CrypticCoffee

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But if they catch you sweating, you're busted. Isn't it public record that the guy cannot sweat?

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Source? Do the UK even have a Sears Catalogue?

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, subs kept getting hijacked. I wouldn't blame them.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Company? It's the UK communications regulator, Ofcom.

They found that many on low incomes don't have photocard ID when they rolled out voter ID despite opposition.

Considering no one seems capable of withholding data from motivated hackers, this could be quite horrific.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Believe internet strangers? I had it on my laptop and Pinephone. After breaking twice on both, I went for Kubuntu then OpenSuse for desktop and PostmarketOS on the Pinephone.

You may be cheerleading for Manjaro but don't discount experience of people that went there, suffered and want others to not suffer. If you really need easy to use Arch, EndeavourOS is far superior.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I'm on OpenSuse and it's great. If you're tempted by Arch, go straight up Arch. Manjaro doesn't give any pluses here, only negatives.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

I've had it break many times during update. Don't get me wrong, I liked it at first, but if you want a system that works after update, you're probably better checking elsewhere. Linux Mint, and Kubuntu are far better simplicity wise. Open Suse or Arch if you want rolling updates.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

I guess that would explain the difficulties some apps face without push notifications and releasing APKs. These big companies want you to rely on their systems. Signal was pushing their app through play store. I don't know if an equivalent exists, but it really needs to. We need this, combined with f-droid, so we don't have to use spyware like the Play Store.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Do you have a source for this?

I read this on the BBC, and it felt very narrative driven:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67629181

For example, the following:

"One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, decapitated".

To our question about how he could be sure - without seeing it - that the screams he heard indicated sexual assault rather than other kinds of violence, he said he believed while listening at the time that it could only have been rape. "

How can they be certain if they didn't see it? It's a really weird one.

There are also weird accounts like killing mid-rape, and mutilating mid-rape, which sounds horrific, but unplausible in some ways. I can imagine both situations (killing and mutilation) probably happened, but during and at the same time?

There were also clashes between a serving soldier that said multiple, but hard to know. And other official figures that claim abundant and systematic. It does seem like a lot of official sources, and it's weird that it's all gone from little information on this to extensive comments from government, army officials.

The BBC article has the following "The BBC has not been able to independently verify this account, and Israeli media reports have questioned some testimony from volunteers working in the traumatic aftermath of the Hamas attacks." but no real information about what was question, by who, and on what grounds. It's hard to get a balanced account because BBC is printed it and all government quotes as fact.

I'm in no way downplaying what Hamas has done, 1,200 dead, and you'd expect many of these things to be barbaric and I do believe that rape did occur at various times. It's just the way this information is being fed, it's trying to turn public opinion following disgust of over 15,000 dead and probably close to half of that being women and children. How do you justify that level of human casualties? How do you paint yourself as the victims when you conduct yourself in that manner? I suspect stories of systematic rape surfacing after almost 2 months, when I'd have expected it to be out and on front pages after 2 weeks.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Such a weird list. Powerwash simulator in it, but no Bullfrog game. No Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Populous, Theme Park. Not even Black and White. No Age of the Empires 2. Heroes of Might and Magic 3... Command and Conquor...

What a load of poppycock.

Considering they have Alpha Centauri in there (justifiable), they don't seem to have many staff who have played some of the classics.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I used to have problems with audio crackling. I'd restart pulseaudio, and it would resolve. I haven't had that problem for a long time now though. I think it's been resolved.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I like OpenSuse TW. It's up to date, and I've not had many issues with gaming. I did have an issue with a dodgy texture in No Man's Sky, but it runs stuff like Valheim (Steam), Project Zomboid (Steam), Minecraft, Rimworld (Lutris) good for me. I don't really do any AAA, so cannot really comment on those.

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