Plus it’s not like any of the major companies have been earning consumer appreciation. If a new company started today and offered similar price fora buck less than everyone else I’d buy just for the pleasure of saying I didn’t buy Nvidia

Imagine how fucking dumb our world has gotten that the discussion is, “china used our specific software to plot the destruction of our specific software using propaganda that accidentally turned out to be true” and not, “company uses VPN to blame China for their shitty practices.”

Right now I’m using a combination of Home Assistant on the server, GrapheneOS on the phones, a pihole set up as a DNS whitelist, and an app that escapes me from F-droid that locks other apps bases on screen time. Took me maybe 10min to find everything and 2 months to set up but that was mostly due to my sheer incompetence when it comes to anything that isn’t physical. Along the way I even got a jellyfin server going age appropriate music and video sectioned off for him. When he’s responsible enough for it I’ll be teaching him how to pirate his own content.

While I’m 100% on your side here and I make a point to champion the actual values of these anxiety riddled glass boxes, I do want to point out that we can do all that without them. My kid didn’t get modern electronics until he was competent with paper books, dictionary, and offline only tech.

That said, the added stance here is that we can have both. My kid’s phone is locked down to the point that he can’t even message contacts that I didn’t approve. It’s all operated in house from his phone, my phone, and the shit box excuse for a server I run. I have a curated plan for how he’ll earn his way up to full access and planned strategies for teaching him the safety and independence he needs. I know exactly fuck all about tech, can’t remember any commands for Linux, struggled to understand Docker, but still managed to make it happen. If I can pull it off, the only thing stopping literally anyone else is the choice not to do it.

Not by this thing, you’re not.

You know every day I find another thing about me that’s incredibly gay. If I were heterosexual I think I might be concerned…

Here I was hoping it was a normal race but Everyone’s sporting an absolute dump truck.

This is something I’m really confused about myself. Like, of all the places to fanboy a country, why come to a place where everyone universally dislikes nationalism?

This doesn’t at all look like they’re minimizing either side. They very clearly stated that both sides are fucking Africa for their own profit. The emphasis in the question is because no one comes on Lemmy to talk about how great the west is. Rightly so, we’re a shithole with delusions of grandeur, but no one shows up to post unironic memes about the US being wringfully villainized in china.

Know anyone that’s into gaming? Modding old consoles is a great way to get into diagnosing board problems and fixing the crap PCBs in small electronics is fantastic for learning to solder. Two weeks ago I didn’t know shit about the eldrich slab of charms and runes inside electronics. Last week I successfully tested two power units for a playstation 4 and correctly diagnosed that mine has died due to APU overheating. Took about 2 hours, two videos, and a $15 continuity tester.

Unfortunately, mine’s dead in the water until I find someone who can reball the APU for less than the cost of a new system. In the mean time, I’m doing a tear down and mod on my Xbox 360.

Honey mummy, bread mummy, jerky mummy, if we find ourselves a cheese mummy we’ve got a damn fine sandwich!

Dude we used to grind up mummy and snort it for medicine.

Don’t seceed. Go door to door on your block, get to know who you live with. Use your yards, vacant lots, or public parks to make gardens and share within yourself. Bulwark your community against the impact of capitalism until everyone can stand strong enough you do the next block too until there are more of you then there are them.

Dox your local representative. Their family, their friends, their employees. Make sure every meth head in your county knows the name, face, and address of the man or woman that took away their food stamps or kicked them out of their home.

Make their voting base as scared as they try to make us. Every minority should form an armed militia in their community.

Make it impossible to police. Cops don’t have to do their jobs, the supreme court said so give them a bigger incentive to not do it. If every brown person they see has a rifle and walkie they’ll just keep driving. If ever white guy that passes pulls over and starts filming and shouting, they’ll stop pulling people over.

Don’t stop there, get involved maliciously. Run against your mayor, your governor, your congressman. It doesn’t matter if you can win, just refuse to let them talk about anything they platform and shout over them with the vulgar accurate truth. No news would dare sensor a live debate where a candidate calls the mayor a cunt for supporting trump or says full chest that he’ll have every Nazi in the city charged with treason.

If the rules are only there for us, quit playing by them.

Yeah, I’m pretty bummed because I genuinely love playing game and everything it had going on was an absolute blast. I wanted to see where it went.

See, now this is a stance. I only had to skim your second reason because I already knew all that, fuck it’s even outdated. You could have just linked to the musk Nazi salute or a screen shot of a search for “musk naxi salute” showing that everyone here refers to it as the “salute controversy” like he used the wrong arm or something.

The thing is, this is a terrible way to actually do that. Not only is a meme not going to share anything heavy enough to stick, but the rest of the dipshits in this country already don’t do anything about our Nazi President. It might actually buy points for Ukraine to know he’s less of a Nazi than ours it.

