Zedstrian

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 3 months ago (7 children)

We can celebrate if and when they're actually reinstated and the people who put them out of a job are put out of a job themselves.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The title is misleading, given that it's not being directed towards the delivery of any new aid, but rather paying for aid that's already been delivered.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No treaty ever awarded the Kuril Islands to the Soviet Union.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Personally, my main Linux usage so far has been the Steam Deck, which uses an immutable version of Arch Linux on which Flatpaks are the primary means of software installation.

The other main multi-distribution package formats seem to be Snaps and AppImages. AppImages seem to work anywhere, due to being self-contained, while Snaps have a dependency that appears to make them a viable alternative to flatpaks on systems other than the Steam Deck, which can't easily make use of Snaps due to the immutability of SteamOS. There's also Nix packages, though they don't seem to be as prevalent as the other three.

Otherwise, most major Linux distributions also have their own native package formats, such as Deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu, Pacman for Arch Linux, and RPM for Red Hat and Fedora.

Not sure how difficult it is to maintain different Linux packages types for a program, but thanks for your effort to bring Blorp to Linux!

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Will the Linux version be available as a Flatpak?

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

While media sources have always had agendas, I think the key difference now is the fact that people are relying more than ever on a oligopoly of social media platforms as their primary news source, rather than media outlets across the country.

Not only does an information oligopoly make it far easier for propaganda to be disseminated to national and international audiences, but it makes trading political favors for propaganda-backed political support far easier than ever before as well.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Republican sheep will toss their support behind Trump on any issue, so the numbers don't reflect a well-informed public.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

There's been several non-sensationalized headlines for the French/British peace plan for Ukraine already, clickbait YouTube videos add nothing of value to the discussion.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

The problem is that MAGA people either don't know about the problem, don't care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.

Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it's a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Although the wood-grain Atari 2600 was also my first thought upon reading the title, I think the Wii's minimal footprint is impressive considering that—in the case of the original model—it's also a GameCube.

Wii Mini, Wii, and Wii U

In contrast to the Wii's 2006 release, the Wii Mini is arguably not yet 'retro' with its 2012 release, but definitely looks a lot sleeker, albeit not worth the loss of GameCube functionality for its minimal size savings.

Compared to both, the Wii U is super bulky, and lacks much use beyond improved emulation capabilities now that nearly all of its exclusives have been re-released for the Switch.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Surely there's a better source to post than Fox News's propaganda.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (18 children)

That's not going to keep them from selling it.

Their defense is the need to keep Firefox "financially viable", but if that keeps them from being able to broadly state that they won't sell our data, it's better to use a fork that prevents Mozilla from accessing that data in the first place.

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