I stumbled across this today. Is it still being updated? Github suggests it’s still active but the latest release in IzzyOnDroid seems to be from 2022.

Cirrus Logic GD5428.

I don’t have enough theory or analysis under my belt to make any broad kind of comment, but I can speak to personal experience as someone who is still trying to purge myself of this particular brainworm (thanks hexbears). The propaganda is insidious, they get you young, and a lot of the time, it fucking works. I grew up on the tail end of the cold war, so I might have copped it a bit worse than some of the younger folks here, but I got shown my first piece of explicitly anticommunist propaganda about age five. Obvs I’d picked up bits and pieces coincidentally from other media, but primary school was the first time we got herded into a room and subjected to an “educational” video, which probably deserves its own post tbh. Despite being vaguely dissatisfied with capitalism and getting into punk in my teens, watching the Soviet Union fail collapse under the concerted effort of western hegemony (see? Fucking insidious.) kinda cemented me into the “but human nature / only works in theory” mindset for a long time, without actually understanding the theory at all.

All that to say, my gut reaction a lot of the time is still “China bad, communists want to steal your stuff” until the rational part of my brain kicks in and goes “Hang on a second!” - Most of that is due to reading the discourse here. But that rational bit takes effort. Consciously overriding the gut reaction is -hard-. Reading and internalising theory takes time and energy. And when you come home exhausted from a 40 hour week generating revenue for someone else, you don’t necessarily have the mental resources to do that. Of course that’s by design and I absolutely fucking hate it, but I get it because I’m still living it, and I don’t think this kind of experience is particularly unique.

Right.

If it’s repeating answers it gave to other users that’s a hell of a security risk.

EDIT: I just tried it.

It’s third party and CLI only, but rivalcfg supports a decent variety of Steel Series mouses / mice / meece / mousen.

I have been known to enjoy a pie floater so probably. Heavily depends on the brand of peas though.

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I tried out Bazzite on my Legion Go and was so impressed I immediately stopped distro hopping and installed it on my daily as well. Hardware wise everything works out of the box. It’s based on Fedora Kinoite so it’s quite well documented if you run into trouble or want to start doing weird shit. The few times I’ve had issues (mostly with flatpak sandboxing) they’ve been solvable with a quick web search.

Heliboard. Unfortunately it requires a bit too much setup to recommend to anyone who isn’t tech savvy.

IIRC that means you’re not far enough away from that system to sell the data.

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Been a while since I watched Continuum, but I think they didn’t overshoot. Most of them -thought- they did because only one person was aware of the actual goal.

Not 100% sure tho, should probably give it a rewatch.

Well why would you do something stupid like make healthy food more accessible when you can line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies AND stab poor people.

Can’t take it home, but I’m currently testing out the 3D printers at my local. They also have a 3D scanner.

Mostly I feel angry on their behalf. Individual responsibility is a myth, and they’re victims of capitalism too. Food decisions aren’t just based on money. Cooking requires time, effort and skills that are fading from society as a whole, mostly due to people being tied up in generating revenue for someone else. There’s the education angle, whereby people may not be actively aware what they’re eating is slop; industry is constantly trying to dilute labelling laws and advertising regulations to enable this. There’s also the issue of availability outside of financial circumstances; food deserts and food swamps. Then there’s shelf life; hyper-optimised “just in time” supply chains have fresh fruit and veg hitting the shelf at peak ripeness, and keep it under misting sprays (that actively reduce shelf life) so it looks great and sells fast, but doesn’t last more than a day or two in the fridge at home. Why would you buy a lettuce that’ll be dead in two days when a microwave meal lasts functionally forever.

There’s also psychosocial modelling aspects that are both leveraged and molded by marketing to make it seem “normal” and “acceptable”. There’s habits, which are again molded by marketing, especially to children. This also ties into the comfort factor via nostalgia. I’m sure most people have a favourite garbage food from childhood. It’s probably not just one of the above factors, but it’s definitely not as simple as “get money, eat better” – the entire food system is basically aligned to make sure people eat as much slop as possible. It takes a disproportionate amount of time, energy and know-how to circumvent that as an individual.

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I grew up in the '80s. I was expecting either nuclear annihilation or cities on the moon.

This is Foka Wolf if you want to support the artist.

I suspect so. I remember getting a free trial from CompuServe when it eventually made it to Australia so I wouldn’t be surprised if AOL did too.