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Saizaku

@ Saizaku @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Can I dual boot windows and Linux?

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  • Quick PSA if you're dual booting from the same drive, the boot partition size is dictated by the windows install. There is chance that when you're doing a system upgrade on linux, when recompiling initramfs is necessary, you run out of space on the boot partition since linux makes a fallback/backup on the boot partition. This might block you from upgrading unless you manually delete (and backup) the images and run mkinitcpio -P manually. Note that this may result in bricking your system, but it isn't hard to fix if you have some experience.

  • Whats a TV series that went completely off the rails, became absurd and lost sight of its own original premise?

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  • It's not really about sustained creativity, the anime just dragged because they wanted to milk the franchise as much as possible. Having like 4 seasons named the final season. They adapted a 139 chapter manga into nearly a 100 episodes.

    It doesn't help that Isayama himself wasn't sure how to reaolve Eren's character, he originally planned a tragic ending where everyone diea but changed his mind due to the popularity of the series. The timeskip and Eren's 180 degree personality change was the biggest issues, it was implied that due the abilities of the Attack Titan he saw something and had some motivation to change. Unfortunately trying to write a reasonable motivation for the MC to commit genocide is pretty much impossible so the ending ended up being a cheaper and worse executed version of the Code Geass ending.

  • itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?

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  • +1 for dwl, it's been much less of a hassle to setup and use than hyprland, especially for gaming where game windows behaved really weird under hyprland. Granted it's been about a year and a half since I made the switch so hyprland might be better than it was now.

  • Regarding Brian Berletic - and why you should be sceptical of anything he claims

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  • I make no judgments about Nepal as I admittedly haven't researched for myself, I simply expressed skepticism given his takes on the situation in my own country. The part about Nepal was mostly just interlude as to how I came to write this post in the first place.

  • Regarding Brian Berletic - and why you should be sceptical of anything he claims

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  • That's not how I read OP's text.

    And it wasn't my intention for it to be read that way, what I meant is that I can't deny nor verify whether they had secret meetings with the state department. I don't necessarily doubt it, I simply refrained from making judgement on it.

    The point I was trying to make is that reducing a decade long fight to a single organisation that only operated during the last two years of that fight and whose political influence transferred into next to 0 political power in the new government and the opposition coalition itself is disingenuous at best.

    Now I personally know the people who organized and lead the protests against Milosevic from 91 to 00. Which is another point I forgot to make in the write up, most of the public uni professors nowadays were students and protesting during that time, none of which were members of Otpor. Otpor certainly played a role and had its appeal, but Milosevic would've fell even without them. Also if you want to look at what influence the US had on the regime change by far the biggest was the NATO bombing, rather than Otpor. A lot of older people who supported Milosevic up until that point lost a lot of people.

    Also worth mentioning is that DOS was far from ideal, the ideology was big tent. Which meant that plenty of things that would actually be good for the people simply couldn't be done. And a lot of the opposition at the time was either liberal or right wing. All of these are legitimate issues, but reducing a decade long fight to a single US funded NGO doesn't make any sense.

  • Regarding Brian Berletic - and why you should be sceptical of anything he claims

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  • Appreciate the link, I hadn't bothered to research him specifically and this was the first time I even came across his name. Then again I don't really consume world news through youtubers/streamers.

    I know fuck all about the situation in Nepal, but I'm intimately familiar with the situation in my own country and its political history so I could easily see through it. But he seemed very well regarded in the megathread which prompted me write this post in the first place. Probably a waste of time on my part but w/e

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    Regarding Brian Berletic - and why you should be sceptical of anything he claims

  • rule away Rowling

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  • I'm sorry, I know it's a simple mistake and english might not be your first language (it's not mine either), but sexualized assault really made me laugh for some reason

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • I would actually argue that for privacy reasons when choosing an email provider you should go for one outside of the country you live in, even better go for one in a country that wouldn't comply with your country's court requests for data.

    Edit: ac corrected actually to factually lol

  • I want to finally degoogle my life and install GrapheneOS

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  • Absolutely agree with everything you said. For music I absolutely prefer my speaker setup over any headphones or IEMs. But I go running pretty much every day for like an hour and I also walk a lot. So I need music during all that and like I said the slight noise present with bluetooth headphones bothers me an unreasonable amount.

    I'll most likely go for a sony phone next too case they're pretty much the only flagship phone offering both an sdcard slot and a 3.5mm jack.

  • I want to finally degoogle my life and install GrapheneOS

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  • Perfectly fair take tbh, in terms of security on android phones grapheneOS is as good as it gets and has been for a couple of years. I personally refuse to use pixels due to no sdcard, but more importantly no 3.5mm jack. The slight hiss/hum noise present on every bluetooth headset I've tried (and I've tired my friends bluetooth sennheiser that's like $600) bothers me way too much for w/e reason. I find crdroid for example gets me 90% of the way there with a bit of work through various magisk modules and it's good enough for me. But things have definitely gotten better on nonpixel phones over the years, I'm for example running a poco x3 nfc that was $250 4 years ago when I bought it and I still get monthly security updates through crdroid anf battery life is still great cause it came with a 5300mAh battery.

