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  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • It's still worse than before. Really need to break mobile away from Google and Apple. Preferably as close to standard Linux as possible

  • Steam Machine

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  • I'm excited to see what it can do at idle power draw along with the price. This can end up being a really good miniPC if it's priced as competitively as the Deck was when that launched

  • Does Terminal use actually make sense in the real world?

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  • It does. On Linux you can stick to graphical applications like you do on windows, it's just when people get on Linux they suddenly have the interest to try more things that they didn't try on windows. 90% of the time I'm using handbrake for videos conversions. Then there's the 10% of the time where command line ffmpeg because the functionality of the software is often greater than everything that the graphical interface has implemented or ever plans to implement.

    This applies to windows too. General users usually don't need to go into PowerShell or a WSL shell but a lot of professional users will do so. Not just IT but people that process videos, images, a lot scientist, not just Matlab types, but people that got to do mapping stuff. You grab map files, terrain data - whatever - then you need to process it for another application. A lot of cases, good luck finding a GUI that hits your specific use case but some guy that had the same problem years ago got a one liner bash command, better chance for niche use cases in my opinion.

    If you play games on Steam and you ever wanted to skip intro movies or a launcher and you Google for a solution and you get an answer that says to add something to the games launch options in Steam. That's pretty close to what people mostly do in a terminal.

    Especially when on windows freeware is so frequently adware and/or abandoned last updated for windows 7 and it's a wildcsrd if that specific functionality that is really just ffmpeg or imagemagick in the background doing the work

    Deleting a huge amount of files. You'll come across cases windows, Mac, Linux where the animations add a ton of time to the operation compared to just rm -rf 'ing a folder. Folder with a ton of files. Terminal searching for a file can be so much faster and responsive compared to GUI file explorer

    Creating graphical interfaces is of critical importance for user applications for accessibility but plenty of times it's just way faster to do it in a terminal - same with Windows and Mac.

  • Venezuela Says CIA-Linked Mercenaries Caught During 'False-Flag Attack'

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  • T&T not giving this energy about verifying whether all the people killed by the US on small boats are drug traffickers. Maybe they want to be the next Israel or Rwanda as the regional hammer for the the US

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • 1080p to 4k was a big improvement in my opinion. I still have a mix of 1080p and 4k equipment. 4k to 8k is real minor to me because 4k TVs are varying degrees of HDR now. Brightness range per zone/pixel and wider color gamut. 8K someday because someday the only TVs you should be buying for the price will be 4k but content picture quality, 4k with quality HDR brightness, contrast, color gamut - minor difference. Just need high quality sources. When I encode something, I use fairly high bitrate AV1. Another 5-7 years and I expect to be encoding everything new at AV2

  • ‘Open hostility has become normalised’: Dutch Muslims fear rise of far right as general election looms

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  • This has been simmering for like 30 years it was just easy to ignore because US politics is like a spectator sport to feel good about your own country. Should be no surprise that white and/or Christian nationalism wouldn’t look much different in Europe

  • "It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats

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  • Chat control is definitely going to pass eventually in my lifetime. Resiliency for secure and private communications will continue to develop. Anonymity will be needed too. Right now our governments instead of trying to inspire patriotism through improving living standards for the masses are focusing on information and communication control

  • China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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  • If it leads to desktop/phone for RISC-V and possibly ARM being as nice as x86 for basic installation, I’d be happy

  • Trump Balks At Declaring War For Venezuelan Drug Cartels Strikes: ‘We’re Just Going To Kill People’

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  • The US hasn’t technically been at war since WW2 by US definition technicalities, a system that many Americans seem to enjoy stating when talking about the millions of people killed by the US military and allies since in various invasions and occupations

  • 'The Establishment Is Spooked': Poll Shows Platner With Big Lead Over Mills in Maine Democratic Primary

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  • If elected, she’d be 79 years old when she’d be sworn in as a freshman congressperson. Senate terms are 6 years. Solid shot at another democrat dying in office again with this one

    Platner polls well and is much younger and has run very well with young people and progressives. He polls well against the incumbent republican. The talk for months before Mills entered the race was that Schumer was trying to get her to run

    Now there’s stuff coming out about Platner and the Maine race may be screwed regardless. Mills is a bad pick anyways. Biden 2020 level pick for the same reason of too old and not setting up younger generations. Even 60 years old is solid for 2-3 terms before you really get scared that they’re going to Dianne Feinstein themselves in office

  • Terramaster F4-425 PLUS NAS Review

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  • How María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Could Lead to War

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  • The Nobel peace prize has got to be one one of the most nonsense rewards in history. A prize legendary for giving it to warmongers and war lords

  • Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

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  • One of those things where it's difficult to talk about because conservatives go wild with anything bad about a city in a blue state. A blue city in a red state and they'd have to look up the party association of the city council members and mayor so until they're widely known as a blue city, they don't get attention.

