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Republicans push conspiracy theories after Hunter Biden verdict: ‘A fake trial’
  • They cannot celebrate his conviction because that would undermine their assertion that the trump trial was rigged.

    In a twisted way, their reaction makes sense, and for me, was predictable. The cult must be constantly managed for it to remain intact.

  • Supreme Court will take up Meta's bid to end lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal
  • Elections have consequences. Also, allowing people to get away with ignoring the rules has consequences. Refusing to do their constitutional job in the supremee court appointment by Obama should have resulted in impeachment of leader McConnell and a repudiation of antidemocratic activities by those who swore an oath to uphold the constitution and our democracy.

  • Millennials' retirement and homebuying plans may be a fantasy
  • Many many years ago I realized that there would be no social security by the time I retired. Lo and behold Social Security will only pay 70% of its dues 3 years before I retire.

    The good news is I've been saving for retirement since the age of 25. The bad news is there's been a plethora of problems that have restricted my ability to save.

    Thankfully, I I'm in a way better place than most people. Unfortunately I am still going to fall short.

  • Millennials' retirement and homebuying plans may be a fantasy
  • Ah, yes. The plans laid out by the ultra wealthy bear fruit. We blame and shame each othe while they pay no taxes! Mr. Burns would be proud.

    Remember that just five years ago, Trumpcsigned a tax bill that gave the wealthiest amongst us a collective two trillion dollar tax cut that cost me the home interest and local tax deductions i depended upon. My crime was living in a "blue state".

  • CFCs
  • Many, unfortunately, are so deep in doublethink the won't believe that tricky Dick initiated the whole thing with the EPA, clean water or air act, and the endangered species acts. Some came after, i think, but he set it rolling. He was still a bad dude, but he did some good stuff

  • Nearly half of young adults have 'money dysmorphia,' survey finds
  • Well, my own observation shows me that most people don't know the first thing about basic finances: compounding interest, budgeting, critical thinking when seeing advertisements, and the cost of take-out vs making dinner are some examples.

    For gods sakes, check your credit card and bank balances once in a while!. smh.

  • Realme GT5 review - A midrange smartphone with 24 GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 144 Hz OLED panel
  • Your tablets are premium line. Mine is an A series - budget model - so it was getting old when it was first released. I have an S8 now, and that will last longer.

    Freeing up ram helps in a few ways. First, you can fit more apps in memory, so less unloading. Second, more room for zram swap, reducing reliance on much slower static ram for swap, and prolonging the life of the sd chip, too. Finally, it means that massive spyware is no longer siphoning cpu time from user apps. It's a win, win win!

  • CFCs
  • I literally had this exact exchange with someone last year, when they tried to cast doubt on global warming by comparing it to the ozone. Another person did the same , using acid rain, and I pointed out that the northeast sued the shit out of the Midwest until they cut that shit with the coal fire power plants.

  • Nearly half of young adults have 'money dysmorphia,' survey finds
  • This is a muddled message. Are we caught up chasing an illusion, or are we just more acutely aware of our poor condition?

    It reads like it is saying the former, but then quotes statistics that reflect real loss of buying power. On the coasts 100k is no longer a large income. People really do live paycheck to paycheck while carefully managing their spending.

    I'm inclined to at least partially acknowledge the gaslighting comment as plausible.

  • Realme GT5 review - A midrange smartphone with 24 GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 144 Hz OLED panel
  • LineageOS GSI on my Samsung Tab 2019 Has made it still usable to this day, then there's the one with microg on my Pixel 2XL. Getting rid of play services axed about 800M of RAM usage for me. The Pixel is on Android 14 and the Tab will be the next time I update.

    We are out there, we own our devices, and get value out of them well beyond their predefined expiration dates.

  • Realme GT5 review - A midrange smartphone with 24 GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 144 Hz OLED panel
  • That particular one is done as of October 2022. However, it looks like you are doing more intensive work on your phone than I am on mine. Perhaps I just lack imagination, but I never could figure out what I could do with tasker to improve my usage, and I understand what it can do. It's just my life apparently doesn't demand such solutions.

    I personally never experienced the issues described in Firefox. Perhaps I was just lucky. I will say that Chromite is definitely snappier than Firefox. If you haven't tried it yet, take a look. It is chock full of privacy protecting features, too.

  • Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review: Why Buy Anything Else?
  • Stateside here, and I agree that price is insane. Also, I like to root my phones , and Samsung makes that hard. that said, I am writing this on my tab s8 with a stylus. people forget that Saving for real needs takes priority! retirement is not free, after all.

  • installing Windows 10 pro without an account.

    It's been a few years since I've needed to install a version of Windows on a PC for personal use. I have a license for Windows 10 Pro, but today I found out it is no longer possible to get through the installation without first creating an account with Microsoft.

    I don't want to do this. Does anybody have any way to get around it? The stuff I've read online basically ends up being create your account switch to a local account after installation and delete your account. I want a better solution. Would installing a much older version of Windows 10 work? The whole reason I got an msdn license back in the day is so I didn't have to do this.

    Edit: 10/2/2023

    I thank you all for giving me advice and ideas. Much I had already tried before posting my question here, and some suggestions and experiences led me to keep at it. Here's my experience for others who have a similar problem.

    I downloaded the ISO from Microsoft - Win10_22H2_English_x64v1. I used Ventoy to launch the installer. The first time I went through, I connected to Wi-Fi. As soon as I did that, it sealed my fate. By this time in the process, it installed the boot partition on my HD and saved this information so every time I tried to restart the installer, it always went through language, keyboard, then "enter email address". All the suggestions for fake values simply triggered "This email is already used. Please choose another", and that was it.

    I was getting ready to wipe the partition and try again, but decided to turn off Wi-Fi in the BIOS first to see if that worked. It did. This time it tried to convince me to set up the network and failed and I was able to create a local account.

    The way this multi-version installer works is annoying. It installed Windows Home edition, so I had to "know" that I could go to settings and enter a key. Once I put in the key, it "upgraded" to Pro edition, and I was done.

    Next time I have to do this, I'll see if Rufus works. It seems that will remove some annoyance. Either way, I will avoid configuring Wi-Fi until after install next time. I gotta say, I am not looking forward to the day when I must upgrade to Windows 11. So far I've been able to avoid actually buying a new copy due to my aging MSDN key. By the time I'm forced to "upgrade", I might have to cough up some cash for something I don't want, but am forced to own.

    It should be illegal.

    Anyway, now that I know I can still use my MSDN key to get an updated Win 10, I feel a bit more comfortable with re-imaging my Dell laptop from dual-boot to Linux only, then install Windows as a VM for these times I need to use it. Fortunately, that is increasingly rare.

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    What's up with location services?

    I'm glad microg set up shop here on Lemmy! Here's the first topic. The most recent release dumped unified nlm, and I want to know what that means for the future. I just found a new module, that works great, and now it is useless when I upgrade microg.

    I searched everywhere, but there's no discussion about how to get features like locally built data points or downloading tower and WiFi databases.

    Mozilla nlm requires internet, which I suppose is fine for most of the time, but when camping in the wilderness, is kinda useless.

    Is there any news?

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