cygnus

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The middle class is like the personal carbon footprint - it's a fabrication created by the ultra-wealthy to divert responsibility from themselves. There is only the owner class and the working class.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Only if the ingredient is HFCS.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, same energy.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Arch is pourover coffee; Gentoo is those ridiculous Rube Goldberg setups that take 45 minutes to make a single cup. Both are for hipsters.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

I love PopOS ARCH Linux

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

You may want to check that link.

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

Containing China is the primary military objective of the US at the moment (other than defending domestic territory): https://www.csis.org/analysis/2026-national-defense-strategy-numbers-radical-changes-moderate-changes-and-some#h2-priorities-homeland-defense-then-deterring-china

Their forces currently deployed to the ME are nowhere near half of what they have in total.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Thanks. Would they take advantage of US distraction to move against TW? I doubt it - the US can easily fight another war on another front.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Paywalled - I can only see the first sentence.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I would call a reduction of $191M in annual funding a cut.

It was a one-off bonus. If you win the lottery one year and not the next, it would be absurd to complain that you've lost income. https://www.thewirereport.ca/2026/03/02/liberals-discontinue-temporary-funding-supports-for-cbc/

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I'm not sure it's fair to call this a cut - they just didn't repeat last year's temporary funding boost, which was explicitly framed as being temporary. CBC's funding is almost exactly what it was 2 years ago.

Edit to add numbers for the 90% of people who won't read the article:

  • 2026-27: $1,383,252,311
  • 2025-26: $1,425,237,411 (later rose to $1,575,237,411)
  • 2024-25: $1,383,237,411 (later rose to $1,425,237,411)
  • 2023-24: $1,287,169,435 (no subsequent expenditures)
  • 2022-23: $1,266,123,241 (later rose to $1,287,123,241)
  • 2021-22: $1,229,423,241 (later rose to $1,250,423,241)
  • 2020-21: $1,210,797,846 (later rose to $1,247,497,846)
 

Unbelievably damning results. I don't see how the CPC can continue to function as a party.

 

The CPC's shocking inability to read the room continues. Everyone is trying to distance themselves from the US, and they come up with this?

 

Leopards will enjoy a well-deserved meal. A few choice morsels:

In the 2008 presidential election, more than 75% of Madawaska voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, a Democrat. Last November, Donald Trump received just over 50% of Madawaska’s vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the town in decades.

“My father had 13 kids. We all lived and worked on the farm. We were born and raised Democrats because back then, in the ’40s and ’50s, the Democrats were the working man’s party,” Morneault said. “When I told my dad I’d turned Republican, he called me a turncoat. A traitor.”

Both Morneault and Campagna say their politics are informed by their religion. The bulk of their support for Trump comes from his opposition to abortion, and much of their disdain for Democrats comes from their support for LGBTQ+ rights.

 

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!

 

I don't think I've seen anyone else here with an 8:9 monitor, so I'll break the ice! The color theme is Layan Light; everything else is stock KDE.

 

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)

 

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?

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