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NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

Don't do this. This just creates more work for the FBI and you know that report is going straight into the rubbish bin. That is just wasting public resources.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

I know it's not necessarily an option for everyone, but the printer at the library always works and costs way less or is free.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in How responsive is your Nextcloud?

Mine is... eh. It's alright. I don't use any of the apps. Just the actual sync functionality. Sometimes when I'm moving files around there's a problem where the entire thing just stops responding. My MediaWiki instance still works, just not Nextcloud. Not sure why this happens and not sure if it also happens to other people.

For comparison, it is running on a Contabo VPS M

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in 10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Linux not in meme... but still funny

You can, by using the terminal trick I was referring to. If you simply try to set it up without connecting it to WiFi or Ethernet, it will not let you go past that screen until you connect to a network.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Linux not in meme... but still funny

You can do it using a single terminal command run during set-up. No special images or imaging software required.

However, the point is not whether it is possible, but why it is so unnecessarily difficult. I think that question is easy to answer.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

In the German system (or any other multiparty system), voters can effectively punish a political party without wasting their vote, because there is a lot of overlap between the parties.

If you don't like the current coalition but are a left-leaning person, you can vote for Die Linke. You might not agree with all of their positions but you at least can agree with some of them. Even if that is not palatable if you previously voted SDP you can switch your vote to Green or vice versa to punish the specific officeholders representing your constituency. If you voted for the FDP last time, maybe try Union next time. There are many ways to do this, and overall I think it makes the parties themselves more accountable to the voters because voters defecting their party list votes can drastically change the makeup of the Bundestag.

Similarly, right-leaning UK voters are punishing the Conservative Party by threatening to or actually voting for Reform candidates. Scots can punish the SNP by voting Labour.

You can't do this in the US. In the USA, the only recourse the voters have over the parties is to vote out undesirable candidates through primary elections so that the party cannot nominate them. This works alright, sometimes, but it is not an effective way to punish party leadership for bad decisions, and many primaries are uncompetitive anyway.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sense as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet...

Download-only internet.

Your water line is now connected! There is no way to turn on the taps in the house.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.

Nintendo CEO cutting his salary in half to avoid laying off workers after the Wii U fails versus whatever the fuck Reddit is doing

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

There is no such thing as unbiased news free from corporate fuckery. But you can subscribe to several well-known and reputable news outlets, public broadcast services, and other varied reliable sources, and hope that the combined fuckery cancel each other out. For now, that's the best that you can do.

It's not easy and it's not cheap.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Technology in Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

Congratulations, you have repeated the same point as the parent commenter, but removed the quotation marks to make it seem like they didn't do that, so to create for yourself an opportunity to say it again

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

Your other comment says—

So pathetic how you claim to support democracy but shit on anyone who criticizes your precious political party and then make juvenile excuses for doing so.

I don't. But it's undeniably true that one party is much better, in my opinion, than the other. They aren't a perfect party but to equate them with the Republican Party simply because they aren't doing a perfect (or in many cases, even a good) job is stupid.

Right now, the choices are "bare minimum" or "nothing at all". These choices are not the same. One is clearly better.

If you would like a more nuanced opinion then read carefully the rest of my comments in this thread. I'm not going to repeat my points for every person who comes along with the same retort and insult thinking they've "got" me.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

For what it's worth, the minimum wage in LA will rise to $17.28 in July of this year. I get that's still not very high by LA standards, but I stress that progress is better than stagnation.

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

Yes, and that's because the progressive and left-wing of the Democratic Party is losing a power struggle against the centrists and neoliberals. If you want to change that, be sure to vote in the party primary elections and to encourage everyone you know to do the same.

Register to vote

NateNate60 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

Good news doesn't spread as quickly as bad news and rage bait. "McDonald's Workers Can Afford Flat on 1/3 of Income" isn't a good headline but "Families Increasingly Priced Out By Red-Hot Housing Market" does.