nivenkos @ nivenkos @lemmy.world

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The influencer and podcaster stuff seems worse - women really think that $100k is like a minimum salary, the "princess treatment", etc. - like feminism has changed from being about women being able to contribute to society in the same ways as men (science and engineering, etc.) to insane expectations.

Episode 3 is amazing so far, I had no idea Nixon did quite that much crazy stuff (as a non-American). And there's a lot of parallels to our situation in Europe right now - supply-driven inflation, a lack of our own technology so we end up paying American companies for everything (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, etc.) who collude with the American government.

It's a shame the journalists these days are so weak and spineless too - like Assange faces extradition, when back then they were exposing COINTELPRO, Watergate and being targeted for assassination.

Reminds me of Microsoft with the ActivePlatform / Blackbird stuff in the 90s.

Awful to see Google turn into that.

You need to post the errors. What is the function signature?

There's just a lot of people, and few slots. It was rough before and then Covid came and broke it completely.

I think it's a lot of Americans who don't understand how it is in other countries, as it's easier and cheaper in the US (I think some states don't even have a practical test?).

Like even in Spain it is common for people to go and do it in a small town as in the main cities the failure rate is awful and you have to wait ~6 months between attempts. It's not exactly outright bribery, but obviously in the small towns they kinda depend on that.

Any of them I think.

One of my friends had the newer one and Calibre still worked fine.

I've had the 2 earlier models (original and paperwhite) and both worked fine.

Just make sure to download epub or mobi files as they'll have decent formatting compared to PDF, txt, etc.

With the epub support on the new model you can even email epubs to it IIRC, but I never tried it, Calibre is the best.

Learning to drive has nothing to do with the driving test though.

It's a monopolistic scam as they know they can deny a lot of people who have no option but to pay again.

The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.

But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.

If you can get away with it then do it for sure - the driving tests are mostly a scam anyway, where they fail you to try to make more money.

Could be a British Longhair - the eyes and tail especially.

Splitters!

"Radicalises" how?

Just because they disagree with you?

It's one of the few free forums, especially that is so large.

Just look at the Twitter files and Reveddit - they're far worse if you don't parrot the line of the US State Department.

Have you used TikTok? - it's the only mainstream platform with freedom of speech and mostly free discussion.

Reddit was far, far worse with all the bots, shadow-banning, deleted comments, etc.

I liked how Neopets let you learn a lot with a fake currency just earnt from mini-games.

So like you could learn a lot about how auctions work, but without risking your real money.

I learnt the basics of hacking video games by hacking the minigames to win much faster.

I guess the closest thing nowadays would be Roblox, but it's a shame how it's all tied to real money transactions.

I got it working following - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NFS

The main issue I had IIRC was making sure that the local user owns the share directory itself (e.g. on the NAS in your case) rather than root.

If you post more details (i.e. the error logs and configuration), I can take a look at my configuration tonight.

It's quite a hassle at first (especially using IP addresses), but once you get it working it's cool as you can even put it in fstab, etc. to make it all automatic.

It's just a shortened link, probably copied it for mobile.

Yeah, I mean like serious, repeat crime. Robbery too - one of my friends was robbed at knife-point and beaten by 4 guys.

The police caught one and he was an undocumented "minor", since he was considered a "minor" (but they all say that) he was put in a youth holding centre before trial. And then right before trial just walked out as there's no security, he has no papers and just disappears, free to meet up with his gang and rob more people again.

It's madness - Europe has become much less safe due to stuff like this. Like it's one thing to accept refugees, etc. but we need to have absolute zero tolerance for those who end up worsening our own society.

I agree for stuff like an odd bar-fight, or aggressive argument, etc. then it shouldn't be sentenced near as badly, as they can be rehabilitated and don't pose a threat to the general public.

There's always been a lot of bureaucracy - the eurocrats meme exists for a reason. Look up the precautionary principle which influenced an anti-GM and anti-nuclear stance.

It seems to be getting even worse under Von der Leyen though - with the Chat Control act, AI act, Cyber Resilience act, etc. - even parts of the GDPR and Digital Services Act introduce a lot of red tape for starting companies. Just look at Germany too, like all the CDU corruption with the masks - where they were effectively bribed by certain companies to then force all their citizens to buy those particular masks.

Ideally everyone would be able to easily try new endeavours - with no issue around filing taxes, bank accounts, filing trademarks, checking patents, data privacy laws, etc. and there'd be wealth and property taxes and a lot of investment in education and FOSS to level the playing field.

Wish they'd go further and encourage European industry and FOSS - the US has already gone full protectionism with the Inflation Reduction Act. And now Europe faces being overtaken by China in terms of real-terms take-home pay.

Don't just fine Apple over the App Store monopoly tactics, but actively support FairPhone and Spotify against them - with tariffs and more anti-trust rulings. Fund Arch Linux, LibreOffice, Matrix, MariaDB, etc. to cut out Microsoft and Oracle completely.

This has worked wonders for the Chinese Tech industry with Baidu, Xiaomi, Huawei, Bytedance, etc. able to compete at the highest-levels now - imagine if they'd just let their markets be dominated by Google, etc. too and be happy with their engineers just being a pool of cheap labour for them?