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"Mom, can we have socialism?"

"We have socialism at home."

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There's a pretty robust modding community for Super Mario World (SNES). Many ROM hacks ranging from casual to kaiso.

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Visit a dwarven tavern and use your suspiciously high rhetorical skills to assume the position of fortress mayor. Then initiate a project to eliminate the communal dorms and give each resident their own personal bedrooms... for privacy.

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Dono from Maddie Thorsten (creator of Celeste): "The SMW Kaiso community is a cesspool of beautiful sickos." badeline-rage

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I use DDG. It's getting worse, but it is still better than Google. At some point I might switch to Yandex.

Does China have any good search engines for English content? I'd consider Baidu but it is not practical to use if you don't read Mandarin (though you can still query in English and get English results).

Also, for DDG heads looking to try something else, you might be interested in a browser plugin like this to keep DDG "bang" behavior with other search engines. I cannot vouch for this extension in particular though aside from pointing you to the same review page I just looked at.

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Looks like my wireless router firmware has not been updated since Obama was in the White House.

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Sending a report to the mods, "This 'THING' is not cute."

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I'm tempted to create an account and reply in that thread. Not to scold them or create drama, but to simply explain a couple things. About "echo chambers" i.e. that the biggest echo chambers in the world are run by Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Steve Huffman. That the "animosity" seen on the Fediverse is driven by the underlying political economy, i.e. the only reason the Fediverse exists is because there was not enough room on the mainstream Silicon Valley platforms for us. That it is not possible for LGBT+ people and anti-LGBT+ people to "get along" with some friendly ribbing in this political environment. We cannot "agree to disagree" about matters like pogroms and genocide.

"Lemmy needs more normies," No. Yes, but that's not how this fucking works. The normies are all still on Reddit, browsing the default subs, and upvoting u/GallowBoob's reposts. Those are the last fucking people you're going to get. Those are the last people you should be interested in talking to, too. You're talking about people who (for example, among hundreds of other things) are perfectly comfortable on a website where the canonical "lesbian" community is a category of pornography instead of a community for the L in LGBT.

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That thread quickly turned into a "What's wrong with the Fediverse" meta discussion, and there is a lot of big time ideology going on in there.

When I petittion to get Hexbear.net defederated from Discuss.Online, thereby opening up a generic instance that would be open to all incoming people fleeing from Reddit from Huffman’s shittiness, I started to have a brief hope. It did not last long, b/c the USA elections happened, and more importantly the trolls seemed to switch their strategy, no longer remaining constrained on the Triad servers and instead appearing everywhere, by which I mean Lemmy.World, lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, etc

Surely it can't be that people hate the Democrats, hate that the bar for "lesser evil" has been lowered to unlimited genocide, that this is a broadly held public sentiment, and as a result you can find evidence of this anywhere you look. Especially around election season, when all the people who still believe in American democracy are thinking about what policies they should advocate for, and what they should expect in return for their votes. It must be a conspiracy. It must be a social contagion. It must be a highly organized disinformation operation.

I have even had to resort to going back to Reddit - damnit the events happening in the world are IMPORTANT, and so when I’ve blocked most of the toxic communities on Lemmy, or even when I don’t block anything at all, that NEWS often simply is not here to be found and read, much less discussed! :-(

I blocked all the places where people discuss current events critically and now I can't find any discussions of current events. thonk-cri

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I've been a bum for the past couple weeks and haven't been riding my bike. Got back on the horse today and worked up a good sweat. Also found the time to clean my rims and scrub them with emery paper. My breaks went from sounding like a neglected public transit bus to silence.

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Eminem - Ass Like That (www.youtube.com)
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I've been working on these parts in the machine shop for the past week where I need to bang on them with a dead blow hammer to return the outside diameter to the print tolerance of +0.0000 -0.0005 inches. Every time I bang one of these things I go like "ba doing doing doing."

These things suck. I hate them.

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(Blink 182 Cover)

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I posted the wrong song earlier, THIS is the one I was looking for. The one with TWO totally improv solos in it (completely unique to the studio recording) and a sudden temp change at the end.

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X.Org Drama (hexbear.net)
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As the sun continues to set on the X11 display protocol, X.Org - the premier implementation - has been forked by a former developer who accuses its maintainers of "abandoning the project, and letting it rot forever."

He's not exactly wrong. X.Org is essentially mothballed. It is an enormous, complicated piece of deprecated infrastructure, with a very limited amount of resources and experienced maintainers. The corporations which sponsor Free Software development don't particularly care about desktop end-users, and the resources which are being spent on desktop experience are largely being spent on Wayland compositors. On the other hand, it appears many of his commits on X.Org were reverted for sloppy management of licensing / attribution, as well as some regressions which were introduced.

It is worth noting that when Wayland was introduced in 2008, X.Org developers were among its biggest advocates and contributors. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, and the work of building an alternative is mostly complete.

That said, Wayland is not at all a 1 to 1 replacement for X, and like with the introduction of Systemd, there are a lot of people with strong feelings about this, a lot of conspiracy mongers cranking out YouTube slop. People throwing out accusations about how "they" are trying to ruin Linux yet again.

I personally have fond memories of X. Especially in the later days when the whole "unix porn" phenomenon bloomed and there was a sort of renaissance of customization. I miss herbstluftwm terribly. That said, I've been running Wayland for something like 6 years now and I do not really get why people hate it. It works fine, and it actually has a future.

Update:

It's also worth noting the author of this fork is a chud. Some excerpts from the README

This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.

This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.

Together we'll make X great again!

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Bambu - Chairman Mao (www.youtube.com)
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Eminem - Mosh (www.youtube.com)
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The Police - Bombs Away (www.youtube.com)
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If there is one thing the workers can't stand, it is occasionally getting paid to go fishing or crack open a cold one and grill outdoors.

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Retweeted by Majority Report

Insurrection is GOOD, fucking morons. Months before this picture was taken, demonstrators had surrounded the White House and were ripping away the barricades set up by the capital security forces. It was based as hell and Trump was ushered to hide in his bunker as a result. The problem with J6 was not the method, or the utter disrespect for the Capitol. It was that they were reactionary freaks. Look at them. They're waving a SOUTH VIETNAM flag! Fucking losers. uncle-ho-2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_482

Kosmos 482 (Russian: "Космос 482" meaning Cosmos 482), launched 31 March 1972, at 04:02:33 UTC, was an attempted Soviet Venus probe which failed to escape low Earth orbit. It is expected to crash back to Earth sometime around early 9 to 10 May 2025.[1][2] Its landing module, which weighs 495 kilograms (1,091 lb),[3] is highly likely to reach the surface of Earth in one piece as it was designed to withstand 300 g of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure.

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