Ideologically Ubuntu makes me cringe, but I also use Google and a host of other technologies that fuck my privacy, so I guess I have accepted the world we live in.
In the same way that I think it's noble when people try to live waste free, I think it's noble to use things like GrapheneOS, or selfhost all your services, or de-Google your tech. But it's unrealistic for all of the world to live waste-free or customize their tech so as to be private. In the end, the government needs to step in and force these giant-ass companies to behave better, because they are the primary forces pushing forward the destruction of the environment and personal privacy.
Lol, that's exactly what the article says. Literally the last three lines summing it all up:
Despite Trump’s public insistence that he deserves widespread immunity, his own legal team seems prepared to have their claims rejected by the highest court in the land. Rolling Stone reported on Wednesday that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers are bearish on their odds of success — but it’s not all doom and gloom.
“We already pulled off the heist,” one source close to Trump said, adding that regardless of what the court decides, they’ve already managed to severely stall the DOJ’s election interference case.
I dont really fuck around with the GUI stuff tbh...I've always just done ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
I guess my issues with the installer have mostly stemmed around the software raid and manual partitioning. Simply installing on a single drive isnt bad.
Hate saying it, but Ubuntu just works for me. I'd rather focus my computer configuration and maintenance efforts on clients rather than my own laptop. If I have to reinstall for whatever reason, its pretty easy because I'm already very familiar with the (shitty) installer, and I don't do much customizing because I'd rather not have to go through that every time I reinstall.
Granted I've never even bothered to run Arch, or any really other desktop distro for that matter. Ubuntu + Gnome looks nice, seems to just work, all I need to do is apt install nvidia drivers and firefox post-install and I'm up and running. I don't want to do work on my laptop, I want my laptop to enable me to do work.
That's too bad, but if you didn't enjoy it then there's not much point in continuing.
I guess my point was you don't really have to deal with UG or be very skilled to enjoy playing, but if you didn't like it (calluses are kind-of a must, tbh) then it's not worth sinking time into, imo
Aw:( I dont think an annoying website design should shy you away from playing music. Being able to express yourself with guitar is more than worth having to deal with UGs shittiness, or calluses for that matter, even if it just means playing your own rhythm of G-C-D, or some simple chord progression.
Maybe if you pick it back up one day, try not to think of it as a chore to learn songs you like from tabs, and instead just explore the instrument and the sounds you can make with it.
I mean, yeah, you're coming to a small community of LOTR fans and accusing the author of their fandom of being racist. I'm not sure what you expect lol.
But yeah there are some dubiously racist characterizations in the novels. There are also some moments of reflection, like Sam seeing the dead Harad soldier:
He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home.
I mean, the book is written from a Western POV, and by a white Catholic guy who was born in the late 1800s. I think the chances were pretty slim of him having a modern outlook on race, gender, sexuality, etc.
I don't know, unfortunately. GF watched it on Netflix while she was in Portugal. Then we watched it together in the States, by means of the high seas. Matey.
My GF recently introduced my to a show called Please Like Me. It's out of Australia from a comedian named Josh Thomas.
Don't look at the IMDB score or anything like that -- this show is pure art. It's got a lot of heart and the cinematography is better than it has any right to be.
Please Like Me is honestly better than Fleabag in that it is a dramedy that covers real issues, but it resolves more satisfyingly and feels more grounded in reality. It is so good and nobody has heard of it.
I love Ted Lasso season 1, and season 2 to an extent is also very good, but it kinda lost its footing in season 3, IMO.
The longer episodes are not as tight, writing-wise, and the story suffers a quite a bit because of it. Still a good show, but it went from "This might be one of the best shows I've ever seen," to "Yeah it's not bad, but..."
Hoffman is one of my favorite youtubers. Great presentation, lots of knowledge, straightforward. I know he is the most popular coffee youtuber and that may peeve some people off, but he is the most popular for a reason -- because he's the best.
His aeropress videos really helped me make the best cup of coffee I have ever made -- every time -- even though I don't use his exact method. A couple hours watching his videos is well worth the time.
I think you're right in that the majority of people want better salaries and healthcare, enshrined abortion rights, etc, athough I don't think I'm understanding your last sentence.
But I don't think the "groundswell" of voters is left of democrats in the way you're saying, and my comments weren't really my "stance," they're just what is happening in politics right now. I mean, it is true that if not enough leftists come out to vote for Biden, it could be trouble for him, but what we're seeing right now from polls is that it's the independents and the on-the-fence voters that Biden needs to capture, and we're seeing him actively trying to thread the needle on topics such as Israel/Palestine.
I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean. All I said was Democrats strategy is to appease swing voters, which it is. Look, Biden is having trouble messaging on the genocide in Palestine right now because he's in an election year trying to be as popular to swing voters and conservatives as possible right now. If it weren't an election year, I bet we'd be seeing stronger pushback from the US toward Israels atrocities.
Also look at the killed border deal. That was a pretty conservative bill that was about to be passed until Trump nuked it. Democrats are able to use that debacle against the Republicans saying "We want to govern and fix problems, you want to use those problems for political gain," but in the end, it was still a pretty conservative bill they were about to pass. Democrats messaging for the next 9 months is going to all be centered around the word "reasonable."
Yeah, I'm not sure why a Democratic politician would waste their time trying to appease leftists or try to play hard-ball. They already have registered Democrats in the bag -- they need to appeal to Independents and traditionally conservative voters, because those are the ones that are going to be deciding elections, or at least the upcoming presidential election.
It's advantageous to show as much aggressively moderate, bipartisan, and hawkish behavior right now, because that is exactly what reminds those voters of the old republican party, pre Trump. Hell, that's what Biden is all about. And it's gonna piss off leftists, especially on this site (and rightfully so), but what are we gonna do? Vote for Trump?
It's unfortunate, but the Democratic party has had to shift to the right in order to accommodate the extremism of Trump and his followers. Here's hoping we'll see a shift to the left if Republicans can somehow take hold of their own party, but we'll see.
While technically true for some but not all places, in reality it’s just not a practical thing anymore as it has been displaced by motorized transportation and social media being where 99% of the people are, respectively.
You’re allowed to try to make people notice a website with no social media presence in the same way as you’re allowed to run for congress as an independent with a budget of the necessary registration fees plus $5.
Aren't they pretty much saying the exact thing that you're claiming nobody is saying? That in practice it's still easy to create your own website, but nobody will use it because 99% of people are on social media platforms, instead
I agree with you and the original guy -- the web is still just a collection of interconnected computers, and it's still open and mostly inexpensive anyone to host a website on. The trouble for the individual is the maintenance cost, especially if their site sees high traffic. But that brings us back to the idea that you'll pretty much never see the same userbase as the large social media platforms.
This isn't to say that the power held by Google, Meta, Snapchat, or TikTok to direct information any which way they would like doesn't need to be dismantled. It's just that the web is still free, in the sense that it is just a road to another computer, and you can still prop up a house with an address on that road for relatively cheap.
It's your sole soul purpose.