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Canada's Plan to Take in Palestinians from Gaza Is a "PR Show," Families Say
The Temporary Residence Visa Program for Palestinians in Gaza with family ties in Canada was “seemingly designed to fail.”
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
Archived version: archive.is/20251104233119/thei…
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Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio wins Spain’s Cervantes Prize for lifetime achievement in literature
Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio has won Spain's 2025 Cervantes Prize for literature, joining the ranks of icons like Borges and Octavio Paz.
US | DOT Secretary Duffy Threatens to Close Airspace Amid Ongoing Shutdown Standoff
“You may see us close certain parts of the airspace” if the shutdown continues into next week, Duffy warned.
Plasma 6.5 is now in Debian Testing/Forky
A maintainer's anouncement when it was uploaded to unstable/Sid
Plasma 6.5 uploaded to unstable and building. Most common architectures are already there and more niche ones are coming.Expect the migration to testing/forky somewhere next week.
I checked the packages and they have all migrated to 6.5, as of today.
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Attaché : 1 image Plasma 6.5 uploaded to unstable and building. Most common architectures are already there and more niche ones are coming. https://deb.li/plasma Expect the migration to testing/forky somewhere next week.Framapiaf
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Luxury brands turn on the charm in China to kindle nascent spending recovery of wealthy individuals
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ArchivedAs Chinese shoppers dip toes back in the luxury pool, brands are targeting economically resilient high-earners with distinctive, personalised experiences as their focus shifts more to market share than growth.
Firms like LVMH and Hermes increasingly offer intimate dinners and large-scale shows, as well as stores with private shopping areas and exclusive elevator access for the VIPs they bet will help end a post-pandemic sales slump.
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Luxury brands have accompanied earnings reports with comments offering glimmers of hope for Chinese retail, spurring a rally that has added nearly $80 billion to European luxury stock valuations. Still, few expect the sales surge of the pandemic years, and with U.S. policies rewriting global trade, China's economic trajectory is far from certain.
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To encourage spending, perks such as intimate dinners with creative directors and celebrity ambassadors have become common.
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STOCK MARKET RALLY IS GIVING WEALTHY CONFIDENCE TO SPEND
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"Especially for the target customers of luxury, you can expect that those people probably have a retail equity account, so they are seeing the benefits of the stock market rising and feeling more confident to spend more,"[said Bruno Lannes, senior partner at Bain in Shanghai].
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Luxury brands that invested during the downturn are likely to win market share as spending stabilises, even if revenue does not significantly grow, said Jacques Roizen, managing director of China consulting at Digital Luxury Group.
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'Going to Make Their Lives Hell': Trump Plans All-Out Pressure Campaign on GOP Senators to Kill Filibuster
President Donald Trump is pushing to eliminate the filibuster in the US Senate, planning to pressure Republican senators to meet his demands.
'Going to Make Their Lives Hell': Trump Plans All-Out Pressure Campaign on GOP Senators to Kill Filibuster
"Republicans are rubber stamps for Donald Trump on everything else," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen. "This may be the one area where they've decided not to play ball."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
China added almost one billionaire a day in 2024
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44852111
ArchivedChina has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of ultra-wealthy individuals over the past year, driven by a robust stock market and the rapid growth of “new economy” sectors, according to the Hurun Research Institute.
The institute’s latest China Rich List recorded a total of 1,434 individuals, each with a net worth of at least 5 billion yuan (US$702 million, an increase of 340 people, or 31%, from the previous year. Collectively, their wealth reached 30 trillion yuan, marking a 42% surge compared with last year.
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The Hurun list, first published in 1999, tracks billionaires across mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
“To the surprise of many, the number of people on the Hurun rich list this year has reached an all-time high, largely driven by a strong rally in the stock markets,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of Hurun. “The emergence of new faces in the technology sectors and growing exports propelled an expansion of the billionaires’ club.”
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Stock market rally fuels billionaire boom
Chinese stock exchanges have seen significant gains over the past year, reflecting renewed investor optimism in industries such as electric vehicles (EVs), biotechnology, and computing. As of September 1, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange surged 54% year on year, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 36%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index climbed 42%.
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2 Killed, Over 20 Injured in Floating Crane Collapse in Annexed Sevastopol
2 Killed, Over 20 Injured in Floating Crane Collapse in Annexed Sevastopol
Two people were killed and more than 20 injured after a floating crane capsized in annexed Sevastopol’s southern bay, the city’s Moscow-installed Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said Monday.The Moscow Times
Gaza: Civil defence agency says at least 50 killed in Israeli strikes
Israel's strikes also wounded some 200 people,The agency said 22 children were among those killed, as well as women and elderly,
Israel began carrying out air strikes on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of attacking Israeli troops in Gaza and violating the truce. While Israel did not say where its troops were attacked, Hamas has said its fighter had "no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah" and reaffirmed its commitment to the US-brokered ceasefire.
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I think this is gonna fail spectacularly if that's what they hope to achieve.
The rest of the world exists and is against it. The EU, Russia, China, the rest of the Muslim world, i.e. all of the counties around Gaza and elsewhere are all against it.
There's no way for them to succeed without destabilising the middle east further and going into bigger wars with the Muslim countries and face all kinds of sanctions from the rest of the world.
Do you really think Russia and China and all the Muslim countries would be okay with this land grab by the USA in the middle east?
Russia and China were even bigger trading partners with the USA. But that didn't stop Russia invading Ukraine. Or USA and China starting a trade war.
"China rejects Trump's plan to ‘take over’ Gaza, displace millions of Palestinians"
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"Trump's Gaza plan sparks global outrage, with Hamas, PLO, Russia, and world leaders condemning it."
tribune.com.pk/story/2526669/g…
"The European Union said on Wednesday that it acknowledged US President Donald Trump's comments on wanting to "take over" of Gaza but insisted its commitment to a two-state solution."
dw.com/en/middle-east-trumps-g…
Middle East: Trump's Gaza takeover remarks met with backlash
Germany, Saudi Arabia and China are among those rejecting President Donald Trump's suggestion that the US will "take over" Gaza. US top diplomat Marco Rubio has stood behind the president's remarks.Deutsche Welle
You still believe empty condemnations? Not a single country said what happen if Israel ignore those condemnation
Do you really think Russia and China and all the Muslim countries would be okay with this land grab by the USA in the middle east?
Unfortunatly they don't care. Gaza is not Iran who control the straight of hurmuz which would hurt China and Russia a lot if it fsll under the usa and Israel
Israel already stated multiple time the intention of full extermination of gaza so where is the Russian and China economical sanctions on Israel. Why the arab keep having secret relation with the terrorist state of Israel?
The EU is also bullshitting where are the sanctions on the state of Israel? Why germany, french , the UK still sell weapons to Israel?
Here the latest betrayal of an arsb country
thecradle.co/articles/israeli-…
Israeli weapons firm opens first UAE branch
The company will produce and sell Israeli surveillance systems in the UAE under Israeli oversightthecradle.co
Because it sums up her personality...
"If you wouldn't take my help when you didn't need it, why should I help you now that you do?"
Outline of potential deal to end government shutdown emerges as senators continue talks
The contours of a potential deal to reopen the government began to emerge on Tuesday as the shutdown was poised to become the longest in history, with senators discussing an agreement that would fund the government alongside long-term appropriations bills in exchange for a vote on extending health insurance tax credits that Democrats have demanded.
