I actually found the weeks around the Russians invasion in 2022 quite enlightening here on Lemmy. I must admit I previously felt like “Tankie” was a tired trope and despite some previous evidence to the contrary in regards to support of Assad, I thought they could be reasoned with.

But seeing them here on Lemmy in real-time turn from confused and maybe slightly scared right after the invasion (which they loudly proclaimed would never happen right before it did happen), towards renewed support of Putin’s regime clearly showed to me that they are so good at lying to themselves that they can never be trusted.

Have you consider using a note taking app with server sync instead of abusing a chat service for the same thing?

Literal sightseeing in disaster zones is sadly a very common thing. Really hard to comprehend that some people think that is a good idea.

Hmm, that doesn’t sound like my issue. As soon as I turn on SteamVR the sound goes haywire. I can still use other headphones fine without any issue, but the built in ones have distorted sound with SteamVR running (but not when I turn that off).

No problems with the built in headphones? I can’t get them to sound right… there seems to be some sort of samplerate shift as soon as I start SteamVR with my HTC Vive Pro.

Ah, I was hoping to hear about experiences with the PSVR2 on Linux. Too bad it doesn’t fully work yet. But that it is only a problem with the app might mean Monado support is possible.

Yeah, Occulus and Linux are not the best friends. There are some work arounds to make it somewhat work with SteamVR, but don’t expect too much.

My recommendation would be to look for a second hand Valve Index or HTC Vive if using it on Linux is your priority.

Or wait for the rumored new standalone headset from Valve, but that will probably not happen before end of 2025 if at all.

That makes about as much sense as “anarcho-capitalism”. Of course it’s no fun to have your mental gymnastics questioned outside of Hexbear 😅

But ok, for the sake of argument, maybe a dysfunctional late-stage AES is a more suitable ground for building something in the shell of the old. At least people in these states know from first hand experience just how bad state control can get.

Edit: curious that you left out China in your list of AES.

Any pc with two network ports and Ipfire will do. Easy to set up and configure.

Says the person who doesn’t watch the full video because it apparently doesn’t fit into their ideological world view…

Well, if you only watch the beginning how can you assume it is the “full picture”.

But besides it being not the full argument, the video is largely about how the counter arguments and economic models used to inform governments are even less the “full picture”.

Maybe comments are counted as posts too?

No Sharkey/Misskey is more like Mastodon, but with more playful features like emoji reactions and animated text.

Threads is not included, but Mastodon had a lot more Twitter refugees.

At some point I might also hook up the battery charge meter to a public site for slrpnk.net. Currently we are at 88% and charging, but this website does have a failover to grid-power if the battery charge drops below 20%.

The EU is failing because some of the individual member states are too strong. The same is true on global level where some overly large states or similar constructs form competing power blocks.

Increasing regional integration is basically a local optimum that makes global integration impossible.

I don’t really care what they think of it 🤷‍♂️

It is just campism. It doesn’t matter what these countries actually do, as long as they are against “the west”.

Glinet makes travel routers with OpenWrt on them and internal microSD slots as well as external USB ports. Pretty easy to turn those into a media server as well.

https://wcyb.com/news/local/man-charged-threats-against-fema-workers-north-carolina-chimney-rock-lake-lure-helene-disaster-bostic-hurricane-flooding

Follow up article. Tl;dr the reports were slightly exaggerated and it was just one guy with a rifle.

That hydrogen is too combustible is largely a myth. The main problem with it is leakage through the hull membrane, but that is a solvable engineering problem.