circuitfarmer

The Trump administration is descending has descended into authoritarianism

Ah, got it. Thanks.

I took the sentence “From a Republican…” as OP saying they were a Republican who had changed their view (since it isn’t really a full sentence… alas).

Wishful thinking, I guess.

You said you thought she was the lesser of two evils. I’m not sure how that is believing Trump’s words, as you said in the original post.

What period?

Edit: nm, got it. Period in OP.

Then how was it that you “believed Trump’s words”?

Edit: apparently the part in OP starting “From a Republican…” is not meant to imply that OP is a Republican. As it lacked a main verb, I assumed it was ultimately meant as a relative clause and misassigned it to “I”. Leaving this comment anyway but it doesn’t apply to OP.

I appreciate you taking the time to write this post, and I appreciate you noticing this trend.

But I’ve got to be honest: the writing was on the wall the whole time. Being in the Republican bubble doesn’t really change the fact that you only get here from a lack of critical thinking and a general susceptibility to propaganda. These are things that many people spend time and resources getting educated about. It’s hard to have sympathy when the whole country is now suffering because so many were so sure they knew better.

If I sound angry, I am. I do hope you take it constructively, but you also need to understand: most of the damage has already been done. It doesn’t really matter how you feel from here on out, because the deed (from voters) is done.

Ok boomer

I used to have a side system with /home on its own partition precisely to learn different distros and setups. It makes it much easier having a partition which is retained.

These days, qemu is your friend for playing around with random Linux stuff.

Newpipe can also be used as a full-on replacement to the YouTube app or YouTube in a browser. It allows for background music, or video and audio downloads for offline enjoyment.

The apk has to be sideloaded, of course.

Yes, bigger than that. I have tried Clementine.

I really just want a media player that:

1. Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)

2. Has ReplayGain support (lots do)

3. Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)

Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.

Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.

I tend to use food names, like tomato and sausage. But no potato, and definitely no apple.

I also utilize the special-use domain home.arpa for all my LAN systems, so accidental collisions are largely impossible.

Corpos always use socialism to their full advantage, and then they privatize their resulting profits. This is Business 101 now, in the US at least.

The shocking part is that the rich have been able to convince so many that they take no corporate handouts, or at least that they don’t rely on them, so that some people genuinely believe you can get that rich by hard work alone.

The reality is, the only way to get that rich (aside from starting as a nepo-baby, which so often is the case) is by stealing from others. Whether that theft is wage theft or taking corporate handouts (=taxpayer dollars) without paying equally or more back into the system – it’s all still theft.

This. There is no practical reason to separate privacy and security in this way.

If bad actors can access your data without your consent, it doesn’t matter if you call it a breach of privacy or security. It’s still a breach. At best, playing semantics like this allows a corp to claim a system filled with backdoors is “secure”. Utter marketing nonsense.

If When

Whew, good thing I heard there will be no new wars with Trump as US president

Tax dollars are definitely being stolen… by this unelected buffoon

Maybe it has to be vim in emacs on an emac

I suspect the world would collapse into some kind of singularity if someone ever ran vim on an emac.

It’s a bad movie.

It would be a bad movie even if it weren’t Star Trek.

As Star Trek, it seems like an even worse movie.

Stop making slop. If you don’t want to put the time in to give established IP the attention it deserves, get new IP.