Murc’s Law is “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics”. In other words, Democrats are responsible for Republicans being the way they are and doing the things they do, either because Democrats provoked them or failed to control them.

The point is old money is not showy compared to new money. New money is Lamborghinis, modernist mcmansions and private jets. Old money is low key, they don’t want to get clocked as being rich. Maybe they drive an old mercedes or wear ordinary clothes, but their friends know they have a controlling interest in a huge corporation, their own private island, etc. So sure, ordinary people can replicate much of the ‘aesthetic’, because its about rich people not wanting to seem rich.

Other options exist, but not so polished. It’s a tough project that apparently needs more support than small FOSS projects can provide, I’ve seen a lot of promising alternatives come and go.

Hardware/firmware wise, would really like to see open standards like we have for PC bootloaders. EU requiring nonproprietary bootloaders on phones would be a real step forward.

would be great if they did phones next.

they make a thing that lets libreoffice work online, like google docs

my window(s) can be found at my residence: 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613

lucky for me I have a pile of SBCs from uncompleted projects. and no, do not climb in my window looking for them

it does nothing. might as well not be plugged in. at this point I don’t remember what killed it. maybe trying to transition to another os.

my pinebook pro has been bricked for at least 3 years now. still dead.

you can tell the difference because of the names

inkscape? which is free

the battery replacement is non trivial. the glass back is incredibly fragile and is glued on.

that said, they can be got new-in-box from ebay.

turns out its a mastodon account. if you’re on mastodon paste that address into your search

Because the US strategy was probably cut and pasted from chatgpt

The uncensored Charlie Kirk memes were pretty choice

Just a lil nitpick: article is by iFixit who is a Lenovo business partner. So perhaps less objective than one might hope.

I’m afraid I’m still on reddit quite a bit. Most communities have a lot more activity there. Rust, nixos, luthiery, local and state level subreddits. r/fiddle, and other instrument subreddits have more activity.

That said theres a lot of chaff that I wouldn’t miss. r/sysadmins is all removed about corporate work, r/machinists the same but blue collar. r/hiking is all shoe posts and gear. Political subreddits have lots of activity but its 90% rage farming.

Technical communities are strong on lemmy, despite their smaller size. And its refreshing to read the super far left diatribes, I don’t get that stuff elsewhere.