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Tuukka R @ Tuuktuuk @sopuli.xyz
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  • Proton broken?

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  • I'm running Ubuntu, which is basically Debian, so I tried my luck and yes, those packages existed with those names and versions. Installing them as instructed, rebooting the computer (probably restarting Wayland would have been enough, but whatever, this took less brainpower) and launching the game again almost solved the problem for first. It did crash in the same spot again, but then I went to the launch options, removed the line I had there before and replaced it with the debug line. After that, the game launched properly and I was also able to load my save and be back to Megaton where I happened to be the last time I saved (after getting scared of some super mutants).

    My apologies for not obeying you completely, as I have already mostly played through Fallout:NV, and Fallout 3 is more interesting to me right now 🤪

    So, the game's working now. Thank you! :) Apparently my Ubuntu had somehow removed some of the drivers in the background. On whose permission did it do that, if I may ask? Grr.

    Once again, thanks! <3

  • Linux Tablet?

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  • What you're looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.

    I think their website answers all of your questions.

  • Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy murdered in Lviv

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  • I wouldn't really call Azov brigade nazi any more, although they do have an origin as a nazi organization. They were cleaned of most of that crap around 2018 or so.

    Also, in 2014 Ukraine de facto had no army, as they had found it impossible that Poland or Slovakia or Moldova would attack them and believed that even if that was to happen, the Russia would come help. And when Ukraine then needed some military might when this war began in 2014, the only ones who had learned to properly use a weapon were the Moscow-funded extreme right wing oranizations, who merrily bit the feeding hand when it tried to start punching them.

    Ukraine began with building an actual useful army in 2014, but for a long time the informal extreme right organizations were stronger than the Ukrainian military and police forces combined, which meant there was a real threat of a far-right coup in Ukraine. The way Ukraine was able to dismantle those dangerous organizations was by slowly allowing them to integrate into the Ukrainian army, while at the same time everything possible was done to water down the nazi symphaties from those units. Nowadays by far the biggest part of Azov soldiers are against nazism, but of course there are still ugly symphathies among the oldest members of the organization. For example, the Azov battallion changed its logo away from being the wolfsangel already a couple of years ago, but very often you still see the old logo in use. And that is a nazi symbol. But, because the majority of soldiers in Azov units are there to fight a war in a skilled unit where they are likely to stay alive, I still would not call it a nazi organization now in 2025.

    Of course, when you're in the trenches, the philosophies of your fellow soldiers are less important than their ability to shoot the orcs between the eyes.

    And to end this text: Most of the funding for the Ukrainian right wing extremists came from the Russia, until in 2014 it stopped. Since then, the amount of right-wing extremism in Ukraine has been in a steady decline, while at the same time it's been on a rise in the Russia and in territories occupied by the Russia. Just like in any other country that has been under Russian influence during this century, there is indeed still a big nazi problem in Ukraine. But it's important to understand that in any areas under Russian control the problem is and will be rising, whereas in other parts of Ukraine it's decreasing. A country having a nazi problem is not a reason to decline helping them reduce the amount of nazism. (And the problem is not bigger than that in present day Germany, BTW. But still, just like in Germany it is important to do something and that something is indeed being done, it's also important in Ukraine to do something. And that something is also being done. Stupid to claim the problem doesn't exist, stupid to claim that it's a defining feature of Ukraine.)

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • While I disagree with the teenagers' ability to find my banking passwords regardless of where I hide them, for example because I can make a copy of them that has been altered with a password I can calculate in my head and that takes the location of the password on the table into account in the calculation, the rest is true.

    I remember having seen things I really wouldn't want to see even as adult when I was browsing Internet for stuff that wasn't supposed to be available. Shady websites can be shady in so many ways! It is true that making an age verification system for a basic porn site will probably direct the youth to other sites with content you wouldn't see on PornTube. I hope my children won't ever watch porn, but if they ever do, I hope it's from a source that doesn't allow the worst things to be shown. For example PornHub does remove the worst stuff and is quite commonly used. If that one cannot be accessed, then probably something else will. And it's likely to be worse. Though, PornHub has a lot of really bad abusive things as well. Checked it out now and one of the first videos it showed was something that looked like the woman is really unhappy, even distressed, about the situation she's being filmed in :(

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Beautifully said. I wish people on Internet could behave like you in this comment. Have a virtual hug, you are awesome! :)

  • What would happen if we mixed nuclear waste into gasoline

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  • The question isn't about it possibly reducing carbon emissions, though.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • You can't build a completely teenager-proof system. But you can build a system that is almost completely teenage-proof. And that's definitely good enough!

    All such systems exist only to support parents in their parenting. It gets easier keeping your children safe and developing well if the amount of ways the teenagers can be idiots is narrowed down.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Despite what who think? I don't think there are people who think people in USA are not human beings. (Or if they are, they are less than one percent of the world population... Of course within 8 billion people you will find a proponent for any opinion...)

