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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Realistically, we are so fucked. One single bomb on a highway or railway can completely decimate any one of our province's ability to move people or goods and perform services. Our border is too long and wild to be defendable. And they could probably take out our entire military logistics in a single night of bombings. All of this isn't even to mention that if they wanted to go all out insane they could make nuclear threats if the Canadian government doesn’t capitulate. I'm not saying we couldn't resist once occupied, it's just fucking hideous to think about.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (27 children)

Just chiming in to throw some light hearted shade at lemmy.world for defederating from the piracy communities. My time on lemmy.world was really poor, and I came away not thinking too highly of Lemmy as a whole. My experience in different instances has been a world of difference, and I finally get fantastic content in my feeds and am fully on board with Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I accidentally disabled the UserJS toggle, and now I can't interact with the UI at all to re-enable it. Any ideas how I can fix that in the configuration files?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Appreciate it. I wish it was a tin-foil conspiracy; the reality is much more grim. We want this, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

It's way too early to put on a tin foil hat — and I know nothing about the German election to base this on — but given Trump's comments about Musk potentially helping him commit voter fraud in the USA, paired with Elon's constant meddling in Germany lately, is it too far to suggest that there may be enough evidence to consider that Elon may have meddled in the German election?

I see a lot of people blaming Americans for voting in a fascist, and sure, a lot definitely did; but enough doubt has been sewn for me that I'm not even certain that they did vote Donald Trump in

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

Ugh this takes me back to my electrician days: trying to splice these fuckers in a dark, hot attic, with only a blue-hued headlamp to help you piece out what color everything actually was. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Man I miss my Sony Ericsson. Phones used to be unique

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can't entirely recall the precise details now, but I was trying to uninstall Nvidia and Mesa packages to fix some driver issues. Some mesa-related packages were remaining, and I couldn't figure out why, so I manually typed their names in and purged them, then proceeded to watch python, the desktop environment — everything — all uninstall haha.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Sex with a hella sexy robot? Nice.

Using a hella sexy robot to fill the emptiness of no intimacy or authentic mutual connection? Not nice.

For some reason sex with a robot doesn't feel gross to me — until they start using it to fill a hole (hehe)

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone's (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It's still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ's sake.

I'd sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Definitely. Quite a few are obvious, most are not so obvious because MAGATs sound like broken records anyway; but some are very clearly humans, die hard MAGATs, who are feeling betrayed right now by Trump's antics and the state of the country. Never thought I'd see the day.

Either that, or everyone is a bot and nothing is real anymore (also likely?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Through the release of the first iPhone to the mid 2010s I'd wager that most consumers agreed that iPhones were superior to Android by most metrics: they featured more support across the board, had more apps, looked nicer, and were considered the premium. Apple pioneered the modern smartphone and had a headstart in getting users hooked into their ecosystem. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in the wealthiest country in the world (and Apple's home country).

That's a huge generalization but I think it resonates true to a degree. Also, anecdotally, I remember that all my school computers were Macs when growing up. I'm sure Apple seeped its tendrils into people's lives a variety of ways. It's not a cake walk for most people to switch ecosystems. As a lifelong Windows user I'll have a panic attack if you asked me to print a document on a Mac; I'm sure its the same vice versa lol

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