Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza... or people can just say the damn words.
Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon' slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦♂️
In the eyes of a member of the ruling class, she fades into the background of the faceless proletariat.
Correct. Like "plunge" without the "lu".
That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. "It's true, your Honor. This man has no dick."
There was also a kids' animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids' movie.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Nl-Gouda.ogg
A bit like "khow-da". Also acceptable: gow-da. US: goo-da.
I listened to a Dutch person pronounce Gouda (cheese) and now pronounce it that way, much to the dismay of my fellow Americans.
Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)
Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely "bad" sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game's manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying... leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!
To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.
I got to meet Legaia's creator Hidenori Shibao. He also created Lennus ("Paladin's Quest" that I enjoyed on SNES in my youth) and its sequel.
The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?
Huh.
It’s why Google is telling billions of users to replace their passwords with much secure passkeys.
Much secure. So passkey.
God can't seem to get much done without the US Military 😬
Religious zealots can't be allowed to have nukes. You have to at least masquerade as a well-adjusted nation while you develop the nukes and slowly massage your zealots into positions of power over a few decades. Those are the rules.
I use Ubuntu btw
You have packages held.
Debian user: shudders
Quick response shortcut in Signal text entry; Is Google screen-reading my Signal app?
I don't see a setting in Signal for quick replies, but when I tap the text box to write a message in Signal, I keep getting a "quick reply" shortcut hovering, with the app logo, "Why?", and an X to close it.
Is this a Signal feature or Android 15 reading the text and generating a potential reply? It's not my keyboard (Unexpected Keyboard) as far as I can tell, haven't seen this pop up in any other text entry field yet.
Images not displaying with "too wide" error
I saw another complaint of "too tall" errors on images, I'm missing quite a few images with "too wide" error. Not sure what's up with the proxy but that's how the link shows in Jerboa app on Android. Open in web browser and I see the error:
{"code":"validate-width","msg":"Too wide"}
Other issue is the word r-tard being censored to blank space. I don't like it either, having a severely handicapped family member, but I can't downvote the (mis)user if I can't see them using the word. Not sure if that one is on our end... (Not the fault of this instance!)
Thanks for the wonderful "liberal troll" instance! You're doing good if Lemmygrad is mad. 😂
Windows 7 Embedded not displaying boot selection with countdown
I need to add a boot delay to these systems. Successfully used bcdedit.exe /timeout 60 which is also showing in msconfig, but the system seems to be ignoring the setting; I never see the countdown and the system boots normally.
Thanks for any input.
Can't get HDMI 4K on my TV with KDE Plasma & Wayland
[SOLVED] Vizio TV owners: You may need to manually turn on "Full HD Color" to get 4K@60Hz resolutions available! Oddly, this wasn't necessary for X11-based distros tested, but was required for Wayland-based distros tested...
Menu > Input Settings > HDMI-1 > Full UHD Color. It defaults to Off for some reason. 🤦♂️
When I was on Debian Bookworm and X11, I could only get 4K video at 30Hz from my GTX 980 Ti. I eventually upgraded from the HDMI cable that came with the 4K Vizio TV to a good brand HDMI 2.1 cable, then both 3840x2160@59.94Hz and 4096x2160@59.94Hz were available and working. (I think 3840 is the TV's native, there were more artifacts on text at 4096.)
I had some issues with Wine games on Debian that I couldn't figure out, and wanted to try some newer/different software, so I went distro-hopping. On both Nobara and currently EndeavourOS, both with KDE and Wayland, I'm back to only having 4K@30Hz available.
Edit: One strange detail I just remembered: Normally, the TV identi
Lutris/Wine: Odd video pause every four seconds
Update: I was able to induce this behavior to at least have a lead, on EndeavourOS (Arch btw) with KDE.
KDE System Settings -> Display & Monitor -> Screen tearing: Allow in fullscreen windows. Enabled by default. If disabled, I see exactly the same video pauses, on both fullscreen and windowed wine/proton-ge games.
Original post: How do I even begin to troubleshoot this?
Steam games work fine. Linux-native games work fine. In Wine games, the game video seems to pause for 1.5s, then plays for 2.5s. Audio is unaffected. It seems like the frames are lagged, not lost; when video resumes, the "missing" frames play back very quickly, like the video is "catching up". This happens even in the games' launcher windows before 3D rendering or GPU load occurs. Mouse pointer does not lag or pause.
This happens in both wine-ge 8.26 and WineHQ Staging 9.22.
The weirdest thing is that without changing any settings, the same games will run fine about 1 out of 20 launches.
Thanks for any input.
Video slot machine instructions
The money you put into a slot machine is certainly captical.
Spectrum Mobile makes offers that they won't honor. Phone trade-ins through Assurant are a bait-and-switch scam. AMA
I sent in two phones for an offered $1600 total promotional bill credits.
One phone rejected, for the reason: "won't power on". I videoed myself opening the box on the returned phone, pressing the power button, and turning the phone on, booting into Pixel setup.
The other, Spectrum is trying to give me $200 credit for.
I spent hours on the phone with support from both of these scam companies. Do not deal with either of them, you have been warned.
GRUB on 32-bit UEFI (Nextbook 2-in-1)
The only distro I can find that successfully configures a functioning bootable GRUB on this (bastard) machine is Nobara, which looks very cool but is way too heavy! Some things are glitchy; attempting tab completion seems to freeze Konsole for ~5 seconds and does not complete the command as expected. We're working with an Intel Atom Z3735F@1.33GHz and 2GB RAM here.
How can a noob figure out what it's doing differently so I can apply that to Linux Mint Debian Edition or Crunchbang Plus Plus?
The weird thing is that once the system is installed, it does not seem to have what I think are the required packages for GRUB to be set up correctly with this type of UEFI.
nextbook@nextbook:~$ sudo grub2-install /dev/mmcblk
grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.