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avlcharlie

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I've seen things
I've done things
I've made things
I've conquered things

Most of all, I just want the world to be a better place for everyone.

Every single human.

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dangillmor, to random
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A reminder that less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Trump solicited a $1 billion bribe from the energy industry, offering in return the gutting of environmental regulations.

A week ago, Big Journalism had already consigned this epic scandal to the memory bin.

Had Biden done anything remotely like that, I guarantee that it would still be among the top stories of the day -- and Congress, including Democrats, would be moving toward impeachment.

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
News is run by people who want Trump to win so they can make more money. They really don't care about anything else.

Daojoan, to random
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Billionaire wealth isn't a sign of a healthy society. It's a symptom of rot. The accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few while millions struggle is an imbalance that demands attention, not admiration.

avlcharlie,
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@Daojoan
If you gather a billion of anything but dollars you would be put in a mental institution. It's a hoarding issue.

rbreich, to random
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Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?

avlcharlie,
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@rbreich
If paying workers survivable wages means your product becomes unaffordable then your product was never affordable to begin with.

nixCraft, to random
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this

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
For me as you gain experience you gain a war chest of things that work and the battle wounds from those that didn't to know better.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?

Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
There was recently a lawsuit in the US that the car companies won about gathering and selling your data. By our legal system they are allowed to capture texts, location, and any other data they care and sell it to whoever they want. So in answered your question probably not.

arstechnica, to random
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So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

The fee, likely $1, is aimed at stopping “relentless” bots, Musk said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/so-much-for-free-speech-on-x-musk-confirms-new-users-must-soon-pay-to-post/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

avlcharlie,
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@arstechnica
Wait.. new users only?.. so he farms the hate people, kicks out people he doesn't like and then anyone else has to pay to say something.. seems like a handy filter..

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born in 1900.

In 1925 she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct.

Books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin are coming soon at PG.

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
So many women in history brushed aside to later be found right.

itsfoss, to android
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Here's a cool Mastodon Android client!

https://news.itsfoss.com/moshidon/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
Excellent choice. It's been my client for a while now and it's very good.

avlcharlie, to threads
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This pisses me off. I added the red. It says if a user follows you or interacts with your content, gets to get your data.

In other words.. unless your profile is private, you have no choice once they unleash their users into the fediverse.

itsfoss, to windows
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Oh no, Microsoft, what have you done? 😱

https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-windows-creepy-ai-move/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
My gut tells me this is about training data for models.. I am so unbelievably grateful I'm all Linux..

gutenberg_org, to science
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in 1618.

Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

The elliptical orbits of planets were indicated by calculations of the orbit of Mars. The third law expresses that the farther a planet is from the Sun, the slower its orbital speed, and vice versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
The other weird law that he found was that planets sweep the same area for time. If you take the elliptical path over time and create a pie shaped wedge from the focal point, no matter how distant or how close, the area of the pie shape will be the same in the same amount of time. Weird but true.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Miss you Windows. (I don't) 😦

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
via Pink Floyd
Goodbye all you Windows I'm leaving you today goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Goodbye all you updates there's nothing you can say to make me change my mind goodbye.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Comment 🐧

#linux

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
The knowledge that this is not windows, why, and how.
(I guess that's not an app but all newcomers should know that)

QasimRashid, to random
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I cannot logically discuss Israel/Gaza with people who believe this atrocity began with Hamas war crimes on 10/7.

We should reject such bad faith propaganda—and instead do this for actual peace & justice for Palestine and Israel.

Read & subscribe to my latest:
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-history-prior-to-107-that-media

avlcharlie,
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@QasimRashid
It seems to me, and I am very uninformed, that the first step needs to be everyone recognize Palestine set up the borders and the government. It seems they have lived in this gray area for 60 years and I'm not really sure why. Like I said I'm very uninformed so maybe this is just terribly simplistic.

gamingonlinux, to random
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I love getting *fan mail because I…don’t have enough time to cover everything

*hate

avlcharlie,
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@gamingonlinux
Social media Karen speaks to the manager.. lol

freemo, to random
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Reality...

avlcharlie,
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@freemo
I wondered if that was the angle. It is an unfortunate but realistic view.

While not probable I still hold out that there is a possibility, however minuscule, that we can break that cycle.

avlcharlie,
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@freemo @mapto @volkris

Okay so I'm not so self-absorbed that I can't say I guess I was wrong and I misunderstood what capitalism was. This has been relatively enlightening.

My question then is what's the one where greedy people hoard up all of the money and resources, abuse the working class and create a system of poverty?

itsfoss, to random
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Your thought on Ubuntu's Flutter push?

https://news.itsfoss.com/google-ubuntu-flutter/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
If you go all in on a Google app or service that isn't directly related to their advertising biz, you should be ready to have it pulled out from under you. History don't lie.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Share with us 🙂

#linux #linuxgaming

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
While I personally gave up PC gaming a long time ago for consoles, I'm glad it's getting the attention and support and finally becoming a viable gaming platform because way too many people use that as an excuse to hang on to Windows.

liampomfret, to random
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Interested in getting a proper NAS set up. Without having used one before, am I better off just buying one off the shelf, or is it reasonable/cheaper to build one using open source software? I've still got an old Fractal Design Define R4 that would fit plenty of drives, though I expect I'd need to buy everything else — wouldn't want to run it on an old i5-4690.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
Some of the difficult points are getting the USB drives mounted at boot to be shared and permissions on various things. Those will be your headaches in general.

In using Linux I highly recommend Mint. If you were dabbling I would also wander into KDE desktop versions. It's very pretty and arguably better than Windows at windows interface

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
You've hit most of it directly on the head. What I wanted was some storage and a media server where I could stream videos or pictures or whatever. I've been Linux for 15 years but I'm lazy about it and I always use the GUI if I can. I'm just using an old laptop with Linux mint xfce since it's the lightest. I've got 10 terabytes in USB hard drives(a couple of them) and run Emby server for $5 a month.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
Rolling your own is cheaper but requires more work to get going. Depending on your skill level it could be difficult. Off the shelf is nice for people who are a little savvy but don't necessarily want to break out a command prompt. Personally I'm a geek so I just set up a computer with some shares and I also use it to run some media stuff.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
One other thing before I forget. A lot of times your network storage speed is determined by your network speed and not the hardware. You can have super fast hard drives but if you're network isn't super fast it really doesn't matter, in other words. Might be something to test out.

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
My USB drives spin down and I reboot that machine about once a year. The performance is decent so I don't mess with it. And it's a laptop on purpose because power.. If you do a ton of SATA drives take a peek at raid, especially if you get matching drives

avlcharlie,
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@liampomfret
That's not the worst idea about using your PC and upgrading. I guess like almost anything you can spend a little or a lot or anything in between. My system doesn't have redundancy but I'm okay with it. Once you get raid going it's kind of like a different level. There are some really good OS systems in Linux designed just for NAS but that's all they do.

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