A bipartisan group of senators has been engaged in conversations in recent days as lawmakers search for an off-ramp in the shutdown fight. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Tuesday morning that he's hopeful the bipartisan group is close to a solution, while acknowledging the "cross-pressures that everybody's feeling" are "great."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-potential-deal-senate-talks/
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Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships
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Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships
Indian refinery received at least four crude shipments this year worth almost $280mn on sanctions-listed vessels
The Samadha engaged in ship-to-ship transfers with four US-sanctioned vessels © Planet Labs, European Space Agency
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has bought Russian oil transported on sanctions-listed vessels, according to an analysis of satellite imagery, shipping data and customs records by the Financial Times.
The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Punjab, a major oil refinery co-owned by the long-term UK resident’s Mittal Energy, received at least four crude shipments worth almost $280mn this year which had been transported most of the way from Russia on sanctions-listed ships.
The oil was transported on the US-blacklisted vessels between July and September from the Arctic port of Murmansk to as far as the Gulf of Oman. The final leg of the journey into India was undertaken on the Samadha, a tanker that is not on US sanctions lists, though it was blacklisted by the EU.
All of the ships involved in the process sought to conceal their behaviour with a combination of deceptive practices, either shutting off their transponders or using them to broadcast false positions.
It is not known who arranged for the oil to be transported on the sanctioned tankers, nor if HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) — the entity that owns the refinery — was aware of the use of the vessels.
Emily Kilcrease, a director at the Centre for a New American Security and a former US trade and security official, said: “If I were advising the buyer, I would want to make sure that you had enough visibility in the full transport chain to make sure that you’re not one hop or two hops from a sanctioned activity.”
Best known as the executive chair of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated steel and mining group, Mittal has built a globe-spanning business empire. The billionaire, who has sat on the board of Goldman Sachs since 2008, told associates earlier this year that he intends to leave the UK over changes to its taxation rules.
The revelations about the shipments come as the US is seeking to raise the pressure on Indian companies not to buy Russian oil. Washington last week imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Moscow’s two leading oil producers, in an effort to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in negotiations with Ukraine.
HMEL is a joint venture between part of the Mittal group and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, an Indian state company, with each holding a 49 per cent stake. The remaining 2 per cent is in the hands of financial institutions, according to the company.
HMEL and Mittal did not respond to requests for comment.
The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) © HMEL
Before last week’s US sanctions, western allies of Ukraine had already imposed a price cap aimed at limiting the profits Russia was able to reap from the trade. Oil tankers that did not comply or used various deceptive shipping practices have also been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US.
India has become one of the biggest importers of Russian crude after Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, profiting from discounted prices as western buyers turned away.
Russia has exported an average of 5mn barrels a day of seaborne crude this year, with 1.7mn b/d of the total being purchased by India, according to data analytics group Kpler. The next largest share headed to China.
Kilcrease said: “The major consumers of this oil really want [it]. They’ve been willing to take a certain amount of risk of coming into the US Treasury’s sights.”
The four deliveries identified by the FT all followed a similar pattern, with the Samadha repeatedly heading in and out of the port of Mundra in Gujarat, western India, to pick up the oil brought to the area on the sanctioned ships.
According to its transponder signals, the Samadha was simply travelling back and forth from Oman, where it would moor and load. After a pause, it would then broadcast that it was sailing back to India.
The vessel, however, was often not where it claimed to be. Satellite images analysed by the FT throughout this period and compared with transponder data show that, once the Samadha left port, it often sent a falsified position that disguised its true location.
While it claimed to be on these shuttle runs to Oman, the Samadha was actually meeting the other ships further offshore. Each of the four journeys included a meeting with another ship caught on satellite images. \
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Each image shows a large, grey vessel, consistent with the Samadha, at anchor in the Gulf of Oman, lined up side-by-side with another tanker. This position suggests a ship-to-ship transfer of goods.
The vessels appear to be the Belgorod, Danshui, Dignity and Primorye — all of which had been added earlier to sanctions lists by the US. The images of the vessels match other images of these ships obtained by the FT.
TankerTrackers, a maritime intelligence company, confirmed the identity of the ships during their monitoring of the Gulf of Oman — an area that they usually surveil for ship-to-ship transfers involving Iranian oil.
In each case, the sanctions-listed ships sailing from Murmansk went “dark” as they approached the Gulf of Oman, switching off their transponders for between three and six days, the exact window during which each photographed transfer took place. They turned them back on again shortly after.
The dates of the Samadha’s journeys also match customs records filings, seen by the FT, made by refinery owner HMEL to Indian authorities for purchases from Varda LLC, a St Petersburg oil supplier. Three of the forms explicitly name the Samadha as the carrier.
The filings also report that the four shipments had a total value of $277mn.
The records also indicate that all of the shipments were for two grades of Arctic oil — Novy Port and Arco. In January, the US targeted Russia’s Arctic oil business with sanctions, announcing curbs on tankers and other infrastructure affecting Arco and other grades.
Guru Gobind Singh refinery, located in the Bathinda area of Punjab, is the 10th largest in India, able to process 11.3mn tonnes a year. At Mundra, the crude shipments were deposited into a 1,000km-long pipeline to the inland refinery.
The FT was unable to contact the Samadha’s registered owner and manager, Erika Freight Limited, a company about which almost nothing is known beyond its relationship with the vessel.
The Samadha has since been placed under sanctions by the UK. Its owner shares a registered address in the Seychelles with 13 other so-called shadow fleet vessels — ships against whom it is difficult to enforce sanctions because their ownership is opaque.
The FT was not able to reach Varda LLC in St Petersburg, which does not have any online presence and does not list any contact details in Russian corporate records.
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China overtakes the US as Germany’s largest trading partner
China overtakes the US as Germany’s largest trading partner
Economists credit US President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign with reducing trade between Germany and the US.Al Jazeera
Should've developed EVs 10 years ago imo
FBI fires, unfires, then refires agents linked to Jack Smith probe
At least two FBI agents involved in past investigations into Donald Trump were told Monday that they had been fired, only to learn later in the day that those terminations had been reversed or put on hold, according to six people familiar with the decisions.
Then on Tuesday morning, the two agents learned they had indeed been fired, along with two other employees, according to three of the people familiar with the decisions.
The chaotic process highlights the turmoil and uncertainty across federal law enforcement amid overhauls at the Justice Department and FBI that have targeted those who helped secure indictments against Trump or are viewed by the president as aligned with his political enemies.
James Comey wants case dropped, Trump's prosecutor disqualified
Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday filed motions seeking the dismissal of criminal charges against him, arguing Lindsey Halligan wasn't properly appointed and that the case was politically motivated.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Satellite images taken of El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell at the weekend show clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies”.Ben Farmer and Lilia Sebouai (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Help with home server plan
Hi 😀
I'm planning on setting up my home server, and I'm feeling a bit lost.
I currently have a Jellyfin, SSH and Backrest server running on my PC, but want to get some dedicated hardware for it, and increase the services hosted to VPN, Immich, maybe Nextcloud, etc.
The problem is that I have no idea for what kind of hardware to aim for. I don't know whether I should aim for Rasperri, or MiniPC, or a dedicated rag, or any other thing. My country doesn't have a big second-hand market for server stuff, but I that's also a possibility.
Some context on my needs:
- I run 1440p videos on Jellifyn, so my guess is I need H.265 support. Other than that, I think any CPU will do, and don't need a very fast one. Same goes for RAM, maybe 8 GB is enough
- I feel like I do need at least 2 hard drives (1 for my files, another for backups)
- The ability of upgrade with better hardware would be appreciated, maybe another hard drive or some extra ram.
- Preferably, a rather low-energy consumption drive. Maybe 10 W idle? No idea on this front neither.
