Raven FellBlade

Vulture or Type-10 for me. Especially at T-10 with moar spoiler.

Get the permit for Shinrarta Dezhra and go to Jameson Memorial. Every ship, weapon, and module all in one convenient location.

I earnestly believed that quicksand was going to be a far more prevalent danger in my life than it has.

Yeah, it is truly terrifying how they’ve managed to hold onto as much power in government as they have considering that statistically they should have been rendered a nearly irrelevant minority 30 years ago. And yet, here we are.

They’re dismantling everything that stands in their way now because the writing is on the wall for them in the long term politically and ideologically. They are losing, they only maintain power through gerrymandering and even that can’t last forever.

I think they’re suggesting that Conservatives would want Obama thrown into an oubliette for life over just one of the crimes Trump has been indicted for, but believe Trump should get to walk. The hypocrisy is insane.

The First Lesson of Vivek: Where matters of state are concerned, one should always take the most reprehensible approach possible. It is paramount for all decisions to make as little sense and be as broadly harmful as possible, lest you be seen as weak. Everything one does must serve the bottom line of Owning the Libs, as the Nerevarine shall own Dagoth Ur.

I know. The keyboard I have on Android lacks a backslash. I did just find it on the Samsung keyboard, though, so

C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE

C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.

I was super excited for my Transformers Legacy Skyquake to arrive today.

It didn’t arrive, which is a bummer.

But I get to look forward to getting it tomorrow, and I’m still really excited for it!

I used Linux Mint for several years on a dual-boot laptop. I rarely found myself booting Windows. While there was a learning curve, Mint was fairly accessible out of the box and was generally a delight to use. Until it wasn’t. At some point, the drivers for my video card updated, and just flat broke everything. And I can’t really use a computer on which I can’t see the desktop. I waited. And waited. A fix for the driver may have eventually come, but after awhile, booting into Windows just became my default, until eventually I just wiped the Linux partition to recover the storage space.

It was fun while it lasted, and I may choose one day to give it another go for the fourth time. This wasn’t the first time I’ve had something like this happen. First time was with Fedora, and the second was Ubuntu. Each time, I had the same “it worked until it didn’t” experience, and each time it stopped working was usually some kind of broken driver making my hardware incompatible.

I used Linux Mint for several years on a dual-boot laptop. I rarely found myself booting Windows. While there was a learning curve, Mint was fairly accessible out of the box and was generally a delight to use. Until it wasn’t. At some point, the drivers for my video card updated, and just flat broke everything. And I can’t really use a computer on which I can’t see the desktop. I waited. And waited. A fix for the driver may have eventually come, but after awhile, booting into Windows just became my default, until eventually I just wiped the Linux partition to recover the storage space.

It was fun while it lasted, and I may choose one day to give it another go for the fourth time. This wasn’t the first time I’ve had something like this happen. First time was with Fedora, and the second was Ubuntu. Each time, I had the same “it worked until it didn’t” experience, and each time it stopped working was usually some kind of broken driver making my hardware incompatible.

Just deleted my Instagram account. I really want go delete Facebook and remove all things Meta from my life.

Here’s my example: I subscribed to Paramount Plus explicitly for Star Trek content. The week I subscribed, they pulled all of the non-Abrams films. So I got to watching other stuff. Eventually, they brought all of the films back. Cool, right?

So I finally get around to Prodigy, a show made for Paramount Plus. Two episodes in, and it vanishes. No announcements or warnings that that show was just going to disappear. It’s gone. Because “it wasn’t popular enough”. A show that only existed on that one platform was pulled off of that platform with absolutely no other legal way to view it. Content that I specifically signed up for that platform to see, and now I can’t… legally. Yo ho, yo ho, me hardies.

I’m learning a lot about that. I find it refreshing to be on a platform built around ensuring both the safety and visibility of queer voices. While parts of Reddit definitely felt that way, recent history has made it very clear that that’s subject to change, and Reddit is swerving aggressively right.

I feel like this question might be missing a bigger picture: What’s going on with the Internet?

Facebook/Meta, Twitter, and Reddit are all owned by people in the US. We’ve seen in tbr past few election cycles that Twitter and Reddit in particular were vitally important to progressive movements in the US, while Facebook largely sat by unperturbed as their platform was used to plaster right-wing disinformation in every corner of the internet they could reach. Now, as another election cycle is gearing up, we see Twitter and Reddit doing things that make NO SENSE for a business, but make PERFECT SENSE if you were a MAGA nut trying to take over or dismantle a successful progressive platform, at the same time as you have Meta moving to infect and corrupt the one significant platform that offers a great alternative to both Twitter and Reddit.

I’m not usually a conspiracy minded person, but the more I think about it, the more I conclude that this is the only explanation that can make any sense of Elon and (fuck)u/Spez deliberately imploding their platforms. When you factor in that both of them seem to also be encouraging right-wing provocateurs to return to their platforms while wholesale silencing any progressive dissent… this is a coordinated assault meant explicitly to tamper with the US political system while also driving right-wing fascism abroad.

Do NOT allow Meta access. At this point, I’m not sure why the license doesn’t explicitly blacklist specific bad actors like Meta from using the ActivityPub software in the first place.

I don’t know how to respond to that. I have a kbin account and a Lemmy account because I signed up for kbin first and then was told I would probably need a Lemmy account when Sync for Lemmy comes out. I would have to imagine that you can pick a larger, more active instance and be fairly assured that that server will continue well into the reasonable future.

As for email, you could make an alt/burner account for this purpose. I don’t know what else to offer.

They aren’t even elected. They’re appointed. For life.

I had zero problems with sh.itjust.works sign-up. I got my email verification in seconds! And from what I have read, it doesn’t really matter which instance you choose so long as it hasn’t been defederated.