Generally speaking, Library Genesis, Anna’s Archive and Sci-Hub are your friends :) Otherwise you can try to email the authors. They will probably provide you with a copy.

It is a joke, there are no ads. I just wrote a fake command in the Nix syntax.

LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

environment.systemAds.enable = false;

to your configuration.nix file 😎

Still only because the DM decided to be nice about it.

This is called multi-seating and requires input handling of more than one keyboard and mouse (as well as other things). It is not really useful for that in the state shown above.

As an urchin background forest gnome, I tried to abuse the hell out of my pet mouse and speak with small beasts ability. Unfortunately, our sessions did not last long enough for me to come up with too much fun shenanigans.

It is because you have two monitors with different scaling, re your reply below. I have the same problem with my 4K and 1440p monitors as well (200% and 150% scaling, respectively). This has been a rather big problem IMO, so much so that I have not really used the scaling that much and instead relied on increasing font size.

The reason why is that games run through Xwayland, and X only has global scaling factor setting and not a per monitor one. Therefore they have to do some weird stuff that I can not adequately explain, but which is the reason for the applications thinking they are on a lower resolution than they really are.

I actually did a benchmark yesterday and it doesn’t really seem to matter performance wise (I thought they might both upscale and downscale, but that seems to not be the case from my testing). It is also possible to tinker with gamescope if any games do not display properly.

Many of these have C-bindings for their libraries, which means that slowness is caused by bad code (such as making a for loop with a C-call for each iteration instead of once for the whole loop).

I am no coder, but it is my experience that bad code can be slow regardless of language used.

I am using socialist interchangeably with communist here.

That is understandable if you think only within the paradigm of some select countries dominating the rest, but that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to our gay space communist Star Trek future.

Caveat that I have not played the games, but taking the series at face value they are highly US-centric like most Hollywood productions. It makes no sense arguing on the basis of the series alone what they are going with in this regard, since all the action takes place in the US it is pretty much the scope of the universe, just like in many Americans minds. I tried to make a disjoint point, that was based on how I would interpret it with complete disregard to whatever is canon to the story as a whole, taking what is presented in the first season of the series at face value.

To put this into context with Star Trek, I also find it really boring and non-immersive whenever they hold 21st century America in special consideration. It is just such an obvious way to make a comparison to current state of affairs in one particular country, placating preferences of current pop culture, which is redundant anyway since all science fiction is a universal critique of the current state of affairs anywhere simply by showing a future alternative. A hypothetical sudden end to US hegemony is actually a valid way to make the current US affairs leading up to it special with respect to the future development of mankind, and not just a boring move for views.

Saw this episode for the first time two days ago and loved everything about it. Especially the inqusition of anti-union Ferengi, that is the FCA, captured the violence of capitalist oppression, both direct and threat thereof, beautifully.

I also liked the subtle points being made, like Odo being against the strike on basis of upholding law and order, even though this should contradict his moral compass in my opinion.

More like the dissolvement of US hegemony.

Halsin is not going to wait around for you to actually want to see him nude!

Yup! Also one has to mind the order in which one rolls the dice. Since 10 and 5 could be either 05 or 50. As a bonus, if you roll them in order of “tens” to “ones”, getting 10 on the first dice has added suspense since the latter dice determines if it is going to count as a low roll of 0X (by rolling 1-9 on the next dice X) or if it is going to be a max roll of 100 (by rolling another 10).

Roll two d10, once for each digit, and profit?

What EQ do you use? I’ve been using Easy Effects for a while, but have been plagued by crackling and stereo sound only playing on one ear lately.

It is not Android that is backing up most things though, it is mostly done by Google Services. That means that your data is effectively vendor locked-in if you want to use Android as an actual open source project. Google gutting the AOSP to this extent should be illegal (maybe even is, but might is right).

The US might prove true if you include gun nuts toppling their own government by voting for fascist scum.