m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@mario Sure! I've been using linux since my teenage years and I'm very comfortable with it. It would be nice to have a laptop capable of running Ableton Live though. So I could make music when I'm not at home. Newer versions of macOS won't run on this laptop, so maybe I should just run an older release, it's the system this laptop came with after all so it's probably a better choice than Windows anyway. I should just stay off the Internet with that out of date software.

@mario Problem is, it's an old MacBook Pro, EFI in those didn't follow the UEFI spec. There is a way to tell EFI not to initialize this GPU and it's enough to get Mac OS X and linux running, but Windows seems to ignore it and tries to init it anyway. I'm sure there is a way to do it, like booting in safe mode and disabling it in Device Manager, but I'm to lazy to do it 😁
Void Linux runs just fine and is very power efficient — which is a nice thing for a laptop.

@mario I can't use Windows because it tries to use the discrete GPU in this laptop that is fried so it crashes. And I'm clueless about how to tell it not to use it 🤷

@gemlog
Ha-ha-ha, so it wasn't put there by mistake, I see 😏

@imtheq

@PawelK Can you point me to some info on him?
This is not the first time I encounter this name and I'm always like: "The video game designer? Why would he say that, why would he have any thoughts on that at all?"
But when I try looking him up, the game designer is the only one that comes up and I honestly don't believe they are the same person 🤪

@DotardTed

@PawelK
> Peter Molyneuxes
The video game designer, the man behind Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Magic Carpet? What's with him? 🤨

@DotardTed

@neural_meduza А вот это у них не пройдёт!

@neural_meduza Значит правда!

@imtheq
Agreed!

Ha-ha, autocorrect did an outstanding job here:
"not for everyone hate English is native language"
Microsoft onscreen keyboard got updated with Bing and I have noticed it it inserting words that were not originally there, but why hate? No one hates English, at least not me 😅
@gemlog

@gemlog
Oh, not that bad! 😂
My vocabulary, however limited it might be, is still better than automated translation 😜
But you are right! And there is SimpleTranslate that can use different translation services, is privacy respecting, you can self-host it, and is really easy to use both on mobile and on desktop.

@imtheq

@thor Man, it's a party IN YOUR HEAD 🤣
🎉🎊🍻
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_FQpobrm60

@imtheq I really do my best to provide reasonably detailed descriptions, but sometimes I think to myself: whoah, I don't even know the proper words to describe that, let's keep it at "two cats chilling". Does it help visually impaired? I don't know, I think not 🤷

@imtheq …to see the picture — visually impaired person can't do that, but would probably appreciate something like "two tabby-pointed cats wearing sweaters, the bigger cat the red one and the smaller cat the pink one lying on a biege electric heated pad so that it looks like they are hugging each other". Problem is, this description won't take you just 30 seconds, throw the fact that not for everyone hate English is native language in the mix and it becomes a problem.

@imtheq Alt texts are useful not only to visually impaired, but to those who browse Fedi using TUI (text only) software, myself included. I like alt texts and I do my best for all images I post to have them, but I don't think that descriptions you can spend 30 seconds on are fun to read for visually impaired.
I'll be okay with something like "two cute cats chilling on a heated rug" — I know it's a cute cat picture and if I'm in the mood for that, I can run an external viewer…

@neural_meduza Беспредел! Иметь не красивую грудь — неотъемлемое право каждого человека!

@neural_meduza Не заподозрили, а обвинили. Впрочем, мало кто поверил.

@sneak Thanks for reminding me of NMH. I used to find them interesting, but when everyone was into indie and later post-rock, they had received so much attention that I grew into almost hating them. By now I don't even remember what for 😅
Time to revisit and see what would I think now.

@DotardTed
> For the longest battery life, I leave it half-charged.
Best practice for all lithium batteries. I have a ThinkPad battery from 2005 still at 77% of it's original capacity. How? I just stored it charged at 40%. It's amazing how much longer they last if you take proper care of them.
There are a lot more problems with EV batteries, still an important thing to keep in mind.

@Bunnyslope @obihahn @NoBeret

@Cara They have probably made it so obvious on purpose so no one would believe it. But other ChatGPT-based entities dwelling the Fedi bought it 😅

@neural_meduza Не пирожки, а сырки, и не в лесу, а в магазине, и не нашаривали, а шоплифтили. А варить надо вареники. В прямом смысле!
Глупая машина 😌