You folks are always so predictable.

I personally can’t wait. All the 2nd Amendment idiots trying to take on the police and military?

Well, I’ve got some news for you.

House Republicans All Vote Against Neo-Nazi Probe of Military, Police

Anyone with eyeballs and ears understands what this man is, what this man did, and what he evokes from his followers. Why do I need a court to confirm it for me to want him nowhere near the levers of power ever again? He’ll stop living in my head when he stops trying to take control of the country.

Garak might have had something to say about that.

https://heavy.com/entertainment/star-trek/garak-gay-deep-space-nine-behr/

I use Sonixd as the frontend to my Navidrome server, and it’s the bees knees.

Brave Republicans at all levels of government, from local officials like Richer to Sen. Mitt Romney (UT), have been warning us of the dangers going into 2024. They have seen the recent rise in right-wing political violence, most notably on January 6, and seen how comfortable Trump is with openly directing his supporters to hurt people.

So brave to stand up to the monster they created.

Sounds about white.

Ah so can I pull this article out when I have to hear again how “moderate” Republicans are (finally) done allowing Trump and the other fascists to completely take over their party and we should all pretend they didn’t support and create this monster in the first place and uncritically accept their crocodile tears about what a laughingstock party full of fascist hatemongers their party has become shown itself to be?

They’ll keep trying, and OP will keep helping.

Related-ish and equally fun:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-246033/

So, like usual, DRM only fucked the people trying to play by the rules.

You should try Linux because you want to and find it interesting to learn. If you are doing it because other people told you to, you are going to have a bad time.

Linux isn’t Windows with different branding. Things work differently, and if you take the time to understand why you’ll usually see the logic eventually, even if you may not to agree with it. I think folks are bristling a bit at your implication that things are hard on purpose somehow. Many experienced users find the terminal easier to use and more efficient; it shouldn’t shock anyone (including you) that it’s going to feel awkward when you don’t understand it yet.

Howtos tend to use the terminal because it’s likely to work the same for everyone regardless of what other choices they’ve made with desktop environment, etc.

You can do nearly everything with a GUI if you choose.

Both options will install the Mullvad client from the AUR. (If you use an arch derivative, that already tells you some things. If you don’t, then you are missing some context.) The first option will install from binary, the second will compile from source. Which you choose is up to you.

If you blindly chose one over the other because you didn’t know, worst case you end up being impatient if it takes awhile to compile from source.

I couldn’t help but think of this (nearly 20 year old) video in response to that comment. 😁

https://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k

This is well known and Ernest is working on a passel of fixes, and is really spread thin. I’d suggest tagging him for any bug (new or not) vs reporting an issue via bugtracker is counterproductive, and probably just adding to his stress.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues

fuck off and go back to the borders that were drawn in the 1967 UN Security Council resolution.

Yeah I ran across this awhile ago posted by Björk, and have been wondering if it’s factual. Paints a bit of a different picture of the motivations of Palestinians in general if true:

I’d be interested to see the 2023 version.

You think the platform is the widget, I think the content is the widget. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

In that case I’d be selling something made by the entity giving me commission - what people want and pay for is something made by someone other than me. In this case the people creating the content are the same people drawing the subscribers, so it’s more accurate to say substack takes a cut of their subscription income than to say substack pays them.

If I stop selling widgets the company still has the exact same widgets and can get anyone else to sell them. If a renowned nazi writer (bleh) takes their content to another platform, substack no longer has that content (or the author’s presence on their platform) to profit from.

They are being paid by subscribers, not by substack. I am not on substack’s side here, but that detail seems quite relevant if we’re interested in painting an accurate picture of what’s going on.

If they were putting Nazi content on substack and no individuals were subscribing to read it, they would be earning 0.

Substack is profiting from those same subscribers, no doubt.

It’s really worth reading the full article - but be sure you are prepared for the buckets of schadenfreude.