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First-past-the-post exaggerates regional divisions, making us appear more divided than we really are.

Proportional representation gives every voter and every region a real voice.

https://bsky.app/profile/fairvote.ca/post/3lvolzggmy22j

Hello, so in the past I was considering Linux but that post was on a lemm.ee account, but I also had some other questions (and mostly forgot what was said on that thread). First off I remember a lot of recommendations for Bazzite and Mint as a good distro, however I'm against installing it myself as my dumb ass WILL find a way to mess things and end up with a several thousand dollar paper weight. There was recommendations to system76 as Linux comes preinstalled. Things i use, Steam for gaming, libre office for college work, proton drive for game and college backups, discord for ofc voice and text chat between friends

But first question: based on that is Linux even something for me? I don't really have a problem with microsoft, mostly that Linux is new (good in that its something different but also bad that i'll have to learn new things and potentially fix aforementioned things). But is it something that'll be worth potential headaches as I want a system that "Just works" (tm) and everythings good to go out of the box. And yes I'm aware posting in a Linux community will be biased but I'm having doubt about if it will be worth it to make the switch.

Second do things "just work" on linux, just install and go. The issue I dont want to run into is having to bug fix games or programs after a long day and wanting to unwind or an essay due where time is a factor.

I feel like i have more I just forgot :| so ill edit the post if anything comes up

Edit 1: also any hardware recommendations, I'm planning to go top of the line stuff so this PC can last me a while

Seriously, why do we even have to have this discussion?

I can't figure out which crate(s) I should be using to create GUI applications. I only want to create simple 2D games like Conway's Game of Life, so I don't need anything fancy. At most I would like to be able to easily create polygons.

I've already looked at Are we game yet?, but it would be a waste of time to learn 20 different crates in order to decide on which one to use. Bevy is far too heavy and doesn't even work if you are low on memory. SDL3 isn't natively supported without some workarounds (but SDL2 is fine). Winit tries to use insecure X11 unless I manually add it as a dependency with the Wayland feature. I plan to eventually learn GTK4+Adwaitta, but that's unnecessary for simple games.

GUI in Rust seams like a mess. There's so many crates ranging from simple to complicated. Information becomes outdated quickly, so LLMs often fail to help. There's few clear comparisons between crates to help you decide, so it becomes a headache. I'm just looking for a modern, safe, easy, minimal GUI crate.

Does anyone have any advice?

Looking at Amazon, Aliexpress, even Walmart, there's a lot of products that aren't what they claim, such as lying about the capacity of batteries. Customers have to figure these things out for themselves and 'metagame' the system.

I don't think this should be allowed, but what are your thoughts?

Hello guys, today I wanted to talk about a project I deeply care about and I'm actively contributing to, as I believe its good for everyone, including privacy concerned users

Ladybird Browser

This browser comes from the project "SerenityOS", and has since evolved and separated from it. The founders are Andreas Kling, and Chris Wanstrath. The main goal of this project is to create a browser from scratch, avoiding chromium, gecko, etc. The main keypoints that should be of interest for Privacy Oriented Users are the following:

• Ladybird lead (Andreas Kling) states "We're not monetizing users, in any way. This is uncharted territory for browsers. So we're not going to do any default search deals. We're not going to do cryptocurrencies or try to monetize user data, just sponsorships and donations"

• While** Ladybird will implement current web standards including cookie handling and tracking mechanisms for compatibility**, the browser's philosophy puts the user in control of these decisions, not the company. The browser won't have built-in incentives to encourage data collection since it doesn't profit from it.

• It aims to be "free from advertising's influence" Ladybird, representing a shift away from the current web ecosystem where users like us are the product. This allows the project to implement privacy features without worrying about harming advertising partners or revenue streams.

As of now, the project has hired several developers with money coming from donations, from partners such as FUTO, Shopify, Cloudflare, among many, and is also seeing lots of volunteer activity on github. So well, if you like the web having more diversity and us having another alternative to google, check them out https://ladybird.org/

In the caption of the Instagram post, he wrote, "An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train," he said.

O'Keefe also says in the caption that the friend of the woman who called the police had said to him, "You're not the minority anymore."

A separate video about the incident has been uploaded by the user, Nalae, on TikTok, where it has quickly gone viral, having been viewed over 160,000 times as of reporting.

They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn't even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?"

(Archive link here:https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88346/page/n50/mode/1up)

I had to read C.S Lewis's "Abolition of Man" for an ethics class and I tried just getting through it without getting annoyed, but I couldn't and wanted to share my thoughts

I'm not expecting anyone here to really like the work (it's idealistic nonsense), but I would like a second pair of eyes to go over it and see if there's something ive missed from my analysis.

