You could see a scenario where they pressure/rush Alito into retirement and force a replacement vote before the current Congress term ends. Not likely but possible. I think a more likely scenario unfortunately is that the parties take turns “reforming” the court every time they control the Senate and the Executive.
Unpopular take around here, but factually correct
Disappointing.
I interact with all kinds of people and I have never encountered a single person who (admits to?) using Truth Social.
At this point we need a trusted company with some manufacturing leverage to make a privacy-first TV. I think Framework would be a good candidate. They can actually secure supply chain of panels and whatnot. They should be able to offer a TV that’s a dumb panel or with minimal optional inputs or modular components. It’d be difficult to do the product engineering from scratch but if you already have done it with laptops…
Do it now while you can still buy a Pi and a hard drive for less than $500 each.
These weren’t worth it at the $120 price point, let alone now. I’m going to be recycling older SFF PCs I guess, at the penalty of higher noise and TDP.
I won’t be tricked.
I’m writing in Haywood Jablowmee.
Even if you are in a previously good sector like IT/CS, the “quality” of your job is likely decreasing with each year.
Software development and support both tend to get worse and more demanding over time with increased productivity demands, lack of respect for personal schedule constraints, after-hours and weekend maintenance and deployments, outsourcing and AI pressures. God forbid you are responsible for app or system patching as you will now be on the hook for perpetual vulnerability remediation.
Add to that the landscape for technical people is a lot of contracting but also random layoffs and outsourcing. Many people get brought on with what seems like a “high” salary without realizing they will likely never get a meaningful raise. So you basically have to change jobs every 3 years to stay ahead of inflation. If you stay in most IT jobs for 5 years you’ll realize at the end of it you’ve taken a 20% paycut due to inflation plus lack of raises.
Source: 20+ years in this particular sector
I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.
I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.
This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too “purity test” for me. The reasons listed are, let’s say extremely tepid in many cases.
I’ve never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.
I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.
I guess all I am saying is… Use whatever products you do or don’t want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.
I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I’m listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.
You can write to them (email or paper) and it can apply pressure indirectly. Their interns read it and “tally” the types of issues mentioned. They will send you a bullshit canned response that re-states their already engrained positions, whether it aligns with what you want or not.
But arguably it can move the needle if enough people put sustained pressure around very specific bills. Probably more direct influence than voting.