Eldritch

All one has to do is look. When it comes to cowbee, they are very consistent. Consistently hypocritical. They’ve made many similar comments in the past, and will make many similar comments in the future. Whether they call the boot out or lick the boot. Much like most liberals, it all comes down to the flavor of boot.

As long as this doesn’t become the main sort of content, I really don’t see a problem with documenting well-known hypocrites like them.

Capitalism and Leninism are equally bad. There’s no argument the ML can make that south Korea would have been better under the rule of the north. Objectively, despite the problems south Korea has. And there are many. They’ve done much better for their people. You can whine that the west has kept the North down with embargoes and sanctions. But you only have to look to china. For all their flaws to find a group that despite brutalizing and oppressing their people has done much better for them. Simply because the north is held thrall to a nepo state of cultish personality.

If peaceful change is possible, then yes, protest should be peaceful. But when peaceful change becomes impossible, violence becomes necessary.

The group behind it or others similar. When you are on a small self hosted instance. You are at the mercy of a hobby admins time and skill. Which is no dig at them. Sometimes it just becomes too much.

I have had a number of Mastodon accounts since 2017 with the groups Mastodon servers. They run themselves as a serious organization. Providing services of a quality absolutely worth paying for. All with donations.

Yep. The problem with these people is less whom they are. And more how they act. If we act like them. Then we are also the problem.

The russian government has a long history of doing it. So it’s certainly not a suggestion out of left field.

Posting is definitialy engagement. It’s explicitly the opposite of letting them have the last word. Especially when you continue to engage afterwards.

Maybe I’m an uncouth Ozark hillbilly who’s parents grew up in houses with dirt floors. Maybe it was some masterdebater super move on your part. But my problem with it as you put it. Specifically is that even you didn’t seem to respect it afterwards. 🤷‍♂️

Your first post way up top was “adequate”. You’ll never win 100% in the face of drama. Continuing to post, you’re just weakening it.

Why post disengage. Why not just do it. As an administrator, as a moderator it’s clear you knew what the correct actions were. You just couldn’t take your own advice. And it only gets worse from there.

I’m not here to take a side in the greater argument. I wasn’t here for it, and don’t have a dog in the fight necessarily. That and I suppose “oh no, drama in a drama sub”. But whatever impression or perception I had of you. At this point you’re tarnishing. Not that that necessarily means anything. I’m no one special. Not that the original accusation wasn’t hyperbole. But you are only lending it credence the more you post now.

Yes i have an arm based chrome tablet. No longer supported by google. It’s a bit underpowered. But works fantastically with post market. Few little bits of hardware here and there not supported. Mostly camera due to device tree shenanigans since it’s mobile style hardware.

KDE touch is so close. Just falling apart on edge cases most of the time, often due to limited resolution. Honestly something like Niri under Wayland with the rest of the KDE suite might solve some of it.

By yeah. I’m in a similar boat. A slightly better device and better KDE touch. I’d just keep a cheap cell around as a modem. Hell someone design a proper open host board that I could just drop a CM5 or similar in. With GPS 5G WiFi 6 BT5 and a software solution to RCS/call. It would be a shut up and take my money type situation.

Firearms are a double edged sword. Maybe they help, maybe they hurt. But when society turns against you, and no place is safe for you. All the guns in the world even in the face of an unarmed populace won’t save you.

A combination. The hardware was woefully out of date before it launched. But for every one of us that would tolerate buggy software to tinker with it. There are thousands that can’t or won’t. Thousands NEEDED to support a project like this.

Mobile/touch interfaces under general *nix right now are 10 to 15 years behind. KDE touch is good generally. I hear decent things about GNOME too. But not to the point of early android or iOS. It will get there but there’s still a lot of pain ahead.

What I’d really like beyond the software to make use of it. Is a small compact interface for network and interaction. That you could just drop and swap compute modules in. A CM5 is still underpowered. But if it was just a drop in replacement. Where you could change out the SOC or use the SOC in a new interface package i’d be set.

Violence is the answer for authoritarians. But it never lasts. Because it’s just a tool. The answer is respect, justice, and consent.

Without them you end up in inane cycles of violence like we have now.

And even there. There’s no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you’ll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it’s only temporary. You can’t ultimately escape.

The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that’s what it’s going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.

And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn’t the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.

Sometimes there’s family or other things you just can’t take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.

There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you’re only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.

Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.

Yep back in the 1930s.

I remember way back when world was still federated with most of the triad. Hexbear honestly has no one but themselves to blame. With nothing of value to offer. But cycles of revenge and retribution are hardly helpful.

They got their asses rightfully kicked to the curb for brigading. I have zero sympathy for them in this situation. But this is still disappointing behavior on the part of @rimu@piefed.social and makes me a bit more reluctant to recommended piefed to others etc. Even though .world outright blocks hex anyways. I hope it gets addressed sooner rather than later. Because I “REALLY” like the experience so far on piefed. And would like to see it prosper. Even though this will be a bit of a blemish on the project. That’s nothing compared to Lemmy and its devs.

Have a dialogue front and center to opt in to blocking the whole triad when setting up the software. Nothing wrong with that at all. But yeah, please don’t stirr up the dumbass’s nest. They’re better off being irrelevant and largely ignored. Even if it’s funny ironically for this to happen to them. It’s just more pointless drama.

At the end of the day though. It isn’t the instances themselves which are actually the problem. Rather the people on them. We can rightfully rail against them all day long as much as we want. And they do give us plenty daily to point out all their flaws.

It also won’t change the fact that many of them can and already have set up shop on other servers as well. Even if you blocked every domain ending in ML. That type isn’t going away. If anything those instances do quite a bit to contain/expose them.

The problem with defaulting a software to cut them off. Is akin to those trying to legislate morality. When morality is legislated, no one is moral. Because there is no choice or consent. Likewise a “boycott” entered into without knowledge and consent, isn’t really a “boycott”. Can we beat them by becoming like them? I’m not so sure.

Oh wow? You still suffering. In case you haven’t found the solution. Uninstall VLC. Then reinstall all the VLC bits. Now instead of then all bring in one or two packages. There’s tens of then now. MKV support had is own package even.

I haven’t installed gentoo in 20 years. I still like arch for it’s glaring flaws. And I do like BSDs ports etc. I probably should go through a gentoo install again to see how it changed. Last time I ran it. Was on a first generation Pentium.