I didn’t know that Kratom could be this addictive and I agree that regulation seems to be necessary. I remember experimenting a bit with legal highs as a teenager. Kratom tea was one of the things I tried. The effects are obviously quite nice. It greatly improved my mood and it felt like there was a warmth radiating from within my body. So, I can see why people can get addicted to Kratom. Thankfully Kratom extracts weren’t easily available at the time. I had to brew tea from the leafs which has an intense bitter taste. It was bad enough to deter me from buying it again. I guess I can consider that a bullet dodged.

My number one reason for using systemd timers is just that I find it more readable than cron. Usually I want to run things daily, weekly or monthlyand systemd timers make that very easy.

Here is an example:

backup.timer

[Unit]
Description=Run backup database daily

[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
RandomizedDelaySec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

backup.service

[Unit]
Description=Backup database

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash /path/to/backupscript.sh

Another great feature is that the output of the script is logged to journald which is very convenient when you are troubleshooting why your backup failed last night.

I have no personal experience with fingerprint scanners on Linux, from what I have heard it depends on your laptop with Thinkpads having usually the best support. Regarding the touchscreen, I use Fedora Silverblue on a Surface Go and Project Bluefin on a Thinkpad T480s. Touch works well on both.

Overall this seems to be the most reasonable approach to the whole issue so far.

Parents set up a child account on the device. The OS enforces what applications are available and that browsers are launched in some kind of child mode. The browser communicates to websites that the user is underage, for example by sending a http header. Websites check that header and can decide if they allow this user or not.

With this approach I see no glaring privacy issues compared to the recent push for digital ID laws and nobody will have to call their ISP to enable porn mode.

I tried it a couple of years ago with the steam controller and the action camera. It works surprisingly well.

Here is more information.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/announcing-guild-wars-reforged/

Apparently its not developed by ArenaNet but a smaller studio of former ArenaNet employees.

And Guild Wars Reforged isn’t about a one-time update; we plan to keep collaborating with our partners at 2weeks to make further improvements to the game in the future!

This sounds promising.

Well, now I know what I will be doing during the better part of my Christmas holidays.

I am admittedly still hoping for a proper Guild Wars 1 remaster or a successor that is more like GW1 in tone and game play. Maybe its nostalgia but the sequels plot and world building never reached the quality of the original game for me.

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine,” Nunziati, who is a contractor with Nova, said at a press conference. “Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

Well, how dare she ask such inflammatory questions in front of her betters. Journalists should know their place and only ask the pre-approved questions handed to them.

It isn’t at all.

In the first couple of years (2018 - 2019) Kagi was focused on AI technology, driven by the notion that any future search engine will need to have a strong instant question-answering component.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/history.html#early-years

Kagi is an AI company that made a search engine. All you are doing here is creating a dataset that will be used to make AI slop harder to identify. Take a look at Kagi News it provides “Slop as a Service”. You have to dig into the about section to learn that these news summaries are AI extruded.

I recently bought one and I am quite happy with it.

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That explains a lot about her.

That’s what happens when people keep voting for right wing cunts.

The solution for that is to run anti-cheat in the highest possible permission - the kernel.

Cheaters just sidestep the kernel entirely and use DMA hardware instead.

At the moment its rather expensive at ~$400 but prices will probably drop over time.

I installed Shelter into the owner profile to enable the work profile. All the googly stuff gets installed in that work profile. I only unpause the work profile when I need a specific app and pause it again when I am done. Open source and apps that do not require play services are allowed to run directly in my owner profile.

So? Have some guts for once and block the sale for national security reasons.

OpenSuse.

If this bunny can date a girl bunny four times its size, you can date a woman a few centimeters taller.