No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.

I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.

Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.

In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.

Are you talking about the same Al Jazeera that Arab Islamist countries despotic leaders hate so much that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Libya, Bahrain and others added ‘immediate and permanent closure of Al Jazeera’ to their shortlist of primary demands during the Qatari diplomatic crisis from 2017-2021?

The same Al Jazeera English that’s won multiple Peabody awards, the New York Festival TV & Film broadcaster of the year in 2022 & 2023 and the Royal Television Society Award in 2021 & 2022?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_awarded_to_Al_Jazeera_English

P.s. its OK I know they’re trolling, I just like to spread education for others who may glance over OP’s post and take it at face value.

All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won’t be initialized and cannot be used.

The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said ‘hey actually we don’t care’ as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.

Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.

I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.

As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.

I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.

Also shortly after, unrelatedly Trump begins claiming his personal wealth is exactly the missing amount higher than it used to be.

You just watch.

“Strategic crypto reserve” of several billion in taxpayer funds, and then in several months “oops where did it go? It’s all been moved to several different wallets now, gosh how did this happen” and the news cycle will just glaze over it as another Trump blunder while he and his cronies pocket it.

Yeah. This could probably go in an “US Politics” community for this ultra niche US stuff.

Nobody knows who TF this guy is so his opinion is pretty irrelevant on the world stage, and pretty low quality ‘news’ to begin with.

Anyone browsing on most mobile Lemmy apps does not see profile pics btw, so people might be downvoting because “she’s very obviously a woman” is in fact not at all obvious to mobile users.

I did not downvote btw. Am using Eternity Lemmy client.

Builds in a very expensive replacement component too.

A control button breaks? New button is a (still over-inflated) $75 to replace.

A Tesla control screen breaks (and they do, just as often as buttons) - $1500.

https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/tesla-screen-replacement-cost-process#Cost

To generalise, just as Reddit is the neolib centrist hivemind and Facebook is the conservative boomer hivemind, Lemmy is some overlap of privacy/techy/ultrapolitical groups - so whenever you get this kind of news that is ultimately pretty mild and uncontroversial to most you get lots of Lemmings buttons pushed and what seems like an oversized reaction in the comments.

Is Firefox perfect? No. Is it still the best available mainstream browser option? Yes. And if the small groups that presently use it walk away and its tiny market share (~5%) declines to a point where Firefox becomes insolvent - well then browsers will be just a two-horse race between Google (Chromium) and Apple (WebKit). Every web spec and page will be beholden to the desires of those companies - I’m sure the same Lemmings will be complaining about that too, and by then it will be too late to realize what they’ve lost.

What channel?

If Trump’s stupidity is an act then boy is he committed to the bit - because he’s been dumb as a bag of rocks since grade school, through high school, college, and in every encounter with people close to him. Doesn’t even turn it off for the wives or friends behind closed doors. Truly the greatest method actor of our times.

I dunno how you can draw a false equivalence between women fighting for their right to vote, and refusing to vote against an avowed fascist (who then won office), and keep a straight face.

They love Trump, because their oligarchs and their puppets have regularly praised him on Russian state TV since 2016. So no, no confusion. They know Trump works for them.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tv-praises-trump-putin-1740156

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-trump-putin-hegseth-2030562

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493289326/donald-trumps-long-embrace-of-vladimir-putin

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-state-tv-says-its-no-coincidence-trump-is-echoing-putins-talking-points/ar-AA1zCNnZ

That was a great and also very long video. Subscribed.

By the way the video did state that the benefit of flouridated water is only a 10% reduction in cavities*, whereas people in this thread are acting like every Utahan’s teeth are going to fall out immediately following this decision.

*But considering that comes with absolutely no downsides… that’s great, and it is still super dumb to stop flouridating the city water.