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Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.
Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she'd be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.
The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.
You realize what the only logical conclusion to your "pragmatic liberal utilitarianism" is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.
After President Biden signed a 2024 spending bill that provides $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to jail 41,500 immigrants per day, 200 NGOs delivered a letter to the White House today opposing this unprecedented expansion of…
I’ve never bothered myself. Not enough equity gained in my house and still too much mortgage to pay off. But I know my neighbors have had success with the process, as have my parents.
Yes, not inspiring and entirely unproductive. Demonizing and pushing those who didn’t vote blue further to the right isn’t helpful, and I’m not saying “both sides are bad” or that we have to compromise with Republicans (I voted for Kamala too).
As fucked as things are, we can either whine about not getting our way until the end of time, or we can do something about it. Comments like OPs push the needle in the wrong direction.
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Immigration was a huge debate issue during that time and something just kept saying not enough was being done to combat a bunch of lies and made up stories. So yeah, they went all in an said "see" but gumball in chief just kept lying and swindling and y'all ate it up.
Ah yes waste time blaming people who were actually trying to move the needle back to the left but were roundly ignored by a bunch of geriatric genociders who would rather pander to racists and ignoramuses who would never vote for them in the first place than just idk maybe stop committing genocide.
This will totally get those people to vote for the other milque toast white racist that the dems put up as a candidate without any sort of election and just expect everyone to vote for because "at least theyre not trump" without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.
"Who didn't work very hard" Says the obese orange paedo that has never worked a day in his life. The only thing this fat tub of corruption ever worked hard at was finding and raping little children. Sweaty cunt.
I've been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.
I've never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we're at.
We're living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we'd be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we've found ourselves in right now? I'm glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven'
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I've been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.
I've never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we're at.
We're living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we'd be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we've found ourselves in right now? I'm glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven't benefitted from the current administration. This is a level of bad I never expected to see in my life, and I think there are a lot of terminally online people who are seeing this in a romanticized way that obscures the severity of the situation we find ourselves in.
We likely would have had more ability to push things to the left without the levels of harm, destruction, and violence that we're seeing now under just about anyone but Trump and Project 2025. Instead of activism and outreach, now we have to play defense and protect our neighbors and communities. Not to mention the roll acks of rights to the health and safety of women and queer people are more passively costing lives and creating suffering.
Yes, the status quo was terrible. Democrats offer pretty words and little action. They aren't going to save us or give us the futures we deserve. I'd give just about anything for us to be out of this, though. Humiliation and disgust on an international scale, the daily violence, and reading new horrors every damn day is absolutely the greater of two evils, though. I can't see a scenario where anything is worth what's in store.
Non voters aren't the sole reason we're here, but I'm sick of pretending that those people's choices didn't play a large role in our current situation. These times demand we all do some soul searching, take accountability, and work together to get out of this in one piece. Because, again, we have to live in the reality of where we're at.
LOL, you must not have much dealings with the type I'm talking about. They are rubbing their high-horse ideals in my face all the time, saying that Taco is more or less the same as Kamala would have been.
So, who else to blame for voters that think Taco and Kamala are the same and that Taco would be "better for 'conomy"? That's the fault of the Democratic Party?
People keep blaming them for anything and everything and how they have to "message better", but the Democrats don't really have any kind of media to get that message out on.
Do you honestly think that if Harris won there would be armed agents on the street murdering citizens, driving your economy to historic lows, alienating your closest allies, tanking trade routes, invading Venezuela, kidnapping anyone with a skin colour darker than snow white....
No one said that. But it's inarguable that the Democratic party is in large part responsible for people not wanting to vote for the candidates they put forth knowing full well we want an actual lefty and not a corporate business monster.
It will take a bit more time. Enough time that when the next president steps in, the aftermath will really show. Then this egotistic maniac will point at that president and blame them. Never him fault, according to him.
Crashed economies hurt the poor. The rich use their wealth to buy up resources, realestate, stocks, etc. on the cheap and then ride it out in their luxury homes while the rest of us stand in the bread lines.
The wealthiest people in the world already essentially do not experience borders. They regularly travel without passports or customs checks, live for extended periods in multiple nations without visas, they are essentially the proverbial citizens of the world. If the US falls and the dollar is wiped from the face of the Earth, they'll have all of their money in European stocks, Asian currencies, and Middle Eastern real estate as they watch the collapse.
