I just need to create a twitter account.

Thank you for your service 🫡

Tweet flattering content about anyone in the admin to trump followed by “why aren’t your ideas this good?” and wait for the fireworks

I wonder which billionaire is going to snap up bluesky once they’ve fattened their crop of highly engaged users

This is what happens when you sell all of the major news outlets to billionaires - they publish pro billionaire propaganda

Anyone want to place bets on how much of their “AI” medical advice was just medical students and low cost doctors overseas answering questions?

The conservative media machine has been splitting wedges between groups basically forever, it’s a convenient way to pit people against each other.

The DNC, in their infinite wisdom, took that political landscape and instead of bringing everyone together in a big tent decided to pick out specific identity groups to pander to and drove the original wedges clean through.

I’m almost convinced the DNC wants to lose at this point, they seem pretty content with the position of professional minority opposition - it’s a convenient place to be if you want to fundraise endlessly.

Middle America is about 20y behind the rest of us, this is the 90s gay marriage situation all over again. If the DNC actually wants to win elections they need to stop putting narrow identity groups front and center and run on their track record of positive economic policy for everyone or they’re going to lose every election for the next 20y (barring those won by voter backlash over catastrophic Republican admin fuck-ups.)

The DNC went too far down the identity politics rabbit hole and hasn’t quite realized that people in the identity demographics they want to Jenga together into 270 EC votes are willing to vote for the other side because they’re not happy with the DNC’s corporate profit economy.

The critical flaw in the DNC’s 20y old identity politics strategy is the assumption that these identity groups are monolithic. It’s a prejudiced as hell position to take that “these are the interests of all women” or “these are the interests of all black people” and yet that’s what the DNC has tried to do for the last three elections running. It should be painfully obvious at this point that this doesn’t work: women, PoC and Muslims voted for Trump in droves (or stayed home in protest) despite the front and center spending to bring those groups on side this election. Everyone’s tired of performative pandering and wants real economic and policy reform to help recover some of what was lost to the last couple of economic crashes and to inflation.

The meme is already stale but JFC they’ve learned nothing from the last two election losses - the Harris campaign was the 2016 Clinton campaign minus the fundraising dinners on Wall St.

That’s almost as good as this one I got months back

Friends don’t let friends use Manjaro

Use EndeavourOS or another Arch derivative instead.

You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

Don’t just look at sdb hits in the log. Open up that entire session in journalctl kernel mode (journalctl -k -bN where N is the session number in session history) and find the context surrounding the drive dropping and reconnecting.

You’ll probably find that something caused a USB bus reset or a similar event before the drive dropped and reconnected. if you find nothing like that try switching power supplies for the HDD and/or switching USB ports until you can move the drive to a different USB root port. Use lsusb -t and swap ports until the drive is attached beneath a different root port. You might have a neighboring USB device attached to the bus that’s causing issues for other devices attached to the same root port (it happens, USB devices or drivers sometimes behave badly.)

Always look at the context of the event when you’re troubleshooting a failure like this, don’t just drill down on the device messages. Most of the time the real cause of the issue preceded the symptom by a bit of time.

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The SSD you can use on its own, go buy an RTL9210B USB enclosure and you’ve got a nice and fast portable flash drive. I bought a handful of all metal 9210 enclosures on AliExpress for like $10/ea.

Sell the ram for fun money, there’s nothing you can do with it on its own.

There’s no real point to building a PC around 2x4gb ram, you can buy a mini PC with 8 or 16gb for $50 on fleaBay.

You see, the problem you’re having with capitalism is that you didn’t capitalism hard enough. Just one less regulation bro, that’ll fix everything bro.

Cost. You can pick up a j5005 machine for $35 on eBay.

Wall St has fallen out of love with musky boi

J5005 is a transcoding hero, just point it at a NAS and away you go.

That’s just going to make him more popular with his base.

I’ve used a Boox Nova Air for the last ~2½ years without issues. I bought it to use as a fast ~8in KOReader platform and it’s great for that purpose. I can’t speak about reliability issues as I haven’t had any.

After sale support seems kind of crummy so I’d buy using a credit card that offers a 1 or 2y warranty of its own as part of your card agreement.

The devices that seem to have the most problems with displays cracking are the 10 and 13in models, they seem like they’re significantly more fragile than a standard phone or tablet.