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  • Doing better until you happen to incur a medical emergency, then bankrupt.

  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • He's as Catholic as Trump is born-again evangelical. They are just pandering

  • Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16

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  • Yeah they really need better PR. They have a strong persecution complex and lash out at everyone. It's worse than normal Linux distro flame wars

  • We're learnding.

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  • This is pretty much all you need to know about the state of the United States. It's being run by 10 year old imbeciles.

  • Musk blows up online as ‘ketamine’ dinner clip resurfaces

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  • I doubt he'd accept organs of a different race.

  • By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

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  • Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application

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  • They purchase a huge amount of guns. You would think that they would have the ability to return the entire batch directly rather than resell them.

  • ‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’: The Untold History of Apple II Software Piracy

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  • In ye olde days software was obscenely expensive. That $74 is $260 inflation adjusted. Imagine losing your Word Perfect disks to an accident. That was a $2000 investment in today's dollars. Which means Zork II cost more than the latest Zelda. There was a reason people tied up phone lines for hours to get on the local BBS.

  • Moody's downgraded the United Sates' credit rating for the first time in history citing unsustainable path for US federal debt and its resulting interest burden.

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  • Causing problems so they can offer the solution - Central Bank Cypto Currency (CBDC).

  • Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?

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  • Replying to give you an extra boost. If your courses are remote or have online exams, you may need to install spyware onto your computer. I'm re-imaging my wife's computer this weekend because of it...

  • me_irl

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  • I bookmark subreddits and read them without logging in. Every time I feel the urge, I've got a hurdle to cross before I can type anything. Then it's immediately a "fuck it" moment and move on

  • License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

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  • Yeah but private enterprise didn't. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

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  • Thank the good Lord, I get so bothered when I see a woman's ankles.

  • Jasmine Crockett says Democrats want ‘the safest white boy’ for 2028 ticket and have a specific candidate in mind

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  • His name is Andy.

  • Fedora Atomic is the bomb

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  • Agreed - for someone moving from Windows / Mac, the immutables and flatpak are the way to go now. It's going to take a bit for the Ubuntu / Mint crowd to change their song. Bazzite in particular is a huge olive branch to the gamers. Even for someone who is "tinkering" learning distrobox and/or flatseal can enable most things you would ever want to tinker with on a desktop. If you are really developing something, chances are that you use containers or a VM anyway.

    I have to concur on flatpaks though: they have room for improvement. More validation / trust is needed, and the options are wide open. For non-technical users, the *surety and security *isn't necessarily on par with the app stores of Microsoft, Apple & Google - though the experience is getting there.

  • What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/Feddy

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  • Mass adoption won't come easily. People treat social media just like broadcast and print mass media: they want to follow big names and brands. It's a change in mindset looking for niche communities instead. Look at Bluesky, it didn't really take off until big Twitter accounts moved and brought their minions with them.

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • Using computers since before GUI was available... Sometimes I think we ought to go back to it

  • Mastodon doesn't like Addy aliases

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  • It's all about the instance. For the Lemmy instance I chose I had to write a few sentences. For mastodon I had to provide a picture of my SubGenius pastor card. I intentionally picked ones that had requirements.

  • Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday ‘Base’

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  • The D.U.M.B. conspiracy is a jolly good read as you browse the interweb. Evidently we have nuclear powered boring machines that just melt away the earth leaving glassy walls.