- Budget is around $200 USD, excluding hard drives. I can pay extra for drives, or get them later on as I start playing around and scale up.
- What Linux distro should I use? For security, I want to run everything with Dockers, so I guess it doesn't matter? I'm mildly fluent in Linux, experience with Arch and Debian based.
Thanks in advance 😀
Debian for sure. It's the Toyota 4Runner of the operating system world:
- Older but proven tech that just chugs right along.
- Not a ton of features out of the box, but supported by basically everything aftermarket.
- Major updates, while slow but regular, bring a lot of improvements - most of which are under the hood.
Well, it means that profits earned by the Trump supporting business, will support Trump's agenda, which includes annexing / doing harm to Canada. As it's a US corp, it also likely means many of the high paying corporate backend jobs go south, removing high income earners from the tax pool. It's amazing to me that the gov is whining at Canadians about productivity, and grandstanding with 'elbows up' rhetoric, but they greenlight sending jobs to the states.
And if it's taking a more active role in supporting Trump, given that its such a large market slice, they could manipulate prices to gouge Canadians / do harm to Canada in a more direct fashion.
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The current liberal government is far more conservative leaning than the previous one. They're pushing very authoritarian bills, and effectively going along with much of the US's 'stuff', while attempting to spin a pro-Canada message for public support -- like the gov and our media lauding the push to diversify our energy supply by building small nuclear reactors... but glossing over that they require US-provided fuel to run (so we're literally increasing reliance on US stuff, while the US is busy using that dependence to attack us economically). On the authoritarian bills, there's stuff like making it so that law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to get customer information from private companies, and making display of certain symbols/flags a crime. The folks I know who follow this stuff, basically agree that it's all a bit tepid at the moment, but that it's still better than it would've been under our 'official' conservative party, as those guys wanted to straight up do a DOGE-north (and likely still do).
I'd frame it as Canada is still moving along with the Tech-bro agenda from the US at present, though we're less in to the Christian Nationalist / overtly racist stuff. For example, the coming budget is expected to have items related to OpenBanking/Digital Currencies, which are ideas primarily pushed by tech kleptocrats (there're obvious reasons they fumble to name specific, quantifiable benefits of those systems for consumers -- and it's because the benefit is pretty much all for big tech).
The party that had a more progressive slant last time around, the NDP, got trounced -- deservedly, as they hadn't really put out anything to persuade voters, and essentially told people to vote liberal if it meant defeating the cons. Our green party, who were even more progressive in policies (and often had big, interesting policy ideas), committed suicide years ago due to their adherence to their party-negative approach to DEI -- they literally elected a black lesbian jewish pro-palestinian lawyer lady as their leader, and she destroyed what little support the party had. Eg. she spent all the campaign finances trying to win a liberal-stronghold riding for herself in Toronto; she demanded full control of all social media accounts for the party, which she was given, but then she proceeded to go to news agencies and comment about how the party wasn't publicly supporting her on social media... the media she controlled... because the party was racist. That sort of thing.
So, as to what they're thinking, I don't think they view the US as a potential threat to the same extent as the public. And I don't think they're progressive in the old sense of the world, but they're still progressive relative to our southern neighbours. But I mean, that's a really low bar at the moment.
Any idea what the government is thinking? I thought it was progressive...
This should be the world anthem for the 21st century
Tempus v4.0.7 android subsonic client release
Hi All,
my fork of Tempo has had a rebrand, which was a requirement to get back into the app stores as the original Tempo still exists in F-Droid/IzzyOnDroid
Tempus v4.0.7
Attention
This release will not update previous installs as it is considered a new app, no longer Tempo, new icon, new app id, and new app name. Hoping it will not be a huge inconvenience but was necessary in order to publish to app stores izzyDroid
Android Auto
Support should be the same as before, however, I was not able to test any of the icons/visuals, so please let me know if there are any remnants of the tempo logo/icon as I believe I removed them all and replaced them successfully.
What's Changed
fix: Crash on share no expiration date or field returned from api
fix: Check also underlying transport
feat: Unhide genre from album details view
fix: persist album sorting on resume
chore: Tempus rebrand
chore: Update Polish translation Now available via the IzzyOnDroid Repository ->
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…
note:
app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features
app-degoogled* <- The izzyOnDroid release that goes without any of the google stuff.
As usual, any dev contributions appreciated as I am not actually a java/mobile dev, so my progress is significantly slower than those who do this on the daily.
In particular, any android dev is familiar android auto to help me set up a dev environment
Release v4.0.7 · eddyizm/tempus
What's Changed chore: updated tempo references to tempus including github check by @eddyizm in #197 fix: Crash on share no expiration date or field returned from api by @eddyizm in #199 Full Chan...GitHub
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i hope you are able to fix some of the issues, inherited from tempo, that keep me on symphonium
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.
It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves.
Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites.
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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It isn't?
The deaths of all humanity are just 1.8 per second.
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised dronesTom Phillips (The Guardian)
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Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Nintendo and the Pokémon Company’s lawsuit in Japan against PocketPair, makers of the hit game Palworld, is still ongoing. As we’ve reported previously, this isn’t the copyright o…Techdirt
OpenAI Establishes For-Profit Company In Restructuring Change Involving Microsoft
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Why Americans trying to hide as Canadians overseas doesn’t work
Americans are ‘flag jacking’ to pretend they’re Canadian overseas - here’s why it doesn’t work
Claims of “flag jacking” go back to at least the Vietnam WarGraig Graziosi (The Independent)
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Venezuela claims it foiled Trump plot to stage 'false flag' attack on US warship
Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from powerJames C. Reynolds (The Independent)
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Operation Northwoods.
Americans would have died if it was greenlit as the goal was to go to war with cuba
Interesting thing about false flag attacks is that many of them are not real false flag attacks but are attacks that have been carefully chosen to be allowed by ignoring the intel regarding them.
Israel for example had been notified by many countries of an incoming attack by Hamas with an extremely accurate description of what would happen, but decided to ignore it and not even strengthen their border defenses. It was in Israels best interest as it would give them an easy reason that would make their people allow them to ramp up the genocide.
Yeah I honestly found the timing of that suspicious given Bibi's trials coming up and plummeting popularity at the time.
I could see the same with 9/11. Various people didn't need to actually be involved with terrorism so much as "let it happen" and plan on how to profit from the response
Valid.
Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.
If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.
But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.
A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.
La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Le anticipazioni della trentaduesima puntata La Notte nel Cuore accendono il prime time di domenica 9 novembre 2025 su Canale 5. In Cappadocia torna Halil, il padre naturale dei gemelli Nuh e Melek: un arrivo che riapre ferite antiche proprio mentre si tenta di sancire la pace tra famiglie. Ecco cosa vedremo negli episodi 1×81 (2ª parte), 1×82 e 1×83.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore: domenica 9 novembre 2025: arriva Halil e cambia tutto
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore trentaduesima puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Halil torna in Cappadocia, Cihan scarcerato, cena di armistizio e nuove tensioni.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations towards a multilateral treaty on reducing plastic pollution collapsed. The chair announced that the committee had concluded its work — without producing a draft treaty. Governments had failed to agree on the proposed articles of the convention; no further negotiations were being suggested.This failure reveals a weakness in all environmental treaty negotiations, whether new or existing ones: a consensus-driven process waters down action to the lowest common denominator. Only symptoms get addressed, not causes.
