Looking at your last couple of posts - you realize this is the “linuxmemes” community not the “troll linux users with kind of offensive, uninformed nonsense” community, right?

Dear KDE team:

Since the early days of Plasma 5 I won’t even consider another DE. Thank you for everything you do, the way you interact with the community of users, and just for being awesome.

Trump and Stochastic Terrorism - like peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, beans and rice.

Edit: I see I (and other top level comments) have the customary downvote from the silent maga that seems to pay attention to threads like these. Thank you buddy, until I see that one downvote show up with no counterargument to be seen I feel like my comments about Trump aren’t complete.

Local outlets say that Miller is a registered Republican. He has a master’s degree from UCLA and campaigned for Nevada’s state assembly in 2022, but lost in the primary election, according to local daily newspaper The Press-Enterprise.

Bianco said he is part of a right-leaning anti-government group and considers himself a sovereign citizen, someone who does not believe they are subject to government laws unless they agree to them.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-vem-miller-man-arrested-loaded-gun-outside-trump-rally-1968341

I’m more amused than I really should be about how they are eating their own now. Unless I’m misremembering, none of the three have been lefties of any stripe.

Hey if you are convinced by the two-wrongs-make-a-right approach, that’s your business not mine.

Persuade all you want.

Threatening/intimidating/commanding people to vote in a particular way is not OK though. It’s not something where the end justifies the means, and it’s a pandora’s box that should not be opened. OP would be rightly called a threat if a conservative version of it was posted. It’s akin to this, minus the power dynamic.

Everyone who is on the fence or doesn’t feel like they need to vote are just speaking from positions of privilege because they don’t personally have as much on the line. I just find it hard to sympathize with that perspective.

I agree with your first sentence, but honestly your second sentence doesn’t matter. No one has the right or ethical high ground to command or threaten another person to vote the way they want, regardless of whether they sympathize with that person’s position.

Actual Trump voters, many of whom are voting against their own best interests as well as yours and mine, have the right to make their uninformed/hateful/self-harming/selfish (pick one or more as applicable) vote, and so do folks whose vote we disagree with for other reasons.

We all think our reasons for voting the way we are (including abstaining) are valid, and at the level of the voting booth it seems to me that we have to respect everyone else’s as valid even when we don’t feel they are.

If we do not do so, I don’t see how that doesn’t lead to either:

a) commanding another to vote as you desire

or

b) thought policing people

I find either of those to be unacceptable for any purpose.

You don’t have kids do you? I think he’s terrible but absolutely agree with that response.

I do, and I agree with him about kids but disagree with him that it’s the only valid viewpoint to have. What’s “transformatively positive” for me may still have external impacts that someone else chooses not to inflict on the world, or may still be a choice someone chooses not to make because of general concern for the state of the world those children would be born into, or may not be “transformatively positive” for someone else for a host of other reasons.

Yep, it’s increasingly clear the collapse of the Republicans seems to have primarily accomplished pushing D further right. The Republicans invited all the crazies into their party and drove it into the ground, but somehow it’s Progressives that are out in the cold as a result.

gg conservatives

I live in a snowy climate and we did just fine before the invention of wireless starters. My car does not have one and we manage just fine.

That is a great QoL, but let’s not pretend this is necessary.

Yes, but we have had remote start without the internet for decades. It’s nothing but a cash grab. That’s what people are upset about here I think.

They took a feature that did not require the internet, then made it require the internet, for literally no purpose except:

But until, companies will push these hardware subscriptions because it nets them more money.

It’s one thing to withhold a feature. It’s another thing to overcomplicate a feature for the purpose of withholding it.

There is no need for the internet to use remote start

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Man, if “Microsoft is actively trying to take control of my hardware and prevent me from deciding how it is used” and “Linux has a learning curve and lacks market dominance to get hardware manufacturers to play with them sometimes” seem like equivalent circumstances to you, there is no number of iterations to this back and forth that are going to arrive at any common ground between you and I. I can only say good day to you.

Your statement suggest that if Windows is “trying to work against you” then Linux is “trying to work for you”.

That’s literally not what I said, nor what I implied. If you want to interpret it that way it’s your choice, but I’m not going to defend a statement I didn’t make and didn’t try to make.

You don’t escape that problem entirely in Linux, it just takes different forms. Proprietary vendor Linux hardware drivers would be a perfect example.

I feel like you aren’t distinguishing between “problem exists” and “problem exists because the makers of my OS want it to exist.”

So why hack Windows to make it do what you want?

I literally said this was NOT the question.

I’m skeptical that irrevocably tying the two together is the only or best technological solution to wanting it in the search box.

It’s because Linux isn’t actually trying to work against you, even if it may feel that way to a noobie at first. Guaranteed this requirement exists to make Recall impossible to uninstall, and for no other reason.

The question isn’t “why take the time to hack windows” it’s “why keep supporting a company that requires you to undo so much of the product just to maintain control and privacy with your own hardware, and which actively seeks to sabotage attempts to do so.”

how the fuck could they have possibly done things in a way that makes explorer tabs depend on recall?

It’s very clearly an intentional move to keep it installed.

And as if it’s entirely reasonable for the maker of your OS to intentionally work against your ability to control your own hardware and what runs on it.

This is my answer to everything that has recently befallen Republicans, will hopefully befall them in November, and which they deserve to have continuing to befall them for the next couple decades.

You invited the worst people into the party, and you voted for them, and you defended them. And I don’t just mean Trump. For as long as it seemed like you might be able to exert your will unilaterally on the populace, there was no bridge too far for you.

So go fuck yourselves, and I mean that from Donald J. Trump, down through every single elected Republican official, down to every single Republican pulling the lever at voting time.

Unless you rejected this bullshit from day one instead of only when it became clear the ship was sinking (so I guess maybe a dozen R nationwide get a pass), you can go fuck yourself, and there’s not a single thing you can do that will ever pull a vote for a republican out of these two hands, because I see who you are, and I see what you support, and I’ve had a taste of what you think it means for America to be “great again.”

Yeah, I dunno how I missed this article. Makes me laugh that McD’s is going to try something like this.

https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-inflation-economy-price-increase-joe-biden-1905209

TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.

The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.

These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.