You may be correct. I’m on 12 but it’s been a while since I installed.
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Debian has some maintenance. But if you think windows doesn’t. Your already having issue.
But Debian is one of the most documented distros. If your having an issue. Odd are multiple people have documented how to resolve it.
Linux as a whole. Requires you to have a basic understanding, of what and why you are doing things. If not you will have a bad time.
Debians biggest issue. Is the default 0 non free firmware and software. This means some drivers etc are not going to install automatically.
So for any new install. Unless you have an entirely open system. You will need to manually edit the source files. And install extra packages.
If you have Nvidia this is a big issue. Bit well documented.
The big issue is when a new version comes out. If things change dramatically. Their is a delay in that clear documentation. This continues through their testing to stable releases.
But they are excellent at ensuring security releases continue well beyond the upgrade. Years usually.
Yep millions of us.
Most commonly due to stability.
Long term. It took effort and understanding to add newer versions of programs to it. Those of us with these skills managed. But it put off a lot of we want/need the latest without effort folks.
Over the last 10 years. Flat pack or appimage have come far enough. It is rare if ever I need to build any software I don’t want to.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Ukrainian strike on college, dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk kills four, injures 35: Russia - TRT WorldEnglish
76·4 months agoAs is Russia.
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Space@beehaw.org•What if Dark Matter Doesn't Actually Exist?English
6·5 months agoObserved it’s effect. Rather then it itself.
While this is a major breakthrough. It has not actually answered what dark matter is or how it works. Just it’s effects in a more localised spacial location rather then upon the universe as a whole.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Trump says US Navy acting ‘like pirates’ to enforce Iran blockadeEnglish
16·5 months agoIt is when non state actors are doing it. IE private actors.
When done by state resources it’s just a war crime.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreedEnglish
57·5 months agoIf you’re in your late 70s. You have an excuse. But are not likely to think as you do. But if so. Sorry you were fooled by such arsehole Corporations lieing about their own research for decades.
If younger. Then you grew up knowing how dangerous smoking was. Even if you failed to believe the government telling you so. You have no excuse for makeing the choices you did.
And most of us who made those dumb choices do not expect others to take responsibility for them. Even if we find/found stopping hard. In nearly 60 years. Absolutely every government in my lifetime. Has reduced the excuses of the generations forward to fall for the stupidity. Including my father who gave up in his late 60s after cancer. But knew full well how dumb his smoking was when I was a toddler.
You are entitled to your opinion. But everyone else is also entitled to consider you pathetic. For thinking the government is responsible for fixing your own stupidity.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreedEnglish
191·5 months agoThe idea is to prevent addiction forming in newer generation. Rather then banning those they have already developed addiction.
The minimum age has been rising for a couple of years.
This is actually a manifesto promises so has fairly high support. (Unlike almost everything else the gov has done).
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Space@beehaw.org•Nasa's Artemis II mission was a triumph - but when will astronauts land on the Moon?English
1·5 months agoAgreed. We will go. But the effort in building a colony on another planet. When that planet is not habitable. Is equal to that of building habits in centrifugal space stations. Using astroidbelt resources. Minus 1/2 the planatry landing and lift of costs.
It gives us all the plan b advantages of civilizations outside of one planet. At much lower costs.
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Science@beehaw.org•Your Brain May Not Experience Free Will the Way You ThinkEnglish
6·5 months agoNo just an exaggerated tittle.
The article makes it clear. The experiment just suggest free will is more mentally taxing and calculated then random will.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Sanctioned Chinese Tanker Passes Hormuz Despite U.S. Naval BlockadeEnglish
171·5 months agoLOL yep pretty sure anyone with brains called that.
Now let’s see what happens when NATO members try to go through. I expect him to make aoint of nations that refused to follow his offers.
And he will Def pick on all smaller non NATO members ships.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Elegoo Centauri Carbon questionsEnglish
11·7 months ago9I have the cc2 and had the Neptune 4 pro before that.
My honest view on elegoo.
While you get some amazing deals on their latest machines. When things go wrong. As in bad design issues. You will often find the community is the only real help. And that can take some time.
Elegoo seems to have a release a new version fix strategy rather then help existing customers.
They will stand by warremtee as far as replacement parts go. But their prices honestly mean any design issues are built in for the model you buy. (Given as a company. They do work on small margins. I. A field where such issues are common. It’s hard to blame them.)
That said, the community is pretty darn good. And they are fairly open with their software etc, So alternatives etc are possible given time.
