I was a TikTok user from 2019-feb 2025, there was a very noticeable shift in the algorithm, especially after Trump’s inauguration and his deal that was struck to keep the app available in the US. Despite being European, I was suddenly served a lot of far right content and deleted the app for good. With the incident during the 2025 Romanian elections with Tiktok massively skewing the results towards the far right candidate I have no doubt it’s only gotten worse.

It being a positive force was probably true at some point, I’ve learned a lot and saw perspectives on this app I otherwise would’ve never seen, but in the state it is now it’s proven to be a danger for democracy (real democracy, not the “democracy” that brought us a genocide I want to clarify).

it’s okay, mine doesn’t either (transgener)

A button combo you can press to boot the controller in Xinput mode would’ve still been really nice, it’s long been a standard feature on much cheaper chinese controllers (e.g. GameSir).

He’s on Mastodon (@TechConnectify@mas.to) but he mostly talks on bsky nowadays.

4K 120Hz is a really common TV input and even this is not possible in HDMI 2.0 without 4:2:0 chroma subsampling which is visually lossy especially in desktop usage.

Thank you, this clears it up. Another work for his:

Also, ironically the title of the one in OP is Not Everything Is So Black & White, I feel attacked! Great artist.

What’s the artist’s intention here? All I can think of is Anti-LGBTQ symbolism since that’s also a common image for people to use. But I hope it’s not, it looks so cool.

Epsom Salt

They already mentioned DSC is lined up to go out but still needs compliance testing, so the code is probably ready. The “could” wording is by Phoronix not the AMD developer.

This work was already finished 3 years ago but couldn’t be sent out due to the HDMI Forum blocking it.

Somebody tell that to TV manufacturers ;(

No patch on 6.12 LTS and by extension Debian.

With the trackpads it kinda changes things, I have the og Steam Controller and it polls at 125Hz which is noticeably sluggish on a 240Hz screen. The same might apply here for people using even higher refresh rates (360Hz and 240/480Hz dual mode are getting pretty common), though not nearly to the same extent. Just something to keep in mind.

I went with microswitch buttons for my current controller (cyclone pro) and I honestly regretted it, they feel harder to press and especially hard to spam fast compared to membrane.

a mischief of rats

They are hobbies created by the corporations themselves, inherently soulless.

Recent thing that broke me: my 500gb samsung ssd is 15 years old.

I have this fear that every time I eat instant ramen a little bit gets stuck and one day they’ll have to cut me open to pull it all out like hair in the drain.

I present to you the magic of doing two things at once.

This is an atrociously researched and misinformed article.

The cracked Requiem predictably runs faster, smoother, and uses far fewer resources than the HV version, and presumably by extension, than the full paid-for release.

The author is assuming the comparison to the Hypervisor crack applies to the legitimate version with no basis whatsoever. Voices38 themselves only claimed it runs better than the HV version, giving as reasons that the HV driver is hardcoded for a specific configuration that may not match the actual host (cpu cores, cpu instructions, ram) and can degrade performance. [1]

We can and should hate denuvo but since this crack is just a different kind of bypass (a userspace one) we can’t know how the game would run without it and anything else is pure speculation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1sh3kvt/comment/of9zt3s

Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

IHRA definition of antisemitism