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  • Debian awaits, comrade.

  • I'm going to say it: I do not care for the Bureau
  • crossposting this to c/games with a Control screenshot.

  • Hi Hexbear, I want to get an inexpensive laptop and run linux on it. What would you recommend?
  • Any Lenovo Thinkpad X-series. For example, I am using an X240 to write this reply. They are very easy to work on, highly compatible, and very light and portable. You can find them refurbished on Newegg, or if you have a local computer recycling center, they may have a thrift store where you can buy refurbished laptops, and Thinkpads are popular among that crowd, so you might find a good deal there.

    Alternatively, many of Dell's Insperon professional laptops are excellent, and in my experience they often have better quality displays than Thinkpads for the same price point (above HD resolutions, touch screens, and better color range), so definitely worth considering if that is important for your use case.

  • What Makes a Furry?
  • Humans have identified the self in animals for as long as archaeological history records. The very earliest surviving figurative sculptures and illustrations of human beings feature animal features. It seems to emerge naturally from human perception, the inclination to identify with particular animals and to produce images of animal like humans, and human like animals. How this has been culturally contextualized has varied tremendously throughout history. The furry subculture is simply a modern manifestation of this impulse to produce and identify with such images and representations.

    I'd speculate it's strong current within the LGBT communities is a side effect of contemporary western culture's lack of an established cultural context in which to exercise this artistic and conceptual impulse, naturally leading those who feel it strongly to be or to sympathize with people who are not well-represented within dominant culture in other ways.

  • Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread
  • Cities Skylines II is once again broken and unplayable, so I'm back to Workers & Resources, the ideologically correct city planning game.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Casio G-Shock GWM-5610 -- the current model number of the original 1981 G-Shock digital watch. Resistant to dust, shock, water, and up to 20 bar pressure. Self-charges via solar power. Self-synchronizes to GMT by passively receiving continent-spanning radio time signals. Little bastards cost less than a hundred dollars and are effectively bombproof.

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  • Hello mega thread I got gay married. I am now in a rather nice municipal records office submitting my papers so that the stinking landlord legally cannot stop me from moving in with my partner.

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  • Debian, it Just Works.

  • Trump will tariff away funko pops
  • Imo yes, but no need to overspend, CPU and GPU performance gains have been plateauing for a while now so nobody really needs bleeding edge stuff.

  • Trump will tariff away funko pops
  • Seriously though in a year you will not be able to afford a new computer so make sure you have something you can repair.

  • Trump will tariff away funko pops
  • Yesterday, I was an "eccentric" for hording and repairing laptops instead of just buying New Chip every year. But when an i3 shitbox costs you $1000 dollars, who will be laughing then? WHO WILL BE LAUGHING THEN?!

  • Elon Musk took part in Trump-Zelensky call, Ukraine official says
  • we had it all wrong folks, trump is just the hindenberg! trump-anguish

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem
  • It's foolish and telling to despair at this. Any principled leftist should welcome the further decay of the US political system as a step towards it's inevitable fall. Quality of life in the imperial core is not the measure of our success.

  • I admit I was at least hoping for some federal-level gridlock, but it looks like it's quite possible that Red MAGA will have *all* branches of the federal government soon.
  • "ouuugh i'm moving out of the country im going into the woods" that's great man glad you have all that money in savings, the rest of us dirt poor proles have to stay here and actually try to survive.

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  • They suddenly became aware of it, just now, For Some Reason.

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  • I've got a new book for self-learning Gaelic. I want to get fluent enough to start a Gaelic thread in internationale.

  • The all-time greatest lesbian song cover

    Thank you Lera Lynn for this werewolf gf banger, I will force everyone to listen to it forever. !rosa-salute

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    Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb
    gizmodo.com Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb

    Spotify suddenly started making a profit in the past few months, but CEO Daniel Ek said "being lean is... a necessity."

    Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb

    I've seen this exact headline about over a dozen tech companies in the last few months, particularly in the games industry. How do we make sense of it? I am not accustomed to seeing companies that are doing well, as they all claim to be, discharging swathes of their labor force.

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    Please recommend me good leftist news outlets in English.

    Newspapers, blogs, periodicals, whatever you like as long as it's not video, podcasts, or posts. Ideally, with an RSS feed, but beggars can't be choosers.

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    Can anyone recommend a good companion book to Capital?

    I'm recommitting myself to reading The Big One. I've known a number of comrades who had companion guide books to the works of Marx and Engels, to help interpret and contextualize their body of works. Have any of you read such a book that can help me navigate these essays?

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    Saoirse Saoirse [she/her, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    A distant voice from a terminal at the edge of the world, overlooking the rough sea. Transfem, out and on HRT for over 10 years, with work experience in healthcare. Here to help my trans comrades in any way I can.

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