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octopus_ink ,

I’ve been shocked to see how many people put their own bigotry and racism before working for a company that will give you the best quality of life and pay.

These are the people who have made it their political identity to vote against their own interests, so it shouldn’t be surprising.

octopus_ink ,

Yesterday I opened a box of fruit loops. I found myself wondering when conservatives would say they were too woke because of the rainbow colors.

A Texas school's punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial (apnews.com)

A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law....

octopus_ink ,

imagine taking time out of your day to punish someone over their hair and thinking you’re a noble servant of the barber’s hill tradition. what the fuck dude

When you think “being an American requires conformity” and consider yourself the arbiter of that conformity, it makes pretty good sense. Especially if you are a racist old shitbag.

octopus_ink ,

Tell me you haven’t paid attention to the details of the case without telling me you haven’t paid attention to the details of the case.

octopus_ink ,

Yeah. The CROWN Act is the only reason I have any hope at all. Otherwise, I’d say this kid is fucked.

I just want to point out that my understanding is that this school district is the reason for the CROWN Act, adding yet another layer of stupid to how the superintendent is conducting himself.

octopus_ink ,

These people wave flags and pretend they embody American ideals when they’ve never even understood those ideals, much less even made an effort to live up to them.

Remember, these are the same people who were amazed to find that RATM was not only political, but held positions in opposition to theirs. They assume all worthy ideals conform to their worldview, and consistently fail to look any deeper until forced to do so.

octopus_ink ,

the rules weren’t racial, I’m white and one of the times I had cornrows.

If cornrows were banned, it absolutely was racist, they just accidentally caught a white person too

www.byrdie.com/history-of-cornrows-5193458

It poses an even bigger issue when, in more recent times, Black people are still discriminated against based on their hair texture and choices, including cornrows. In 1980, Renee Rogers sued American Airlines when the company demanded she not wear cornrows to work. In 2000, a Wisconsin teacher forcibly cut off seven-year-old Lamya Cammon’s plaits before her grade-school class. These instances don’t include the countless cases of discrimination that go unreported or unspoken. “That’s why it’s so important that when you see cornrows today, it’s so important to recognize that Black people are discriminated against and even face job loss for wearing cornrows,” Donaldson stresses. “Non-Black people just don’t.”

In 1999 Venus Williams wore cornrows with beaded ends, which were declared disruptive at the Australian Open. Only two years ago in 2019, Gabrielle Union filed a discrimination complaint against her employer, America’s Got Talent, after receiving racially insensitive comments in regards to her hair, including that her styles were “too Black.” It paints a clear picture of the disparities between Black traits and styles and the people who are policed versus those glorified.

octopus_ink ,

Because people are already jumping to conclusions without reading the article. Here is the core of the survey data. Identifying as Republican went from 32% in the Boomer Generation to 21% in Gen Z. Identifying as LGBTQ+ went from 4% with Boomers to 28% with Gen Z.

The conclusion I would have jumped to is that the percentage of Gen Z who identified as LGBTQ+ would be greater than that who identified as Republican. So it seems I don’t actually need to read it. 😜

octopus_ink ,

I’m already here. Make sure you vote. 😁

octopus_ink ,

If they start saying they’re going to force companies to take accountability for their impact on the climate, pledge to give the country a UBI, and socialized healthcare, I’d vote for a “Republican” so fast that I’d need new tires.

I’m willing to go along with that, but with the recognition that between now and when we both die of old age we’ve got a greater chance of seeing absolute proof of intelligent extraterrestrial life than we do of seeing this happen believably enough for either of us to actually pull that lever.

octopus_ink ,

It still seems to be the only browser on my phone that will reflow the text after I zoom a page. To whoever is about to tell me what I should have already known about that also does that, thank you!

octopus_ink ,

Ah, future “people don’t want to work anymore” fodder.

I like showing this to people at every opportunity. 😀

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/28ddc60e-15ec-4235-8b78-f0e28a70df35.jpeg

octopus_ink , (edited )

Why would people pay for pirated media? lmao

For several years (at least half a decade) I used a service that provided live TV for most major networks, and reliable, easy to access streaming of literally every televised sport I ever heard of, and many that I didn’t know existed or didn’t expect to be televised.

