bryndos

2 days a month!? shitbags. sorry dude, i have nothing useful to say but that sounds terrible. I assume trying to vote out whoever permitted such abusive disrespect to your home is unlikely to work.

Nope. That’s just how this fedia web client is generating it when I do a single carriage return (vs two in a row).

I guess any inconsistencies in interpreting the raw data as a message federates around can cause quirks like this.

Interesting, it’s where I put a simple line break <br>. If I put a line space then it creates a new paragraph block <p></p>.

I guess your viewer doesn’t like <br> within its <P> blocks.

I think I’d notice birds, it could be spiders though. My hair is pretty thin white and wispy whatever of it is left… But it’s significantly less strong than steel - maybe pacifist spiders who resent their own culture.

I’m not doing anything intentional, where is it appearing?

I think I had one back in the late 90s. Now-a-days nature takes care of it.

I’d say on the Hardware side, degoogling is a pain. Android devices are not very ‘open’. I think graphene is the only alternative that’s easy to install and that only works on a couple of devices. For others like linage there are a few more devices but some of the install procedures are shonky and can leave you with unlocked bootloader and stuff like that. Scares off many people I’d think. I think a device that was designed to allow you to install an OS and is not basically locked down is attractive.

Put another way, you can fork android all you like, but what are you going to run it on, and how do you install it? If there was a device that made it easy , it might get popular enough to attract more interesting open source innovations.

On the software side , once you ditch google there’s also way fewer applications. F-droid is ok; but being able to use one of the major distro with an ARM repository would give a decent amount of stuff - albeit not optimised for touchscreen.

I think there’s an options also some technical stuff about how much call and cellular data has to go through your cellular network, and whether bypass or switch off is an option - I think that’s for the real privacy people - I don’t really know about it.

If you don’t want portability, and do want expandability, then I don’t think Steam Deck is a good choice for you.
Much as it is a brilliant devicel it’s also a wee bit old now. And anyone who wants the anti-cheat games is still stuffed.

I disagree with any others saying it is openable and repairable. It’s better than modern slimline laptops - which is not saying much. I don’t think it’s as accessible asa Mini PC - and frankly if you want to upgrade, go desktop. If you can get a used old case with a decent PSU - then buy the rest of the guts - you’ll end up with something way better - and you’ll be able to make sure you can fully power your GPU and CPU for the things you want to do with it. And far easier to cool it properly and avoid throttling if you’re really pulling a load of watts into it. This probably does matter if you want to game at high resolutions with high frame rates for modern games. If you don’t mind dropping to lower resolutions or <=60FPS, or turning off some fancy GFX features, then the mini PC would be fine. Of course with a desktop you can adapt the components a bit to your budget, and maybe swap in cheap second hand stuff as a stop gap until you upgrade a component.

Fair warning - the rest of this post is pro-linux bullshit . . .

For steamdeck - the only reason i could think that remains is if you had a desperate need to get out from under microsoft’s thumb - and didn’t want to go for a full DIY linux install - then SteamOS is excellent in both gaming and desktop mode. It really shows how user friendly linux can be if you pay full time devs to maintain a distribution with a specific customer group and specific hardware in mind. And IMHO ( I only use MS at work so maybe I’m a bad source) it actually shows up how fucking awful windows is. SteamDEck really is just turn it on and get on with what you want to do , no bother; games console level usability. I think even computer-illiterate people would find desktop mode pretty easy to get on with.

But it’s only half-arsed “proper linux”, and half-arsed independence from big tech, as you’re just substituting Valve as the ones who you rely on to curate your OS for you. And if ever Steam gets bought out you might have to move to something else. So it doesn’t have the independence of full open source; though it’s a lot closer to that than MS.

It’s also quite a lot of money to pay for an old device just to try a different OS. To do that I’d get a cheap real PC and experiment - a used miniPC from 5-10 years ago with some of the retro gaming linux distros are a fun and cheaper way to do that.

… end of pro linux bullshit

Well it means Arsenal FC supporter. So there’s certainly an overlap, but there are many other wankers out there. I mean there’s all the other types of football fans for a start, for example there’s a bunch for whom this type of thing would perfectly normal, habitual even:

“My condolences on you recent bereavement. Sincerely, A.F. Wanker COYS”

That’s probably why risc-v is getting quite popular in embedded stuff - smaller companies wanting more supply chain independence. Hopefully it’ll start to get more powerful soon for more serious computing. Its nice that stuff like debian now has risk-v version too.

pigs are filthy cool

pigs are the coolest.

well it was novel enough to ignore any lessons from the 1920s and 1930s. The animal spirits aren’t novel, they’ve been there for centuries.

If anything the only novelty was a brief period when the animals were slightly controlled.

Unfortunately for some parts of ‘the west’’ they started to persistently elect animal spirits into to government. fml.

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Also to prop up house/property prices in general and pension funds which is a bit wider of a group but generally still the people on the upper end of the wealth rank.

Stupid thing really is when you have an asset bubble it does crowd out other investment. It needs to burst for the good of the economy. The QE and such stopped the opportunity for investors to learn that they should inves government to force investors to invest in productive capacity rather than asset bubbles.

Demagogues like to reduce complex problems to a binary choice, so they can label one as righteous and the other as witchcraft . If they find something complex, they create an arbitrary (and often flexible) dividing line. That’s their method of creating fear, hate and fervent support for their case to have power.

Will any economic system necessarily succumb to demagoguery? maybe, it is a depressing thought. But I do think they’re more like cyclical memes. They’re not very stable societies - fear is a great short term motivator, but not so in the longer term - so they probably don’t last too long, but may rear their ugly heads after enough people forgot how bad they were. And short term might be 10-20 years in this context.

There are always socialist and individualist elements with any society or economy, such as between partners, families, neighborhoods, within small businesses, between vendors and buyers, or small teams within larger businesses. I think most large armies are ran similar to socialist dictatorships at the top level - at least the ones based on soldier’s labour, but there will be individualistic parts within, like ‘you look after your own sidearm’. Just like there are always private and individualistic elements within each of those groups, the types of relationships between people and businesses are never as simple as black and white, trust matters, legal system matters, past experience matters, ability to demonstrate ‘skin in the game’ matters, expectations about the future matters (reciprocity), observability/transparency matters, the possibility of free ridership, the benefits of free ridership, the emergence of standards and so on. All of these things influence some economic and social interactions to appear more ’ social’ in some cases, and more ‘individual’ in others.

Certainly two party democracies are basically set up for the top level to disintegrate into demagogic shit slinging about ‘our side’ vs ‘their side’, but real people and businesses will always have a diversity of types of behaviour and relationships - and I really don’t believe you can genuinely classify any economy (a collaboration of people) as ‘left’ or ‘right’ or ‘socialist’ or ‘individualist’.

Their “leaders” might well call them that though.

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