JustTesting

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Just to add to this, because it's fascinating. GPS satellites signals are about as strong as radiation from a light bulb, 20000km away. The signal that arrives on earth is 20db weaker than the noise floor, so background noise is a lot stronger than the signal is.

The way it works is that the background noise is random and the signal is repeated many times a second, so you can split the signal and add it together. The random background noise averages out and you're left with a strong signal. But due to this, it's enough to have a very weak signal that adds non random noise on the correct frequency for it to just break.

And actually what I desribed above is just the first layer of a GPS signal, it gets a lot more complicated with signals within signals, it's pretty crazy how well it works. this is an amazing write uo on how the signal actually works, in case anyone is interested

If you look at elections in europe, it's pretty consistently the 35-45 year old demographic that votes right the most. Every age group votes right and it's not like it's only boomers, with the exception of young voters <30 (and women) which do vote significantly more left

E. G. Netherlands https://www.statista.com/chart/8178/pvv-largest-party-but-not-among-youth/

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Enough for what? Switzerland doesn't really have coalitions, that's more Germany. At most there's "coalitions" on single issue votes. And there's 7 presidents, proportional to parties, so no such thing as a ruling party or coalition. That said, the FDP votes identical with the SVP in nearly everything already, especially economic issues, so much so that'd it'd be hard to distinguish them based on votes, minus the blatant populism.

Those are not the same things... Glass is better for the environment, for one it doesn't break down into microplastics which get everywhere. And glass can be recycled indefinitely (minus some loss due to impurities) whereas plastic can be recycled up 0-1 times usually.

Plus the whole "it's up to consumers to solve this" is just corporate propaganda to absolve themselves of any responsibility, all the while not offering any alternatives that a consumer could pick from. Like literally, they paid for marketing campaigns to convince the public that it was our fault.

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there's a lot of stuff you can do, and you can end up with something usable, though not great, at least not in my experience. NVidia's drivers are to blame, they don't really work well with opengl and have lots of issues (and also regressions).

The 550 beta driver is ok-ish, steam flickers but I can play games. Drivers before 535 also somewhat worked, though it really depends on your GPU.

But I don't think you will have it working acceptably without some work.

Here's some pointers on stuff to try:

  • check protondb for how other people got games to work, you can filter by your GPU.
  • try running through gamescope or gamemoderun
  • try the modeset=1 (and maybe fbdev) kernel parameters for nvidia drm
  • and there's tons of env vars and other things that can help, I couldn't summarize them all here, but as a pointer: XWAYLAND_NO_GLAMOR=1, WLR_RENDERER=vulkan, LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia, GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm (for the drm above), __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
  • try the beta drivers, if those are available somehow (I'm on arch so they were easy to install), or just different driver versions in general.

The above is meant more as hints than something to copy paste, so use at your own risk. You can of course always just install a second DE with X11 and log into that for gaming and use your regular DE for everything else

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In addition to other answers, keep in mind that Tesla gets credits relative to how far below the average carbon footprint their cars are and sell those credits to manufacturers of cars with more emissions. So in a way a part of the reduced liferime emissions are "gone" before the cars drive for the first time

Autodesk Fusion 360. There's just not really a free competitor imo when it comes to CAD/CAM software, it's all Fusion or Solidworks.

I think it's for many different reasons, but a bit the same as everywhere. Some are protest votes due to a distrust in government in general, then 35-45 is the age most get kids and in contrast to their parents generation they live in apartments, not single family homes, as houses aren't affordable. Then there's the general widening of the wealth gap and the populists pretending they have a solution and blaming it on immigration (while themselves being a big reason for the problem in the first place...), while left parties often get tricked into reacting to right rhetoric, letting the right dictate the discussion. Old people are less affected by the wealth gap, young people don't have kids so they don't notice yet. And in it's also a question of mobilizing ones base, the right parties get a ton of money for ads and so on, they are good at stirring up fears of existential threats(which is ironic given the real existential threat of climate change), while a lot of people are disillusioned, so middle aged left voters are less likely to actually go vote whereas more right voters do. Of course <30 voters worry more about climate change and are more motivated to go vote, since they'll be the most affected by its effects.

I'm sure there's many more reasons but these are the first ones I can think of off the top of my head.

You can get Fusion360 to work okay-ish in Wine. Probably not good enough for professional use but for my hobby use case it works well enough (sometimes a bit laggy but usable). this does most of the heavy lifting in getting it installed.

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Seconded, i love my Boox. it just runs android (with tweaks for e-Ink) and you can install what you want from the play store, it's not locked down.

You can even install the Kindle app if you ever do want an Amazon ebook, works really well.

It's also nice for using apps of various newspapers.

Plus the ones with a stylus make for a great notebook.

I wouldn't recommend the color ones, it's nice for comics but the colors just aren't vivid and it's not there yet in terms of quality.

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You can set a hook to do it automatically or use this, but I agree that this should be default behaviour

one way to do this from within python itself would be to use the site module with pth files to monkeypatch the code in question. This would amount to patching it each time it gets started, not modifying the python file permanently, and without having to touch the original python code at all.

This write-up goes into more details and also links to this (unmaintained) tool for doing so.

There's currently a known bug with nvidia and steam, might be what you're having. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9634 There's some workarounds there that worked for me

Oh don't get wrong, it works fine for comics. the small screen and having to move around whole pages, and sometimes struggling to read small writing are issues (you can zoom but it's not very responsive) aren't great, but I've read many a comic. But if comics are the main use case, I'd probably go for a tablet still. If you get one for books solely, then the color one has less DPI and more ghosting, that's why I wouldn't recommend it.

And I don't use the color feature much outside of reading comics. I thought it might be nice for color diagrams for work, but it's a bit hard telling the colors apart when it's just thin lines.

But I'm super stoked for where the color e-ink technology is heading.

I mostly used the stock boox neo reader for comics and didn't have an issue with ram. Do you know how it compares to Tachiyomi?