It was easy to use, had all the live TV we cared for (incl and especially sporting events, which was the only thing we weren’t already getting by legit streaming services or other means, and which we cared about watching live vs later ) for 30 bucks a month. I started using it right after I forked out a couple hundred bucks to the NHL only to find that doing so just made it so that it cost me a lot of money to be blacked out from the games we cared to watch.

It was what we all want streaming services to be - reliable, comprehensive, high quality, easy to use, and cheap.

That’s why.

Edited to add - the service went down last year. I know of no similar replacement, but given this article they must exist.

octopus_ink ,

The solution is so easy. Make your content available at a reasonable price, make it easy to use, don’t restrict it by geography, and let people watch it on any device that can connect to your service.

Piracy is about ease of use (it’s getting even easier), and about value. DRM has repeatedly been shown to hurt only the people who try to pay for legitimate access. Not a single time has it prevented me from getting a copy of something if I wanted to, and it’s clearly not stopping people from providing those copies or streams.

So stop wasting bathtubs of money on stopping piracy, but maybe take a few less buckets of money from consumers in exchange for your service. As long as you price it such that the cost of being legit can’t compete with the ease of use and value from piracy, some folks aren’t going to make the choice you want them to.

Some folks won’t be able to spend on your service anyway, because they just can’t afford it - but they still might buy other merchandise, they can still spread how great your show is to their friends who possibly will subscribe to your service, but regardless you aren’t going to get their dollars no matter what you do. So stop trying.

octopus_ink , (edited )

Dunno. Less than what things cost now? I think knocking down the geographic restrictions and letting people watch it on any device or OS that can connect are likely bigger fights than pricing, if the industry actually cared to solve the problem.

It’s not as if we don’t have examples of this. Yes, some people still pirate music. Roughly 20 years ago, almost literally everyone with the knowhow was pirating music. (And with services like kazaa, emule, etc, it took very little knowhow)

You know what didn’t solve it? Prosecuting consumers, high prices, and DRM.

What solved it was when Apple started selling legit music for 99 cents per track, and keeping album costs reasonable. (Much as I hate to give apple any credit.) Spotify, amazon, etc all got on board, and now almost no one pirates music. (I pre-apologize for whatever detail I misremembered there - that was a long time ago.)

Am I saying that exact model will apply to video streaming services? No, but what’s not going to do it is prosecuting consumers, high prices, and DRM. We have decades of proof of this.

People like getting stuff for free even if they can afford it.

Some people will pirate no matter what. You can worry about them, or you can worry about everybody else. At some point (and I suspect we’re well past it) the return on investment has got to start looking pretty bad for all the money and technology they have tried to throw at piracy.

octopus_ink ,

Sorry I didn’t mean you personally. I was speaking generally to the content providers. 😁

octopus_ink ,

We’ve really been weighing whether we use Netflix enough to justify the cost lately. Don’t push us, Netflix.

octopus_ink ,

I think you overestimate how much the average traveler who may die when parts fall off cares or is parsing whether it’s Boeing’s mistake or Delta’s. What I’m taking from the headline (we need to get our shit together before a bunch of people die) is different than what you seem to be worried about people taking from the headline.

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Gentle reminder to everyone that support for ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly distro like . It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

octopus_ink ,

These are both thoughts you should hold in perpetuity anyhow.

octopus_ink , (edited )

I think this thread shows it’s very hardware/driver dependent?

I’m posting from Wayland running on Plasma 5, on 100% recent gen intel hardware, and as far as I’ve been able to tell I have zero deficiencies that matter in functionality. (aside from whatever little bugs surely exist that I’m not noticing - and big things no one really has yet like HDR)

I don’t have much sympathy for the haters who think we shouldn’t be moving to Wayland ever, but every recent thread seems to confirm that Nvidia and possibly other HW configs are still likely to be problematic.

octopus_ink ,

I’ve got a 3.5k 13" display and have only noticed scaling issues with xwayland apps (which Plasma warns you of) - but I’m not disputing your point, there are clearly rough edges some folks see that others don’t.

octopus_ink ,

Just want to say this has been a rollercoaster to read @eager_eagle and @Shdwdrgn. That is all.

octopus_ink ,

Same guy will unironically put his hand over his heart and belt out “Land of the free and home of the brave”

Only for conformists, apparently.

octopus_ink ,

Probably 100% packed by Moms For Liberty.

octopus_ink ,

This guy thinks we’re still in an era where an old white man with a little bit of power can just proclaim something and it will be treated as fact.

