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Yeeeeah, I have less of a problem for that, because… well yeah, people host stuff for you all the time, right? Any time you’re a client the host is someone else. Self-hosting makes some sense for services where you’re both the host and the client.

Technically you’re not self hosting anything for your family in that case, you’re just… hosting it, but I can live with it.

I do think this would all go down easier if we had a nice marketable name for it. I don’t know, power-internetting, or “the information superdriveway”. This was all easier in the 90s, I guess is what I’m accidentally saying.

This is a me thing and not related to this video specifically, but I absolutely hate that we’ve settled on “homelab” as a term for “I have software in some computer I expose to my home network”.

It makes sense if you are also a system administrator of an online service and you’re testing stuff before you deploy it, but a home server isn’t a “lab” for anything, it’s the final server you’re using and don’t plan to do anything else with. Your kitchen isn’t a “test kitchen” just because you’re serving food to your family.

Sorry, pet peeve over. The video is actually ok.

Well, you know, Europe can’t just take every refugee from an underdeveloped country that just wants to migrate for economic reasons. There needs to be some border control for these people, otherwise it won’t be sustainable.

Nah, I’m kidding, it’s all racism, if you’re an American it’s probably fine.

Well, I’m kinda kidding there, too, it’s still a ton of work and paperwork to get a proper visa that allows work and permanent residency, but it IS much, much easier if you’re a relatively affluent American.

Oh, no, I wish. If democracy was gonna get destroyed anyway I may as well have gotten paid.

No, it’s just that when I was studying all the stuff about criticism, public opinion, semiotics and all that jazz nobody cared about it, it was a weird thing for nerds who had an existential crisis after watching The Truman Show or whatever.

And then the whole thing became the core of a mainstream culture war that resulted in the second coming of fascism. In academia they looked at all the data from the first rise of fascism as a weird historical artifact of runaway extremism and then boom, we’re all right back in it. You guys are just living history, but for people in this space this is fucking Jurassic Park. They spent years preparing to calmly brush off dust from buried bones and then you blink and everybody is feeding branches to the brontosauruses and getting eaten by the raptors. It’s just not what you signed up for.

I had this exact train of thought when I was eighteen and ended up building a career and a half on top of that particular crisis.

I was going to say no regrets, but… you know, some regrets?

I can tell when a movie is good now, though.

Weirdly, that somehow became a huge political problem on the Internet and ended up killing democracy. I guess that’s one of the regrets.

It is between 0.1 and 0.05% the size of Reddit.

So yes.

I guess that’s a fair point, but there are a few things I’d point out in response.

For one thing, nested threads weren’t that rare, even early on. I refuse to give Reddit credit for that one. Pair that with the fact that around here the upvote sorting is far less relevant and you have a more forum-like arrangement. It’s definitely not the “only the most upvoted post counts” thing over here. You have very long threads with a lot of different responses and responses to responses. The filtering and bubbling up based on popularity is not quite Reddit-like.

For another thing, and perhaps more importantly, social media isn’t just defined by its features. Reddit is the way it is because of how people engage with it and how large and anonymous it is. The entry points are different, the connections are different, the reliance on discoverability tools is waaay different. This place doesn’t feel like Reddit because even if it has a few of those tools it doesn’t much need them. You can parse the entire firehose. You can’t be Reddit like that.

“My team”? What team would that be? Cause my elected officials, that I voted for, are very much in the “arrest Netanyahu for genocide” camp, with my full support.

If you’re not American my claims don’t apply to you (unless you were a non-American peddling anti-Harris online propaganda during the elections, and then you’re as much to blame as the rest of the idiots that did this).

It is.

But I’m not making it worse and we’ve staved it off so far.

So I will keep trying to not make it worse.

Which American leftist cosplayers spewing self-defeating, self-righteous maximalist crap to get Trump elected can’t say.