This is something that has baffled me for a while when I see or hear people talking happily about their home value going up or talking about their house as an investment and get mad at the thought of a drop in home value. Even if these people never sold their house, if home prices keep increasing faster than wages, then at some point they won't be able to afford the taxes on their home. I just don't get it, smh.
Our home has doubled in value in the last 7 years, but life would be better if it had've stayed at the same price.
We're lucky enough to have somewhere to live but as a community it really sucks that its so hard for so many people - the rental market is just awful, inhumane even.
God forbid we want to buy a bigger home with some more room for the kids - upgrading just cost twice as much.
My parents are boomers and have been beneficiaries of the eternal increase in property values throughout their lives. They're in their 80s and really need to retire, but can't really afford to. Increasing property prices aren't really good for anyone.
I have someone like that in my life. To this day they think masking and “forced gene modifications” are a bigger deal than what happening now. I’ve been lectured so many times about how anger at what’s going on is just being political.
Stagflation is an economic condition characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment.
without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.
For all that the dems really do seem to do their best to alienate the left, I'm fairly sure their policy did not include having barely trained, masked, goons running around American cites executing people at will, kidnapping others, and facing no concequences, and yet, trump was clear that it was what he wanted. I'd call that a meaningful difference.
She’s antivax, especially when it comes to the mRNA vaccines, she claims they are a government experiment that we were forced to undergo. She conveniently ignores that the phizer was available and you weren’t mandated unless you wanted access to public services.
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Oh, good grief. One of those dead-enders. I find it hilarious when someone I know still holds a grudge about having to get the "jab" to travel, or to work, and so on. The biggest snowflakes.
I worked my ass off. Now I can pay for a place to live and keep paying it off no matter what for 30 years. No matter what? Yeah anything happens to me, that means my family looses their house for life because they are too young to work now but not having a house will make it harder for them to ever get one.
I'm basically a slave.
Now if I were to sale my home, then I could probably afford to buy a smaller house and keep paying even more! Yey! That's how math works right? You get 10 dollars for your house so that you can buy half that house for 11 dollars! Yey!
But have you tried being born rich? A trust fund to protect you from most of humanity that has to deal with the shit end of capitalism, maybe leverage a little of that wealth to get control over systems of economy and legislature.
And the income follows somewhat inflation, otherwise you'll need 600% of your income to barely afford one meal per day, and you won't have anything left for the house.
Implement the Argentina response which is to keep taking out loans one after the other, pay off older loans with newer loans as their currency crashes.
Japan lets Americans come, visa on arrival. If you want to stay longer than 90 days, you can start a business, you have a lot of leeway here, and loans are pretty cheap, like 8% for foreigners, <4% if you've been here awhile. Huge foreign community can guide you when you get here.
If you're in your 20s, you can get a working holiday visa and work for any company that will hire you.
You can't just step out for an hour and reenter like with China, Japan doesn't like visa-runs.
With China, you can get an L(tourist) visa and make a visa-run every 90 days (60 if you applied outside USA), or M visa if you plan to start a business.
The China visa process kinda sucks, dm me if you need help.
For vietnam, you can go there on a 90 day evisa, and if you're white, a fake college degree can have you working as a fake English teacher at a fake English school, for real dong.
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I have come to also realise that there are a lot of people with below surface level understanding of who or what they are voting for. I assume going through their lives blissfully unaware of the current shit show.
Otherwise intelligent people (in my orbit UK based) think Trump is doing okay because he's tough on China and China is not our friend. Seemingly absolutely no awareness of how fucked up America has become in under a year and what that means for the UK I side eye them still, as I wonder if there is more going on there views wise.
Just leaves me thinking those fuckers from Reform will get in because Farage likes a pint down the local Wetherspoons.
How about this: rent should be abolished, housing prices should be controlled through a planned market economy, and property should be taxed through a land value tax. It's time that Americans see the cat.
Neat, and totally irrelevant because we have no idea if our examples are geographically proximate. In the area I'm living in now, at the same grocery store, the price of a honeycrisp apple has more than quadrupled in the last 5 years. Averaged out that's 60% YoY inflation.
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Per usual, read the article and not just the headline.
Sounds like he's talking about banning investor purchases of single family homes. Which is a good thing.
I fucking hate Trump and he's wrong about pushing housing prices higher, but banning investor purchases of homes is the right call, so he's kinda right.