Granted, if Trump wins in November we’ll be in that era again, but for now…

octopus_ink ,

I’m increasingly convinced they think Gilead is portrayed as a reasonable goal.

octopus_ink ,

I’d have been grateful.

I think it’s entirely reasonable to see something obviously missing on the wing of a plane, even something small, and wonder what else isn’t properly secured. I’m sure a plane with four missing allen head screws on that panel is fine. I wouldn’t fly on it without an assurance that it wasn’t a sign of other poor practices.

octopus_ink ,

Linux would have to manifest a physical fist that punched me in the face every so often in order for me to quit using it. (I’m just shy of 20 years since abandoning Windows)

My reasons:

  • So far there hasn’t been something I’ve wanted to do on Linux that wasn’t doable - and most of the time (especially these days) it’s easier.
  • Everything MS has done in the consumer space post Win-2K
  • Everything Apple has done.
octopus_ink , (edited )

Yep. Police testimony without video corroboration carries no weight for me. Fight me. (not you personally)

Edit: Removed the word “hearsay” because I was using it wrong.

octopus_ink ,

I was using it to mean “not any more reliable than a statement from any person I don’t intrinsically trust” - but I see your point and accept your correction if such is the case.

Police testimony means nothing to me without some form of corroboration, and if it’s their description of how or why they killed someone, that corroboration should be video or very convincing non-police witnesses.

octopus_ink ,

Yeah it seems I used the word wrong. I accept your correction, but I hope the point I was trying to make is still clear. 🙂

octopus_ink ,

Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special it’s not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement.

This one detail is responsible for the kernel of sadness I feel for many on the far right. These are despicable people who were once kids who just wanted to be grownups and do grownup things. And whether due to genetics or due to upbringing, anything else that might have given them a sense of pride and competence is not something they have. As you say - all they have left is trying to push others down, hoping this lands them on top. Damn it’s truly sad.

octopus_ink ,

The thing is - I feel bad for them for feeling like they are no one, for feeling like this is all they have. I can pretty easily get myself into a mindset where I want to give some of these folks a hug, and tell them they matter. I think many of us have felt worthless at times, either due to circumstances, due to depression, whatever.

But then I see what their voting habits are doing to this country and to our governing bodies, and that gets buried under piles of anger.

octopus_ink , (edited )

Just to be clear, nearly every (edit: modern) handgun you’ve ever seen, pistols included, is almost certainly a semi-automatic. I’m sure there are exceptions, but AFAIK, any (edit: modern) handgun that’s not a revolver (or something weird like a derringer) is going to be semi-auto.

As someone who grew up around guns (but is not currently a gun owner), and if I planned to buy my child a gun prior to adulthood, I probably would start my kid with a BB gun at a younger age, then likely a revolver before going to semi-auto, but I wouldn’t feel like either of those are choices that are the only safe ones. (If we’ve cleared the hurdle of considering a 15 year old owning a gun to be safe at all.)

Revolver:

Revolver

octopus_ink ,

Well The Onion is damn near prophetic sometimes.

theonion.com/nextdoor-user-comes-right-out-and-as…

Also: Fuck you Republicans.

I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

octopus_ink ,

So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows

Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There’s no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁

Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!

octopus_ink ,

I never even wondered about it until you asked lol. But the answer is pretty interesting.

Origin is this scene from a very old film called Freaks. youtu.be/bBXyB7niEc0

movies.stackexchange.com/a/24069

octopus_ink ,

Same! Apparently it’s been referenced in bunches of other things though.

octopus_ink ,

FWIW link works fine for me (looking at other responses here).

