Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.
I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.
Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.
Never used OpenSUSE.
I’m not eligible to vote in your country. In mine, voting is mandatory and there are no stickers, just democracy sausages to aid in the funding for local polling places like schools and community halls.
The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.
In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.
Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.
Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.
Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.
Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.
That’s like asking for an elephant stamp for wiping your butt after going to the toilet.
Voting isn’t an accomplishment, it’s your duty and the reward is the society you live in.
Not sure how I feel about such a bot. I can see potential security issues arising in relation to stored relationships between users and posts.
I’m fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.
As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.
I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I’ve never looked into it deeply.
Mathematics and Politics.
There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.
There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.
What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.
Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense. Politicians use this as an argument for the status quo.
Finally, the rich shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.
How is this infuriating?
Would you like to sleep in a bed with clean sheets and have a shower in a clean cubicle?
How do you think that this happens?
The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.
What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.
I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.
I just bought two brand new three year old phones to replace the identical broken ones we currently have because the current models have less functionality for more than we paid for these.
To get the same functionality cost twice as much.
And we still get three years warranty…
Seriously? From the README:
I would like to first fix the kernel headers issues that break the UAPI for C++ compilers (because they use C++ keywords that break C++ code) and the Windows filesystem (Windows filesystem is case-insensitive, so some headers cannot be stored on Windows filesystems).
I can’t wait to see this kernel become dependent on .NET
If you’re wondering, this is what embrace, extend and extinguish looks like.
Get multiple quotes and compare them. The cost will depend on where you are, what the conditions are like, how many jobs are being done by the supplier, etc.
Several quotes will quickly tell you who is charging too much and who is not charging enough.
You can also go to the hardware store and source the materials yourself and put it up on the weekend. Plenty of YouTube video experts to learn from.
You don’t need anything as elaborate as you appear to be contemplating.
Insert a large capacity microSD card into your mobile phone and load it up with media.
Share as required.
If you use a raspberry pi for each USB device, you could use multicast to distribute the iso across the network once and have each pi write it to the USB drive connected locally.
I also had a quick look around and found this:
One other idea I came across was to setup the devices as a raid array and write to the raid device.
AI = Assumed Intelligence
The Creative Commons website helps you pick the correct licence:
I should add “Debian, Vic 20” :)
I’m still a “native” pendant and use Docker to bridge the gap.