Right. It is a bad mechanism if used for that purpose.

The correct way to do what they actually want is to have a global, anonymous nationality verification. There are all kinds of ways to do this that aren’t dystopian. Then, if desired, there can be attestation to nationality without disclosure of personal information.

That would allow us to appropriately measure the national origins of content, and I could see the use of that.

Instead, people are supporting a deeply flawed mechanism as “good enough,” as they always do. It is lazy, sloppy, and dangerous.

To that end, if it continues to go that way, there are countless ways to undermine it. That’s also what makes it so stupid. Dishonest actors will easily circumvent it, and honest actors will once again be left suffering.

I already said it is useful to know. It isn’t useful to take drastic action with, however.

“That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”

• Benjamin Franklin

Did you know Americans (and other nationals of any country) also live in other countries? Personally, I could be in several different countries at any given time, not accounting for VPN use.

The feature doesn’t reveal much.

That said, I also support the feature because it is data held by privileged users already. Make all privileged data public. No one should have more rights than anyone else, besides the greater rights we have over ourselves.

I’m glad to hear that, thank you for sharing.

It sounds like Windows users have a lot more options now, which is a good thing.

Cinnamon, to me, is an in-between, more like modern Windows, which moved in a more macos direction. KDE is like golden age Windows. Gnome is like macos.

When I used Mint (maybe 10 years ago now?), I had all kinds of problems with Cinnamon. KDE was like magic and I always use it now. Perhaps things have changed but we can only make recommendations based on our experiences and knowledge.

Just add a new partition and dual boot, it is pretty easy.

Also I do not recommend Mint for Windows users, because the officially supported UX layers are more apple-esque. Use a distro that has KDE support baked in. Adding KDE to Mint is easy but may not be for people switching.

For that reason, I recommend going with distros with KDE Plasma by default. Kubuntu or KDE neon.

Why KDE? It feels like where Windows should have gone. It’s like the glory days of Windows (windows 2000, etc) in the modern age. It is a drastic upgrade from Windows with more freedom than you ever had.

There are a lot of problems with that stance and I do not have the energy to point them all out, but here is the main one I see.

If you say something in private is illegal, how do you enforce it? Many harmful drugs are illegal, for example, so we justify invasions of privacy with searches of a suspect because the harm of the drugs is so great we are okay with violating people like that.

When you say digital content is illegal in private it justifies searching digital content for enforcement. But the trouble with this is it is digital content and programs can be used to search it…continuously. This sort of search needs to scan EVERYTHING of yours in private. Once you have that, they can add more search criteria and you won’t even know it’s happening.

You have no idea how bad this can get. I hope that you don’t find out.

Brazil has a LOT of electrical issues.

It is also pretty expensive to import appropriate gear, and it shows.

Between a sort of disregard for electrical safety, hordes of animals chewing on wires, and the difficulty of importing modern electrical equipment, it is an electrical nightmare.

It doesn’t help that a lot of electrical generation is modern, there is a lot of electricity available, but the actual application of it in last mile is atrocious.

All this to say it is of no surprise an electrical fire occurred, if that is the cause.

Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.

The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.

This strategy is the way.

It’s true and very sad.

They claim the soy farming won’t be allowed to deforest further, but the more land used for soy, the less for cattle. That can push cattle ranchers deeper into forested land and the effect is the same.

I hope this can be solved soon. The Amazon is a precious, ancient treasure of Earth.

Soy farming is destructive to natural ecosystems. A shame for the farmers in the US, but the nature will be glad and that is more valuable. It does depend on the replacement crop.

I am worried about Brazilian’s nature with the increasing soy farming. Soy needs terrain that competes with beautiful native plants, and with increasing production, more land will be lost, and more water consumed.

The good news is that soy farming makes more sense in Brazil. Higher rainfall means less diverted water. It is actually more ecologically cost effective. Hopefully there will not be much more forest displacement.

Don’t ponder.

We’re already doing it.

https://esphome.io/

You answered your own question.

It will open PC gaming to people who couldn’t access it before. It isn’t for people who know how to build their own PCs, although even people who are tech experts would still want this sort of device.

This makes it easy for tech and tech adjacent people to recommend PC gaming to people with no tech ability.

That’s why it will be a blowout success. The Steam ecosystem is superior to every console gaming platform. Now we will have hardware that competes and exceeds current gen consoles with no maintenance or tech-nerd complications.

The steam deck was great but its specs made it a difficult sell when recommending it to people. You have to tweak a lot of settings and mess with stuff that most people don’t want to do.

This will change all of that.

Remind yourself in two years, and let’s see where it goes. I should still be here. Let’s touch base in 2 years.

A third of games? What are you smoking?

Over 95% of games in my experience work on Linux, and perform better than windows.

What kind of people are still using Windows, anyway? That supports one of the most terrible companies on the planet, invades your privacy, worms into your brain, and takes over your hardware…all for your 1 or 2 games you want to play?

This Steam Machine is going to be a blowout success. Linux gaming is superior in nearly every way. It’s cheaper, it’s more ethical, and it gives you back control.

By the time people like you realize the legal means have long failed, it will be too late.

The constitution has a clause for this specifically: the 2nd amendment.

Why don’t you read up on what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison have to say on the topic?

And for the record, this isn’t a “battle against MAGA”. It is a battle against corporations. I’d recommend figuring out who your enemy is first.

I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.

1. decentralized world-scale messaging
2. decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
3. on top of these systems:

• anon voting with attestations
• reimplementation of all popular social media
• distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)

Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they’re governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.

This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.

Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.

This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.

I was just writing about Billionaire Brawl elsewhere. Glad to see more people thinking about this sort of concept.

Getting the government back via “legal” means is over.

Time to start thinking outside the box.

I propose this plan: billionaire brawl.

A reality TV show akin to the gladiator arenas of old.

They don’t respect the institutions of law and have danced around them/dismantled them, so they do not deserve it.

Instead, they turned our public institutions into theater. That is what they deserve.

For our entertainment, a new billionaire brawl occurs every day. There are thousands of them so we could have years of entertainment. They fight to the death with all sorts of strange instruments and situations.

I should mention, in Billionaire Brawl, the strange Instruments they use to survive? Yes you guessed it, they must buy them, and they are not cheap. Each piece of equipment costs billions to buy. A sword? A billion. A shield? Another billion. Clothes? Yes, a billion. A helmet? Billion. The proceeds from Billionaire Brawl go to the workers of the industries they pillaged from, and to the environments they destroyed for their riches, and to the people they brainwashed for their riches.

The great thing about this is that it would catalogue exactly what happened here. Future generations would have a historical goldmine. Millions of people who were abused, starved, exploited, and lied to would be able to watch their billionaire brawl and feel a sense of justice.

They feast while they poison our air and waters. They live in luxury while making us beg to give 1/2 of our income to a slum. The moment AI became seemingly advanced enough, they tossed us aside like nuisances.

Billionaire Brawl. Don’t let them escape to bunkers. Pull them out. Let them fight to the death for freedom, like they’ve made us fight for generations.