limelight79 @ limelight79 @lemm.ee

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I actually laughed the first time I heard a Trump fan claim Biden was incoherent. I honestly thought they were kidding.

Nope, dead serious. "Have you ever heard Trump talk?" Silence.

I just saw a headline that Trump appears to be upset because he's spent so much time and money fighting Biden, and none fighting Harris or other potential candidates.

I laughed.

I'm starting to think this really is it, because it again worked while I was away eating lunch - it turned off my monitor that is hooked to the Intel integrated video. The other monitor is currently switched to my work laptop.

I didn't, but I'm registered independent, so I don't vote in the party primaries in my state.

Thanks. That gives me something to look into. Wonder why it didn't happen under Kubuntu...I kept it up to date, but it still might have been too old in some way (X11 instead of Wayland or something).

I do agree with the non-unique naming complaint though. Do I want to use Messages or Messages?

I didn't watch the debate, but I did see several articles noting that while everyone was fixated on Biden's poor performance, Trump got away with multiple lies. It's so frustrating.

Interesting. I'll try the kscreen2 kill again.

Interesting, but I haven't changed that either.

And, gah, it just worked normally. WTF. I haven't changed anything yet this morning.

People could have voted for someone other than Biden in the primaries. That was always an option. Just because the incumbent was running again didn't mean the voters HAD to vote for him.

"Well, the one that's alive can still bribe us, so..."

Depends who the Supreme Court likes more!

LOL. In the abstract, it's pretty funny. (In reality it would not be funny at all.) I can imagine right after the election, "So long, sucker."

<blam>

I heard somewhere he has connections to money that Trump needs for the campaign, so that might be what drove it.

It's pretty clear Vance previously hated Trump. And it's surprising Trump picked Vance after those comments, but when neither person has a moral compass to stick to, just like the rest of the party, overlooking those kinds of issues becomes much easier.

You're missing the point. That compromised xz made it into some production distributions. The point here is that shit can happen to Linux, too.

I love how quickly everyone has forgotten about that xz attack.

I use and love Linux and have for over two decades now, but I'm not going to sit here and claim that something similar to the current Windows issue can't happen to Linux.

Uh shouldn't it be Earth?

Can I bitch about that redaction for a bit? Someone hit our car while it was parked on federal property. There were cameras, and the security people figured out who did it (and called them, and they denied it). When we finally got the police report, all of the information for identifying the guilty party had been redacted, along with the officer's name and any other useful information. For a literal fender bender. Shitty driver got away with it. The police report was completely useless. I can only imagine my insurance company was like, "We waited 3 weeks for THIS?" They might as well have sent over a blank page.

I get the idea behind redacting stuff in general, but that one just pissed me off.

I bought several pairs of shorts recently from the same brand, all the same waist size, and some definitely fit better than others. There are always manufacturing variances.

I was on the phone with our ISP after our internet service went out. The rep asked me if the box had a green light on it - yes - then asked me to plug a light into the same outlet and confirm the power was on. I said, "Look, I understand you have to follow a script, but you literally just asked me to confirm the power light on the box was on. Clearly the power is working."

Same ISP sends me an email whenever we have a power outage letting me know that our internet might not work when the power is out. (I've joked that this email arrives before the ceiling fans have come to a stop.) But when my internet goes down, they're completely clueless. "Ohhhh it must be that your power is out even though we monitor that closely and aren't showing a power outage right now!"