Reports of Russia’s Wagner fighting for Hamas in Gaza, along with providing intelligence, planning, and weapons. Israel overreacts, causing mass civilian casualties. Russia then uses this as propaganda to justify their civilian slaughter in Ukraine. While Iran, who has provided weapons and support to Russia in their war against Ukraine, sits back and plays the plausible deniability game. It also uses up munitions and supplies that otherwise would have gone to Ukraine.

This is a coordinated play by the China-Russia-Iran axis. WWIII has begun.

I’m having a lot of trouble with it. Doesn’t run my commercial apps (that do run on 20.04) and it crashes regularly on dual my GPU setup.

BeeHaw admins’ critique of Lemmy software, and the broken incentives for toxicity that follows from duplicating Reddit, are spot on. It’s not just the people, it’s the behavioral incentives that come with its system design.

You have a neighbor experimenting with Sandkings!

Good for them. May they enjoy their lost customers.

I’ll stick with X11 until they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

$ yt-dlp [URL]

For all the bogosities and bullshit of Element/Matrix, fact is it’s still the only protocol and platform I trust for private comms.

I said the business model is not inherently deceptive. Doesn’t mean bad actors still won’t try to deceive.

I’m fine with these companies charging to use their service, as long as they respect privacy rights in the process. I wouldn’t pay for it just the same. But at least that model isn’t inherently deceptive.

Ah. Thank you. I’m using the web interface.

How does one filter submitted external links in Lemmy? Honest question.

They did this from the start. Communities need regular submissions for growth. Just to keep momentum going.

But it is inherently deceptive. And that sucks.

The leadership of Ukraine is not Nazi or totalitarian. Russia under Purin and China under Xi Jinping is totalitarian.

You make a fundamental category error.

You confuse symbolism in your political opponents with actual conduct that mirrors the horrors of Nazi Germany by the Russian government under the dictator, Putin. The symbolism is used for a slippery slope argument to the very horrors we see Russia committing today.

This is why you’re deluded. See: Korzybski. “Science and Sanity,” or his commonly used phrase, “the map is not the territory”.

Can you describe these “different political ideologies” between Stalin and Purin, and how that matters to the absurd claim Ukraine is “Nazi” because some people wear insignia you don’t like, verses widespread murder of civilians and the kidnapping of children - which you call merely, “fascist,” as perpetrated by Russia under Putin’s rule?

The issue is that Google locks down the bootloader. Nothing prevents the compute and display hardware from running a traditional Linux distribution, but that “trusted” bootloader does.

Fascist but not Nazi. Curious hair to split.

Some of us remember the Kuro5hin and how voting was gamed there in the very early 2000s.