It looks flat to me. I even turned my phone sideways and everything - nothing stuck out, either up or down.
Oh wait Obi Wan, that's no ~~space station~~ "star" (death or otherwise), that looks like some kind of small moon!
Mac OSX isn't bad... so long as you sell it your soul, and don't want freedom in return, it's great 👍.
I kid... mostly - it's iOS that is horrifying, but Mac OSX is still Unix (tho not GNU), so not anywhere within leagues of Microdick.
And - possibly dumb question - couldn't you always just run a Linux VM at near-native speed, and get the benefits of both?
Oh that's no accident, nor do your words go far enough, unfortunately, bc they are doing stuff now that actually was fully illegal, back when the US government was more functional and pursued antitrust laws against Microsoft. :-(
I used to have a Facebook account... I'm not even sure how many ago it was that I left it behind:-P.
About Kansas: I’m not sure but I feel like the humiliation is accidental
(1) no it's not; (2) because even if it had been originally, it was explained to them after-the-fact, yet they doubled down on it still, at which point it became "obstinacy" rather than mere "ignorance". Also (3) even if it somehow was, the only other alternative is FAR worse - an outright immoral (and likely criminal) level of negligence, like a wealthy person who despite never having set foot inside of a grocery store... hey, quick side-story, this reminds me of Betsy DeVos who admitted to never having even been inside of a public school building in her entire lifetime in a Barbara Walters interview, even despite knowing about her upcoming appointment, she still never considered it a priority to do that, even just to see it visually with her own eyes. Anyway, despite never having set foot in a grocery store their entire lives, this individual yet still did not bother to do activities like to ask their butler or discuss it with the grocery store CEO whilst golfing, but nevertheless still takes action - not to be responsible with their own budget by limiting their own purchase of steaks, but to forcibly prevent anyone else from doing such "harm" to their own. (4) and even then, the final act itself is still humilating, whether the person is so warped & twisted inside their own mind to even so much as realize that or not.
The amount of money offered to food stamp recipients is already limited, yet the burden of compliance seems higher to prevent this than to allow all the variety of exceptions that would make sense - e.g. the expiration date. If something looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then why would we even entertain the notion that it could actually be a hunter dressed up like a duck? But even if it were, it makes no functional difference to the next step... (offering it a crust of bread perhaps?:-)
Anyway, no matter what it is totalitarianism/authoritarianism. But also, I think it would qualify as actual fascism? “obsessive preoccupation with community decline”, “working… with traditional elites”, “abandons democratic liberties”, “and pursues with redemptive violence”, “and without ethical or legal restraints” (they knew - they were told so even if not at first, after that they knew - yet they did it anyway), and finally “goals of internal cleansing and external expansion” (i.e. budget-friendliness achieved for the former, the latter presumably comes later as they proselytize their belief system to other states, the same as how Kansas itself looks to other states to model their own actions on)
In the case of the vegan mod: I am not so sure that it isn't fascism, but I am also not so sure that it is either, though either way the tool seems to me to be thus, and even if she (the mod) made their own tool, the approach seems overall to be thus. As in, can a single thought that passes through our minds, and then is gone, be called "fascist"? What about one entertained over the course of a bad week, perhaps while going through a personal tragedy at home, or losing one's job at work? I think so, at which point there would be degrees of fascism, like fascism-lite, not changing the quality of the substance yet greatly impacting its power to affect change i.e. the quantity. Like if a 2-year old punches you, it would not rise to the level of "assault", but it is still a "punch"? But then it gets tricky: if a fascist bot/tool is applied by a non-fascist, and crucially I mean for its intended purpose, then does that change its intended purpose any? e.g. if a 6-month old "shoots" a gun, it makes it no less deadly, yet arguably we wouldn't even call that "shoots", or the baby a "shooter", so much as they "accidentally caused the firearm to discharge". But here's the big difference in my mind: a mod is not a 6-month old, and rather in a position of authority, hence by definition of that is to be held accountable to their actions, however ill-advised and resembling those of a 6-month old they might be. Everything a 6-month old does is an "accident" (even smiling - is it intentional, or is it gas?), but everything a person in a position of responsibility does is something to which they can be held account, e.g. by being removed, possibly banned from an instance outright.
“you’re humiliating me to drag me down from my rightful position”
I do not understand this at all. The first thought that springs to mind is a white man in America lets say just prior to the Revolution denigrating a black man in any way feel threatened by the latter's mere presence, lets suppose the latter is already working for the former, whilst wearing shackles and bent over in the act of something like picking cotton? Yes, sometimes - especially in modern times - fascists try to reclaim lost glory, but my analogy seems to depict something else entirely, as in a preemptive strike against someone else's dignity as a person, not caused in the slightest by anything that the recipient has done (nor even plans to do - let's further add the stipulation that the slave owner speaks first, and the slave does not even know that the master is nearby, until after the humiliating words have already been delivered; let us also add the stiuplation that the slave has never yet met the master prior to this interaction) but rather by the thoughts and actions and most importantly attitudes held inside the authoritarian's own mind. i.e., in America the current set of neo-fascists seem to play the victim card a lot, and perhaps that is baked right into fascism from the start, but I don't think it's the only way to be fascist, and rather it's more a tool that they very often use, thus it is commonly associated with them but does not act as a defining characterist. imho at least.
Note that the criteria work more like a ladder than like a checklist.
Yes, fair, and agreed that the vegan mod was blocked at that point hence it ended. So we can say that she was "attempting to be a fascist" (aka "acting like a fascist"), yet could not get all the way there b/c fascism implicates a continuance until it is entrenched, which she could not manage.
I’m actually defending my view but I’m aware that it might be completely wrong
Perfection itself - how will we know about things unless we think about them, and by implication talk amongst ourselves (in a civil manner ofc) to debate the pros & cons, ins & outs, and variety of implications to & from? THIS is what I hoped to find on Lemmy, but it seems exceedingly rare to talk with someone in a respectful and deep manner. Mind you, both of those are already uncommon on their own, but to see them combined... is outright rare.
I meant like a daily usage situation - e.g. working from a terminal, running MacVim, and things like Firefox and Slack etc. all work fine from a Mac - but I don't self-host, and I run actual Mac OSX itself, so my answers may be of limited utility to you.
If someone else is reading this I would look into running a Jellfin server from a machine running Linux, which can be connected to from a device running iOS or Android or whatever they want - but your kodi+mpd already sounds like it should do the trick.
Hopefully you can avoid running Mac OSX itself, but if that's not possible then perhaps at worst you could get a machine that does that and then partially isolate it on the network? (though that is beyond my skillset:-)
For TV I just an ancient ChromeCast (iirc it's a first-generation even!) and that works from everything (ironically one of the harder solutions was from Samsung mobile, though even ancient iPads have apps that will make it happen). I worry about when my TV and especially the ChromeCast dies what will I do - it will take so much time to investigate a replacement, it seems all/most of the newer solutions are trying to inject ads or whatever into the stream, or even just not working as simply as the old. Mine is security through obscurity, which only works for so long until the hardware flat wears out:-).
And I barely have a backup solution - just a single SSD that I put stuff onto when I think about it, and is aging so when it too wears out... I have so much catching up that I need to do, I'm setting myself up for pain most likely:-(. But also I tend to "stream" most things rather than "download", so my need for thus is extremely much smaller.
Not Saddam Hussein, unless I did not look hard enough? :-P
Wolvies:-)
I labeled mine as
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Jack
And this is just what I allow to be seen placed into my EAR - imagine what... other... possibilities exist:-).