Fully agree, shit is a perfect constant example of liberalism loving nice words while actively preventing making any actions following to address the causes. I really and truly believe that therapy can be really great. But if the person in pain and struggling is constantly setup to fail by putting it all on them. Then liberal capitalist therapy is noting but gaslighting. The struggling person isn’t the failure or worthless for doing the things they can. The rug is pulled even when personal progress does happen.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary - Marx

IMO it really depends on the culture of the nations. I personally don’t plan on giving up my guns even if a successful revolution in the USA happens. And I think it would be extremely hard to ban them. But more importantly, the USA (or at least large swaths of it) has had a pretty different view on persons being allowed to own guns compared to many other nations. And being part of the constitution does kind of make the USA a little different. Though I don’t know off-hand how many other nations have something like the 2nd Amendment so feel free to let me know.

I can’t speak to how the cultures of Soviet/Warsaw Pact, China, Vietnam, DPRK, Cuba, or any other nations thought of guns before or after their revolutions. Even if you look at non-socialist nations (especially the major capitalist nations), they also have similar laws making individuals owning guns super limited. Which (to me) just indicates that they just don’t have gun culture large enough to push for changing the laws. Not a “good” or “bad” thing, just shows that the people of different nations (or even just regions of nations) do things differently.

In my personal case, I grew up and still live in a more rural area. And I have handled various kinds of guns since I was like 10~12. Most of the time was hunting or scouts, but now also for concealed carry and fun range days with friends. I understand how large urban and suburbs closer to urban areas would want to have more rules due to higher population densities (different material conditions and cultures).

The rest is about mostly mental and physical health that I got ranty with but still matters in my opinion. Not kidding myself into thinking it is the only or correct causes/solutions. Just things I feel do matter with obvious problems relating to guns and other physical violence.

I think the very real and terrible issues with gun violence in the USA is that so many other deeper issues lead to the violence. Our capitalist system keeps poor and working people down and healthcare is out of reach. More and more people become isolated and then get “black pilled”.

Even if someone has access to healthcare (specifically mental health but other health related issues very much matter), all the effort doesn’t change that outside of sessions or physical health efforts the “real world” just keeps grinding them down without care because profits matter more. I always roll my eyes at any “mental health awareness” trainings my jobs put so much lip-service into. Because the rest of what they do in demanding more and more with fewer people. Overwork and impossible demands mean that even if you do try to take a mental health day or are visibly stressing out are just another reason to get rid of you. The stress of possibly losing access to income (and healthcare that is tied to the jobs) only increases the isolation.

A socialist/communist society with unconditional access to healthcare, housing, employment, and basic needs for literal living would remove a lot of these issues. Might not go away, but would seem to naturally reduce gun and other violent crimes. Much like with how the idea of government and classes as we know them withering away naturally. Obviously there will always be outliers like literal clinical issues that aren’t tied to the above. But real efforts to research biological causes and ways to actually help seem to only become an option if the profits are removed along with the default of just throwing people away into prisons to “forget” about them.

Installed, did notice that even though I tell my phone (Samsung 24U) to use it as default assistant app. Google still opens when holding the home “button” at the bottom of my screen. When I tell it to have the floating bubble the app itself is cool.

Would be interesting to know percentage of them only get the Flu shot because it was required vs those that already get it even if they weren’t military.

Get console OSes since PlayStation BSD stuff could be useful for something, and Nintendo stuff just because they always lose their shit and show their true colours. Modern Windows source code for moving React OS forward because they deserve to hit a real release after so long. And of course all of the Creative Cloud shit to remove reasons for still paying the Adobe Tax.

Would be hilarious if they went in hard with it. Just start copy-pasting just a wild amount of them in grids that don’t connect to any inlet or exit to/from actual roads. After a certain point, they could say it is some national art project that is about the very corruption that leads to this original one.

Same here. Though I would imagine the real people benefiting would be people holding Bitcoin. Especially if true, since shit would jump the price massively while in effect.

He points to places like the UK having lower costs. But they have actual national healthcare and are really driven to force pharma companies to cut shit. Also doesn’t do anything to address the issue of our private for-profit system rewarding everything costing more.

