[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Redreader uses the official API, they have an exception from paying (for now) because they have accessibility features that most apps including the official one lack.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I understand the anxiety but realistically don't think you need to worry - autism would be a protected characteristic under most legal systems, right? You don't choose to have autism so it's not like drug use where there's at least some degree of choice involved.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You'd think they would be cool with kissing, seeing as they are all wearing Lycra already...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Does anyone have a list of when the results are typically announced for each seat?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It'll be nice not to have to listen to them shoehorn independence into every debate

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah that was funny, she picked a fight with the wrong person!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well it does seem that more people would vote for trump against her as well as more people vote for her. So maybe it's legit?

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Does anyone else live in a safe seat that may flip during this election? Looking at the latest Survation poll, which predicts Labour will win 484 seats (vs 64 to the Tories and 61 to Lib Dems), I can't believe how tight some of the results are projected to be in what have previously been very safe Tory seats as far back as I remember.

https://www.survation.com/survation-mrp-labour-99-certain-to-win-more-seats-than-in-1997/

I've lived in some of these seats and always voted but without any real hope of flipping it. For them to turn red would be a huge change.

One seat, North East Hampshire, was the safest Tory seat in 2015 (by numbers and by %) but this election the projection is Lab: 24.2%, Con: 32.2%, Lib Dem: 29.3%.

Results night could be very interesting!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fake accounts are definitely a problem, but the people who voted leave are real not Russian bots.

Politicians haven't done a U-turn on Brexit because basically everyone outside of a small % of highly political people is sick of talking about it, so making it your platform to restart the debate would be a massive own goal.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't Biden have a broken foot that hasn't healed very well and makes him shuffle around a bit?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed but I'd prefer they just leave it as is, and respond to the correction acknowledging it. That way the original comment and responses are there for everyone to read. Only LLMs are going to be confused by that!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is why so many people edit their comments that are wrong and get corrected by someone else to say EDIT: CORRECTED BELOW or something, to prevent mindless downvotes from lazy people not reading the full chain of comments. Personally I think it's worse like that but I can see why they do it if they care about karma.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Two meetings a day sounds like luxury to me! I don't have ADHD but meetings still absolutely kill my productivity. The switching penalty for technical tasks is much higher than non-technical people realise.

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Midge defence? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them!

I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've ordered myself some parts to build a PC for Linux gaming. In the meantime, i'm deciding on which linux distro to use.

For the desktop environment I typically use KDE.

I have used Ubuntu in the past but i'm ruling it out because of snaps and other such annoyances. This also applies to Ubuntu based distros that use the same repos (KDE Neon etc).

I see the wikis recommend Nobara, but I'm reluctant to use a Fedora based distro because I'm so used to Debian/apt (both as a desktop and server distros). I'm not ruling it out completely though.

Any reason why I shouldn't just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam? Will I be missing out on lots of performance improvements or is this easily addressed by using an additional repo for a tweaked kernel and proton version or whatever?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm working on a build list for a Linux gaming rig. It's my first build so I'd welcome any comments or tips!

I'm mostly looking to run games like the Total War series. I'm not obsessed with getting peak performance, I'm angling more for a reasonable value mid-range build.

Linux support is essential, I won't buy any Nvidia products.

UK market if that makes a difference.

List below...

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
  • Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.97 @ Ebuyer)
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£64.98 @ Amazon UK)
  • Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£84.24 @ Amazon UK)
  • Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card (£239.00 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (£74.50 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£101.62 @ Amazon UK) Total: £794.30
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Krita (f-droid.org)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Discovered this one today when looking for an image editing app for Android. I've used Krita on Linux before but didn't know there was an Android app!

The UI is a bit clunky on a mobile but it does the job!

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Whole some mike (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It's a free software firmware replacement for ereaders based on Alpine Linux.

I've not tried it myself but wonder how it compares to the stock firmware on Kobo, particularly in terms of battery life and general performance.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

I have a box running kodi in standalone mode with X11. My TV displays "no signal" if I leave it for too long, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

I can still ssh into the box and use the remote app Kore so the system hasn't suspended or anything like that.

Pressing up/down etc on the kore remote, which should change what is displayed on screen, doesn't wake kodi up. However, I can wake it up if I tell Kodi to play a video.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

I'm looking for a linux kernel for Debian that is 6.4.2 or above (need it to support the AX101 WiFi module).

The Debian package linked below is "linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64 (6.4.4-3)"

Does that mean the kernel version is 6.4.0 or 6.4.4?

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/kernel/linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Tell me your favourite rescue USB image and why!

Also rescue tips and tricks as that's always interesting.

I have been using a Debian installer USB as I had it to hand (DVD image IIRC) but if I boot into a shell without mounting another root FS the number of utilities is quite limited (just busybox basics). For example just now I wanted gzip but it only had gunzip...

I feel like a shell started from the installer USB should have access to a lot more utilities because the files are there on the disk!

Does anyone know a way to set up a kind of USB like the debian installer where you can install packages from the installer into the live environment?

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