Oof. Meta open source. Srsly sus. •͡˘㇁•͡˘
lefaucet
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I think pressure should be put on the US to divest from genocide. Sanctions from our allies would be helpful... Surely with the international court declaring Israel's actions a war crime it is easy to make a case for it.
Our election system has fucked over anti-zionists and needs reforming, which is happening, but not by this November.
Ranked choice voting is gaining popularity, electoral college is under pressure and people are fed up with voter suppression and gerrymandering and things are moving in a positive direction on the local and state levels.
They'll think the election is stolen when the bullshit polls they've conditioned themselves with prove false.
They will believe the new government is illegitimate and be more likely to resort to violence
I'm really rooting for SteamOS :D
More OS competition the better. As both a windows and Linux user I can tell you 100% Microsoft has been prioritizing data collection over productivity, ease of use and hardware longevity.
Their OS has become more cluttered and awkward than ever
It takes days to clear out all the pop-ups and disable all the things you don't want. I find the ways of configuring networks and hardware is becoming more convoluted yet no more capable than window XP; nor any simpler.
To disable copilot AI assistant it took IT over a day to figure out. In our business we are legally not permitted to share client data with third parties for any reason. It required doing some obscure command line situation not documented outside of a forum post on Microsoft's support forums. Same with installing without a Microsoft account and disabling one drive.
Unfortunately we also need to be able to use commercial software that isn't supported under Linux and sometimes need more obscure software that is Windows only, so we are a bit stuck.
At home I use a couple Linux OSes on my workstation and servers. They are genuinely programmed to operate in as efficient and clean way as possible and I can build from there. It runs just as reliably on 15 year old hardware as it does on my latest rig. I also have a MacBook that runs really well, works seamlessly with my servers, offers the same terminal experience I have on my *nix workstations and never crashes.
*Nixes are more straight-forward, better documented and starts with most addons turned off. If you want, you can install an AI assistant. You certainly won't have to choose to waste a day figuring out how to disable a pre-installed AI assistant or paying someone hundreds of dollars to disable it.
And I shouldn't even start on how much a pain in the ass drive letters and fucking backslashes that need to be escaped/unescaped and translated to/from OS-X/*nix paths in data stores... And what the fuck they can't get a proper sym-link implementation going?
They shoulda done what Apple did with OSX. Recognize OS-9 was saddled with too much complicated under-structure and start over with a clean, mature, standardized, optimized and extensible *nix. NT was a huge improvement over the OG windows, but it's time for another refresh and what they got cooking with power Shell, Linux subsystem and their obsession with data collection and forcefeeding one cloud/copilot/accounts is not good.
Ah hell, you got me going. I'm ramblin again.
Point is, I've daily driven Win, OSX and *nix for decades. Hell, I started with MS-DOS 'cause Windows took too much space on my state-of-the-art 286 with 1 meg of RAM and have been a windows user for the majority of my life. Windows is the most convoluted and bloated and least secure of all the OSes. They've only kept their dominance through educating a generation of engineers on .net/direct-x, locking companies in with Office/outlook and promising corporations to spy on employees...
...The end.
Mitch McConnel is a complete asshole through and through and has been for as long as he's been in politics.
He's probably worried about being seen as a loser and is trying to bail on Trump for the sake of his shit legacy since he's about to die
Blood is on his hands, America is weaker and the world is worse off with him being on it. He's a shisstain in the history books, soon to be forgotten.
I'd like to believe he's wearing that shirt for the lullz and will feign surprise if approached.
Yup. Don't click that link; this kinda bullshit cant be rewarded
If you want to see pics just Google her.
Seriously, appeasing the fossil fuel portion of the energy sector is NOT an option.
They knew about Global Warming 50 years ago If they have a problem then it's their own doing. They cannot pay for the damage they have caused, so they should be liquidated and all assets used for renewable energy and battery development.
Dude! 256 colors!
A couple family members and a friend that owns a shop I frequent have poopooed state and local decarbonization efforts. They say we can't afford it. Makes me want to slap them and rub their noses in all the mass extinction event findings.
I told the shop owner, "You know what I worry we can't afford? Food once we've duqed the ecosystem we get our food from.". I think it made him think a bit, we haven't talked about climate since, tho. We still have pleasant and real conversations about about other topics, sometimes getting political; so that's a good sign.
I wish when the family member that joked that they'd be dead by the time there were consequences I'd retorted, "please don't say that joke to your grandkids; I want them to love you;" but I didn't have the wit to think of that fast enough. I think they realized the joke wasn't funny as soon as they said it. We don't talk climate much, though we did have a brief talk about how tragic this hurricane was. It almost hit my parent's town so she asked if they were okay and then we went on about how vast the damage up north was for a while. I think it's a good sign too.
I hope these boomers vote for Harris. We can't afford another round of Trump. Hell, we can't really afford another dem either, but at least it'll be a turn in the right direction. I voted Nader as a Floridian in 2000 and severely regretted it. When the Bush's stole the election I chuckled, "Eh, 4 years of the same ahit." I was so wrong. SUV wasn't a term before W Bush era loonies created it to dodge clean air targets. Wiretapping was something nobody accepted before the amazingly broad "War on Terror" got everyone okay with the NSA and CIA keeping tabs on everyone... can't wait for the US Hitler to get the new SS on that When the Saudi Royal's black sheep nephew, Bin Laden organized and executed the 9-11 attacks Bush got all the Saudi Royals out of the country and let Rumsfeld and Cheney declare a bullshit war on Iraq. Thousands of US soldiers, half a million Iraqis and trillions of taxpayer dollars burned for nothing beyond Haliburton's profits. The Afghanistan front was understaffed and thousands of US veterans lives ended or ruined in exchange for radicalizing Afghani youth against the US. US education was worsened with a so-called "No child left behind" policy that really just meant public schools needed to teach kids how to test or lose funding... And these new charter schools that could deny children with disabilities now steal public school funding. Corporations were given the right to patent DNA. Climate Change became a bad word. The US postal service budgeting requirements were changed so they needed to cover all benefits to all employees immediately at hire; meaning the postal service immediately stopped posting profits...leading to an effort to privatize the USPS. I realized us millennials were not going to wrest control from these Reaganite boomers for some time. Anyway, I'm sure the DNC will get the message I sent them with my protest vote any day now. /S
It'd be great if we could get Republicans calling out Dems for being poor stewards of this beautiful planet God blessed us with. Hell, get those sootheads at Shell to claim they've been green the whole time I don't care. We just need to decarbonize. I feel once their boomer chairmen die they'd be happy to work with us so long as the oild subsidy money didn't stop. We should just pay them to plug wells, bury dead trees and expand their car charging and solar operations or whatever net-zero tech they want to pivot into... Even though I'd rather guillotine the CEOs and place their heads on spikes; I'd be willing to compromise with them not frookung my family's future.
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Because different folks define those differently.
A democratic socialist is very different from what most people think of when they hear communist.
Also I'm very left leaning but still like some aspects of capitalism. It just needs to be regulated or else monopolies eat everything and turn capitalism into feudalism.