He’s not saying he’ll do it. He’s trying to scare them into voting Republican by arguing that Democrats will imprison them all on BS charges if they get control of the house.

He’s literally arguing for a one party system though, so maybe that’s the quiet part you meant.

Is that true? Wikipedia says Geely only has 4.4%, 14.7% votes.

Edit: oooo “AB Volvo” vs “Volvo cars”. Dang.

TIL Polestar is majority owned by a Chinese holding company. Only 16% is Volvo.

Except that he’s arguing that it wasn’t news worthy, and the “deep state” made a big deal out of nothing to destroy Nixon’s presidency.

In other words, don’t believe your lying eyes.

That sounds like you’re describing someone who is only making a lemmy account because they see potential customers they want to advertise to.

That’s the exact reason I don’t want someone to make a lemmy account.

Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.

citing the need for bodily autonomy for servicemembers

Also Hegseth,

No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.

He knows what he is.

Ah yeah, I misread that. I agree $500 is high for what it is, but it’s also kind of a novelty device that they’ll surely only make a relatively small number of to guage interest. The industry has shifted all of its manufacturing away from making flip phones cheap.

I would expect to pay $50 for a modern flip phone with hardware comparable to one from 20y ago. But this is running Sailfish OS, has a decent SoC, camera, DAC, and up to 64GB of RAM. This ain’t your grandma’s flip phone.

At first I was going to say, the 3 2 1 Backup rule won’t stop the planet from being destroyed by a meteor. But then I remembered the data on Voyager1.

For the record, we use several orders of magnitude more gallons of water keeping grass and golf courses alive. This is why I hate reports with large, absolute numbers. It sounds like a lot. It’s really nothing.

Hank Green video on the subject

Pros:

• I never have to worry that my OS is working for someone else by design.
• Never surprised by ads.
• Never surprised by updates that move/remove something in the UI.
• Never have to be worried about some new feature that windows is forcing everyone to use that accesses all my data and might go rogue and delete it all or upload it somewhere.
• BTRFS feels decades ahead of NTFS
• package manager makes it easy to try new programs
• I can try multiple desktop environments
• I can write scripts to customize my experience

Cons:

• Occasionally there is a program that only officially supports windows and I have to figure out how to get it working in proton or a VM. This happens much less now than 10y ago.
• A game might say it works on Linux, but I hit some issue that my friends on windows aren’t hitting, and have to determine if I’m just unlucky or if it’s something to do with proton/Linux.
• there are still some remaining kinks being ironed out with the x11 to Wayland migration.
• sometimes there’s a bug in a package and I have to downgrade it. But that’s not really even an option in windows.

All in all, there is nothing from windows I would say I “miss”. And it feels refreshing to know I’m out of the line of fire of msft.

Unionize.

In the US, democracy means that “my ignorance is as good as your [low temperature pasteurization]”.

Luckily, this particular case of ignorance will work itself out. I just worry about any innocent children who have to suffer as a result, but it will eventually work itself out…

The Trump administration is, at best, a denial of service attack on every facet of the US. The amount of time and effort spent putting his name on there, and then slowly determining that it’s not allowed to be there, and now removing it could likely have fed hundreds of people for months. He’s doing the same thing all over the place, trying to put his name on airports, money, statues, etc. Death by 1000 cuts. And this is probably the least bad thing this administration is doing to the US.

Curious what went wrong with your Reolink run. That’s what I’ve got. Doesn’t require an app or account, and works with home assistant.

It’s not a matter of privacy vs UX. I actually think Plex has ruined their UX. But if you have friends and family, some are tech-illiterate, some have their own media servers, and you all want to share with each other quickly and easily, Plex is the only viable option. Same if it’s just you, but you travel a lot, and want to watch something from your home server without lugging around a device that has access to your VPN and a screen/hdmi-out.

Jellyfin is really only viable if it’s just you on your own network.

To add on to the top post: with Plex you only need 1 account and can exchange access to multiple servers. I can browse all the media my account has access to with ease.

Jellyfin needs an account per server. If the client multiplexed between them seamlessly, that would probably be fine enough. But it would be nice if they supported some method of federation.

And Jellyfin has a list of CVEs that they haven’t addressed in years, which makes not want to make it visible outside my network.

I want to ditch Plex, but this is the primary sticking point for me. No criticism to the Jellyfin devs btw, they’re doing the lord’s work, I have nothing but respect for them.

Another minor one is that the Plex app works with a controller on my bazzite HTPC, but the Jellyfin one was hit or miss. I could get it to work once, and then the next day the controller would do nothing and the UI would be acting weird. I will go back and try it periodically to see if it’s ready, but last time I checked it wasn’t.

As someone who doesn’t keep up with the Republican bubble, I think Atrioc had a good breakdown of this whole situation.

tl;dw

• Depsite Massie voting Republican 91% of the time, only breaking on topics of War, Debt, and Pedos, there is a concerted effort to paint Massie as a secret Democrat.
• Massie is one of 4 Republican congress people to push for a release of the Epstein Files. Without them, we wouldn’t even have what little we got.
• the GOP ran a fully AI generated ad showing Massie hanging out with Democrats to besmirch him (with a tiny “this satire is AI generated” disclaimer that boomers won’t notice).
• Trump’s description of Ed Gallrein is that he’s “a warm body” and “central casting” (Trump’s phrase for “looks the part”).
• Ed’s credentials are that he’s endorsed by trump. He never talks about any issues. He never showed up to a debate with Massie.
• KY has “Sore Loser” laws which prevent Massie from running as an independent in the actual election.
• This was the most expensive primary in US history, over $32 million was spent. For a state primary.
• Total corporate spending in US elections is now over $1 billion per year, and will likely skyrocket this year, so $32 million on a primary is nothing. Expect to see mass manipulation during midterms. (Thanks Citizens United!)

As a lifetime owner, the number of features they’ve deprecated is probably the worst part.

• Photo support (luckily Immich came along)
• Tidal integration (no idea if that was Plex or Tidal’s decision)
• Plugins (god forbid anyone add the functionality they keep removing)

It’s close between that and the last app overhaul that removed a bunch of functionality.