But no matter who wins in November, the United States will continue to prepare for war with China.

I think that sums up this election perfectly.

But for Martiz, the experience has put her off ever renting out the property again.

Sounds like they did good work, here.

Leatherface going as Trump for Halloween

Notepad in wine is pointless compared to something like gedit, which you have, or similar editors like geany or kwrite. Cinnamon might even have their own basic text editor. And then there are further options like mousepad from the xfce project or featherpad from the lxqt project.

Notepad in wine will just lead to frustration because of poorer integration.

Finally, I just saw your edit and I think you’re spot on. Not because of ARM, which is actually decently supported, but because running an OS off of a microSD card is slow and tedious. It just isn’t made for that quick, small random access.

Pika Backup for /home/ to an external drive. It’s an automatic solution with a simple GUI that serves as a front end to Borg iirc. Lets you easily browse and mount old backups. Anything outside of my actual personal files can be recreated or restored trivially, so I don’t care to back them up.

I also have a manual dump of /etc/ but i change it so infrequently that it doesn’t really need looking after.

Nautilus in general is my biggest gripe with Gnome. I despise it so much that I’m willing to abandon ship to KDE when Plasma 6 reaches my distro.

I really like LXQt for VMs. It is lightweight and fast enough to provide a very snappy environment, even beating out something like XFCE. With LXQt I get the minimally viable desktop environment with a panel, notification handler, etc.

Though most recently I have been using XFCE specifically because its notification widget gives me more info in the preview.

Desperately waiting for Gnome Nautilus to not suck major ass (type ahead search, faster performance… hell, just make it like Dolphin, pretty much).

My setup sounds very similar to terminhell’s. I have a server where the host is running Proxmox and I have a dedicated little Debian VM in it to run PiHole. It has been very reliable and stable in the four years since I’ve set this up.

To get ad-blocking on the go I set up Wireguard for myself and my gf so that we are always on my VPN when we are off my local WiFi. This has been functionally set and forget.

I haven’t used AdGuard so I cannot comment on it, but I have not been found wanting in the slightest with PiHole.

I have 225k domains blocked with the combination of filter lists I use. I just use a few of the good ones. You can find good lists here. https://firebog.net/

I don’t get it. You could have probably maintained a Debian Sarge install and upgraded it all the way through to Bookworm. I’m kind of surprised they don’t provide an upgrade path in place for Raspian when Debian can manage it.

Yeah. I think I’ll end up having to do platform-specific ifdefs with either pthreads or threads.h, so I guess I may as well use the much better established pthreads and get macOS support by default. In fact, I just now learned that even glibc didn’t support C11 threads until 2018, according to this https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14092#c10

“Imagine if we committed a genocide.”

These people aren’t even self-aware enough for the “are we the baddies?” joke.

Just do a search for “China balloon [nytimes, washington post, wsj, etc]” and go look at the feverishly stupid coverage from just February of this year. And aside from just the regular shitty media, think back to how furious the reactionaries were whipped into becoming by blaming Biden for just not shooting it down instantly over some country bumpkin’s head, but instead allowing it to float off over the Atlantic before shooting it.

None of the “good policy choices” were retrospective about colonialism, or about ceasing modern interventionism. The idea can’t even begin to formulate in their pathetic minds.

Reclaim your time! I am rooting for you!

I use Btrfs on my secondary drives as well, just for the checksumming capabilities. If there is data errors, I would like to know about it (even if I cannot do anything about it, because I do not have redundancy set up). I have my fstab set up so that it mounts with noatime,compress-force=zstd:1

Performance-wise, Btrfs has been improving a lot even in just the past few years. I think if I were using a very weak computer (like raspberry pi 1 strength) I would not use Btrfs or a CoW fs.

I use bottles to run games and works amazing too.

Am I dullard for just using Lutris? Like literally any time I want to install a program or game I will use Lutris’ GUI to select the installer, select a prefix directory, and so on. Once it’s done installing, then I switch the target EXE to the actual program I want. It isn’t exactly convenient but it has been reliable. So I haven’t tried any other approach.

The most solemn and important thing a liberal can do is “accept responsibility.”

What does this mean? I have a little guide, if you also wish to accept responsibility.

1. Say you are responsible.
2. Allow the public vitriol to pile up on your most recent tweet that you leave up for a few days.
3. Proceed to do whatever you wanted to do that maximally conveniences or enriches you.

In the paid version of my guide I also give tips on how you can perform advanced maneuvers like claim that actually you’re the victim. You can check it out here.

It is extremely worth saying that Ares has very high system requirements, partly due to the fact that it emulates systems with extremely high accuracy. And, if I understand its roots correctly, because it wasn’t written specifically to be clever and fast, but to be more documentary in its code style. So while it is a great choice, here are some options that won’t slam your CPU as hard:

NES: FCEUX SNES: SNES9X Genesis: Kega Fusion is decent. I haven’t tried BlastEm