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by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 11:58 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: FB Posts
Replies: 48
Views: 112907

Re: FB Posts

More right wing bullies. Hegseth is kicking people out of the military, who have made negative social media posts about Charlie Kirk. This regime of comic book villains is utterly ridiculous.

They don't care, when they need fodder for the wars they are likely going to start, they'll just institute ...
by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:54 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: FB Posts
Replies: 48
Views: 112907

Re: FB Posts

I just heard Stephen King is facing threats of lawsuits and harassment because of comments about Charlie Kirk, simply criticizing American gun violence and Kirk's vile proclamations. He didn't actually condone the murder or anything.

They are claiming that Kirk didn't say those things, or you don't ...
by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:37 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: Scottish Leader Sums It Up
Replies: 218
Views: 450946

Re: Scottish Leader Sums It Up

It won't be long now... all mainstream media is going to be whitewashing the Trump regime's evil deeds while people suffer and die. All the safeguards that would have prevented monopolitic acquisitions hostile to society are as good as gone under Trump.

Soon there will be nothing left BUT violence.
by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:29 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: FB Posts
Replies: 48
Views: 112907

Re: FB Posts

MAGA will harass you if you aren't mourning hard enough. Seriously, they are doxxing and cyberbullying people who are making negative comments about Charlie Kirk. Orchestrated by Laura Loomer and Enrique Tarrio. (the seditionist leader of the Proud Boys that Trump pardoned from his 20 year sentence ...
by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:00 am
Forum: Universal Software
Topic: Mozilla Firefox
Replies: 156
Views: 729868

Re: Mozilla Firefox

Well, as long as they keep the about:config directives so I can completely disable that silly shit (and don't even see the checkbox in the sidebar UI to enable it), I don't care :-)

I have no interest in AI generated results at this time.
by Grogan
Fri Sep 12, 2025 1:51 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: What a damn shame...
Replies: 7
Views: 227

Re: What a damn shame...

Here's a good summary of examples of the kind of ideology this man pushed:

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by Grogan
Thu Sep 11, 2025 10:33 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: Carbon 14 Dating Viking Army
Replies: 1
Views: 50

Re: Carbon 14 Dating Viking Army

I've heard that radio carbon dating isn't as exact as we used to think. A few years here or there is trivial compared to thousands and like this example, unforeseen factors can skew it. This would be an excellent example to cite, as they actually know the reason.
by Grogan
Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:39 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: New Kernel
Replies: 199
Views: 1014631

Re: New Kernel

Linux 6.16.7
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.16.7

It's related to vmscape spectre mitigations (host-guest isolation breaking in virtual machines)

x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation

Commit 2f8f173413f1cbf52660d04df92d0069c4306d25 upstream.

VMSCAPE is a ...
by Grogan
Thu Sep 11, 2025 9:27 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: What a damn shame...
Replies: 7
Views: 227

Re: What a damn shame...

It's always got to be culture war with him and his ilk. I'm sure the audience member was about to point out that it's a small number compared to the total number of "mass shooters" (now, that's defined rather loosely, I think if someone shoots two people).

It really does seem like he got to eat his ...
by Grogan
Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:50 am
Forum: Universal Hardware
Topic: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e
Replies: 6
Views: 327

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e

Splicing the wires should be OK I'd think.

Lenovo products are highway robbery.
by Grogan
Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:46 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: What a damn shame...
Replies: 7
Views: 227

Re: What a damn shame...

Well, the sniveling little shit was a popular christofascist propagandist, and indoctrinator since he was 18 :sick:
by Grogan
Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:59 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: What a damn shame...
Replies: 7
Views: 227

Re: What a damn shame...

The dear man did meet his end with brutal irony:

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by Grogan
Wed Sep 10, 2025 8:58 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: What a damn shame...
Replies: 7
Views: 227

What a damn shame...

This wonderful human being, Charlie Kirk, of Turning Point USA that sought to educate American youth to be good, white, Republican Christian patriarchs has been shot in the neck, and killed while selflessly and bravely going to college campuses, even though he knew he wasn't wanted. He even helped ...
by Grogan
Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:41 am
Forum: Universal Hardware
Topic: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e
Replies: 6
Views: 327

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e

Does it fit in the casing? (same voltage, so if not size, what's different about the batteries?)
by Grogan
Tue Sep 09, 2025 7:32 pm
Forum: Universal Hardware
Topic: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e
Replies: 6
Views: 327

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad 11e

Lenovo... it just has to be different than any other to make things difficult. Why else would they use that battery when everyone else uses CR2032. I don't like those twisted wires and covering you have to wreck either, I've seen Dell and their ilk do that on desktop computers too (but they were ...
by Grogan
Tue Sep 09, 2025 7:12 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: New Kernel
Replies: 199
Views: 1014631

Re: New Kernel

I don't see a lot that affects me in here, nothing Satanic :-)

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... Log-6.16.6

There's a fair bit for the riscv arch
by Grogan
Tue Sep 09, 2025 9:32 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: Scottish Leader Sums It Up
Replies: 218
Views: 450946

Re: Scottish Leader Sums It Up

The military is about to become very toxic, with the people Trump has put in charge of it. Of course the award cancellation was because he's against their regime.