1.Im really bugged by his use of one Dao definition while not acknowledging the other. Basically (to my knowledge) there are two conceptions of the Dao. One is the confucian Dao, which is somewhat close to how Lewis uses it, in that it's the traditional and "ideal" set of values ypu base your morals off of. The Daoist conception is that the true (unnamed) Tao is the way of the universe, and cannot be described but rather experienced. [This is the broad generalization. I know that this is not exhaustive, I just wanted to point out the difference since i was confused the first time I read it]

It would be like if a Chinese philosopher refered to the English conception of the "State of Nature," while only conceiving of the Hobbsian definition and not the Lockian one. It'd be somewhat insulting, no?

2. There is a rational conception for selflessness though. I'm not rationalist/liberal humanist or whatever, but there is a pretty simple logic.

I need society to survive

Society is good for me

I should work to preserve society

maybe this doesn't cover the selfless actions of going to war and such (although, whether that's a good thing really depends on the war), but its pretty basic to point out that soldiers do get many boons for going to war, and surviving. There hasn't been a single society where you're not promised benefits for this (whether they come to fruition is another thing). I don't even believe in the rationalist line of reasoning here, but it bugs me that he dismisses it without much thought.

3. There's kind of a chicken and egg problem with the "Tao" here. It is, apparently, so natural that basically every society on earth follows the same values with minor differences. However, conversely, the Tao must always be taught and never is instinctual or comes naturally to children who are not taught the "tao."

Obviously human society survived long enough for people like Plato and Confucious to write about it, so it's not like they originated the "tao." So where did it come from? If it's natural than it must come from somewhere originally and ergo doesn't have to be taught. If it's not, then it's unexplained how it appeared. Of course you should teach children these things [to use an analogy, you wouldn't wait for teens to figure out the method of calculating a derivative instead of just teaching them how to], but it comes into question why his criticism of these English books matter. If these values are so natural, they have to originate from somewhere within the human mind without being taught, no? [Of course, class society and Hegemony explains this, but I've given up hope that British people can understand any of that]

4.The entire third chapter kinda kills the book for me. It feels like reading Orwell again. It has this banal Kantian view of government and coercive state power and just really pathetic. "Uh oh, better follow these traditional values or these scary conditioners are going to get you." Why these conditioners are here, and why people put up with them, is never answered really. They just are. It's never questioned if these traditional values are moral either. Was every genocide committed by the Roman's, british, etc. all caused by supposed "moral innovators?"

5.He has a wierd obsession with contraceptives. He claims that "the conditioners" will essentially control what humanity will be through eugenics via contraceptives. This would be wierd normally, but this was written in 1947. The nazis didn't use condoms and birth control to do eugenics...they killed people. And even when eugenical regimes aren't committing genocide with guns and gas chambers, they still sterilize undesirables and disabled people, and forbid intermarriage between them. Eugenics isn't some thing where nebulous people in control try to make humanity better because muh authorarianism. Eugenics is something spawned out of 18th century "scientific" racism. It's not just controlling who gets to sire children by giving people IUDS, it's murder, deportation, castration and sterilization.

Edit: Forgot to add this point. It's a really odd idea that conditioners just control "humanity." Eugenics isn't just something where a bunch if technocrats want to make humanity better or whatever. Most (if not all eugenicists) believe that their group is inherently superior. So the point is that these eugencists want there to only be their group of people (usually, white germanic capitalist/aristocrats). The problem is not some nebulous wishy washy idealism about "oh what about the power we hold over future generations." The problem is the erasure of entire groups of people, ethnic, disabled, etc.

The finest minds at work here

Hello folks. I've been using Linux for gaming on and off for over a year but I'm getting frustrated. I'm not completely new to Linux outside of gaming, but I'm no master or expert obviously. The two games I play the most are having frustrating issues and I can't figure out what is happening. I'm hoping someone has some ideas for additional troubleshooting or, if I'm lucky, ideas for a solution. My searching has only found people complaining of more normal, consistent issues like crashing or low FPS vs Windows or just low FPS from the start. Edit: This includes Proton DB. I even have my own experience on there.

Also, I don't really have anything beyond Steam and a number of games via Steam installed. This computer is for gaming and that's it.

Does anyone have an recommendations? After months of this I'm frankly thinking of getting a 9070 XT or something to see if that resolves the issue but that's a last resort.

Thanks!

Hardware

Space Marine - Problem 1

I'm typically running at Ultra 1440p Borderless (No Ray Tracing or Framegen) DLSS "Quality" (1.5x Lower Res with Upscaling) with an FPS cap at 120Hz. I get steady performance loss over time, as if the system is throttling but logging shows temperature (and GPU/CPU load) decreasing over time. I've tried Native (1440p), a number of DLSS settings, Borderless and Full Screen, lowered detail levels, etc. Nothing I've done changes the behavior - GPU load always falls over time and performance tanks until I can't take it anymore and restart the game.

Ex. DLSS "Quality" starts at ~120 FPS, 96% GPU Load
At 60 minutes, ~65 FPS, ~55% GPU Load
At 2+ hours, ~42 FPS and ~38% GPU Load, GPU Core Clock even drops 200+MHz

On Windows 10 I've gone 2+ hours at a steady 120 FPS with the same settings. I originally started with Bazzite but out of frustration I figured I'd try openSUSE Tumbleweed, hoping it was some bizarre Bazzite quirk. After some brief testing, I experience the same issue. Normally I use whatever version of Proton Steam suggests, but I've tried manually selecting Proton Experimental and 10.2 beta with no change in behavior. I've always used NVIDIA drivers rather than nouveau, but I honestly don't know how to try older NVIDIA drivers.

