9v are on their way as what’s left of their dwindling niche use cases that are progressively being replaced by rechargable ones.

guitar guy here. 9v is here to stay, almost every peripheral or active pickup uses them.

why did you choose to interpret the tankie part as the pro-assassination part, and not the “paint him as a kind of Allende allegory”, which is clearly the aim with that statement.

I salute you salmon swimming upstream.

Most people are tinkering with linux and making it more like linux, you’re about to make windows work like gnome 🤣

It seems much more “our dictator wants to take the other dictator’s resources because we need more money to continue to fund whatever the fuck we want with no public oversight.”

bingo. completely with you there. Fuck whatever the CIA is doing and the blowing up of random boats. But, also fuck Maduro, not just because he sucks domestically for the Venezuelan people, but also, because he gives left wing policies a bad name internationally.

Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block CIA assassination plots

I misread the title as this and was pleasantly surprised for about 5 seconds.

drafting an opinion that could render any assassination of Maduro legally justifiable.

I can’t wait for the tankie idiots to paint Maduro as some kind of Allende allegory, when he’s more … IDK, less violent Kim Jong Un?

He literally pissed away any kind of progress Chavez (who was also controversial) made, so even if you wanted to be “fair” to the … regime in Venezuela, he’s still a fuckup.

yt-dlp --version
2025.04.30

Son of a fucking bitch. DEBIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

EDIT : IDK still works for me.

$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v%5C=FFe58KX4MHA
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFe58KX4MHA
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading player b2515611-main
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading ios player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
WARNING: [youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482  for more details
[youtube] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] FFe58KX4MHA: Downloading 1 format(s): 614+234
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 86
[download] Destination: Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f614.mp4
[download] 100% of   22.74MiB in 00:00:16 at 1.41MiB/s
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 86
[download] Destination: Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f234.mp4
[download] 100% of    7.14MiB in 00:00:08 at 902.54KiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].mp4"
Deleting original file Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f234.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Malcolm X ｜ ＂By Any Means Necessary＂ Speech (1964) [FFe58KX4MHA].f614.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
$ 

EDIT : for those keeping score, IDK what to do at this point. If you like helping, give a hand.

$ yt-dlp -U
Current version: stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
ERROR: As yt-dlp has been installed via apt, you should use that to update.  If you're on a stable release, also check backports.

I already did sudo apt update, not sure how to “backport”

Ok, now you’re just devolving into nonsense.

I’m trying to help empower people into thinking that they can also achieve things that they think only happen to other people so that they can be more creative and satisfied in their life. I am pointing my own experience as common and the wrong thing to do.

I literally went to therapy and took anti depressants to deal with this issue. I was getting burnt out by work and additional responsabilities, and turning to just easy pleasures like playing proc-gen rougelikes and felt like I was wasting my life. My therapist introduced me to the idea of the eudaimonic/hedonistic balance, and it’s important to keep a balance between these so that you aren’t burning yourself out, and also not looking back at the month that went by as a complete fucking waste.

Because when you look at other people that appear to be “creatives” you need to see yourself as being capable enough to be like them, and not feel defeatism in “oh no, I can’t ever do that, because I don’t have what they have”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism

This is literally a battle I’m having in my spare time at the moment for my own sanity and life satisfaction, and want to share those ideas with other people. Get out of the meme space and think for yourself man.

same goes to you.

I’m talking about shit like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_a_Week

And saying that if you specify your goals, you too can be productive.

Also, to not be daunted by high rates of productions of other people.

I am pointing out that there are ways to be productive, and that some things are easier to make lots of than others. You should not be surprised that a folk musician can make lots of albums in a year, because the process is fairly streamlined compared to other forms of music.

Most of the times, when musicians challenge themselves to be very productive, they generally tend to aim for music like pop or folk music, because it requires less complexity.

Would you like to claim that “it’s easier to wrote a 2 hour long symphony than a 2 minute folk song” is true?

The same guy who just started putting out videos of him playing VERY well crafted songs with relevant lyrics just a year ago put out FOUR RECORDS AND IS NOMINATED FOR FOUR GRAMMYS?!?!?!

look man, he’s witty and trying to spread the good word, but folk music is hardly rocket surgery. If instead of shitposting, I turned them into poems and put them over a generic chord progression, I could record 10 albums

Salem techsperts off YouTube is doing something similar, and offering Linux as an alternative (unfortunately mainly windows oses)

Sudo !!

(I like to think of it as “sudo bang bang!”)

It seems like you’re too emotionally invested to have a normal conversation like a person.

My bad for having opinions. Sorry. /s

Health is an app you can delete. It’s not forcing you to do anything. You don’t even need iCloud for anything. You don’t even have to use their walled garden App Store. I know because I download and install shit from the internet all the time.

All lies.

OSX has several things going for it, primarily, it’s got the clowns at apple running the show, thus, it has a bunch of “natural” interface bullshit that only make sense if you intend to live like a caveman and not understand that computers can function differently to physical objects.

On top of that, they pushed themselves as an “alternative” to windows back when they were even more corporate than fucking Microsoft, while blaring out the ignorant ass ipod adverts whose goal was to make the user into consumers making computing choices based on fashion. The iphone and it’s money gated, walled garden BS was just the cherry on top.

If you wanted a fucking alternative to microsoft, linux has been there for you all along instead of the “worse but shinier” osx, which mac served to just overshadow with its increased advertising budget and psychotic CEO.

And I mean that literally, Steve Jobs was actually fucking insane and a horrible person. From firing people at random, to abandoning his kids, to stealing livers and trying to cure his cancer with smoothies.

Also, it’s basically open/free BSD with more propriety bullshit on it than you can shake a stick at.

I don’t know how anyone can use Windows after 7.

Yeah, windows 8 , 10 and 11 are toxic shitholes. You know what macs did before windows started begging you to log in and create microsoft accounts? Force you to have Icloud or whatever the fuck it is accounts. You know how I know? My work laptops suck ass and forces me to have mac accounts, and is complaining that it can’t sync HEALTH DATA. MY WORK LAPTOP WANTS TO SYNC HEALTH DATA.

Apple blew the doors off for enshittification. They primed the fucking pump, and now microsoft and google are following through the door, you guys are like “yeah, putting osx on a steam box would be cool” fucking no. Ew.

🤮

You can install OSX on there /s

I didn’t want to come off pissed. I’m sorry if it was perceived like that

You did not come across that way, just that you assumed I put in Merkel when I deliberately avoided putting her in, so in terms of tone and whatnot, there’s no problems.

I guess people could interpret the decisions of Thatcher in multiple ways as well. Those people would be wrong though.

With thatcher it’s a bit more straightforward for some of the things she did and it’s wide ranging impacts. I don’t think Merkel decimated entire regions of germany the way thatcher did to britain, even though she made some people very rich.

Merkel may have made choices that had undesired impacts, but thatcher was really something else.

I purposely avoided putting her name in as she is a complex ruler who is largely average and debatable the same way most male leaders are and her decisions can be interpreted in multiple ways by multiple people…

unlike May, thatcher or kitchner.

The world would be so much better with women in charge.

The women in charge we end up with :

(nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)