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Evkob (they/them)
Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca
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  • "I'd be a bigot at the first sign of someone being mean to me" is an interesting argument to make.

    BTW, maybe avoiding the use of "gay mafia" to refer to the queer community would make it more believable that you aren't ignorant.

  • He's been PM during times of hardship. That's pretty much it. That and Conservatives parroting for the last 5 years that every single thing wrong in this country is directly and individually Trudeau's fault.

    Most things blamed on Trudeau are either international events affecting every country, or stuff that's actually under the jurisdiction of the (mostly Conservative) provincial governments or municipalities.

    He has done some things that are actually worth resenting, but most Canadians criticising Trudeau don't give a fuck about blackface or corruption scandals, they just want to whine about carbon tax and minorities.

  • I'll copy-paste this stackoverflow answer, because it sounds like its written by someone more knowledgeable than me.

    blobs are binary firmware, not distributed as source. they are necessary for certain hardware drivers to function, in whole or in part. As the source is not readily available, there are deblobbed distributions for opensource "purists".

    In the firefox context, there are certain non-free portions of firefox code base, namely the branding and some mozilla services integrations. Those are removed. This is more about licensing then availability of the code.

  • I have little experience with decaf but the café I used to work at carried a couple of Zab's decaf roast which were very tasty. On their website it seems like they only have the Colombian decaf in stock, which is definitely their more basic offering (still good!) However they've done really funky and cool decaf roasts in the past, so it might be worth checking their website occasionally if you're into the third wave, fruity notes kind of coffee.

  • I bought this phone with the express purpose of installing GrapheneOS on it, so I can't compare to stock Android on the same device because I never used it. I haven't had any issues with battery life though, I can usually get a day and a half out of a full charge, and I've never had it die on me when I needed it. Charging is so fast nowadays anyway that it's not much of a bother to plug it in for like 20 or so minutes and getting at least half of a full charge.

  • Spot, a native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop

    Spotify-qt, a Qt-based Spotify client

    Both made possible by librespot. Not only do some Linux users use Spotify, some great open-source devs have worked to make clients for it. I honestly prefer Spotify-qt to the official one.

  • GrapheneOS and Android are both based on AOSP, and calling/texting is such basic functionality for a mobile OS that I doubt that GrapheneOS' implementation is much different from Android's, if at all.

    I've been on GrapheneOS for the past year or so, I've never actually enjoyed using my phone as much as I do now. No Samsung apps I can't uninstall, no Google spyware, the only stuff running on my device is stuff I want it to run, the way I want it to run.

  • I've never understood the term "cocksucker" as an insult. Ignoring the obvious homophobic undertones (which really is the main reason we should maybe not use it) I can't help but feel like cocksuckers are pillars of the community who should be celebrated for the hard work they do.

  • I have a feeling, without the data, that a lot of young people are spending way more on novelty and entertainment things than ever before while they're complaining about not being able to afford things.

    Here, in that first comment, is where you suggest that young people's spending habits are to blame for them not being able to afford things.

    Can't you stop whining about being a victim for a moment

    I hardly see how I've whined during our exchange, it feels to me like you're having a conversation with someone who exists in your head and not me. We seem to agree on the major parts but I just can't understand your obsession with tying personal finance into the struggles capitalism is imposing on the current working population. It's largely irrelevant on a societal scale.

    I really don't understand where you're coming from and this comment in particular is all over the place. Best wishes, hope the world isn't too rough on you.

  • I have a hard time understanding how you can present this information (people working harder and longer for less purchasing power than before) and arrive at the conclusion that young adults' personal spending habits are to blame. The system is clearly engineered to keep the majority poor and enrich a tiny minority.

    Want to know where the profits from the increase in productivity went instead of worker's wages? I suggest looking up CEO wages from the '50s to the present day, and compare with the chart from my previous comment.

  • Do you know what truly maximizes conflict between the police and society?

    Police brutality! And having the gall to laugh about it too!

  • Productivity in The United States peaked in the '70s

    I really did want to take your comments in good faith but asking for data and then turning around to say something completely and blatantly false (and easily verifiable) is making that hard.

    Yeah sure, there's more leisure-type purchases available to us than ever before, and technology does make transactions ridiculously easy. However, the current economic situation for young adults is much too dire to attribute entirely to individual factors when clearly this is an issue on a societal scale.

  • It wasn't, but this still doesn't fix the issue. I'm honestly perplexed and might just deal with triple reinstalling alsa-utils after every reboot. I'll probably start from a fresh install soon enough anyway :P

  • It definitely is! I'm a noob but I do know enough to read through the relevant Arch Wiki page before bothering people for help.

    Sadly, everything on that page is either irrelevant to my issues or hasn't worked.

  • Your previous comment really reads as "Kids these days can't afford housing, too busy with their avocado toasts and Netflixes" which is the likely reason for all the downvotes.

  • In what scenario would you need to type in a password on a non-smart TV though? Parental lock?