cygnus

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Why do you care if you pay it off on time? Credit cards have always had horrible interest rates.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Edit: I just realized you’re talking about Dearborn specifically

Yes, because that's that the article and topic of this thread is about.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Source? Because my Wikipedia link says this:

The city's population includes 40,000 Arab Americans. Per the 2000 census, Arab Americans totaled 29,181 or 29.85% of Dearborn's population

And this BBC article from this year says it's the first Arab majority city in the US. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240429-dearborn-michigan-a-visit-to-the-first-arab-majority-city-in-the-us

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Rashida Tlaib didn’t outperform Harris because people’s highest priority is Palestine (it really fucking isn’t)

You really don't think that the city with the most Arabs per capita in the country (and probably all the Americas) had a particular axe to grind about Gaza?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Doesn't Dearborn have the most Arabs per capita in all the US?

Edit: yes indeed. Gee, I wonder why Tlaib did so well there. Truly a mystery. What's next, Utah voting for Mormons more than any other state?

Dearborn has the proportionally largest Muslim population in the United States and the largest mosque in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan#Ethnic_groups

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago (21 children)

Looking purely at vote counts, he isn't wrong. Trump lost about 3 million votes compared to 2020, whereas the Dems lost 15 million. There's certainly a lot of blame to lay at the feet of "both sides bad" people who didn't vote, but either way that's catastrophically bad turnout for the Dems.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 days ago

Hilarious. The MAGA movement is like a fractal of grifts.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

Absolutely. It's like how if you're poor and crazy, you're crazy; but if you're rich and crazy, you're eccentric.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well that's good news — at least it's one-and-done and won't divert resources and money from SNW.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28766034

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:

/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings

Any ideas are much appreciated!

 

It seems the bot has stopped reposting content from Reddit?

 

Sorry if this community isn't the right place to ask — I got a USB webcam that works great in Teams, but lags tremendously (3-4 seconds) in Zoom. I doubt the Zoom app is introducing that lag on its own, but how would I troubleshoot this?

This is on EndeavourOS (basically Arch)

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cygnus@lemmy.ca to c/bapcsalescanada@lemmy.ca
 

Just picked one up. This is the best price I've seen this year. Very strange monitor but awesome for work - it even serves as a USB-C docking station with 90W power delivery.

 

Maybe I don't really understand what the Foundation does (or what the ED's role is), but this seems like a very odd choice, even by GNOME standards.

Edit to add source on the shamanism: https://web.archive.org/web/20231017185521/https://www.hollytheshamanartist.com/about

 

Even back in the Windows 3.1 or 95 days I didn't have to reboot this often - sometimes twice a day. Seems a bit excessive?

 

RESOLVED: it was caused by the app being flatpak. use Flatseal!

I have a network drive mounted to my computer (PopOS). I have read & write access to everything in the drive and can drag and drop files between two Nautilus windows, but if I try to drag a file from the network drive into an email for example, I get a popup about file permissions. Is it because flatpak apps don't inherit my user permissions?

 

(apologies in advance if this isn't the right community for this question)

I've been flirting with Linux on and off for about 15 years and I think I'm ready to make the switch mostly full-time. I use a laptop for work and have a Microsoft 365 plan with email and such. I need to replace that with something Linux-friendly and would much prefer something that works with a desktop email client. Easy syncing of email, contacts and calendar to Android is a must.

Proton seems like it might be a good option but the privacy features aren't a huge selling point for me so I'm open to other options!

 
 
 
 

I'm probably preaching against the choir here, but I've become quite disillusioned with the stock market. It seems to no longer have any correlation to reality (assuming it ever did). Other than real estate, what are other good avenues to explore?

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