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Tennessee House passes bill allowing private citizens to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages ( www.wsmv.com )

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SpiceDealer , 7 hours ago

I really, really would like to love and support my home state but the GOP is making it really difficult. Memphis, my home town, gave birth to blues, soul and rock'n'roll, was pivotal in the civil rights movement, gorgeous view to the Mississippi River and a world renowned BBQ scene. Nashville has a thriving nightlife and a music scene of its own owing to its numerous music halls. Chattanooga and Knoxville are their own little nuggets of Tennessee charm. There's also the natural beauty: Great Smoky Mountains and the associated national park, numerous smaller state parks, swimmable lakes (e.g. Percy Priest Lake), and so forth. This isn't even including the extensive Native American history.

Instead of using it's natural beauty and rich, though troubled, history to make Tennessee a center of the southern U.S., Bill Lee and his Republican-led (i.e. Trumpist stronghold) state house makes it a living hell for everyone. xAI was allowed to install poisonous gas turbines right next to poor, black neighborhoods. ICE and the National Guard were given carte blanche to roam our streets. The south is, truly, a backwards backwater.

SpiceDealer , 18 hours ago

Along with his Saudi oil tycoon buddies.

SpiceDealer , 18 hours ago

In American-style neo-liberalism, everything must have a price tag. If it doesn't generate a profit, it can't exist.

SpiceDealer , 8 hours ago

This is actually good advice... in isolation. Encouraging people to spend their money more wisely can bring awareness to an issue but it ultimately does little to implement change. Sure, you and I (and the Fediverse as a whole) might be hyper-vigilant about these kind of things but the average consumer isn't. Continuing with your Nintendo example, Nintendo has decades of brand recognition and a zealous fanbase to satisfy the demand. An eager gaming press will gladly take free hardware from Nintendo for positive coverage.

Real change won't happen until the tap is turned off, so to speak. These companies are taking advantages of gaps in the law that permit them to get away with this. Antitrust law in the US dates back to a time when steam-powered trains were still common and the last breakup involved a telephone company. When AT&T was broken up, the home computer (desktop in modern parlance) was just starting to take off.

So, yes, we should spend our money elsewhere when we see this kinds of corporate abuses but until you starve the beast, keep expecting these kinds of behaviors.

What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

Any that have come close?

SpiceDealer , 18 hours ago

Napalm Death though the current line-up has been the same since their third album with sad exemption of Jesse Pintado who passed away in 2006.

Just getting into a little bit of Troubles

SpiceDealer , 1 day ago

...depending on the type of IRA chosen.

Are there two options, by any chance? Provisional? Official?

too bad they made space really big

SpiceDealer , 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

I know this is just a meme but one thing I love about classic sci-fi (i.e. pre-1990) is the concept art. Michael Whelan and Frank Frazzeta being prominent examples of this. Their artwork are on another fucking level. There's just so ethereal about those hand-drawn/pre-digital artwork of non-existent worlds.

SpiceDealer , 2 days ago

I'm a Yank so I know it as UFO: Enemy Unknown even though I was born in 1999.

Cover art for "My Teacher Is an Alien" by Bruce Coville. 1989.

SpiceDealer , 2 days ago

I remember coming across this in the elementary school library! Thanks for the quick nostalgia trip.

‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test ( www.mozillafoundation.org )

Originally found on [email protected]

SpiceDealer , 2 days ago

Here's some tips:

1. Sticking to this community's name, ditch the automobile all together and adopt a hybrid approach of cycling and public transit. Buy and/or build a good bike or e-bike and learn the local bus route and/or routes of any other public transit.

2. For those of us still stick in Der Orangenführer's fascist regime, stick to cars made before 2012. Some cars were going to high tech before this but it's bond to be outdated but check if it's still used.

misleading cover

Source this screenshot is of: https://old.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/1qqwmwu/im_finally_launching/

SpiceDealer , 3 days ago

Fantasy smut sells! This dude could make fucking millions off this. I would rewrite the whole thing if I were him.

Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

okay THIS WAS A BLAST thank you for all the questions! i am so sorry i couldn't answer every single one i have to run to set now but feel free to dm me on IG @team_karim if you want to ask me anything else and i'll try my best to answer!! 🖖

ALT

SpiceDealer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Whoa, Lemmy is going places! I never expected to see a Reddit-style AMA to appear here. I don't have any questions for you, Mr. Karim but I do wish you the best!

RFK Jr. and Kid Rock Bizarrely Strip Off to Push MAHA Agenda ( www.thedailybeast.com )

Imagine Lemon Party but boring. archive link

SpiceDealer OP , 4 days ago

Bear culture

SpiceDealer OP , 4 days ago

Hypertension, perhaps

How is it going, TeamSpeak?

Sauce - https://xcancel.com/funscubatuba/status/2023229308416778355

ALT

SpiceDealer , 3 days ago

There's Stoat (formerly Revolt) and Fluxer. Additionally, Steam has many Discord-like features in app.

Name this band

SpiceDealer , 4 days ago

Ace of De-Base.

Rage Against The Media Machine

My Life with The Puppy Killing Kult

Motley Prudes

Starving Puppy

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war. ( www.motherjones.com )

In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived in a lush, affluent suburb of Chicago. Dan had a good job. Nicole home-schooled their two kids. ...

SpiceDealer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

We have been planting food for millenniums. All the crops and animals that we have cultivated and domesticated. All of it to feed our community. In the majority of that time, it was done without a profit motive. Why the fuck are we applying rent-seeking behavior to food? Does Dead Mommy Rand say that anything free is communism?

AsteroidOS 2.0 Released

AsteroidOS 2.0 is here with a massive load of new features and support for many more watches. ...

SpiceDealer , 5 days ago

If I'm not mistaken, some of the higher-end models from Polar and (maybe?) Garmin work independently of a smartphone.

SpiceDealer , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Let me first congratulate the devs on this milestone. Not many niche projects with small appeal last this long but this is impressive. Now, if they can get this working on Garmin and Polar watches the ball will really start rolling.

Duval holding cue card for Brando who can't remember his lines.

SpiceDealer , 5 days ago

I remember reading some Godfather tidbit that said that the cat in The Godfather was a stray found around the set and that Coppola decided to include in the movie. People actually thought that cat was supposed to be some kind of symbolism.

What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?

SpiceDealer , 8 days ago

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Some of best science-fiction literature ever penned.

However, the author, while a superb writer, is an asshole.

SpiceDealer , 7 days ago

It's a bit wonky in some parts but the ending ties the whole thing together. Definitely give it a read.

7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive ( www.tomshardware.com )

There's no escaping the memory black hole.

SpiceDealer , 8 days ago

When Revolution comes, Altman and his ilk will be one of the first to go down along with the Trumpists that prop up their enterprise!

Fire at Havana oil refinery as Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens ( www.aljazeera.com )

A fire broke out at a key fuel processing plant in the Cuban capital Havana, threatening to exacerbate an energy crisis as the country struggles under an oil blockade imposed by the United States. ...

SpiceDealer , 7 days ago

Fuck you, Trump, for depriving my ancestoral homeland of their energy needs!

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SpiceDealer , 8 days ago

He owned an E-Bike shop but supported one of the most oil-friendly presidents in history?

Forget shooting yourself in foot, he shot his own wallet.

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations ( www.theguardian.com )

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters ...

SpiceDealer , 8 days ago

Redneck logic.

The United Kingdom will cut funding to fundamental astronomy and physics research by almost a third. ( www.ox.ac.uk )

SpiceDealer , 8 days ago

In other news, the Church of England has confirmed that the Earth is indeed flat.

Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Today's game is Morrowind. I wanted to try mixing things up a little and had gotten this last december so i decided to dick around for a bit in it. I ended up being a little surprised by how much i enjoyed all the reading it needs. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's incredibly tedious and annoying sometimes, but it comes with ...

SpiceDealer , 9 days ago

I misread game as grave. I was worried there for a second.

