James R Kirk
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Linux@lemmy.ml•planning to switch from windows 11 to Ubuntu on my laptopEnglish
7·4 days agoNothing wrong with Ubuntu, but it’s interface is definitely geared more towards Mac folks.
My recommendation for someone making the jump to full time Linux is Fedora Kinoite. It’s “immutable” meaning impossible to break, and uses KDE Plasma, which is like the modern Windows you’ve always wanted.
Again nothing wrong with Ubuntu, it’s great and will run on the hardware you mentioned, but if you are someone who wants to tweak settings without fear of breaking something somewhere else, I really recommend Kinoite.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Suggestions for a replacement for PayPalEnglish
41·4 days agoPrivacy.com is easy, too.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•When you're divorced from reallityEnglish
6·6 days agoThis is what’s funny to me, “AI” investors must know on some level these products don’t actually work the way the companies claim, because if they did they would crash, not help, the economy as it exists now.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anna’s Archive - Backing up SpotifyEnglish
11·7 days agoYeah but until two months ago Spotify was 24kbps
fake news
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anna’s Archive - Backing up SpotifyEnglish
81·8 days agoI wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.
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Risa@startrek.website•Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform?English
3·8 days agoum do you really believe that performance stages are constructed to ignore whatever is on them
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Risa@startrek.website•Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform?English
2·8 days agoIf sexy romulan is ridiculous I don’t want to be normal
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")?English
1·10 days agoYeah that’s probably the simplest way!
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Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releasesEnglish
4·10 days agoMost of my 2025 was Silksong actually, but for only $20 it felt like a patient gamer moment!
I’m going to be that guy and point out that LLM’s are not really “AI”, that’s just the corporate buzzword but “AI” is a loosely defined thing.
I think we should all get better at calling them LLM’s publicly to take some of the magic woo-woo away.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")?English
1·10 days agoHelpful! Thank you I will look into it.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox BlogEnglish
52·11 days agoWeird, I don’t have a new AI sidebar and I’m running the latest version.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")?English
4·11 days agoIf they don’t have power, they drop from the network or mesh.
That’s the problem, they don’t drop, the entity remains in a zombie state. Is there really no way to test if a device is still connected or not?
EDIT: Or just manually set an entity to “off”?
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox BlogEnglish
31·11 days agoWell you’re in luck because the translation feature is local https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox BlogEnglish
129·11 days agoDon’t get me wrong I hate LLMs being shoved down our throats, but I think the “Mozilla using AI” stuff is overblown. The few LLM features they’ve implemented are useful and non-intrusive. I actually think it’s a rare example of the tech being used intelligently (no pun intended).
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politics @lemmy.world•Fox News Panel Unanimously Condemns Trump’s Reaction to Rob Reiner’s Killing: ‘Beneath the Office’English
7·12 days agoJanuary 6th = normal president stuff apparently
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memes@lemmy.world•Idk, I just don't see the use caseEnglish
5·12 days agoWell said, I think the library is the biggest point but also a harder sell for someone used to losing a large percentage of their games every generation. They see it as “having to buy their games again” in the short term.











I expected lols I did not expect to perpetuate a nearly 50 year old debate