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  • I don’t think it’s so much that they are different, it’s that people fear there won’t be enough for everyone.

    Yes which is why immigrants are existentially necessary in societies both to provide an influx of younger people looking to find a new life and more abstractly immigrants are necessary to counteract the ingrown tendency of cultures to secrete themselves in their ways and resist change until they are obliterated.

    The future requires change and adaption, which means to get to the future we must embrace what immigrants provide rather than keep tiptoeing around dehumanizing them as much as we can without saying it outright.

    We have enough food, the starvation and suffering the world is experiencing right now is a feature not a bug.










  • If that was your take away from Charlie Kirk, you have a very warped and distorted view of reality.

    Charlie Kirk immediately became a platform to test the whole rainbow of artillery barrages the far right has ready for when/if there is a “genuinely leftwing” attack.

    It is pathetic that you think it is cowardly and ineffective not to desire pointless violence on the figureheads of fascist movements when you don’t realize you are just screaming at everyone to charge headfirst into the beartrap with you.

    Take your calls for violence elsewhere.


  • You fool, martyring these incompetent rightwing fascists is the only thing that could allow the far right to craft a true hero.

    They need you to play the part, so then they can step in and convince everyone else to stomp you brutally down with the boot.

    None of the leaders of the far right parties can govern… ANYWHERE ON EARTH, which doesn’t mean that far right parties aren’t wielding immense power all over the world but NONE of their leaders are competent at it, and the way forward to fighting that is turning a mirror on the leaders of these parties not as a way to distract from the evil of the far right parties backing them but rather to make the point that every far right leader is the same hateful idiot with the same failed plan.

    Fascism is the height of incompetence but nothing hides incompetence better than violence.









  • It helps to take a step back and think about Syncthing as a file sharing utility in general.

    Syncthing allows you to share any number of folders with any number of other devices with any type of sharing structure you want (2 way file sync = filesharing, 1 way file sync = backing up). You can also set up file versioning on files within a Syncthing folder’s settings.

    Note: Syncthing is not intended to be a true file backup utility, and some people will get quite upset if you portray it that way, which I get, but also it just works… and you just need to be reasonable about how you do things, just remember it is a general filesharing tool that you are USING to backup files.

    You are the cloud with Syncthing, but unlike something like Nextcloud there is no special central file server nonsense, there are just Syncthing devices sharing folders to other Syncthing devices so you can do it however you want. You do need two devices of course, your phone you want to backup and the device you are backing up onto (which could be a computer with usb drive attached), but from there you can add new devices and share the same folder/folders to them and leapfrog important files without needing to sit there and think out some complicated system or architecture ahead of time.

    Syncthing is very “organic” because it is so simple, but it is also very powerful, I have relied on it for years in a variety of contexts and have never really been let down.

    One tip, if you want your own personal cloud, a raspberry pi type device, or an old phone plugged into the wall can serve as your server that is always listening for file edits/updates from devices in a folder share. Otherwise you have to make sure Syncthing devices are on the internet at the same time to sync files, though there is actually a quite nice GUI interface for resolving file conflicts if they do happen (I have used it quite a few times and resolved issues).

    If your files are smallish, just setting the “file versioning” setting under a Syncthing folder’s settings to a number like 5-10 versions can provide even more confidence you won’t lose something but I digress…

    I love Syncthing!

    edit you can also do weird little hacks if you need to by doing things like setting up a Syncthing folder share on a Dropbox folder to sync files in ways you wouldn’t otherwise be able to do, it isn’t a recommended practice but shrugs I have also done this many times too and haven’t had any serious issues.





  • You don’t need a full backup of your phone, you need a backup of all the relevant data! What do you need to backup other than contacts and media in your home folder? (documents, downloads, music, podcasts, DCIM etc…)

    If there is relevant data “locked up” in your apps can you export it in some form to somewhere like your downloads folder and sync that folder?