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  1. Re: Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2
    You need a decently up-to-date Linux distribution to start with.. Read: Rolling Release. For that matter, if you're running Linux on a desktop, and you're not using a rolling release distro, you're doing it wrong. All of these things people bitch about like EFI booting, Systemd, FOSS graphics drivers, etc work *so* much better if you're using the freshest versions of everything in the system. The old-style monolithic distros like Debian are great for servers, but are not a good environment for using anything cutting edge.

    In my experience on Arch, Enlightenment is as simple as installing the package(s), which are in mainline. It's been a long time since I experienced any difficulty or glitches with anything in the Elementary suite of applications.

  2. Re: Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They are at 21/22 now (depending who you ask) and its fucking dope. I simply don't know how else to put it, if you are a power user, Enlightenment blows away everything else.

  3. Re:Yawn on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not say that in TFS. It says it is enabled if you use the Breeze style (how limiting?). It THEN talks about Wayland enhancements. You should learn to read.

  4. Re:Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything on linux desktops was more configurable 15 years ago than today

    Have you tried Enlightenment? They've been adding features for decades, and it's configurability is quite extreme. If you want to do it, it can probably done with Enlightenment.

  5. Yawn on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Enlightenment users like myself have been alt-clicking *anywhere* in a window to move them since the mid 90's. I'm still baffled by the fact that the most feature-rich WM/DE is also just about the least popular. I guess not everybody can be a smart user.

  6. Don't bother RTFA.. on Let Us Now Praise MacroMind Director (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..The entire "article" is in TFS.

  7. FTFY: Install ZFS on your FreeBSD box.

  8. Re: Fuck off, msmash on Bitcoin Slides as China's Central Bank Launches Checks On Exchanges (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to short Bitcoin, wouldn't one need to be able to borrow them? That's how shorting works, and I'm not aware of any exchanges that will let you borrow them.

  9. If the site does not allow my Ad Block to run, I ain't looking. A warning would be nice. An alternative would be nicer.

    If the site displays a message that you must turn Ad Block off, just refresh and press escape a few times as soon as the article's text appears. This will generally work to stop the script that pulls up the ad blocking message.

  10. Guess that means on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    the next version of Libreboot won't have a splash image depicting a penguin hugging a gnu.

  11. Re:Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, then you should stop imagining things. 18650 is by far the most popular battery for nicotine vaporizing devices. Nothing else even comes close to being popular.

  12. Re:Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Laptop, not flashlight.

    Ok, if you want to be pedantic, laptop AND flashlight battery.. Not to mention e-cigs, bluetooth speakers, and a zillion other things the nearly ubiquitous 18650 is used for.

  13. Guess I just never paid attention on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person here who took this long to realize that Tesla cars are powered by what amounts to a shitload of flashlight batteries wired up in a tub?

  14. I doubt it. More like "secret" orbit.

  15. Imagine how long it would take to write a dozen 30MP+ shots to the card if we encrypted them first.

    If you're doing AES chiper in realtime on the ASIC, the performance-hit to the write operation is going to be quite minimal. AES Encrypted data is the same size as the plain input + 1 block (16 bytes).

  16. Old School FTW on Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    This is why I keep buying older cars and refurbishing them instead of buying new. You can build a truly awesome retro (or late model) vehicle for half the price of anything new with comparable specs. There is no "new car" feature you cannot add to an older vehicle with aftermarket equipment, and as regulations like this start coming out, all the more reason to drive an older sled. No state has succeeded (and few have even tried) to legislate older cars off the road because it disenfranchises the poor, so this tactic should work right up to the point when the Feds finally mandate next-generation vehicles (which do not exist yet, frankly).

  17. Re:Just develop shields already... on Japan Sends Its New Space Junk-Fighting Technology To The ISS (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    It takes some really heavy armour plates to shield against them.

    I don't think he meant shields like Roman shields.. I think he meant shields like Star Trek shields; a field emanating from a system aboard the ship.

  18. Re:'"We are looking into the matter" on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 0

    I had to read this carefully before I realized that the US state of Georgia was complaining, rather than the country of Georgia.

    How careless would one have to be to miss clues like "Homeland Security" and "Secretary of State"?

  19. Sprawl Tech on Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "rich multi-sensorial experiences that will be capable of producing hallucinations which blend or alter perceived reality."

    Sounds like someone has been reading William Gibson novels. This sounds exactly like SimStim or cruising The Matrix with an Ono Sendai.

  20. Came here to say this.

  21. EditorDavid on Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller (crowdsupply.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks, EditorDavid, for the welcomed break in leftist propaganda posts that don't matter to nerds.

  22. Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Bro, the sane ones of us in the South went "full prepper" years ago. We are already ready.

  23. How is it licensed? on Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Launches Its Own Hackproof OS, Based On Microkernel (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see any mention of the source code being available, and if that turns out to be the case, I wouldn't touch this "secure OS" with a ten foot pole. Who says it's secure? They do? And I'm supposed to just believe it?

  24. Who the fuck is Three?

  25. Re:BeauHD, please don't use slashdot as your blog on iOS Devices Failed More Often Than Android Units During Q3, Says Report (phonearena.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell me if you know a way to ignore all stories sent by specific person? I would use it immediately.

    Judging by the front page of late, you would have dry spells where there were no stories all day (or for a couple days) because the only person even posting them is BeauHD or msmash. Pardon the buzzword, but you fuckers need to bring back the old ecosystem. /. has become homogenized.