agegamon

I agree with you but trouble is of course that without good policy, the cost of infrastructure will just get dumped on the bottom 99% while the benefit will be corrupted and skewed to unfairly benefit the 1%.

That's obviously already true of a lot of other infrastructure. People can barely afford basic fucking maintenance as is. Without undoing the dynamic already in place it'll just keep happening with new disaster infrastructure.

(As you may already know) The problem with "forests need to burn" is, while it is technically part of natural forest cycles in some areas of the world, it is also true that natural cycles were relatively stable and worked before human-caused climate change. Now that climates are unstable and shifting we are getting crazy amounts of wind, heat, and drought that are accelerating fires in unpredictable ways, including in areas where forest fire was not the primary mechanism for recycling and regrowth.

Fun times 😂 especially when there are still people out there refusing any degree of responsibility who just want to be mad and hurt people for fun. Ugh.

Same thing with profiteering, entrepreneurism, "the need for growth" etc, basically all the bullshit our education system forced on us to justify capitalism and making the rich richer.

Like, no, definitely when I grew up I would somehow understand that its OK to screw people over and hoard resources for one stinky asshole while millions of people starve and die of curable diseases? Loooool nope obvious lie is obvious. I'm here now and I feel old and tired, choosing to fuck people over is still wrong and trashy.

I'd be less bitter about it if so many other people hadn't bought into it...

Not that this graph needs to be taken that seriously, but it should really cite the source for those hourly wage averages. For the US at least that looks too optimistic, guessing its true for other nations as well. Assuming the top 1% are eliminated to avoid deeply poisoning the data, I'd guess that the average hourly would be under 20usd/hr and the hours-to-80-USD number will wind up well over 4.

Look at all that wasted material. That could've been so many more useful and beneficial things for the 99%

And I suppose being flooded makes it slightly worse now too...

"Don't get my hopes up!"

Look I'm super disappointed and all that there's not a safe way to alter my body to the degree that I want, whenever I want. Setting aside my ideal world though, in terms of options currently on the table, yeah it may not be as powerful or complete as I yearn for but good is not the the enemy of great. Other things are preventing us from improving, but our current HRT and gender affirming options are saving people's lives - like mine.

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Request denied: hardware incompatiblity issue.

(Also happy fediverse cakeday!)

I got into it last year. It's been less intuitive to configure - especially the dashboard section -without getting into manual configuration. It desperately needs some improvement to make it so that a "lightweight" tech person like me can configure it as much as I want without learning the gritty shit under the hood. That said, I'm happy with it overall and am slowly learning more in spite of that complaint.

Google home, apple home, etc are pretty sad once you want to do anything more than very basic automation or very basic controls. Considering that you are giving them complete access to your home and devices that's a nonstarter for me. I'd go back to having all "dumb" stuff without something like HA. Plus there are things those corpo tools won't let you do. I couldn't control the fan on my oven hood manually with google home, but in HA I have total control right out of the box.

Compresshaj

While Linux does have something called Secure Boot, that's not what game devs are tapping into. They want Windows. There are ways to get around it with virtual machines or streaming, but essentially, there's no casual route to playing these games without Windows.

Throwing in on winslop right now is an absolutely bonkers decision. About as stupid as laying people off thinking that AI will "make up the difference."

It's not exactly like I'm going to play this anyway. But I wouldn't switch back to windows even for a game I liked, if they did scumbag shit like this.

All points I agree with. But at this point using winslop is signing up for a sevice. And it's full of bullshit.

Yep, it's still FOSS. It genuinely has better markup abilities than the windows tool too, we use it at work.

Its embarrassing that windows can't be at least this good without account related bullshit