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  • Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

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  • I was once responsible for a student house (we don’t have dorms in the US sense, this is the closest we have) and I have similar experiences but less extreme. My favourite was when I had forgotten to configure DHCP filtering and someone plugged in a router the wrong way so it started offering DHCP (that didn’t work) to everyone in the building, in a race with our upstream ISP.

  • Seelen-UI: The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11 with a windows tiling manager included.

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  • It’s even worse than what you suggest.

    Try finding:

    • a solid email client: Thunderbird can’t search all my email for even things that are in the subject line
    • a calendar application with support for CalDAV and Exchange
    • an office suite matching the Microsoft or even Apple offerings of 2004
    • reasonable cloud sync
    • a decent vector graphics tool a lá Affinity Designer, a cheap tool developed by a small indie company

    These are regular requirements for office work that I’ve had trouble with.

    Oh and I also routinely have trouble turning off my computer, it just freezes at a black screen. This is a stationary computer with nothing weird in it.

  • Seelen-UI: The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11 with a windows tiling manager included.

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  • The or part in that statement is really what kills you, as you sort of imply. You spend five hours almost getting your scanner to work, some times, unreliably.

    That’s a worse outcome than the scanner refusing to work entirely in many cases.

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • I needed it for a printer the other day!

  • Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner

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  • It really is an annoying piece of shit

  • Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner

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  • They usually get a slap on the wrist; cf instigating race riots gives longer sentences than blocking a highway.

  • Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains?

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  • Sounds like that should be assholes without cars

  • Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house

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  • Teachers are fairly decently paid where I live but the job is shit so nobody wants it. They don’t employ enough teachers so everyone is being worked to death, and they keep adding new admin tasks, reporting tools, standardised tests, etc that makes everything worse. Also they keep doing stupid reorganisations all the time.

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    Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser

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  • I tried to read the linked Twitter thread from Ars and good god it’s terrible. Half of it is people complaining about the demo version without understanding that it’s the demo version. Even though people in the thread keep explaining it to them.

  • ‘We were sure the Russian army would protect us’: fury after Ukrainian incursion into Kursk

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  • A lot of Americans supported the equally illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, I still don’t think they deserve even how shitty their non-occupation civil government is.

    Given how war works I’m almost certain there will be war crimes against the civil population here. Not as bad as what the Russians are doing in their occupied territories I sure as fuck hope and expect, but worse than anyone deserves. I can see Ukrainians getting to be a bit vindictive etc about this, they’ve earned it, but as armchair commentators online at a safe distance we should fucking show some empathy for people in a shitty situation they have very little control over.

    I can’t control my government and I live in a democracy. I don’t blame Russians for most of what their state does either.

  • NSFW

    Trying hard

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  • Does this happen to you often? My impression is people usually tell you after they’ve succeeded.

  • FALL [War and Peas]

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  • Kyriarchy encompasses sexism, racism, ableism, ageism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, classism, xenophobia, economic injustice, the prison-industrial complex, colonialism, militarism, ethnocentrism, speciesism, linguicism and other forms of dominating hierarchies

    Anti-Catholicism? You mean the global formal hierarchy that’s solidly historically in support of fascism and against feminism? O…Kay. Why is that the literally only religion listed there? I get why you’d want to protect minority religious practices but why single out Catholicism?

  • Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash

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  • In this case I think the terrible code really, as they say in fashion, completes the look

  • X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun

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  • My wife talked about how Grok apparently seemed promising in AI benchmarks for a while until everyone realised the way they’re winning is by absolutely blindly outspending everyone on GPUs and brute forcing the fuck out of the problem rather than having good anything.

    This seems to match that approach (and, more generally, everything Musk is doing).

  • Women's accessories sold by Shein, Temu and AliExpress contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in South Korea found

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  • It’s almost a by the book buy off. You don’t get a salary that can afford anything like good food and clothes because we want salaries to be cheap in the west while we increase the profits from rents, fees etc. However, we will pay you off by externalising all the costs of getting you cheap crap on other people that you don’t have to see (and the environment in general).

    It’s of course not an actual conspiracy, just a confluence of terrible impulses and motivations.

  • Women's accessories sold by Shein, Temu and AliExpress contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in South Korea found

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  • I think I you heard the wrong argument here

  • Chat is this real

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  • I’m kind of worried about Celebration, Florida now. It always seemed too much of a Stepford Wives type situation but now it’s just ridiculous.

  • Top general says Ukrainian forces have captured almost as much Russian territory in the last week as Russia has land in Ukraine this year

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  • Does this mean Germany is going to have a bad time and fuck up the power grid for all of Europe this winter again?

  • AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'

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  • This is one of the hardest earned lessons I’ve ever learned, and I’ve had to learn it over and over again. I think it’s mostly stuck now but I still make the same mistake from time to time.

  • Console Repair @lemmy.world
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    Slim PlayStation 2 optical drive swap trouble

  • Parenting @lemmy.world
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    Swearing around kids

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Has anyone attempted the bike setup from the Monk and Robot series?

  • Occult, Esoteric, Magick, and Paranormal @lemmy.world
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    Bird’s talon on tree

  • Parenting @lemmy.world
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    Good game, as they say

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Replacing axle-mounted front wheels on electric box bike

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    General purpose scripting language with no non-Rust dependencies

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    A nice little mushroom shelf for my ZimaBlade NAS

  • Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How can I open federated links in my home instance?