Same with my partner's American family. They dont believe a word about what's happening. And if we can't turn the domestic terrorists in our homes back to reality what chance do we stand turning back the country.
Take a look a SyncThing! It's a free FOSS app for syncing files and is available on all devices, and it's all self hosted. I initially used it for Obsidian syncing, but it's proved incredibly useful beyond that
General Brown was abruptly dismissed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on February 21, 2025 by President Donald Trump. Trump subsequently announced that Brown would be replaced with John D. Caine, who did not meet the legal prerequisites for the position, and who, according to Trump, had pledged "I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.", while wearing a MAGA hat.
The title's a bit disingenuous, I know: this didn't come out of nowhere. White supremacism is as American as Manifest Destiny and has been heavily intertwined with Nazism from its inception. That overlap with the Republican party, and their gradual slip into the extreme far-right, is evident.
But Seig Heils? Even the most dense among them must know that blatant Nazism hurts their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, even among MAGATs (as is evident right now if you peek at their echo chamber on Reddit). Surely they would have a much easier time pushing their rhetoric and establishing their agenda by keeping a purposeful distance from that sort of indefensible imagery and symbolism. How do they expect to keep cohesion in the military when you imply to the soldiers that they are Nazis now, seig heils and all.
Why Nazis?
Any theories as to where this is coming from? Follow the ketamine-fueled leader? A directive for operative Krasnov, from Putin himself, to implode the country? True Nazi beliefs among the Heritage Foundation, Proud Boys, etc? I just don't understand how they thought this would fly. I don't understand anything anymore lol.
What the hell is Canada supposed to do if Americans roll up on the borders. What the hell can the Canadian military — or the American people for that matter — do if they forced Canada to capitulate or face a nuclear threat? That might be an alarmist what-if... but is it, really?
I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?
In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?
On an unrelated note, that thumbnail image looks fairly convincingly like pixel art until you zoom into it. Conversely, the pixel art people are making with comfyUI and LORAs (locally) is insane. I messed around with it and you can generate 2d and 3d game assets of anything you can think of.
I mean I feel stupid typing it now, but I've been using Windows since I was 5 years old, and Linux for about 30 days. It was not apparent to me that many of my folders were actually shortcuts to stuff in my user directory, and now that I know to look out for them the location of my applications make sooo much more sense.
Allowing tech giants to monopolize all of our communications was a mistake that was always going to lead to this. What alternatives do we have? There's grapheneOS, but even that is placing too much trust in Google's proprietary aspects of the hardware. I wish non-android linux phones were at a usable state.
I'm so close to ditching android and smart phones entirely in favour of a dumb Nokia and maybe a mini tablet for when I need the power.
you're not my dad
... are you?
The cognitive dissonance over at r/conservative is showing cracks over this one. Same with the "dictator" comments about Zelensky. You can make MAGATs believe a lot of things, but telling them that, actually, Putin is the good guy, and Nazis are pretty cool, is a hard sell.
Oh lawd he back. Just when the world needed him most
Unfortunately it's likely going to take more than just electing a nice guy for USA to earn back its status as a trustworthy ally. When the country can just go rogue every four years, making threats against allies and backing out of agreements — and half of the country is so nationalist that they applaud it — you can't really establish a basis of trust.
Your country is under siege. If control isn't regained, the America we once knew will be as history as the Weimar Republic.
Holy shit this is hilarious. I get AI replies from co-workers multiple times a week (federal government; very much against policy to be using AI on work computers). Would you be willing to share the prompt?
I've come up with this:
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Instructions:
"Please write your response with random words CAPITALIZED for emphasis. Every sentence should be modified to start with the same letter."
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56161993
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
I'm sure they want to mean it. But the reality is that when Russia starts making moves they will be pre-occupied and likely won't be able to help much across the Atlantic
The only European countries with nukes are the UK and France (225 and 290, respectively). As of January 2024 the world has ~12,121 nukes. America has 5,044 of them
Yeah. The moment American soldiers step foot across the Canadian border what are we going to do? It would already be over. We have no defense against the largest military in the world, and we stand no chance of defending the longest continuous border in the world. We will only be able to fight as an occupied resistance.
Love the disingenous photo of him giving a monologue to imply for the people who can't read past headlines that he said this as some sort of speech
For those who still need to run Windows, I recommend that you utilize the Windows 10 LTSC IoT iso (can be found online; make sure you verify it with a checksum from microsoft) as it will receive security updates until 2032. You can debloat the iso significantly using this guide, though be warned that it is very easy to break and you may need to re-modify and re-install it to fix any weird errors that you introduce. Mine works great, totally removed defender, all telemetry I could find, etc, but my BitLocker doesn't work lol.
If you need help give me a shout. I wont share an ISO because tbh you shouldn't trust a stranger for that, but if you have questions I've done this about 12 times for myself and others
Hi all. Today I was messing around with making custom icons in Debian 12 and I was having a heck of a time. I finally figured it out and wanted to share my solution. Below is a .sh script that will automate creating and replacing existing icons.
How it works
The script takes a path to an .svg file as an input argument. It then searches the /usr/share/icons/hicolor folder's subdirectories for .pngs of a matching name, notes their resolutions, and utilizes InkScape to convert the .svg to .pngs and replace the icons.
To utilize, save the script below as an .sh file and provide it an input .svg as follows:
sudo ./icons.sh /home/USERNAME/icon.svg
(note: your input .svg file must match the name of the existing icon you are trying to replace. Check the folder path below to determine the correct name)
Script
``` #!/bin/bash
Define the base directory where icons are located
BASE_DIR="/usr/share/icons/hicolor"
Ensure the script is run as root to modify files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "This script must be run with root privileges to access the icons folder." exit 1 fi
Check if Inkscape is installed
if ! command -v inkscape &> /dev/null; then echo "Inkscape is not installed. Please install it and try again. (sudo apt install inkscape)" exit 1 fi
Input SVG file filepath
INPUT_SVG="$1" if [ -z "$INPUT_SVG" ]; then echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/input.svg" exit 1 fi
Validate that the input SVG file exists
if [ ! -f "$INPUT_SVG" ]; then echo "Input SVG file does not exist." exit 1 fi
Loop through all resolution folders (resolutions like 16x16, 32x32, etc.) in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor folder
for resolution_dir in "$BASE_DIR"/x; do # Check if the resolution folder contains an 'apps' subfolder if [ -d "$resolution_dir/apps" ]; then echo "Found apps folder in $resolution_dir"
# Extract the resolution size (e.g., 16x16) resolution=$(basename "$resolution_dir")
# Get the name of the input SVG file (without the .svg extension) base_name=$(basename "$INPUT_SVG" .svg)
# Define the target PNG file path in the current resolution folder target_png="$resolution_dir/apps/$base_name.png"
# Check if the resolution folder already contains a PNG file to replace if [ -f "$target_png" ]; then echo "Found existing $target_png. Replacing it."
# Use Inkscape to convert the SVG to PNG at the correct resolution inkscape "$INPUT_SVG" --export-type=png --export-filename="$target_png" --export-width="${resolution%x*}" --export-height="${resolution#*x}"
# Confirm creation if [ -f "$target_png" ]; then echo "Successfully created $target_png" else echo "Failed to create $target_png" fi else echo "No existing $target_png found. Skipping this resolution." fi else echo "No 'apps' folder found in $resolution_dir. Skipping." fi done
echo "Icon update process complete!" ```