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TIL that term is considered a slur. I remember learning about them in anthropology class ~15 years ago and that was the term used.

So is the respectful terminology today to use whichever modern LGBTQ label is accurate, or should I use two-spirit in historical context?

That looks like Google Sheets, so on Firefox you can use the Dark Reader extension to invert the color

Agh! Light mode!

We've had 46 presidents and 91 total indictments. 91 ÷ 46 ≈ 2

The mean average is 2 charges.

It's a joke because all of the indictments are for Trump himself

I was going to suggest Direwolf20 for the exact same reasoning

That's actually not what copyright is for. Copyright was made to enhance the public culture by promoting the creation of art.

If these record label types impede public culture then they are antithetical to copyright

lol get rekt traitor

This is a good point. We need the message sent to be that nobody is above the law.

It matters that he committed crimes, no matter how wealthy he is or who he knows. He should be treated like any other leader of a criminal organization.

Making it too much of a spectacle would feed into conspiracy theories about political motivation

I believe his current number of felonies (at time of writing) is actually 91

This was my thought too. Whenever you open one of these Dells you always see swollen, leaky capacitors. They can cause some very odd behavior, such as only booting exactly one in three times.

Theoretically, it should be relatively straightforward to find and replace them if you were really dedicated

Disclaimer: this was a long time ago so things might be different now

I flashed the "international version" of Cyanogenmod on what turned out to be the AT&T version of my first android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2) and nearly bricked it.

The install froze but I knew I should never interrupt a flash, so I left it there for about 2 hours until the battery died. However, the flashing process also replaces the battery manager firmware, so it was not possible to charge the phone until I flashed the correct ROM, and I couldn't flash the ROM because the battery was dead.

Thankfully, that phone had swappable batteries so I solved it by buying a second one online (and waiting for shipping). But today's phones' batteries are usually soldered onto the board, so if it happened today I'd be SOL.

I personally wouldn't chance it unless someone with the same device confirmed it was OK

Good point. Many of us didn't get to choose whether we "are political"

Haha, well you got me there. I did all that when I was your age, in 2009 :P

These days I don't use my personal computer very often so I want a distro that doesn't break when I update it, so I use Debian Stable with XFCE.

I'm not sure what that makes it in terms of OP's meme. Maybe XFCE is the car

Not unless you're really young. I was just a Linux enthusiast and had a tight budget. I think this is the original article that inspired me: https://hackaday.com/2009/09/25/with-zipit-who-needs-a-netbook/

I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled "smart phone" devices.

I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn't really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn't have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

Thank you for breaking my brain

the National Conservatism conference

They seriously named it that? The Nat C party?

Yep the common name is regional. "Daddy longlegs" can also sometimes refer to crane flies, aka mosquito hawks/mosquito eaters

Very well said. This is why I am also in favor of "defederating over political preference".

Tolerating intolerance leads to violence but deplatforming actually does work to reduce harm.

We should defederate from hateful and abusive instances

I got it to launch but I only got about 15 FPS.

So it is at least possible. My PC is pretty outdated so it might work for you if you have a good graphics card with good drivers