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I also default to Vivaldi when I need to use a Chromium browser, and I have found that I like the Feeds part of the browser better than Thunderbird. It is for sure the most customizable Chromium based option, so many tweak-able options. Aside from a couple of RSS feeds I check like once or twice a day, Zen and FF are my defaults for basically all browsing. I don't tend to do things that make use of the AI stuff in FF, but honestly don't really care if Mozilla has those options as long as they keep them as easy to disable as they currently are.

GIMP is much more memorable for good or bad. I got over the name like 5mins after I first learned about it years ago. WLBR is so bland outside of the spelling. At least Blender kind of sounds like it blends elements to make something, and Plasma sounds like it would look nice. WLBR sounds frumpy/bland (though I would like to know what it will stand for), which is about as bad as trying too hard to sound "fresh/sexy" from a marketing standpoint. Maybe they could have gone with GRIP (GNU Raster Image Program) if the actual concern was about "offending" people while still being easy to remember? Idk, I suck at naming things.

I would love to have an excuse to put that on mine. If the job is tech or imaging related, then they would already be aware of it. For the others, at least it might cause a laugh or confuse them long enough to look it up (which means you might get remembered and taught them something). Just have to own it and not pre-apologize for it, power move, and don't even act like it is any different when speaking at an interview (just like any of the other stuff you have listed). That or just put "GNU Image Manipulation Program Project" and leave it at that since it sounds "professional".

That being said, I hate how overly "professional" people try to make every little thing sound much more "impressive" than they are. But I respect that you care more than I do/would, so no hate for you likely being much more likely to land a job. lol

One personal anecdote about wild resume with regards to a video response to questions I listened to while my boss was having to watch to make first picks for real interview. There was a woman that said her name was "Lix Dicks" (I can't remember how it was actually spelled). I was like "Wait wait wait, did the sound just glitch out??" and my boss also had the same look on her face. We replayed it a few times trying to see if it was our PC or maybe the video. But my boss went back to the text of her resume, and shit was real. The person ended up not making it due to availability listed in a different section (her other previous work and qualifications would have had her much better than most of the others). Best believe we were sad that it meant the in-person interview didn't happen. We still remember her though. Perfect qualifications AND such a wild name was such a loss for us.

Fully agree, shit is a perfect constant example of liberalism loving nice words while actively preventing making any actions following to address the causes. I really and truly believe that therapy can be really great. But if the person in pain and struggling is constantly setup to fail by putting it all on them. Then liberal capitalist therapy is noting but gaslighting. The struggling person isn't the failure or worthless for doing the things they can. The rug is pulled even when personal progress does happen.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary - Marx

IMO it really depends on the culture of the nations. I personally don't plan on giving up my guns even if a successful revolution in the USA happens. And I think it would be extremely hard to ban them. But more importantly, the USA (or at least large swaths of it) has had a pretty different view on persons being allowed to own guns compared to many other nations. And being part of the constitution does kind of make the USA a little different. Though I don't know off-hand how many other nations have something like the 2nd Amendment so feel free to let me know.

I can't speak to how the cultures of Soviet/Warsaw Pact, China, Vietnam, DPRK, Cuba, or any other nations thought of guns before or after their revolutions. Even if you look at non-socialist nations (especially the major capitalist nations), they also have similar laws making individuals owning guns super limited. Which (to me) just indicates that they just don't have gun culture large enough to push for changing the laws. Not a "good" or "bad" thing, just shows that the people of different nations (or even just regions of nations) do things differently.

In my personal case, I grew up and still live in a more rural area. And I have handled various kinds of guns since I was like 10~12. Most of the time was hunting or scouts, but now also for concealed carry and fun range days with friends. I understand how large urban and suburbs closer to urban areas would want to have more rules due to higher population densities (different material conditions and cultures).

The rest is about mostly mental and physical health that I got ranty with but still matters in my opinion. Not kidding myself into thinking it is the only or correct causes/solutions. Just things I feel do matter with obvious problems relating to guns and other physical violence.

I think the very real and terrible issues with gun violence in the USA is that so many other deeper issues lead to the violence. Our capitalist system keeps poor and working people down and healthcare is out of reach. More and more people become isolated and then get "black pilled".

Even if someone has access to healthcare (specifically mental health but other health related issues very much matter), all the effort doesn't change that outside of sessions or physical health efforts the "real world" just keeps grinding them down without care because profits matter more. I always roll my eyes at any "mental health awareness" trainings my jobs put so much lip-service into. Because the rest of what they do in demanding more and more with fewer people. Overwork and impossible demands mean that even if you do try to take a mental health day or are visibly stressing out are just another reason to get rid of you. The stress of possibly losing access to income (and healthcare that is tied to the jobs) only increases the isolation.

A socialist/communist society with unconditional access to healthcare, housing, employment, and basic needs for literal living would remove a lot of these issues. Might not go away, but would seem to naturally reduce gun and other violent crimes. Much like with how the idea of government and classes as we know them withering away naturally. Obviously there will always be outliers like literal clinical issues that aren't tied to the above. But real efforts to research biological causes and ways to actually help seem to only become an option if the profits are removed along with the default of just throwing people away into prisons to "forget" about them.

Installed, did notice that even though I tell my phone (Samsung 24U) to use it as default assistant app. Google still opens when holding the home "button" at the bottom of my screen. When I tell it to have the floating bubble the app itself is cool.

Would be interesting to know percentage of them only get the Flu shot because it was required vs those that already get it even if they weren't military.

Get console OSes since PlayStation BSD stuff could be useful for something, and Nintendo stuff just because they always lose their shit and show their true colours. Modern Windows source code for moving React OS forward because they deserve to hit a real release after so long. And of course all of the Creative Cloud shit to remove reasons for still paying the Adobe Tax.

Would be hilarious if they went in hard with it. Just start copy-pasting just a wild amount of them in grids that don't connect to any inlet or exit to/from actual roads. After a certain point, they could say it is some national art project that is about the very corruption that leads to this original one.

Same here. Though I would imagine the real people benefiting would be people holding Bitcoin. Especially if true, since shit would jump the price massively while in effect.

He points to places like the UK having lower costs. But they have actual national healthcare and are really driven to force pharma companies to cut shit. Also doesn't do anything to address the issue of our private for-profit system rewarding everything costing more.

There were some great months for people being approved for much more after that United Healthcare fuck got got. But would have been even better if the same happened to pharma CEOs at the same time. Toss in some of the big name board members/share holders too. As they were the ones that started getting pissy about profits being lower due to insurance companies freaking out about maybe being next.

But all these tariff things only do a speed run of continuing to attack the wrong problem (just like how both parties have always done). Companies that do end-up setting up USA manufacturing will still charge more than before the tariffs (just less in order to have people "feel" better at any small reduction). Will pull the same shit of blaming "higher cost of having to pay USA workers" and/or the good old "need to recoup costs" (both will be what they WILL most certainly use when they scale down these new USA based manufacturing after Trump is out). Would imagine it is still more profitable to pay for the Potemkin buildings and machines for appearing to comply.

https://xdaforums.com/t/research-wip-possible-volte-enablement-for-samsung-devices-on-aosp-based-roms.4664947/

https://github.com/jameskdev/android_samsung_imsservice

Not sure if the above helps (as the links are from 2024), but might be useful for the S10 if their efforts are usable. I haven't messed with custom ROMs on anything in a long time and I don't know the processes for patching mentioned in the links. The last time was not with intent to actually have a working phone and just messing with my S6 just to try installing Lineage OS on something I had no plan of caring about.