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RoboRay

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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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OC I realized why I enjoy Linux so much and why I've stuck with it all these years (slight vent)...

In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, especially anything related to tech and/or customer service, getting on my laptop running Linux Mint just feels like a breath of fresh air. And that goes for just about any distro. It's nice to have something that works as it should and doesn't seem to go out of its way to cause...

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A Linux computer does what you tell it to do when you tell it to do it, and that's all it does...

Like every computer should do.

But this hasn't been true of Windows computers in 20 years.

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The facility now identifies as Jail Force One.

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discourage drinking and thereby decrease the likelihood of handgun-carrying

correlation ≠ causation

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He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.

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Flying out of Moscow and the plane goes down... what are the odds?

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Assuming the maintenance crews haven't already been mobilized and sent to fight in Ukraine.

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There’s no way to read them on company time so I typically read them after work or on weekends don't read them.

Company tasking happens on company time.

Don't simply accept abuse.

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An abusive culture doesn't make abuse acceptable. I'm happy to hear you got out.

I do read books for professional development, but while I'm sitting in my office during project lulls. I even keep them on my bookshelves, with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck prominently displayed where I can point to it when I need to make a statement.

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The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan is an amazingly informative and entertainingly written examination of how and why the US got to where it is without even really trying. This and his later books also discuss the rise and now beginning decline of globalization in a destabilizing world.

The guy (and his research team) has a pretty good track record of predicting geopolitical trends and even specific events that are coming 5 or 10 years down the road. I don't necessarily agree with or accept all of his ideas and analysis, but he definitely makes you think.

Wall Street Journal review: https://archive.ph/dFe6u

Meta putting profit ahead of safety by blocking wildfire news, says Trudeau (www.reuters.com)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday criticized Meta for blocking domestic news from its platforms, saying the Facebook-parent was prioritizing profit over safety as devastating wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate their homes....

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Never issue an ultimatum unless you are prepared to accept either outcome.

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Capitalists believe they can own some land.

Communists believe they already own all of it.

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Blocking can't possibly stop them from seeing your posts... they may not even be on the same instance as you, so rules on your instance don't do anything to them. And if it did, all they'd have to do is log into another free account.

Blocking is an "I am ignoring you" feature not, not an "I'm hiding from you" feature.

That said, I wish the Notifications tab even worked... I just get Error 50x every time I try to open it, which sucks because the counter is showing a notification and I can't find the message it's on to clear the counter.

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I have also... but those sites weren't federated were they?

The fediverse is not "a site"... it's a network of many independent sites. You can do whatever you want on your instance, but you don't get to control all the other instances.

If you demand the ability to mute other people and prevent them from communicating with each other, you are fundamentally in the wrong place. If you choose to make a public statement, the public gets to respond to it. Your choice is whether or not you want to read their response.

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How?

You can't send an email to another server and then command that server not to deliver it to the recipient. You can follow it up to request that with a recall, sure... but there aren't many that will actually comply. It's the choice of the server operator.

With federated public posts, there is currently no mechanism to say "show this message to everyone except Larry". And there shouldn't be, because it would dramatically increase processing requirements across every instance and also be pointlessly trivial for Larry to work around it.

You aren't in control of the internet... just your own little part of it. If you can't handle that, again, you're in the wrong place. There are plenty of top-down-controlled individual sites that already do that. The fediverse never will.

You can choose to not see what you don't want to see, but you don't get to tell other people not to read your public comments or to not speak. You have your rights, and they have theirs.

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I'm sorry, but you don't know nearly as much as you think you do. This isn't like Reddit. What you are asking for is not technologically simple, it would be trivial to circumvent, and perhaps most importantly, it's philosophically incompatible with the very concept of public speech.

If you are incapable of or unwilling to accept that, there's no point in continuing to attempt to explain this to you. It's all been addressed, repeatedly.

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No, it actually hasn't.

I skimmed the other threads and it has all been thoroughly covered.

Y'all just seem to think people have "a right" to harass others.

You just seem to think you have "a right" to control others.

Nobody that you've blocked can harass you in a way that your demand to mute their account would prevent, Karen. Watch me prove it right now.

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Russia is getting desperate.

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After four years with no new versions, there probably won't ever be one.

Even the original 2015 Shield is still one of the top 5 Android TV devices ever made, with the 2017 and 2019 models also taking spots.

I did add the newer remote to my 2015 model as that's a big improvement (other than the annoyingly easy to accidentally press Netflix button, but I remapped that to Show Recent Apps instead).

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When I set mine to Mute, Netflix still kept launching. So I set it to Show Recent Apps and long-press to Mute. That solved it.

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@biscuit

Button Mapper

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Here's an idea... stop giving your money to companies that don't want you as a customer.

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It's got to be embarrassing for warships and seaports to keep getting struck by seaborne attacks from a country that no longer has a navy.

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You were using a niche distro maintained by a single person and encountered problems? Shocking.

To be fair, I used Nobara myself for a bit until I got tired of suffering from the problems GE was creating himself. But regardless, experience on something like Nobara is not a fair way to evaluate Gnome. Try it on actual Fedora or something else mainstream that isn't constantly fuckering around with all kinds of shit and breaking stuff.

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Apparently I either already did this so many years ago that I don't remember doing it, or my account is so old (2006) that it predates these settings being added and they defaulted to "off" when added to existing accounts.

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Who could have possibly predicted that?

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