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What's an absurd luxury you pine for?

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  • free time

    • The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'

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  • from Mastodon: “tariffs by ChatGPT”

    • The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'

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    • The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'

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  • also a 10% tariff on the joint US military base at Diego Garcia …

    • Seems that Canadians have the reputation as the world's best snipers, deadly at more than a mile. And a Ukrainian recently pulled off a shot over 6000 feet. You can't hide from these guys. Just sayin

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  • trained by Finns?

    • Why isn't anyone talking about how much of a privacy risk Chinese tech brings.

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  • whataboutism – as long as you’re distracted by “China!”, you aren’t paying attention to the far more egregious privacy violations happening right here at home

    • For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone.

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  • even his own Grok is against the idea:

    • For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone.

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  • even ChatGPT agrees this is stupid:

    • If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

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  • mpv for the win

    but if you really want your ASCII conversion: mpv --vo=caca or mpv --vo=tct

    • They said the packaging would be discreet!

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  • assuming it doesn’t just blow its load all over the Caribbean

    • Ford CEO Farley: Lasting 25% tariff on Canada, Mexico would 'blow a hole' in US auto industry

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  • comedians back in the ’90s were making jokes about “Which is more American: Fords built in Mexico or Toyotas built in California?”

    • ChimeraOS Linux 48 brings new hardware support for your handhelds and living room PCs

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  • (not to be confused with Chimera Linux)

    • White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin

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  • Caritas – “taking up 1/3 of all currency in circulation in Romania at its peak”

    • Notes on coreutils in Rust

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  • when the last message was “Have taken up farming.”, kinda hard to hold anything against them …

    • Notes on coreutils in Rust

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  • this was me watching some of the cheering when neofetch got archived, people complaining “good, neofetch is too slow” – WTF were you doing with neofetch where speed was a factor?!

    • How to have a boring and low-maintenance system?

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    • yet another vote for Debian Stable
    • second the comment on: if you need a newer kernel for hardware reasons, use backports
    • Xfce
    • stick to flatpaks when dealing with wanting to try out a new program (if you like it, then make the decision to use apt or not)
    • don’t confuse “hasn’t been updated” with “hasn’t needed to be updated”

    • Pre-WW2 German cursive

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    • Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?

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    • Email client for Linux

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  • this is one of the things that struck me about email clients on Linux – CLI and GUI clients have followed two very different evolutionary paths – the CLI clients went for the “doing one job well” path (where you end up assembling a whole system of apps for sending and receiving email) and the GUI clients went for the “everything and the kitchen sink” path (where you end up trying to hide half the options so they don’t get in your way)

    • It's that time again

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  • you forgot about pollen season in between the two