    Portland is nice. It's quiet. Things close early. COVID hit Portland and Seattle like a freight train. So there was about a 2 year period where the homeless were a major issue, still a nicer place to live than most red communicaties you drive through. For how bad downtown Seattle and near the water Portland got, drive like 10 minutes away from the dense part of the city and it's quiet suburbs.

    The thing about poor communities along the west coast is that these days, yes people are poor and desperate but go to poor communities in like Arkansas, Indiana, Tenessee, Louisiana. It's a world of difference. Like east Portland scares suburbanites and then I drive through to grab something I wanted to eat and it just looks like an average suburb where people aren't paying landscapers to keep everything aesthetic.

    It's an example to me where people visit the US from almost anywhere in the world and be like, "even the poor people are rich." And it's about how people manage to have these comparative to their countries: big houses, expensive phones, multiple cars that are pretty big too, a substantial front and backyard

    Ya there were problems with homeless people setting up barrel fires for warmth/etc and those getting out of control. Homeless people occasionally posting up dumping all sorts of whatever in residential streets. Occasional hyper aggressive homeless that's a danger to others surrounding them. But peak COVID was 4-5 years ago. Portland is back to having the common large enough city homeless problem every large enough city has and it's back to being a relatively quiet sleepy city.

    The main knock on Portland is the passive agressive racism that comes with being very close to a mono-color city and the denial from people that racism could be a problem in Portland especially not from themselves a vocal leftist. Better than cities that don't try. Also I'd say there's an odd classism in Portland similar to like Paris, France. Intersection of leftist rhetoric but you got to play up your rhetoric and have the correct occupation (and color though people try not to be racist but people in Portland don't live around very many non-whites. They see them at restaurants) or else get weird treatment.

    Portland'ers treat non-white people with the concern of a terminally online social leftist who tries to be culturally sensitive by watching tourism videos of other countries and trying to connect very awkwardly like - I love rice. I know how to use chopsticks. I really enjoy the Djembe. I have a mortar and pestle (big smile and knudge on their shoulder), a molcajete. You're native, I did my genology a year ago and I'm 1/16th Cherokee - I'm on the rolls - Thanksgiving is so awkward isn't it? Look at all my Buddhist prayer beads and urns and drums and rugs and paintings and incense and ...

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    America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

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  • Reading how and why to teach reading like that, sounds like a lot of the feel good artsy-infused politicking I felt has been a major fail of the last like 30 years. Like people that grew up on early movies and television grew up and decided family sitcoms and YA novel adaptations would translate to real life

  • NordVPN is the most popular VPN amongst UK politicians – but they're not getting the best deals

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  • I swore off nordvpn after it took at least a week of emails to cancel it and have my credit card information removed. Hate on Paypal, now I only pay subscribtions with it since you can disable payments to a service with it or I always use the cryptocurrency option if available

  • The West Has Helped Paul Kagame to Pillage the Congo

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  • For those that don't follow the going ons in Africa. Kagame is pretty much a dictator with western backing. Rwanda funds rebel groups in neighboring countries that happen to staff a lot of well armed, trained, uniformed "rebels." These rebel groups happen to rapidly take mineral rich regions and adjacent cities. Those minerals then manage to make it to Europe and the US. African countries that oppose Rwandan expansion happen to be treated as examples of despotic regimes in Africa that need to be sanctioned

    They pretty much do the same thing as Israel where they use the military and financial support of western countries to pilliage neighbors to build up tourist attractions and market themselves as the beacon of democracy in Africa

    edit: I still want to clarify that although almost every historical post-1950 dictator/genocidal despot in Africa pretty got their start as a puppet of Europeans, the politics extends much more than just Europeans playing the great game in Africa. Like the whole Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia conflict exists regardless of Europe. Al Shabbab and other rebel groups in Nigeria exist regardless of Europe. Sudan though - that's a very multifaceted proxy war involving western Europe, Russia, USA, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, UAE, ...

    The whole Francophone Africa is currently exiting the trainwreck era of French dominance and racing towards another trainwreck

    Regardless what happens in the future, maybe this time we won't fool ourselves into some more white savior nonsense and end up setting whole regions back another century by playing kingmaker for another resource puppet king

  • Best Synology Replacement?

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  • You can buy the cheapest brand and run a different OS than the companies software. Like I have a TerraMaster NAS. Use what you want on it

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • You hear a lot of racist shit in Europe. It's not as bad in the big cities with large non-white populations but during times of xenophobia/super anti-immigration, the racism goes wild. Outside the big cities, it's as bad or worse than country USA racism just without the global public microscope

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • That's hilarious. This guys got to be stupid or someone in a troll farm trying stir up racial tension in other countries