Bitcoin is pretty fast. You get 5 confirmations in about an hour. If you compare it to credit cards, the equivalent thing (clearing and settlement) happens in about 2-7 days.

Thing that matters to the merchant is a bit different than the thing that happens with the customer. You can build similar layers in front of the customer for crypto payments that make it look like the payment went through in a second.

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I don’t know about you, but the amount of self-control I have varies hugely during a typical month. So when I have more self-control, I can choose to help myself during the times when I have less.

I just tried to use Reddit with a new account. After spending about a week in it, I suddenly noticed that all my comments and postings received no upvotes or downvotes.

That’s right. I was shadowbanned, which is to say that some part of the Reddit system (AI?) decided that I need to be put into a cage that I don’t see, without telling me that it happened. Perhaps I was “evading a ban” or something. I don’t think I did anything to deserve it, and the reddit admins don’t answer to queries about it.

So yeah, Lemmy is infinite times better than Reddit.

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op is a secret owl

Like others suggested here, the problem is probably nouveau and you might want to try a gaming-oriented distro which usually configure these things correctly out-of-the-box. My favourite is Nobara and Fedora (which didn’t work for you but works for me because I have different hardware). People suggest Bazzite, but I cannot recommend it because it’s based on Fedora Atomic, and I don’t get along with Fedora Atomic.

As a general admittedly non-helpful suggestion, don’t get Nvidia hardware if you want to use Linux.

are there people who made it work? sure.

For some historical context, Nvidia has had premium Linux support since 2006. For the longest time it was the only option for any kind of hardware accelerated 3D graphics on Linux and it generally worked pretty well.

Thankfully, AMD made the open-source side of graphics on Linux work also recently. At least for two years, AMD has been entirely trouble-free on Linux. To my knowledge, Nouveau is not quite there yet.

I’ve no idea if Arch actually has newer drivers than Debian / Fedora

Kinda, since Arch has nvidia’s own drivers in their extra repo, whereas in Fedora you’ll have to do some stuff to get them.

Do comment deletions not get federated on lemmy or what? This is not the first time I commented something, regretted it almost instantly and deleted it, and the received replies several hours later.

I wonder if he would have changed anything in his writing had he known the damage he was about to unleash. Reminds me of the Ricky Gervais bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CINep9Gqhk

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What’s Plex’s use case? Why not just mpv locally?

Fedora has always used their own. Dpkg was released in 1994, RPM in 1997.

My comment was about Windows and MacOS kinda catching up in 2020s.

I’ve been using Linux (also Arch, several years, happily!) since 1996 and for a long time I’ve wondered why every software I run gets access to every file I have.

Flatpak is one way to fix that.

is available as a package or in the AUR

Oh okay, I see. You don’t perhaps care about programs reading the files of other programs. Well, that’s fine, everybody has their own threat models.

Perhaps the message is changing now, after they have kind of caught up finally. How long did it take, 20 years?

Sure, cooperation is clearly an evolutionary trait also, and seems like a much more useful one than greed. It seems that socities need a bit of both to thrive, or do you have examples of known societies that worked primarily on co-operation, even for the leaders?

It doesn’t reward greed, it rewards putting your resources into profitable endeavors. This is something you need to do in 100% communism as well, if you wish success.

Why are we selfish? Some sort of a mistake of evolution perhaps.

The relationship between actual 1930s nazis and the arab world was kind of complex for obvious geopolitical reasons, but Palestinians pretty much generally denounced nazis. Also back when it might’ve been good strategy not to.