Trust me, I would much rather be dealing with their self-righteous crap than with Trump. But since we’re here, and since we tried to tell them, at least I can pop up to go “told you so” before I go back to blocking Americans and their nonsense from my feeds and try to survive their ongoing spiraling.

Hey, it would be great to be in a world where we can test that hypothesis.

But you made it not that world by electing this particular turd. So what we know for sure is this: you didn’t make it better.

So it’s your fault.

So you don’t get to go “boo hoo the other guy was Israel’s bitch, too”. Your self-righteous leftist cosplay may give your denial room to pretend you didn’t make it worse (you did), but now we know for a fact you didn’t help.

When the rest of reality dawns on you feel free to poke me again. In the meantime, deal with whatever amount of it your psyche can parse in your own time.

Plenty. But I voted for a government that wouldn’t do this, and they narrowly won, so I have that going for me. What’s your excuse?

If anything I’m surprised by the constant Reddit comparisons, because this has never felt like Reddit to me.

It feels like a 90s forum. Small, focused on a handful of topics, you always argue with the same five guys about the same five things… It’s not a Reddit replacement at all. Which is why I’m here, I don’t contribute to Reddit and never have.

Yeah, no offense, but nobody cares about how you cope or whether you leave. This isn’t about you.

We’re all pretty ok with you guys stewing in your own fascist soup. You made that bed. The concerning part is how it’s affecting everybody else. If this was entirely a you problem I would be much less worried.

That’s not relevant. The fact is this entire situation is developing this way because Trump is both extremely willing to go along with Israel and terrified of looking weak.

That he would give Bibi everything he wanted and make the situation worse was both known from his actions last time and a common warning to “the Dems are just as bad” delusional morons during the campaign, to their protests.

And now here we are. Delusional morons are still out there, still in denial and still entirely wrong.

Anybody who “didn’t even vote” is responsible for this. At least the 1/6 are trying to hide their guilt behind excuses. Eff all fascists, of course, but hey, at least that subsegment of them aren’t lying to themselves about it.

Oh, no, you’re not.

You’re a speck of the nameless hordes in a rogue superpower. A collaborationist in a fascist nuclear state.

You have zero relevance as an individual. You are, fundamentally, just a small part of a big problem.

I have no obligation to care about your “individuality”. I care about your victims. Which exist. You have real, human victims now. And I really hope if you’re being honest about your self-righteous denials throughout this thread, that it at least triggers some self-awareness about that.

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I don’t care. You did this.

Drag every dumb American leftist that was here during the election claiming this exact thing, or that Harris’ support of Israel was too much and Trump wouldn’t do the same. Collaborationists one and all. May as well have given the order today.

You live with that now. And as it continues to get worse I sure hope someone in your life slaps the self-serving excuses right out of you so it dawns on you, because you will have to stew in this the rest of your life.

You are the enemy, just as much as the average noncommital fascist was in the mid-20th century. You are a cautionary tale for some kid studying history in a century, assuming we get to have kids studying history in a century despite your best attempts.

And maybe I could get to some more in-depth solution that sorts it out, but that’s me spending time on a problem that a) I shouldn’t have to, and b) I have a functional workaround for already.

Communal troubleshooting is the nature of Linux desktop, but also a massive problem. You shouldn’t need communal troubleshooting in the first place. It’s not a stand-in for proper UX, hardware compatibility or reliable implementation. If the goal is for more people to migrate to Linux the community needs to get over the assumption that troubleshooting is a valid answer to these types of issues.

Which is not to say the community shouldn’t be helpful, but there’s this tendency to aggressively troubleshoot at people complaining about issues and limitations and then to snark at people actively asking for help troubleshooting for not reading documentation or not providing thorough enough logs and information. I find that obnoxious, admittedly because it’s been decades, so I may be on a hair trigger for it at this point.

The other option is to just use Windows, which is the issue with these types of hardware incompatibility. I also have an ASUS laptop that won’t use their slightly weird speakers correctly and, again, that whole thing makes it much less practical to boot into Linux instead.