I’ve seen other reports of this issue for nVidia cards; people are reporting that updating drivers helps, but it sounds like you’ve done that. If you’re going as far as reinstalling the OS anyway, you might try out a rolling release distro; I’ve been enjoying Garuda quite a bit, and I’ve heard good things about Nobara and Endeavour.
This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I’m not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.
Say I’m from country X and I make widgets for $10 each. The US decides to put a 25% tariff on goods from country X. That means that each time I want to sell a widget in the US, I need to pay 25% of its value as a tax. If I was only making a 25% profit on each widget, that means I’m now breaking even on each widget and not making any money. That won’t work for me, so I raise my widget prices to, say, $14. Now I have to pay 25% of that, or $3.50, as a tariff, which leaves me pocketing $10.50, which is about what I was making before. Widget manufacturers in the US don’t have to do that, so their prices stay much lower than mine, so presumably they get more sales and the US economy is strengthened.
The problem is, the US is not a manufacturing superpower anymore, and even for the things that are manufactured here, most of the raw materials come from overseas. So the only thing these tariffs are going to do is drive up the price of everything. And once those prices are up, they’re not going to come back down, even if the tariffs are removed; in my scenario above, it’s likely that when I raised my widget prices to $14, all the US widget manufacturers would just raise their prices to $13 and make a bunch of extra money.
Long story short: more money getting siphoned out of the pockets of the working class.
What games do you play? I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since Windows 7 went EoS, and especially since the Steam Deck came out, I’ve had very few problems. That said I don’t play competitive stuff, which is what tends to have anti-cheat rootkits.
If you just bring s whole other person in your checked bags, you save on ticket costs, too.
Paywall
What’s the financial plan there? Or do you just want them to drop 80% of their budget or whatever it is and work for free?
As another poster detailed, this is not a company that exposed your info: these credentials are all from stealer logs, which are logs of credentials stolen by keyloggers installed on machines. If your credentials were in this report, it means that you’ve entered that username and password on a machine with malware on it. Could be your personal machine, or it could be some other computer you’ve used.
Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/
I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.
Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.
What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
Why would anything socially progressive organize on Facebook? Most normal people I know have abandoned that platform, let alone anyone privacy-minded or anti-oligarch.
That you’d be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.
Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term “metaverae”. It’s a fun read.
For anyone who doesn’t want to have to sit through ads and dig through menus just to get to the website: https://www.charachorder.com/
All that does is compel the recipient to stop what they’re doing and wait until you send the message, which, if you’re typing up a wall of text, could be minutes. This is like calling someone on the phone and, when they answer, saying “hello please hold”. Don’t do it; it’s super rude.
If we’re really lucky, maybe they’ll patent the idea and then everyone else will have to stop doing it.
Thanks for posting this; I’d been seeing a lot of people talking about how China was using backdoors that the FBI wanted and used, but hadn’t seen anything definitive about US use of those vulnerabilities.
Also this is another reminder for me that I’m glad to be able to vote for Wyden.
I’ll be sticking with Protonmail, personally
I don’t know why you’re being down voted; here’s an upvote for being sensible.