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DaGeek247
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Having just read the whole thread;
xscreensaver developer jwz added an allcaps/all bold notification to xscreensaver that says that the current xscreensaver version is really old. This notification could not be user canceled / okayed through. The author did this because he apparently received several emails about xscreensaver versions that were years out of date.
Debian stable’s policy is to make no updates unless they are security or bug related. This directly conflicted with jwz’s policy of only supporting the latest version of xscreensaver.
The Debian maintainers chose to remove the unskippable warning as the other options were harder to maintain / worse to use. This was specifically permissable in the xscreensaver license, but against the authors stated wishes to have xscreensaver removed entire if the warning could not be kept or the software could not be updated.
Of note, jwz escalated to yelling at the first reporter about this in his first email and swearing at another reporter in his second. The Debian stable team offered suggestions which would direct Debian users to the Debian development team for bug reports about the old versions of xscreensaver, but jwz’s hostile approach made that not happen at all.
If I install debian stable it’s because I want it to work, and to not be bothered about anything that doesn’t need to happen. That’s whole point of having Debian stable around. One of the points made in the discussion, which I strongly agree with, is that Linux software is managed in a repository, not individually. A windows program telling me out of date is obnoxious, but expected. A Linux program telling me it is out of date is a obnoxious and unexpected. (Fucking discord…)
The xscreensaver author shot himself in the foot with this one; presumably he wanted to avoid being harrassed over old versions of xscreensaver. What he ended up doing was telling everyone with an old version of xscreensaver that they need to update and then guaranteed they would harass thim about it by not giving the users an option to ignore and walk away from the message.
My chip is a couple years old and has started to cause issues on occasion with the more finicky readers. I just tap when that happens, but it’s still annoying when it does.
I was in the army for a couple years, but I dont actually have any particularly impressive numbers from then. They had me doing sleepless night bullshit from day one, and I hate losing sleep with a passion, so I made sure to grab back every hour I could manage.
The longest I ever stayed up was from 6am to 6pm, the next day, so about 36 hours or a single overnight stay. I hated it everytime it had to happen for work. The morning after staying up all night felt like I was drunk, and my ability to handle people and doing things was completely shot. The only time I ever got in trouble with my boss was when I was tired (up since 2am, actual event happened around 8pm that same day). I’m also quite sure I would’ve got into at least one fight with my commanding officer while sleep deprived if I actually had any inclination towards that sort of thing.
Sleep deprivation completely kills my long term planning, my sensory management skills, my reflexes, and also deadens my ability to care, about anything.
Despite all of this, I also hate taking naps. It fucks with my sense of time, and I’m always too worried about ‘missing out’ while trying to ever get any good rest from it. So have to fight for a good sleep schedule to stay sane instead.
2·4 days agoNFS over SMB, neither if you don’t plan on doing this like, weekly or more.
3·10 days agoLove the art on the website. I’m not sure that the article actually says anything about the titular subject though.
They also shared this specific snippet of text online at some point. That’s another hint towards it not being entirely okay with at least one of them.
Be more depressing if they’d given green shirt guy a cough or sniffle in the first panel.
Omegas, obviously. Those bitches can’t even handle pregnancy like a real woman can.
“The compound is used as a brain-lesioning agent in scientific research.”
“Ibotenic acid is commonly used in research to create site-specific hippocampal brain lesions in rats”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibotenic_acid
I uh. I wouldn’t chance it either.
1·13 days agoWe literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell.
[Citation Needed]
We have a local barcade, but with actually pretty great arcade games. They charge a cover fee, close down to minors early, and charge nothing at the games themselves. It is the best thing ever. Makes the arcade experience honestly better than it was back when it was actually big.
3·25 days agoIt’s mostly tech related stuff, although not consistent enough to get ant sort of tangible benefit out of it.
I’d likely be working as a blacksmith, or doing hr/getting carpal tunnel writing in spreadsheets for some company, while having blacksmithing as a hobby.
2·26 days agoOh hey! Something America is ahead of Canada on! Gulf War illness has been acknowledged by the VBA and federal law in some form or fashion dating back to 1994 when the persian gulf war veterans benefits act was passed.
Everyone here is acting surprised at the size, or pretending that somehow, the ice makes it okay.
Y’all. Own your shit. These look normal to me, and I totally skip out on the ice most all of the time. I usually finish a 16oz before I’m done with my meal.
I love that there is a genuine argument for the first movie being darker, despite the gore scene in this comic about a theoretical second movie.
I have used this card for a couple years.
Pros:
Cons:
If all you’re looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don’t mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.