That’s actually easy.

The shape of the district gets decided based on the concentration of votes for one party. The goal is to make enough districts with enough concentration of your voters that you always win those districts, and make the rest of the state have few enough districts with enough of a mix of of voters for both parties that A) the for-sure districts can’t be lost and B) the not-for-sure districts can never oppose the for-sure districts as long as they remain under your party’s control.

So all the rigging party needs to do is campaign enough in the for-sure districts that they can’t lose, and campaign enough in the not-for-sure districts that their opponent can’t win. And then because of the Electoral College, all of the states votes go to the rigged party.

I can’t do shit about that in Pennsylvania. You’d think there would have been more an effort to disprove the allegations or fix the problems sometime between 1865 and now.

I use Nextcloud for contacts, calendars, files, bookmarks, passwords, to do lists, Kanban boards, and recipies. You absolutely can turn nextcloud into a 365 competitor if that’s your jam

You might want to set up dynamic DNS for your domain. If you’re hosting from a residential internet connection then your ISP will change your address eventually. Ddclient can be used to report your current IP to your Registrar regularly, so if it changes the domain moves along with it.

Early Pink Floyd, especially the albums A Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle

They don’t read the books they just buy them

The Jackboot fits, I don’t care how much he cries about wearing it.

Published 2018 about a 2013 study. Still messed up.

Just another idea going off the cat thing - Scritches.

Smart Pipe.

Build is solid, but here’s some suggestions.

1. Another 8TB HDD. the reason being you can merge the 4 drives of the same size into a RAID5 array for data redundancy.
2. An SSD to install the OS on.
3. (Optional) More RAM check the mobo to see the max size and speed it can handle, and then fill every slot with that.

I tried Joplin for a while but dropped it, too simple. Also tried Trilum, which I liked more but it’s still a very young project.

Eventually, my Obsidian vault will go there, but not just yet.

*Employees" are outsourced vendors that can’t afford to say no to executives, most likely

Rather than give you specific recommendations, here’s some guidance for parts

Mobo: The more slots you have for RAM and storage, the better.

CPU: literally anything. More cores and faster cores are ideal, but CPU requirements for these things are generally lower than a desktop.

RAM: Buy 1 stick of the fastest and highest capacity RAM your motherboard can handle. When you’re ready or you start to see slowdown, buy another of the same stick. You can get far on 16-32GB, you won’t need much more until later.

Storage: an SSD for the OS and one or more HDDs for storage.

PSU: generally anything in the 500-700 range will be good. You’ll want more if you plan to put a GPU in, though.

It got a big boost when Mozilla updated their ToS a couple months ago to say they could use your browser data to train their AI.

Well, it’s not that they said they would, it’s that they updated their terms so that they could if they wanted to. For some (myself included) that was enough.

Just like Project 2025 ‘Wasn’t the plan’ until it was the plan.

https://lemm.ee/c/beetlejuicing

I’ve been using 10 LTSC for a few months now, it works great with the few Windows-only apps I still use. I mainly use it to organize my media library, but it’s not had any problems with the few games I’ve installed with Kernel-level anti-cheat (Destiny 2, Delta Force)

I had to download the Xbox Accessories app to control my Elite controller, but that’s really it.

It was over 5 million by the end of 2020, actually

The slippery slope that projects taking this approach fall into boils down to ‘let’s put all our new features behind a business version and never add them to the community version until they become 2 totally different code bases’