BananaTrifleViolin @ BananaTrifleViolin @lemmy.world

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Unfortunately this is just a sign of how bad the US has gotten.

There have been impeachment attempts on Clinton, W Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. Impeachment was supposed to be used to stop a president acting illegally but its just become another political weapon in the US capitol.

The US system is so unbelievably broken. It entirely depends on bipartisan support to get things done but things are now too polarised to function and the electoral system prevents 3rd parties access at any level.

The two parties have destroyed democracy. It could be fixed but it would need to start at the state levels with 3rd parties coming in and rebuilding the electoral system. But the 2 parties have even gerrymandered the constituencies so only the two parties can win.

Even other countries with first past the post systems have other viable political parties - look at the UK, Australia and Canada. Fptp is flawed and breed an replacing but the US version is next level for locking in the status quo.

I was dead against losing my 3.5mm jack, and tried to use a USB-to-3.5mm adaptor but it was poor, with issues like your sister experienced.

I finally decided to try a set of relatively cheap earplugs and I wish I'd done it sooner. They're lightweight, have good connectivity and a convenient charging case. I'm getting better quality audio and experience than I was with my 3.5mm jack - i'd have to replace my headsets every year or less as the wires got damaged over time, and the audio quality is actually better with my bluetooth earplugs. I used to avoid bluetooth after bad experiences over the years with audio drop out and connection issues, but I've not had any problems with my newer devices.

I'm not pretending they are audiophile quality but neither is 3.5mm audio in a phone - they just don't have good quality DACs in phones. Bluetooth is finally a decent and convenient step up for me for day-to-day use and I'm finally not as bothered about losing my 3.5mm port. It's also worth noting that if you want better audio, you can get bluetooth DACs and plug wired audio into those for an even better experience - I'm tempted but it's expensive and I'm not sure I'd appreciate the benefit enough to make it worthwhile for me.

Yeah but they're saying it will still just go to the "to" address anyway and they have to pay postage.to get it The post office won't send it to the return address.

No, because it suits Reddit to not have people leaving Reddit to another social network via links.

Thats still beaten badly. The election is entirely about winning electoral votes, and the dems failed that. They didn't win votes in the right places and lost votes compared to the last election.

The entire presidential election campaign is always about winning electoral votes and that means winning votes in swing states.

It's amazing to me how so many in the US aren't bothered about traitors who tried to overthrow their government. Shows how bad things have gotten; presumably enough Trump supporters don't care or somehow believe it was justified!?

From outside, it honestly seems the US is slowly sliding further and further into chaos.

This was a tragedy and missed opportunity, but this was not "terrorism" in the sense being used. This was a seriously dangerous, violent and mentally ill person.

The focus on how Prevent failed is a real problem because the Prevent strategy is there to stop people being radicalised, not to police society for violent individuals.

The focus here should really be on the mental health system & social services, and how an extremely dangerous person who was excluded from school for violence, went to a special school and could only be dealt with as a home schooled student for staff and student safety, and for whom their family raised concerns. This guy was not radicalised, he was not a "terrorist", he was someone who was clearly flagged as very dangerous as a child and failed to act.

There have been dangerous people before, and there are laws and structures to detain extremely dangerous people for public safety. That's where everything failed - yet again Social Services, Police, Health and Education. It's a pattern seen over and over again with public agencies not working together, often because they're under resourced and stretched as it is.

You can read NTFS drives; I still have shared drives from my Windows install despite barely using Windows at all.

You can generally import steam libraries, and then steam can do the proton work.

And you can sometimes run other programmes in Linux from the windows install - i.e. it can have it's own Wine prefix in Linux and use the installed files on the NTFS. But this doesn't always work - if the programme's or game's installer makes significant system changes or installs other software then they won't exist in the Wine prefix and the game may not work. It's better to install windows games fresh so everything is installed into the wine prefix.

And Lutris is well set up with scripts for installing a wide range of games from their installers; it will avoid problems reinstalling games fresh.

