Color is liberalism. Wake me up for the monochrome revolution.

LOST premiered 20 years ago.

People also put a lot of emphasis on the “I” in Artificial General Intelligence. It gives us the impression that we will have some kind of contraption with a button on it, and every time you push the button it conjures up a new, distinct digital agent of Albert Einstein. For a long, long time, at best, these things will conjure your average Redditor. People think if we create AGI we can tell computers to compose Mozart, but we’ll be lucky if we get anywhere farther than “I glued my balls to my butthole again.”

The State Department has the nerve to screech about “Russian Disinformation” while every Silicon Valley platform is dripping with state approved blood libel and genocide denial (if not outright celebration).

After an entire week of dicking around, my home-made Wayland compositor can display a mouse cursor! :o

wanna share the guide? Also, is there a reason you’re using xrandr and not the Plasma system settings app?

The difference between most distributions can be summed up in plumbing (irrelevant as far as you’re concerned) and frequency of updates. They’ll have different package managers (all of which could be told to “install this” or “uninstall that”), and slightly different versions of software available (some newer, some older). So, stick with what you’ve got. You may decide to switch one day, but you should do it for a compelling reason (e.g. “I like the philosophy behind this project”) rather than something superfluous (e.g. “this one thing is broken, maybe wiping my hard drive and starting from scratch with a different distribution will make the problem go away.”)

Video on Linux can be a bit confusing, because there are a lot of moving parts. If you have a modern AMD card (up to somewhere around 10 years old), it should be supported by the amdgpu driver, which is part of the Linux Kernel and should be included out-of-the-box in any distribution. The driver is probably working fine. The graphics libraries (Mesa3D in the case of AMD cards, this provides the OpenGL / Vulkan APIs used by games and graphics software) are probably also fine.

There are two major display technologies present on Linux. X11, and Wayland. X11 is the classic method, with a lineage running all the way back to 1987. Wayland is a newer system, introduced in 2008, but only gaining traction somewhat recently. Your desktop environment (KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, Gnome, etc) ultimately needs to use either X11 or Wayland to put graphics on your screen. Over the past decade, there has been an ongoing migration. Many distributions default to Wayland unless there is a good reason not to. Considering your hardware, you are probably running a Wayland session. You can check by running echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in a terminal.

Xrandr is a tool for configuring displays on X11, if you are running a Wayland session, it probably won’t work correctly. A lot of distributions still allow you to choose an X11 session in the display manager (the graphical log-in screen).

Uranus is in retrograde

microshaft winblows

I was wondering what this character was up to

I think this is going to be one of those supply chain whiplash situations like we had constantly throughout the Covid lockdown era. People are speculating an increased demand and making orders so they can cash in, but nobody actually knows what that demand is going to end up being. Things will probably ripple back and forth between increased demand and overproduction.

Real America has never been tried!

This is why run Gentoo.

Nope. You see, this piece of paper over here says I own all the buildings in this neighborhood, and you must pay me half of your income every month. Because of this piece of paper.

American politicians genuinely look at any surplus in popularity as a license to make their policies worse. If you’re polling at 60% and could win the election with 52%, it’s time to start publicly campaigning on shutting down hospitals, raising the rent, and putting lead back into the water mains.

https://xcancel.com/tarenceray/status/1836901932159431101

They have definitely been taking an increasing active role over the past decade. Russiagate sold the idea of combating “disinformation” to preserve liberal democracy to the public. In the meantime, all of the major platforms have been roped in. They collaborated in disrupting the george floyd uprising. They all removed links the the Blue Leaks. They all removed link to the Hunter Biden laptop story (who fucking cares, but they did it). There was a big purge at the start of the Ukraine-Russia war, and with the situation in Palestine you can’t even use the word “Zionist” on Facebook anymore.

My only experience selling cars is calling up a scrap yard, driving it onto the street with three wheels, and collecting $300 bucks