I’m a huge Kensington Expert Mouse fan. I’ve owned dozens of them for the past 3 decades and I have 5 in constant use, at home and at work. I use no other pointing device - apart from my MNT Reform laptop’s trackball, whose buttons I remapped in the firmware to be like the Expert Mouse’s.

I will most definitely get that new one. Thanks for putting it on my radar!

Reagan had dementia but his particular flavor made him quiet and submissive.

Trump’s is making him agitated and aggressive, which so far hasn’t been a problem for his handlers, but it might become one soon.

You’ve obviously not done a full round of cognitive testing.

Correct. You know why? Because unlike the POTUS, I don’t need to: nobody has any doubt about my mental faculties.

Many people are surprised at how poorly they do the first time.

I suspect part of the test is remembering the first time, and doing better the second time 🙂

God I’m enjoying his downfall

Why? He’s a fucking pedo who’s going to enjoy free housing for the rest of his life. All he lost is pointless titles and a bit of dignity - as if he had any dignity left to spare.

I’ll enjoy his downfall when he gets questioned by the police, put on trial and thrown in jail.

He’s really proud of having undergone - and aced, according to him - two cognitive tests in one year. But he totally fails to see that this many such tests at such short intervals is a clear sign that his doctors are worried he’s actively going gaga.

Not to mention, acing a cognitive test is about as difficult as acing a patellar reflex test: it’s not a sign that you’re smart, it’s just proof that your noggin’ is still working correctly at a basic level.

That’s not quite what she said: she basically said she openly believes in batshit religious nonsense, and as such would have no trouble believing unknown phenomena are figures appearing in her batshit beliefs.

The keyword in all of this is batshit. How she won an election, I’ll never know.

She’s luckier than VIvian Wilson I guess.

Is what ICE does legal?
Is it constitutional?

ICE doesn’t seem to care about any of that. Why should you? Fuck the goddamn SS.

I always assume there is someone working to fix things

After being a member of SDF for over 2 years, I always assume there isn’t.

Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

No, for three reasons:

• I paid for SDF. That’s more than I can say for most services I use that are orders of magnitude more reliable. In fairness, I paid once, expecting to pay every year, because I like to pay for what I use. But I never paid again because the service is utter shit. Sorry to be rude, but that’s just the plain reality.

• I tried to contact someone in the SDF shell chat thingy and it’s always been crickets. I’ve given up on that.

• What the hell can I do to “contribute to better uptimes” aside from running a server at home on behalf of SDF?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, […]

I’m not waiting. I’m currently evaluating Piefed with a view to moving my communities over there if it proves good and reliable. As for my personal account, I already have this one on Sopuli as a backup (now my main account) and I’ve created another one in piefed.social and imported my settings there too.

I’m done with SDF. The next - and last - time I post from my SDF account is to lock my communities and redirect subscribers to their new home.

More sport, less drama.

Ooh man, this is what put Piefed on my radar, as I have to move two communities away from a failing Lemmy instance and there’s no way to do that in Lemmy. I think I’m gonna give Piefed a serious spin soon.

Perfect. Thanks!

I’m curious about Piefed: can anybody tell me what the main differences / pros / cons are with Lemmy?

The orange utan is too busy fucking up his own country and making billions with his crypto grifts, corruption and golf courses. He doesn’t have time for starving brown-skinned children.

Let’s hope it lasts this time.

Next time it goes down, I’ll move my communities and my user account out to Sopuli permanently.

Two things can be true at the same time. Someone can be a fascist and a pedo.

In fact, other interesting historical parallel, there are strong suspicions that Hitler was a pedo.

How uncanny… It’s like the US was an almost perfect historical reenactment of early 3rd Reich.

First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There’s a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there’s no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you’d see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.

You know who else ran unlisted trains of deportees - or listed under some euphemistic name like “special train” or “resettlement to the east”? Can you guess?

Hint: if ICE feels the need to conceal what they’re doing, it’s because they know what they’re doing is not right. Just like the SS.

For better or worse, China is on the verge of making American silicon completely irrelevant. I know that because I’m posting this on an ARM64 laptop rocking a Rockchip compute module and it’s plenty adequate enough for most people’s everyday needs.

Therefore, whatever Trump has in mind to artificially maintain the US’ lead will soon be completely ineffective. Worse, the more he tries to restrict access to US technology, the faster China will develop its own equivalent and the sooner it will catch up. And hopefully, at some point, the European countries will get off their collective ass and start catching up too.

The US is on the fast track to losing this war and a lot of others. This is a country in terminal decline.

I’ll note that it’s illegal for ICE to deny access to congressmembers when they make these no-notice visits.

Silly bunny… ICE isn’t bound by any laws or by the Constitution since Trump turned it into his private SS-like paramilitary force.