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why.Bridgewater, Peter
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This article is more relevant in the context of the latest declarations of Antonio Guterrez:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Se the dabate here:
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
Global Funds Exit China Real Estate Amid Steep Losses and Distressed Sales As Oversupply Expected to Take Years to Be Absorbed
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ArchivedForeign investors who once saw China’s booming property market as a sure bet are now facing some of their biggest losses in decades. What was once a $140 billion push into Chinese real estate has turned into a wave of distressed sales and write-downs, with global players scrambling to offload assets at steep discounts.
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Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.
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Distressed sales — where owners sell under pressure from debt or defaults — hit 114 billion yuan (S$20.78billion) across 2023 and 2024, a record 22% of all transactions, Bloomberg Intelligence data shows.
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All Sectors, One Struggle
The downturn is hitting nearly every corner of the commercial property market.
In logistics, once considered a bright spot thanks to the e-commerce boom, supply has outpaced demand. Even giants like Blackstone have started to sell. Earlier this year, it sold three logistics parks in southern China to a local insurance company for about 2.7 billion yuan.
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Even distressed-debt specialists like Oaktree Capital have had difficulty turning a profit.
In 2021, Oaktree seized control of Evergrande Venice on the Sea, a sprawling resort development in Jiangsu province, after the troubled developer defaulted on a $400 million loan. The project — envisioned as a Chinese version of Venice — included canals, a grand hotel, and a conference center modeled after the U.S. Capitol.
Oaktree has since restarted construction and handed over some homes to buyers, but sales remain sluggish. Apartments that once fetched up to 10,000 yuan per square meter in 2019 are now advertised at less than half that price.
The pain may not be over. Analysts warn that it could take years for the oversupply of commercial buildings to be absorbed. Rents in China’s office market fell nearly 7% in 2024 — the sharpest drop on record — and CBRE expects no meaningful recovery in new supply until at least 2028.
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“Global institutions are increasingly taking the view that this market won’t recover soon,” said Wilson. He expects office rents to keep falling through next year, and predicts that the nominal value of buildings in 2030 will still be below 2020 levels.
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Live Updates: Hurricane Melissa, With Catastrophic Winds, Makes Landfall in Jamaica
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The Category 5 storm’s slow pace could have devastating effects. Jamaican officials said many residents had refused to evacuate, and one minister warned, “This is not the time to be brave.”
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal Canadian federal budget
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38187649
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Updates: Israel PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Netanyahu’s decision to attack Gaza comes despite US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.
It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Updates: Israel PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Netanyahu’s decision to attack Gaza comes despite US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Israeli side is still a prevalent voice in covering the conflict with no voice leveraged to the same stage from palestinians, so whatever happens the mainstream news would be in their hands. It is an unequal exchange by design. It is hard to even start a dialog about peace if one side is a state recognized by everyone and the other is not.
One way is to start to recognize Palestine internationally, the other is to undo recognition of Israel. These tho can happily coexist.
I have no firm belief about this whole situation, but at the very least I don't find any reason for israelis to scale up their territory. If they are to have their 50s borders in the end, no israeli settler or IDF fighter has any right to cross that line, that they do as we speak. These are terrorist acts, and a genocide, and if Israeli dream can't be achieved without that, it is to be dismantled.
RSF fighters film themselves massacring Sudanese fleeing el-Fasher
The moment the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced it had stormed the city of el-Fasher on Sunday morning, it was clear that 260,000 Sudanese trapped in the city were in serious and immediate danger.
Middle East Eye has reviewed dozens of video clips and images allegedly taken in el-Fasher since the RSF assault began.
Some were published by the RSF itself; others emerged on social media, particularly Sudanese Telegram groups.
RSF members filmed themselves with people they have captured fleeing. In one clip, scores of men are seen sat on the ground surrounded by fighters, who repeatedly call them “slaves”.
In another, fighters tell six detained men, who are in civilian clothes but identify themselves as soldiers, that they can flee. Once the men begin running, the gunmen open fire on them, downing at least three.
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This is one of the few reasons I wish there were gods. Humans are monsters and we need intervention. So easily and callously is human life destroyed.
How I wish the Sudanese, and so many other people in similar plights, mattered to the rest of the world.
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SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is obviously concerned by the full frontal assault on renewable energy being conducted by the Moron of Mar-A-Loco and his henchmen. In a blog post this week, it argued that solar will blow away all other forms of electricity generation — if they all compete on a level playing field.
SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan - CleanTechnica
The SEIA says solar will win out over all forms of fossil fuels in a straight fight with no subsidies going to either side.Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)
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momenti tosti con la mancanza della distruzione, quindi l’octaggio diventa strategico (sto cercando un’alternativa decente al tagliarmi)
Come avevo vagamente accennato, in questi ultimi giorni, il vuoto oscuro sta ritornando, non so perché. Questo è un problema, sì, ma il vero problema è che, di conseguenza, stanno tornando anche le urge. Le distrazioni ovviamente non funzionano granché, sia perché l’oscurità rende di suo più difficile immergermi bene in esse… ma anche perché, […]
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momenti tosti con la mancanza della distruzione, quindi l’octaggio diventa strategico (sto cercando un’alternativa decente al tagliarmi)
Come avevo vagamente accennato, in questi ultimi giorni, il vuoto oscuro sta ritornando, non so perché. Questo è un problema, sì, ma il vero problema è che, di conseguenza, stanno tornando anche le urge. Le distrazioni ovviamente non funzionano granché, sia perché l’oscurità rende di suo più difficile immergermi bene in esse… ma anche perché, evidentemente, il mio cervello è così fritto da tutte quelle volte in cui ho potuto accogliere le urge senza troppe remore che ora, anche dopo anni in cui non ho rafforzato quelle molto particolari connessioni neuronali, con i giusti sfortunati trigger queste hanno ripreso ad attivarsi spaventosamente forte, quasi come se non fosse passato alcun tempo… 😳
La soluzione a tutto questo, per quanto ahimè temporanea, sarebbe appunto quella di dare retta alle urge, perché banalmente funziona… ma, purtroppo, da quando questo mio vizio è stato scoperto, mi è stato sostanzialmente vietato; e questo è circa l’unico motivo per cui, per qualche anno, nella pratica ho smesso, ma questa è un’altra storia. Però, dall’altro lato, di questo passo sarebbe questione di settimane al massimo perché io finisca definitivamente di impazzire, temo, quindi in qualche modo devo far stare zitto il cervello. Piccolo nuovo problema, allora: raggiungere questo obiettivo non sembra per niente facile, nel senso che metodi che funzionano davvero per far smettere questo desiderio non se ne trovano. 💔Quello che sto dunque pensando è che, probabilmente, anche senza procurarmi una ferita, quindi senza avere quel dolore fisico e conseguente rilascio di endorfine, lo stupido inconscio che mi porta a volermi tagliare in primo luogo potrebbe credere che io abbia fatto esattamente quello che vuole, e quindi smetterla per un po’ di rompermi le scatole, se riceve almeno tutti gli altri stimoli che l’azione altrimenti comporta, ma che di per sé non mi sono vietati, in quanto non autolesionismo; quindi, almeno la vista di una ferita di quel tipo sul mio corpo, e una certa sensazione di pressione abbastanza forte concentrata su una linea della pelle nel momento dell’azione stessa… Quindi, farmi dei tagli finti che però la mia mente percepisce come reali, in qualche modo. 😻
Ebbene, credevo, pensavo, di aver appena trovato, con un po’ di sperimentazione, un metodo epico, che avrei voluto dire qui, con appena una matita e dei pennarelli (l’intero mondoctt verrà ricostruito a partire dalla cancelleria, di questo passo, wow); ovviamente, non dannoso per i tessuti, così da non violare il divieto morale, e che non lascia alcun segno persistente, permettendo di far sparire tutto semplicemente lavando se necessario, così da evitare certe conversazioni che non voglio mai più avere nemmeno tra 100 anni… Peccato che poi, ben dopo averlo provato, cioè solo quando stasera sotto la doccia ho provato a lavarlo, ho visto che i segni che ho lasciato non sono andati via al 100%… perché a quanto pare, senza volerlo (ho semplicemente fatto troppa forza accidentalmente), ho comunque causato delle abrasioni sulla pelle… che ok, sono minuscole, ordini di grandezza meno peggio di cosa avrei combinato se fare quello fosse stato il mio obiettivo, ma: 💣
- Se me ne fregassi semplicemente, e lo riutilizzassi altre volte così com’è, allora sarebbe autolesionismo, per quanto minimo e insignificante… e ho detto che ciò mi è proibito, quindi non va bene.