On the whole as an occasional user with a little technical ability. I consider them a good buy. But would hesitate if I needed them to be reliable for any form of business. I’m poor and find the fiddling fun sometimes. And can wait a bit and struggle when I have a project. If you do not think that way. Spend more on a printer with more support.
ATM the CC1 is likely the best deal on a core xy out there. But many community upgrades are advisable.
The CC2 fixes many of those needs. But it’s lack of internal website introduces more. IE Linux is a pain. And their website has occasional issues.
Orca are openly working on support for CC2 web issue. But ATM generating it’s GCode and moving via usb is required.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verificationEnglish
15·7 months agoOr just refusing to run servers in California. Much like the US DRM encryption restrictions of the 90s. Where the whole Linux community just had distributions required parts of the download to happen in non US servers.
A single, (although big and very active in Linux) state, will always have more limitations then a nation. The issue comes if it becomes US national. And then the US starts pushing other nations to sign agreements.
Given at some point trumps harm to all international treaties will likely be repaired. Their may come a huge opportunity for US politicians to renegotiate international treaties.
Assuming trust is ever returned.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off GreenlandEnglish
4·7 months agoHe depends on his Maga supporters believing universal healthcare is a failure.
Actually needing US aid has less importance then convincing his voters of the need.
Let’s face it. Nearly all left wing hosts and talk shows. Have made a point that Greenland will not give up universal healthcare to join the US.
So it’s important he has some indication that the US needed to provide services to Greenland to continue to counter that political argument.
Just like bombing Venezuela and kidnapping it’s leader. It’s nothing to do with drugs. But is instead about making the lies about drugs more believable to the idiots that vote for him.
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World News@beehaw.org•Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over ties to EpsteinEnglish
2·7 months agoWill be pretty pissed. If they do not do some serious looking into his motives while collecting evidence.
Those motive likely being convincing sex traffickers to provide for him.
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Politics@beehaw.org•America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to JobsEnglish
3·7 months agoAI cannot take your job. But 10 years ago. It could not make many jobs any easier.
People are worried because AI is developing at a rate. Where the people currently paying you. Clearly think its development is worth huge funding. And they will only do this if they have reason to beltpaying you becomes less needed.
Last time we saw this. Was factory spending on robotics in the 1970s. Many then said they would take no jobs. Those of us older watched a direct reduction in jobs linked to this. And are expecting similar levels for AI in the next few decades.
And the reason they are pushing that shit. Is not to convince you your job is at risk. They do not want you to panic.
They push it to convince customers to accept the work AIs provide. Just like we now accept mass production way more then my parents generation did. We now expect identical rather then craftsman individualist production. Flat pack furniture produced by machine made wood. Etc etc.
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Space@beehaw.org•The First Toilet To Fly Beyond The Moon! A New Era In Lunar Luxury!English
2·8 months agoTrump a dumpa.
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Science@beehaw.org•Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cowsEnglish
9·8 months agoNods considering it really was not long ago (within my gen x lifetime). Tool use was assumed to be unique to humans. It really is starting to get harder for humanity to consider itself unique in any way.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What accessibility apps do you use (for the legally blind/totally blind)English
5·8 months agoMoHonestly, it has improved over the years.
Most distros now have dark mode installs with higher contrast. But adjustable font size and any form of text to speech during install seems missing.
Text to speech is available on most DE’s but very like windows. It is still very unintuitive for low vision rather than 0 vision use. Unfortunately, developers with no vision issues still fail to recognise speed matters in real life. And folks with limited vision tend to need the ability to only use text to speech on set text. IE the ability to enlarge most text and just speak on text we choose. Android is very good at that now. But desktop OSes still make visual impaired difficult to compete time wise with non-disabled users.
I have found it impossible to adjust menu font sizes on the vast majority of DE’s using a start like menu. Not to mention how bad the majority of more modern (fasionable) DE and application interface trends are for people needing to remember locations.
Fortunately, most Linux DE’s do have the ability to quickly magnify sections of the screen using alt and mouse scroll.
As for some applications, insistence on gray text on white or lighter gray backgrounds. Why the hell is this so darn common now. Even folks with good vision find it awful.
Seriously take the OS 3d slicing software available. Every time I install one. I takes most of a day to find out how to make anything even slightly visible. Their is absolutely no reason for it.

As dose most PC over clocking practically. It is just allowing chips to run at higher temps by removing the limitations on power designed to keep them managed.
Mobiles may be more strict. Due to battery life. But all over locking is considering the compremises and adjusting the priority.
With smart phones. The compromise is normally battery life rather then heat.
Desktops it’s adding extra cooling and shortening the design lifetime of chips in exchange for Greater CPU cycles.