I’m feeling pretty justified in sticking with Wacom. I only replaced my first tablet because it had a 4:3 aspect ratio and a serial port. (I could’ve lived with the latter, but the aspect ratio was making things skewed on a modern display.)

This is the one. You can add podcasts through RSS feeds. No accounts, no subscriptions, no nonsense.

Agreed, but until people start moving to PeerTube, we’re stuck with half-measures.

Invidious or another front-end of your choice, presumably.

This is the philosophy of the Mullvad browser, which is basically as close as you can get to Tor for browsing the clear net. If anonymity is the goal, however, you don’t want to use it to log into any accounts.

I had an add-on at one point (or possibly a uBlock origin setting?) to block all remote fonts and just use a local one. Might work fine if it’s integrated with something like that.

I’m not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the ‘homepage’ section.

Rural areas tend to require 4-wheel drive more often, which tends to be offered more often on SUVs and the like (the added clearance doesn’t hurt). But cars across the board in the US have been getting larger for the last 30 years, to the point it’s even causing problems with road maintenance. The more compact vehicles common in Asian and European cities are often not even sold in the US anymore.

Rural areas also have less well-maintained roads, poorer lighting, and more wildlife that may run into the road, in addition to requiring more driving because everything is further apart.

PieFed is really testing that old adage never to assume malice when incompetence suffices.

I think it’s a self-reinforcing cycle - isolation leads to anxiety, which leads to further isolation. The anxiety that drives people into cars is the same one that dries them to live in the suburbs: the idea that no one can be trusted, and that the unknown masses of humanity are dangerous. From that perspective, public transit is risky, and a car is a fortress. That anxiety may be even further heightened if you already feel at risk for one reason or another (like being a racialized or sexualized individual).

The USA was built over the past century for the profit of oil companies. Most USians probably don’t realize that it’s possible to do things differently, and at this point it’s probably not possible to change without land reform, given how much of US farmland has been consolidated under corporate ownership.

Like I said, things will get worse before they get better. There will have to be the political will to build the needed infrastructure, and that won’t come about without immense suffering. I never claimed it would be an easy or even peaceful transition.

I think that USians live in a state of constant, subconscious anxiety due to how incredibly atomized they are. There will need to be major cultural shifts before we’ll ever have the wherewithal to build needed public transportation infrastructure.

Things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. I am hoping that gas prices will rise enough to provoke some changes; the next six months will be telling.

They’re gearing up to shove President Newsom down our throats.

Agreed. PCs will wind up being for power users only, both due to cost and the decline in tech literacy.

But also, Nvidia is already salivating at the idea of people streaming games from what amounts to glorified chromebooks. Whether those are actually running a Google OS or a Microsoft one doesn’t ultimately matter - the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?

“Wage theft” is defined as the theft of wages by employers, and it’s actually a crime in several states. “Minimum Wage Violations” would be people being paid less than minimum wage, “Overtime Violations” would be people not being paid overtime, “Rest Break Violations” would be people not receiving breaks, and “Off The Clock Violations” would be people working without getting paid.

Pretty sure claiming hours you didn’t work would be considered some form of fraud, but I don’t see any kind of fraud listed on this graphic.

EDIT: Of course, theft of labor value would dwarf all of this, but capitalists don’t see that as theft.

And are they going to require ID to verify birth dates, or is this just going to be a drop down menu? If the latter, I’m pretty sure everyone’s birth date is 1/1/1901. I’m so tired of this surveillance shit masquerading as “save the children” nonsense. I hate to say it, but this is a parenting problem and if your kids are more tech-savvy than you are, they WILL find a way around these safegaurds.

It’s definitely not something I would throw at my parents or my less tech-inclined friends. I think it’s alright for me precisely because I’m already motivated to learn the command line and this gives me more incentive. There’s more I want to do with my machine and I’ll get there, but I already feel annoyed when I have to use my work laptop (which has Windows 11 on it). I didn’t think I’d get to a point where I despise Windows File Explorer, but every time it lags I long for Dolphin, lol

I may throw Mint on my personal laptop just to get some experience with it. While I like bazzite, I absolutely see why I can’t recommend it to most people starting out. I think more software will need to run on Wine before I can convert people, though.

As a beginner on Bazzite who’s been struggling to figure out said distroboxes (via Distroshelf), is there a good guide somewhere to them? On like, a conceptual level. I.e., when do I need to use a distrobox and why? A lot of information I’ve been finding has just been command line instructions and that’s great, but I really want to know the ‘why’ of things so I understand what I’m doing.