- Anche se il danno è appena un graffietto sullo strato più superficiale dell’epidermide, che non sanguina, non brucia, non lascia cicatrici e credo sparisce nel giro di qualche giorno, è comunque un minimo visibile, e non si può cancellare a comando, quindi entra in gioco il problema del dover nascondere; perché ok, quando sono uno o due è plausibile siano accidentali, per aver strisciato contro qualcosa o boh… ma, se sono tanti e disposti strani, diventa difficile fingere.
Il metodo non è comunque da buttare, perché ha potenziale (e non c’è nessun altro surrogato del tagliarmi davvero che ce l’abbia così), ma è chiaro che va rivisitato e opportunamente ricalibrato, allora. La falla che va risolta è appena una, cioè evitare che la pelle si “consumi” per l’attrito che la parte fisica della procedura richiede, e le combinazioni che posso ancora provare sono tante — magari usare una matita ancora più morbida di una 2B, magari trovare movimenti diversi ma a cui il mio cervello risponde comunque come mi serve, magari elasticizzare la pelle con oli o cose strane prima della procedura così che non si rompa — quindi ha ancora senso non arrendermi per davvero, a queste urge… 👌
La fregatura aggiuntiva però è che qui sono veramente solo io e la mia inventiva, perché dubito ci siano altre persone qui in condizione sia di poter avere a che fare con questi assurdi esperimenti di fisica mischiati a psicologia (e, se non avete esperienza con questa roba, per il vostro bene non vi immischiate, vi prego), sia di volerlo fare (perché c’è chi, non soffrendo sotto il giogo dei divieti, e approfittando della stagione delle maniche lunghe, non perderà tempo a cercare di stare pulito/a)… e ChatGPT qui è alquanto inutile, perché va di continuo in protezione. Vabbè… se sono una ragazza magica, in fondo, ce la farò… credo… 🥴
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Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain
Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain
By using federal agency websites to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, MAGA and Trump have found a new online billboard to blast their enemies.Tina Nguyen (The Verge)
Genova, i cassonetti saranno intelligenti, ma il progetto si ferma
Genova, si ferma il progetto dei 'cassonetti intelligenti': costi alti, risultati modesti
Dal 2022 Amiu ha installato solo 5.400 contenitori sui 26 mila previsti, spendendo complessivamente 30 milioni di euro
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Genova, si ferma il progetto dei 'cassonetti intelligenti': costi alti, risultati modesti
Dal 2022 Amiu ha installato solo 5.400 contenitori sui 26 mila previsti, spendendo complessivamente 30 milioni di euro tra bidoni e mezzi compatibiliRedazione (Telenord)
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in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Blue
in reply to Sentient Loom • • •humanamerican
in reply to Blue • • •MonkderVierte
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in reply to MonkderVierte • • •brsrklf
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in reply to brsrklf • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to brsrklf • • •paraphrand
in reply to humanamerican • • •humanamerican
in reply to paraphrand • • •Oh yeah, I temporarily forgot the priority for laws in The US (from least to greatest):
Lyra_Lycan
in reply to MonkderVierte • • •rozodru
in reply to Sentient Loom • • •GreenShimada
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •This is a screenshot of this HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Edit: WAS a screenshot - thanks for editing the post.
Which is about this Reddit post: old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/c…
"non-standard" means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on "non-standard equipment" - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can't tell what that means, YT thinks I'm a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.
YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs | Hacker News
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in reply to GreenShimada • • •"Non-standard equipment" for Windows 11 includes PCs with Intel 7th gen or older processors, many of which are still perfectly good and powerful enough to run Windows 11. So, it's pretty sad that these videos are being taken down.
EDIT: clarity
GreenShimada
in reply to humanamerican • • •Lyra_Lycan
in reply to humanamerican • • •Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn't. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice's docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it's called.
All this is moot for me now though, I use Arch
Zer0_F0x
in reply to Lyra_Lycan • • •cmeu
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Lost_My_Mind
in reply to cmeu • • •like this
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the_q
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •BougieBirdie
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •Lost_My_Mind
in reply to BougieBirdie • • •like this
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mesa
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •Thousands of bots.
Also it has to get around the many rules Youtube itself has for the all mighty algorithm.
CosmicTurtle0
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •officermike
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 • • •Lost_My_Mind
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 • • •themurphy
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •So for what, 100 million people vs 8 billion, it's a problem.
I'll take that.
Ricky Rigatoni
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •BootLoop
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •demonsword
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •thedirtyknapkin
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.
we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.
themurphy
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 • • •Honestly? If anyone could make a rival for YouTube it would be a big porn hosting site.
The infrastructure is already there. Just need to buy another domain and throw money at it.
warm
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themurphy
in reply to warm • • •warm
in reply to themurphy • • •The only competitor I could see YouTube getting is if Twitch decided to chase that route. The only companies with the global infrastructure required for a service as fast as YouTube's are Amazon, Microsoft (and Google).
Microsoft gave up on Mixer, so I don't see them ever trying to take on YouTube. Amazon have Twitch, which as mentioned, could try to take on YouTube. But even with owning their own servers and just running them at cost, it would be a massive undertaking and investment.
There's a tremendous amount of work to do, that these companies are not going to throw money at for decades just to compete for YouTube's profit margins, which apparently aren't that big (if they even exist).
Sites can exist alongside YouTube, We see a lot of smaller video hosting sites, like Dailymotion, but something would have to go seriously wrong at YouTube for any of them to grow meaningfully and become actual competitors.
I'd like a competitor as much as anybody, but I'm just being realistic here. Don't underestimate the size of YouTube.
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kingofthezyx
in reply to CosmicTurtle0 • • •Typhoon
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •moody
in reply to Typhoon • • •It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won't get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
HeneryHawk
in reply to moody • • •thedirtyknapkin
in reply to HeneryHawk • • •there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.
it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don't remember.
other platforms rose up around their success, but I'm pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.
HeneryHawk
in reply to thedirtyknapkin • • •diablexical
in reply to thedirtyknapkin • • •thedirtyknapkin
in reply to diablexical • • •UltraMagnus
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (video.apz.fi/).
I kid, but it's true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It's much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you'll only half remember by the next day.
markko
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •other_cat
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •cmeu
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •A little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don't get content on alternative sites if you don't post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
chunes
in reply to cmeu • • •FireWire400
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •They realise that A LOT of those videos are not primarily about Windows?
I've seen many reviews of vintage devices where the uploader just casually installs Windows 11 in a "nonstandard" way, just because it's the only way.
Besides, you still have to activate it. Rufus doesn't help you get around that, so it's not even piracy.
VeryInterestingTable
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.
CMD will open.
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.
Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.
Next type "regedit" and press enter.
This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"
Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"
Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".
Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
fossilesque
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in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Darkenfolk
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in reply to Darkenfolk • • •pika
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •A space is needed before the slash on this command, right? And no space before net.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to pika • • •greybeard
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in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to gigachad • • •Because some people still require windows for what ever reason and also it's fun to resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.
Personally I switched to Bazzite for my gaming rigs and Mint for everything else, but I wont judge anyone who wants to stay on windows despite the hostility microsoft has for its user base and I say more power to them.
Those who stand defiant in the face of overwhelming odds are exactly the sort of folk I like.
chloroken
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •How is continuing to use their product (thus being farmed for telemetry and other revenues) defiant in any way?
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can't run. Your defiance is futile and you're the only one suffering, not Microsoft.
M0oP0o
in reply to chloroken • • •I get it but let me give you an example of the sort of thing Linux is dealing with:
I have a nephew who wanted a PC, and had a small budget (they where 11 at the time and I was not going to let them pay) so I used some parts around and made a not so bad mint machine. It worked very well but can not play fortnight (not an issue with mint or the hardware) or other such anti-cheat games. The child was ok with it but his parents got mad at me as to why I would not just "be normal" and put a real operating system on the machine. They tried to tell my nephew that he should not use his PC until they can bring it to someone that can "fix" it by putting windows on it (they are kinda asshats). Lucky for my nephew the place they took the PC said the same thing I did and that it would not run as well with windows on it, but would do it if they wanted (they said no when they got the cost).
So the PC gets used and is enjoyed (it was the nephews birthday present from me), and used by his father as much as him. But all this time I am getting constant complaints about the "weird stuff" I forced on them, and that one day they will get him a "real" computer. Keep in mind my brother has a PC that is running windows that has more bloat and malware then you would think possible at this time (I think why he kept using his son's) that was about the same in hardware (1060, am4 3600ish, 8 gigs of ram sort of machines). The mint PC was clearly better, and when their child started to point out how much more time my brother spent on his Linux computer then his own my brother just happened to "spill" a whole glass of water directly into his son's computer. Then he hid the PC away and just blamed it not working on the "bad software" that it was running, and how it was a "trash" machine anyway. (I did get it back eventually, replaced the board and shipped it back to my nephew who is now using it again).
So the point of the story is this, would you if you had to deal with users (and lets assume you are not related to them) like this put Linux on their machines or just not want to deal with them and put a ripped and custom windows on it?
chloroken
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to chloroken • • •Taldan
in reply to M0oP0o • • •Lawyers are even worse T.T
FauxLiving
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to FauxLiving • • •FauxLiving
in reply to M0oP0o • • •The trick is to always install their system using btrfs-dkms.
It's guaranteed to break in a way that Google cannot resolve.
M0oP0o
in reply to FauxLiving • • •Jason2357
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to Jason2357 • • •Devolution
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to Devolution • • •Devolution
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to Devolution • • •BCsven
in reply to Devolution • • •It explains why US Christians would vote in a pedo rapist felon, because they think they are winning something.
Devolution
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to BCsven • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to M0oP0o • • •In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me "Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?"
It's been a pretty cool thing to watch.
M0oP0o
in reply to EnsignWashout • • •IdleSheep
in reply to chloroken • • •Well I'm glad you represent everybody.
People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.
FauxLiving
in reply to IdleSheep • • •BCsven
in reply to FauxLiving • • •chloroken
in reply to IdleSheep • • •bthest
in reply to chloroken • • •chloroken
in reply to bthest • • •relativestranger
in reply to IdleSheep • • •prettybunnys
in reply to chloroken • • •Can you run Battlefield 6?
Valorant?
Apex Legends?
Rainbow Six: Siege?
Fortnite?
GTA V?
RDR2?
BombOmOm
in reply to prettybunnys • • •This isn't even a Windows or Linux thing: Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?
*I really wish I was joking with this part
FauxLiving
in reply to prettybunnys • • •prettybunnys
in reply to FauxLiving • • •FauxLiving
in reply to prettybunnys • • •I'd probably play BF6 and I do enjoy Apex Legends, but not enough to run Windows. Photoshop is great, but GIMP meets my non-professional needs. I'm not an engineer so AutoCAD isn't a professional requirement and I can fix 3d prints or plan landscaping in freecad.
But, I can't make Micrsoft stop enabling telemetry on my computer, inserting ads in my start menu or giving AI access to my entire system. I know there are tools to disable these things, I used them. I know the workaround to make local users, I know how to remove the AI integrations, I know how to use group policy to prevent the re-enabling of some items.
I don't want to have to fight my computer in order to use it. I want it to do exactly what I want and nothing else. Linux lets me do it and that is more important than a few FPSs
Everyone gets to make that choice. Well, except the people who can't upgrade to Windows 11... for them it's Linux or joining a botnet at some time in the near future.
prettybunnys
in reply to FauxLiving • • •bthest
in reply to FauxLiving • • •FauxLiving
in reply to bthest • • •catsarebadpeople
in reply to FauxLiving • • •FauxLiving
in reply to catsarebadpeople • • •catsarebadpeople
in reply to FauxLiving • • •aing
in reply to prettybunnys • • •chloroken
in reply to prettybunnys • • •prettybunnys
in reply to chloroken • • •chloroken
in reply to prettybunnys • • •I can run any software designed for Linux or Windows. Period.
If a package doesn't function, it's because the developers arbitrarily decided to disable it for capitalist reasons. Not because it won't work.
So the answer to "can Linux run X game made for Windows" is always yes. Always.
prettybunnys
in reply to chloroken • • •So. No then. You either are holding onto a zero day workaround for their anti-cheat OR the answer is no.
It’s neat to try to shift the answer so that you can still say yes but also no.
sucius
in reply to prettybunnys • • •Petter1
in reply to prettybunnys • • •You should not install a game requiring kernel level privileges on a personal machine you use for anything other than gaming.
At this point, I recommend to go the console way (or dedicated gaming machine, which is basically the same at this point as you are not owning neither of them)
TheTechnician27
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •"Resist corporate bullshit by eschewing the free, non-corporate option – which, because it's open, gets better the more people use it – in favor of continuing to use the exact same corporate product but with an abstruse, hacky workaround that 0.001% of the userbase will use and will probably be plugged by this time next week. That'll show those corpo fucks who's boss. ✊Ⓐ"
Pejorative term for "feel-good" activist measures
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)gigachad
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to gigachad • • •NihilsineNefas
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Heard good things about Bazzite, how does it work out with .exe game files off the internet etc?
Ive got a boat load of games that aren't on steam/are from GOG or itch and run as their own files instead of being run off a service
the_riviera_kid
in reply to NihilsineNefas • • •NihilsineNefas
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •To be fair, the last multiplayer game I was massively into was Warframe, but haven't been on that in years at this point (if No Mans Sky doesn't count lol)
I'll probably end up loading Bazzite just because gaming and general browsing online is all I use my rig for these days (I may branch into freecad at some point for the fun of it but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it)
the_riviera_kid
in reply to NihilsineNefas • • •Install FreeCAD on Linux | Flathub
FlathubMac
in reply to gigachad • • •I'm that guy.
Install Linux Mint.
SatyrSack
in reply to gigachad • • •I cannot find this meme I know I have seen
Panel 1: "Installing Windows 20 years ago" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: "Installing Linux 20 years ago" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: "Installing Windows today" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: "Installing Linux today" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
kuebic
in reply to SatyrSack • • •SatyrSack
in reply to kuebic • • •the_q
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to the_q • • •For example I don't have to jump through hoops to auto mount a secondary drive on windows I just install the drive and there it is. But on linux I have to jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoops for some stupid reason. However it will auto mount flash drives and sd cards even though those are the ones more likely to pose a security risk.
the_q
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •drosophila
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I just plugged in an old drive to make sure I'm not going crazy, and I didn't do anything besides hit the power button, log in, and open the file explorer:
And its right there.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to drosophila • • •articles like this wouldn't exist if it wasn't true, they will appear but they wont auto mount
techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-i…
*some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did
How to Auto-Mount Drives in Linux
TechHutGlog78
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment's like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon .... can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.
