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orclev

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  • 'We're not stopping': Trump officials raise the stakes in showdowns with judges

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  • Exactly. The problem is he ignores the court orders and literally nothing happens. They're completely toothless. I'm not seeing a way this ends that doesn't trigger a constitutional crisis one way or another. Either Federal Marshals trigger a showdown by chucking officials into jail for violating orders, Trump triggers a showdown by having somebody arrest the judges, or judges keep issuing increasingly pointless rulings proving that the checks and balances were never real.

    In a sane timeline the moment Trump violated the first court order he would have been impeached and summarily convicted. With the Republicans in control though they're not going to act either at all or until it's far far too late and Trump has successfully transitioned fully into the dictator he dreams of being.

  • E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends

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  • Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11 include a 1GHz or faster CPU with at least two cores, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage,

    All of this is no problem and essentially any computer manufactured in the last couple decades can meet these requirements. They're effectively irrelevant for this discussion.

    Secure Boot capability, and TPM 2.0 compatibility.

    This is the problem right here. Pretty much every last computer you hear about that isn't compatible it's one or both of these, almost always the TPM 2.0 module.

    That of course is if the reason you aren't "upgrading" is because the hardware isn't supported. For a great many of us our hardware is supported, we just don't want all the bullshit anti-features Microsoft has crammed into Windows 11. Windows 10 was already bad enough with it's constant telemetry spyware, that annoying Cortana garbage shoehorned in anywhere they could manage, the absolute atrocity that they turned the start menu search function into, and the annoying Teams and OneDrive integrations that randomly reinstalled and re-enabled themselves after updates.

    Then MS went and had to cram in even more spyware by way of their horrible copilot garbage. All for what? What are we getting with 11 that's better than 10? What feature justifies that upgrade? Nothing, that's the answer. There's no reason at all that 11 needed to be made.

  • E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends

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  • In other words it was the sales department doing what they always do, pulling complete bullshit out of their ass and then expecting the engineering team to deliver it.

  • Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order

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  • True, although I do wonder why he hasn't been banned from the instance yet. Looking at his post history it's just about exclusively troll comments.

  • The framers had a plan to protect us from Elon Musk

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  • The framers had lots of protections for a lot of things but apparently not a single one of them accounted for a coordinated take over of the majority of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches by a group of people willing to wipe their asses with the constitution.

  • Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree

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  • The "and at least one AI model seems to agree" on the end has got to be peak irony.

  • Donald Trump Is Going to Destroy American Manufacturing

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  • Yup. It's an ecosystem and most of it is located in other countries. By putting tariffs in place on foreign imports he's starving what little domestic manufacturing exists of needed components and raw materials. Those same tariffs also inspire retaliatory tariffs on US exports destroying demand for US manufactured goods. He's turning the US from a small part of a giant market into a tiny isolated island that's missing many key materials. What little manufacturing the US had managed to hang on to is now in danger of being strangled to death.

    Improving the US manufacturing base was always going to be a tricky problem that required a subtle approach. It's like disabling a bomb. In comes Trump and just starts ripping out wires randomly while screaming "I got it!" at the top of his lungs.

    Moron should have stuck to his usual grifts instead of trying to play at being an economist.

  • Donald Trump's economic masterplan - Yanis Varoufakis

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  • Unfortunately exactly that is one of the more likely outcomes. Trump is already toying with the idea of selling off federal lands and privatizing essentially all government services except for the military. The one saving grace is that he can't touch state run services directly, but his Republican governor sycophants are more than happy to follow his example. It's essentially the recipe for every dystopian cyberpunk ever with a handful of megacorps taking the place of the government and providing basic services like police and EMS but only to the rich.

  • Donald Trump's economic masterplan - Yanis Varoufakis

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  • Yeah it's 90% wishful thinking glued together with a tiny smattering of reality. There is some merit in a few bits and pieces of the article, but I'm also certain that is not at all even remotely the thought process driving Trump's decisions. I'm also equally certain things will not be playing out like the author is desperately hoping they will.

