thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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Already have. The biggest delay was I dont normally bet so had to create an account

<shrug>

And yes, you can keep circling around poking at it but I stand by the assertion that there won't be a fair election in 2026 because a) trump has been running line by line down the Hitler playbook and b) he said the quiet part out loud (after nov24 i wont need your votes) and c) musk's kid outright said the same thing too and 4year olds dont drop clangers like that unless someone has said it in front of him

Ping me in two years

Ok, but this isn't a betting site, this is an options contract, which given the current price split of 73c:28c is not a good buy (winning isn't profitable and you're tying your money up for 2years).

The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.

I've checked the mainstream betting sites and GOP are solidly odds on (4/6 on through 8/13on) which isnt hugely profitable but I guess it'll shorten even further

Edit to add odds screencap

Oh they won't stop / block the elections initially they'll hold that first one & just conveniently get 75+% of the vote like every dictator before him.

I'm happy to put money on it if you can find a market. I've been unfortunately right too much, not because I'm smart but because you can literally pull out a history of Nazi rise and map it onto MAGA and the last 10 years. The only hard bit is guessing the timings, not what, just when.

I'd really like you guys to break out of this and prove me wrong

Thats an unusual definition. WRT has long meant "with regards to" or "with respect to"

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/wrt_prep?tl=true

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/WRT

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_regard_to

https://english-grammar-lessons.com/wrt-meaning/

I can't quickly find an authoritative source other than OED which is paywalled. But in short it's an abbreviation that dates back to the 50s

It's demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).

People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.

That 10-year time horizon is a very good point. And it's not likely that the tariff would stick around that long since every four years has a changing administration who can do whatever they please in those regards.

Lol, you guys are hilarious. I keep seeing these comments.

Fascists don't allow fair elections.

The only way the magats are leaving office is mass insurrection / mass protests & strikes or revolution.

It most certainly won't happen at the ballot box

If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don't fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you've rolled back to the prior working state

Yeah, first we need to a bit more traction I think 😁

Yeah keep it unopened ready for when the shooting starts.

Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I've done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it's an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you'll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.

Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.

Either move the VPS to being hosted somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP

Try using OBS for the screen capture, it should work with hardware acceleration on. Install on yr existing windows system.

If not try downloading a linux mint iso and burning that to a usb (instructions on the mint homepage). It's a "live" boot you can just boot off it and try without installing. I'm fairly sure you can boot it, install OBS on it and then test a screen capture (ie open a browser, start prime, open obs and start a screen capture). Be aware you've made a bottleneck on the USB (slow throughput compared to ssd) so you won't go long before it chokes through not being able to write fast enough. Proof of concept.

However if it works then look at installing a dual boot mint next to windows a full install will use the hard drive and not bottleneck

Basically, it's free and it won't break anything to try the live disk. If it works it'll be a lot cheaper than buying a whole extra Mac

While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It's a "colonial relic" is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.

Solid state is just around the corner in the same way fusion is. Toyota announced in 2010 they'd have it in prod by 2015, then 2018, then 2020, then 2025 then..."real soon now™ "

The MG "may be a semi solid state"

https://electrek.co/2024/12/16/new-semi-solid-state-battery-ev-launching-2025/

Which is not quite the same thing.

BYD and CATL who have a good track record of delivery are suggesting 2030

TL;DR

Don't wait for solid state, the current battery tech is more than adequate for the majority of people. Holding off for something "perfect" that may never arrive when "good enough" is here diesn't seem logical to me

The target audience is monied tech bro millenials who really wanted a warthog out of Halo.

The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.

Ok. I have pretty much this use case live and have had for about 4 years. With 5 different elderly users.

My solution: Linux Mint (standard Cinnamon) it's easy to use and supports pretty much all hardware with no faffing around.

The file browser in default settings doesnt show the dot directories in home. Granny is unlikely to break out any CLI chops but even if she does...

Setup automatic OS updates with automatic timeshift snapshots.

Add the dot directories to the snapshots.

Leave instructions that if they turn it on they have to leave it on for a half hour (so snapshot completes).

That's it, you're good. Setup a remote access software if you can't just walk across the road to provide support.

Real world they've never broken anything more significant than deleting an icon they still wanted on the desktop.