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some_guy ,

The McDonald’s across from my apt building recently closed despite having a line around the corner of the block for weekend drive through in the mornings.

Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)

A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays “should be castrated”, and a virulently homophobic founder of a “militaristic” Christian boys camp....

some_guy ,

Queue the interview (in South Africa, I think, but could be wrong): “Why are you gay? Why should people be gay?”

How Ken Paxton is stretching the boundaries of consumer protection laws to pursue political targets (www.texastribune.org)

Consumer protection laws give attorneys general broad legal authority to request a wide range of records when investigating businesses or charities for allegations of deceptive or fraudulent practices, such as gas stations that hike up fuel prices during hurricanes, companies that run robocalling phone scams and unscrupulous...

some_guy ,

Paxton and Abbott are some of the worst of the worst. They are so nakedly corrupt and anti-democratic that I’m still shocked by their actions, which is saying a lot.

Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)

Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....

some_guy ,

The US president had threatened to cut off the supply of arms for use in any Rafah offensive, but his administration has not delivered on that threat, arguing that the assault on the city did not amount to a major operation as it did not involve large numbers of troops.

What a relief to know that when we bombed the shit out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki we weren’t involved in major operations. There were only a small number of troops involved, so I guess they were more skirmishes. I’ll sleep better knowing that.

Sigh… I just have to put my head down and avoid most news or my mental health suffers from feeling so helpless and outraged.

some_guy ,

Do you mean the successor WebOS? Cause I thought that was pretty cool when I test-drove it in a mobile store.

some_guy ,

The only one of these that I know is Haiku (as an extension of BeOS). I was already a Mac user when Apple was flirting with purchasing Be, so I installed in on my PowerMac 9500 and took it for a test spin. I liked it, though I was too young and inexperienced (and this was pre-broadband) to really get a good feel for it. I think I switched back to MacOS within a day just because what else did I know to do with it.

some_guy ,

The simplified menu now features exciting additions like green chilli cornbread and a hashbrown casserole shepherd’s pie.

I don’t find those the least bit exciting.

some_guy ,

For that run. 45700x total.

some_guy ,

Mr Show had an awesome opening sketch regarding the popemobile back in the day. They were way ahead of their time.

The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish (apnews.com)

Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it....

some_guy ,

For journalists, it raises a question: Should public officials’ families be held to the same standards as the officials themselves?

Ginny Thomas has a dissenting opinion on this question. Piece of shit trash. I hate these people.

some_guy ,

I mean, there’s so much more important things to fight about, like litter boxes in classrooms. The news is just woke.

If I have to say it, you’re bad at doing internet.

some_guy ,

The damage was already done. Fuck Vanity Fair.

some_guy ,

I’m hopeful but wary. Medical science keeps being the one thing left in this world that consistently makes me happy to be alive in modern times. This would be a great breakthrough.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

some_guy ,

Slap the bottoms of his bare feet with reeds until he complies. /s

If you want to persuade your friend down the road to give it another shot, try asking what things he’d like to do and see if you can configure everything in advance. It’s impossible to predict all future desires, but knocking out some of the bigger ones could help. Honestly, I’d be surprised if he tries again any time soon. Can’t blame him. We all have different levels of tolerance for drudgery vs wanting things to just work.

some_guy ,

Iraq was sorta, but that was also playing on the damaged psyches of people who had been attacked in a way never thought possible. It was obviously lies and a lot of us could see it from the start. But we were told to luv it err leave it by people who don’t know the meaning of “free speech.” I wasn’t around for Vietnam, but the difference there was that people were being drafted to go and die.

So this is the first mass movement of the sort where Americans don’t directly have skin in the game, other than Apartheid. And I don’t think that was anywhere on the scale of these other three, but I was a little kid and will defer to those who have more perspective on the matter.

some_guy ,

States in this country have laws forbidding people from holding certain jobs or collecting insurance for natural disasters if they speak against Israel / Zionism. There was a bit about it on Last Week Tonight a while back, before Oct 7. You should be able to find it on YouTube.

some_guy ,

The simps will be confounded by your use of vocabulary. Just imagine the ignoramuses and their drooling confusion. It almost makes me feel sorry for them.