    But yeah, since you care about humanity's liberty as a whole, you could maybe kindly stop undermining that goal by assuming that what is done by under 5% of the population on this planet is the standard that the remaining 95 % are following.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • I wasn't being eurocentric. I was being Asia-Africa-Australia-South America-Europe-Canada-Mexico-Central America-Caribbea centric. The only country where most of the right want to reduce gun safety is USA. We are talking in an international forum, so here international concepts count, not nation-specific. Typically in the world right-wingers are for safety and typically in the world the politics of the Democrat party count as right-wing.

    When in a conversation not specific to USA it is not okay to speak as if everything was about USA. It is not okay to speak as if there was a left-wing party in US Congress or Senate and it is not okay to claim that the right wants more dangerous gun policies.

    And here we're talking about something that takes place most prominently in UK and secondly in a bunch of other countries, but absolutely not in USA. USA has nothing to do with this, so don't be as insolent as you were.

    (Also, for example Australia is not in Europe. Learn some geography.)

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Doesn’t change political narrative being pushed by both major political parties in the US, where in the left supposedly wants guns banned, and the right wants everyone armed.

    How is US relevant in this discussion?

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Online banking passwords? "Find"? How the hell? Have you lived in a barrel?

    There is a 8-number code that I've got in my head, then there is a 4-number password that I've also got in my head. And then a paper with single-use passwords which work so that when I have given the two correct passwords, it tells me which code to use. And no way am I giving full access to my bank account for my children!

    Some banks also have a system where you log in with your fingerprint and then a four-number code using an app on your phone.

    I think the money on the parents' accounts is a much better motivation for the children than an ability to watch porn. And yet, I have not heard of anybody's children actually having found out their parent's bank passwords.

    And also: Maybe there really is a child that installs a keylogger on their parents' computer and steals the password paper from the parents' wallet and also happens to really want to go out of their way to watch porn... Well, then there is. Such a child is already in so many ways in trouble that I don't think seeing porn will traumatize them at all. Such children are few and it makes no sense trying to build a 100-percent foolproof system. In any case, using online banking passwords is a lot more reliable way than the weird hocus-pocus being done now.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • In Finland you could handle this by having people authenticate using their online bank passwords. A LOT of government stuff already works that way, so it would require almost no extra coding at least over here. I wonder why it cannot be done the same way in England?

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • The right is typically for gun control. Only one country comes to my mind where they aren't. Which one were you thinking about? Or is it more common than I thought?

    (Or did you just happen to forget that 95 % of Earth's population exists?)

    EDIT: Oh, and also: It is important to keep in mind that it's the same within the left. There are also left-wingers who prefer authoritarianism and ones who despise it. I do agree with your sentiment: The left-right division does not work very well in our current world. Need to take best parts of everything, but most importantly, make sure we don't end up under totalitarian rule!

  • Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents

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  • Traditionally fascists have turned against those who have helped them seize power. I would assume that eventually Trump will start detaining even ICE. If they were okay with a coup, they might be okay with another one and are therefore enemies of the state.

  • Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents

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  • Having less firefighters does not interfere with firefighting efforts. Why would it?

  • I should have switched years ago! - Linux gaming update

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  • I started using Linux most of the time in 1998 because my parents had installed RedHat 5.2 to dual boot with Windows and I didn't like what Microsoft was doing back then, so I decided to use Linux whenever I'm not playing games. (And then moved on to SuSe 7 in 2001, then to Debian, and later, when Ubuntu was invented, moved to Ubuntu, and when Linux Mint came around, started using that one. (wait, no, actually I moved only when I got pissed off by Unity, which was horrible in its first forms!) Starting from Debian, things were already quite easy, although configuring the graphical environment, X, was super tedious...)

    It's a bit weird feeling reading about how people write about how bad Windows has gone, and not really having experience of it since Windows 7, that I did have for a while in between. That was probably in 2011 or so. Then I soon got a new computer and kind of forgot to install Windows on it, because things worked well enough anyway.

    In any case, already when Ubuntu came out, I already felt that every time I had to resolve my friends' issues on their Windows computers that it was a very good thing that I was running Linux at home, because it meant there was so much less hassle! It felt like "damn, if people only knew how well this works these days, they'd never want to use Windows. And then there would be more software as well!"

  • I should have switched years ago! - Linux gaming update

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  • You can find the kernel version by writing "uname -r" in the terminal.

    In my case it prints "6.8.0-79-generic", which would be the answer if NewNewAugustEast had asked me about how old my kernel is. Yours is probably something else than that precise version. Except that I'm running Ubuntu and Mint is also kind of Ubuntu.

    If you want, you can also paste the output of: "lsb_release -d", NNAE might be curious to know that, as well.

    For your personal use, you can use uname -a and lsb_release -a, but I had the feeling some of the output of those would be things you wouldn't want to say publicly but might not understand to redact.

  • 25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UN

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  • That's because DHL Express is DHL, and it's possible to ship by DHL.

  • 25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UN

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  • As already said numerous times in this conversation.

    And also, them being able to accept the payment does nothing to help the companies why aren't, because they are not allowed to use the systems that tell how much they should pay, nor is there anything to receive those payments in the US end.

    DHL, FedEx and UPS have some kind of bilateral agreements – official or unofficial, hard to say. Good for them.

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    Tuukka R @sopuli.xyz

    Voyager difficult to start using for existing Lemmy users