Also, crashing housing value would destroy anybody who has invested in their home as equity. What needs to happen is a leveling off and investment in cheaper starter home builds, as well as a push for first time homebuyer loans that are low interest and up front down payment.
I bought my first home on a HomePath mortgage. No PMI, 5% down, and reasonable interest rate that was only a bit higher than a traditional mortgage.
Getting people into their FIRST homes and making sure they aren't beat out by cash offers from investors it's the correct way forward.
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I usually do not waste my time reading articles with sensational headlines like these. If it were not for your comment, I would have ignored the entire thread.
Why should I care about someone's equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?
My car doesn't become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It's a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.
To strike a balance, home values should go up at the same rate as general inflation and/or wages (ideally the latter, really), or at least stay the same over time.
You really don't want to find yourself in a situation where you need to sell and you're underwater. At the same time, they obviously shouldn't be the investment vehicles they are now.
Also some people use the equity from home appreciation to take out an extra mortgage for improvements. I don't personally think it's a great idea (as it can put you under water if the market takes a wild swing), but it's something people can use to get a cash injection for potentially expensive home improvement work.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, per se, but it is uniquely an "American thing". Unlike most other places in the world, most people's wealth is tied up in their home in the US. That's just how it is right now and if people can't afford them, they stay poor.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose. Thats why the Republicans and Democrats need a secret paramilitary police force in the streets. If they don’t quell uprisings and arrest activists (i.e. “domestic terrorists”), the citizens may gain enough momentum to enact another New Deal, and the wealthy benefactors of both parties will do everything they can to stop that from happening.
Fuck that sonofabitch. When he finally dies all his assets should go back into the national treasury to reinstate the departments his little Nazi lapdoge cut out
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The statement comes amid a growing rift between 2A activists and Trump that has emerged over remarks by him and members of his admin since the incident.
Hello! I currently maintain a small/medium-small open source project. I know I have some active users. It's been fun, but I no longer feel like I can properly maintain it. I've been considering two options: archive the project or transfer the ownership to someone else.
Does anyone have any experience doing either of these things?
Transferring the project to someone else who would actively maintain the project seems like a good option. However, what would that process look like? How do I vet or trust random people on the internet? What if I transfer it to someone and then they add a bitcoin miner a year later?
I have gifted several repos to the community writ large... Transferring to a stranger is dangerous. Shutting it down is letting the community disolve into the broader ocean of OSS. If you care deeply about this project (AND are not burned out, this is key) I would highly recommend transparency first. Edit your main readme or make a post on your issues/forum/etc, whatever is the most popular, asking for community leaders to step up in taking the reigns. Promote one to many (depending on how popular this repo is) contributers to become stewards, where they are essentially granted all permissions except a rolling a new version, retain that power for yourself and over a year or so you approve releases but take no active part in development. Once one to many contributers assume the ownership role (in spirit only as you hold the release keys) and are actively progressing what used to be your baby, then and only then do you pick the best of the worst (lol sorry RLM is always in the back of my mind) to be your true successor - handing over the last of your exclusive permissions a
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I have gifted several repos to the community writ large... Transferring to a stranger is dangerous. Shutting it down is letting the community disolve into the broader ocean of OSS. If you care deeply about this project (AND are not burned out, this is key) I would highly recommend transparency first. Edit your main readme or make a post on your issues/forum/etc, whatever is the most popular, asking for community leaders to step up in taking the reigns. Promote one to many (depending on how popular this repo is) contributers to become stewards, where they are essentially granted all permissions except a rolling a new version, retain that power for yourself and over a year or so you approve releases but take no active part in development. Once one to many contributers assume the ownership role (in spirit only as you hold the release keys) and are actively progressing what used to be your baby, then and only then do you pick the best of the worst (lol sorry RLM is always in the back of my mind) to be your true successor - handing over the last of your exclusive permissions and breaking a bottle of champage on the figurative new ship.
I wish you the best and I thank you deeply from my heart for contributing your labor and love to the OSS community.
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I'm no fan of GitHub but if you set up dependabot (or equivalent elsewhere), you can ramp maintaince down to running PRs through tests every few months (assuming it's not software with a large attack surface)
You can really just stop. If you leave it to languish and the community wants to continue, it will be forked. Nature of the beast. And nobody can fault you for that as long as you tell the community, “I’m out”.
I’m not saying that is the best method, but for anybody out there feeling a ton of pressure to the point it affects your wellbeing, you can stop.
