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But then we wouldn't have enough budget to allocate to our campaign donations.

—lobbyists

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If you have 11 people and a Nazi at a dinner party, you have 12 Nazis.

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Surprisingly, it's not even on some high-end boards.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X670-AORUS-ELITE-AX-rev-10-12/

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Oh that is hilariously scummy. It's probably 7.1 through HDMI...

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I looked at the more detailed specs, and here we have:

3 x audio jacks

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

  • You can change the functionality of an audio jack using the audio software. To configure 7.1-channel audio, access the audio software for audio settings.

If using 2-pole aux jacks, those 3 back panel female connectors only provide 6 independent channels. If the case has a front panel connector, you can push that to 8 channels.

The only way you're squeezing 7.1 analog out of that is if you use the front panel as LR, use two of the three back panel ones as surround, and share center with the sub between the last remaining connector. But, that's assuming that two of those back connectors aren't for mic or line in.

Maybe you could squeeze digital output through those jacks, but then you'd need a compatible receiver. Either way, stupid design for such an expensive motherboard.

who is going to put a ryzen apu in a topend mobo??

The Ryzen 9 7950X has integrated graphics, but if someone is willing to dump that much on a processor, they're probably buying a GPU with it.

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Only slightly related, but here's the compiler flag to disable an arbitrary 2GB limit on x86 programs.

Finding the reason for its existence from a credible source isn't as easy, however. If you're fine with an explanation from StackOverflow, you can infer that it's there because some programs treat pointers as signed integers and die horribly when anything above 7FFFFFFF gets returned by the allocator.

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Let me guess, Wikipedia is now considered an antisemitic hate group by the ADL, right?

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If the alternative involves shoving polkit on a server just for temporary admin privileges, it's unnecessary.

“Complete Dehumanization”: Israel Killed Over 800 Palestinians in 11 Days ( truthout.org )

From June 1 to June 11, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians and wounded over 2,400 as they carried out bombardments and raids across Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported. This is an average of over 72 Palestinians killed each day at the hands of Israeli forces....

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I wonder who downvoted you. Must either not be an Aussie, or a zionist cunt.

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2024 is going to be the year of the Linux Desktop enshittification. When anything you love goes public, you won't be loving it for much longer.

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My old sock drawer has been cleaned out more recently than my browser bookmarks. Just saying...

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After Netflix started offering streaming, I stopped considering piracy as a worthwhile option. Now, it's actually easier to pirate whatever the fuck you want to watch than figure out what streaming service it's on, and which of your friends has the account you're all sharing.

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There are no mistakes; only happy little "accidents".

[US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?

I have everything pretty much ready to launch full time. Time, skills, customers, support from family. But I'd leave my current job behind and with it my family's health insurance for the foreseeable future. I can't afford any of the options I've seen. It's the one thing holding me back. Any ideas for affordable health insurance...

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I do feel discouraged that it's the healthcare system that's holding back my business opportunity. Shouldn't be like that.

Your business opportunity isn't an opportunity for competitors' shareholders; you're more valuable to them being exploited for labor, and decades of "socialism is communism" governments and corporate lobbying have made it as difficult as possible to enter the market without being funded by and beholden to investment firms.

While the situation is utter shite, don't let it discourage you. Just make sure to be safe and have an emergency fund that isn't tied up in your business.

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Experts agree that the simplest and most cost-effective way to remove cold sores is with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. A pack of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers will cost you $5 from Amazon and can last up to 7 weeks with proper care. Other remedies include diluted acetic acid or castration.

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This sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan from the perspective of a conservative. Criminalize porn so people have to take the urges out elsewhere, criminalize abortions so rape victims have to give birth, and slash social services and education funding to create the next generation of uninformed, emotionally-driven voters.

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Unless the GPU is an Arc, compatibility between the motherboard and GPU shouldn't affect much more than the maximum performance you can squeeze out of the GPU. As a protocol, PCIe is backwards compatible.

If your RAM is seated as 1 and 2, make it 1 and 3 or 2 and 4.

Never assume. RTFM when trying to use dual channel memory.

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Oh no, a more expensive subscription (for insurance) for a car that makes you already subscribe to be a beta tester of a technology that runs you into the side of a train!

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I hope you used protection!

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I'm genuinely surprised something owned partly by the Chinese government isn't at the bottom.

