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Pipewire seems to do everything better than PulseAudio, in my experience. It's stable, compatible with PulseAudio and JACK stuff, works for low latency stuff like music production, can be routed flexibly, etc... As someone who used to run a PulseAudio+JACK stack but has since replaced both with just PipeWire, I'm a big fan.

Can you really blame them? I can't.

The fact is that we are living in societies with an increasing wealth gap between the richest and the poorest people. While the rich can afford basically anything, including to fuck around in death trap submarines at the bottom of the sea or peyote orgies in the desert, the average people are finding it hard to afford a house, a family, pets, a car, groceries and basic needs, etc. Everything is a rental, the average person owns very little, some people own nothing at all, and that creates a society where people feel they have been abandoned and have no stake in anything. Meanwhile governments and corporations that influence them are leading us towards a future odd climate catastrophe, AI generated bullshit, and economic collapse.

So is it any surprise the poor majority resents the rich minority? The worse the wealth gap gets, the stronger the resentment grows. And it has been that way throughout human history, leading to example after example of social unrest and violent revolution. A stable and healthy society demands an economy with a strong middle class that can afford the things they need and some of the things they want.

If we pay China and Taiwan to manufacture all of our stuff they probably don't even need to buy it from us as they can easily just copy it.

Yeah, Republicans turned on Christie for acting like a normal human being instead of a political hack.

So DeSantis, in his pathetic and desperate quest for political power, would much rather run away from anything that has even the slightest possibility of making him look as inferior as he actually is. In other words, he's a cowardly political hack who spends every waking minute of his time calculating his next move in terms of optics, and not in terms of what is right, or true, or good for the people of his state, etc.

Between Trump avoiding the debate and DeSantis avoiding even been seen with Biden after a disaster, the Republicans are really nailing the point home that they are absolute wusses. Political cowards.

Oh bother

Honestly I'm much more worried about bullshit fucking Xfinity bandwidth caps than drive space.

Prohibition was put into full effect by congress and the only real way to end it is by an act of congress. Don't worry though, people who care about cannabis law are not going to give up the fight--this win was for a key battle, but the war for reasonable cannabis laws continues one step at a time.

Vote for cannabis-friendly politicians on every level, do your best to pass cannabis-friendly laws in your state, and support your best local cannabis brands and dispensaries. After a century of illogical, hypocritical and racist cannabis laws, the last decade has truly seen a radical change in law and public opinion. We all feel that there is more that needs to be done, but there is value in taking a step back and acknowledging just how far this stuff has come.

Who knows, maybe 17 years in the slammer will change that?

Imagine punishing someone for attacking democracy and attempted an armed insurrection. I don't believe in the death sentence on moral grounds, but life imprisonment is a suitable alternative for the most extreme crimes.

I'm curious how Europe, with its long history of revolution, torture and guillotines, would handle a coup attempt.

Save your money, buy a Steam Deck or a desktop PC, play games online with the internet service that you already pay a shit ton of money for, and don't look back. It's really stupid that we allowed game consoles to charge us to play online.

It's an immutable distro akin to Fedora Silverblue, which means it's theoretically extremely solid but you can't easily change the base system.

And while I haven't tried it myself, the thing that seems to set VanillaOS apart from something like Silverblue is that is built around the idea of containing various subsystems based on other distros (like an Ubuntu subsystem and an Arch subsystem), which should make it easy to install packages from a variety of distro (or even the AUR, for another example) on top of a very solid, static base system. Under the hood it uses a container management tool called Distrobox to achieve that, but it seems to be pretty nicely abstracted for user simplicity.

I daily drive Fedora Silverblue and I do something similar with distrobox for things that don't make sense to install as Flatpaks. In other words, on my system I have an immutable base system (with optional package layering, rollbacks, rebasing, etc.), then flatpaks or appimages for most simple applications (firefox, blender, krita, etc.), and finally distrobox to handle various dev environments and music production environment (which relies on wine and a lot of plugins).

VanillaOS is something like that, but out of the box, and aiming to be GUI-user friendly.