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Swordgeek @ swordgeek @lemmy.ca
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So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?

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  • Strikes me that you've forgotten about the rest of the world.

    • Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?

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  • ...southern US...

    I'd say that fundamentally it's because it's culturally accepted in those areas.

    "Everyone does it" is a frighteningly strong impetus to do something.

    • Computer drive sizes over the years

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  • I didn't consider hard drives (spinning rust or SSD) because they're generally internal/permanent devices. (although I do have a SATA dock sitting on my desk.)

    Hmm. It gets more complicated the more I think about it.

    • Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation?

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  • Absolutely not.

    We all have to make personal decisions about safety and risk, for our own unique situation.

    While not in the US, I'm a straight, white, middle-aged dude. My risk in loudly speaking out is probably still orders of magnitude lower than yours is by staying quiet. If there are any moral decisions to be made, I'd say that it's my moral duty to use my overly-consequential and protected voice to stand up for the vulnerable and suffering.

    There is no moral flaw in trying to survive within your means - and if that means keeping your head down, then hopefully I and many others will have your back.

    • Computer drive sizes over the years

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  • Just a brain fart. I've edited my post to reflect them.

    • Computer drive sizes over the years

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  • I've got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

    I've also got most of the storage devices I've ever used over the decades:

    • 5 1/4" floppy
    • 3 1/2" floppy
    • 4mm DAT tape
    • 8mm DAT tape
    • 1/4" QIC tape
    • Zip disk
    • Cassette tape
    • Punched tape

    I'm missing the following:

    • DLT tape
    • LTO tape
    • 8" floppy
    • IBM 2315 disk pack

    Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

    EDIT Don't know how I forgot about cartridges (Atari 400 and 2600 - still got em!) and CDROM/DVD/WORM. I have CDROM, DVDROM (in various formats), but no WORM media (i.e. IBM 3363 - a CDROM in a rigid case, before the official CD standard was created).

    • Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam

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  • I'm just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

    If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.

    • Rogers Pulls the Plug on Shaw’s Website: End of an Era

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  • Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been "shut down," because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com.

    Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to ".com" rather than ".ca", which they also own.

    I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive.

    Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren't competing with BCE.

    Canadian telecom sucks.

    • Canada rescinds Digital Services Tax after Trump cuts off U.S. trade talks

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  • FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

    Stop bending! Stop caving! Stop acquiescing to the fucking deranged dictator baboon running the shit show down south!

    • If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?

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  • I ask my friends. Well, friend.

    Honestly, the recommendations from Spotify are often terrible, but occasionally give me something I like. I believe that free Spotify still has recommendations, does it not?

    The other thing is radio. Yes, radio! Find a station you like and stream it, since they're all streaming now as well as broadcasting.

    Our local station is awesome.

    • Most Albertans Will Soon Have to Get Out Their Wallets for COVID Shots

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  • Danielle Smith and her government are:

    • Anti-vaxx
    • Anti-science
    • Transphobic
    • Separatist
    • Corrupt
    • Evil

    • What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

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  • Portal I and II.

    Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they've softened it, but don't know how much.

    • Which 'next' is Danielle Smith's Ottawa-affairs panel steering Alberta toward?

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  • It's just a typo.

    She meant to call it the "Alberta Nazi" panel.

    • Premier Smith says Albertans' desire for leaving Canada has never been higher

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  • "Premier Smith says..." lies.

    No article that starts with those three words can be called news.

    • Conservative influencers have gone silent on Pierre Poilievre

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  • ...named Jason Kenney.

    • Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran: 'They don't know what the f--- they're doing'

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  • It's almost as if he has no clue whatsoever about the history or politics of the Middle East.

    • SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice

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  • Wrong.

    It's not random.

    It's not deportation.

    The US government is trafficking humans.

    • Tarnished by Oct. 7, Netanyahu’s legacy may be reshaped by war with Iran

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  • Netanyahu's LEGACY?

    He's been a murderous genocidal fuck for his entire career, and is now carrying out his long-planned final action.

    His legacy is cruelty, intolerance, and death. Always has been.

    • Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose Because of Racism

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  • One political pundit blathers on about how the other pundits are wrong about an issue that's no longer important.

    Bleah.

    • What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?

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  • That's the reissue. Nice!