This is sarcasm building upon the sarcasm of the previous post. I don’t give two fucks about this meme but I know people resent Discord as a substitute for forums. Those people are clearly Neanderthals, a species we now know to have had culture but certainly not computers.

some_guy ,

Bullshit bullshit bullshit. My parents were traditional and fucked up all three of their kids. We don’t need new scapegoats. We need a better society.

To be fair, they loved us and provided for us and had the best of intentions and still fucked us up by being dysfunctional both on their own and in their relationship.

[SOLVED] [Manjaro XFCE] Trying to mount an SSD but gives me a "Failed to mount" error

I’m trying to mount one of my SSDs on my systems but it gives me this error when trying to mount from File System: “Failed to mount “New Volume” - No object for D-Bus interface.” If I go into Gparted and check the description of the device in question it gives me this: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3). Failed to...

some_guy ,

This is one of those threads that I’m saving to my read-it-later app of choice because you never know. Awesome work, d3Xt3r.

I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.

Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...

some_guy ,

So, we had an office whose building enclosed a tiny parking lot, maybe six or seven spaces. Two guys showed up with leaf blowers. Our location put us on the edge of the space with a door and windows making the noise quite prominent.

An hour in, my buddy said something to the effect of, “I wish they’d be done soon. They’re giving me a headache.” Queue other buddy cracking up hysterically. Turns out, he’d surreptitiously tuned our stereo (hooked up to a computer) to a youtube channel of leaf blowers blowing for hours. None of us caught on. The actual guys with blowers had been gone for a long time.

It’s still one of the funniest pranks anyone has pulled on me and I’m still mad at him for it.

some_guy ,

Sounds about right. The Israel Lobby is fucking strong.

some_guy ,

The Asahi team never fails to impress. You can support the project at their Patreon. You don’t need to care about Apple hardware to see the value in the work they’re doing getting ported over to ARM PCs. Who knows? You might be donating to the health of your preferred distro on a device you will own down the road.

some_guy ,

But think of the tax implications for her and the congratulatory slaps on the back. See? The system works.

some_guy ,

I’m sorry, but that just broke the meter on my cuteness radar. I’ll be petitioning your insurance for the repair.

some_guy ,

I’m sorry that this link is on FB, but that’s what came up on a web search. Mr Show was so ahead of its time.

www.facebook.com/…/5651748361537771/

some_guy ,

I mean, when you’ve got the backing of the USA behind you, you can sorta get away with that.

some_guy ,

I remember when I was trying to break into the Linux sysadmin role. Every job required 3-5y professional experience. I’d had a homelab for a while and was reasonably experienced with a number of things, but there was absolutely no willingness to bring on a newbie and train them up. It was super frustrating. How will I ever get any experience if you won’t hire anyone without years of experience?

some_guy ,

Tip: you probably had it set on the Red Bull Extreme Sports BMX setting.

some_guy ,

I don’t know how much longer we’ll let this go on, but I sure wish Biden would grow a pair and admit that Israel('s government, but many of its talking heads, also) is a bunch of liars and murderers.

Oh, wait. The White House is color blind and didn’t recognize all the red lines that have been crossed because they all appeared to be shades of gray. Now it makes sense. No one is to blame. /s

some_guy ,

Stop reading my mind and posting three hours before I get to or I’ll resume wearing my tinfoil hat.

some_guy ,

I recognize the Sea Peoples. I have an article open on my phone with new research on them that I need to go back and read. I’m really good at opening links to things I want to read later and then letting them accumulate.

Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome

Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...

some_guy ,

The project has a Patreon page. I’d encourage anyone who’s interested to consider supporting their work. I’ve been a subscriber since the Patreon started and I don’t even use Asahi. I installed it once to kick the tires and it was very impressive, but I like the Apple ecosystem. I just also like choice.

some_guy ,

I’ve got some old machines lying around (Intel mini and Intel air). I tried to go Linux today on the air. Tried Rocky, then Fedora, then Mint Cinnamon, then Mint Xfce. Couldn’t get the trackpad and kbd working. Plugging in external devices worked, but that meant juggling a kbd and mouse with the flash drive installer (only two USB-C). Then I had to juggle them with a USB-C power cable when the battery faded.

