Trump openly said he will be a dictator and will not follow the rule of law. The damage is done man, Putin got what he wanted. I’m not really sure any ways out. We either fall into an authoritarian dictatorship, or we will probably eventually have a civil war. I’m not really sure what else can be done about that. You can’t vote yourself out of a dictatorship… So what else is there for people to do?

Case in point, read this shit… https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/

Everyone thinks they’ll be in the ‘in group’ with a dictator. The only ‘in group’ is the dictator themselves. As you said, over time the ‘in group’ gets smaller and smaller. Really frustrating how people still champion this shit on thinking they’ll be in the special group too!

Here’s an example on the bigger items: I bought a used car that was 4 years old when I bought, I’ve since owned it for 14 years, so it’s 18 years old. Yes its starting to fall apart and I should probably buy a new one soon, but in the timespan that I’ve owned a single car, my brother has bought and sold something like 7 cars.

Just the shear amount of stuff I see people buying around me all the time, is insane.

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I stopped buying their phones when they started locking the bootloaders for the Qualcomm ones in the US. My last one was a galaxy s5. Sadly now I go with the pixel line directly from google, because I know it’ll be unlocked.

The only exception to this is google maps. There isn’t really an alternative, because they have the network effect going with all the points of interest added already, and crowd sourced by people, plus the reviews of business and restaurants. Even if you can get all that going with a Foss app, its not going to be tracking you, and unfortunately maps is the 1 reason for tracking people that actually gives the user some benefit, traffic data. I don’t think there any other Foss maps that gives traffic data, which if you live near a city or travel a lot, its invaluable.

Yeaaah, don’t use open office, it hasn’t had any code updates in like 15 years. Use and suggest libre office instead.

Or fixing their fucking power grid. Sure hope the voters think about the use of that 220 some million dollars when the power goes out again this winter and they can’t heat their house, again.

Wow… While the action is ethically crappy, I never would have thought that to be an arrestable offense. Using the actresses to generate new nudes and porn scenes? Sure, but to literally cut out the nude scenes from real movies? Kind of crazy to get arrested for that without some sort of warning or cease and desist letter first.

Yah, been playing it on my steamdeck, I forgot how hard the first diablo was, haven’t played it since in was a kid. I got a warrior all the way to diablo, but couldn’t kill him, character wasn’t powerful enough. So i started a new game with my character and thought I’d train in nightmare, and come back to kill diablo in normal later. But then I read the game ends in each difficulty when you kill diablo and what ever loot you get, you can’t pick up before the ending dialogue screens, and diablo isn’t treated as much of a special character in regards to loot so… I never went back to kill diablo, because what’s the point?

Now I got all the way to level 13 in nightmare and stalled again because my character can’t survive the balrogs, and isn’t powerful enough. Usually when you got stuck in the original game, you could dupe gold or stat increasing potions or something to get your character past their slump, but they fixed the dupe bug in the devilutionx code. Now there’s nothing really to help you out when stuck. Crazy thing is sometimes you have to restart because you’ve run out of gold for healing potions after trying and failing to clear a level.

I might be putting the game down for a bit. It was incredibly fun while I played though.

He covered that one already, and he’ll probably say it again: “stand back and stand by.”

That’s not how hate works.

Openwrt is life.

Lol well you gave me a new movie to watch, looks interesting, thanks!

Coming up with dumb voices with my wife and using them around the house. This week’s is a slight higher pitched voice with an Italian accent saying “ooh, I know!”, elongated and drawn out.

“I walked in and people started yelling and i said, ohh I know! I know!”

And how many beers? Lol pretty easy to mess up dd if and of flags, as well and drive names and partition numbers, especially while drinking.

Yup, they got me. Signed up for “price for life” fiber for $65/m, didn’t take a screenshot so i have no proof. 2 years later, nothing change contract wise, but now my bill is $85/m and I can’t fight it, again no proof. They were extremely careful to not have price for life branding on anything after you signed up, no email, no bill, no messages, nothing. Fuck Centurylink.

Now they’re trying to get me to switch to Quantum Fiber which apparently is still Centurylink, and the carrot or stick they’re using is the price for life rate at Quantum Fiber… Why would I trust a price for life promo when you reneged on the last price for life promo, in less than a year?

Again, Fuck Centurylink.