[–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said it would also require any telephone numbers used by visitors over the same period, and any email addresses used in the last decade, as well as face, fingerprint, DNA and iris biometrics. It would also ask for the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children.

JFC, that's burying the lede. Social media, whatever—good luck; ain't nothing linked to my real name. But there ain't no vacation worth handing over a DNA sample to a corrupt, authoritarian government.

Why anyone is still traveling to the US for a vacation under the current Republican regime is beyond me.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    XNOR is so ambiguously named.

    Every time, I'm like: The inverse of XOR? Or the inverse of NOR? Oh, right, NOR is already the inverse of OR, so X-NOR is just OR, so XNOR must be the inverse of XOR.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's basically "common core" math (in the US), or just "updated curriculum" everywhere else in the world. Turns out that building fluency with math through play and number decomposition is incredibly powerful for long-term learning.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I want an English-language Taskmaster Canada made. That's not an existing show, though, so not sure if that's what you're going for.

    Taskmaster UK, NZ, and AU are great, but I need more Taskmaster!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Exactly. People are being abducted off the street by plainclothes "officers" (who's to know?), put in the back of unmarked cars, and disappeared. A Canadian died in detainment from being denied access to live-saving prescription medication.

    Tariffs are so far down my list of reasons for not traveling to the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    4 mm wider than the 10V. :(

    This model series used to be the only decent option for a narrow mid-range phone. Not much separates it from the competition aside from the 3.5mm jack, now. What a shame.

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    My question is basically the title, but here are some more details.

    My computer is used about 75% for work, 20% for personal use (almost entirely web), and 5% for gaming. ~2 y.o. midrange rig w/ Intel CPU, AMD graphics, 32GB DDR4 RAM.

    For work, I need lots of straightforward things: video conferencing on Teams (web is fine), Zoom, Word document editing (web is fine), a bunch of other web apps, some light database stuff, etc.

    Plus two things that are a bit trickier: OneDrive professional/SharePoint (so I'll need abraunegg's onedrive) and Excel 2024 desktop (web isn't good enough) for which I'll need to run Windows (10? Ameliorated, maybe?) in a VM.

    But I also want to do gaming. I wouldn't install a kernel-level rootkit anyway (and I boycott Denuvo), so SteamOS-level compatibility should work great for my needs. I also have a Quest 3, so I'll want to do PCVR, which apparently works great (with Bazzite).

    But I don't really grok what Bazzite being immutable means for using it as a daily driver for work/productivity. Under the hood, it's just Fedora 42, right? For immutable distros, you use flatpaks instead of apt install, and they're basically just "apps" that should "just work", right? Do I care about kernel modification?

    Or, more to the point, I don't know what I don't know. After preliminary research on this all, I think my plan of going for Bazzite then adding abraunegg's onedrive and a Windows VM with Office 2024 will hit all my needs, but can anyone "sanity check" that plan, or compare the pros/cons with a non-Ubuntu-based alternative?

    I'm good enough with computers that I should be able to tinker through the inevitable small challenges that will come up, but I don't really have enough time to do it twice if my initial plan is terrible. (I connect to a Debian server remotely using the terminal, so I have some background—but I needed to install a bunch of packages to get web app software running, and idk if I'll need that as a desktop user.)

    Any advice much appreciated! And thanks for reading this far, even if you don't comment. :)

    Edit: thanks for the input so far! I'm turning in, but I'll read everything and reply to stuff tomorrow.

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