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Re:Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:12AM (#37209093)
Just in case this might be useful: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver works with Firefox.
Re:Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:51PM (#35051716)
> Hong Kong was leased to Britain till 1997.
This is not accurate. The Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula were ceded to Britain in perpetuity, not leased.
Re:The end of the nice GTK button
on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:01PM (#30797919)
There is actually a thread about the flat buttons on the issue tracker of libadwaita: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/228
Re:In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:04PM (#30123671)
> "shouldn't [unless]" is either a past tense, thus an illogical consequent to the present tense, or it is a hypothetical, irrealis or desiderative subjunctive in which case it merely implies that someone should not be "spying", in effect.
Could you explain this a bit more to a non-native speaker like me? I'm assuming it's not a past tense for certain. From the second definition in [1] (used in auxiliary function to express obligation, propriety, or expediency) and the examples, it seems to me "shouldn't" here could mean that "be subject to government scrutiny" is the opposite of "obligation, propriety, or expediency". I understand the sentence as: if someone is not spying, subjecting their personal beliefs and political affiliations to government scrutiny is not the correct thing to do. Then why would it
> implies that someone should not be "spying"?