When I first read it I had a like thought and then realized that I missed the portmanteau.

It’s a chuckle. One person’s epiphany may not meet other people’s expectations.

I’ve used both. I had a few slight issues with dis transcoding (It was most likely a temporary Plex bug), moved to ers which wasn’t affected by the bug and stayed there, They are approximately equivalent and both great projects.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241227015016/https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/post-luigi-the-extremist-threat-is

Pulled from archive.org

Based on a review of the hand-written claim of responsibility and social media presence of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO shooting, the NYPD Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau (ICB) assesses that the alleged perpetrator was likely driven to violence on the basis of grievances against what he perceives as a “parasitic” health insurance company and industry as a whole, as well as broader objections to corporate greed and a concern for modern society. He appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and "power games,” asserting in his note he is the “first to face it with such brutal honesty.” Mangione may have found inspiration in Ted Kaczynski — the violent, anti-technology extremist known as the Unabomber — echoing in his note and reflecting in his targeting a similar mindset of the need for unilateral action to bring attention to abusive corporate actions. Based on observed initial online reactions to the shooting, including celebrations of the killing of a health insurance executive and encouragement of targeting leaders across industries, there is a risk that a wide range of extremists may view Mangione as a martyr and an example to follow.

Within the three-page handwritten claim of responsibility on his person, Mangione wrote, “Frankly these parasites simply had it coming." presumably referring to the UHC CEO and/or similar executives. He lamented that the US has the “most expensive healthcare system in the world” yet “ranks #42 in life expectancy,” noting that the profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not. He declared that these “mafiosa have gotten too powerful” and “continue to abuse our country for immense profit.” He stated that, while many have “illuminated” this “corruption and greed decades ago,” the issues persist. In a statement signifying that he likely views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon such injustices, he noted, “Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

Then he can do that himself in a couple of weeks. I was just joking that he was going to hell.

What, does it want to have tea with them in about a decade?

Best use of spoiler ever…

Absolutely my feelings on the matter.

I don’t want to turn Lemmy into my own personal doom scroll. Nothing good is going to come out of the next 4 years and if anything is truly immediately bad that I need to deal with, it’ll be everywhere not just here.

Perhaps we should shorten that too:

Trump

Musk

Running an old 7th gen Intel, It has a 2070 and a 1080 in it, six mechanical hard drives 3 SSDs. Then I have an eighth gen laptop with a 1070 TI mobile. But the laptop’s a camera server so it’s always running balls to the wall. Running a unified dream machine pro, 24 port poe, 16 port poe and an 8 port poe

Because of the overall workload and the age of the CPU, it burns about 360 watts continuous.

I can save a few watts by putting the discs to sleep, But I’m in the camp where the spin up and spin down of the discs cost more wear than continuous running.

Edit: cleaned up the slaughter from the dictation, after I cleaned up my physical space from Christmas festivities.

Ehhh, a bunch of studios have things in the works. Just because very little came out in 2024 doesn’t mean that the industry imploded or anything.

There were plenty of layoffs all over the tech industry. I’d argue that big tech was hit harder than games.

It takes many years now to release anything big. Good blockbusters are relatively infrequent. Star wars outlaws hit in October, It wasn’t stellar but it wasn’t a bad game. Civ 7 is due out in February.

At worst, I’d say we’re in a little bit of a lull.

I’ve been using Nix for a little more than a year, I don’t think I’ve touched my configs in better than 6 months. I’m honestly not entirely certain what would constitute a dumpster fire in a Nix config

I’ve probably only modified 50 or 60 lines of the default configs.

I do have a folder full of shell.nix files when I need to do a special workflow, like I have one that kicks up wine and sets up mp3tag, another that sets up rust, another sets up Python, and one that sets up for yt-dlp. But I don’t carry anything in my base configs that I don’t use in a given week

Finamp is slowly getting there, still miles to go though…

No they’re making a joke about the TSA saying they caught a woman the other day with 71 fireworks in her luggage. Turns out it was an open box of black cats. Yes they’re illegal, yes she was wrong, But the image they release to the press had them laid out like a cocaine trafficking bust, when the actual fireworks in question were slightly more than glorified bang snaps.

They’re quarterswede, 3/4 troll :)

I stopped listening to radio and spotify some time ago. I only pop out a few times a year and look for new stuff to add to my repo. I had heard this came out which is a bit unusual. New tracks don’t make the news very often.

I expected it to be good because Cash is historically good. I expected it to be just another cover that I would like and respect but not like as much as the original.

The first time I heard it it was very strong, I didn’t really shed any tears though. I knew Trent’s history with the song, and I knew he put his experiences into that song.

I think it was when I read the piece the independent did on his cover before I realized the actual gravitas.

When cash recorded this, his wife was on her deathbed and he not far from it. You can almost feel him slipping away while he’s singing it. It’s the last prayer of a dying man.

That’s some amazing work.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or one of the offshoots like Mint or Pop.

As long as you don’t go too far into the weeds with Arch, Silverblue or NixOS, You’re probably going to have a pretty decent experience, as long as you don’t dig too far under the hood too early most things that you’re going to want to try are just going to work out of the gate.

Hurt was always a great track. But Cash picked it up and put a folk singers life of real pain behind it. In addition he picked it up and blessed it right squarely in front of the faces of the original nine inch nails fans that are starting to age, like you saying see what’s coming. It almost made it personal.

Individual developers develop on Mac hardware. They do primary tests on Mac mobile devices.

For production and QA, our CI pipeline builds on a cluster of bare metal Mac Minis. Basic unit tests happen during the build. We deploy to mobile devices.

Mac doesn’t make any server equipment anymore, We could technically run VMs on the minis. But they’re not so expensive that we can’t just have a cluster of them around. We even tried to do the hackintosh route with VMs. It was incredibly difficult to keep it stable, and every time we had to do a xcode update, It needed an OS update and it fucked over the hackintosh. I would have had to keep somebody on staff full-time just to keep the hackintosh VMs going.

They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)

The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn’t handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.

Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.

The biggest problem we’re dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don’t work because newer technology doesn’t work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.