  • I want to finally degoogle my life and install GrapheneOS

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  • But besides, being able to unlock bootloader is great (even though root is way more important to me)

    My bad I thought you were generally up to date with how rooting basically works nowadays. The defacto rooting method today is systemless root using magisk, which works by patching your boot.img. So on 99% of phones today if you can unlock the bootloader, rooting is as simple as installing the magisk, patching the boot img from the app and the flashing itl. You can also just flash magisk from recovery too. That's why I focused on bootloader unlocking in my previous post.

    Now I can't claim that every device from these manufacturers works flawlessly with magisk, but most do. And a quick glance at the xda page of the specific model would be an easy way to find out before buying.

  • I want to finally degoogle my life and install GrapheneOS

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  • No wonder, as they're the only phones left (to my knowledge) that don't demand half your soul just to fucking own your own phone.

    Literally who outside of samsung and Huawei? I guess xiaomi is a bit annoying with the wait time but pretty much all other phones are dead simple.

    Oneplus, Nothing phone: literally the same process as on a pixel, no code required to unlock bootloader or anything like that. Just fastboot flashing unlock

    Vivo: The exact same thing, just get vivo's binary for fastboot since the unlocl command is different

    Motorola, Sony: Just go to the website and you get the unlock code instantly, then just run a fastboot command and you're done

    Realme: Download their app, apply for unlock, gets approved within an hour. Unlock with a fastboot command

    Xiaomi, poco: Get their app, wait a couple of days for the code, unlock bootloader with fastboot command.

    Honor and huawie are a pita, but there is an open source unlocking tool for certain devices which makes it deadsimple.

    So there are still plenty of options if the goal is unlocking bootloader and rooting a phone, all of these brands offer phones with oled 120hz screens, with cameras ranging from decent to some of the best on the market depending on the model. There are probably some brends I missed, but you get the point.

  • Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

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  • Linus has taken a break from linux development to work on his behavior and got professional help too. Be apologized for his past abusive behavior too. But yeah Linus was very much abusive in the past and I'm glad he worked on it, cause his behavior is much better today.

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  • 0 interest in reading further when you see these people classifying ancaps as far left.

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    Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study

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  • Complete nothingburger of a study, which itself is locked behind a $25 paywall to access it. And the author of the article obviously didn't cause there's 0 mention in the article itself about the methodology used to determine the 20% revenue lost (nice round number might I add). The only thing that even alludes to the methodology used in the abstract is

    When Denuvo is cracked very early on, piracy leads to an estimated 20 percent fall in total revenue on average relative to an uncracked counterfactual

    Which really doesn't tell us much, how are these counterfactuals selected in the first place? What is the cirteria? How are you determining that the differences between revenue of a game that was cracked and that went uncracked are due to one game being cracked? How can anyone even confidently claim that they've normalazied the data set enoguh that these differences in revenue are mainly caused by a game being cracked, especially with how rare early denuvo cracks have been in the past few years. Statistically this sounds dubious at best, especially when we have fully open studies (like the one funded by the EU a few years back) that have found no statistical proof that piracy has any impact on revenue ( with the exception of box office revenue of big new movies being leaked and pirated while still in theaters). Surely they wouldn't have missed a 20% meadian difference in revenue.

    Lastly you have major tech news outlets all reporting on a study less than a month after it was made available online. For context the journal containing this study will only be published in jan of 2025.

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Because you would be using std::shared_ptr<> rather than a raw pointer, which will automatically deallocate the memory when a shared point leaves the scope in the last place that it's used in. Along with std::atmoic

    <shared_ptr>

    implements static functions that can let you acquire locks and behave like having a mutex.

    Now this isn't enforced at the compiler level, mostly due to backwards compatibility reasons, but if you're writing modern c++ properly you wouldn't run into memory safety issues. If you consider that stretching the definition then I guess I am.

    Granted rust does a much better job of enforcing these things as it's unburdened by decades of history and backwards compatibility.

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • There's a reason why data races aren't considered a memory safety issue, because we have a concept that deals with concurrency issues - thread safety.

    Also for all it's faults, thread and memory safety in java aren't issues. In fact java's concurrent data structures are unmatched in any other programming language. You can use the regular data structures in java and run into issues with concurrency but you can also use unsafe in rust so it's a bit of a moot point.

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Arguably modern c++ ( aka if you don't use raw pointers), fits all categories.

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    Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

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  • Didn't even open the link probably