If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd's automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.
Most normal Desktop User's will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to Glog78 • • •drosophila
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I just click on it and it mounts and opens
This is Linux Mint btw
the_riviera_kid
in reply to drosophila • • •drosophila
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I thought you were talking about just opening the drive to use it from the file browser.
I do actually have a drive I use for automated backups, but I just used the GUI to change the automount setting:
I guess that's a little bit inconvenient, but its like 3 clicks, adding a step to something I had to do to set up some other software. Its not any more complicated than disabling sticky keys in Windows.
Except we're not comparing it to disabling sticky keys, we're comparing it to needing needing to follow an entire page's worth of instructions, pressing secret key combinations and entering commands into the terminal, just so you can use your computer without it phoning home to the mothership. And that's on top of the fact that the instructions are probably going to be different in a year since microsoft is deliberately fucking with you.
BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •So on windows a drive will not automount the first time, you have to assign a drive letter, which it then remembers. If you skip this its just a drive in the device manager with no mount.
You can accomplish the same in Linux so the drive automounts on boot with a nofail option so that if it is disconnected from the PC the boot moves on rather than waiting on the drive to become available. But otherwise thr DE will let you mount it instantly.
This is a non problem. Linux has issues but drive mounting is not one of them.
FauxLiving
in reply to drosophila • • •It depends on the DE.
Even still, typing mount /dev/sda1 external isn't exactly Cirque du Soleil
BCsven
in reply to drosophila • • •blue_canuck
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to blue_canuck • • •articles like this wouldn't exist if it wasn't true, they will appear but they wont auto mount
techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-i…
*some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did
How to Auto-Mount Drives in Linux
TechHutBarbecue Cowboy
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to Barbecue Cowboy • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Not true, if you format a NTFS or fat in windows, then remove drive letter, it won't auto Mount, same I'd you format it in Linux to a windows format and add to your PC, it prompts for a drive letter.
As for Linux, your user session defaults determine if it automounts or not.
Mine USD set to automount, so you can see in this screen the 80gig drive was auto mounted, but you can turn off USD and use specific mount options.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Running Tubleweed with Gnome, and the App is Disks. The user session defaults are accessed via dconf editor and you can set your system wide default for auto mounting, or manually tweak each drive via disks.I
Yast Partitioner was other screenshots, also has options to do the same if you run KDE tumbledweed, or you could install Disks.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •(Which could be skipped if it wasn't encrypted)
the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •So you're complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot...
That's rough, buddy.
I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.
the_riviera_kid
in reply to EnsignWashout • • •Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
It's once every boot. Everytime the machine starts you have to go to file manager and click on it before it mounts unless you modify fstab.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
Just go ahead and google mount drive on boot in linux and you can see the 1,000s of post from people having the exact issue I describe. I'll even do it for you.
google.com/search?q=mount+driv…
Then go ahead and google the same thing for windows and you'll see what a non issue it is in windows because even google will assume that surely you meant linux.
google.com/search?q=mount+driv…
EnsignWashout
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I'm hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.
The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.
I wasn't before, but now I am.
I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there's no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That's normal in 2025.
If you treat your laptop like a server, that's okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn't doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.
An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.
I don't normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.
anon5621
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to anon5621 • • •Rooster326
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •pure_bliss
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to pure_bliss • • •pure_bliss
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •FauxLiving
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Windows users: "I don't want to swap to Linux, you have to follow arcane instructions from the Internet and use the terminal to do basic tasks"
Also Windows users: "Now here is how you add a local user:"
SatyrSack
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:
Thteven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I've been doing this in command prompt:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown/r /t 0
After reboot it lets you choose "I don't have internet" and you can continue with creating a local account.
Kazumara
in reply to Thteven • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to Kazumara • • •Asfalttikyntaja
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to Asfalttikyntaja • • •relativestranger
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to relativestranger • • •Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
schneegans.deBCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •I thought they started blocking that work around.
Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.
We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:
Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files
He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn't find the file to transfer.
IT realized he wasn't replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.
Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs
User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called "myusername"
the_riviera_kid
in reply to BCsven • • •Unless they remove local accounts all together or disable shift F10 in the OOBE this should work, it just sets up a local account through command prompt in a similar manner that lusrmrg.msc would.
That said I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they remove local accounts altogether next.
BCsven
in reply to the_riviera_kid • • •1985MustangCobra
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Bronzebeard
in reply to 1985MustangCobra • • •They're showing you how you can install win 11 on machines that Windows 11 tries to claim can't run it, but actually can.
You know, getting around forced obsolescence...
1985MustangCobra
in reply to Bronzebeard • • •HeneryHawk
in reply to 1985MustangCobra • • •Bronzebeard
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Optional
in reply to Bronzebeard • • •Optional
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Me in 2026: diving into the dark web to find an instruction manual
They took control of the digital town square and now its a prison. Monopolitistic shithole corporate vampire behavior.
"Freedom is dead. Freedom remains dead. And we've killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?"
-Nietzsche 2026
Yerbouti
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •mesa
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Its so nice on peertube nowadays. !peertube@lemmy.world if anyone wants to join and watch/post videos.
And of course arbitrary try Linux out. Its a very productive OS.
Cevilia (she/they/…)
in reply to mesa • • •mesa
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •Leaf (she/her)
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •ramenshaman
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •ozymandias
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •there are thousands of videos still up.
people will just believe anything that fits their worldview and not check anything out….
weststadtgesicht
in reply to ozymandias • • •It's disheartening, really. I fully sympathize with the efforts of software freedom and independent media platforms, but it's just so annoying how people with "my" world view are just like all other people as well – we believe what we want to believe and only question what goes against our beliefs.
I'm not saying I'm better, but I just hate it in general.
mfed1122
in reply to weststadtgesicht • • •adminofoz
in reply to mfed1122 • • •bobo
in reply to ozymandias • • •4am
in reply to bobo • • •Yeah I don’t understand their take at all.
“They haven’t gotten them all so THEY’RE NOT DOING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE so reactionary with your worldview JEEZ”
This is the kind of low-tier thinking that got us here in the first place.
ozymandias
in reply to 4am • • •ozymandias
in reply to bobo • • •if thousands of videos exist like that, they’re clearly not removing all videos like that.
bobo
in reply to ozymandias • • •There isn't a claim being made that all videos showing circumvention of the Microsoft account requirement for Windows 11 installation are being taken down. Only some of them. You saying "people will just believe anything that fits their worldview" sounds like you're asserting that no takedowns are occurring. Thank you for clarifying that this is not actually your position.
The likelihood is that that this is being done automatically by youtube's AI, rather than because of requests by Microsoft. I think the real problem illustrated here is the lack of transparency when Youtube issues a takedown. An initial glance at Youtube's Community Guidelines doesn't seem to indicate a criterion by which a takedown would be automatically issued for such content, but I wonder if they're starting to automatically flag anything that might be considered circumvention guides. I had a private video taken down that I was sharing with a friend to show them how to use yt-dlp to extract audio from youtube videos and was given the same reason "harmful or dangerous content", which it clearly was not, but they're reluctant to explicitly say that they're removing videos that illustrate circumvention techniques. Yet another reason to stop using Youtube.
ozymandias
in reply to bobo • • •bobo
in reply to ozymandias • • •ozymandias
in reply to bobo • • •bobo
in reply to ozymandias • • •ozymandias
in reply to bobo • • •that sounds to me like trolls reporting them until it was taken down, people lying for clout, or it was taken down’s for some other reason.
