The theme music instinctually played in my head like a sleeper agent

I got a mouse like a year ago from a brand called Rapoo (never heard of them), and it was a solid mouse that supported standard dongle wireless as well as BT, and it is quite nice ergonomically compared to the Logitech one I’ve got for another computer.

Then I started having issues with left click, with it surprisingly often clicking twice (or more) or not clicking at all, which is causing me to accidentally close every app open just because it double/triple/quadruple clicked somehow. Then there’s middle click, which works slightly better, it only skips sometimes, but the Logitech mentioned earlier is the one I heavily use middle click (since I close and open browser tabs using it very often), and that one is pretty close to actually just failing.

Not sure why, but the most recent mice have just worked like shit, with both of these being brand new. As a comparison, I’ve got 2 Microsoft arc touch mice (the old one with a dedicated touchpad for the scroll area but not the buttons,) and I used both for school, with friends snapping it between their postures hundreds of times out of curiosity, which they’ve sustained really well, and no buttons have gotten issues apart from the touchpad of one of them, which likes to deactivate when I scroll too much which is plain inconvenient.

What about what they said was childish?

Understood that reference

Is there a possibility of getting banned from Spotify for using this? Just wondering since this is really compelling, since I’ve always wanted to back playlists up just in case, but I don’t really wish to completely cut Spotify, since I quite like the playlists it builds to expand my library, snd there would also be the plus of being able to switch to navidrome if the Spotify site carks it like it seemingly loves to.

Actually yeah, John Barilaro was the NSW Deputy Premier at the time, who had joined the Coronation Property development company (which was allegedly connected to gangs if I’m not mistaken), and when Friendly Jordies, the YouTuber in question, exposed the NSW Nationals Party’s actions to basically sabotage a town they were voted into as a way to drive out younger voters (basically to guarantee them a seat in parliament indefinitely), Barilaro allegedly ordered the fire bombing of Jordies house, but they botched it and fire bombed the neighbours house, then went back to hit the correct house.

I did do a little bit of researching to refresh my mind on it (since I saw the whole saga around 2 or 3 years ago), and turns out Barilaro apparently wasn’t connected to the attacks, but then again, the timing is kinda suspicious how Friendly Jordies’ house was fire bombed in 2022, the same year Barilaro was employed with the developer, although I’ll just leave that as speculation.

Honestly though, this has gotta be one of the rare occasions of when politics here is genuinely really interesting and kinda deranged, and I haven’t really heard issues like this to this calibre here.

I gotta say, from an Australian perspective, American politics is so extra, like an ex heroin Addict becoming the health minister, and some coked up orange business man who thinks he’s the second coming of Christ is the president? And the USA became fascistic in like a year? That’s wild

Aussie politics is just a boring ass democracy with some of the spicy American inspired silliness for the aesthetics, as well as most people being on the same page but like 2 politicians arguing about some insignificant idea somehow appearing on national news, or that group of people who want Albanese dead for just existing, which is a bit odd I gotta say.

“AI” is not a use case for a computer. Plain and simple. A real use case would be for instance to edit videos or code or create spreadsheets, and what the everloving shit does adding ✨Agentic and Conversational AI✨fix with literally any use case?

Sure, researching can be a use case for AI stuff, as well as just talking with it, but there’s no reason to sell an entire fucking class of laptops labeled “AI PCs” when the only thing it has is windows 11 copilot (lobotomised ChatGPT) and an NPU advertised as a “future compatibility” feature…

If you install an app via the built in package manager, yep, you’ll have to restart to update the system image, but for most apps you’ll need (and don’t require deep system integration), you could just use appimage, flatpak or snap, which will all work without a restart. I’ve actually been using immutable distros for many times I’ve used Linux, and once you use it, it’s easy to get used to it unless your use case would work better on standard Linux.

Also, I don’t follow much if the kernel hotswapping feature news, but I do know that for these immutable distros, a pretty great feature is that you can just rebase the entire distro via a single command if you’d like, and you’ll keep all user data. I’ve actually done it on one of my spare laptops, rebasing from fedora kionite to bazzite linux, and it wasn’t awfully fast, it took an hour or so, but I find it impressive nonetheless.

What’s with this obsession with putting everything in space? Like don’t get me wrong, some technologies absolutely vastly benefit from it, but like, why put data centres in space? Why put greenhouses in space? Why put a factory in space? Sure it’s cool to see but I genuinely don’t see the benefit, especially if either you have to pay tens of billions to get a standard facility in space working, or have to miniaturise it so much that there isn’t an advantage to it at that point…

Maybe I have a shit take, I’m not sure, but what I see is how priorities are mismatched on such a crazy level, then again though, at least this isn’t the stupidest idea since it has at least some grounding, but AI companies wanting to send dozens of data centres into space is plain infeasible even if they manage to use neuromorphic and light based chipsets, use nuclear fusion somehow, and manage to pack such a dense radiator system so the whole facility doesn’t burn up.

I actually had an AI assist me in flashing the firmware, as well as flashing a custom ROM later on, of a phone I was just testing on for fun, and I was only confident since I had a chunk of prior knowledge of ADB as well as other tools and the differences between mobile and desktop system structures, and for the stuff I didn’t understand or know, I just researched externally and figured it out.

Blindly trusting it though is a fools errand, just like myself a few years back messing with my laptop’s Linux install, copy pasting everything and then complaining when shit broke.

I’ve actually replaced my phone, messages and contacts apps with the fossify ones and I gotta say, the oppo ones were slow, would jump sometimes and just were very slow to respond to when texts or calls hit the phone. In contrast, the fossify messages app responds pretty much instantly to messages, the fossify phone app responds instantly to calls, and the two consume way less resources than the preloaded apps.

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby type shit

Honestly, I’ve been planning to install it on my media laptop for a while and I think I’ve found the perfect excuse for myself to do it; yesterday I turned it on to the windows 11 data recovery screen, which took an hour to fix the damn thing.

I have actually installed CachyOS on one of my spares and it’s pretty damn good so far, and it’s a really shitty speced school laptop from a couple years back.

What I am concerned about though is the fact my media laptop is an Asus vivobook 15 with screenpad, and I’m not awfully sure if the GPU (mx250) would be as fast as it currently is under windows (or work at all), as well as if the screenpad would work as a touch monitor or a regular touchpad, since I’m not sure which I’d prefer honestly.

You guys don’t understand, he was holding ninja stars! /s

Deculyuary sounds like a slightly more severe version of polydactyly

Wait is thst before or after Member?

I get your point, some people do blame everything on certain groups, but this is about an internet stereotype, and everyone, or at least most people, know that stereotypes have to be true to some extent.

I’ve come across my fair share of Russian trolls, which are the majority for my case, and next are American trolls.

I’d assume that most of the people complaining about Russian trolls I’ve seen on Lemmy and other social media are from the USA or the EU, and for context, I’m from Australia, so it isn’t one specific area in the world that experiences it, it’s global, making it even more valid of a stereotype since it’s so omnipresent.

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aww man, this is actually depressing. Hope Lemmy as a whole grows back better after this blows over. o7