kyub

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

I know, but it's still a warning sign, even when some can't read or understand it.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Though laughing about the current regime in USA is an understandable reaction, it's also at the same time not a laughing matter at all. It's a bit like a great comedian or clown who is very entertaining and goofy at first but at the end he randomly kills 1 person from the audience. Still a funny act? No. Because at the end of this craziness, people will needlessly suffer and/or die.

The country still has huge world-wide influence, and if that influence originates from crazies, that's not great for anyone, neither for US citizens nor for any other country in the world which has to at least partly deal with the US somehow. It is, however, a great and very visible warning sign for other countries to hopefully not follow the US into such craziness.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ironic how being so blatantly illegal makes these neo-nazis sort of... "illegal aliens" within a democracy based on law and constitution. They are already guilty of the things they accuse others of.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

With low-effort crap posts like this (made even easier with GenAI) he is "recruiting" stupid people who believe anything that's not from reputable sources (mainstream/science is boring and hard to understand, conspiracy myths are easy to "understand " and exciting) into his MAGA cult which is also consisting of right-wing extremists and "conservatives" who are easily dragged to the right and made into extremists as well.

The wealthiest entities in the economy are then allying with that cult and push more propaganda in the hopes of "recruiting" even more people into the cult.

The goal of these political and economic elites is to establish an autocracy without any painful regulations of the economy, so the goal is to get even richer at the cost of a functioning society and democracy. It's the capitalism endgame - merge corporations with politics (going much further than previous lobbying and corruption), establish a fascist ruling class based on wealth and influence, and try to keep the population in line through lies and propaganda. They need stupids, crazies and extremists as supporters of this coup. This works best with right-wing crazies because they are the most gullible and easiest to manipulate. And by pushing propaganda on proprietary platforms, they can convert more people into the cult.

Inciting a culture war between the cult and the other part of the population protects the elites from a class war occurring. If the population is busy fighting with each other, the elites can sleep easy and continue to extract as much money as possible, for as long as possible.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just like you wouldn't do a trip to North Korea or some war-torn country, you shouldn't do a trip to USA in 2025. The country is currently in deep crisis with a rogue regime consisting of neo-nazi zealots & grifters and a big chunk of the population brainwashed by regime-supported propaganda on national TV (Fox News) and other random bullsh!t on proprietary social media, also radicalizing parts of the population. Plus they can all own guns legally. It's neither a safe nor sane country currently. Sorry for the decent Americans out there but your situation is really bad and I don't think you can turn this around non-violently anymore.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Job requirements for working with the orange Hitler:

1.) Be loyal to the fascist administration

2.) No Morals/Ethics or other woke things that make you a civilized human being

3.) For women: be somewhat attractive

4.) Everything else is optional as long as it doesn't interfere with 1.-3.)

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's been downhill since W7

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Tips for coping:

  • Call it the Super key (actually the correct label I think)
  • Bind window management related hotkeys to it
[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

At this rate, there might already be civil war or at least no regular elections anymore in the US.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Just remember to always vote for the least worst, because there is no good, so that's the best you can do. And fascists are always the worst, by a mile.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

The problem lies deeper unfortunately. Vance and the other thugs and grifters will just continue. I mean it would help overall, but still. Too many of the population still support this abomination of an administration.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Technically, nothing you use in tech is ever really "simple", there's tons of complexity hidden from the common user. And whenever parts of that complexity fail or don't work like the user expects it to, then the superficially simple stuff becomes hard.

Docker and containers are a fairly advanced topic. Don't think that it's easy getting into this stuff. Everyone has to learn quite a bit in advance to utilize that.

To play games, you went into the wrong direction when fiddling with wine directly, or even just indirectly by using bottles You COULD do that, but you've literally chosen the hardest path to do so. You should use something like HeroicGamesLauncher, Lutris or Steam in order to manage your games, install and launch them fairly easily. These will take care of all the complex stuff behind the scenes for you.

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