Trump should win the Wooden Stake award, because he's a bloodsucking vampire.
by Grogan
Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:52 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: Notifications
Replies: 1
Views: 532

Re: Notifications

I guess I should enable that... for I missed this post completely :-)

I'm glad you found the setting you needed. This a pretty good board (old school in a lot of ways but it has everything I like in a forum)
by Grogan
Sun Sep 07, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: Universal Hardware
Topic: Mini Computers
Replies: 11
Views: 1473

Re: Mini Computers

Sounds like it's getting out of sync and the stream fails. Possibly it uses UDP/IP and that's less forgiving for data correction.

Oh well, the mini computer will be more useful, overall. It probably has a better graphics adapter than the Pi's as well.
by Grogan
Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: Universal Hardware
Topic: Mini Computers
Replies: 11
Views: 1473

Re: Mini Computers

That's strange that the one audio streaming site doesn't work. Perhaps the WiFi drivers cause packet fragmentation or something... can't fit square pegs in round holes on some routes. (might the black hole detection setting have helped?)

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mtu_probing

Anyway, I'm ...
by Grogan
Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:49 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: Acer Aspire 15 laptop
Replies: 2
Views: 340

Re: Acer Aspire 15 laptop

This is why I quit working on computers, they are just so stupid now. Your laptop doesn't work? Bummer, send it back to the manufacturer or go buy a new one. Chances are you won't even be able to use recovery options because Windows Update broke it.

It would be dead in the water if the WiFi wasn't ...
by Grogan
Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:05 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: Acer Aspire 15 laptop
Replies: 2
Views: 340

Acer Aspire 15 laptop

My nephew needs a new laptop for school and he wants to ditch Windows 11 and run only Linux on it.

A few months ago they bought one of these for my sister, so we booted a live image to test it.

https://store.acer.com/en-ca/aspire-15-laptop-a15-41m-r9jg

Firstly, I had trouble getting into the BIOS ...
by Grogan
Sat Sep 06, 2025 7:07 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: KDE Linux
Replies: 2
Views: 344

Re: KDE Linux

Immutable... this trend is a scourge. The whole point of using Linux is freedom, not having a locked system where you can't do anything. We're perfectly capable of installing KDE in a distro (it's even trivial, though time consuming, to compile)

"Power users" wouldn't be interested in that :-)
by Grogan
Sat Sep 06, 2025 5:17 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: God of War Ragnarok
Replies: 6
Views: 20670

Re: God of War Ragnarok

I actually finished this game... well, the main game, so far. I still have side quests I can do and other things to investigate.

It has been a good game, mostly, except for some annoying boss fights and generally tedious combat (for my tastes). Some of the side quest boss fights were bad, I gave up ...
by Grogan
Sat Sep 06, 2025 12:22 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: American anything is untrustworthy
Replies: 4
Views: 559

Re: American anything is untrustworthy

Actually, I just asked and NO, she does not have access to these text books online, moreover, that was the reason for spending so much on FedEx shipping, because they wanted them to get there faster. It was 3 text books and it cost $450 (not $400) for the shipping method. Granted I'm sure they ...
by Grogan
Fri Sep 05, 2025 10:44 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: American anything is untrustworthy
Replies: 4
Views: 559

Re: American anything is untrustworthy

Yes, I think because she owns the books she has access to the textbooks online (but her Internet isn't always great at her place). I think I remember overhearing that in conversation, that she would be able to do that until the books got there.
by Grogan
Fri Sep 05, 2025 8:36 pm
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: American anything is untrustworthy
Replies: 4
Views: 559

American anything is untrustworthy

My niece is in England... after finishing her 2 years of law courses there, she still has one more semester of Canadian university that she's doing remotely, while staying in England with her boyfriend.

Anyway, my sister bought her Canadian university text books and shipped them to London via FedEx ...
by Grogan
Fri Sep 05, 2025 7:50 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: Scottish Leader Sums It Up
Replies: 218
Views: 450946

Re: Scottish Leader Sums It Up

I heard about that, typical Trump sabre rattling. These dangerous, insufferable assholes need to be stopped before it's too late.

He's also taken to blowing up ships in international waters if they are deemed to be carrying drugs. This was a Venezuelan cigarette type boat (open top speed boat sort ...
by Grogan
Thu Sep 04, 2025 7:19 pm
Forum: Linux and Unix
Topic: New Kernel
Replies: 199
Views: 1014631

Re: New Kernel

It's Linux 6.16.5 time.
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.16.5

There are some amdgpu changes that bump minimum firmware requirements (I've got the latest, probably so does Arch and most non-anal distros)

drm/amdgpu/gfx12: set MQD as appriopriate for queue types

commit ...
by Grogan
Thu Sep 04, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: Discussion Forum
Topic: I've Been Putting It Off..
Replies: 10
Views: 1050

Re: I've Been Putting It Off..

That sounds off-putting to me, I wouldn't have a clue about how to prep for that installation (isn't that what I'm hiring installers for?). Having to file for the permits sounds fair enough though.