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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • They technically already did this with Android which all ship custom kernels and closed source driver blobs.

    Of which Google successfully lobbied the government to keep foreign competition out, which has lead to the soft death of AOSP as everyone else has forked into a new OS or accepts google’s terms to use their gapps suite.

    Best thing about Linus is that he immediately tells these megacorps to f off every time they make a PR with even a remotely questionable purpose.

    If they really want to achieve something technical without scrutiny, there’s FreeBSD right there. Implement it and make a future PR if it actually improves something.

    Otherwise, critical choices within the Linux kernel will affect everyone, and could very easily lead to abuse without any proper moderation.

    Google already has a hit order out on JPEGXL simply because they know that AVIF will save them on cloud storage cost, so they’ve effectively banned it from the browser space since they own Chrome and have enough leverage over Firefox.



  • Biden threw a couple billion dollars of that climate change money to GM to develop an EV car, which anyone working in GM or even living in Michigan will tell you is not gonna happen lmao. All while banning foreign Chinese EVs from competing because of “safety” and “market protections”.

    Biden was a downgrade from Obama, and people already called Obama a coconut for his rather insane war crime history and ICE enforcement.

    Stop glazing that geriatric fool’s failure to permanently dispose of Trump. He cheated you all out of a fair primary and spent his time in office throwing pennies worth of improvements in the aftermath of Trump’s first term.

    Even ignoring Kamala’s horrendous campaign, he is the primary reason why Trump is currently in office again.






  • Said this already but I can’t wait for him to get select-I mean win the DNC primary so we can vote for another mediocre candidate in 2028 who’s grand claim to fame is not being Trump.

    After two months of an ineffective Schleicher chancery, Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor on 30 January 1933 upon the recommendation of Papen.[46] The Reichstag fire of 27 February was used as a pretext by Hitler to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree, which nullified constitutional protections of free speech and other civil liberties.[47] Reichstag elections in March gave him a working majority, and he assumed dictatorial powers with the passage of the Enabling Act on 23 March.[47] Hitler succeeded Hindenburg as head of state upon his death in 1934, whereafter he abolished the office entirely and replaced it with the new position of Führer und Reichskanzler, cementing his rule until his suicide during World War II in 1945.

    There’s just no possible way that Trump will get replaced by an even more insane candidate, he’s clearly 1 in a billion and not representative of a systemic problem I swear.

    Just one more centerist-I mean left wing candidate bro. plz bro he totally won’t fumble public policy bro i swear he’ll undo all the crazy crap Trump implemented bro, ICE will be no more


  • Ubuntu and Docker.

    Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a “friendly stable starter distro”, and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

    Docker doesn’t matter as much, but there’s a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

    Would highly recommend Debian instead.

    I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.



  • First time ever I’ve seen someone complain about Pokemon on lemmy. Only other time I saw Nintendo complaints was a couple of posts about Mario Kart during the Switch 2 launch.

    I’m so damn sick of the bitching about fun games I’m trying to enjoy.

    Most of us here aren’t braindead consumers who throw money at even subpar media, much less Game Freak slop. Could probably guarantee you most people on lemmy probably haven’t touched a Pokemon game since they were a kid.

    It’s like a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It’s a targeted cheap product designed to make money.







  • I kinda hate to agree with the other suggestions here, but entry level and even dedicated NAS products are pretty expensive for providing something you can very easily DIY for significantly cheaper even with the latest hardware.

    Was in a similar boat and just ended up taking an old HP desktop and added some cheap HDDs. I ended up playing around with proper Fedora for some LVM cache tricks and running some other services, but the common suggestion for this is SnapRAID and Nextcloud.


  • They have the ability but they won’t because they spent the past 6 months bootlicking the current government over Trump’s insane tariff nuke policies, just like every other company has.

    Kia literally just got raided by ICE and they announced they were continuing to invest in the US not even a week later.

    Most they’d be willing to do would be to ask Japan’s ambassador local liaison to ask DHS to remove the video, which the ambassador liason or foreign diplomat himself may even refuse to do under fear of retaliation or breakdown in ongoing negotiations.

    Nintendo will sacrifice its brand image all day if it means staying in the US market and not becoming the target of Trump’s next company assassination in some convoluted political stunt.