PikaOS is Debian-based and maintaining its own repository based on trixie and unstable with similar patches to Bazzite & team. I’ve been using it as a daily driver on 3-4 systems for at least a year or two with no serious issues, and the updates are quick to fix any minor issues. Excellent for gaming. It’s probably not up to CachyOS gaming standards nor Debian stability but I find it’s a comfortable spot for me.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg has over a million users on Chrome alone. It’s possibly more common than you think.
It hasn’t always been this way. They haven’t always been able to say the quiet part out loud. In the past, if that had happened, they would’ve been punished for it and an example made of them, there would be public outcry and eventually some semblance of consequences. Nothing else substantial may have changed, they might have continued the exact same behaviors afterwards, but they stayed quiet and they were at least kept in check by the systems above them. This prevented others from seeing open corruption being tolerated and created a chilling effect on open corruption to put limits on it. It’s not ideal: Keeping it quiet obviously doesn’t eliminate it, but it does help control it.
Being able to say the quiet part out loud now is an escalation, and it will lead to even more severe escalations as more and more of the corruption and rot moves into the open. This is not a good sign and is not simply a sign of an organization or administration being too conservative and having too much power, this is not just being behind the times of social progress, this is something far beyond that, and it will continue to escalate.
Resistance better start increasing real quick. Because there’s been very little resistance so far. New Hampshire has already been telling everyone what the choices are: live free, or die.
Death is not the worst of evils.
Copper smelting simulator 2026-BCE
Star Wars definitely popularized it, but it’s been floating around in science fiction for a long time. https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker
A lot of schools and a lot of classes and a lot of educational systems as a whole aren’t designed or intended to teach anything other than obedience and cultural mythology, exactly the sort of stuff many autistic people instinctively hate and don’t believe in.
Good for us, frankly. Autodidacticism to the rescue. The problem for propaganda is that reality is always hiding underneath, no matter how much they try to paper their agenda-driven nonsense overtop of it, and once you know how to look for it and that you have to look for it, the whole system built on top of it gets called into question.
Extremism is also the problem, because it allows economic systems to be taken to extremes, which become unbalanced and that then unbalances other systems, like the political systems, which when given the right push by a particular aspiring authoritarian can easily end up landing on authoritarianism.
The middle ground is usually the safest place to be. Socialism and capitalism are economic tools, they both have their place, for certain purpose. Extremists would tell you one is strictly, absolutely, and universally better than the other and imply that thus we should only ever use one system for everything (usually without strictly, absolutely, or universally defining what “better” actually means, because it’s usually a pretty self-serving form of “better”). That is an extremist position that many capitalists take, and most of western society spent the last oh, hundred years or so believing to various degrees.
Socialized medicine is perfectly sensible, for example, and that’s a hill I’m perfectly willing to die on (but because I have access to socialized medicine I probably won’t have to die, and I won’t be bankrupted either, hooray :P)
Socialism is not perfect, but neither is capitalism, neither is democracy, neither is pretty much anything. Perfection is a myth. There is no perfect tool, not in a workshop and not in a civilization. Some are more powerful than others. Some are more dangerous. Often the most powerful ones are the most dangerous. That doesn’t mean they are bad, but it does mean we must respect them and use them with care and attention, and only when appropriate. We don’t have perfect tools, and we probably never will but we can have a large and growing collection of tools we can use to manage our lives, our society, and our civilization. The more tools we know how to use safely the better. Only using one tool for everything is a stupid way of doing things, and it can be dangerous in its own way.
All Nazis belong 6 feet under, so it’s a very appropriate place for Muskrat to end up.
Feels like they’re discriminating against orphans and runaways to be honest, precisely the kind of children who would find life as a child soldier most beneficial and appealing. Why have such an arbitrary roadblock for these marginalized youth to find a productive role in society?
/s obviously
It’s a semi-popular Lemmy web frontend that a lot of Lemmy sites use instead of Lemmy itself. It seems like the original repo by asimons04 has been taken down, but here’s a random fork of it for example.
Me too, hooray! We’re in good company I think.
So you’re telling me AI is going to bring positive change to the world?!
Yes. The shit always flows downwards, it’s just a fundamental law of physics. Not much can be done about that unfortunate reality.
But in my fundamental laws of morality, responsibility for the shit always flows upwards, and those are the people I’m going to hold morally responsible.
That is my conclusion also.
A commodore 64 should’ve been enough for anybody.
Not all visits are the same, and that’s not really a good comparison. There’s a huge difference between visiting as a tourist temporarily for the world cup (a high profile event with extensive news coverage where any refusal is going to attract attention and be very internationally newsworthy) and the relatively routine process of actually immigrating for long-term work (dirty immigrants taking our jobs! /s) which is exactly what they are fighting against, whether any of us agree with that or not.
The latter is much, much riskier in today’s political climate. It shouldn’t be. But it is.
They already know a lot about you that you might not imagine they do. Does that extend to whether you have social media accounts? Maybe, maybe not. If you declare your social media you’re taking your chances with what’s on there. If you lie about it, they may know you have one but not what it is, so you might get caught in that lie instead. It’s really hard to generalize what to say when you have imperfect information about what they already know, and they rely on that. What they “know” about you doesn’t have to reflect reality either, and there’s really nothing you can do if they “know” or simply believe you have a social media account and you actually legitimately don’t. Their beliefs trump reality. This is no longer a world where truth matters and you cannot rely on it to protect you.
Pika might fix that actually. Most of the patches and custom stuff Pika adds is around obscure and difficult graphics card configurations, with extra kernel modules and stuff like that specifically for gaming on modern graphics hardware. That’s literally its main value proposition. You could try a LiveUSB and see if it works any better, but the PikaOS second-stage installer (after the base system is installed) also has a bunch of options for various driver and kernel versions and variations that might help.
That said if you’re happy where you’re at there’s no reason rocking the boat, and Debian’s pretty solid. But maybe keep it in mind for next time you feel like trying something different on that system.