How ugly that is to admit it out loud. What a fucking racist

I converted to Linux as soon as one of the shit Windows 11 updates bricked my 5-year old laptop that was working fine previously.

Kubuntu 4 lyfe! ✌️🤪

We aren’t calling for violence.

We are celebrating that violence occurred.

Cause and effect are two different things. Please tell me you learned them in school.

We can be happy when others die. That is not the same as calling FOR them to die.

Apartment?

See, what I don’t get is that loosening vaccine requirements of the general public means less herd immunity. Elites aren’t entirely immune from diseases. They rely on the rest of the population also not getting sick.

In a way, they’re digging their own grave.

Fair

How would you make it better?

That’s exactly what I was referencing haha, tried to make the analogy work. Might need to smooth out the edges in a few places

Me with a 30 second commute from my desk to my bed:

:( -> :)

This sounds like the GDP meme:

Two programmers are coding in a terminal when they come across a board of scrum tasks.

The first programmer says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to vibe code that task.” The second programmer takes the $100 and vibe codes the scrum task using their favorite AI.

They continue coding until they come across a code review from the senior dev, rejecting the pull request. The second programmer turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to clean up that vibe code”. The first programmer takes the $100 and cleans up the vibe code, using actual skill and no AI.

Coding a little more, the first programmer looks at the second and says, “You know, I gave you $100 to vibe code, then you gave me back the same $100 to clean it up. I can’t help but feel like we both just used AI for nothing.”

“That’s not true”, responded the second programmer. “We fed the AI our code so it would be even smarter next time!”

Narrator: it never did and will never get smarter.

People use touchscreens for accessing ATMs in the States.

Don’t see why this couldn’t be possible for fast food. There’s proven technology that already exists

Edit: Just to add, fuck cars. And fuck anti-urban infrastructure. Maybe we should do away with touchscreens for fast food, as well as other pro car infrastructure. At least not incentivize it

I’m at the Kubuntu stage, and don’t intend on changing anytime soon!

Yo where’s that emo picture of Musk where he’s like trans or something?

Quick update about the PineCube. Pine64 has stopped making it due to low demand. This is confirmed via their Global Store and their Discord.

CinePi / v2 appear to now be the only devices on the market that support the idea of OSH. Pine64’s alternatives to the Raspberry Pi might be able to substitute the CinePi, but it seems that no one has tried this as of August 2025.

I know right. And we all know who the corporate culprits are -_-

I’ve seen Pine64 mentioned online with reference to their Pinephone and Pinephone Pro. Thought I saw somewhere that they’re planning on discontinuing the Pro for one reason or another. Wonder what that means for their business.

The PineCube you mentioned has been tested as a webcam. It looks like the max resolution the cam supports is 1080p, but the frame rate is horrendous at 3-5 fps.

Luckily, Pine64 seem to be developing a successor to the PineCube, the PineCam, as of November of last year. Their documentation of the device seems lacking compared to the PineCube. Not sure if the device is still in development or what. I’ll have to check their socials to see what’s up.

If they roll out that PineCam though, that looks sick! Thanks for the tip!

Or the zionists

and don’t want the democracy

and don’t feel that their government is democratic

I read the Harvard source too, and nowhere were populations asked about democracy in their country. The researchers wanted to look at general satisfaction, and broke that down into surveys about the economy, government corruption, and environment.

Based on the Harvard study alone, neither you nor the Original Commenter (OC) can make claims about perceptions and desires about democracy in China.

However, OC did share the Democracy Perception Index. Looking at the 2024 report alone, Chinese people scored China at >75% democratic, and responded that democracy is >85% important to them. >50% of people believed that China had the right amount of democracy. Based on the data alone, we would believe that the majority of Chinese people 1) want democracy, 2) think China is democratic, and 3) don’t think the amount of democracy needs to change.

We can debate over whether this data is trustworthy. DPI researchers asked surveyees over the internet, which automatically rules out more rural and poorer groups in each society. But this was done for each country, so you might be able to say that the entire survey is moot. Internet surveys are much more susceptible to censorship too, which is why the Harvard study that involved face-to-face interviews is better imo.

Nonetheless, these are the sources that OC presented to support their claim. The majority of Chinese people want democracy, think they live in a democracy, and are satisfied with whatever government they live under, democracy or not.

The original point that OC responded to was whether Chinese people feel coerced by their government. I think the corruption part in the Harvard study and the government accountability part in the DPI reports clearly imply that this is not the case.

What evidence do you have to make the opposite case?

Just picked up my first Framework 13. Moves like this are why I’m increasingly trusting of their mission and vision.

Hopefully they stay private, or better yet, change their corporate charter into a cooperative. Never go public.