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 i woke up at 3 this morning to go to the office, only to be stopped at the gate because my badge didn't work

my company is extremely touchy about security, so it's possible that i'm just up for security review, but surely they wouldn't lock me out of the building in preparation for a shit-canning, and leave my systems access intact, right? 
 people who use linkedin to find work:

there is a trick that i heard about a few weeks back, and i tried it and it worked

what you do is, if you have 'open to work' turned on, you turn it off and immediately turn it back on. this registers you as someone who is newly 'open to work' to recruiters and such.

i did this, and got pinged by 3 recruiters that same day, which was yesterday 👀 
 when i eat a costco muffin for breakfast, i have to unhinge my jaw like a snake 
 my wife got the job! 
 nostr:npub1lxkwhj59599yzcyq4ryd75zetn006qm2jvy4aj0yrh5z85yadt0szc8x93 I mean if it's almost a new... 
 @873bb2a6 it looks like it is in fact a new game altogether 
 sorry, cyberpunk's phantom liberty is a 20gb dlc? 
 we're apes who, in the last 300 years, discovered electricity, invented computers, and created an entire civilization based on them. we're obviously not designed for this 
 in an effort to make firefox the cleanest, i'm trying to figure out how to completely remove the tab bar in favor of sidebery for dedicated tab management. has anyone had any success with this? 
 bonjourr is an open source homepage replacement extension for firefox-based web browsers. It offers a privacy-oriented approach to an aesthetically pleasing interface that includes features like time, weather, quick links, notes, and a staggering amount of customization

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/180/163/374/320/695/original/e3a24b949409a993.png 
 it also inherits font overrides from firefox if you enable them. it looks even more seamless now 
 I'd know that chameleon anywhere 
 plasma users!

do you have any recommendations for icon packs that actually have a librewolf icon? 
 protontricks is eating my lunch. i've insalled dotnet472, but it can't see mscoree.dll. i've verified the dll exists in the filesystem of the wineprefix, but i don't know what the issue could be 
 protontricks does NOT want to install dotnet472, right now i'm hung on the dotnet47 portion of the install 
 we've now broken down the barrier of proton runtimes to install one required version of dotnet using one version of proton, then swapping to another one to install the next required version

this is a lot to avoid using windows 
 brennan lee mulligan boutta make me add one more subscription to the stack 
 any way to bridge your GPU to a VM to improve its render times in the KVM graphical virtual machine manager?

the physical machine only has one gpu 
 i have found the thing that my peanut brain cannot do easily on nobara: run a vm of win10 
 accidentally stole cocoa powder today

fight the power ✊ 
 magic-

MAGIC MIRROR? 
 i have officially started modding games that have no business running on linux in the first place. this has sent me down the rabbit hole for protontricks 
 users of firefox-based browsers:

what do you use to manage large numbers of tabs? in vivaldi, i use workspaces to keep the tab bar clutter to a minimum, and tab stacks to further sort tabs by function, but i don't see any similar functionality native in firefox 
 i've been watching a lot of linux tutorials lately, and i've had a few realizations:

1.) hyper-proficient baseline-distro elitist techbros are the face of the community

2.) i've been in the baseline-distro camp for a while now, swearing by arch linux religiously

3.) point-release good, rolling-release also good

4.) there's no such thing as a correct opinion, and that's more true in open source. there is, however, such a thing as a wrong opinion (looking at you, chris titus) 
 nostr:npub1lxkwhj59599yzcyq4ryd75zetn006qm2jvy4aj0yrh5z85yadt0szc8x93 That's a powerful endorseme... 
 @81b79283 i would strongly recommend it, i'm having the best out of the box expereince i've had in the two years i've been on linux-based operating systems 
 nobara linux is the definitive out-of-the-box experience for gamers on linux in 2023, take that to the bank 
 unity engine is the money people 
 hair-on-the shower-wall-art 
 nobara ended up winning out 
 it never fails that i see some capitalism simping behavior every time i go on linkedin. this time, it was someone talking trash on people who stand up for themselves when they're told to do something outside of their job description

i gotta quit even going there, it's just bots and conservative podcast listeners