I know there are steps to make it all work with Apple’s T2 chip, but it just wasn’t worth it to me. I have two docks that I could use, but they’re driving two displays and a bunch of peripherals on my main machine, a MacBook Pro. I don’t expect I’ll run Linux on a Mac laptop until I retire my M1 air and install Asahi. It was so seamless when I tested it out that the rest just feels like burning valuable time.

I’ll prolly still convert the old mini, since all that noise won’t apply. Just WiFi drivers and such, which is much easier with four usb ports and ethernet.

If I really wanted a dedicated full-time Linux laptop, I’d probably buy a Framework since I find their hardware interesting. But as it stands, this was more of a fun project that turned out not so fun. I’ll stick with R-Pi’s and hypervisor VMs for my Linux needs for anything serious. Just ordered a new NUC today to replace one that was getting long in the tooth.

some_guy ,

Sorry, wrong target. Sue the cops who didn’t act. Oh, wait. They’re basically untouchable. Well, I guess sue yourselves for having children in America. That’s about the only case you might win.

some_guy ,

“You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016,” Quaglin told McFadden, who was nominated to the court by then-President Donald Trump in 2017.

Can’t even get his insults factually correct.

Quaglin complained about his jail conditions and pushed conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 siege during his rambling remarks in the courtroom. He also took issue with labeling the Jan. 6 attack as an insurrection.

You see judge, I was actually an antifa agitator, not a right-wing shithead trying to interfere with an election certification. You don’t understand my case at all!

some_guy ,

They tried to give him a tv show. The premise was having people from opposite backgrounds swap lives. I watched one episode. It was shit.

He had one good (gimmicky) idea. The findings were shaky. It was still entertaining. Cancer is a son of a bitch.

some_guy ,

I was going to ask if he was related to Sexual Harassment Panda. But your comment was better.

some_guy ,

While I take your point, a quick search reveals that:

Giant pandas are not latrine-using animals – they urinate and defecate wherever they happen to be and whatever they happen to be doing at the moment.

So the litter boxes in schools wouldn’t help this dirtbag and the poor janitorial staff will be stuck cleaning his shit off the floors.

some_guy ,

Recently quit drinking. Went to hit my disposable (only because I only got high once every few months or I’d have bought a refillable vape) and it was dead. Went to a shop yesterday to replace it. Found the gummies that we’d bought last year while doing spring cleaning.

We have a lot planned for today (Saturday) including going into farmland where you can pay to pick fresh fruit plus running some errands. But I’m getting high tonight.

some_guy ,

My mother caught me high as fuck when I was ~16yo and asked me, “Have you been smoking the pot?”

The pot.

I laughed so hard it was impossible to lie that I wasn’t high.

some_guy ,

Grazie! (I had to look up how to spell it.)

some_guy ,

It means it’s allergy season (spring).

some_guy ,

Start a youtube channel. You’ll be raking in money via Patreon in no time. Try to team up with the raw-meat steroid shithead to increase viewership.

some_guy ,

Yeah, but there’s a difference between white-hat hacking (where you find an exploit, test it once to confirm its validity, and report it without abusing it) and actually modifying a bunch of records (the equivalent of what this would be). White-hatting tries to be minimally-destructive while proving the vulnerability.

some_guy ,

Look, the most important voices are the non-scholastic billionaire donors. Why would you care about the opinions of those engaged in pedagogy? This is a business, not a school!

some_guy ,

Silly human. You used earthling mathematics. On Mars (where Lonnie is from), physics works a different way. See? Lonnie is the genius all his sycophants say he is.

some_guy ,

Any settement that doesn’t penalize non-reactive cops is too little, imo.

some_guy ,

She even stored them upside down. Treacherous shithead.

You might need to have read other stuff to get this joke. It’s not my job to provide backstory.

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