Pretty suspicious that Rob Reiner was out there talking to hollywood figures about anti-trump motions that the film industry could take and then, suddenly, he’s found dead a few days later.

I mean, you know, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. So I’ll just say it’s quite the co-ween-ki-dink.

nobody is forcing Olivia Dean to use Ticketmaster

sigh I really really wish you were right about this, but I think you’re grossly overlooking one important detail.

Ticketmaster is owned by a company called LiveNation. LiveNation paritially owns or signed licenses to almost every single large venue. If you’re a big band, you’ll unfortunately need a large venue and the only company able to provide that service in most of the United States (ignoring Los Angeles, New York, or other huge metro areas) is LiveNation.

So the gambit that Ticket Master has employed: 1 - Bail out almost every huge stadium with financial investment, but with intent to sign a special license which gives them ticket priority (so LiveNation gets the tickets first) 2 - Sell these tickets on TicketMaster, with 1/4th being intentionally given to ticket resellers with the intent of inflating the market (each transaction on the “used” market is actually redirected to TicketMaster).

I’ve looked and in my city (Portland, Oregon) there’s only a 2 venues that are large enough for a popular artist to play at that aren’t owned or invested into by live nation, and these venues might not always be appropriate for acoustic needs. You can read more about this here but, to put a point on it, I actually don’t think artists are to blame for needing to sell tickets on ticket master due to how hard it is to find a large venue in every city across the United States. Otherwise, you’ll end up paying ticket master more for venue access anyway, from my understanding. Granted, all of this is hard to know for sure, as you’d actually have to have experience with managing a multi-million dollar band or singer to really understand the scope of the problem here.

Penguin sounds intensify

Crazy how nVidia is the backbone of the modern tech oligarchy.

Glad Steve made this video to expose the craziness of the whole thing.

Used to go to SF for work events.

It felt like a town that once had culture that still wants to peek out, but it almost entirely covered with silicon valley monotony and misanthropic policies. It feels like a city where the people living there are the after thought, and the tablet where you order your coffee while you sit around a room where nobody makes eye contact or speaks to you is the product.

I’m sure there’s a part of the city where humanity still thrives, but it should be a cultural warning to those who are adopting silicon valley cures as anything other than snake oil.

Better yet, help support open data initiatives like OpenStreetMaps or alternatives. No reason why maps can’t be digital without ads.

Democrats should officially rename it to “The Trump and Epstein Ballroom” before demolishing it. :)

Fox news wouldn’t know how to report that news.

This guy is so dumb, man.

As if “we’ll just kill people” isn’t just a declaration of war. 🙄

The small government is the biggest lie pushed by the right wing side of our country. In fact, when you read where the money comes from, it actually comes from a “Dark Enlightenment” coalition of techno-fascists looking to dismantle democracy.

Let me know how it goes.

Another feature that might be useful in the arsenal is that you can purposely downclock the refresh rate of the gamescope session when the window is out-of-focus, which means you can put less burden on the computer when multi tasking. Obviously the game will run at a lower frame rate when focus is away, but this might be OK if you want to free up more system resources for watching videos.

But like the other use said, a good place to start is making sure hardware accel is on within Firefox (or whatever browser you’re using.)

Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X.

Maybe you should consider using gamescope? This is what the steam deck uses internally to isolate games so that they fight with the window manager less often.

On KDE Kubuntu, you should have no problem installing it if you’ve installed steam as a .deb from the website. Basically, install it either from source or repo (whichever is recommended for ubuntu) and then modify your steam game settings to something akin to the following:

gamescope -f -- %command%

This will launch the game in an isolated WM so that it interferes less with your existing window manager. There’s a tonne of settings, so gamescope --help might give you more details.

Steam is apparently working on making this easier to access by supplying it with all steam installations in the future, IIRC, but work there isn’t finished yet.

These radical centrists are messed up in the brain, left and right can agree to that at least. (We’re all fucked!)

Just when you thought this timeline couldn’t get any stupider.

I mean, the question was rhetorical. But I don’t disagree.

Like seriously – are people using their brains or what?

It’s stupid as hell to share any personal information with a company that is interested in spying on you and feeding your data to the nearest advertiser they can find.

Like seriously – are people using their brains or what?

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Not all laptops make effective use of power with the lid closed, sadly. Not saying this as a correction, but for others to know that they need to make sure these settings are available in the bios of the system they are buying.

What will happen is that politicians will see this as another reason to push for everyone having their ID associated with their Internet traffic.

You’re right. Which is exactly why companies should be exhibiting better behaviour and self regulate before they make the internet infinitely worse off for everyone.

The windows kernel isn’t all that great, particularly in the realm of memory security or scheduling.

You know, to each their own. Question is really whether windows maintaining a closed source kernel even makes sense from a maintenance burden perspective when it really doesn’t give them much money in return. (Most of their money in 2025 comes from cloud services, not operating systems)

Yes, but also their cars are ugly and they were riding high on musk’s cult of personality in the first place.

Rivians are better anyway.

This is nearly the plot to Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence. Nearly the keyword, they might get there eventually.