Regardless of today's decisions the scotus is a corrupt body that sits atop a corrupt judicial system that causes untold harm. From yesterdays strike down of affirmative action to the strike down of Roe to the Dred Scott decision, the judicial body is a legacy of oppression and genocide.
Don't confuse my interest in wanting to understand the inner workings of the power of the state with any type of respect for them.
The best outcomes we can hope for from them is that they decide to withhold judgement at this time.
This is federal, so it will override state laws. So, if you go to a business (lets say a pharmacy) they can't deny you service because you are queer ... BUT they could perhaps deny you HRT because that action is compelling them to violate their beliefs.
All based on a lie. Pure Christian victimhood narrative. Just like yesterdays strike down of AA was pure white victimhood narrative.
Finally created an account on the reddit alternative I actually like and already visit. raddle.me
There are some people in the development team I've gotten in arguments with before, but they come out of the traditions of indymedia and the like instead of open source projects trying to emulate venture capitalist apps.
It's not federated ... who cares 🤷♀️ . Someone could add ActivityPub integration later if it's actually useful.
Kbin makes me feel like it will crash and burn in a week or two (maybe I'm wrong, idk).
welp, getting fedora up and running on there was a breeze. It seems to work perfectly. With the custom kernel the hardware works 100%.
Keyboard attaches -> keyboard works; keyboard detatches -> tablet mode (with auto-rotate); full touch controls; pen works and is beautiful to use in krita; close the keyboard cover and it sleeps instantly; open the keyboard cover and it wakes instantly.
Only issue (which I knew going in) is that the battery life on this thing sucks. It's like 3-5 hours screen on time. I'm mostly going to use it in places where I can plug it in, and I'm doing some testing of drain while suspended.
Otherwise, would recommend the Surface Pro 6 as a cheap linux tablet.
Fedora just kept having bugs and crashing. While the touch worked wonderfully the apps crashing was awful. That wasn't a hardware thing though. That was a Fedora thing. So, I scrapped it and installed Arch. It was of course way more work to get installed, and I have ran into bugs. However, I have only found one I couldn't fix myself. I've had zero crashes.
Using for Fedora for a day really showed me why so many think Linux isn't a reliable desktop system. I think I was getting about one app crash every 10 minutes.
With arch linux (surfing the web, configuring things, playing music, and installing things) the Surface Pro 6 got about 8+ hours of battery life. Wifi and bluetooth on, and brightness at 20%.
That might seem low brightness, but it gets super bright. 20% is about the same as 60% on my pixel phone.
I need to do a battery drain in suspend test, but if that is less than 1% an hour then it will be just as good as my phone and only need a charge once a day or so.
It of course can be put into performance mode as well, but that's not really my use case. I guess it's cool it's available.
I actually think that tech hobbies are good and fun. Getting creative with technology is a cool pass time in a world that has so much tech that goes to waste.
Luxury brands and disposable consumer items are silly though.
When I do tech projects as a hobby now, one of my personal questions before I begin is: "how will I be using this in 10 years?" I plan for it to be in use for at least a decade, and make plans to keep it repaired and useful.
That's the real joke of those Apple goggles, I can't imagine still using them as anything but a costume prop after a couple months of novelty use. Even if they take off Apple will make them obsolete in a couple years.
I left a laptop at home, and just brought my Steam Deck. I have a USB-C hub and used it as my main computer with no issue. When I was at places with a TV I hooked it up and used it over HDMI with no issue.
I got Tailscale working on my phone and Steam Deck for instant connection to my home network. VPN and home server connectivity as great.
I used OSMand on my phone with offline maps for driving and directions. Even when I was in the wilderness, I was able to have a good map for roads, terrain, elevation, trails, lakes, etc with no spying and no data usage. The driving instructions were also way less anxiety inducing than Google Maps. No last second turn notifications. The only weirdness is when you are coming up to a highway exit that is a highway junction, it will say "take a left at exit 123 to stay on highway 12" instead of just saying to stay on the current highway.