I very much agree. I think that this aligns with the spirit of FOSS. As the neofetch decays on the forest floor, the fastfetch rises in its place to fill its role in the ecosystem. This how our ecosystem stays fresh and moves forward.
If you're open to it, I've seen maintainers go to "maintenance mode".
Write it high in the readme so people see it, and write what it means: basically that you're not accepting PRs, you're not developing new features, but you will do bug fixes and basic maintenance (dependency updates, etc).
Tell the users about your intentions to step down. If you don't have a plan for succession, see if they come up with something or if someone steps up.
Remember there are worse outcomes than just abandoning the project. Officially handing it over to a malicious or incompetent maintainer would be worse. If someone really wants to take it over, they don't need your permission. Announcing your departure is already more than a lot of projects do.
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This request comes to you via my sister, who lives in South Minneapolis. She and others in the Bancroft neighborhood are trying to raise funds to help their neighbors who have been unable to leave their homes to work for the past several weeks to meet their rent payments for February, which are now past due.
The need is dire, and the solution is temporary. But anything you can do to help gives folks there a much-needed reprieve, and helps keep a beautiful, diverse community intact. A community that I love, and one that deserves to be whole.
“I have been working with friends and neighbors who have been fielding requests for rental assistance from immigrant famil
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Hey friends.
This request comes to you via my sister, who lives in South Minneapolis. She and others in the Bancroft neighborhood are trying to raise funds to help their neighbors who have been unable to leave their homes to work for the past several weeks to meet their rent payments for February, which are now past due.
The need is dire, and the solution is temporary. But anything you can do to help gives folks there a much-needed reprieve, and helps keep a beautiful, diverse community intact. A community that I love, and one that deserves to be whole.
“I have been working with friends and neighbors who have been fielding requests for rental assistance from immigrant families who cannot safely leave their homes to go to work right now. As rent has been coming due, we have been receiving about 15 requests per day, with the average amount needed per household at around $1,500. Up until a few days ago, we were able to meet requests as they came in, through the generosity of our neighbors and their contacts. The current demand has now exceeded the capacity of our immediate networks, and we need to raise about $30,000 to meet the requests that we know about today.
We have entered damage control mode. My neighbors are spending their lunch breaks and evenings today calling landlords on behalf of these households to ask for extensions on their rent payments.”
How come we just ended our 2-decade last night wars, and the Pentagon budget has only continued to rapidly increase? We should be slashing that thing to ribbons
Pentagon literally cannot complete an audit. The lowest possible bar should be complete an audit prior to additional funding. But yeah…not gonna happen with these fossils in charge. Have to primary them all.
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I have a TV which says it supports 4K 144Hz and right now I run an old laptop as a media server/desktop to it, which can only handle 1080p. I wish to switch to some NUC/mini-pc that run a linux desktop in 4K and run media flawlessly on it.
There are two things that I get confused about trying to find something that suits my wishes:
How do I properly find out if the hardware can handle this? Like a rpi5 can handle 4K video playback with like librelec, but a 4K desktop distribution is laggy and slow. Is a CPU only enough, or do I need dedicated GPU? Should I be looking at the Ultra Core series from intel, does it have good linux support?
Are my wishes on hdmi 2.1 level troughput? Which may not work on linux? Reading about hdmi 2.1, then it says that the hdmi forum forbids open source support for hdmi 2.1, does that mean there are binary blobs for linux that will work?
Is there anything else I'm missing? If you run a linux media server, what hardware and dist are you running?
On Linux true HDMI the limit is 4K 60htz. Not due to hardware limitations but the "HDMI Forum" hating Linux. And no driver blobs exist AFAIK.
Anyway. What I did and seems to work perfectly fine for 4k 60hz. Is using a Minis forum S100. That small PC stick. Put fedora linux on it and boot straight in to the kodi GBM desktop. It plays 4K Remux just fine. Live TV gets a bit harder though.
Also dont try Libreelec on it. It won't work because they do not ship with UFS (not file system but storage chip) drivers.
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1) You can look at manufacturers info pages and see what they support. Intel integrated chips usually list the capabilities and you'll want to double check with your mini PC or motherboard manufacturer to make sure they support it too. I think any i5+ from the past 5 years with integrated graphics should be able to play/decode 4k media (someone correct me if this sounds crazy). Fornsure my core ultra 265. As far as codec support, I'm not familiar with the compatibilities but I'm sure everything CAN be played on recentish hardware. Encoding is out of my weelhouse.
