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Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News
  • I know. That's my point. A great example of this is when they used to brag about how eco-friendly their product were. I remember them bragging about their displays being mercury-free, BFR free, etc and their laptops having totally recyclable aluminum and glass enclosures - only to later deliberately make their laptops nearly impossible to repair and upgrade.

  • In a ‘bone-headed’ move, the UK to roll back gas car phase-out and other net zero policies
  • Probably because by the time most folks sell their EV's, they need new batteries, which aren't cheap and add a lot to the cost of the vehicle. Depending on the EV, the cost of a replacement battery can vary between $5,000 and $20,000.

  • In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky for people who can get pregnant
  • The term to refer to people with vulvas is AFAB.

    I thought that was just for trans women.

    And trans women are women.

    No, they're not. Trans women are trans women. They're males who identify as women. No amount of HRT and plastic surgery can change that, not totally. HRT and plastic surgery can make a big difference on the outside, but a post-op trans woman still isn't a real woman. I know this is a very unpopular sentiment here on a fediverse. But somebody's gotta say it.

  • God, wouldn't that be nice?
  • What do you think would happen if there weren’t any cheap foreign laborers and local folks refused to work until compensation and conditions improved?

    For the record - I don’t hate immigrants. I hate companies for cutting way more jobs than necessary and then using cheap imported labor as an excuse to pay less.

  • In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky for people who can get pregnant
  • the word "females" as applied to humans has some pretty gross connotations

    Yes, but I'm not using it in that way. I'm just using it as a shorter, yet grammatically-correct, alternative to "biological women". If someone is offended by me using the word "females" in a non-offensive way, that's their problem. At this point in time, we need a term which we can use to refer to biological women. Not to sound militantly transodious ("transphobic"), but trans women are not the same as biological women. Even with HRT and full top-bottom surgery, a trans person can't be totally transformed into their

    Years ago, this wasn't an issue. Biological women were called women and trans women were called trans women. But now that trans people and their allies are pushing for them to be described as their desired gender (i.e. "trans women are women"), we need to be able to verbally differentiate between biological women and trans women, especially in certain contexts.

    Intersex people exist"

    Yes, they do. But they're the exception - not the rule. They make up a tiny percentage of the population - roughly 0.02%–0.05%. I'm not saying they're disgusting freaks or anything like that. I'm just saying that they're extremely unusual. They're far from the norm. It's not like Earth is a 33.33% male, 33.33% female, and 33.33% intersex. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate intersex people either, but I don't think we should have to switch from saying "women" to saying things like "pregnant people" just to accommodate such a small segment of the population. I know this sounds extremely hateful, but intersexuality is a birth defect. It's not supposed to happen. Why should we refer to biological women as "people with uteruses" when the only women who don't have functional uteruses are trans women and persons with birth defects? Besides, don't infertile women exist? Should we say infertile women aren't biological women because they're unable to bear children due to birth defects, radiation, eating disorders, STDs, chemotherapy, et cetera?

  • GPU VRAM Overclocking Possible with Linux Kernel 6.4

    I upgraded from Debian Bookworm (Stable), which has kernel 6.1, to Debian Trixie (Testing), which has kernel 6.4. Until then, I couldn't overclock my GPU's VRAM beyond 1750 MHz. With kernel 6.4, I can overclock it as far as AMD will allow - 1860 MHz. If my 5600 XT hadn't been locked down by AMD, I'd be able to go further than 1820 MHZ on the GPU and 1860 on the VRAM.

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    Nautilus Bulk Renaming - Is it Possible to Delete Everything After the Underscore?

    I recently purchased, ripped, and almost finished transcoding the entire series of Friends. I’m currently in the process of converting subtitles with Subtitle Edit. I’d like to save myself a bit of work by taking the last 13-14 characters off the ends of the file names.

    For example, I’d like to take track13[spa] off of the following filename: 03x10 - The One Where Rachel Quits_track13_[spa].sup

    Or is this not possible with Nautilus?

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    Nautilus Bulk Renaming - Is it Possible to Delete Everything After the Underscore?

    I recently purchased, ripped, and almost finished transcoding the entire series of Friends. I’m currently in the process of converting subtitles with Subtitle Edit. I’d like to save myself a bit of work by taking the last 13-14 characters off the ends of the file names.

    For example, I’d like to take track13[spa] off of the following filename: 03x10 - The One Where Rachel Quits_track13_[spa].sup

    Or is this not possible with Nautilus?

    UPDATE: I found a solution. I asked about this on a few different instances and a user by the name of @inctinus supplied an answer which, while it didn't work right away in the way that I wanted, I was able to whittle it down so I could make it work in GPRename. Normally, I would have gone straight for the CLI, but I really wanted a GUI for this so I could have a preview. Their solution was (sans quotes) "rename 's/track\d*\[spa\]//' ", which I pared down to "_track\d_\[spa\] *" so it would work in GPRename.