It was an interesting thing and I imagine it works great for those it works for, but I couldn’t get into code academy or that gamified coding one. They move to slow for me and with all the plates I juggle it was hard to fmgive it the time it demanded without losing info in between.

So I see a lot of personal attack here and absolutely no answers to my questions. I’m a middle aged dude in Kansas, I’m not pretending to know shit about global politics and I’m well aware my few sources of media are probably equally corrupted by propaganda.

As it stands, the information I have to work with is that Russia attacked Ukraine and now it’s a war. I’m a simple man, when one guy punches another the aggressor is the first one that threw the punch. Nations is just bigger scale not denser complexity. Russia threw the first punch, Russia started the fight. I’m not against new information and will take any peer review proof you have to the contrary. Again, I’m genuinely asking because I want to know.

Now for Nazis. I hate Nazis. I think being a Nazi should disqualify you from having civil rights and proof that you’re a Nazi should be punished with death. So far beyond the line of tolerance am I that I do not even need a level of cognitive dissonance to simultaneously hold this view and the view that anyone can overcome their evils. I do not believe anyone who is a Nazi deserves a chance to redeem themself. Now you come here and say Zelinski named a battalion after Nazis and I yout to understand that this is a thing I have to deal with every day. The leader of my country is also a Nazi, the richest man on the planet is also a Nazi, as it turns out no one but me seems to care so I guess I’m one guy that hates Nazis in a panet of fucking Nazis. So I ask in ernest, with no malice or dismissal, why it should matter that one guy is a Nazi if being a nazi is the standard? I do not condone it, but if my Nazi president likes Russia and “good guy Ukraine” is Nazis, then at this point I’m sure Russia is Nazis too.

And finally, my stance at the end. While I understand it comes across at dismissive and sarcastic, but again it is delivered in complete sincerity. I am the product of a lifetime of disillusion, taught about my inalienable right to religion by the teacher that told me I belong in hell for using it. I watched a society that begged for a tyrannical government to overthrow became the loyal army of the fascist regime and now bite at the leash to hunt people like me for sport. I made piece with being molested as a child only to learn that actually that’s what we want in this country and my true failing was not going on to molest in turn. There is not a day I wake where I am spared the realization that the evils I believed were the flaws in the machine were actually the intended outcome all along.

So I know that no one tries this hard in a tiny little niche forum site on the ass end of the corporate internet for free. Wither it means something to you personally or you’re being paid to do it. If it’s the prior then say it with your whole chest. Give me more than a stale meme, show me a person that cares about a fucking problem because I’m so fucking tired of being the only one. If it’s the later, then just fucking say so. My every day is so crammed full of propaganda. Every ideal I’ve ever held was a corporate product to offload the blame on the common folk. Every year of my education was a regurgitation of lies about the world. Hero I’ve had has been a monster wearing the face of a saint. So if your being paid to make these half assed arguments then tell me what the orders are how well they pay because I’m so fucking done that a foreign actor could buy my loyalty with a modest retirement account. I will sell out for anyone that will pay for the dental care I need.

So what is it? What has you so motivated as to come here day after day and post dated memes about politics when you could literally be doing anything else? I actually want to know.

I don’t get the target for this stuff. I’m inclined to believe that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict, it’s larger, had a better military reputation, and has been treated as such by everyone but the US president. So I’m already predisposed to side with Ukraine because they didn’t start the fight.

Associationing Ukraine with Nazis feels like a way to weaken the support, but anyone in Europe is going to be close enough to walk over and ask if they’re actually Nazis so I can’t imagine it’s going to work on any of them. Meanwhile in the US, let me remind you that the owner of everyone’s favorite social media platform did the Nazi salute for our president who is currently putting people in concentration camps with his own gestapo. If anything, Ukraine being secretly Nazis is just going to strengthen the support.

Can you just give me your manifesto or a copy of your orders if this is some sort of psyops? I’m honestly too busy not dying of poverty and American healthcare to decipher a poorly made meme. Like, if you want American support you could just offer to arrest the Epstein clients or give us real healthcare. Literally just lowering this cost of gas would have half this country committing treason.

Coding. I love gaming and I love mods for games, but even my best efforts don’t get me very far. I can’t fully grasp how it works, what it means, or how to ask for what I need to know. It’s not for lack of trying or exposure, I’ve been bullshitting my way through linux for about 16 years now and only recently learned how to use systemctl without without copy paste.

You want literally anything physical I’m your guy. This week I’m researching how to reflow the APU on a ps4 motherboard and it just makes total sense to me, but I’m struggling just to make the json files in a mod for vintage story. Totally lost when it comes to the C#.