Plasma’s global Edit Mode toolbar now has an “Add Panel” button that lets you add panels. With this located there, the desktop context menu has now lost its “Add Widgets” and “Add Panels” menu items since the functionality is fully available in the global Edit Mode. This makes the menu smaller and less overwhelming by default. Of course, if you want those menu items back, you can just re-add them. 🙂

I know it’s not a competition, but that right there encapsulates what I see as the philosophy difference between KDE and other teams. I love Plasma as a user, but this sort of thing is why I arrived here from there in the first place. Am I going to put those menu items back? Nope. But I like that the possibility I might want to matters to the team.

octopus_ink ,

I have to admit I am a little bit of a Gnome hater, because I was a very happy Gnome 2.6(?) user when they moved my cheese (and then moved it again, and again, and again) - Gnome was for me until they decided I wasn’t the kind of user they wanted anymore.

Having said that, I appreciate the point you are making, and I only (tangentially) referenced Gnome in my first comment because the contrast is huge. KDE likes you to use the system how you want. (and it’s one of the things I love about KDE) Gnome likes you to use the system how they want. That’s all there is to it, regardless of how reasonable the logic behind that distinction may be.

octopus_ink ,

Wonderful. What are we gonna do about it?

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octopus_ink ,

Wow, I don’t pay as much attention to developments in the space as I did a few years ago and I can see I should start to again. These are some pretty interesting distros you’ve linked.

octopus_ink ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c635966e-27f5-4026-a3b5-a9c17f3ee8be.jpeg

octopus_ink , (edited )

I don’t even think that article adequately conveys how thoroughly racist the roots of it is. They don’t even quote the awful things Anslinger said to justify cannabis prohibition.

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”

“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”

“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

fee.org/…/the-racist-roots-of-marijuana-prohibiti…

And then there’s this from Nixon staffer John Ehrlichman:

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/…/index.html

octopus_ink ,

I haven’t done a vanilla arch install for years either, because if that sort of thing is fun for some folks great, but it was only fun once or twice for me. I think a lot of the vanilla arch faithful end up scripting it for fresh installs.

But, FWIW there’s always endeavouros, manjaro, and I’m sure other Arch derivatives I’ve forgotten about. I just did an endeavouros install on new hardware I was given last weekend, and it’s certainly no harder to install than Ubuntu.

octopus_ink ,

When folks start wanting it, someone will package it for the AUR, or if it becomes even somewhat mainstream it will end up in the main repos eventually.

octopus_ink ,

Usually what you describe is what they do. Someone “owns” the AUR package (and it’s not quite literally any random user IIRC - you have to be accepted as an AUR maintainer I think) and they then take on the responsibility to repackage it whenever the author (you) releases a new version. There is also a mechanism for users to flag the AUR package as out of date in case that maintainer misses a release, and if they abandon it (or even if folks just don’t like how they package it) someone else can package it, assuming someone else wants to.

Sometimes the AUR maintainer is the dev themselves. I can’t think of a good example currently, but I know I’ve seen it before.

I don’t know the process for how things end up in the official repos, but I would guess it’s similar to however any other distros identify software they want to officially package.

Fatal shooting of University of South Carolina student who tried to enter wrong home 'justifiable,' police say (www.nbcnews.com)

The homeowner who fatally shot a 20-year-old University of South Carolina student who tried to enter the wrong home on the street he lived on Saturday morning will not face charges because the incident was deemed “a justifiable homicide” under state law, Columbia police announced Wednesday....

octopus_ink ,

If I roll out of bed to the sounds of someone banging on my door, trying my doorknob, then breaking a window to get in - I’m probably going to believe that shots will start flying through the door in my direction if I confront them at that point, and/or that they intend to harm me or my family, not that they will politely go away if I ask them to, especially in the fog of having just awakened.

I’m not a gun owner, but if I had one, I doubt I’d consider a warning in that case. Without the escalation to smashing my window I’m likely to handle it differently.

Same thing happens in the middle of the day while I’m wide awake, maybe I interpret it differently. Maybe.

I agree that deadly force isn’t appropriate to protect property. I don’t agree that protecting property is what was likely going through this person’s head.

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