This is very good advice

My advice having made the move (but with a fair bit of linux tinkering before hand):

• Don't rush to delete Windows; you're doing the right thing keeping it about while you adjust to a new OS and in case there are some things you just can't do in Linux
• If you want to understand your OS and enjoy tinkering / learning, think about using a virtual machine to play with a linux system to get used to it. As you're on Fedora, you can install KVM and Virt-Manager, make a virtual machine and inside it install another Linux OS which you can practice with. It can even be Fedora - and this can let you make changes in a disposable environment before you do them for real in your whole OS or just to see "what happens if". I've even built an Arch system within a VM just so I can understand more of how linux works
• Back up your home folder before making really big changes - this is where everything that belongs to you is kept, and even contains all your personal config files. Back up and restoring the Home folder can make things much faster to fix if you accidentally mess things up

The right wing media are using nukes, while the liberal media are playing with sticks.

Depends on what distro you're on? You say the deb version is 4.0 and flatpak is 5.0, suggesting you may be on a long release distro?

I'd favour the Deb version as it's official for your distro. The flatpak version is unverified; it's extremely unlikely Virt-Manager is compromised or will cause any issues but virtual machines do have security risks.

Also problem solving issues with the flatpak version may be more difficult as you have a whole layer potential issues in the sandbox on top of all the other issues people can have around KVM/QEMU. But you could install it, if it works great, if not, revert to the Deb version.

Sorry I originally posted around permissions as I misunderstood; deleted that. The solution is below:

If it's a user installed flatpak you should find the config files in:

~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides

Edit the document for the flatseal app. Thats where flatseal or the flatpak override tool makes it's config changes for user installed flatpaks (including env overrides). You can also delete the flatseal file (which will be the name of the flatpak - com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) "to set back to default.

There will only be a few files - files are only created when there are overrides set. Anything running default permissions/config won't have an override file.

EDIT: For completeness, for System wide flatpaks all the files are in:

/var/lib/flatpak

Just to explain why they're stored there: you're trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in "~/.var/app/..." pertain to the app itself inside it's sandbox.

I would immediately cancel any service that does that.

I actively avoid advertising. I've cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.

I got Sky's Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.

These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be "growing" to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.

I have a living room HTPC connected to my tv and have Jellyfin Media Player on that, and it works well. Obviously thats more of an investment than a firestick. Mine was £290 when I got it, I installed linux and I use it for gaming (including locally and streaming more graphically intense games from my PC), watching some streaming services and browsing the internet on my TV.

I do also have a Chromecast with Google TV stick in another tv. I use that purely for streaming and it also has the Jellyfin App installed.

I find both my HTPC and Chromecast are good with Jellyfin. No issues at all, good consistent streaming. But note HDR in linux can be finicky if thats important to you. Of course most come with Win 11 so you have that choice too (I wiped windows off mine)

I do have kodi on my HTPC, works fine with Jellyfin/jellycon but I prefer desktop mode and the jellyfin media player myself. I tend to use the pc with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so dont really use Kodi.

My PC was £290 but I got one that could do a bit more gaming. You can get them for £100-£160 and they'd likely be more than capable of streaming 4k content. Better than a Pi 4 and more versatile than a £60 4k fire stick (even if more expensive - might be justified if itnopens up new uses for your tv)

Other option of course is a Raspberry pi 5 - more powerful than the 4. Ive not tested my pi5 with Jellyfin much so cant comment on how it suites the task.

This story has lots more to run. Trump is giving them a 90 day reprieve but hes going to try and extract something from them.

I suspect he will still try and get them to sell to one of his cronies. And bytedance won't do that.

So from what I've seen on Lemmy over the last year is that the quantity of posts and variety of topics feels like it's going up. I certainly enjoy engaging on here.

Will it stagnate? I'm not sure. It might be that the monthly user levels stabilise but thats not the same as stagnate. If people are engaged and enjoying their time then it has value.

My feeling is that Lemmy will slowly grow over time. I don't see it becoming a huge platform like Reddit anytime soon. Its feasible but it feels like for now it will remain niche.

But I also dont want to it suddenly become huge. I was on reddit for a long time and I saw it evolve from being something small and interesting to a behemoth and enshittification to make money. Small is sometimes better, and small or stable in no way means stagnation.

Trump has a narrow majority in both chambers so hes going to held hostage by numerous minority interests in his party. He is going to be largely tied up in republican in fighting once the honeymoon period is over. Expect lots of accusations of traitors in the republican party and threats to remove republican opponents.

He will do some of the work for them but the dems really need to focus on fixing their own party and listening to voters. I'm not sure the party leadership get why they lost even now.

Hopefully she was rushing home - maybe driving? - and couldn't text well?

"K", and "I am baby"?