I don’t blame people for running, but personally I’ve always found that Fighting Fascism is a Fine Hill to Die On.

I’ve used espanso for about 4, maybe 5 years and haven’t encountered this issue. I even have to compile it myself because it’s daemon mode uses systemd on Linux and I dont run a distro that uses systemd and had to modify the source code slightly. I do run it in managed mode, essentially invoking it from a startup script when my window manager starts up.

Long story short, what you encountered might have been related to how it integrates with the init system and you might try and run it directly from a startup script. Simple test is to just try and install the latest version and see if you have the same issue.

Espanso Text Expander. Its not Linux specific but its got so many uses. You can even use it with bash scripts to have essentially alises/text shortcuts for short or massive amounts of text. I use it for so many code snippets and template texts in Neovim and other applications that involve typing.

Artix has the most amount of alternative init systems available.

I would recommend Devuan, but it just wraps SysV in runit as a service manager rather than just using runit as init.

Gentoo has options for systemd or openrc. You can get runit or s6 to work on it if you’re pretty familiar with how /sbin/init works,or so I’ve ascertained from researching, but have not done this yet.

Void is very interesting as it uses runit and also uses musl instead of glibc. I don’t think it has quite as many packages as Artix though due to lack of AUR, and I can only estimate that the use of musl instead of glibc necessitates the need for some interesting workarounds from time to time.

I use Artix with runit. Have been daily driving this for around 6 years now and have been very happy with it.

If I were to use anything else I’d go through the trouble of installing Gentoo and configure it to use s6 init. Just to get more granular control.

I like Tubular and/or Seal(a yt-dlp wrapper) on Android and don’t use a TV, but yeah, anything but the actual YouTube app is probably better.

Ublock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.

Edit: Mispelling, fuck autocorrection

If there isn’t a literal fire and brimstone Hell, we should make one for ICE personnel.

The implication is that inebriation is a positive attribute of alcoholic beverages.

And heck, I suppose if I were given two choices between a poison that causes pain during the entire poisoning process, and a poison that only causes pain towards the end…I’d take the latter.

If animal cloning after death is any indication. You have up to 48 hours after death to preserve the tissue and clone it.

And then force them into slavery on the farms that now are in deep need of cheap labor.

I’m so very proud to be an American, 🙄.

This. Even if cloning humans were legal, and she wanted to clone him, or freeze his deceased body to clone him in the future, she’d only have a few hours before his DNA was no longer viable for cloning.

This is just sad on so many levels.

Oh stfu Luis. You said what you said because you fucking meant it. You fucking cash addicts would murder your own children if it meant line go up this quarter.

At least own the fact you’re a fucking monster, and yeah, Luis, be the monster you are in fucking public. We all see you now motherfucker.

This looks promising! Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll look into this as well.

Nice. I knew this idea had to exist in media somewhere. I’ll look into it. Thanks for that.

Lol, I’ve done this exact thought experiment. Heck I practically brainstormed a version of Eternals in my head once, but instead of being Gods posing as humans, they were mortal Reincarnated Individuals who knew everyone/everything was reincarnated, but what gave them advantages in this world was that they remembered their past lives, and could use that accumulated knowledge for good and for ill.

Its a cool little concept that somebody will turn into a TV series/Movie/Video Game at some point I’m sure.

TLDR; I’m vehemently agnostic.

I believe that if there is a “God” entity, that it is incomprehensible and not worth attempting to understand.

I also don’t believe in an anthropocentric “God”, in that “God” doesn’t inherently value nor not value humans as somehow special nor damned. I also don’t believe “God” cares nor doesn’t care about humans or existence.

I also don’t believe in inherent meaning, nor that there is some form of divine justice. Those are human lenses through which we interpret the world, and are unlikely to apply (at least in the same way as a human) to the supposed viewpoint of an eternal omniscient omnipotent entity that created the universe and will supposedly one day close the door on time and its own existence.

In short, I’m one bleak motherfucker and it doesn’t matter if “God” exists or not. Either way, I don’t get to survive death. What is eternal about me is inherently not a part of me. It is mortality, true mortality, mortality of the consciousness and the ego and the individual that defines the individual. When that dies, "God” or not, either way there is no individual to somehow surpass death.

And download all the music you want without an account using yt-dlp.

Truly curious. Like what?

God I fucking hope you’re right. If both the military and police become fascist (even if in all but name), it won’t just be the USA that is completely fucked.

Might I interest you in a podcast?