AsteroidOS is a linux based replacement for wearOS (android for watches) which is FOSS and removes all the google privacy issues.

https://asteroidos.org/

Which is also untrue, they’re a middling player in the auto space who have been second string in the rankings for years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_manufacturers_by_production

2020 was their best ranking where they got to 5th, in the years previously, they’re in 7th or 8th pretty much every year in the last 2 decades, and they’re 9th in 2024.

A lot of the small players are going to get squeezed out by the Chinese; and Honda, Suzuki and Mazda are very likely to need a merger with a bigger player to survive as brands

How do you attack a large number of individuals engaging in stochastic violence unconnected from each other?

The same way every oppressive regime has.

Look to history and there have been some succesful insurgencies, there’s also been a LOT of oppressed populations ground down into compliance. Random individuals operating on their own have never to the best of my knowledge achieved significant change. Groups of people working in cells to minimise infiltration and quisling risks however have.

I am glad you are optimistic, and I wish you luck in your endeavours. I certainly would like to see your fascist regime fall.

So…those with a monopoly on violence will use it ruthlessly against any disorganised violence. Have a look at Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

The only way individual citizens with small arms will have any impact on organised groups with automatic weapons, armoured vehicles artillery and air support is if they one get seriously organised in an underground fashion and two convert some of the military groups to their side.

If they don’t do both those it’ll just be massacres and wholesale internment in concentration camps. The MSM have already shown they’re happy to whitewash whats going on, so you’ll never hear about the majority of extra-judicial killings until years later if ever.

The US has about 3 months left to raise a serious resistance, otherwise the show is over and the fat lady is singing.

Because they think they have the vast majority of those institutions with the ability to inflict violence on their side.

And from where I’m sitting, it looks like they’re right

Particularly if there’s a ballot box around

Kick the can down the road and download the MASgrave Win10 script (I think that’s it, I don’t use windows) that puts you on the Long Term support - iirc that gives you until Jan 2027. That’s enough time to get through the zero parental sleep phase and be able to think clearly…

If that’s of interest I’ll dig the correct details out (ping me) or I’m sure someone else knows what I’m waffling about & will drop the link

Yes but don’t use it for anything valuable. USBs have a high failure rate when used for heavy read writes.

You can get USB enclosures for M2 drives if you want to go that route a bit more reliably. Ensure you use USB3 (which will still be slow but not as boneachingly bad as USB2)

It is there, I saw it there before I saw it here

Trump has always been a hypocrite, this is nothing new

EU governments migrating off Amazon/Microsoft/Google and onto EU providers would go a long way towards supporting them…

I could be wrong but I think you’ve misread it. In context they’re saying it’s crazy to exclude a microwaved caesar salad (the section about hot vs cold). I.e they think a microwaved salad SHOULD be included.

Now realistically what I assume they meant was microwaving the chicken before putting it in the caesar shouldn’t make it not a salad (fair enough) but it’s not what they actually said.

Edit to paste in the full section

"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes.

While people might object to serving a hot salad, it certainly seems bizarre and objectionable to exclude it from the definition simply based on temperature.

We conclude that this definition does not meet the necessary rigor for a proper salad definition, "

If you google Tankard-Reist you’ll find it’s not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades

I stopped at the line where they said

"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes."

Anyone who puts lettuce in a microwave is an abomination - you will end up with a slurry of slimy fibre and some hot water. I’d rather eat pond scum.

A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).

A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.

Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They’re still federally mandated recalls

Edit to add - and failure to promptly provide a fix in Australia means the customer is entitled to a full refund of orginal purchase price - even on many year old goods - which gives the manufacturer a strong incentive to not faff around

Seconded. I really dislike Gnome and use KDE or Cinnamon for myself and family, but for a user who has been on Macs and using it on a tablet…

Use Gnome.

TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it

Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.

Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.

If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.

Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation

Yeah. Don’t do that.

It sounds great in theory but you’ll run into issues. I put a lot of people on mint but use arch+kde for myself.

I’ve done KDE on Mint in VMs 3 times now and every time something goes wrong.

I’m no fan of ubuntu but just run up kubuntu or fedora kde. KDE neon might be a bit cutting edge. Endeavour is arch on easy mode and comes in KDE. First two for beginners, second two for those with some tech experience.

Mint out of the box rocks for new linux users, never a problem. Once you start putting it in unsupported configs you’re ditching the primary reason to recommend it (stability in the reliability sense)

Yep VZV or HSV is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)

Edit Not likely toxoplasmosis because it’s not usually necrotising, it’s retinitising and lesions, but also not an opthamologist so what do I know either lol :-)

You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.

Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it

https://eyewiki.org/Acute_Retinal_Necrosis