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If you could make a non-linux OS go mainstream, which one would you pick?
  • I feel like HURD is the generational starship of operating systems. Will never be completed in my lifetime but eventually my great great grand children may some day use it.

  • If you could make a non-linux OS go mainstream, which one would you pick?
  • Think less about time sharing and more about using all the computers you own together.

    You would have a netbook with no compute power as your UI sitting on your couch. You could connect to your beefy desktop to do all the computations for your video editor or playing a game and never have to be sitting at your desk.

    You could also have a big file store device with lots of drives to store stuff.

    We can do some of this now, I ssh into my desktop from my couch and have a NFS in the basement. But they all operate as separate devices that i have to really work at getting to operate together. Plan9 was designed where you'd just pick devices off of the network and the tasks operated normally. Pick your video card, local or over the network to the beefier GPU.

  • RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time
  • Still remember mine, 7 digits long. Now i gotta go install the app and see if i remember my password.

  • What you wish had an active community here on the lemmyverse?
  • Oh we need a Jarrarium community too. As well as one to talk about isopods and springtails.

  • Elizabeth Warren Chastises GOP Over Bill to Allow Schools to Bar LGBTQ Kids From Free Lunches
  • My issue is with the 40% of the US who have continued to vote Republican for the last 60 years. These horrible policies aren't new. Yeah swing voters notice the issues but the base continues to vote for harm to others.

  • Elizabeth Warren Chastises GOP Over Bill to Allow Schools to Bar LGBTQ Kids From Free Lunches
  • Regardless of how valid her claim is, what always gets me is how anyone can vote Republican when every single bill has this exclusivity or demoralizing action at it's heart. When was the last time a bill was authored and passed by Reps that was purely benevolent without some secrete tax cut for the rich or killing some other social programs?

    It feels like the Mitchell and Webb skit "Are we the baddies?" How can you vote red when their entire agenda is to never make life better for everyone? Do no voters see this issue or do 100% not care?

  • Historic hearings begin on whether 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from 2024 race
  • Honestly i think what will get him is the last part of the clause in section 3.

    or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

    He has publicly stated that he will pardon the Jan 6 terrorists, paid the lawyers who have already stated their guilt and funded some of their legal cases for their part in the insurrection. He had aided and comforted the terrorists and those plotting the takeover. Doesn't matter at this point if he was in on the scheme, he was supposed to turn them all in and disassociate from all of them immediately and he didn't.

  • When I see a Kevin Meme
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    do you live in the midwest?
  • Yes, I know. I'm just saying Minnesota "Midwest" is not the same as the rest of the Midwest most of the rest of the Midwest is very similar.

  • do you live in the midwest?
  • I'm from Wisconsin, family from Michigan as well and traveled there a lot. Went to college in Iowa and dated girls in college who all were from Illinois. Now i live in Minnesota.

    One thing i find odd is that Minnesotans don't do a lot of the Midwest stuff. No midwest goodbyes, no chatting up strangers as if they were your BFF, doing all the obligation events we never want to do but say "o yah we should get together", etc. The whole Minnesota Nice, aka being passive aggressive, isn't really that Midwest. Of all the Midwest I've lived in, the highest ranking one is definitely the least Midwest in my eyes.

  • Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
  • Yeah yeah the standard pedantic response to web services who use ads.

    But how about a real response? People want to block ads and still consume content. If you feel the cost is too high then shouldn't people watch some ads and block others to only "pay what you want." Everyone seems to want the service for free and then cry that when you don't pay your get your videos.

    Explain how this is different than going to a grocery store and then being pissed they wont let you just walk away with food without paying?

  • YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users
  • Not sure how an IPFS option would work. I get the bandwidth issue slightly goes away as we'd all kinda share that cost but not really. IPFS isn't really free storage. Of all media shitty compression video is big and anyone who forgot to tune their torrent upload and accidently seeded something for too long knows you'll run out of monthly bandwidth allotments very fast.

  • Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
  • I'm all for personal freedoms but you're getting a service you pay no money for and then get pissed that they are getting the money out of you another way. Sound like people being petty.

  • For all you Midwesterners, whats in your junk drawer?
  • If it was organized it would be an X drawer for the specific things found in the drawer. To be junk it must not be organized.

  • Ask the Midwest @midwest.social jecxjo @midwest.social
    For all you Midwesterners, whats in your junk drawer?

    My wife wanted to order a spice rack for our kitchen that fit in the cabinet. Our current setup was just a mess so she found one on Amazon and called to me to get the tape measure out in the garage. I yelled back...grab the tailor's tape in the junk drawer. Sure enough it was sitting between the set of random keys, a new bag of neon fish bait and an assortment of 9 volt batteries.

    So...whatdaya got in yer junk drawer?

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    Lauren Boebert Offers To Personally Jerk Off Any Constituents She Offended
  • I used to work around the pipelines between Rifle and Grand Junction. Ate at her restaurant once. So much of that experience screams armpit.

  • Facts dont care about your feelings.
  • Think that issue gets resolved quickly as no one really has the power in tenure anymore. If everyone only has a few years a cycle or two of stalemates will eventually lead to both sides having to work together or try and win the entire house.

  • Facts dont care about your feelings.
  • More like reasonable term limits.

    Two terms for each position seems reasonable so you can be asked to continue or asked to leave. This allows you to run on a policy, implement it and then fix it or things that need to be tweaked and then get out.

  • It’s time Europe reduced its defense reliance on the US, Czech president says
  • I think the fact the EU steuggles as much as it does in the near future they would be at best a weaker China. Lots of bodies but sub par military capabilities. The benefit we get in the US is that we'd only need to come in as support and military guidance rather than sending a lot of troops. They will still suck at doing things as it will be military by committee so in cases with countries like Russia they will most likely defer to the US to just run things.

  • The IRS Is Using AI to Target the Ultra-Wealthy for Tax Violations
  • I'll believe it when i see it. The amount of lost funds from multi millionaires and billionaires would easily pay for the staff required and yet they don't do it. It has always felt like an intentional act ignoring the wealthy to keep money in the US. Cheat on taxes as long as you keep your business woth us.

  • [meme] How would you rather see this land developed?
  • The more you know...

  • Recommendations for SNES style controllers supported by retro handhelds

    I have an RG353V currently running ArkOS. Works great, plugged it into my TV and looks great there too. Tried both a USB Xbox controller and PS3 controller and neither seem to be recognized (both of which I know Linux kernel models exist to support). Wanted to pick up a couple of SNES style controllers (kids mostly play Nintendo games) but wasn't sure if anyone could vouch for specific brands or models they know work on these platforms.

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    What are your thoughts on the Carbon Engine?
    limitedrungames.com Carbon Engine

    Limited Run Games is the industry-leading publisher and distributor of award winning collector's editions, rare video games, and merchandise for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS5, PC, and retro consoles. Each Limited Run game is officially licensed, highly collectable, and only printed once. #Fore...

    Carbon Engine

    This just popped up in a feed of mine, looks like an interesting project bringing retro games to new consoles. I guess I'm wondering what other's think. Would you be willing to buy your old game again?

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    jecxjo jecxjo @midwest.social

    Born a sconie right on Lake Michigan, lived in Iowa for a handleful of years for college, then moved to Sota where I live currently. Software Engineer for 20+ years, Ham Radio Operator, lover of retro graming, old time radio and the outdoors.

    Mastodon: jecxjo@mastodon.sdf.org

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