This works with immutable distros as well! Still, kudos to the Nix users

Why is this downvoted so much? (purely rhetorical question, of course, this is Lemmy we’re talking about)

Let’s unpack. Vance, the Vize vize president (sic!) of an American administration that basically sold the position of the president to the richest man in the world, obviously degrading the value of the public opinion (read: democracy) in the process. Also, it should be noted that this degraded well-known narcissist Trump to Vize President, just wait till he finds out…

Regardless, this representative wants to critizice Europe’s/the EU’s democracies. This representative of the U.S., a country with a two party “democracy” and part of the one of the two parties that is way more involved in antidemocratic practices such as purging voter registration or gerrymandering. Which in and of itself is a bit… wondrous, but still, valid criticism should be accepted from everywhere you may get it from. You just have to keep in mind where you got it from and what could be possible intentions of the entity criticizing you– if Putin warns you that no, you should definetly not start having a working military or being energy independent again you should at least think of in what way he may seek to profit from telling you that.

Vance probably does not want to actually further stabilize the EU, or actually help them in any way– just a wild guess.

Still, this says nothing about the quality of the criticism itself, and, if you just care enough to look it up, his general points in this case are valid: Allegations of Russian election interference in Romania stand without proof and the EU is in many ways inherently corrupt and actively antidemocratic, e.g. the EU parliament still has no right to propose new bills, rendering it functionally useless as a parliament.

Members of the EU Parliament are getting well payed, especially as abuse of funds of the EU parliament is generally accepted– as long as you don’t, never speak out against the antidemocratic nature of the democracy game you’re playing.

Von der Leyen ptomised multiple times to introduce such a Parliamentary right of initiative– and never did so, while being the person profiting of of a powerless, as she can basically continue her reign over the EU unquestioned.

FYI Trump made the CEO of the company AccuWeather, Neil Jacobs, administrator of NOAA, which is the agency actually collecting weather data. AccuWeather is one of the biggest private competitors to NOAA, and this is obviously a huge conflict of interest.

For anyone interested to learn more about the topic, check out Michael Lewis’ book The Fifth Risk.

I agree Biden was not at all what the country needed, but neither is or was Trump.

Biden did not have any clear message, any hope, any drive. He just… was there. Which would be okay for being president depending on the point in time, but definetly not right now, and definetly not 4 years ago.

Trump is much, much worse than that. Under Biden the US government worked and skilled professionals who make up most of government (because running a country is not only politics) were allowed to do their jobs.

Under Trump’s first administration this was not the case, which alone should be immediately disqualifying. Entire agencies waited for weeks and months for transition teams that never came, the Trump team didn’t even know what kind or number of positions they’d have to fill– and were shockingly unprepared to do so.

There is a lot of incompetency and neglect that went on here, which goes to show that Trump fundamentally does not care for the American people. If you’re interested in what Trump did (or did not) as part of his first transition and why it was such a failure, I can recommend The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, although there are other pieces illustrating the point just as well.

As far as I can tell Trump had not figured out how to optimally extract personal gain (mostly monetary) from being president last time and used the discontent of right wing orgs such as the Heritage foundation and the people at Project 2025 with the ineffectiveness how his last presidency to learn how to that “properly”.

Yes, establishing a direct chain of command from the president (who knows nothing about the specifics of single low level career jobs in the government, nor should he habe to) to weaken the government’s cyber security and create room for NS Germany like Gleichschaltung coming from authoritarian presidents (as Trump is, I’d argue), will definetly make you have more money.

/s.

Yes, though I wouldn’t necessarily say that that’s only a problem with progressives.

Immigration policy and procedures are relatively complex and the current “debate” on the topic is not very focused on enabling or supporting legal immigration (especially from conservatives).

Support your local independent bookstores (if you still have any)!

I don’t know how common bookstores that are not part of large chains still are in other countries, here in Germany we have this thing called Buchpreisbindung (roughly translates to “fixed book prices”) which means bookstores actually have to compete only through presentation and their professional advice. Independent bookstores often have very knowledgeable personal that can give you great advice for free (in case of Germany) or with little extra cost compared to just ordering on Amazon/one of the corporate chains, e.g. at the bookstore around the corner the owner has been selling books for 50 years and has read basically everything ever published at this point.

She has just recommended me Gentleman overboard which is a short, although nonetheless incredibly moving book about a gentleman… well, going over board.

As for the titles/front page design/self-help books: I feel with OOP, but this seems to be what people care about/still feel they have the time to read. One actually very good (although slightly older) book from this rather modern category is The subtle art to not give a fuck.

Tldr go out, search for and support independent bookstores!

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A fellow German flexing his Grundgesetz one last time before the AfD comes to power, I see

That’s not quite true. If you’re better than the market, you can borrow until the market price for money (interest rate) adjusts (you become the market) and make money off of it. The thing just happens to be, governments aren’t usually in the being-more-efficient-than-the-market game, so, yes, countries should never do that.

Unfortunately a Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 on ARM with PostmarketOS.

Bought it for myself shortly before the first Linux-specific consumer tablets were released–which, as I said, is quite unfortunate, but I wanted to have a tablet for school/university.

Camera and the USB-C port (apart from charging, obviously) do not work at all. I’m using Gnome and have problems with both random crashed and stutters/low framerate, general performance is okay though.

Annoyingly, some apps were not available for ARM (Thunderbird as recent as last year and Signal Desktop is still not available).

Tried Fedora Silver blue for ARM as well (which did not work at all), as Alpine based PostmarketOS is quite annoying for general desktop use (some apps just won’t work and it once broke completely after an update).

In conclusion: won’t recommend until your heavy into fixing stuff yourself/going for quite the ride.

The objectively correct answer is maps, of course.

You’ve just sent me down another rabbit hole. Thanks man…

As a tablet Linux user, this is really cool!

Don’t understand this being downvoted. I mean not like I really thing you US guys’ll get deflation in grocery prices anytime soon or that Trump’s plan would work or anything, but he does not say so according to the transcript.

Truly a shitpost indeed

I hate of few sites embrace these (now, after some decades) very fitting HTTP response codes, e.g. 402 Payment Required on news outlets

Both could be filtered out in theory (which they should do if they were smart, because amount of training data matters way less than quality or training data), but filtering AI created slop is harder, especially if you just slightly modify it.

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Imagine taking a comment like this seriously, also

YES!