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I bet it’s classified as an assault weapon, which is different than an assault rifle.

You should check out DarkTable. There’s a mac version so you could try it there but it also runs on Linux. (It’s what I use and a decent replacement for Lightroom)

What’s the option? Windows? Keeps getting shittier all the time. Now with AI Slop and bugs. No thanks. Mac? Their walled garden, making it so you can’t upgrade your existing computer? No thanks. My last mac was a 2015 that let you upgrade things but it was a pain. They’ve since removed that so they lost me as a customer.

With Linux, I have a Framework laptop that let’s me upgrade everything. It’s easy to take apart, there are hardware switches for the mic and webcam… it’s very user friendly. Linux doesn’t have any telemetry. The only AI that gets installed is if I install it myself, it’s not intrusive. I’ve been using Linux for a long, long time but the Desktop experience has been lacking in the past. It’s gotten way better recently and the last thing I would boot into windows for was Fusion 360. I spent some time learning FreeCAD and since 1.0 it is way better and now I don’t need to boot into Windows anymore. Steam has made leaps and bounds with proton and now I can even game on Linux which is pretty huge. Is Linux perfect? No, but it does everything I need it to.

Stage 3 colon cancer in my late 40s. Going through Chemo now. My oncologist thinks we can eradicate it so I’m hopeful. He also thinks it’s due to the increase of Microplastics.

If you are in your 40s, go get a colonoscopy. The prep sucks but it’s worth it.

Some can be very big if they include pictures. (like cookbooks)

However, yes… if it’s just say a fiction book with no pictures, they are kilobytes in size.

Are you saying there is precedence for what we currently have? Trump seems to think that he’ll get impeached if republican’s don’t win. Then if he’s out, Vance and him seem to have differing opinions on the Epstein files. Vance has also had some things to say before getting all budy-budy with Trump.

France is currently investigating allegations. In fact 10 countries have opened investigations.

So I suspect Trump is in the files, hence the coverup but once he’s gone I think there might be enough public pressure to cause the next administration to do something.

I mean, Biden pardoned his family because he thought the new administration would go after them.

Of course, I can’t see the future and maybe it all gets swept under the rug, but I’m hopeful.

I don’t know if ever is the right term. I’m hopeful that once this administration is gone, the next administration might start doing their job and investigate some of these individuals, leading to prosecutions.

But I think you are certainly right that the current administration is corrupt and no prosecutions will happen under them.

Mine goes up automatically and if it encounters resistance, it goes back down again. I guess this is too hard for Tesla.

So I love Debian but it prides itself on stability so packages tend to be older. I think this is good for a server but probably not great for a desktop. Ubuntu came along and was like we’ll be like Debian but newer packages. Everything was cool for a while but then they started doing shitty things. The first that I can think of was ads in the terminal. This was not great for an open source app. Then when you did apt install firefox it installed Firefox as a snap. WTF?!?!? (apt should install .deb files, not snaps). Because of this, lately I’ve decided to avoid Ubuntu.

I used Gentoo for a while and it was great but configuring and compiling everything took forever. I’m getting too old for that. Arch seems like a good alternative for people who want to mess with their system. So it’s become a way for people to claim they know what they are doing without having to recompile everything. (Note: I haven’t used Arch, this is just my perception)

Recently I got a new laptop and I had decided to put Linux on it and had to decide what distro. Arch was in consideration but I ended up going with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s got the latest but I don’t really have to configure anything. If I had more time, I might go with something like Arch but I don’t really want to do that much fiddling right now.

I read 1984… I really liked it but I thought the whole war is peace, freedom is slavery bit was something that no one would really buy. Then Trump took office and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I now believe 1984 and don’t question it at all. :(

I’m not really pro-china on much of anything but I agree with them on this. Trump’s tariff’s are bullshit and he should be called out on them.

There’s a whole darknet diaries episode 153: Bike Index where he basically talks about stolen bikes being sold on Facebook and Facebook doesn’t seem to care. They can’t get the facebook pages shut down and this guy continues to sell stolen bikes on Facebook.

This is sure to help food prices go down! /s

https://archive.is/J31rj

Tori Amos commented on the allegations:

And if the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know. So in some ways it’s a heartbreaking grief. I never saw that side of Neil. Neither did my crew. And my crew has seen a lot.

Gaiman is the godfather to one of her kids and apparently she was pretty close to him. If she didn’t know, I feel like Terry Pratchett wouldn’t have known either. This isn’t like with Epstein where association implies knowledge of what was going on. After reading all that I have on the allegations, I’m comfortable believing that Pratchett wouldn’t have known anything about the alleged sexual assault and if he knew anything, it was that Gaiman was known to sleep around… consensually… with adults. (Because apparently this seems to be known among people close to him… including that he and Palmer allegedly had an open marriage)

So unless further info comes out that indicates otherwise, I will continue to enjoy Pratchett’s works.

yes? you can legally purchase a plane without a license… did you read my comment? purchasing != using. You don’t need a pilot “under current contract” you could buy a plane and taxi it around the airport if you want without any licenses.

You can, you just need to hire a pilot if you want to fly in it. How do you think rich people fly around in their jets? Do you really think the pilots own the planes?