The earlier pages are from August while using Bazzite (BZ). The last few are on Tumbleweed (TW). Usually, I literally start the game, load the "hub", and let it idle until it kicked me for inactivity 60 minutes later. One log has some actual gameplay + idle to document see how bad it gets after 2+ hours. More recent logs are from different version of Proton, as described above, left idle until I came back and could definitively see a downward trend.
Data & Graphs

A few of my graphs. Click the link above for more. FPS drops over time, ~1 per minute. GPU/CPU load drops over time. Temperature is stable then drops when GPU/CPU loads start getting lower. VRAM/RAM is stable. GPU/CPU frequency is stable. SSD Temps don't seem to exceed 55 C. No reason I can find for it to throttle.

Native (Idle):

DLSS Quality (Idle):

DLSS Quality (Gameplay, then Idle):

Note - the behavior isn't new in August, I'd just started playing multiplayer more with friends in June. I wanted to focus on just using my Linux partition exclusively and being that annoying friend who talks about how great gaming on Linux is. I assumed it was an issue assets not getting unloaded or something and figured it would be fixed in a patch. By August I'd gotten tired of the weird behavior to start really investigating it, installed MangoHud, etc. After my complaining, my friends are decidedly LESS interested in gaming on Linux. I'm only fueled by my hatred of Windows 11 and spite.

Satisfactory - Problem 2

I haven't tested openSUSE yet so this is more of a Bonus issue. I'll update if continue to experience it on this distro. It isn't as detrimental but its still frustrating because I don't know how to even document it. At inconsistent intervals, maybe 45-90 minutes, the game hangs for an extended period of time. Alt-tab away and everything is fine with the rest of the system, desktop interface is 100% responsive. If I alt-tab back to the game, it remains hung. Eventually, ~20-40 seconds after it freezes, everything is back to normal until the next random interval when it happens again. Time also doesn't pass in game - if I was mid air, I resume mid air.

Now what is absolutely fascinating to me about this problem is that it is invisible in my mangohud logs. It's like time stands still until the game resumes. Zero dips, spikes, elapsed time gaps, or anything I'd expect just before it starts or after it recovers. I haven't figured out a way to include the system time in the log to get records of how long it lasts. If you know how to get that in the log please let me know.

The Wall Street Journal, its parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trump‘s $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the publication’s report on the president’s past connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

“The First Amendment’s protections for truthful speech are the backbone of the Constitution,” the Journal’s attorneys wrote in their motion.

The attorneys also challenged the notion the that the article could have damaged Trump’s reputation, noting that he had “publicly admitted to ‘locker room talk’ and has made numerous bawdy public statements,” as well as to his relationship with Epstein.

Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Monday to discuss the recent violation of Estonia's airspace by three Russian fighter jets, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland would shoot down aircraft that clearly violate its airspace.

UN link

Hi, does the story generator recognize real people such a celebrities?

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

After many decades of often thankless effort — desert fieldwork in rusting 4×4s and sediment coring on the heaving seas; endless grant writing and rejection letters; hours spent cataloging specimens and writing monographs now yellowing in forgotten university file cabinets; ages in the lab fussing over gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers; and, more recently, Red Bull–powered late nights coding in R or coaxing deep convolutional neural networks and advanced climate models — we can now see our planet’s climate history with more clarity and insight than ever before.

What it adds up to is the biography of Earth in the age of animal life.

Walking tour/Nature Walk, ~1.25 mi

~100 ft elevation gain

Hiked 9/12/25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater

Flickr Album

Toured the famous Frank Lloyd Wright house, Fallingwater. Finished in 1939 and now a World Heritage Site, it is built on top of a waterfall section of Bear Run stream, it is meant to be a part of the landscape. The free flowing and cantilevered structures are a sight to behold.

Vertical shot of the exterior of Fallingwater from The View.

Angled side view of Fallingwater. This is the main view guests would have had as they arrived.

An angled side view of the house, showing the stream flowing beneath the cantilevered structures.

Living room area of the main room.

Fireplace area of the main room. The large stew pot on the left side may swing over the fireplace- used for mulled wine. Also notice the bedrock jutting out from the floor, as a decent amount of this area is natural landscape.

View of the main area of the guest house. Personally, the guest house seemed like it would have been far more comfortable to actually live in.

View of the cantilevered roof, as seen from in front of the guest house. All of this is concrete from a single pour and had 3 or 4 more of the 'steps' leading down the walkway.

The EU-Indonesia deal reportedly includes a zero tariff for palm oil within a limited quota. Fournier regrets that this concession by Brussels will likely “not be linked to sustainability requirements.”

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