2) I've used HDMI 2.1 hdr 4k120 on Linux with Nvidia, AMD and Integrated Intel. AMD will be the best experience especially on cards from the past 5 years. Nvidia, with proprietary drivers, on 3000 series or newer should be good for a few more years. I heard 2000 series will be dropped from support soonish m. Intel HDMI 2.1 is a pain on linux and I've only been able to get HDR 4k120 using a special DP to HDMI cable.
Personally, I have a GUI-less server that is connected to my lan running jellyfin server and an nvidia shield plugged to the TV with an alternative launcher to get rid of ads. That way, the server consumption is low and always on and you get a good interface and a remote for the TV.
If you really want a Linux device plugged to the TV, you could look into Plasma Bigscreen, a KDE made for TV.
If you're going intel you can check the ark.intel pages for the processors in the devices you're looking at. Intel does pretty good documentation so it'll show you what integrated graphics they have and all that.
Ideally you want a chip that can do hardware decoding (and if possible encoding if you're serving media to others and intend for it to transcode and not direct-play) of common codecs so you're not eating a massive power bill or generating tons of heat or getting bogged down in resource utilization.
AV1 support is the only tricky part when it comes to hardware decode support. Maybe you don't use it yourself but typically only the newer chips support hardware decode of AV1 files. Something to consider if that's likely to be an issue for you if you have or plan to have lots of AV1 encoded files. (Though there is software decode of course)
The Intel N150 can do a 4K desktop, you won't be doing 4k gaming on it at all but it can do the desktop and video playback and is a low power consumption chipset. Should be able to support at least 2-3 4k transcodes as wel
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If you're going intel you can check the ark.intel pages for the processors in the devices you're looking at. Intel does pretty good documentation so it'll show you what integrated graphics they have and all that.
Ideally you want a chip that can do hardware decoding (and if possible encoding if you're serving media to others and intend for it to transcode and not direct-play) of common codecs so you're not eating a massive power bill or generating tons of heat or getting bogged down in resource utilization.
AV1 support is the only tricky part when it comes to hardware decode support. Maybe you don't use it yourself but typically only the newer chips support hardware decode of AV1 files. Something to consider if that's likely to be an issue for you if you have or plan to have lots of AV1 encoded files. (Though there is software decode of course)
The Intel N150 can do a 4K desktop, you won't be doing 4k gaming on it at all but it can do the desktop and video playback and is a low power consumption chipset. Should be able to support at least 2-3 4k transcodes as well. A lot of enthusiasts use it for just this purpose in fact and it's fairly snappy for uses like these.
Anything more powerful than an N150 will be fine as well for 4K video viewing, transcoding, 4k desktop, etc. So if you want to spend more and get a more powerful Intel chip you can. Just avoid 13/14th generation i series (i5/i7/i9) especially used because of the hardware damage bad design did to those and there are a lot of messed up ones floating around from people trying to offload.
144hz may be the really tricky part. Lots of these mini boxes are capped at 60hz so definitely double-check that. There's always the option of displayport to HDMI cables too if it has a DP output that supports the necessary 4k framerate. N150 might struggle driving that to be honest.
Oh and be aware of thermal throttling. Lots of manufacturers stuff Ultra 9 series in things like laptops and minis with inadequate cooling and they thermal throttle like crazy so you pay $800 and get something with the same performance as a properly cooled Ultra 7 or 5 series.
To loop back around to whether you need a dedicated GPU. You have to ask yourself are you transcoding streams for others or is it mostly direct-play without transcode? Integrated GPU on the CPU die should be good enough unless you have an awful lot of streams going at once or some other pressing need.
You can run whatever distro you want. There are extremely specialized distros like OSMC (osmc.tv/) which is basically kind of like Kodi running on Debian but without a desktop environment (extremely media center focused).
I don't really have any hardware recommendations, since i just use a dedicated server built from spare parts, and stream it to an android tv with jellyfin, but i can say that when it comes to hdmi 2.1, as far as i'm aware it's only an issue on amd. Intel and nvidia have their own workarounds, but for some reason amd is just... sitting there, not doing anything it seems. I bought a ugreen displayport to hdmi adapter for my tv and it seems to work just fine, so that could be a workaround.
