https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/

Nah, all of it will be followed through. He’ll be a dictator and just do it. Only reason he didn’t full do all the other stuff he whined about last time was some checks and balances he had to fight against to do them.

Lol yah, its clear they all want to be dictators, ya know who says, “I was promised total control?” Dictators.

I was just leaning into the ‘weird’ framing, since they seem to fucking hate it.

Even the normal stuff they say isn’t normal. No CEO comes into a company and is like “hey, I heard I was promised to have total control of this company!” They say “I’m hoping to be effective leader and hope together we can, blah, blah, blah”

No sane person comes into a position like that and says the quiet part out loud “day 1, I was promised total control of public health agencies!”

Very weird indeed.

The classic ‘I don’t care how horrible this person or view is’ until it affects them ‘on noooo, I realized he’s terrible! Now I get to seem like an enlightened white Knight, warning others of obvious flaws I decided not to see!’

I bet if the joke was about Mexicans they wouldn’t have cared, because it’s not them.

Lol ya had me in the first half…

Also to pull out their phrase from 20 years ago: “Support the Troops!”

Lol fair enough.

You seems to not grasp why people don’t like the mouse charging design. Yes you can do all of those things you mentioned and its probably fine. Why people hate it though? Apple is forcing you to use their products the way they want you to. You’re changing your whole workflow to bend to their will. That’s why people hate it. Not that it’s a problem, but that you now have to mess around and take 15 minutes out or your day waiting for a mouse to charge instead of… Just plugging in a cable to a port, positioned in a sane way, the top side of the mouse!

But instead, people make up excuses and are totally fine having a corporation tell them “go get some coffee, because of our design decisions, you can’t use your product right now…”

Like, its just a weird, stupid, petty design decision. Imagine if your laptop wouldn’t charge while you used it, while every other laptop can. Sure it can have amazing battery life, but the 1 time it dies, you have to stop your work, and wait for it to charge, before using the laptop again all because someone said ‘nah, I don’t want the user to be able to use the product that way.’

Again, its stupid and petty.

Remember the “support the troops”? And then the same party turned around and denied healthcare to the 9/11 responders, years later after everyone had forgotten…

I stopped buying their phones when they started locking the bootloaders for the Qualcomm ones in the US. My last one was a galaxy s5. Sadly now I go with the pixel line directly from google, because I know it’ll be unlocked.

The only exception to this is google maps. There isn’t really an alternative, because they have the network effect going with all the points of interest added already, and crowd sourced by people, plus the reviews of business and restaurants. Even if you can get all that going with a Foss app, its not going to be tracking you, and unfortunately maps is the 1 reason for tracking people that actually gives the user some benefit, traffic data. I don’t think there any other Foss maps that gives traffic data, which if you live near a city or travel a lot, its invaluable.

I would muuuch rather a full Linux phone, and run Android apps in waydroid then have an android phone and run Linux apps in a VM…

I wish postmarketOS had a fully working phone that you could daily drive that was slightly more modern and worked on USA networks.

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Knew that was coming, at some point… I wonder if anyone grabbed copies of the git repos.

Can’t believe that project is still going, I used to use it in early 2000’s to organize my 20,0000 mp3 collection back then. I’ve since switched to spotify/YouTube, so don’t have too many mp3’s I listen to anymore, but man, the name brings me back.

Don’t forget sending that judge along with him.

How are they with media playback and battery life when playing media? Been yearning for a cheaper Linux tablet to replace my android one that I use for watching TV shows at night, or on a plane when traveling. if I could replace that with a cheap Chromebook running Linux, that would be a nice compromise.

Openwrt is life.

Okay these are ‘obscure’ in the fact that not a lot of people know of these particular performances or remixes/covers.

Bluegrass instrumental cover of “Taylor” by Jack Johnson that is a very beautiful version. If I ever got married, I’d probably want this to be the song playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23KUT6W8HA

Another amazingly beautiful song: Roads Must Roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DYYQ4q4Go

This remix of “Sound of Silence” used in this emotionally powerful video for hearing impaired that I stumbled into over 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7fAjfp098

This guitar instrumental cover of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson that this amazing kid does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVqX0a49HM

Throwing Fire by Ronald Jenkees You wanna get pumped listening to a guy rock out on a keyboard? This dude has some amazing jams. (I also recommend Disorganized Fun, Stay Crunchy, Guitar Sound, etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2aH4XLbto

Destiny by Zero 7 before they were really big, and before Sia blew up as a pop artist. This particular version is really tight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxx_MwcfbEs

Hip Hop violin by Paul Dateh and Inka One. Its old, the video quality is awful, but the music is. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM

I’ll probably add some more as I think of them because I love music.

Lebanese Blonde by Thievery Corporation Okay this is a well known song because it was used in a popular movie called Garden State, but not many people know the band outside of ‘oh yeah that cool song from Garden State!’ But this is such a talented band, if you can see a live show of theirs, do it. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7W6NtTKAw

Cover of No Diggity by The Regulars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1be7E48Yhas

Broken in All the Right Places by I Am Jen A woman I found on YouTube over 10 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832YvQHzFqg

1976 by RJD2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC-FGtZrPkU

Staying’ Alive instrumental cover by Luca Stricagnoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buH9qCgK_Qk