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in reply to schizoidman

Maybe we are immune to the law and we just haven't tried it out yet.

in reply to no_nothing

Slut is Swedish for stop, but then the button labels are in English, so I'm confused
in reply to JackGreenEarth

As a non-Englisman, I'd say it's pretty normal for devices and house appliances to have physical text in English but software in another (local) language.
in reply to TaTTe

Yeah, especially stuff like "start/stop" or "on/off", that universal language by now.
in reply to JackGreenEarth

start is swedish for start and stopp is swedish for stop. leaving out a single p for i18n reasons does not really make the labels into a foreign language
in reply to lime!

In Danish, which the OG image is from, Stop is with only one P. Interestingly it is with two Ps in Norwegian as well.
in reply to Zelaf

yeah i just realized it can't be swedish because of the "o/min" text. i thought danish spelled it "slud" though. my biases are showing.
in reply to Dharma Curious (he/him)

it's developer-speak for "internationalization". i didn't want to type it all out on my phone. it's a very stupid abbreviation because it conveys no information.
in reply to lime!

To expand on this: It's common practice in IT/dev/devops to shorten things by first letter - number of letters in between - last letter

So you get things like i18n - internationalization, l10n - localization and k8s - kubernetes. Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz also seem to think they're important enough that people should call them a16z. Which apparently some people do.

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in reply to boonhet

I think the best one is a11y (accessibility) because it looks like ally so it's easier to remember
in reply to lime!

Adding some context: it's because there are 18 abbreviated letters, hence i18n.


Fedora uBlue:main would not detect BenQ smartboard


I recently had to show a presentation at a client's location and they were using a Benq smartboard. I tried to connect to the monitor with my laptop running uBlue:main but while the monitor would detect that something has been plugged into it and switch to the HDMI input, my laptop refused to detect that it was connected to anything. Fortunately, I had backed up the presentation on an external drive so we connected my colleague's windows laptop and gave the presentation.

Now what I am curious about is why my laptop would not detect the smartboard as a video output. Do display outs have to be added to some kind whitelist? If I wanted to file a bug report for the same, where should the report be filed? In the kernel development, in the mesa project or somewhere else?

System specs :-

  • Ryzen 5 5600H + Radeon RX5500M
  • HDMI 2.1 port on the laptop
  • Fedora Silverblue - uBlue:main
  • Kernel version 6.11.10 (at the time)
  • Mesa version 24.2.x (don't exactly know which version was running at the time i think it was 24.2.8)
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in reply to Sentau

I use Bazzite on a laptop, and it is permanently attached to a TV as its primary video output. You should not have to do anything with whitelisting; video out should just work as expected, besides maybe needing to manually select the audio output.

My suspicion is that there's some kind of extra data being pushed over the HDMI, since the Smart Board is more than just a monitor (mouse data, smart pens, etc.). The video driver is probably shitting itself after the "monitor" detection. I don't know for certain, but that's my guess.

I would start by asking in the ublue Discord. There may be an easy fix, or they may direct you to the project where you should file a bug report.

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in reply to Telorand

My suspicion is that there's some kind of extra data being pushed over the HDMI, since the Smart Board is more than just a monitor


Yeah I have similar suspicions. Maybe some non standard HDMI protocols or extensions are at play. After all it is a patented, closed source protocol. Standard monitors and TVs (smart or otherwise) connect without any issue.

I would start by asking in the ublue Discord. There may be an easy fix, or they may direct you to the project where you should file a bug report.


Thanks for the advice. I will start with this.

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in reply to Sentau

I don't know if this is relevant but my BenQ monitor will only turn on for Bazzite when I disconnect all other HDMI connectors and its the only screen left.


Plz stop :(


Tbf sometimes I see really bad lefty memes on here, so when I saw a good I felt like I had to provide a demonstration.

(It's gotta fit the format, people.)

in reply to ShinkanTrain

The difference between the UK and Israel is that the UK actually knows how to conquer lands, and when to give up before having any losses whatsoever then requiring global funds from international idiots who supports genocide without any real benefits for a literal 100+ years now, only to continue killing generations after generations of human beings.

At this point it's safe to say that Israel is a literal psychopath that enjoys bloodshed and mayhem and is just advertising war for Land as an excuse to continue with this war while in fact they just enjoy the killing and massacres, and now trying to extinct a whole race of people from the Said land for the fun of it, there's literally no other reason for this war to last this long without any outcome or benefit.

in reply to Andy

But then you remember you're the USA
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Jewish Chronicle under fire over article claiming Palestinian solidarity is anti-Semitic


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/24359491

January 2, 2025 at 3:26 pm
in reply to Peter Link

Not being racist is antisemitic according to Zionists.
in reply to Peter Link

Most Zionists are antisemetic. Balfour was antisemetic.


'Creating chaos': Israeli bombing in 'safe zone' kills Gaza police chief


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/24359480

By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 2 January 2025 15:00 GMT


Israel ignores WHO appeals and attacks another hospital in northern Gaza


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/24359307

By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza, occupied Palestine and Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem
Published date: 2 January 2025 13:34 GMT
in reply to lemmyseizethemeans

Israel is the poster-child of Rules Based Order. Rules Based Order isn't international law, it's the west's stand-in for, allusion to, international law. So they can't be held to account when violating international law, and can accuse others of breaking the rules when they haven't broken international law.
in reply to Aria

Of course. I am using the language of the masters of the universe to illustrate their absurdity




in reply to St3alth

Fuck Lego

All my homies buy bluebrixx, pantasy, funwhole, cobi, cada, mouldking or other manufacturers.

in reply to B312

No

Their unicorn vomit into almost every set, pay 300€ to put sticker onto set that will be display on shelf in sun, technic not have real function anymore, unicorn probably also vomit into pigment mixer, some set for brand look far from brand product. And then price it as if produce gold and call lego "quality leader on the market".

They can eat bag of dick.



in reply to Garibaldee

And once it happens, no one will do anything. We all just have to sit by and watch our political leaders be complicit with the US backing all of this





Inflation down, poverty up as Milei takes chainsaw to Argentina’s economy


in reply to geneva_convenience

i suspect that trump wants to duplicate melei's success with the tariff threats and; if it works; it will solidify him as a popular president.
in reply to geneva_convenience

Anarcho-capitalists are just oligarchists or neo-feudalists who don't want people to realize that the more you weaken liberal democracy the stronger the billionaire class becomes

in reply to GrammarPolice

This kind of meme, as well as 'ACAB', calls out systemic issues. I agree that you can punctually do good as an individual cop, but you are still going to be controlled by and subjected to a fascist organization, participate in their quotas, arrest people for breaking arbitrary and racist laws, and so on. Also anyone can internalize racism, as recently evidenced by that poor lieutenant governor Robinson.
in reply to GrammarPolice

Who does he work for? Why do 1 in 5 black men in the US spend some time in jail or prison? Why are US drug laws the way they are, that mostly are tools to lock up black men?
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in reply to GrammarPolice

yes. and here's a nazi making a list:

what's your point?

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in reply to pyre

I didn't know Nazis were hot. Maybe i should consider an ideology change