You find out if the hardware can handle it by looking up its video decoding capabilities on Wikipedia and checking that it’s capable of the resolution and codec you want. If you’re buying new hardware then a chip from Intel or amd that support the resolution and codec you expect will do the job. It doesn’t need to be the latest and greatest thing.
If you can’t be content with 4k60 over hdmi then you either need to use proprietary drivers or a different cable. Your tv very well may have a displayport slot and that’ll sidestep the problem. I don’t have problems with proprietary drivers but you may.
The funding round also saw participation from angel investors including Groww founder and CEO Lalit Keshre, Cred founder Kunal Shah and Ayyappan R, founder of FirstClub.
The company, which owns Musk’s AI startup and the social network X, is saddled with billions of dollars in debt, besieged by well-funded rivals and faces mounting regulatory scrutiny after its chatbot spread sexualized images.
Michael Kratsios, assistant to US President Donald Trump and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will lead the US delegation to India's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
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Unknown parent • • •Absolutely the biggest scam ever.
My parents bought their house for $159,000 in the late 90s.
They are still in that house. Guess how much is left on their mortgage balance? $350,000.
Why? Because of cash out refinances and HELOCs.
They should be retiring soon but they're not, because people like you said these equity loans are good.
They're not. These are terrible ideas. Do not EVER take out the equity of your home.
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Unknown parent • • •Don't get me started on luxury inflation.
Look at things like the prices for live sporting events and concerts.
Back when The Beetles were the hottest band in the world, teenagers were buying their own tickets.
Middle class folks used to be able to splurge once in a while and get the best of the best. Now that stuff is beyond the reach of mere mortals
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Unknown parent • • •200 NGOs Oppose Biden’s Historic Expansion of ICE Detention System: "Detention should not be about politics."
ICE records show Biden admin plans could give Trump a head start on deportations
President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs
Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress
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President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs
Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress
Tom Homan - Border Czar was originally appointed by Obama
Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.
Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she'd be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.
The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.
You realize what the only logical conclusion to your "pragmatic liberal utilitarianism" is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.
200 NGOs Oppose Biden's Historic Expansion of ICE Detention System: "Detention should not be about politics." - National Immigrant Justice Center
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in reply to eli • • •Woof, that sucks. I’m sorry to hear that.
I’ve never bothered myself. Not enough equity gained in my house and still too much mortgage to pay off. But I know my neighbors have had success with the process, as have my parents.
DoctorGirthquake
Unknown parent • • •Yes, not inspiring and entirely unproductive. Demonizing and pushing those who didn’t vote blue further to the right isn’t helpful, and I’m not saying “both sides are bad” or that we have to compromise with Republicans (I voted for Kamala too).
As fucked as things are, we can either whine about not getting our way until the end of time, or we can do something about it. Comments like OPs push the needle in the wrong direction.
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in reply to Ferrous • • •LotrOrc
Unknown parent • • •Ah yes waste time blaming people who were actually trying to move the needle back to the left but were roundly ignored by a bunch of geriatric genociders who would rather pander to racists and ignoramuses who would never vote for them in the first place than just idk maybe stop committing genocide.
This will totally get those people to vote for the other milque toast white racist that the dems put up as a candidate without any sort of election and just expect everyone to vote for because "at least theyre not trump" without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.
D_C
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •Says the obese orange paedo that has never worked a day in his life.
The only thing this fat tub of corruption ever worked hard at was finding and raping little children. Sweaty cunt.
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in reply to D_C • • •Optional
Unknown parent • • •Voting for Kamala was the only sane move. That’s all we were asking for.
We all want Bernie, but the nation is what it is and we’d have been streets ahead with Kamala even. Hopefully AOC someday.
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Unknown parent • • •GiantChickDicks
in reply to LotrOrc • • •I've been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.
I've never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we're at.
We're living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we'd be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we've found ourselves in right now? I'm glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven'
... show moreI've been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.
I've never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we're at.
We're living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we'd be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we've found ourselves in right now? I'm glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven't benefitted from the current administration. This is a level of bad I never expected to see in my life, and I think there are a lot of terminally online people who are seeing this in a romanticized way that obscures the severity of the situation we find ourselves in.
We likely would have had more ability to push things to the left without the levels of harm, destruction, and violence that we're seeing now under just about anyone but Trump and Project 2025. Instead of activism and outreach, now we have to play defense and protect our neighbors and communities. Not to mention the roll acks of rights to the health and safety of women and queer people are more passively costing lives and creating suffering.
