Nah, my phone has been in grayscale for over 3 years now. I really don’t miss color and it is very rare that I need to turn color on temporarily for something. Most all UIs and websites are designed with the colorblind in mind, so everything remains perfectly functional, and when looking at images or photos, my brain just “fills in” the color and I often completely forget that the colors aren’t there.

The difference is actually stark and surprisingly noticeable, for example opening my music app and seeing the gallery of all the colorful and cool album art would cause my brain to light up, and now, just nothing. A bright red notification badge doesn’t command my attention and give me a dopamine hit anymore. App UIs that are designed to be addictive don’t have the same impact.

You can knock it and it’s fine if you don’t think the benefits are worth it, but I definitely prefer it. I’m more interested in what is outside of my phone when the things inside my phone are grey and dull.

So… just like… KDE?

Not that it is designed for it but it is a similar workflow and should be familiar to Windows users

Ha, my system is exactly identical! I really have no reason to upgrade, besides maybe 5950X/5900XT for more cores for compiling software (I run Gentoo on it). Can’t justify that though because it’s more of a sidegrade, and they’re all out of stock now that AM4 is back in style.

My 6900XT is a slightly-cheaper-than-6950XT frankenstein with the 6950XT full chip but 6900XT clocked VRAM. It’s so efficient. The fans don’t even spin for some games. There’s nothing it can’t play at max settings, but I’m also rendering at 1600x1200 (or less for specific older titles) on a CRT.

It’s beef, so the recommendation is 145 for 3 minutes, not 165.

And also, 165 is a guarantee that meat is fully pasteurized without needing to know any other information. It is a simplified recommendation that is designed to be easy to follow and hard to mess up: if you check the temperature and you see 165, you know it is safe. However, 2 pieces of information (temperature + amount of time at that temperature) allows for a pasteurization curve. Here is the pasteurization curve for poultry:

This shows that poultry that maintained 160 for 12 seconds is equally as safe as poultry that was 165 for any amount of time. Same for poultry that was 155 for 48 seconds, 150 for 2 minutes and 48 seconds, 145 for 9.2 minutes, or 140 for 27.5 minutes.

If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.

Go outside, talk to people, friends, family, especially of different generations. Even people I know that I consider much more “tech savvy” than average have no clue about ad blockers or how to begin using them.

Yeah this is just a flat out lie

Will believe when I see it. Until then this is a total crock of shit.

I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can’t really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade, and now they seem to be totally out of stock anywhere I look. Oh well!

We live in a terrifying time

Well, the nanobots that you are describing do not exist, so they aren’t what is making the time terrifying

True, however TLS does not encrypt the hostname/IP address of the servers that you are connecting to, so your ISP can monitor the servers you visit. A VPN provides an encrypted tunnel for your traffic, so your ISP can only see that you are communicating with the VPN server. However, the VPN provider can see the hostname/IP of the servers in order to forward the traffic to its destination.

Ideally the VPN provider does not monitor or keep logs of the connections, but this is not always the case. A VPN offers privacy from the ISP or from other clients connected to the local network when using public WiFi.

It can also provide some level of anonymity, because the server that you are connecting to will only be able to see the VPN IP address connecting to them, instead of your home IP address. It is possible to still be identified by other means besides your IP address, like using cookies or browser fingerpinting.

😍 god I love open source ❤️

• From my R7 240

This is how I do it, yeah the first couple glasses were kinda weird but then once you’ve experienced it and know what to expect, it really isn’t bad at all.

Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.

Way too late

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I imagine there would be regulations preventing one single individual billionaire from pre-purchasing 40% of the global supply of RAM.

Lol what?? 5800X3D was like $250 when I bought mine. I wouldn’t say it was cheap but its defintely not a “money is no issue” kind of number.

Edit: alright rereading your comment, you were probably talking about people who want to buy a 5800X3D right now with today’s price, and not just anyone who was ever in the market for 5800X3D-level CPUs

Cryptocurrency has transaction fees. They start out as the newly mined coins, paid from the pool of unmined coins. Once the finite number of coins have been mined and that pool is empty, the miners will begin charging fees for each transaction directly to the users making the transactions.

They genuinely don’t make sense as “currency”. Having a public, permanent ledger of all transactions is pretty bad. Buy groceries, pay your rent, and get paid in crypto? Now your landlord, employer, and grocer can see every transaction you’ve ever made, how much your account is worth, and how much you spend. Wonderful!

Sure, you could use a service to obfuscate your transactions, except oopsies, you’ve just reinvented centralized payment processors but worse! Wasn’t the whole purpose decentralization?? It doesn’t even solve the problem its designed to be a solution for.

Cryptocurrency sucks because it just doesn’t make any sense at a fundamental level. That’s not even getting into the economic problems, like deflationary currency, or technical problems, like the exponential cost of hosting a node or the fact that it can only be scaled up to handle at most a teeny tiny fraction of a percent of transactions that a service like Visa handles every day.

What is actually a good currency? Cash.

how do you think COULD anti cheat catch such a contraption?

Server-side analysis of player behavior. It’s difficult and a mostly losing battle, but that’s really the only option that could be effective.

“why dont these games work on linux?”

The games do work on Linux. Many of the games the author described were working with Linux perfectly until the companies arbitrarily made a policy decision to block Linux players from the games. The anti-cheat is what does not work on Linux, for the reasons the author described, however the anti-cheat also does not actually work on Windows either, because it does not lessen cheating in these games. It doesn’t even prevent cheats that use traditional methods that kernel-level anti-cheat was designed to stop, for example there are many videos of cheaters showing off wallhacks and on-device aimbots in Battlefield 6 on launch day. The anti-cheat was defeated in less than 24 hours.

how is such a contraption relevant to a kernel driver on another machine?

Such a “contraption” is relevant because it is what people actually use for cheats in 2025, and because it defeats the anti-cheat described by the author, which they falsely claim is effective at stopping cheaters.