Fair enough lol

Something something dancers apparently aren’t humans (according to The Killers)

This same thing, amongst other excellent recent pro-consumer rulings?

SCP? Sane Clown Posse?

Protectionism is a valid reason to deny it

No it isn’t. Protectionism is jingoist bullshit. Always has been, always will be.

I wonder if denying Chinese tech under the guise of national security a last ditch attempt from big oil lobbyists?

Definitely. The leadership of both major US parties are pretty much owned by the fossil fuel industries.

Even progressives advocating for the Green New Deal won’t say the part about gradually eliminating fossil fuel use out loud out of fear of fossil fuel industry lobbyists and the politicians they own doing an AIPAC.

Or is that too far fetched

Not at all.

As someone who considered Suits somewhat of a guilty pleasure, that ad is absolute mirthless garbage lol. The top comment on the video is spot on.

Guess they had a visiting editor from The Daily Beast in charge of headlines for a day 🤷

Have you ever tried any modern Linux desktop distribution?

Yeah, the last one I tried was Lubuntu Jammy Jellyfish a few months ago.

Pop was the one I tried first, but the ancient laptop I was using at the time couldn’t hack it, so I went with the ultra light weight version of Ubuntu in stead.

Very little worked out of the box and almost everything took a lot more fiddling and searching and asking for advice to get to work. For example, I never did manage to make bottles work after over a week of trying on and off, doing exactly what the documentation and advice told me to.

I haven’t gotten to the gaming part of my Tiny11 test, so if it fails that, I might give Pop another chance now that I have a much newer one, but Lubuntu is definitely not as hassle free as Linux enthusiasts keep promising that all their favorite distros are…

To be fair, alternatives like Tiny11 are much more user friendly for someone used to Windows than going all the way to Linux.

Especially if gaming is a big part of what you use your computer for and you prefer to do as much as possible with just the mouse rather than typing in various complex commands, both of which is the case with me.

Windows 11 is too bloated and otherwise enshittified and making Linux do what I want it to is too much of a hassle.

Tiny11 is better for my personal use case on both accounts and, like with Linux, I’m not rewarding Microsoft’s sleazy behavior by using it.

I’m testing out Tiny11, which is basically Windows 11 without the bloat, and so far the experience is great!

My secondhand laptop from 2019 went from taking two minutes or more each to boot and to shut down in the full Microsoft monstrosity to less than 10 seconds for either in Tiny11 and the general performance is also dramatically improved!

Ffs! This is one of the most blatant Dem* examples of the fox guarding the hen house since Joe Manchin being appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources!

*with the GOP, it’s exceedingly rare that ANY of the henhouse guards aren’t foxes and/or completely unqualified

Oh shit, I forgot to mention the most important one: the “just in time to slowly get ready and still have a couple of minutes to stand at the bus stop wondering if the damn thing is EVER coming” alarm 😄

I usually set one 24h before the thing, one 1h before I have to leave for the thing, and sometimes an extra one 2h before lol

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Keeping lists has not really worked for me to the point that I’m actively averse to them, especially in paper form.

In stead I make do with alarms and making sure that my days are hardly ever busy so that I and my very basic system don’t get overwhelmed lol

I’m seriously considering making Tiny11 my daily driver on my gaming desktop.

I’m about to start a prolonged test run on my new to me secondhand laptop as soon as my ADHD brain lets me remember at an opportune time to actually do it 😄

Much better than management blabla with really bad outcomes as is the norm, though 🤷

*guillotine

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