Yes, the status quo was terrible. Democrats offer pretty words and little action. They aren't going to save us or give us the futures we deserve. I'd give just about anything for us to be out of this, though. Humiliation and disgust on an international scale, the daily violence, and reading new horrors every damn day is absolutely the greater of two evils, though. I can't see a scenario where anything is worth what's in store.
Non voters aren't the sole reason we're here, but I'm sick of pretending that those people's choices didn't play a large role in our current situation. These times demand we all do some soul searching, take accountability, and work together to get out of this in one piece. Because, again, we have to live in the reality of where we're at.
Madison420
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Unknown parent • • •CharlesDarwin
in reply to Madison420 • • •So, who else to blame for voters that think Taco and Kamala are the same and that Taco would be "better for 'conomy"? That's the fault of the Democratic Party?
People keep blaming them for anything and everything and how they have to "message better", but the Democrats don't really have any kind of media to get that message out on.
ColeSloth
Unknown parent • • •PhoenixDog
in reply to Madison420 • • •Do you honestly think that if Harris won there would be armed agents on the street murdering citizens, driving your economy to historic lows, alienating your closest allies, tanking trade routes, invading Venezuela, kidnapping anyone with a skin colour darker than snow white....
I could go on.
Madison420
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in reply to CharlesDarwin • • •skozzii
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •He is setting USA up for the worst economic crisis in history.
The biggest, the best, the most beautiful financial downfall the world has ever seen.
Bakkoda
in reply to skozzii • • •matlag
in reply to Bakkoda • • •yeehaw
in reply to skozzii • • •It will take a bit more time. Enough time that when the next president steps in, the aftermath will really show. Then this egotistic maniac will point at that president and blame them. Never him fault, according to him.
But that's narcissism for you.
kryptonianCodeMonkey
in reply to skozzii • • •A_Random_Idiot
in reply to kryptonianCodeMonkey • • •What hes aiming for is destabilization.
He's already talking civil war.
Which I think is his ultimate goal. and the goal of his masters.
Civil War 2 on a horrific scale, that knocks America out of any meaningful global position for years, if not decades afterwards.
Strider
in reply to kryptonianCodeMonkey • • •Which only works until you tank the country by pissing of your customers (aka other countries) enough and tank your currency.
Everything en route!
kryptonianCodeMonkey
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in reply to MuskyMelon • • •I hate him.
My dream is to be a homeowner and it's slipping away faster than I can chase after it.
I fucking hate him so much.
Drusas
Unknown parent • • •explodicle
Unknown parent • • •Voting left: 1
Not voting: 0
Voting MAGA: -1
fizzle
Unknown parent • • •Exactly.
Our home has doubled in value in the last 7 years, but life would be better if it had've stayed at the same price.
We're lucky enough to have somewhere to live but as a community it really sucks that its so hard for so many people - the rental market is just awful, inhumane even.
God forbid we want to buy a bigger home with some more room for the kids - upgrading just cost twice as much.
My parents are boomers and have been beneficiaries of the eternal increase in property values throughout their lives. They're in their 80s and really need to retire, but can't really afford to. Increasing property prices aren't really good for anyone.
4grams
Unknown parent • • •deadbeef79000
in reply to Drusas • • •I'd bet on stagflation actually:
CharlesDarwin
in reply to 4grams • • •notabot
in reply to LotrOrc • • •For all that the dems really do seem to do their best to alienate the left, I'm fairly sure their policy did not include having barely trained, masked, goons running around American cites executing people at will, kidnapping others, and facing no concequences, and yet, trump was clear that it was what he wanted. I'd call that a meaningful difference.
4grams
in reply to CharlesDarwin • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •Hahahahaha! This is so unbelievably fucking ridiculous.
All while they're crying about the falling birth rates.
HurricaneLiz
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Unknown parent • • •altphoto
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •I worked my ass off. Now I can pay for a place to live and keep paying it off no matter what for 30 years. No matter what? Yeah anything happens to me, that means my family looses their house for life because they are too young to work now but not having a house will make it harder for them to ever get one.
I'm basically a slave.
Now if I were to sale my home, then I could probably afford to buy a smaller house and keep paying even more! Yey! That's how math works right? You get 10 dollars for your house so that you can buy half that house for 11 dollars! Yey!
Prior_Industry
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in reply to Prior_Industry • • •lofuw
in reply to altphoto • • •That's the goal. Whatever keeps workers working is what the ruling class will force upon us.
