Is this an episode of The Pitt?

Haha, just watched it. BTW, I feel like many of these stop signs on small streets should be yield signs to begin with.

Must be bad if they took material action.

This plant was supposed to make EV batteries. Then Trump got re-elected.

That’s mostly a problem in capitalist economies. We already support some 3 times more elderly per person today than we did after WWII. How did that happen without the economy scuttling? Productivity growth. We pooduce way more products and services per head than we did back then. The problem is most of that is collected by the owner classes. If the owner class consuped less resources we’d be able to provide more to our elderly. A non-capitalist economy can allocate production and distribution more based on need and not on return on investment on private capital. Part of that would be using productivity gains from mass automation to fulfill these needs with fewer people. Under the capital system automation gains go into more hyperyachts and private space trips.

Plus buying weapons from a potential occupying force means no munitions beyond what we’ve purchased before the conflict broke. We either have to manufacture our own weapons or buy from our potential occupier’s enemies. Or both.

This is just looking at the material reality of the problem. I can’t effectively threaten someone who I’m heavily dependent on without present alt. Kinda how Trump got slapped when he tried economic coercion on China. If the EU has a domestic alternative to Big Tech’s cloud services that’s in wide use and easy to scale up, the they can legitimately threaten Big Tech. That said even then that would not be enough given the newly developed dependence on US - LNG. Threaten Big Tech and the US threatens cutting off the gas supply. A gas supply shortage topples governments.

It’s like they’re hellbent on living out the antisemitic stereotypes. It’s getting difficult to fight antisemitism outside of Israel.

And I don’t think the war and $5 gas are fully reflected in these opinion surveys quite yet.

The technically lirerate people aren’t exempt from the power dynamics created by the vast market share of Chrome and Google, created and reinforced by Google. Even if they/we have some more freedom to maneuver. We still only test our web app features on Chromium because there’s limited time for testing, if any, and we can’t convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority. If all the developers in the world used Firefox, it would still not change this power dynamic.

This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

No it’s not thanks to those people. Blaming individuals for not stopping what a much bigger, infinitely more resourced, organized actor has been/is doing to maximize profit is shifting the material responsibiltiy from the actor with real power to the actors without. It’s like the personal carbon footprint oil&gas came up with to shift responsibility for climate pollution from themselves to individuals. Or plastic and recycling. It feels good to lay blame on those people who did something we did not but it doesn’t help change anything material beyond that. Divides us into camps which prevents us from organizing against the profit-driven culprits.

Probably. If you use the WiFi on it, make sure to check if its WiFi is supported.

Yeah the meme while funny is a bit too radlib and as such plays idpol with different parts of the working class.

Been using OpenWrt on a Pi 4 for many years now. It’s been flawless. I’m using Ubiquiti APs. I’ve now replicated this setup in 4 more households with similar results.

At least these days it’s much easier to link this to material impact to people. Unlike in the past when data collection was a distant, often abstract problem that people didn’t see as requiring action. Thanks to surveillance pricing being raised into the social consciousness, it’s easy to explain how OpenAI’s (or insert other Big Tech corpo) data scraping is used to make the person pay more on Amazon, or Walmart.

Technically it’s possible to post from one to the other. But I don’t think it’s possible to have the Pixelfed feed in Lemmy. I keep it simple and have an account on Pixelfed for browsing and posting photos. I think it’s possible to post photos from Pixelfed into a Lemmy community but I haven’t done it.

Nice.

You might also be interested in pixelfed.ca.

Goddamn, finally some gloves off rhetoric on Doug’s level.

Perhaps the RX580 is usable via Vulkan? I tried Vulkan with llama.cpp on a R9700 recently and it was generally faster than ROCm.

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