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  • These are the candidates? They look like clones.

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  • A Head in the Polls

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
  • "If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing."

    • A bunch of pirates, probably
  • Leaked video shows UnitedHealth CEO saying insurer will continue practices that combat 'unnecessary' care
  • Yeah, I believe the motivation for moving to public fire departments wasn't even a moral decision. Fire from uninsured burning buildings has an extremely high risk of spreading to an insured one, so putting out all fires minimizes risk to paid subscribers.

    My takeaway is: The only way to get American systems to care about the poor is if the rich might receive some collateral damage.

    https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/administration-billing/articles/how-todays-public-fire-departments-were-born-from-private-fire-brigades-M240qcm83TewqNsx/

  • What is something you thought you knew your whole life and only just recently found out you were wrong the whole time?
  • You mean like imagining a voice speak out your thoughts? Thoughts are so much faster than speech, I feel like having to speak out all your thoughts would slow things down significantly.

    The best tip I learned about reading faster is to stop narrating the words in your head, which puts a hard limit on your reading speed.

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker
  • America's working class has a long history of buying into propaganda and acting against their own interests. It's a huge reason why the medical industry has gotten so bad.

    That being said, it's important to keep our anger focused on the system, not people who are getting suckered by it.

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker
  • I think this is why there's a common narrative on the internet that this "evidence" was planted to frame a random dude.

    It's fair to call that a conspiracy theory at this point, but hopefully due process will reveal the truth.

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker
  • I suspect the perceived morality of his actions has a strong effect here. I don't think people are "looking past" his actions as much as they likely aren't as repulsed by them.

  • Leaked video shows UnitedHealth CEO saying insurer will continue practices that combat 'unnecessary' care
  • The fact that a licensed doctor has to make a case to an insurance company about what a patient needs is mind boggling to me. Every doctor I've talked to has told me that this is the worst part of their job.

    Emergency services should never be privatized. Imagine firefighters having to ask some insurance company to cover the water they need to put your house out.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
  • For internal desktop drives, I have the WH16NS40. After flashing some open firmware on it, it works perfectly for playing and ripping BRs. Looks like I'll be picking up a spare in case this one dies.

    The MakeMKV forum has a lot of good tips and instructions on selecting and configuring BluRay drives.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players
  • I'd have no issue with digital media if there was a way to actually own it. Everything is either streaming only or ridden with DRM that can only be played within their app. Blurays, assuming you can decrypt its DRM bs, are the last bastion of media ownership left.

  • AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath
  • Never buy any hardware that doesn’t work offline.

  • What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?
  • When you install Windows, you don’t really control your computer. Microsoft does.

  • It's not easy being a hologram
  • I liked to imagine that it was just part of his boot-up routine and he didn't even gain awareness until after he said the line.

  • US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
  • Forgot to label the bag "Don't open, gun inside."

  • Best free way to sync obsidian?
  • Does this plugin work on mobile too? I'm looking to try out Obsidian and this sounds promising.

  • What yt-dlp GUI do you use?
  • I used to use Tube Archivist, but once I discovered that Pinchflat can integrate with existing media libraries (Plex, Jellyfin), I switched to that.

    These were/are both hosted using Docker on Linux servers, accessed via the WebUI.

    It’s a lot more work to set up, but having videos just show up in my Plex library with all the metadata is worth it.