@DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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- on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
How is there a Tetris Company that owns the rights to this? Hasn’t the actual creator of the game never gotten anything for it?
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on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
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on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 2 Sep 2026
Amateur. I can compress entire seasons of a TV series to a few bytes. All I have to do is type its title in Netflix and then BAM, gigabytes of video come out.
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on Rule in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Sudo dnf up
Downright quicker than opening a software center.
And it gives me the illusion of being some sort of super user
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on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I wasn’t talking about browser-based games. The middle click pasting makes the middle mouse button unusable in games at least in my distro (Fedora). Disabling it in the DE settings fixed that issue which was separate from the annoyance of accidentally pasting text while scrolling, which was also solved by disabling it in Firefox.
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on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
For me a quick web search turned up plenty of posts from people complaining about the desktop environment provided way of disabling it not working. Most of them had no replies. Others had tone-deaf replies suggesting to turn it off using the option they said wasn’t working. And finally a few suggested to run a variety of shady scripts that mess with the guts of the system with no way of undoing the if they break something.
And I’m so happy for you that it works for the games you play.
Edit:
Actual solution found:
After a much deeper search, I’ve found out that buried in there was the actual answer I was looking for: The Linux version of Firefox is independently applying a middle click paste on its own regardless of whether you’ve had it disabled in your desktop environment options or not. For those who are struggling with this: You can disable it in about:config by changing “middlemouse.paste” to false. If you’ve also disabled in your desktop environment settings, it should be gone for good.
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on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
One thing I wish Linux got its shit together for is the middle click paste selected function. I tried to like it, but if you work on editing a long text this shit is downright a liability. I was working on a 20 000 word essay and when I thought I was done and was about to submit it I realised that when I was scrolling through it to work on it the center click was accidentally clicked a few times and it pasted random bits of text throughout.
This also makes center click unusable in video games.
I want the ability to turn that shit off. Ctrl C and Ctrl V is plenty practical already. KDE has an option to disable it but it doesn’t actually work.
*Edit: solution in discussion below
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on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Remember that Stargate SG1 episode where they find themselves into a huge underground facility that is under attack by external forces. Jack O’Neill accepts to pilot one of their drones to help defend the complex from a wave of bombers and is infuriated to learn that the attacker’s bombers were manned while he believed they were unmanned.
spoiler
At the end it turns out the facility was actively poisoning the entire planet, threatening to wipe out all life and the “attackers” were simply the people of the rest of the world trying to stop it.
That is what the Amazon data center is to me.
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on Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
“Trust us, says Microsoft”
lol, no.
Sadly I can see a future where the non-smart option will no longer be available. Or very limited in choice for the consumer.
It’s already the case with TVs. The next logical step is to make it so it will refuse to work unless you connect it to the internet to “activate” it or even worse have it connect to the cellular network to be always on-line whether the owner of the device is aware of it or not. The vast majority of the consumers are still completely ignorant about this and buy this crap.
Fortunately appliances seem to still offer plenty of “non smart” options for now. But who knows what it will be in 10 years?