That's why I also mentioned them being made cheaply and using junk parts.
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I have a work phone I can fall back to in the worst case scenario, and I have been consciously avoiding phone use a lot lately.
I am ready to ride out some bugs in a Linux phone.
Edit to add: Or, given the state of the US government and its potential close ties to various tech oligarchs, maybe I should just keep this old iphone as long as possible and just not put anything sensitive on it. I mean we're talking about violent people who think "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" is unassailable logic.
Maybe confusing if you think party labels are the important thing rather than ideology and how you treat fellow human beings.
Is there a kind of open source dumb appliance movement out there? It sure seems like we need one.
They wouldn't be free as in beer, but it would be awesome to have widely available instructions to take existing mass produced parts and assemble a functional and serviceable appliance.
Or maybe just a control module and some sensors that you can use to retrofit smart appliances.
I'm sure the big companies would keep them from gaining mass adoption though, thanks to cheap appliances with ads and junk parts. They probably already have.
I read the comments first. Was thinking huh, maybe attacking Venezuela?
Then I read the article, which ended with this tidbit:
The government is threatened with shut down the day after the planned meeting if Congress cannot agree on a budget bill.
Boy I sure hope that's a coincidence, otherwise I'm thinking huh, maybe attacking United fucking States?
the administration being deposed by the military
Oh, that's one of those things I only hear about in the news that happens to little countries on the other side of the world.
The way the last decade has been going, I could see this latest unprecedented event happening by the midterms.
I have no idea of the chances though. It seems like they have loyalists everywhere now. And despite the military's reputation for being right wingers, some career officers I know are smart decent people who understand their oath to protect the constitution.
Unfortunately, I feel like the most likely "deposed by the midterms" scenario involves getting rid of just Trump and putting Vance in place to go on a "you can trust us and vote for us again" tour before implementing the rest of the billionaire 2025 plan.
So yeah there's a difference obviously, and I live in the US so people around me always use it that way.
But when I see somebody in European media refer to the American people, or some country getting aid and/or bombed by "America" or "the Americans" it is almost certainly about the USA.
I think there are similarities with other regions if not single countries. Hopefully this isn't an American thing too, but when somebody refers to Asian people it often means East Asian, and not somebody from Saudia Arabia or northern Russia.
It also needs a conical upper jaw, such that the axis of each tooth is pointed at the center of his chin rather than straight down.
Lifetime Plex Pass here too. I got it long ago.
I still migrated my server and uninstalled it once I tried Jellyfin for a few days because of the performance difference alone.
fun fact:
Jellyfin works for music (and audio books) just as well as it does for movies and TV shows!
And being open source, there are apps specific to certain use cases. Like on ios there's Finamp for music and Plappa for audio books.
It also streams in FLAC quality!
Unfortunately it isn't as simple as just needing the right Linux distro with a touch-friendly "DE."
We essentially need the "IBM compatible" equivalent phone platform like how modern PCs got started.
Longtime lifetime Plex Pass holder here.
FOSS is important. Having control over how you use your own hardware and files is important.
But even if none of that mattered, once I actually used Jellyfin for a few days the snappy bloat-free feel of it won me over. Switching between Plex and Jellyfin felt like switching between windows and linux.