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“Socialism is when capitalism.”

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Texas is really good at gerrymandeirng

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very much a convenience factor – Apple broke the MP3 sharing scene with the simplicity (at the time) of iTunes – video streaming started out simple but now it’s turned into cable TV, trying to find out which service is streaming a particular show, if it’s region-locked, or gated behind a premium upgrade, or just been dropped completely, or two services are still arguing over who gets the rights, or find out all the seasons are on one service except one season is on another service …

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when you need the modern equivalent of TV Guide just to find a show …

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thing is, most of us should of known, they pulled this same crap back when they tried forcing everyone to drop the physical discs and switch to streaming only …

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Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History

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taping at a corporate level didn’t exist until 20 years after the OP’s show aired – and another 20 years until consumer taping entered the picture

even then, BBC had no compunction about continuing to erase stuff – only relatively recently, they’ve started to realize just how bad a decision that was and have been begging for copies from people who taped shows to VHS – which itself hasn’t gone over too well because BBC also has a reputation of prosecuting home tapers, so without a promise of amnesty, no one’s coming forward …

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Volvos slobber all over you?

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check with local state and native plant groups – there’s several cases where native plant species are protected even from HOAs

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for California, the Monkeywrench Collection

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when the person behind the counter has absolutely no say in whatever policies they’re being required to enforce, the manager is just using them as a scapegoat

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closest we’re getting for now is Fairphone

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just remembered where you left the remote

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you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000

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“It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”

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people asking for those recommendations are newcomers to Linux and Ubuntu and Mint (especially) are both very newcomer friendly with large support communities when any questions come up

once they become more familiar with their system, they can turn to the Arch Wiki and the Gentoo Handbook as they fine-tune things

but neither Mint nor Ubuntu are going to hit you with any big surprises – unsupervised access to AUR in Arch, long compilation times in Gentoo, obscure (and semi-documented) programming language in Nix, or dealing with commands that are a little bit different in BusyBox, musl, or OpenRC systems …

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not so much as Mint being the “best way”, but Mint being a safe, friendly starting point – once you get your feet wet, you can start looking around at the other options (which can be pretty overwhelming initially) – and just as a lot of people use Mint as a jumping off point, a lot of people also stay with Mint

and yes, despite distro-hopping being a running joke, it exists because Linux distros make it relatively easy to do

the biggest change to keep an eye on is the development of atomic (“immutable”) distros – anything that makes it harder to bork your system and easier to recover afterwards (including recovering all of your configurations and customizations) is getting a lot of attention

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“502 Bad Gateway”

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there are other ways to modify a cave

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Eagle’s Nest (sinkhole) in Florida

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[Behind the Bastards] Let’s Talk About Thalidomide – Nazi doctors and the 1960s

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Children of Men (2006)

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needs more samba

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that’s what the automation is for

Fix for the capslock slow response

This is an issue that I know for a fact that is not specific to plasma, but I came here to ask for help since I run Plasma and I'm hoping that there is something I can change on the DE to fix it. Caps-lock is very slow and causes THis ISsue, and it is driving me crazy. I'm the person who can never learn how to use the shift to...

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on a side note: Xah Lee notes that speed typist Sean Wrona finds it faster to do the sequence Caps, letter, Caps than the chord Shift+letter

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“my desktop didn’t need the complexity of Guix”

so … Alpine next?

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https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky (for anyone wondering)

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(go old school, curl and wget)

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(as a side note, Lix (and Aux and whatever else) is going to need an easy, clear, DOCUMENTED (and preferably automated) migration path)

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TV or computer monitor?

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“Cave Johnson here. Fact: the key to any successful cooperative test is trust. And as our data clearly shows, humans, cannot be trusted. The solution? Robots!”

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kUpX3hJlSQ

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    “Return to Sender”

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    I’ve heard of GnuCash but I have no experience or knowledge of it

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    EDIT: only came across it because I was looking at the Guile language and GnuCash is listed as using Guile

    EDIT 2: unwarranted advice – for memory and ADHD, take a look at the original bullet journaling (not the Instagram/TikTok fad it’s turned into)

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    How to Bullet Journal – a quick intro by the original creator (biggest problem is that it’s been turned into a craft project by Instagrammers, more weight put on picking out the right washi tape than keeping track of tasks)

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    the number of games that insist on pushing out patches, expansions, hotfixes on Fridays …

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    California could be first state to give workers right to ignore boss’s after-hours calls, texts, emails

    [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved?

    I'm Canadian and we have our own issues with far right nutjobs but I've heard the phrase "Project 2025" thrown around and the little I've seen about it frightens me. I don't follow the news for the sake my mental health but could someone explain it in depth? What kind of a shit show are we looking at? Unfortunately Canadian...

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    Southern Ontario? You mean Northern New York right?

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    UwU

    How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

    My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...

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    “Hail and well met, comrade!”

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    try talking to them as people, not service workers – friendly, sympathetic, understanding go much further than politeness (and, as a side note, pronouns don’t come up nearly as often when you’re talking with people rather than to people) – “Hello”, “Thank you”, “Yes, please”, “No, thanks”, “Sounds good”, “Sorry, but nope”, “Not today”, …

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    $ snips install ...

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    the issue isn’t so much with IRC, XMPP, Matrix, or Discord per se (aside from Discord having its own issues) – it’s that every dev/org/group is trying to use a chatroom as a replacement for support channels, wikis, knowledgebases, FAQs, forums, announcements, mailing lists, etc.

    [as the meme states: “I don’t want to join your fucking Discord server just to get basic information that should be on a proper website instead of hidden away in the archives of a fucking chatroom”]

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    XFCE users looking around worriedly – can you please not mess with GTK? … please?

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    so … um, I’ve been hearing nice things about LXQT lately?

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    we nominally now have yet another fork – Cosmic – born out of the frustration of having to do everything through Gnome extensions that would break with each new Gnome release … (well, that and @soller wanting to work in Rust)

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    *sigh*

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