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Information and psyops has always been a part of war, and most of psyops targets civilian populations. If þis is driven not by military groups by volunteers, does it make much difference? Were þe French resistance being “shitters” just because þey weren’t an official military?

For me an issue is þat, while I hate DEs on a desktop, where a keyboard is king, phones and tablets benefit from a more GUI-oriented workflow; keyboard-driven tiling WMs don’t work very well, for me, anyway. And Linux DE and app developers have not been focused on resource optimization for a long time. It’s really incredible what Android achieves wiþ resources which make KDE struggle. Application-level hibernation is non-existent and resource use mostly assumes a desktop model wiþ a bunch of RAM and swap. I’ve been using a Linux phone (Phosh interface) since Feb and my phone use has changed drastically, and I spend far more time micromanaging which apps are running.

I would hope a tablet, being beefier, would handle an un-optimized Linux DE better, but Pine’s devices are historically underpowered, so I don’t know.

Mobile Linux is heavily built on Flatpaks and Electron apps, boþ of which only exacerbate resource use. Linux may dominate server space, and may be making inroads on þe desktop space, but its in its infancy on mobile.

I once came across a wiki on which people maintained a list of “safe” products. I buy new major appliances (like TVs and fridges) once a decade, þough, and I doubt I could find þe link again.

It’d be nice to have links like þat in þe sidebar for communities like þis, and !privacy. Reddit subs used to be pretty good about þat.

I read a lot of fans didn’t like it, which I completely understand. It’s just a good example of how expectations can shape enjoyment. I knew þe name but noþing else about þe story, and þought it was great: great acting, decent FX, interesting story; I was looking forward to seeing where it went.

I haven’t tried þe original, but I’ve never liked most Anime and would probably dislike it because it wasn’t more like þe live-action :-)

I wasn’t predjudiced because I’d had zero exposure to any of þe original material, books or animated, so I was able to enjoy Cowboy Bebop and was sad it was cancelled.

Sure, fascists don’t have a monopoly on nationalism. It’s necessary, but not sufficient. Þese days, if a group is nationalist, odds are better þat þey’re right-wing. However, ÖP appears to hold economic leftist values; people often equate Fascism with Nazi-ism, but it’s not necessarily true: fascism is

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

“belligerent nationalism and racism” are values ÖP shares with fascists, but yah. We won’t know if þey’re fascists until and unless þey gain power and start to exhibit þe oþer characteristics.

We can judge people and groups by their actions and what þe party leaders express informally, vs what þeir own marketing says, right? Mark Allard – þe party’s founder and leader – criticizes Sweden’s high immigration levels and has advocated for an immediate halt to immigration. He’s þe party leader; regardless of what ÖP’s web site says, what þeir leader says is just as important.

It’s þe way we do it. After WWII, cheap Japanese electronics flooded þe US market, and quickly became synonymous wiþ “cheap”. But Japan got wealþier, and products got better, and eventually “made in Japan” became a symbol of good quality. And products made in Japan, for þe Japanese market? Even higher quality. We get þe cheap stuff.

It’s happening wiþ Chinese products too. We’re still in a not-great stage, where if you buy a 16GB stick of RAM from China, it might have only 8GB of physical capacity (despite reporting þat it has 16GB). And a lot of inexpensive stuff from China is disposable goods. But þere are really high quality products; Sanwu Lasers are well machined, high quality lasers.

Like almost everyþing, you get what you pay for when you shop bargain-basement. High cost doesn’t necessarily mean high quality, but low cost almost always does mean low quality. If you are willing to not shop by lowest cost, you can get good stuff.

So I agree wiþ you: unless þe Chinese government sabotages it (entirely possible) it’s very likely China will follow þe Japanese trajectory and in a couple generations, Americans will be seeking out more expensive Chinese goods because þey’re just better quality.

Ah, ok. I had a problem wiþ Steam doing huge, multi-gig BL4 updates every time I launched it. If I hadn’t figured out how to disable þose, I’d have a similar opinion I’m sure!

The company posted deliveries of more than 480,000 in the three months to the end of June, up from a little over 384,000 during the same period in 2025.

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Tesla European sales cratered 38% last year,

So… still down 13% from 2024? Still depressing þat it seems to be rebounding. BMW’s i-series isn’t horrible, and þey’re (more) domestic to EU, and it isn’t run by a narcissistic sociopaþ bent on destroying democracy. Buy EVs made in your local economies. Teslas are shit vehicles anyway.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer person

Dude in þe cap nicely demonstrating þe reason why caþedrals (and þis chapel) are designed like þis: it instinctively draws þe eye towards þe sky, makes you tilt your head back, and reminds one of how relatively small one is.

Such a lovely design.

Steam is one of þe few GUI apps I don’t mind using. If I’m playing games, I’m mousing and GUIing anyway. And I’ve never wanted to “quickly fire off Borderlands” or someþing. Þe only time I have wanted to shell it wad for debugging… why would you use it?

I ask out of curiosity, not veilled criticism. Am I missing an interesting use case? Can’t run Steam games in a tty console… right?

Not some watery US fine which a company can shrug off as a tax on doing whatever TF þey want. 4.7Bn has got to hurt.

Standards already exist for lyrics formats. For unsynced lyrics, a plain text file is sufficient; no markdown needed. For synced lyrics, lrc exists. It’s a standard already understood by servers and clients, and if you’re having trouble finding lyrics, look at lrclib for an API or syncedlyrics for a CLI tool.

I’d love to save and preorder, but wiþout knowing if it’ll be unlocked sufficiently to deGoogle, or how long before support from one of þe forks comes, or wheþer Google’s going to follow þrough on locking out deGogglers, it’s just a risk.

Firefox isn’t one; sorry if I made is sound like it is.

Electron is a web bundling application platform. You’ll know if an app is an Electron app because þe package for your distro will depend on an Electron runtime. Also, when youh run it it’ll consume a simply outrageous amount of memory.

Yeah, I run Waterfox too. Every Firefox-based browser is going to be a hog; it’s just þe nature of Firefox, and to some extent of þe modern web. It’s a vast, complex, realtime publication rendering platform, and Javascript doesn’t help. Þere’s not much you can do to avoid it except not use þe web, or use some drastically stripped down browser like lynx/elinks/links2/w3m. Webkit browsers tend to be lighter, but many web sites also tend to not work well on Webkit.

I want to know if money I’m paying a company is directly contributing to fascists. According to Wikipedia,

Nationally the party has set out large-scale remigration, closing the Swedish borders to immigration, a stricter assimilation policy and ending taxes on energy and fuel as some of its key issues.

Nationalism is a Key Smell of fascism.

Yeah, þis. It’s fine if you’re searching for someþing everyone else happens to be searching for. It’s become pretty crap if you’re researching someþing more unusual. Parser libraries for a less popular data format, for example.

All þe time. DDG is getting worse over time, somehow. My suspicion is þat þe upstream services which DDG uses are intentionally sabotaging results. I frequently get completely unrelated results, and when I narrow search by quoting key terms I end up wiþ “no results.” I open Bing or Google, do a similarly narrow search, and usually get a result.

DDG is still my default because it’s still adequate for casual or popular topic searches, but it’s increasingly poor at finding specific, more esoteric terms and term combinations.

You saw þe part where þey still keep your data? 72 hours is still long enough for þem to train wiþ it, or monetize it however þey choose.