grubby too.

Edit - Actually just realised the age verification is happening inside systemd itself and not just the systemd bootloader. Ignore me, my answer is pointless

[–] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I remember few years back, maybe like 3 years after Witcher 3 and it was on sale for 90% off. Like multiple times I saw it on sale for super cheap.

I've been waiting for a similar thing with Cyberpunk n its not got anywhere near that. Cheapest i've seen it is around 65/70% with the expansion considerably more expensive still.

Witcher 3 is now more expensive than it was more than 8 years ago! That is wild!

 

Thank god the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize winner is so magnanimous!

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com to c/music@lemmy.world
 

Some great Newfoundland music!

 

I am still a relatively new Linux user, had tried Garuda and Bazzite on my Acer Gaming laptop 2021 (Intel integrated + Nvidia 3070 dgpu- muxless) back in July but neither worked, i kept getting weird freezes and nothing would open. Had no clue what the issue was and had zero Linux knowledge. So after a frustrating few days and many, many, many reboots I gave up. Reinstalled shitty Windows 10 again and that was that. Felt defeated lol.

Fast forward to November, the itch to go back to Linux was growing something fierce. Decided to follow some good advice from a friend, installed Pop OS and fuck, it worked like a charm. Fell in love and haven't looked back at Windows since.

Kept learning new things and picking up more knowledge about the terminal and was beginning to use quite a few commands without any fear. The terminal is class, feel like hackerman meme lol. I soon realised though that I was actually only using my Nvida gpu for everything, rendering and games etc. So decided to try hybrid. However i soon realised Steam wouldn't open, anything that i asked to run the discrete card would not actually run the Nvidia card. Tried removing the open drivers and replacing with the closed. Some things worked temporarily but I simply couldnt figure it out and decided to settle for manually switching between integrated and nvidia for different tasks. Handy feature on Pop OS 22.04.

Anyway, got the stupid distro hopping itch and started jumping about lol. Tried Cachy. Same issue with Nvidia card so bounced. Tried Nobara. Same again but stayed longer and tried few kernel PCI tricks using grubby (advice from somebody much more knowledgeable). That worked for a day or so but always kept going back to crashing the nvidia card (and was only able to use my Intel integrated card). So went back to Pop OS (my Linux safe space lol). Was almost ready to settle for my lot in life (in regards to this stupid Acer Nvidia laptop lol).

Throughout all this, I had been reading the Arch wiki off and on, and at first it may as well be gobbledegook. But after couple months of using Linux you just start picking things up a lot more, words that had no meaning before, soon made sense and you begin to have the basics down. I had been reading about this GSP firmware thing really late one night and then forgot next day and only remembered few days later. Apparently this GSP firmware that comes with the Nvidua driver can screw some of the older Nvidia cards and so disabling it, while using the closed driver can help some older machines. So earlier tonight, tried it on Pop just messing about and it worked. So I thought, fuck it, Nobara was brilliant, lets try that again and try and find out how this is done on Nobara.

Switched to Nobara, followed some stuff from the wiki and forums, did the commands, then rebuilt the akmods and regenerated the Drakut program. And hybrid graphics works fucking perfectly now!!! Fuck me, it feels amazing to have finally sorted a solution to an issue I was ready to give up on after trying to sort it for a couple weeks! And I also have to say, if I had simply gotten that answer the first night I went searching, I would be absolutely none the wiser about all the things I learnt through trial and error, through learning on the wiki and on forums etc.

Sorry for the long rant lol, just wanted to share a minor but personal triumph. After all that, I can really see how awesome Linux is. I honestly feel that I've learnt more about computers within the last few months on Linux, than I did in the last 15 years using Windows!

If anybody out there is thinking of trying Linux, you should absolutely give it a go! Jump in and have some fun! Make sure you back up any important data. But don't be afraid to make mistakes. Honestly that can be fun, figuring that out! There really are some great distros out there!

Linux4life motherfuckers!

Peace!

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