https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/

Nah, all of it will be followed through. He’ll be a dictator and just do it. Only reason he didn’t full do all the other stuff he whined about last time was some checks and balances he had to fight against to do them.

Lol yah, its clear they all want to be dictators, ya know who says, “I was promised total control?” Dictators.

I was just leaning into the ‘weird’ framing, since they seem to fucking hate it.

Even the normal stuff they say isn’t normal. No CEO comes into a company and is like “hey, I heard I was promised to have total control of this company!” They say “I’m hoping to be effective leader and hope together we can, blah, blah, blah”

No sane person comes into a position like that and says the quiet part out loud “day 1, I was promised total control of public health agencies!”

Very weird indeed.

They’ve been pretty fun reads so far, but this 7th book has been a bit of a slog. I think I finally got over some of the more boring parts last night, so hoping the rest of the book is easier to finish.

Hey, glad to hear! I bought a used pixel and did almost no research as I’m busy. So glad to be proven wrong!

Lol also maybe this is just the new normal to get people to buy phones more often again. I just bought a pixel 8a for my father in law because it was supposed to come with 7 version upgrades before being left to rot. I assumed they release a new major version each year, so the phone should last him 7 years, but maybe it’ll only be 3.5 years now?

This is proven false, so 7 years of updates, not 7 versions for a pixel 8a, hooray!

The classic ‘I don’t care how horrible this person or view is’ until it affects them ‘on noooo, I realized he’s terrible! Now I get to seem like an enlightened white Knight, warning others of obvious flaws I decided not to see!’

I bet if the joke was about Mexicans they wouldn’t have cared, because it’s not them.

Not the most annoying, but the most stupid and simple: The fact that even in windows 10 (not sure about 11), you couldn’t set custom keyboard shortcuts for volume up and down. I have had the right Ctrl+shift+up/down arrows bound to the volume up/down, since i started using Linux as my desktop fulltime over 10 years ago, and windows still won’t let you do that out of the box.

Also to pull out their phrase from 20 years ago: “Support the Troops!”

Been wanting to read this, but I’m halfway through book 7 of 8 of the witcher series, and I don’t want to leave the series undone before switching to the next book. The witcher series has been great, but this book is getting slow and hard to finish.

I finally got bored enough on a plane to watch the 3 body problem TV show. Based on liking the TV show, I’m hoping I’m gonna like the book too.

Remember the “support the troops”? And then the same party turned around and denied healthcare to the 9/11 responders, years later after everyone had forgotten…

“It’s a wonderful Life”. I’m not religious but the message of the movie is very straight forward, and very important. Be a good person, always try to help others, have integrity, and try to make meaningful connections with people. You also don’t have to have a long list of accomplishments to have a meaningful life, as long you positively affect others, you’ve done good.

It’s a wonderful life used to be my favorite movie to watch around Christmas time, to remind myself of whats important in life, but now I’ve added:

The movie “About Time”. Slow down. Savor, and enjoy life. Most days I forget about the message of that movie, but I try to remind myself every now and then. It hits especially hard now as my father passed away at 80 last year.

So… The scenario is about your parents. Does that make it any more clear to you?

So… The scenario is about your parents, make it any more clear to you?

So… Let’s say your parents are murdered tomorrow. And the investigators and the news reports just say that they died suddenly on Monday, you know full well that they were actually murdered, they just ignored using the term ‘murdered’, you’d be totally okay with that?

Those 2 phrasings have the exact same meaning to you?

The link wouldn’t work for me either, but I googled the banana pi openwrt one link, and found this page which has 3 Ali express pages to buy from:

https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-One

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Whoops, didn’t realize it looks like its out of stock.

Been running OpenWRT for 16 years (okay some of those years was dd-wrt, and LEDE… But you get the point.)

Using them as dumb AP’s is what I really appreciate openwrt for… I can buy consumer grade hardware and get an actually stable experience as a WiFi AP. Not the typical “oh the WiFi is slow/stopped working? You have reboot it twice a month!” You get with the manufacturer’s shit software. I have a full opnsense box that handles firewall duties and vpn’s etc… So I really only like and need the stability of the hardware as an AP.

I also stock pile WiFi routers running OpenWRT and give them to friends that don’t have a lot of money when I help with tech upgrades, knowing the WiFi router will be rock solid and not cause any issues. They truly are ‘set it and forget it’ units.

No one mentioned Donnie Darko yet? Fantastic soundtrack.

Lol… Yeah, don’t buy things like phones or laptops from amazon. Other gadgets seem to be a better bet (like bluetooth speakers, smart watches, etc) but for some reason laptops and phones seem to be the most scammed.