    What is going to happen is Trump is going to absolutely tank the US economy, possibly badly enough to qualify as the second great depression. What happens after that is pure speculation but nothing that's good for the US unless by some miracle this finally kills off the Republican party and the neo-liberal branch of the Democrats (which sadly these days is less a branch and more a trunk).

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  • In my experience dealing with my deeply Republican parents it's something like:

    • Chinese/China -> Communism
    • Socialism/Socialist -> Communism
    • Government Program -> Communism
    • Anything that helps people who aren't rich -> Communism and/or Woke
    • Anything the Democrats do -> Communism and/or Woke
    • Any company that does something that isn't the most evil/amoral thing it could possibly have done (rarely happens) -> Communism and/or Woke

  • Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

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  • He's an absolute moron but he's also the poster child of failing upward. As long as you're rich in the US it's nearly impossible to actually fail. He's squandered most of the wealth his sleazy father left him, but he still has enough left over to be completely insulated from the consequences of his actions. His children won't be as fortunate unless they're a lot smarter than he is and actually manage to make some money instead of constantly losing it.

  • Donald Trump questions why US protects Japan

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  • It's also about destroying US soft power in general. Putin wants an isolated US so he's having Trump torch every bridge with every ally the US has. Any country that the US has a friendly relationship with is in the firing line.

  • Donald Trump questions why US protects Japan

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  • Right now he's pretty laser focused in on about a 5 year period in 1940 and a certain country in Europe. Unfortunately I don't think he's actually read how that particular story ends though.

  • Trump to order US Education Department abolished, WSJ reports

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  • Something something need H1B something something not enough qualified Americans.

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • In some cases very, but in others not so much. Some of them have Patreon accounts or other ways to accept payment, but in many cases you'll be doing good just to find a working email address for them. Ideally though I'd prefer to just pay for the books outright rather than trying to do some kind of grey area thing where I'd pirate the book and then donate the cost to them (if for no other reason than it causes tax headaches for everyone involved).

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • No you can't. They changed the firmware so eBook downloads now go into a partition that's not accessible when mounting the kindle over USB.

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • Plus I actually want to support the authors. My issue is with Amazon not the authors, so I want to pay for the books I'm reading so they can keep making more of them. If I could buy the books directly from the authors in some cases I would, and in all cases if it was available from the Kobo store I'd be willing to buy it there. Unfortunately that damn exclusivity clause on Kindle Unlimited means my options for them are Amazon, Amazon, or Amazon (or roll the dice on piracy and not support the author, not to mention even when it is the book in question the quality is often poor).

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • Sort of? Kindle Unlimited itself is digital only, but the exclusivity clause only applies to ebooks I think, so in theory you could purchase a physical copy elsewhere.

    I've pretty much entirely abandoned physical books. It's just far more convenient using an e-reader which has a backlight for reading in the dark, fits thousands of books in a device that's pocket sized, and let's me instantly purchase, download, and start reading the next book in a series as soon as I finish the last one.

    I do have physical books still, but I haven't bought new ones in about a decade now.

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • While that may be true, so far at least they seem to be doing an OK job. Their ebooks are often sold sans-DRM, and in the cases they aren't every one I've gotten has used Adobe Digital Editions which are easy to strip the DRM from (and is a widely supported standard unlike Amazon's proprietary DRM scheme). Additionally their e-reader devices, while not open hardware are repairable with disassembly guides provided by them and they even sell replacement components like screens. I have not verified this claim, but they also claim to use recycled plastic for manufacturing them and recycled cardboard for their packaging (should you care about such things).

    For better or worse, if you want a Kindle like experience, you're likely going to be forced into working with a large-ish corporation, but despite the average experience when doing so that doesn't mean that corporation must be an evil anti-consumer hellscape of rapaciousness and greed. So far at least, Rakuten/Kobo seem to be doing OK by their customers.