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gonna test out openmandriva on one of my shit laptops

So it looks like the woke FOSS crowd has taken notice of OpenMandriva and is boycotting a FOSDEM event that the OpenMandriva co-founder is holding. I'm not familiar with FOSDEM so I don't know if they could get them kicked out of the convention entirely, but I expect these parasites to try to kick them out of as many FOSS spaces as possible.

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all the progressives had to do was be normal good people and not be huge fucking freaks

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Top 100 Games 2025 Edition!

Again there are probably some things I forgot, and judging by how far a lot of these moved from their positions int he last list I made, a lot of these games are so close to each other that their placement isn't 100% set in stone. These are just a lot of my favorite games!

I can't search anything on fedi anymore without being bombarded with Minds boomer clickbait.

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> just replace tiktok with loops!!!

I can't wait until I want to watch a video and I can't because somebody banned my server for biphobia and eye contact
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A Maryland bill would ban "no-knock" warrants, directly challenging Supreme Court precedents that have enabled their widespread use for decades. 🚪⚖️

Learn more: https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/01/maryland-bill-would-prohibit-no-knock-warrants/
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saw this video with retarded clickbait but fortunately the description has the list.
>point and click
>real-time strategy
>vehicular combat
>competitive sports
>dungeon crawlers
>rail shooters
>FMV adventures
>extreme sports
>movie tie-ins
>top-down racers
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And I have been proven right once again. The whole plan to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama was just part of the globalist, technocratic plan to bring in the continental-wide technates.

thefreethoughtproject.com/the-

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Linux Desktop Question:

I currently use a Mac, but I'm thinking my next machine might be a desktop. There's no way I'm gonna use Windows so that means Linux.

I'd like Distro recommendations.

My applications:
1. Brave
2. Thunderbird
3. VSCode
4. Libreoffice
5. Terminal
6. CPU & Memory meters in the top bar

My requirements:

NO BUGS, absolutely not one single bug. I will move heaven and earth to get the thing setup right, but I will not tolerate one single screw-up, no apt-get dependency conflict fuckery, nothing.

I'm open to minimalistic UIs like XFCE or LXDE if they can deliver no bugs. I need control+tab and control+tilda for switching windows.

Any recommendations?
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Recently I've been thinking a bit about hydrogen fusion.

The pressure required to make H2 spontaneously fuse is around 250 billion atm, which is enough that there isn't really any material that you can build a suitable piston or cylinder out of.

A recent approach has been to try to force a liquid (in this case a hot metal) to compress a bubble of hydrogen plasma in the hope that as it collapses, the inertia of the liquid will create a shockwave that far surpasses the pressure of the vessel, reaching the target pressure at the center.

In this design, they center the plasma by spinning the entire apparatus in order to drive the heavier liquid to the edge by centrifugal force - not an ideal requirement for an engine. In addition, the number of independent pistons is annoying compared to a single reciprocating piston with a number of equal length tubes between it and the reaction vessel.

There's something I find quite amusing about the notion that humans may in fact make it to the stars, but with EM drives* that are powered by what are glorified internal combustion engines. Nothing will define the aesthetic of future asteroid miners better than a spaceship that sounds like a Camaro.

* Contrary to popular belief, the science behind "flying saucer" tech is pretty much sorted and it's just an engineering problem that remains.
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