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cynar

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  • It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.

    The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.

  • how to fix things

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  • Their biggest problem is media capture. With the loss of twitter to Musk, there's no large scale organisation path that hasn't been captured.

    As the phrase goes. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

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  • I'm UK based btw. I had my tangles with the police at protests in my younger days. It's intimidating, even when nominally peaceful. I have a lot of respect for those of you willing to face off against the nastier crowd control methods.

    It's worth noting that there is still a huge difference between what you dealt/deal with and shoot-to-kill military weapons fire.

    If I thought it would help, I would (unhappily) deal with tear gas etc. I'm too old, with too much to lose to risk rubber bullets etc, but respect those that would. VERY few people would face gunfire without the ability to fire back. The American Left is not at the point where they are willing to escalate to that point.

  • The Plutocrats Who Rule Our World Aren't Even Enjoying Themselves

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  • Money actually has a strong diminishing return on happiness. A lack of money can definitely make you unhappy. More money also makes it easier to be happy, but does make it easy.

    That's actually the hole that the rich can get into. They (subconsciously) assume they would be happy with just a bit more money. They delay or ignore the things that would make them happy in trade for more money/power.

    It would actually be quite sad, if it didn't fuck the rest of us over completely.

  • Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Implores ICE Agents to ‘Quit Your S—ty Jobs’ at Super Bowl Party, Says Trump ‘Will Drop You Like a Bad Habit… Come on This Side of the Line’

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  • I think the Germans might have some ideas to draw from. Or at least what doesn't work as well as you might think.

  • Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Implores ICE Agents to ‘Quit Your S—ty Jobs’ at Super Bowl Party, Says Trump ‘Will Drop You Like a Bad Habit… Come on This Side of the Line’

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  • There's the acute situation and the chronic one. The acute one needs action now. You also need to keep an eye on the long term goals.

    It's a common thing that's been discovered with extremist groups. A good number of their members get in before it becomes extreme. By the time they realise, too much of their identity is tied up with the group. They get drawn deeper and deeper. This makes getting out both emotionally and practically costly.

    Giving a release valve to remove these people from the group is emotionally unpleasant, but extremely useful for collapsing the group.

    Also, those same people are often in the best position to help with deprogramming other members.

    I'm not saying to let them walk Scot free, but you need to leave some way out. Unless you are willing to stand and systematically gun down them to a man (bare in mind, they will be firing back).

  • Will carrier drone and mesh nets be the coms of the revolution?

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  • Unfortunately, most mesh networks rely on civility for long range. They just don't have the power to punch through.

    It would be relatively easy to jam large areas.

  • Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Implores ICE Agents to ‘Quit Your S—ty Jobs’ at Super Bowl Party, Says Trump ‘Will Drop You Like a Bad Habit… Come on This Side of the Line’

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  • Those who turn soon should be accepted. Not Scot free, but accepted. There's the possibility they were roped in by propaganda, and got too deep.

    If they don't turn now, they definitely knew what they were doing, and should face the appropriate consequences.

    It's also worth remembering, always give your enemy a way out. It's a lot easier to run down the die-hards than deal with a group of cornered animals.

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  • I'm not American. I'm only aware of them in passing. It's not the sort of thing we learn about in school, over here.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • In its defence, that assumed it was properly funded. Its actual funding was very limited.

    I believe most of the critical problems have been solved. The only major one left is keeping the reactor walls stable. They have a tendency to transmute, which causes multiple problems.

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  • In France, the worst they will likely be met with is water cannons, tear gas, and potentially rubber bullets/beanbag rounds.

    In America, it's more likely to be automatic assault rifles.

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • They are excellent in the hobby world. It's generally when you need to do a bit of quick logic, an ESP32 can be dropped in to do it. E.g. change the colour of an led depending on a sensor.

    They also form the core of a lot of IoT devices. Simple sensors and relays that can connect to WiFi and throw up a simple web interface. ESPhome, tasmota and WLED exist to make this extremely easy.

    They are basically the hobbiest electronic multi tool. Powerful enough to do most jobs without bothering with code optimisation. Cheap enough to throw in and leave there.

  • Do you think centrists are bad?

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  • In an ideal world, you have conservatives and revolutionaries. The revolutionaries want to make changes to try and make things even better. The conservatives act to maintain the status quo. When they balance properly then you get steady change, but slow enough to detect and fix cascading problems/failures.

    In this situation, the centralists act as the balance point, being swayed one way or the other to set the path.

    Unfortunately the only place this is actually close to accurate is Sci-Fi novels.

  • New: Early Access developers can list their planned "1.0" release date

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  • It's niche, but it lets them get the best of both worlds. Even when a company does early access right, a lot of people would rather wait for the complete game.

    This would let them refine and build up with early access, then get a significant boost at their proper release.

  • Well, this made me cry (story continues inside)

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  • A lot of people want to be. The current world makes it so that it's less people won't, but can't figure out how.

    Often, if 1 person starts something, and it's seen to help, others will join in. It just takes 1 person to start it, and another to make it a group activity.

  • The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • 8k was always going to have issues and likely die.

    When it comes to TVs most people don't like sitting too close. The bigger the TV, the further back you want to sit. Anyone who's sat in the front seats of a cinema can attest to this.

    While the human eye doesn't have a resolution, we can work out an effective one from our ability to discern angular differences. Combined these, and the 'optimum' resolution for a TV is actually just under HD. In the real world, the extra pixels of 4K help, particularly after compression.

    Basically HD is good enough for uncompressed video, 4K helps with compression artifacts. 8k offers nothing new.

  • Reinventing something that worked just fine

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  • It's still a bit behind on voice control, but home assistant can deal with both. Without all the spying.

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    ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling.

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  • The current mindset seems to be that the other side wants reciprocal violence, and so not to give it to them. They want to spin it as ICE trying to do their jobs and being mindlessly attacked. The current situation is giving them almost nothing to spin.

    At some point it will detonate. Trump and co mean it's likely either that or folding under their boots. Holding out till the American midterms is unlikely, unless something seriously changes.

  • He would never

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  • Even here, he shines. He's not off put by a woman doing a better job than him. Instead he lets her bail him out, and loves her all the more for her strength.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Robot Lawnmowers

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Kids Tablet recommendations.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK)

    www.ikea.com /gb/en/p/tradfri-led-bulb-gu10-345-lumen-smart-wireless-dimmable-white-spectrum-40517647/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Recommended linux variant for gaming.