Representatives don’t give a fuck what their constituents have to say on social media. It’s full of foreign trolls and bots.

But if you go in person to a town hall / public hearing on an agenda item, they know that you are:

• A real person
• An American
• Extremely likely to vote in the next election.

Source: I successfully killed a local zoning change by convincing my neighbors to go out and speak against it, despite lobbying from a large developer.

You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?

So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can’t remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven’t liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I’m doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don’t think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I’m guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won’t do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

Yes, but ported C# usually doesn’t make for the most idiomatic Python.

99% of the time that doesn’t matter, but a highly security sensitive reverse proxy shared by multiple users most likely part of the stack to be attacked might be an exception.

No, it’s pretty clear that you’re the one that LOVES where the world is going. You have zero interest in changing where things are going, you just want the satisfaction of saying “I told you so”.

Well, guess what. Everyone else already knows everything you do. The volunteers are systemd aren’t going go to jail for you. They haven’t implemented age verification yet (no, an optional field in a schema is nothing close to verification) because they haven’t been forced to yet. If laws pass such that they have to add it or go to jail, yes they’ll implement it.

And when that happens, it will be because people like you took the effort to divide us instead of presenting a unified front against the corporations that are lobbying to take away our privacy.

But you won’t care about the last part, because you’ll be feeling too smug from “calling it”.

And you can go contact your local/state/federal government representatives (I mean actually call, or go to town halls). But you won’t, because hating on systemd is more important to you than your privacy.

It’s as plain as day. You’ll agree with me in a few years.

You’re shooting the messenger. Meta and others are lobbying governments hard for this. They’re the ones causing you to lose your privacy. Not the volunteers that maintain systemd.

Shrug. Meta employees make bank.

Dunno how attractive they are viewed as, because everyone there I personally know were already married before they joined Meta.

I remember specifically buying an Nvidia GPU in 2009 because their proprietary driver was awesome and could do multi monitors properly using their proprietary X11 extension called TwinView

$$$

Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.

And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

That is some effort put in. Kudos for your hard work!

That said though, the sundress looks pretty breezy and comfy too

Honestly, it sounds like amazing way to get started. You don’t need to be a programmer to make that fix.

I recommend joining the kde-devel matrix channel. Someone there will definitely be able to tell you what to do.

https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/building/help-developers/

Someone in our new partner team has scheduled a meeting for 11am today for us to introduce ourselves to each other.

Guess how it’s going to be structured

Yeah they now expect you to use their native protocol for sharing audio on the network.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sharing_audio_devices_with_computers_on_the_network

Pretty much all Chinese EVs use LFP batteries. You can hammer a nail into one and it’ll just stare at you like you’re some kind of dumbass.

Western made ones use NCA or NCM batteries because of range anxiety. But those ones are armored AF so good luck doing any significant damage to them. And I suspect they’ll also switch to LFP within the next decade or so anyway.

Or any vehicle with an internal combustion engine, because those burn way more often.

But their fires aren’t reported on as much because it doesn’t cause as much ragebait engagement.

We’ve tried all of them. Read a history book already!