It starts to make sense when you realize that each of those events is basically a fire sale for billionaire investors.

Just look at income inequality before/after each of those events.

Not gonna happen. Ignorance is what got us here.

Oh word… I tried MPV briefly but didn’t like it as much as vlc

I wish MPC had a linux version. One of the few pieces of Windows-only software (along with foobar2000) that I actually miss.

A few months back I decided to fuck around and see if I could get it working in wine, and it seemed to work OK, but pretty jank. Too jank to consider seriously using.

I was having issues with it the other day, and so I pasted the URL into my browser and it would not let me watch past 1 min of any video without disabling ublock.

Needless to say, I didn’t watch the video. I’m done with using YouTube in any official way. If they successfully remove all options for avoiding ads on their site, then I will just never go there again.

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It’s definitely not standard… But it’s not surprising that it’s happening. Unfortunately.

And it’s extremely concerning.

That’s still insane though… I will sometimes hit caps lock once or twice on a password screen to make sure it’s not on.

I know pretty much nothing about iOS, but isn’t Safari actually considered a pretty decent browser? Can you not use ublock (or equivalent), and other privacy extensions, on Safari?

I just recently learned this when I tried to take a Teams call (ugh) with my Bluetooth earbuds, only to find that the microphone worked, but I couldn’t hear anything.

Turned out, by default, it had set the input as headset mode, but the output as stereo headphone mode, so I couldn’t hear anything.

Because that makes sense.

You can also use it for everything else. It can be as easy to use as a PlayStation if that’s what you want it for.

Yeah when I see people say that gaming on Linux “isn’t there yet” I have to wonder how long it’s been since they’ve tried. And people who install Windows on their Steam Deck? Don’t get it.

What do you think the line is? When will it cross over and become acceptable to call it “fascism”? Because we’ve embodied Eco’s 14 features of Ur-Fascism for like 20 years. We now have a de facto dictator who is using that framework to do explicitly fascist things… Where is the line?

I am talking about citizens

Nazis are citizens. Unfortunately.

Neither did he last administration and neither will the next.

How the fuck are people still this clueless. Talk to anyone who is learned on US history and ask them if this is the same as previous administrations.

It’s the entire fucking point.

The explanation is that they will just use this shit to target whomever they please regardless of reason. This is how fascism works.

It is meant to be confusing. Stop trying to rationalize it, you’re wasting energy.