Eagle0110

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[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Well there's a fundamental difference between a carnivorous plant and a murderous plant who just kills.

There are many plants who kill large number of animals all the time, as defense measures for example. But a carnivorous plant specifically kills the prey in order extract nutrients from it and use it to benefit itself, and it does so using specialized adaptations specific for that purpose and not just accidentally (like a broken tree branch falling down killing somebody down below doesn't make the tree carnivorous)

So a carnivorous plant needs to have ALL of these traits:

  1. capturing or trapping prey in specialized, usually attractive, traps;
  2. killing the captured prey;
  3. digesting the prey;
  4. absorption of metabolites (nutrients) from the killed and digested prey;
  5. use of these metabolites for plant growth and development.

...in order to be considered a carnivorous plant.

Source: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution from Oxford University Press

(HIGHLY recommend if you're interested in this topic, it's an extremely good book and the best comprehensive overview on carnivorous plants at the moment, with fairly up to date information from this rapidly developing field of study!

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is a fundamentally flawed take on this issue, internet is NOT a product, it is a platform where product (content) is hosted, or a platform where other platform is hosted which in turn hosts other products (content).

When was the last time you saw an ad for McDonald's Big Mac™ or LFS Aquarium's hang in the back fish tank pump on Steam? You don't.

That's because there are infinitely many different ways to run a business on the internet, and as a platform the internet does not inherently require you to go one specific way or the other. Yet they chose mass ads and search engine manipulation that augment mass ads because it is the most cost effective way to maximize profit at the detriment of the entire ecosystem.

The culture that on the internet you do not expect to make direct monetary transactions, in order to have access to anything on the internet at all is NOT the problem, rather the problem is a culture of endlessly and infinitely maximizing profit no matter what it takes. And this culture had a chance to lead to wide scale actions that are fundamentally ditremental to the entire internet because the internet was made into a capitalism heaven with practically no regulations at all, the only thing that keeps capitalism in check.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Great then, your so called "patriotism" will really help so much 5-10 years later inside a gas chamber lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well considering he chose to use a pyro-mechanical firearm, instead of things like social/political/legal/economical tools to accomplish his goal, seems to check out lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

At this point it's pretty much only the competitive games with kernel level anti-cheat that don't work on Linux because of their kernel level anti-cheat.

But then again, if 90% of the games you play are competitive games that require kernel level anti-cheat, you should probably consider expanding your gaming experience lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, this might prove promising!

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you link any direct confirmation that this is actually a VM on hypervisor, and not just a non-hypervised VM but with GPU passthrough like the Crostini on ChromeOS? These two are very different things.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's really not a surprise this particular species is soooo widely spread! :D

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah if you can manage to get one without their outrageous official price, these are really amazing devices for enthusiasts, took me less than 3 minutes to unlock bootloader and root (most of the time spent by the full system wipe from unlocking bootloader). And they are some of the last flagship spec'ed phones that still have SD card support, and headphone jack, and they come with very clean AOSP-like ROM with minimal customization and no bloat, and because of that most of the root-empowered system customization tools developed for Pixel phones mostly work out of the box on these phones too

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sony

They straight up support the concept of open devices: https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I've been seeing other posts about this too and I'm curious why this wasn't updated on some ROMs.

I use a Sony Xperia 1 VI which has very clean AOSP-like ROM with only a couple OEM customization features, and the Google Play System remains up to date without me having to maintain it manually. But I'm seeing at least Samsung and Xiaomi phones where people found this wasn't automatically updated, perhaps it has something to do with some of the heavily OEM-customized ROMs? In that case it still surprised me Samsung didn't even take care of this considering how they have a particularly close collaboration with Google...

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