Notices by Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c This coordinated savaging of Zelensky by Trump and Musk is intended to embed in MAGA the lie it will use to justify total abandonment of #Ukraine and allying with Putin, who will be framed as a peacemaker.

@xankarn If each of us imagines on July 4, 2026 what they would have been doing on July 4, 1776, #Trump can imagine he's selling intel on American troop movements to the British.

@georgetakei And now! The Amazing Trumpo will force Canadians to put gravy on their french fries!

@glynmoody Also, the Soviet's flew their Tu-144.

I lived west of Heathrow while Concorde was still flying. On some routes leaving Heathrow, it would make a turn and climb out above my neighborhood. Just house shaking can't-hear-the-person-on-the-phone loud.

@_elena Better CC-licensed stock photos than Getty's but stock photos are used by news outlets to grab attention and clicks, not convey information. Their use is a symptom of that industry's rot.

@br00t4c What Trump's Deportation Hotline will need is 10 million people reporting Stephen Miller.

@eff You're saluting Meta for encouraging and monetizing hate speech and oppressing critics of American fascists posing as conservatives and libertarians. Are you that naive about the intention of the Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Trump, the GOP, etc ?

@gtbarry Anyone who needs their notifications and headlines *shortened* and *summarized* needs to reexamine how they spend their time.

@jaj @bodhipaksa @ryanc It should be illegal here in the US for anonymous bureaucrats not treating a patient to make decisions about, or ending, treatment of that patient.

We need to 1) Make patient wealth irrelevant re: health care decisions, and, 2) provide care to all with no billing to the patients

American health care is broken because it does not deliver results commensurate with its exorbitant costs. Corporate interference in health care leeches funding away from care and treatment.

@jaj @bodhipaksa @ryanc Unless Sanders filled both houses of Congress with Sanders disciples -- zero probability -- his legislative agenda would have been DOA.

@adamconover Media will exploit the UHC shooting for hours and hours of profitable sponsored handwringing punditry asserting society is collapsing because it took reaction to a murder to give them the clue that most Americans loathe most American corporate leaders.

One reason so many Americans do not vote and tune out of the political process is they have reason to believe their lives are shaped by corporate oligarchs whose power to manipulate politicians negates the influence of the ballot.

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP Yes, if you don't like the group's rules or the way you're being treated, you have the option of leaving the group.

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP Adults view membership in a group as incurring an obligation to honor the rules and standards of the group and accepting the consequences if they don't.

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP

What's the point of having rules of behavior if they aren't enforced?

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP
If the majority can't enforce its rules, they're just wishes, not rules.

@Remittancegirl After last night, staying on #X means you trust that Elon Musk will not hand over your posts and personal details to whatever Trumpian agency wants them.

For example, Musk could build a list of DC/VA/MD residents who use specific anti-Trump hashtags, then identify and retaliate against any that are federal employees.

There are no battles to be won there. I'm wiping my account this morning.

@Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.

Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)

@eshep @thelinuxcast@fosstodon.org @thelinuxcast@tilvids.com The noise generated when Windows 11 moved the default position of the start button to the center of the panel, and put an option in settings to move it to the left corner, makes me think many/most Windows users never deal with anything in settings. They use the defaults from Day One. From their perspective, tweaking means Windows wasn't good enough out of the box.

@BeAware That's inaccurate. Your distro's package manager will resolve dependencies of packages installed from the repositories maintained by that distro and any others you may have installed.

That's how it works.

If you're grabbing something from Github or some other source code site not intended for mainstream use, that, of course, can't happen.

@joeo10 I'd already decided to never buy a laptop with a Copilot key. This Recall business just reinforces that.

Even without the privacy and trust issues, I've never wanted to record and store everything I do on a machine, with the intent of searching for it llater. What are people supposed to do with it?

(I can see what law enforcement would do with a laptop running Recall but that's a different matter.)