The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.
Ah yes, a perfectly normal thing to do after I've previously spent thousands on my NVIDIA GPU and am just getting into Linux.
Love this comment when it comes up.
I agree, and it's been a fine experience with nvidia on Xorg. "Buy new hardware" is not what someone getting into Linux should hear though if we want to increase the number of Linux users.
I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… ( lemmy.world )
It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program
Not Total Recall (1990)
Toxic linux communities moment:
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