In the US, pensions have become extremely rare, and were mostly replaced with a 401k, which is essentially a tax deferred stock market account. Often your employer will match contributions that you put into it up to a certain point.

What if their wages hadn’t allowed them to build up a 401k? They likely won’t be able to survive on social security alone.

If a DOCSIS 3.0 modem still can’t be saturated by the tier of internet someone is paying for, what advantage would 3.1 have?

Fractic’s tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery.

He’s pretty much like that in most of his videos.

Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn’t mean they’ll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It’s fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That’s not where these folks are now.

This I completely agree with. From what I can tell he’s established relationships with these folk over the years during his coverage of C64 content, and likely felt having them be a part of this would legitimize it and make it feel like the ‘real’ commodore, but time and time again, when I’ve seen old legends try their hands at recapturing the magic of their past, it rarely seems to work out (a good example would be every ex-Sierra employee trying to make a new game with a kickstarter, all of which resulted in pretty sub-par stuff).

But I’d have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.

I’m of the same mind.

I don’t think Frantic has any sort of bad intentions or scheme planned (he’s been steadily making classic computer content for over 7 years now), but I do think he’s completely blinded by nostalgia, which is an ever pervasive theme in his videos, and is ultimately wildly overestimating the commercial viability of the goals he has in mind.

If he really did refinance his house to help fund all this, I don’t foresee things going too well for him, as I can’t really imagine them being able to put to market something that will be affordable enough and with some killer feature to truly capture a wide enough market. I also would love to be proven wrong here, but based on how the Commander X16 went, I suspect whatever they produce will be far too overpriced for what it actually is, and will end up only appealing to a small subset of similarly nostalgic Gen-x’ers who have the disposable income to get into it, similar to the Spectrum NEXT.

I suspect a VM would introduce latency (big no no for music production), and I can’t imagine getting ASIO working would be easy (though I’ve never tried it).

According to WineHQ, Ableton’s compatibility with wine isn’t stellar. FL Studio works quite well in it, but switching DAWs can be a pretty major undertaking.

For Linux native DAWs, Reaper and Bitwig are the two best options. Reaper is the most affordable at 60 bucks, with an infinite free trial.

I don’t disagree that it ended badly, but had the movement not been pacified by the government’s bait of reform and a new constitution, it could’ve been revolutionary.

Your people showed the incredible potential of collective power and collective civil disobedience. The documentary shows both the victories, and the failures to learn from, just as Hong Kong did.

The political system is completely fucked. I think going grassroots with direct action is currently the best way to both resist, and build horizontal decentralized power that isn’t prone to corruption.

1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

Union Suggestions:

• 🌍 Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)
• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW

4. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

Highly recommend Linux Mint. It’s the most beginner friendly, smooths things over, has a great app store, and will make you feel mostly at home.

It’s quite possible these guns really are just going off due to stacked tolerances. ForgottenWeapons did a good video on the theory.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWVs2uD1XY

Some parts of it are rougher than others, but I’d say it can still be pretty fun.

You can sometimes find good quality used cookware from thrift stores (goodwill, habitat for humanity, etc).

For new, Costco has some pretty good deals on stainless steel pots and pan sets from I think Tramontina. They’re pretty highly regarded, and should be a BIFL. I bought a small set of them, and can confirm they’re pretty great.

Consider directing that rage into the methods seen in the Chile documentary in my first response (I edited it in, so you may not have seen it).

I think it’s good to be prepared for a civil war scenario, but we should be doing everything we can to avoid one.

Don’t be a hostage of the gun… But have one and know how to use it well.

Unfortunately, the liberal party in Germany ultimately became complicit with the Nazi party.

Our current democratic party is completely corporate captured, and do not have any ethical fortitude to stand against the regime. They are cowards who will take the easy path, even at the expense of us all.

Let’s try a general strike first, since if the military doesn’t fracture and join us, you’re looking at open slaughter (or at best, The Troubles)

Look how powerful civil disobedience and an extended general strike was against the regime in Chile back in 2019.

If the more liberal parts of the movement didn’t go for the reform bait, they would’ve won.

It implicated the police, and the court systems will always protect the police, even at the expense of imprisoning innocents.

Tiananmen square.

“the 11th and 12th decks are specifically used to transport hydrogen and natural gas-fueled new energy vehicles.” The green LNG-fuel-powered vessel will be used to service European markets via the Cape of Good Hope route, as well as the China-Brazil route, “and other strategic pathways,” the manufacturer wrote.

Disappointing. From the headline, I thought the container ship itself was electric, like with an Iron Air Oxide battery as described in this article.

As it is, the article is basically just saying “Hey, this EV company got their own fossil fuel powered transport ship. And there’s some fossil fuel cars on a couple decks too! Cool huh?”

Also @Sunshine@lemmy.ca

Just wanna throw it out there that Bidets are super cheap, wildly effective, and quick to install on any toilet.

You also don’t need warm water, as your bunghole is actually surprisingly insensitive to temperature!

I misunderstood what you were after, since I consider neo-nazi’s to be neo-fascists. If you wanted examples of people resisting fascist or tyrannical governments only, there’s not many examples of that happening in the US specifically since those movements would be almost immediately and harshly quashed. I don’t know if you’d consider the Battle of Athens to count since it was only against a corrupt local town government. And the Battle of Blair Mountain, I assume, doesn’t really count either.

For larger scale conflicts, we’d have to go abroad and often farther back in history, which may disqualify it from what you’re looking for.

Examples:

• Rojava using weapons to protect against tyrannical and oppressive neighbor states

• The Spanish Civil War, which was leftists (even George Orwell joined in!) vs. the fascist army of Francisco Franco (plus Documentary with more detail)

• Nestor Makhno’s Black Army during the Russian Revolution (plus short historical video)

• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Polish Resistance during WW2