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    Nautilus Bulk Renaming - Is It Possible to Delete Everything After The Underscore?

    I recently purchased, ripped, and almost finished transcoding the entire series of Friends. I'm currently in the process of converting subtitles with Subtitle Edit. I'd like to save myself a bit of work by taking the last 13-14 characters off the ends of the file names.

    For example, I'd like to take track13[spa] off of the following filename: 03x10 - The One Where Rachel Quits_track13_[spa].sup

    Or is this not possible with Nautilus?

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    pcmasterrace @kbin.social MrGeekman @lemmy.world

    Sound Blaster Crackling Problem

    I've had a Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus for about nine months. During that time, I've been experiencing a persistent crackling issue. I finally did some research, found some different solutions which reportedly worked for folks, tried a few, and one finally worked for me! Apparently, a bunch of things can cause this crackling issue.

    In my case, it was the equalizer! I just had to disable that and bam! Problem solved! If only Creative had just left that feature disabled by default. Or in my case, the developer of the open-source drive, since I'm on Linux. The funny thing about it is that, depending on the cause, this crackling issue isn't limited to a single operating system or a single driver; Windows and Linux users alike are experiencing this problem - and Linux users like myself have to use an open-source driver (not that we mind) because Creative isn't interested in supporting Linux.

    Creative would do themselves a big favor if they just had the equalizer disabled by default. Then people could notice the crackling only after enabling the equalizer and realizing right away that the equalizer was the cause of the crackling. Creative could probably improve sales and prevent returns.

    If you're experiencing this issue and disabling the equalizer doesn't solve the problem, some other solutions I found from my research are disabling G-Sync, switching to a different version of the Nvidia driver, and switching the sound filter to fast roll-off.

    You also might need to turn off extra stuff like Crystalizer, Dialog Plus,, and Smart Volume.

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    Sound Blaster Crackling Problem

    I've had a Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus for about nine months. During that time, I've been experiencing a persistent crackling issue. I finally did some research, found some different solutions which reportedly worked for folks, tried a few, and one finally worked for me! Apparently, a bunch of things can cause this crackling issue.

    In my case, it was the equalizer! I just had to disable that and bam! Problem solved! If only Creative had just left that feature disabled by default. Or in my case, the developer of the open-source drive, since I'm on Linux. The funny thing about it is that, depending on the cause, this crackling issue isn't limited to a single operating system or a single driver; Windows and Linux users alike are experiencing this problem - and Linux users like myself have to use an open-source driver (not that we mind) because Creative isn't interested in supporting Linux.

    Creative would do themselves a big favor if they just had the equalizer disabled by default. Then people could notice the crackling only after enabling the equalizer and realizing right away that the equalizer was the cause of the crackling. Creative could probably improve sales and prevent returns.

    If you're experiencing this issue and disabling the equalizer doesn't solve the problem, some other solutions I found from my research are disabling G-Sync, switching to a different version of the Nvidia driver, and switching the sound filter to fast roll-off.

    You also might need to turn off extra stuff like Crystalizer, Dialog Plus,, and Smart Volume.

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    Sound Blaster Crackling Problem

    I've had a Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus for about nine months. During that time, I've been experiencing a persistent crackling issue. I finally did some research, found some different solutions which reportedly worked for folks, tried a few, and one finally worked for me! Apparently, a bunch of things can cause this crackling issue.

    In my case, it was the equalizer! I just had to disable that and bam! Problem solved! If only Creative had just left that feature disabled by default. Or in my case, the developer of the open-source drive, since I'm on Linux. The funny thing about it is that, depending on the cause, this crackling issue isn't limited to a single operating system or a single driver; Windows and Linux users alike are experiencing this problem - and Linux users like myself have to use an open-source driver (not that we mind) because Creative isn't interested in supporting Linux.

    Creative would do themselves a big favor if they just had the equalizer disabled by default. Then people could notice the crackling only after enabling the equalizer and realizing right away that the equalizer was the cause of the crackling. Creative could probably improve sales and prevent returns.

    If you're experiencing this issue and disabling the equalizer doesn't solve the problem, some other solutions I found from my research are disabling G-Sync, switching to a different version of the Nvidia driver, and switching the sound filter to fast roll-off.

    You also might need to turn off extra stuff like Crystalizer, Dialog Plus,, and Smart Volume.

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    The Right Can't Meme @lemmy.world MrGeekman @lemmy.world

    Title Spelled Wrong

    I guess the left can't spell. /s

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