It's why we never invested in fusion energy. Expensive fossil fuels keeps people working.
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in reply to jacksilver • • •Sunflier
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •-Trump, effectively.
TerdFerguson
in reply to Sunflier • • •Plebiscite is, specifically, the common term for popular vote.
I think I get what you’re going for though.
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in reply to FauxPseudo • • •0_o7
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •You're not in US platform here bud. Most people here already hate the orange turd and his cronies to the max.
Fix your damned shit, where it matters, not on an international forum who's tired of your shit.
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Unknown parent • • •Japan lets Americans come, visa on arrival. If you want to stay longer than 90 days, you can start a business, you have a lot of leeway here, and loans are pretty cheap, like 8% for foreigners, <4% if you've been here awhile. Huge foreign community can guide you when you get here.
If you're in your 20s, you can get a working holiday visa and work for any company that will hire you.
You can't just step out for an hour and reenter like with China, Japan doesn't like visa-runs.
With China, you can get an L(tourist) visa and make a visa-run every 90 days (60 if you applied outside USA), or M visa if you plan to start a business.
The China visa process kinda sucks, dm me if you need help.
For vietnam, you can go there on a 90 day evisa, and if you're white, a fake college degree can have you working as a fake English teacher at a fake English school, for real dong.
Prior_Industry
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •Honestly curious to see how this pans out. Trump's polling still seems higher than it should be given the shit show he's presiding over.
Here in the UK, we appear desperate to touch the Reform stove. I despair.
MuskyMelon
in reply to Prior_Industry • • •Prior_Industry
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •I have come to also realise that there are a lot of people with below surface level understanding of who or what they are voting for. I assume going through their lives blissfully unaware of the current shit show.
Otherwise intelligent people (in my orbit UK based) think Trump is doing okay because he's tough on China and China is not our friend. Seemingly absolutely no awareness of how fucked up America has become in under a year and what that means for the UK I side eye them still, as I wonder if there is more going on there views wise.
Just leaves me thinking those fuckers from Reform will get in because Farage likes a pint down the local Wetherspoons.
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Unknown parent • • •Mmm, no.
300 fucking thousand dollars is still 300 fucking thousand dollars.
You could buy a shitshack and still have a place to live. Hell, you could even get scammed renting like a moron and you still would have made money.
lofuw
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in reply to MuskyMelon • • •SippyCup
in reply to Resonosity • • •Why stop there?
Guarantee housing with a housing stipend and impose massive taxes on additional properties
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in reply to Resonosity • • •voracitude
Unknown parent • • •Neat, and totally irrelevant because we have no idea if our examples are geographically proximate. In the area I'm living in now, at the same grocery store, the price of a honeycrisp apple has more than quadrupled in the last 5 years. Averaged out that's 60% YoY inflation.
And there is a reason:
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in reply to Alcoholicorn • • •chronicledmonocle
in reply to MuskyMelon • • •Per usual, read the article and not just the headline.
Sounds like he's talking about banning investor purchases of single family homes. Which is a good thing.
I fucking hate Trump and he's wrong about pushing housing prices higher, but banning investor purchases of homes is the right call, so he's kinda right.
Also, crashing housing value would destroy anybody who has invested in their home as equity. What needs to happen is a leveling off and investment in cheaper starter home builds, as well as a push for first time homebuyer loans that are low interest and up front down payment.
I bought my first home on a HomePath mortgage. No PMI, 5% down, and reasonable interest rate that was only a bit higher than a traditional mortgage.
Getting people into their FIRST homes and making sure they aren't beat out by cash offers from investors it's the correct way forward.
tackleberry
in reply to chronicledmonocle • • •chiliedogg
in reply to chronicledmonocle • • •Why should I care about someone's equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?
My car doesn't become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It's a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.
boonhet
in reply to chiliedogg • • •To strike a balance, home values should go up at the same rate as general inflation and/or wages (ideally the latter, really), or at least stay the same over time.
You really don't want to find yourself in a situation where you need to sell and you're underwater. At the same time, they obviously shouldn't be the investment vehicles they are now.
Also some people use the equity from home appreciation to take out an extra mortgage for improvements. I don't personally think it's a great idea (as it can put you under water if the market takes a wild swing), but it's something people can use to get a cash injection for potentially expensive home improvement work.
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in reply to MuskyMelon • • •Can we each be given the kind of head start of millions he did? :3