I just watched the megalag videos on the glasses — the first episode of three — and the claim is they cut out confusing areas of colour that abnormal chromats see.

So if it worked, it only works for people with abnormal versions of one of the three normal colour vision sensors, and only if their deficiency is in green, and then only if it’s the correct degree of deficient

But it doesn’t work anyway.

The glasses help people see the number in some sheets in the colourblindness test, but hide the number in others. Their colour blindness would appear slightly worse than reality.

If they had worked they might have done so by some sort of contrast enhancement or edge detection, but I don’t think either are possible with just optics

Loads of people are suspicious of coupon schemes. They look dodgy. It’s no wonder that people come along after one of these schemes turns out to actually be a scam to say “see, I knew these things were bad” with the only evidence being that they never subscribed to it

Their fault is they claim it was this one specifically

I presume you know that your account is marked as automated, as a bot

I have been using Linux for a long time. I have installed many distributions, many different distributions. I can’t say I have ever had a problem with installers except:

• Unsupported hardware, especially in kernel versions 2.4.*
• Non-free wifi on Debian on laptops
• Less than ideal partitioning on automatic, so I haven’t let it auto partition much since red hat in the 2000s. I let Mint auto partition my wife’s machine recently and that went fine.

Do you have super odd hardware? Do your computers lie to the installer about present hardware?

If 3 is worse than 1, -1 is better. So I don’t agree with you. WSL is at +∞

Any distribution is better

It seems to have become a vehicle to promote Canonical’s paid products. Also it prefers snaps over packages. Also it’s not as good as Mint for those wanting what Ubuntu used to be

For desktop environments gnome and kde are excellent and force each other to improve

I don’t think Libre Office has a good competitor aside from Microsoft Office which hardly matters in the open source world but Libre Office works in windows too

There are several file explorers, many terminal emulators

Debian is good for that, unless the system is a laptop with no RJ45 port and a wireless card which needs a non-free driver

Why wouldn’t you like systemD? It’s easier to learn than most distributions

I guess its commands are a bit long

I’m surprised LFS is still around. I used that on my main computer back when Linux kernel versions started with 2.4. it was my third distribution after red hat and Debian

It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)

Who are you to challenge God’s word

* points to a book written and edited by humans

(Not arguing with you, just showing my amusement at standard Christian bullshit)

Can they slip the geniologies? They’re just there to prove the guy in the story is really truly the descendant of someone holy and important, so add nothing if you just presume the protagonist is a proper protagonist

I came here in the Reddit migration too, right after the API thing. I like that this place is still small - it has the community feeling that you only saw in Reddit in small, focused subs

That’s a broken link, probably the broken link format. The good link is:

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2019/05/13/how-les-miserables-became-lees-miserables

I wonder if Musk’s heavy right wing position is one of:

• just him trying to sell more cars (to people who subscribe to right wing positions, as well as left wing people buying them for environmental reasons)
• fun, seeing how much he personally can fuck things up
• because Heinlein said in several books that authoritarianism is good for business

You’ll probably need them for old devices. But generally you’ll just need a USB A to C cable.

Why does it need to change? The older connectors were too fragile, and needed to be too big of that were to support fast data. USB C can do all of the current data standards and is a pretty robust connector

You may want a newer charger anyway in order to charge faster

Googling for it, my phone (pixel 9 pro fold) has USB 3.2, so it shouldn’t be able to drive a DP display

Likewise, I have a speaker thing (w-king brand) that will only charge off USB A to C, and will not charge off any USB C power supply