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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading

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  • I've been impressed with F-Droid's press releases. If they have a snowball's chance in hell of stopping this, they are certainly giving it a clear and concise effort.

  • Caitlyn Jenner [Grokipedia] [Archived]

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  • "Grokpedia" is so dumb, it's just page after page of LLM slop. I find it hard to believe even the most bad-faith arguer will treat it as an authority.

  • Are there enough resources in the world to allow everyone (or at least the vast majority) to live comfortably and happily?

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  • At the risk of sounding like a conservative, most people do find meaning in doing work and would not be content to lay around eating and watching TikTok forever. Just because someone does not find meaning in laboring to make their bosses wealthy does not mean they don't find meaning in the work itself.

    For example I think a lot of "low level" jobs would be quite enjoyable and rewarding if we weren't forced to do them in order to survive. I'm thinking things like carpentry, running a small grocery store or even waiting tables.

    So to answer your question, yes, the Earth can provide far more than every person needs to live a fulfilling life because all we need is food, shelter, community and freedom to find how we can best contribute. Those things are not expensive or resource intensive. But they are kept from us and replaced with plastic things we don't need in order to further enrich a small few.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Climate change is actually a great example of what I was getting at, because it has a relatively simple and known solution, and humanity has possessed the technology to implement that solution it for essentially as long as we have known about climate change itself.

    To put it in context of this conversation: climate change has only increased the "complexity of our times" for working class people, because the people with power and money chose this path. They could have been building windmills, and nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams to power our electric cars, but there was less profit in that.

    The mental stress of "ethical consumption" doesn't exist in a world of ethical production.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • Siri is bad but at least it has natural language processing. I think it's so funny how CEOs have no idea how LLMs work.

    Over a year ago Apple literally ran an ad showing off an "Apple Intelligence" feature that you could tell nobody at Apple ran by the actual engineers before deciding it was possible. It (of course) has still not been released.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Sadly, I don't think it will soon even matter if the leader is unpopular.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • My conspiracy theory is that the Epstein stuff staying on the front pages of social media for long (despite tech CEOs all being strongly MAGA) was an attempt by the Peter Theil / Russel Vought faction to move on from Trump. Which if you think about it is even scarier if they feel they don't need him any more.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • I don't blame them for feeling either, honestly. But I do blame them for what they do about it.

  • From scratch?

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  • If you can figure out a better way please let me know 😭😭

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • Very easy to use... once up and running. But there are other distros out there (Bazzite comes to mind as a good example) that "Just work" on a level even Macs can't approach. Installation is the only "complicated" part but I'm sure we'll see some manufacturers installing Bazzite by default in good time.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • I agree with all you said, but I also think that "complexity of our times" is whitewashing what I would describe as an "intentionally stressful situation forced upon working class people by the wealthy".

    I believe that humanity has the technology and resources to make our times feel quite simple!

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • You're absolutely not wrong.

    But I'm still gonna clap.

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • Not defending the behavior in question, but Linux nowadays is MUCH simpler to understand than Windows or MacOS. It is by far the easiest operating system to change to, and the easiest to learn if you are somehow not familiar with any. From a user standpoint it's the least "techie" OS now (aside from mobile OS of course).

    What you describe about "needing to take courses" was true ten years ago, it was probably true three years ago. It is just simply not true now.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • The disappointing answer is that those performing the insurrection on Jan 6th, as well as those that would stand to gain, are more concerned with being in power rather than respecting justice and the rule of law.

    Yes you nailed it. Kamala recently expressed sadness at the level of capitulation, saying she didn't expect it. A lot of us had a rude awakening in the days after J6 when we realized that lot of our fellow citizens did not take the lessons on democracy taught to us since grade school to heart.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • He kind of was in a way. The 2016 primary featured a dozen Bush wannabes, and Trump just went on stage and embarrassed them all by pointing out all the things they did horribly wrong (war, healthcare, etc), he correctly identified what made Republicans unelectable nationally. People related to that anger.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Honestly the racism I (sadly) understand. But to see the support for him not only continue but increase after violently trying to overthrow the government was truly a shock. For a brief moment it looked like he lost the support of Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham among other "traditional" Republicans but within days it was back to business as usual.

  • From scratch?

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  • How would you do presence detection (getting home)

    I have a sensor on my front door that triggers an automation that sends a text to everyone's phones that is (supposed to) trigger a location update. It then waits ten seconds and checks everyone's phones to see what wifi network they are connected to, it then waits another ten seconds and if nobody's location is "home", or nobody's wifi is the home network, then it texts everyone an alert of a possible break in.

    Only about 50% of the time does it correctly identify someone legitimately coming home lol

  • Searching for users and posts from a user

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  • Kbin had it. I don't know about Mbin.

  • Tell me there are no women in your life without saying there are no women in your life.

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  • Consider yourself blessed to be unaware of the entire digital media ecosystem that targets insecure white men via their preferred fandoms and is dedicated to blaming women and minorities for their issues.