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It's pretty good if you're a Nazi or Elon fan, I imagine.

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It's crazy to think that we can now include Israel in a short list alongside North Korea and China.

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Not sure about the commenter above, but his latest Borat movie did piss off a bunch of rednecks.

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Pro choice like working overtime or starving.

Pro choice like having a cell phone or not having a job.

Pro choice like going back to prison or being homeless.

Great choices. The only way they could be more coerced is if someone held a gun to your head.

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Yup. Laws are only suggestions until you get caught.

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AI-generated content trained on LLMs is poison for training, so that's actually a good thing :)

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Poison the well by using AI-generated comments and answers. There isn't currently a way to reliably determine if content is human or AI-generated, and training AI on AI is the equivalent of inbreeding.

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A senile traitor, an ethically-dubious dinosaur, and a man with a hole in his brain walk into a bar—sorry, did I say bar? I meant poll.

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My phone can't play BluRay disks.
My computer can't natively play BluRay disks.
My iPad can't play them.

My only option is to pay for yet another HDMI device because of BluRay's DRM and sit down in front of a TV that I may not actually even own. That's both an additional waste of money and inconvient compared to watching an episode on my phone during lunch.

Or I can use software to crack the DRM and rip the disk to video files, which is a violation of the DMCA and brings us right back to being illegal.

Fuck streaming services, but also fuck DRM-encumbered pieces of plastic and foil. I'll buy the movie on a subscription-free service as a token gesture and pirate it.

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https://petakillsanimals.com/

TL;DR: Domesticated animals deserve death. More specifically, because they letting them live is "inhumane" because they won't thrive without human influence—which they're strictly against.

IMO: These people are fucking psychopaths.

Edit: Yes, that specific site is sponsored by the meat industry. I didn't think it needed to be said, but don't take sensational topics at face value and read any receipts provided (which they did). Or, use Google and find other sources (that are also probably backed by corporate or political interests). In either case, PETA has made it pretty clear that they're hypocrites who are euthanizing healthy animals.

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It's not mercy killing when the animals weren't suffering and weren't voluntarily given up. It's murder for the sake of their agenda.

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The website has receipts. Feel free to actually read them.

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>you think euthanizing sick animals is bad?
>PETA euthanizes more than sick animals
>you think PETA doesn't euthanize sick animals?

There isn't a single thing I can say to convince someone who isn't arguing in good faith.

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If you had not plugged your metaphorical ears and doubled down on an ad hominem, you would have seen that some of those receipts are self-reported filings from PETA themselves to the government.

I would link the definition of "ad hominem" for you, but let's be real: you're not going to read that either.

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Consider that any number more than "zero" pets kidnapped and killed by a private entity is too many.

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The Socratic method involves asking questions to lead on discussion and participation. You're trying to discourage discussion by putting contributors on the defensive with an ad hominem disguised as a (loaded) question.

So, in fact, you're doing neither.

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,If you can't answer questions that make you uncomfortable to answer, that's something you should reflect on.

Again, you're attacking the other person instead of their argument.

It doesn't make your point any stronger. It makes people unfamiliar with debates defensive from being personally attacked, and it makes those familiar with debates realize that they're wasting their time.

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It's an ad hominem to assert that I hold an unethical belief and then use said assertion to bolster your point.

I said PETA are psychopaths for needlessly killing animals, yet you assume that I'm not equally against killing animals for personal pleasure and consumerism.

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You know that "the other person" can be used in a general sense, right?

Aside, why would I engage in an ernest discussion with someone who doesn't appear willing to accept that the other person in the discussion holds any stance different than the one they are perceived as having.

It would be a waste of my time to take this seriously, and I'm already having fun playing fallacy bingo.

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No offense intended to vegetarians, but it's a half measure if they're doing it for ethical or climate reasons.

I genuinely do not care about that website; all that matters is their receipts. I care that PETA are hypocrites who needlessly kill living creatures while preaching about the ethics or lack thereof of needlessly killing living creatures.

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TIL. Thank you

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I have one account. It's not my fault you can't interpret impersonal language correctly.

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Oh, look, now you get it!

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It's like scope creep, but where the demanding client is also your boss/coworker.

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EGS? Oh, no. We don't do that here. We're more along the lines of:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8e516760-53dc-4968-a91e-0c23d8660d9c.jpeg

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That part comes when they find a publisher.

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