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Exactly. Delete Reddit.
  • I've found that alternative reddit frontends bypass this. That and I believe changing the URL to old reddit.

    Of course, this will only work until (if?) Reddit is successful in removing old reddit and preventing third party front-end.

  • why do I get this message to upgrade to ubuntu pro after sudo apt upgrade?
  • Ubuntu/Canonical is the Microsoft of Linux distros. It's no surprise they were the choice for WSL.

    Ubuntu has been forcing decisions on users and embedding advertisements for a long time.

    Examples that immediately come to mind...

    • When that Amazon search was embedded into the app launcher search.
    • These sorts of self promotions.
    • Quietly installing snaps instead of debs when using apt install
  • Steam Beta adds Bluetooth device battery info for Steam Deck, specific device toggles for Bluetooth wake from sleep
  • Sort of, if you mean the controller tools one. I believe when that was working it would show battery percentage. The Bluetooth plugin does not. So this is more general.

    It also brings the feature of waking the deck via Bluetooth which is super convenient if you use it docked.

    I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but they have been making a lot of changes targeted at the docked experience lately, and I have a theory that is because they are getting close to announcing a Steam Deck Controller.

  • The Mac vs. PC war is back on?
  • For those who unfortunately have to use Windows laptops for work, there is a workaround. Unplug the laptop before putting it to sleep/hibernate. That's it. Super irritating they won't fix it, but not surprising, too busy trying to shove (more) ads into the start menu.

  • After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
  • Anyone know why they were protesting? The article sure doesn't care to say.

    Which, by avoiding such a key piece of information, makes this come off as more of a warning to the general population than news. If you're going to protest something, we are going to beat you, deny you food and water, put you in solitary confinement, inhumane living conditions, and generally behave so despicably that we must ensure we keep the cameras away so they can't report on our behavior.

    Land of the free, yay. /s

  • Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers
  • It's so ridiculous that this isn't even brought up:

    The Command you provided worked fine. Thank you so much for the help! Really appreciated! We are going to proceed to make a release today and test with customers. Will post the updates here.

    Gotta love being a forced beta tester... I mean customer.

  • KDE keeps bugging out.
  • I had similar issues. When first booting into plasma6, my bottom panel was changed to floating. Changing it to not float made it spaced from the bottom of the screen.

    While trying to fix that, I somehow managed to move the pinned icons all off the panel and onto the desktop, but they were unable to be clicked or moved. I ended up restarting for unrelated reasons and they snapped back to the panel.

    I think there were other wonky issues with the edit session, but I don't recall specifics. Good luck!

    Edit: this was on a wayland session with integrated amd graphics.

  • Any tips to help a scientist become a better programmer?
  • This is only tangentially related to improving your code directly as you have asked. However, in a similar vein as using source control (git), when using Python learn to manage your environments. Venv, poetry, conda/mamba, etc are tools to look into.

    I used to work with mostly scientists, and a good number of them knew some Python, but none of them knew how to properly manage their environments and it was a huge problem. They would often come to me and say "I ran this script a week ago and it worked, I tried it today without making any changes and it's throwing this error now that I don't understand." Every time it was because they accidentally changed their dependencies, using their global python install. It also made it a nightmare to try to revive old code for them, since there was almost no way to know what version of various libraries were used.

  • New to Linux—Epic Games compatibility? (Plus more)
  • Their CEO has gone out of his way to shit talk Linux multiple times on Twitter/X, spreading false information, he is also vehemently against doing the bare minimum to allow their games to work on Linux (enabling EAC support for proton in their games, which by their own words is just a checkbox). They also have no Linux support in their embarrassment of a launcher, which is why everyone recommends Heroic, even when using Windows because it actually has features.

    A one time donation of what amounts to an insignificant rounding error for them to try to appease people unhappy with their stance on Linux does not mean they are not "against" Linux.

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