Down memory lane: "Spy vs Spy: the island caper" – a video game I first played on a Phillips MSX back in ... 1985? Now you can play it in your web browser: <https://classicreload.com/c64-spy-vs-spy-the-island-caper.html> #VideoGames #SpyVsSpy #PCGaming
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That said: Ubuntu 24.04.1 works very well. Feels faster than the prior long-term stable release (22.04.3) in the same laptop; perhaps it's the graphics which seem snappier.
#ubuntu #ubuntu24
albertcardona
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@superkret@feddit.org Yikes.
albertcardona
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@superkret@feddit.org Oh I did choose the suggested OS, but lsb_release -a says "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" ...
albertcardona
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@superkret@feddit.org Having installed Debian bookworm in a raspberry pi recently, the stable Debian release isn't without its warts unfortunately.
If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: 1. control+alt+F1 to go to a tty and login, then: 2. sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session Further, if #thunderbird doesn't launch, remove the snap installation and install de deb package directly from mozilla (he --purge is so that it doesn't generate adn store a ~4 GB copy of the install). First, do: $ sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa $ sudo apt update Then paste this below into a file ( /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa-thunderbird ) to tell the apt system that you prefer mozilla's over any other package: Package: thunderbird* Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001 ... and install: $ sudo apt install thunderbird The same can be done for firefox if you'd rather skip the snap package. #ubuntu #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #linux
albertcardona
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@xris@ecoevo.social A very well read friend!
<<“bug” in this sense actually goes back to the late nineteenth century. The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary’s fourth definition of the noun “bug” reads “a defect or fault in a machine, plan, or the like.” >> <<Computer people adopted a term in use for more than half a century and brought it into the digital world. The wording in the Harvard log book—“first actual case of a bug being found”—suggests the computer programmers and engineers there were already quite familiar with the time-honored usage and were remarking on the novelty of finding an actual insect bugging up the computer.>> <https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/> #history #ComputerHistory #bug
albertcardona
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And just now, as seen at the bottom of a blog post:
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Unfortunately because of spam with embedded links (which then flag up warnings about the whole site on some browsers), I have to personally moderate all comments. As a result, your comment may not appear for some time. In addition, I cannot publish comments with links to websites because it takes too much time to check whether these sites are legitimate."
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Yes to all. For a while I've been de facto using a miniscule subset of the web. My gateway to other, relevant websites are via human-to-human recommendations, primarily in a place like this.
albertcardona
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@szakib @silence7 @neanderthal
When externalities in beef production in the US get internalized into the cost to consumers, meat will become unaffordable, the whole industry would collapse. Likely a good thing.
Consider subsidies to oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation, corn, corn processing, and tax cuts to all of these.
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I've heard that back in the day when rivers where polluted as hell, there was this simple idea that made it into policy: an industry must draw water downstream from where they dump their liquid waste. If they wanted clean water, they had to filter it before releasing it back into the river.
Could a simple rule like this be enforced: if an industry is to dump anything into the atmosphere, they must intake any air consumed from that same spot.
Applying this to ICE cars would stall the engine. When applied to the cabin, it would kill the passengers. Diluting it into the air only postpones the problem. This "externality" has come due and it's expensive. Best to cut losses and stop pouring exhaust fumes into the air.
albertcardona
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Meanwhile in coastal Southern California: it’s 17C and tonight the restaurants have their outdoor gas-burning heating on. For lulz, or is it just naïveté, or foolishness, or recklessness? On the other side of the mountains they reached 35C and the rest of the state is under a heatwave. “I can’t even.”
(And some have flames inside narrow vertical tubes, again for the fun of it. As if the CO2 emergency was something happening elsewhere.)