There were some great months for people being approved for much more after that United Healthcare fuck got got. But would have been even better if the same happened to pharma CEOs at the same time. Toss in some of the big name board members/share holders too. As they were the ones that started getting pissy about profits being lower due to insurance companies freaking out about maybe being next.

But all these tariff things only do a speed run of continuing to attack the wrong problem (just like how both parties have always done). Companies that do end-up setting up USA manufacturing will still charge more than before the tariffs (just less in order to have people “feel” better at any small reduction). Will pull the same shit of blaming “higher cost of having to pay USA workers” and/or the good old “need to recoup costs” (both will be what they WILL most certainly use when they scale down these new USA based manufacturing after Trump is out). Would imagine it is still more profitable to pay for the Potemkin buildings and machines for appearing to comply.

Being fair, I have to help people that didn’t install from third-party stores or side-loading that get hit with apps that basically keep popping full screen ads and fake infection warnings. So many bad/scamy apps are in the official Play Store. It is possible that some of the spam apps somehow hide the prompts within some of the ads to enable installing from unknown sources in order to side-load more. But Google should be putting all the effort to stop users from using apks and third-party stores into getting their own house in order.

https://xdaforums.com/t/research-wip-possible-volte-enablement-for-samsung-devices-on-aosp-based-roms.4664947/

https://github.com/jameskdev/android_samsung_imsservice

Not sure if the above helps (as the links are from 2024), but might be useful for the S10 if their efforts are usable. I haven’t messed with custom ROMs on anything in a long time and I don’t know the processes for patching mentioned in the links. The last time was not with intent to actually have a working phone and just messing with my S6 just to try installing Lineage OS on something I had no plan of caring about.

Wait until they find out what can be done with socks and some rocks inside them.

It seems to be back up on the store now.

Maybe, might also be that since tech literacy has degraded since his leak. Which means that they don’t care because they are overwhelmed with the information that they don’t understand. Hell, I imagine that a lot of the press that where sent the information didn’t fully understand.

The average person likely defaulted to what they always do, and just assumed that the leak meant the feds had to stop and treat it like any other historic reveal (example being stuff like COINTELPRO and believing that it was bad but isn’t done anymore). Hell, a shocking amount of libs honestly thought that Biden was going to bring Medicare for All (even though he said he wasn’t) just because he said “the Democratic Party is the party of healthcare” a few times.

Came to check if anyone had already linked hak5. Glad to see you had shared the link!

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Looks like he just saw an Android icon pack around the same time default icon style was shifting towards that same look. And just turned it in with a fancy story about how he “played with many shapes” (then show some quickly drawn or even some he did try) “before it just hit me” vibe. I wonder how many in-house employees might have come up with the same and just overlooked.

They are much much more likely to use phones/tablets/maybe even Chromebooks. Torrenting is much easier with a PC. Torrent apps for the others do exist, but do require understanding how to use them (and not use them if on cell data without actual unlimited plans). They are used to just streaming things and not really care about keeping the actual files. So even being patient enough to wait for a file to download is at least a good thing I guess.

More efficient if the file is less popular or super niche with few seeders with tiny upload speeds or no seeds (due to age of the torrent or the before mentioned). Torrents for sure are more resilient as far as being harder to just shutdown a site. It is still nice to constantly have all options possible to make getting files easy. Though I will say that torrents are more efficient the larger the file. 4k media being a very good example.

I have added all the houses on my street to OSM and used StreetComplete for things. The only very frustrating thing I hate is that my house is technically in a tiny town’s zone as far as utilities, but my street address is under a larger small town. I have made sure that my house and the others on my street have the mailing address town. But when I search it on Co-Maps it still shows the tiny town name. Which if I wasn’t aware of this happening, I would think the address I searched isn’t the same place. Does anyone know if there is a way to force OSM to use the correct address?

I wanted to like ME because the only thing keeping me on Waze is the user reports for traffic/cops. But they really need a better UI for it. I click report and there isn’t a clear display that it went through. And when I did see that someone had reported a car on the side of the road or a crash (I can’t remember which), it doesn’t show a marker in the actual map. Just had a small mention alert at the top and wasn’t clear where it was. Otherwise it is smooth in animation and works for navigation.