This brand of argument is basically ‘If you can’t do everything perfectly, then it is pointless to do anything especially the thing that you’re suggesting.’

You see this person in every thread on every topic where people discuss things that they can contribute their expertise to. Their message is ‘it is hopeless, your plan won’t work, give up what you’re doing, you don’t stand a chance’.

Honestly, and forgive the langue, but fuck those people. You know what your strengths are and what you’re capable of, not some faceless bot pushing violent political rhetoric who is, by its own admissions, not in the US.

If you don’t want to participate in the tech landscape as it exists today, there is absolutely nothing wrong about avoiding it entirely and building something else. Companies will not be so complacent about their position in the market if they know there’s a completely Free alternative that does everything that they charge a subscription for.

The people who are doing self-hosting today are exactly like the early adopters of the smartphone or any other technology. There’s always people trying new things and sometimes they succeed.

People who are using privacy focused approaches to personal technology, like self-hosting, are beta testing the ability to use cheap, mass produced hardware and open source software to build a product ecosystem that meets their needs. That progress is enjoyed by anybody in the future who decides they also want to leave the walled gardens of Tech Giantopia.

Yes this.

The US Military is setup to fight and disable entire countries, not to sustain a ground occupation contested by native guerrilla forces.

Urban warfare and the fact that native attackers can hide in civilian populations will grind any army down. There are simply too many avenues of attack in an urban environment.

The Army wants to draw a line in the ground and completely dominate one side of the line and then deploy the capability to rain death on anybody within 100+ miles of that line. They don’t want to be clearing a neighborhood house to house and trying to detect every IED and ambush when any civilian could be holding a grenade or gun and any pile of rubble or trash could be an explosive.

The only way this has been avoided in modern times is when Israel completely flatted most of Palestine, killing a large amount of civilians in the process. I don’t think Donald Trump would try to avoid that option.

Because, like the National Guard deployment he is depending on thin legal pretext to launch these operations and that pretext breaks down when they have to defend it in court.

This means that there will be a period of time where he is able to essentially do anything he wants because by the time the court system is able to work through the process then the election fuckery is already over and it doesn’t matter that they rule that he can’t invoke the Insurrection Act.

If he uses it now, then the courts have time to react.

He requires this legal pretext because the military, despite being led by appointed sycophants, is full of service members who have drilled into their head that it is their responsibility and duty to disobey illegal orders. If their is a public judicial order declaring the Insurrection Act unconstitutional and Trump is acting contrary to that then he will have trouble getting anything done.

They want to invoke the Insurrection Act, probably going to try to force it during the midterms so they can fuck with voting in some way that will benefit them.

These ICE raids are just Trump letting the White Supremacists, led by Stephen Miller, have their reward for voting for him. They get to assault minorities and play with guns under the color of law.

It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

A large donation to his Presidential Library would probably settle the entire conflict

Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

We will be lucky if we have a democracy after his term.

It looks like he’s reforming the government so that it follows the dictates of the President who is wholly owned by the billionaire oligarchs of the world.

We don’t talk about partisan infected topics

Trump is speedrunning war crimes now. I hope his cell in The Hague is cold and drafty

Sure, in the most extreme cases it would be obvious to the crew. But simply making mistakes at a higher rate than humans will result in a lot of unhappy customers.

Capping waters fixes that one specific issue but not the problem.

A suspicious order isn’t easy to define and no person who has ever participated in software development would underestimate the infinite ways a User can break software.

I was just guessing (it’s how I’d do it) 🥳

Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”

Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work

and was only later appropriated into the proper noun you reference to describe the Nazi’s systematic persecution and extermination of Jews, Poles, Romani and other ‘undesirable’ minority groups.

Yes, that’s my point.

After 1930 it became a proper noun. We’re not speaking Ancient Greek and it’s after the 1930s.

I see Lemmy is filling up with people (not you, the downvote brigade that exists around politically charged topics) who conflate disagreement about minor issues with being on the other side of the argument. Nuance isn’t Ancient Greek either, but you’d think it was given the way people react on social media.

No. The Holocaust (a proper noun) refers to a specific genocide.

Neigh

Sounds like he’s qualified to be President of the United States