What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It’s a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can’t block videos from ad-block users if you can’t tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It’s quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

None of us should ever have to go back. We need to vote them out of office like our lives depend on it. Because they very much may be if the right wing decides to go full Gilead.

It’s not a perfect replacement, and I never claimed as such. But for most people’s needs, gimp is perfectly capable.

That, and Gimp is quite a capable photo editing tool.

The next budget is due in a month, so there’s a good chance he’ll be gone after that.

So the lettuce has a nonzero chance of outlining his office.

They’re going to blame democrats for not voting for a moderate republican, even though republicans are the ones who can’t get their act together and elect somebody who isn’t pro-sedition.

Not only that, but there have been straight up death threats sent to republican from republicans over the house speaker circus.

So there will be no speaker.

Money/users/recognition isn’t really what OP is suggest linux wins on.

That, and generally republicans proudly support the electoral college, a system that intentionally weighs votes unequally, and destroys any chance of 3rd party candidates. So it is double ironic.

While the moon has basically no atmosphere, I don’t think it would matter much. Plenty of lunar dust would get blown around by the force of the engines, and the mass or that dust would contribute. Beyond that, the exhaust itself has a lot of force, and is probably plenty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

Look at the Apollo missions taking off, it’s quite violent for the surround area.

Not sure I follow the “FPTP with layers” argument. After each layer, the votes go to the next choice rather than being wasted.

Round one is a check for a +50% majority. If there is no majority, then it eliminates the lowest voted candidate and moves on.

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This first half is identical in function to FPTP voting. So ranked choice is basically FPTP but repeated a couple times with eliminations. Like I said, it is still definitely better than FPTP, but it has the possibility of vote splitting, albeit to a much smaller degree. A strategic voter wouldn’t vote for their first pick first, but would instead vote for the closest candidate to them that has a high chance of winning. And that’s the hole we are currently stuck in as is.

but ballot counts could definitely be published as they come in (N ballots with order ABCD, M ballots with order DBA, etc)

If there are 5 candidates in a given race, something that is rather common, then there would be 120 different orders. That’s not data that is easily digestible or auditable. And that number gets exponentially worse the more candidates there are, and ideally we should have a good number of candidates to choose from to make sure we get the best one.

Ranked is definitely superior to our current system. But it still has its flaws, which is why I didn’t mention it.

The biggest flaw is with counting. Ranked isn’t a purely additive process like STAR or approval, so you only ever get the results once they’re complete rather than as you count. And that goes a long way towards trust in the system and auditing.

Ranked is also basically just FPTP, but with several layers. So the same flaws in FPTP are present within Ranked, just a bit muted.

But like I said, even ranked is better than the shit show we currently have.

No, just the government. If no new spending bill passes it will be pretty not great.

The two party system is the natural result of FPTP voting. We desperately need to switch to STAR or approval.

Good, probably for the best.

Honestly, yeah…

I don’t play it very often. I only ever play it when my girlfriend and her friends rope me into it.

You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven’t even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

Honestly installing it on a VM and checking around is a huge chunk of the experience, so you’re not missing much.

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Hell yeah.

If you’re making scripts like this, you should have no problem with LMDE.

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I’m just working it out.

I might do so down the line. I’m not the most experienced with shell scripts, but I am knowledgable enough to fumble my way through a server maintenance script for my self hosted minecraft server.

That is basically what is going on. We do technically have representation in the same way La Croix has taste.

I will say right off the bat, it sounds like you know a bit more about me, so whatever you decide will probably already be a pretty informed choice.

With that said, having used ubuntu occasionally in the past, it doesn’t feel all that different from Debian. They are roughly equally functional, performant, etc.

Before I found Debian Mint, I wrote a script for base Debian 12.2 to auto-install

I probably should do something similar, because down the line who knows, I might need a full re-install.

because I have no idea what I could be missing in the background on my Debian install, or didn’t set up correctly because I don’t know about it.

Very anecdotally, like I said there has only been two programs that I haven’t been able to get running that I really want. That’s fusion360 and dungeon draft. Both of which I could pretty easily get running in a VM.

Actually now that I think about it, there is a 3d program, and that’s fortnite. But that’s because their management doesn’t give a flying fuck about linux, and so their anti-cheat breaks the game. So no distro will be safe from that.

I also noticed that Debian Mint currently uses a newer kernel than Ubuntu Mint

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me. But personally, it hasn’t made a difference for me. I can run my games, the basic internet browsing apps that I like, etc.

Has there been any particular thing you had to do to Debian Mint to make it work better for you?

The most complex thing that needed set up was getting my drives auto mounted on startup. But debian mint has a pretty straightforward way of setting it up, so it took maybe 5 seconds.

Beyond that, it’s just been a small bit of effort setting up the programs I use. Steam, freetube, the prism minecraft launcher, my nvidia drivers, cura, KDE connect, gitkracken, vscode, vlc, etc. It is really low effort honestly, basically the same effort as windows. The software manager/library on debian has been pretty decent to me.

Actually, the only thing you can really call “apartheid” in Israel…

That’s not true.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

You might complain about the property decisions from decades before that

Yeah. Those decisions are exactly what people are talking about when people call it apartheid. And those decisions have never stopped, it’s been happening ever since the Israeli-Palistinian conflict started.

When somebody comes in, says they own your home, and then try to kick you out because of your race/religion, that is apartheid.

but the tenants agreed to the rent terms in the early 90s,

“Agreed” is a strong word to use when the alternative is homelessness.

so framing this as “ethnic cleansing” is pretty nuts.

It is the intentional homogenization of a region, dispelling people from their homes that they’ve lived in since their birth. That is by definition ethnic cleansing.

More or less, yeah