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- Comment on Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government 13 hours ago:
So, have you bitched at your state rep about it yet?
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
I could be wrong (I haven’t really paid attention lately), but I think the state of Linux on “smart” TVs is considerably more dire than the state of Android phones. At least with the latter, projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are a thing, whereas I know of zero third-party community firmware projects for TVs.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
Yes, it’s a damn shame that Linus is weak on property rights.
Because that’s what this actually is, by the way: violating the device owner’s property rights in order to prioritize the manufacturer’s temporary monopoly privilege over the software – which was only created for the sole and express purpose “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts” in the first place – above them.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
It should be a thing because most (all?) “smart TVs” run some variety of Linux, which, as Free Software, is supposed to guarantee the device owner’s right to modify the software running on the thing. However, in most (all?) cases, the practical ability to do that has been destroyed by subverting encryption functions against the owner in a process called Tivoization.
In other words:
- No, it isn’t really a thing,
- It’s wrong for it not to be a thing, and
- You should be pissed off about it.
- Comment on RIP 1 day ago:
You linked to
https://tenor.com/mM6CjkwT9UX.gif, which didn’t work.Stamets linked to
https://media1.tenor.com/m/n2hQ6Cmi7sIAAAAd/golden-girls-sophia.gif, which did work.I suspect your problem is grabbing the wrong link from tenor.com, not with Lemmy markdown.
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 4 days ago:
Yes, we’re talking about Valve, which has a vested interest in pushing gamers towards Linux in order to protect itself from anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
- Comment on B5A9FC 4 days ago:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 4 days ago:
It ought to tell them to upgrade to a more recent OS instead of being Windows-centric.
- Comment on Gonna need some bigger pockets 4 days ago:
No, this is concrete. Gold would’ve been even heavier.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 5 days ago:
Yes.
Not only can people be pretty dumb sometimes, once the screenshot is on the Internet, who knows where it might get reposted, potentially without context.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 5 days ago:
You should censor the scam bitcoin address when you screenshot things like this.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 days ago:
I wasn’t thinking of trying to regulate down the power on the heat gun itself, I was thinking of cycling it on and off (or cycling between heat and fan-only mode) to maintain thermostatic control of the temperature in the box.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 days ago:
I wonder if I could DIY an air fryer with a heat gun, a metal box, and a PID controller.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
It’s hardly going to help any to come out and announce that everything is fucked
Yes it fucking would! That kind of honest assessment of reality is exactly what millions of working-class people have been clamoring for from Democrats and not fucking getting!
And by “millions,” I mean more than the margin of victory.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
I mean, you say that, but even straight white guys often have wives and/or daughters.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
Or maybe what media thinks their job is isn’t what you think it should be. Maybe the media is deliberately promoting fascism for profit, has become our enemy, and needs to be destroyed.
- Comment on That’s wild. Which Wendy’s though? 1 week ago:
…and the results of your research are?
C’mon, man, don’t hold out on us!
- Comment on whatcha gonna watch? 1 week ago:
Honestly, as far as brutalist architecture goes, that one’s not too bad. I kinda like it, especially the cantilevers.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 1 week ago:
Aw man, no more new Rodek/Kurn content in Star Trek Online. 😢 (For those who don’t know, he’s been a voice actor in that game from 2017 to at least 2023 – I can’t remember if he’s been in the latest episode arc or not.)
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
What fuck up? Biden averted a major breakdown in supply chain, AND got the workers what they wanted. That’s a win, despite the repeated attempts at framing it as a failure.
What part of “it, and shit like it, cost Harris the election” do you not understand?
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
- Still less than half the sick days the workers originally demanded, and deserved.
- The damage to Biden’s reputation re: supporting the working class was already done.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
7 isn’t 15, which is what the workers were initially going to strike for (and deserved).
But yeah, keep intentionally misrepresenting recent history. It helped elect the guy who is so anti worker that he habitually stiffs his own workers of overtime, or refuses to pay them at all.
What in the time travel bullshit is this? You do understand that being honest about Biden’s fuck-ups now can’t do any more damage – and moreover, is necessary if there’s any hope to do better next time – right? If you’re going to accuse me of saying this stuff previously (when it would’ve been damaging), you’d better fucking bring receipts. Check my comment history. I’ll wait. And then you can fucking apologize!
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
The lip service given in supporting unions was belied by how Biden fucked over the railroad workers.
This is a lie that has been repeated time and time again. He fast followed the end of the strike with helping the workers get exactly what they wanted. He aided their negotiations AND got our supply lines back on line.
Nope, I did my homework on that one before posting it. From en.wikipedia.org/…/2022_United_States_railroad_la… :
Early on September 15, Biden announced a deal had been reached to prevent a strike, including an immediate 14% wage increase, but only one day of paid leave per year rather than the 15 days of paid sick leave unions wanted. … On December 1, the Senate passed the tentative agreement with only 1 day of sick leave. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law on December 2. The Biden administration’s intervention in the dispute was condemned by over 500 labor historians in an open letter to Joe Biden and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
What you’re missing is that all those plans you mentioned, while correct, were (a) just ‘plans’ with no follow-through to back them up and (b) too little, too late even if they were implemented.
- The “fight for $15” (minimum wage increase) has been going on for so long with zero [Federal] success that, due to inflation, it ought to be renamed “fight for $30” by now.
- The lip service given in supporting unions was belied by how Biden fucked over the railroad workers.
- Inequality (the gap between the working class and the 1%) is continuing to spiral out of control and the Democrats had very little to say about stopping it. It’s important to remember that “tax the rich” was only supported by the progressive subset of the Democratic Party.
- We need zoning reform coupled with switching from property tax to land-value tax, to stop enabling the hoarding of underdeveloped property by protecting it from market forces (i.e. real reforms to make housing affordable again).
- We also need things like vigorous enforcement of anti-trust law and consumer protection laws, so that the public feels (and is) less exploited by corporations.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Here’s a tip: that waiter should unionize.
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 1 week ago:
In a lot of cases it’s not actually fast, but people would apparently rather sit in traffic than cook, for some reason.
- Comment on [mod reminder] Please read the rules 1 week ago:
race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
🎵 One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong, 🎶 - Comment on Is there any, any takeaways at all from the next 4 years that's about to happen? 1 week ago:
Even before the pandemic we were seeing the negative effects he was having on our economy.
Let’s not beat around the bush here: trying to stave off the impending recession due to Trump’s disastrous tax giveaway to the wealthy and trade war with China is why the Fed was already lowering interest rates in 2019, and therefore had no levers left to pull when the pandemic hit.
IMO the pandemic actually helped Trump by letting him off the hook for his economic fuck-ups.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Don’t underestimate the pissed off poor. The Dems kept telling them that things weren’t so bad while the Reps said they’d change things.
Okay, but those aren’t the single-issue Gaza voters OP was asking about.
Frankly, they should’ve been what OP was asking about though, because they were a way bigger factor (and always are, in every election, despite the Democrats abject refusal to acknowledge it).
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 1 week ago:
The fuck are you talking about? You’re the one who said it, not me.
