Any TL;DR? Nazis gonna Nazi?

The public defenders would probably do a better job though...

And yet I never have USBC problems, but had multiple I phones that started failing to charge via the wired port.

And some cheaper brands like Sceptre make dumb TV's still.

Probably a lot. I was very annoyed myself, though it made android pretty similar to the situation on iOS where you can't replace the default messaging app anyway.

It's an area where I think we need a bunch of stuff:

1. Antitrust regulation to force companies to use open standards and allow customization
2. Folks like the Signal Foundation should get over themselves and run their project like a real open source project, where others can fork/modify/run both the server side and client side.

There's so much anti-competitive bullshit regarding #1 from all sides, from carriers to Apple to Google to device manufacturers.

I think fewer people are actually using SMS than you'd think though - it's been quietly replaced with RCS.

They had a good blog post about why - their take was that SMS is dying and the replacement was a moving target that was hard to support for reasons I'm forgetting. I agree it hurt them tremendously though.

PopOS Nvidia version for Nvidia machines - much better experience.

And it has a cool penguin bumper sticker

Yeah but if the truck is free and better than your current car...

Or countries...

"Then he must be a noble beast indeed," said Aragorn; "and it grieves me more than many tidings that might seem worse to learn that Sauron levies such tribute. It was not so when last I was in that land."

"Nor is it now, I will swear," said Boromir. "It is a lie that comes from the Enemy. I know the Horse Freaks of Rohan; true and valiant, our allies, dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago."

They want you to access everything through search and recently accessed because its so intuitive. It's like they want computers to be as hard to use as possible for people who need to do actual work on many projects in any sort of organized way.

Also, now that IT has integrated everything with OneDrive, I routinely have to wait for my own files to be redownloaded before accessing them.

I'm glad you are still with us, please stay.

Medical is now less limited in Iowa (surprised the clinic people aren't advertising yet here on Fediverse) but it's all edibles and concentrates - no flower. Because reasons?

Depends on how new your hardware is - distros with new kernels work much better on many brand new machines.

PopOs Nvidia version is amazing for common gaming laptops.

It's like watching my parents try to meme and I'm here for it.

Bill Barr seems like the kind of guy who would help run a Nazi Death camp, then calmly explain why everything was legal, but that Hitler fellow took things a bit too far... but prosecuting him is counter productive yada yada.

It should have been phrased "An appropriate version of an auto-sear can turn almost any semi-automatic handgun into a fully automatic weapon."

Not sure it changes the article's point though if they're available and being adopted for popular handgun models. They're very simple (if precisely machined) parts.

I see -- arch just seemed like a huge management pain to get all of my different software stacks working and playing nicely together when I last played with it. It's also pretty easy to switch desktop environments regardless of your distro, but I don't mind gnome (plus gnome-tweaks).

Kim Reynolds is the absolute worst.

Did you try the Nvidia version of PopOS? IME the "out of box" experience is loads better than Windows, and the install/configuration takes like 1/4 of the time.

Whatever his overall strategy, I'm really happy that he seems to be showing up and working. So much pussyfooting and slow-playing for the past few years - it's nice to see someone just do the damn job.

I wish I could talk to three-years-ago me to reassure my past self that at least some of the flagrant criminality would be prosecuted.

I hope there's not a three-years-from-now me wanting to dash my hope and tell me Merrick Garland or someone else somehow fucks all this up.

Yep. Brands which come to mind are Trojan Horse and Hometown Hero, but there are a ton now competing in that space. It has to be derived from plants that meet the hemp criteria, and can't exceed the concentration limits by weight during processing, but that works fine for edibles.

FYI many edibles are legal nationwide thanks to the 2018 farm bill.

I've had three different G603's replaced for free because the scroll wheel starts behaving erratically after a while. No hassle though, and the latest one has lasted long enough that they seem to have (hopefully) fixed the issue. I've also had good luck with their mechanical keyboards.

I don't have anything nice to say about the state of their webcams though, especially in price/performance.

Hello - the only Swedish people I've ever met were at a bar while playing drinking games in Mexico, but it was great fun. Hope you are well.

Good drainage is super crucial.

Some of those leaves don't look super happy - getting enough water? Also see some dead foliage in the background - usually best to trim that out. Especially for heirloom tomatoes, they seem to need a lot of prevention with things like septoria.

And don't forget subsidizing gas guzzlers by shoving ethanol down our throats.

Any company that does this should be named and shamed. "We decided to punish you for both working for us." Like WTF?

At about the same rates, in fact. And yet, arrests are way higher for black people (in Iowa it's like 8 times higher).

The war on drugs is also a good tool to oppress poor white people, but the data on this one are really stark. Prohibition is a major tool of racial oppression in the US.

I wonder if long term it would be feasible to push more of the "algorithm" onto the client side where it could be tweaked by the user (or more likely, by extensions or built-in options).

Buildings are still SUPER expensive, both up front and in an ongoing way. Personally I think it's a bit misguided to promote vertical farms when we are currently wasting so much space to create e.g. parking lots, or to grow corn to burn in cars.

Tall buildings are good for housing people though.

I'd rather just have a whisky soda tbh.

From what I understand vertical farming really only works out economically for high value crops. Using artificial light instead of the sun takes a lot of energy, and tall buildings are expensive and require maintenance. Algae tanks would also be SUPER heavy, which is a whole other problem.

The Revolutions podcast had a good series on the Russian revolution if that's a format you're into. It includes the birth of Tankies as a name and phenomenon.