Sledgehammer.

Years ago, we used a drill press. And I’m not kidding.

Reports of Russia’s Wagner fighting for Hamas in Gaza, along with providing intelligence, planning, and weapons. Israel overreacts, causing mass civilian casualties. Russia then uses this as propaganda to justify their civilian slaughter in Ukraine. While Iran, who has provided weapons and support to Russia in their war against Ukraine, sits back and plays the plausible deniability game. It also uses up munitions and supplies that otherwise would have gone to Ukraine.

This is a coordinated play by the China-Russia-Iran axis. WWIII has begun.

I’m having a lot of trouble with it. Doesn’t run my commercial apps (that do run on 20.04) and it crashes regularly on dual my GPU setup.

BeeHaw admins’ critique of Lemmy software, and the broken incentives for toxicity that follows from duplicating Reddit, are spot on. It’s not just the people, it’s the behavioral incentives that come with its system design.

You have a neighbor experimenting with Sandkings!

Good for them. May they enjoy their lost customers.

I’ll stick with X11 until they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

$ yt-dlp [URL]

For all the bogosities and bullshit of Element/Matrix, fact is it’s still the only protocol and platform I trust for private comms.

I said the business model is not inherently deceptive. Doesn’t mean bad actors still won’t try to deceive.

I’m fine with these companies charging to use their service, as long as they respect privacy rights in the process. I wouldn’t pay for it just the same. But at least that model isn’t inherently deceptive.

Ah. Thank you. I’m using the web interface.

How does one filter submitted external links in Lemmy? Honest question.

The issue is that Google locks down the bootloader. Nothing prevents the compute and display hardware from running a traditional Linux distribution, but that “trusted” bootloader does.

You look at them funny and they’ll confiscate your passport and leave you stranded behind the border. That’s if they’re in a good mood.

Buy a Xiao MI band and run GadgetBridge. There are other fitness watches it supports too, but the Xiao MI band is cheap and good enough. GadgeBridge stores all data locally and you won’t send your health data to China for analysis.

Bullshit. I’ve been to China and there’s no fucking way I’d go back with pooh bear in charge. It’s dangerous for westerners now. No joke.

I’d argue girth matters more than length. But please, let the banana spider that bit me inject thin banana superpowers.

It’s just a request!

I would like to be able to extrude fresh, delicious, bananas from my ass. Difficult and uncomfortable, I’m sure. But I’d never go hungry again!

My father was alive - and a smoker! - when the FDA issued its warning about the risks of smoking tobacco in the late 1950s.

He was still smoking four packs a day in the 1970s. He died young as a result.

Google’s statement is somewhat hyperbole in comparison to physical addiction. But Google is abusing their position and market dominance. Antitrust enforcement is warranted.