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@elston_ Is it a surprise to anyone that china wants europe and the US bound up in pointless wars? The more the US and europe fight, and the longer, the easier it will be for china to take over the rest of the world. As a bonus, their great authoritarian rival russia, is slowly being ground to dust.
It would be hilarious, after russia loses the war in ukraine, if china moved in and took over some russian border territories.
That would be the end of russia as we know it.
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As an former Ubuntu fan boy, for well over a decade, I second the recommendation of MXlinux over Ubuntu.
Lighter weight and Debian base is great. It is also friendly to Linux newbies with helpful tools, community and documentation.
I use Devuan on many of my computers, which is also based on Debian.
#Linux #Debian #Devuan #mxLinux
Lighter weight and Debian base is great. It is also friendly to Linux newbies with helpful tools, community and documentation.
I use Devuan on many of my computers, which is also based on Debian.
#Linux #Debian #Devuan #mxLinux
Vilken nostalgitripp! Hittade precis fiendens fiende från 1990 på youtube. Fascinerande hur mycket landet försämrats sen dess.
@TheKeystoneCollective Look no further than politicians talking about chat control. They seriously believe that physical laws and mathematics will obey political decisions. In our time and age, the utter incompetence and low quality of our leaders is both amazing and scary.
Is it systemic?
Have we painted ourselves in a corner? Does "western democracy" mean that the worst float to the top?
If so, it will take a global financial crash or a new world war to shake up the system. Sadly.
@troed Ahh.... thank you swedish government for forcing us all into the surveillance economy. Thank you for bankid, a shitty ID solution controlled by banks, that enable them to cut you off from society (if you are stupid enough to have based your life on it).
Fortunately I can still use my nokia 110 4g with Fello (on telia) until late 2027. After that, it will be VoIP for me and "bye, bye" to the concept of the cellphone.
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I messed up
That LineageOS Samsung S20FE I got running was intended for one of the kids, as their first phone.
Now I know that Samsung has their own IMS that isn't compatible with AOSP and thus you cannot do voice calls in countries where VoLTE is the only option available.
Like Sweden.
Sure, this information is "known" if you're into degoogled Android phones - but I wasn't. The only way to get voice working on this hardware is to restore it back to Samsung's - no longer security updated - Android.
ffs
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@h4890 @Soy_Magnus @verita84 yah it’s worse than the US as far as marketing laws lol. Damn data privacy ruining everyone’s good time
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@CryptomaniacOz Beautiful conspiracy theory! It is not implausible and one important indication is that Orban has accepted the election result.
If Peter was not his choosen man, he would not have accepted the result or engineered his own victory.
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Well played sir, well played. Viva Hungry.
HUNGARIAN CHESS THAT MAKES BRUSSELS CRY🤣
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán places his trusted “traitor” and the EU falls into the perfect trap: the checkmate that has left Brussels, Soros, and Obama humiliated.
In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”
The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.
The result? Magyar won. And the moment he set foot in power, the “traitor” revealed his true face. He declared that the border “isn’t strong enough,” rejected 90% of Ursula von der Leyen’s demands, prioritized the rights of ethnic Hungarians, and in practice, stuck to the same sovereigntist line that so irritates the EU.
The European Union, Soros, Obama, and company bit the bait, shelled out the cash, and now stare in stunned disbelief as the “change” they celebrated so much is exactly the same old Orbán—just with a different name. Masterstroke. 5D chess at its finest. And the best part: all of it legal, all of it clean, and all of it right under their noses.
HUNGARIAN CHESS THAT MAKES BRUSSELS CRY🤣
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán places his trusted “traitor” and the EU falls into the perfect trap: the checkmate that has left Brussels, Soros, and Obama humiliated.
In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”
The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.
The result? Magyar won. And the moment he set foot in power, the “traitor” revealed his true face. He declared that the border “isn’t strong enough,” rejected 90% of Ursula von der Leyen’s demands, prioritized the rights of ethnic Hungarians, and in practice, stuck to the same sovereigntist line that so irritates the EU.
The European Union, Soros, Obama, and company bit the bait, shelled out the cash, and now stare in stunned disbelief as the “change” they celebrated so much is exactly the same old Orbán—just with a different name. Masterstroke. 5D chess at its finest. And the best part: all of it legal, all of it clean, and all of it right under their noses.
@matthew @reclaimthenet I label all global corporate IT companies as villains.
It is becoming increasingly clear, that hte public internet is completely destroyed and that the future of free exchange of information and opinion belongs on tor or i2p.
It is also becoming increasingly clear, that all western democracies are working hard to make the enslavement with smartphones mandatory.
@Tony @Soy_Magnus @verita84 There are almost infinite weird pakistani companies I turn down on a daily basis. I also love to send GDPR-complaints to companies who work with opt-out when it comes to consumers in the european union. The EU is almost 100% bad, but at least GDPR does give me some opportunities to have fun with unserious businesses.
@carolen That is good! Your husband will thank you! :)
@carolen Where is your man? My wife would never in a 1000 years do anything about that, but happily delegate it to me, regardless of if I want to or not. ;)
@matthew @9to5linux opensuse 16 on an X13 G5, here. Works like a charm.
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I am using this right now on my ThinkPad T470s laptop.
#Linux #Artix
RT: https://floss.social/users/9to5linux/statuses/116338866113698886
#Linux #Artix
RT: https://floss.social/users/9to5linux/statuses/116338866113698886
@ChrisMayLA6 We probably do. We all need to work, some of us, do interact with local politicians, or do have sidejobs, some join churches etc.
@ChrisMayLA6 Good or bad? That is a subjective value question.
What I'm pondering is that given the multi-polar governance order, how can you govern and influence your life, by shifting your allegiance between these power centers?
@ChrisMayLA6 individual blogs.
I think that this is possibly a global trend. A fracturing of the news landscape.
50 years ago, more people would "trust" the public news, and thus a bigger part of society had a shared narrative and a shared understanding of the world.
Today, with independent freelance journalists, we see multiple view of the world, and reduced communication between media islands, and polarization (I think) is the result of this.
@ChrisMayLA6 What is interesting here is the stark contrast with sweden. With this media landscape, the UK currently has a "labour" government, while sweden has a center/nationalist one.
What is also interesting, if I may speculate, is how this is reshaping the media consumption habits of voters.
I know many swedes who no longer watch or read news from the public TV. They think it is way too biased to be taken seriously, and instead flock to alternative news and freelance journalists
Joined Apr 2026
