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  • Stupid Sexy KDE!

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  • My school requires 2in1 laptops with stylus support (and windows😖) for all engineering students. I picked up a lenovo think book 2in1 to meet the requirements and have been dualbooting manjaro on a seperate ssd as it has 2 m2 ports. I use manjaro because im used arch which I run on my gaming PC. My work laptop has had manjaro using kde plasma for a while now and I generally really like it.

    When I loaded up the lenovo with manjaro/KDE it worked great as a standard laptop but whenever I tried to use the stylus or touch screen things started falling apart. Tracking was OK with the stylus but I couldn't get pressure or tilt sensing to work and the on screen keyboard was pretty terrible. I also couldn't get it to work properly with a few programs I need specifically for school. I spent about a week trying to get it all sorted but I was never able to get a configuration that worked consitintly and smoothly. After a fair bit of forum surfing the consensus I was able to glean was that KDE was behind the curve on touch/stylus support but gnome was supposedly better suited to it.

    I've now been running GNOME for a couple weeks and the touch/stylus support does work much better but there are still a few hiccups. I had to install a different on screen keyboard, the one gnome comes with worked fine except for the backspace key refused to function which turns out to be a pretty big problem. My biggest complaints though are with how gnome functions in comparison to kde. The file explorer, console, text editors, menu customizations, and layouts are a lot more frustrating and clunky feeling to me. I've swapped most of the original stuff with KDE version wherever I could make them work. Overall its not too bad now, just different I guess. Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it. Hopefully KDE comes up with functional touch/stylus support so I can switch back.

  • Stupid Sexy KDE!

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  • I've been forced to use gnome on my school laptop as I need tablet support and kde dropped the ball on that front. I hate it so much, but at least it works.

  • What video essay did you watch recently that left an impression on you?

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  • Benn Jordan's videos on flock cameras is really eye opening non how bad the surveillance state has gotten here in the US. Not just how ubiquitous they are but also how insecure and vulnerable to abuse the whole system is.

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • I agree, I think its a good thing that he's a democratic socialist, as I am also one. But there is a difference between a dem socialist and a social democrat. Mainly the whole capitalism thing.

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • Yes, it is right.

    Social democracy is a broad, centre-left[1] to left-wing[2] social, economic, and political ideology within the wider socialist movement[3] that supports political and economic democracy[4] and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, social democracy has taken the form of a predominantly capitalist,[5] yet robust welfare state, with policies promoting social justice, market regulation, and a more equitable distribution of income.[5][6]

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • He's a democratic socialist.

  • Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them.

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  • Use the moment to ask for more donations so they can use the money to do absolutely anything but actually try and solve the problem.

  • The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help

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  • My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day

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  • I'm with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I'm gonna have basic rights one day to the next.

  • This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

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  • There's a huge difference between someone putting a webcam on their house for personal security and an AI driven face tracking camera that purposefully records every person that wanders into its field of vision being setup in a public park and on every street corner in the country.

  • Cloudy future for bourbon has Jim Beam closing Kentucky distillery for a year

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  • I'm a Ky native, I grew up just a couple towns over from Jim Beam, I've built equipment for the bourbon industry, I have friends and family that currently work at distilleries. Keep up the boycott Canada, make it hurt. The majority of my fellow Kentuckians voted for Trump. Despite the rest of us warning them what would happen, we pleaded with them even, but here we are. They voted for greed and bigotry, and I have 0 sympathy for the ones that are losing their jobs over this. After all, it's what they voted for.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • As someone who used to turn wrenchs for a living, I can objectively say that those are the worst tool ever made.

  • BANG!

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  • I was thinking more in the sense of the villain giving their little speech to a protagonist that hasn't ever killed anyone that "If you kill me then your just like me, you'll be equally bad even though I've killed thousands and my death would actually be of benefit to the world."

  • BANG!

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  • That trope in movies always bugs me. It's such a stupid false equivalency.

  • forcefem

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  • I would gladly give it to every transphobe. Maybe then they'd develop a shred of empathy.

  • More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear

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  • To add to that, the whole short barrel rifle/shotgun thing is a mistake anyways. When they were first hammering out the national firearms act in the 1930s they were going to outlaw handguns entirely. To cover their bases they wanted to ensure that no one would simply cut down a rifle or shotgun to make a "pistol" they put in a section outlawing those too. After a lot of lobbying from the gun industry they ditched the legislation on handguns, but more or less forgot to remove the parts about SBRs and SBSs.

  • More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear

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  • Pistols also have maneuverability on their side. Moving around a house is more difficult with something as long as a shotgun, which is fine if like you said you post up at the stairs or a choke point. But I have kids, if someone comes in my house, getting to them and ensuring they're safe is my priority. Pistols also give you more rounds and easier reloads. It all depends on individual preference and situation. You're right pistols take more practice to use effectively, but they're way more versatile.

  • More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear

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  • I didn't think it was your take, I was just adding to it. But yea, people do as they do lol.

  • More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear

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  • Yea, the whole "sound of a pump action" is really the last thing you want in an SD situation. Its always better to have surprise on your side.

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