I just tried a test search with Qwant and Startpage. On mobile they returned the exact same results (which were good), which suggests that Startpage is using Qwant there. On desktop though, Startpage was hot garbage. Not a single relevant result on page one, with nearly half being links to Facebook and Instagram. Hard pass on that.

I tested this on mobile too. Opened a Firefox private browsing window, switched to desktop mode and tried the search term on Startpage again. Same trash results as desktop. It’s like they’re actively telling desktop users to piss off.

I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 at the moment. I was 30 hours in before I realised I could fast travel directly from the map screen instead of walking back to a sigil. In my defence the previous game I played worked that way, and I’m playing on a TV which is fairly far away so the text is hard to read.

Not wrong about OP, but also both major desktop environments on linux ship with “app stores” that are friendly to anyone familiar with a phone. So it’s still easier installing software on linux than searching for and downloading .msi and .exe files on the internet (and hoping the version of MSI afterburner you found is the real one).

That just sounds like your keyboard is broken. Your keyboard switching its own functions does not involve the OS

I wouldn’t bother with this person, they’ve got a huge bee in their bonnet about bodybuilding and muscle mass. They seem to have extrapolated the negative health effects of doing huge amounts of steroids and putting on inhuman muscle mass out to all bodybuilding period, and they refuse to have this misconception educated out of them.

Paper slicing is a reasonable test, but you still have to make sure you’re getting rid of the burr. A burr will cut paper just fine but in actual use will dull very quickly. Having at least one finer grit and a strop makes this fairly easy. Doing it on one grit can be quite tricky.

+1 to not stressing about it though, half my knives have a patchwork look of different bevel angles along them from learning to sharpen. So long as the current bevel is consistent all the way to the apex they work just fine. Presumably a knife that is being sharpened is meant to be used and not admired for its looks.

You should be glad it’s apologizing. On the occasions I’ve used it to try to actually write code for me it’s had a tendency to blame me for its mistakes.

It writes a function that gets stuck in an infinitely recursive loop that never exits, I point it out and it’s all “Aha! You’ve fallen for a classic recursion trap!” What do you mean I’ve fallen for it?

Between those experiences and seeing the hot garbage some of my coworkers vibe coded, it was enough for me to relegate LLMs purely to the “ask questions that you would have searched for on StackOverflow” role. And it frustrates me that search was made so impotent that it’s not a real option to avoid the LLM entirely. The multiple answers and perspectives on SO were often really valuable.

You go on believing that wild straw man version of me you’ve conjured up buddy.

That’s very obviously a figure of speech, and you’re very obviously motivated to interpret it literally just to have something to attack me over.

I’m curious exactly how I ended up in this hypothetical scenario where I’m in your way, and you are apparently justified in mowing me down because I don’t want to hear your music.

Charming. “I get to either blast my music at you, or maim/kill you with my vehicle, your choice”. You sound like a wonderful person.

So to summarize this conversation, I expressed that it would be nice if people stopped blasting their music in natural spaces. Then you projected a whole bunch of bad intentions onto me, expressed that you believe you have a right to rape everyone’s earholes, and that if someone dares suggest you not do that they are an ableist bully and you’re ready to pull a knife on them.

But I’m the problem because I’m being unreasonable and impolite.

Then you have the gall to suggest earplugs. The default state for people not blasting music is that they are not imposing on anyone. The default state of people blasting music is that they are imposing on everyone. How about you get some headphones?

The person upset at being imposed upon by people doesn’t see the hypocrisy as they angrily defend their behaviour of imposing upon others.

The chip on your shoulder might be visible from orbit.

You seem to have some issues going on, and you’re projecting an awful lot of malice onto random strangers who don’t like someone else’s loud music imposed on them. I hope you work through those issues buddy

We literally never stop accommodating you. Are you being physically confronted over your music in public all the time? I doubt it.

We live in a populous world and the “I need loud music at all times” folk have absolutely no boundaries. There is nowhere to go where there is no chance of disturbance. Which is why it would be nice if some people would back off of blasting music in places of respite.

I found it kinda funny that enabling the marketplace in VSCodium was your example here, given how much of a vector for malware that is itself. It’s malware all the way down.

You can download .vsix extensions from the marketplace and import them into VSCodium manually just FYI. And it won’t auto update so it will save you next time a supply chain attack inevitably hits and starts infecting new versions. Assuming the downloaded version isn’t infected in the first place of course.

It’s actually not the projectile that causes most of the lead exposure for shooters. It’s the cartridge primers, they use lead styphnate for their explosive. Copper bullets are mainly to not spread lead through the environment where it can harm wildlife, and to avoid the risk of consuming lead in shot animals.

No, this is on a wired machine. I have another one on wireless also running Fedora and I’d say that one is slower to boot, however it’s also on a Ryzen 3600 where my main PC is a 5700X so that’s kinda expected anyway.

The number of times I’ve told my work laptop to shut down on Friday, and found it still running on Monday is too damn high. And it’s usually because I had two instances of VSCode running, and when they got closed they both tried to run an update, and the setup processes interfered with each other. The resulting dialog window prevents shutdown.

Every workday using Windows is just further validation for running Linux on my own hardware.

I’ve found it to be very dependent on the distro and the hardware it’s running on. Back when I was playing around with distros I definitely tried some that felt like you snapped your fingers and had a desktop. But I settled on Fedora and that takes longer to boot for me than Windows. Not that I mind, 30 seconds once a week or so just isn’t important to me.

It’s possible, I’m just wary because mushrooms seem to be a very popular topic for AI slop generation. The picture you linked shows the stipe looking more like I’d expect so it could be the particular combination of lighting and macro lens making it so gold and reflective in the post here. Very rare indeed to find any kind of mushroom totally clean of any dirt though, particularly in such a wet environment. I can’t really look any deeper because I don’t do Instagram.

Fungi are indeed magical and sometimes quite alien. I do some of my own macro fungi photography.