Stern
in reply to ozymandias • • •dudesss
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Firefox based and Chromium addon to redirect YouTube and other links to privacy alternatives. Works for Firefox based browsers on Android too.
libredirect.github.io/
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
LibRedirect – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
addons.mozilla.orgWhyJiffie
in reply to dudesss • • •like this
SharkAttak likes this.
yumyumsmuncher
in reply to dudesss • • •prunerye
in reply to yumyumsmuncher • • •4am
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •brachiosaurus
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •abbiistabbii
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •- Microsoft and Alphabet.
ZILtoid1991
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •roofuskit
in reply to ZILtoid1991 • • •raspberriesareyummy
in reply to roofuskit • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I've tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
Tangent5280
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •Phegan
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Eh-I
in reply to Phegan • • •😉
InTheTreetop
in reply to Eh-I • • •Come on! It's fun! And pretty frustrating at times. You'll hate it. And then love it. Then hate. It's called emotional balance and it makes character, or some shit, I dunno.
Just get the penguin already.
Regrettable_incident
in reply to InTheTreetop • • •Iheartcheese
in reply to Regrettable_incident • • •Valmond
in reply to InTheTreetop • • •BCsven
in reply to InTheTreetop • • •floofloof
in reply to InTheTreetop • • •Damaskox
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Didn't click the link.
Why are they taking these videos down?
st3ph3n
in reply to Damaskox • • •tea
in reply to st3ph3n • • •Credibly_Human
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •The noose keeps tightening.
Google also has been trying to argue that modifying client side javascript is equivalent to hacking.
Modifying code running on your own fucking machine, in your own fucking browser.
sleen
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •Yes.
At this rate, we will be having a "local files are hard for the average user" debate, here, in another decade.
Which, maybe it will be, at that point.
Credibly_Human
in reply to EnsignWashout • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •x0x7
in reply to EnsignWashout • • •Petter1
in reply to x0x7 • • •Hahah apple does so since iOS 1
iOS is designed from the ground so that people are trained to think in apps rather than files
This is why it took so long until files appeared and why it is still no file browser like in any other operating system (only local directories for some apps and cloud folders)
floofloof
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •dejected_warp_core
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •Home | Tampermonkey
www.tampermonkey.netCredibly_Human
in reply to dejected_warp_core • • •orioler25
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •MajorasMaskForever
in reply to orioler25 • • •Krudler
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Download the ISO from MS, make bootable USB with Rufus. After clicking Start you can choose local account only, bypass TPM and RAM reqs, etc
E I guess not fin. Massgrave
Zanathos
in reply to Krudler • • •Krudler
in reply to Zanathos • • •relativestranger
in reply to Krudler • • •wabafee
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •yardratianSoma
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •I know it's a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn't harmed you or done you wrong, then it's probably fine to stick with what you know.
But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we've grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.
It won't surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it's bound to happen. I'm teaching my child about linux now, so they'll be aware that software doesn't have to suck.
Try something different, it's a good way to live, to know you don't have to remain where you are if you don't want to. Of course, only if you want to!
uhmbah
in reply to yardratianSoma • • •Right. A long winded response ignoring the subject of google censorship.
-1
korazail
in reply to uhmbah • • •It seemed somewhat topical to me. Google's censorship is the same trend of enshittification that Yar is talking about.
There are tons of other comments talking about the censorship issue. Using this moment to plug open source software is not unreasonable.
Matticus
in reply to uhmbah • • •BCsven
in reply to yardratianSoma • • •microsoft.com/en-us/windows-36…
Windows 365 Link: Cloud PC Device, Simple and Secure
www.microsoft.combthest
in reply to yardratianSoma • • •Echo Dot
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •themachinestops
in reply to Echo Dot • • •Google doesn't care, this is most likely an algorithm taking down the video based on the title. Not the first time the algorithm took down videos accidentally see the copyright case below for example:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…
That was years ago, now it is worse.
Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video] | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.comFredthefishlord
in reply to Echo Dot • • •floofloof
in reply to Fredthefishlord • • •BilSabab
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •BCsven
in reply to BilSabab • • •Trainguyrom
in reply to BCsven • • •BilSabab
in reply to BCsven • • •Wolf
in reply to BCsven • • •tiramichu
in reply to BilSabab • • •BilSabab
in reply to tiramichu • • •DarkAri
in reply to BilSabab • • •BilSabab
in reply to DarkAri • • •melsaskca
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •floofloof
in reply to melsaskca • • •melsaskca
in reply to floofloof • • •Sam_Bass
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •VerilyFemme
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •herseycokguzelolacak
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •m0darn
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •Magnum, P.I.
in reply to m0darn • • •m0darn
in reply to Magnum, P.I. • • •Magnum, P.I.
in reply to m0darn • • •aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •PieMePlenty
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.
My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
On prior Fedora's and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I've not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like.. 10 years ago now?
With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I've not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
I've tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn't make it through a match without a crash.
Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don't cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works.. but its not good enough.
I'm sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don't stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don't need Wayland or don't use Nvidia, I'd definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don't game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian (headless) on my home server and it hasn't crashed with a 3 year uptime.
Desktop linux on a gaming machine.. I've just been disappointed.
Sorry for the dump. I'm voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.
aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)
in reply to PieMePlenty • • •kalpol
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •michaelnik
in reply to kalpol • • •kalpol
in reply to michaelnik • • •toddestan
in reply to kalpol • • •kalpol
in reply to toddestan • • •Croquette
in reply to kalpol • • •Hudell
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •Then one day i made one more distro change and suddenly I was having the best experience I've ever had in any OS. Now I can only hope I can keep riding on this wave for a long time.
Tangent5280
in reply to Hudell • • •Eyy you didn't mention the distro you jumped to. Around these parts, that's a spanking.
Out with the distro or prepare your buttcheeks!
Hudell
in reply to Tangent5280 • • •Cantaloupe877
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •The first while is frustrating, weird and unfamiliar, but there will come a time where Windows will feel that way instead.
Rustjesus
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •Zron
in reply to Rustjesus • • •What have you run into that sticks out to you?
I’m curious because I’ve been on Linux full-time for 2 years now and an avid user for years before, but my friend is thinking of switching and I want to know what he might need help with.
Tangent5280
in reply to Zron • • •Croquette
in reply to Rustjesus • • •NauticalNoodle
in reply to Rustjesus • • •Magnum, P.I.
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)
in reply to Magnum, P.I. • • •barnaclebutt
in reply to aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) • • •RustyOwl
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •RagingRobot
in reply to RustyOwl • • •It's easier than ever to make your own website. You could vibe code one up super fast and throw up some images or videos.
Getting people to see the stuff you make is the major hurdle. These platforms have that benefit because everyone is already there.
Not to mention if you were able to get traffic to your site it probably won't scale well lol.
That being said you should all be making web sites! Things were better when there were more places to go
RustyOwl
in reply to RagingRobot • • •You're correct on the being seen part, but maybe this would involve retraining people to start using a different search engine that works. But I know most of this is will never see the light of day, but maybe one day we can hope for a better future for the internet.
I do fear, with AI now replacing search by many people, what will the internet look like in the next 5 years. Scary to think what that will look like.
rumba
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •FreedomAdvocate
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •