I swore to that series of mice. I had both a blue and a red MX500, and later the grey, “dented” MX518. I feel like there was an MX510 at some point, too, but I don’t remember it. When my final MX518 finally broke, about a decade ago, I needed to find as close a replacement as possible. I landed on the G402, which I feel comes very close. The shape of the shell is very close, as is the feel of the mouse in your hands. I’ve had no complaints with the sensors. It has the same buttons as the MX518, but the DPI buttons have been shifted a bit, with one of them now being thumb-accessible, and the repositioning is actually a great improvement. I feel like the biggest change is just one of looks, with a pretty big shift in style - but not in feel. A decade on, and I’m still using that mouse, so durability has held up - although, the wheel has started to become slightly unreliable at times, missing a scroll tick now and then. Oh, there’s one other issue I can think of: the stupid built-in “RGB” (in quotes because there’s no RG, only B), can’t actually be turned all the way off - only lowered to a very, very low setting. You probably wont spot that it’s not off in daylight, and in the dark the light is still so dim that you don’t notice it out the corner of your eye, thankfully. Still, should be able to turn it OFF.

Would I recommend it? I’ve been really happy with it overall, and it saved my MX5xx-addicted ass from having to go cold turkey. But don’t go paying some kind of overprice for it - it’s a really solid, MX518-alike older model mouse, but not a literal miracle. I used to swear by Logitech, but reality is that there are other brands that could be just as good fits. The last mouse and keyboard my wife got were from Corsair, and I gotta say, they have been an absolute pleasure to use. Enough so that, even after 25 years of exclusively using Logitech mice and keyboards, if my peripherals broke down today, and I had to get new ones, then I would probably be liable to go for Corsair, and at least consider a variety of options from different brands.

I had that problem, so then I started using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it works well.

Try taking a break from this post for the rest of today. Come back tomorrow, and read your own comments while genuinely pretending they were written by someone else. Take stock of the impression you end up with.

Try to honestly ask yourself, if you were a random person passing by, Linux user or otherwise, with as busy a life as anyone, would you feel particularly encouraged to engage with this commenter?

Sounds like Victory Conditions from Civilization to me!

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

Then you’re in luck, because that’s something you can already have by now! Just get yourself one of the more recent-ish phones that are well supported by PostmarketOS. The things Linux phones struggle the most with these days, are the more traditional phone-things, such as text messages or calling, which may not be ready for production, as they say (although, both texts and calls have actually worked well for me as of late). But if all you want is a pocket Linux computer/PDA, and intend to carry another phone for calls and texting, that’s something you can have, for the grand price of an old, second-hand phone. I’ve been loving my (LUKS-encrypted) OnePlus 6T, and I do actually use it for calls and texts as well!

Never fear! I will happily spare you the trouble, and take that old thing off your hands - free of charge! ;D

I loved that controller. Best damn gamepad I ever had. It was a sad day when it finally gave in, and broke, last year.

Yeah, I only ever use:

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professional actor.

Hmm… Does anyone else suspect Willem Dafoe?

I didn’t know what to think when I read this. There are clearly some hurt feelings here, as well as some strong accusations, but without hearing the different sides to the story, and more KDE insiders weighing in with their take, I feel like it’s impossible to say what’s up or down.

Is there life after death? Yes, there is Second Life!

Say hello to Yet Another Linus Thorvalds Android, or YALTA for short. Name was decided upon at a conference. It was the compromise option, but remember that Android (and now, also androids) are technically still Linux (and now, also Linus).

Drawing directly on the desktop is a native feature of KDE Plasma. :)

Hmm… It’s only logical.

That model’s name? AI Gore.

This looks so good!

I’m happy about the dedicated animations settings page. It would be great, however, if we could adjust the animation speed of each one individually, though.

Just to avoid catching ire for adding nuance, I want to preface everything by stating that the nazi regime was obviously a criminal scourge upon humanity, and it’s perpetrators entirely irredeemable. If the nazi regime was ever falsely accused of anything, it will always just be irrelevant little details, in the face of the sheer bulk of provable horrors committed by them, their collaborators, and the weight is on the shoulders of everyone within their borders, who was of legal age and sound mind, and who didn’t do anything to resist.

With that out of the way, the descendants of the Allies should stop swallowing the propaganda of their forefathers raw, and instead try to take an honest, critical look on this part of their past.

The fact of the matter is, the Nürnberg trials were a farce, more a show trial and a kangaroo court, of Victor’s parading around the defeated, conducted on a legal basis that didn’t exist, with many punishments (executions) being violations of the inalienable human rights that were soon after proclaimed by the victors, as an encodification of the core values that they claimed to espouse.

The trials were a mockery. Surely, it would have been possible to prosecute and punish anyone deserving of it, by the laws of the pre-1933 Weimar Republic, which, contrary to popular belief today, was not abolished in a legal manner in the first place, and so would still have jurisdiction.

Anyway, the Nürnberg trials are an awful ideal to shoot for - especially when we today finally (and fairly recently) have managed to establish a proper International Criminal Court, with authority and legal basis to dispense real justice against the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Recognise that court, and insist on it carrying out justice. When you ignore thst court in discourse, and choose to hold up an 80 year old mock trail as the standard of justice, that just makes it all the easier for any future victor to quickly carry out their own kangaroo courts, executing based on what’s politically convenient, while slowing the path towards a legal world order.

Me too! So much so that I have sworn to name my first secretary Kate.

So you had an egg in these trying times, did you?