Shout it from the station rooftops

SpiceDealer , 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Good to know that I'm not the only one. I don't see plane guys and submarine guys using those as their daily drivers. I do have to ask though: am I a hypocrite if I want walkable cities but also want to embrace van life? I would love to get my hands on an old Soviet UAZ-452 and travel around Lake Superior and Lake Tahoe in it.

Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

SpiceDealer , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

GPU shortage of 2018

Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions

NFT craze

And now Altman's bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driven enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produce slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is it the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?

The carrot family

SpiceDealer , 10 days ago

From left clockwise: Cannibal Corpse -> Mayhem -> Bathory -> George Michael

Beyond fucked up (CW: sexualizing children)

SpiceDealer , 10 days ago

I did some research (more than I should for this ancient trite) and this comes from February 1978 issue of High Times magazine. A fucking stoner magazine! What the hell was the writer of some second-rate publication for grass and shrooms doing writing a lust piece about an up-and-coming child actress? What kind of grass would make you want to fuck a child?

Hold on, it gets worse. According to Wikipedia, the article's writer, Ed Dwyer, was the magazine's founding editor. Imagine working at that magazine's office and reading your boss's 1970s equivalent of a horny post.

Klarna for rent

ALT

SpiceDealer , 11 days ago

I'm no Maoist but those 'land reforms' are starting to sound pretty good right now.

SpiceDealer , 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

1. The first four words of my comment were "I'm no Maoist" quite clearly signaling that I don't affiliate myself with Maoism.

2. The rest of my comment was in reference to Mao's Land Reform Movement (i.e. those oh-so famous landlord killing memes). You're thinking about Mao's Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Foward which were separate incidents that did, indeed, kill and starve many innocent people. Mao was tyrant and despot but no one, absolutely no one, missed the landlords. Well, maybe, expect the ones that fled to Daddy Chiang.

This goes beyond not liking a Swedish finance app. This is about the dystopian absurdity of financing your rent payment. It sounds like a plot point from a William Gibson novel. You're borrowing money, that you'll have to pay back with interest, to have a roof over your head; a roof that is not even yours. Klarna would very happy to lend you that money so they can profit from debt and the landlord(s) will be happy because they're still making money without providing value. You don't have be Marxist to see why this is a problem.

[Arch/EndeavourOS] Random reboots

I've recently got my PC up and running again but today it's rebooted randomly twice. What could this be a sign of? All advice is welcomed and appreciated. Thanks in advance.

SpiceDealer OP , 9 days ago

Following the advice of MagnificentSteiner , I added -r to the line and got back this:

Feb 13 18:39:31 [user] wireplumber[1081]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x629b62872910> failed:>

This was the very last (or first?) line. If more info is needed, just let me know.

SpiceDealer OP , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

First, sorry of the late response.

Second, running that command with the -r parameter it returns this:

Feb 13 17:24:45 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:24:45 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:24:45 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:24:45 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:24:33 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:24:33 [user]rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:23:31 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:23:31 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:22:46 [user] wpa_supplicant[957]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-63 noise=999>

Feb 13 17:22:34 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:22:34 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:22:08 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:22:08 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:21:24 [user] flatpak[9501]: (17:21:24) INFO: [Gog]: GOG presence set

Feb 13 17:21:23 [user] flatpak[9501]: (17:21:23) INFO: [Gog]: Running command: GOGDL_CON>

Feb 13 17:21:20 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:21:20 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:59 [user] wireplumber[1097]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5be0f8feaff0> failed:>

Feb 13 17:20:34 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:34 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:23 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:23 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:23 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.

Feb 13 17:20:23 [user] rtkit-daemon[1064]: Supervising 10 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
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SpiceDealer OP , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

It show this:

Feb 13 18:40:29.912947 [user] kernel: iommu ivhd0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST device=0000:00:00.0 pasid=0x00000 address=0xfffffffdf8000000 flags=0x0a00]

And this:

Feb 13 18:40:34.855192 [user] kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:24:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000

Feb 13 18:40:34.855523 [user] kernel: ucsi_ccg 6-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110

Feb 13 18:40:34.856313 [user] kernel: ucsi_ccg 6-0008: ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110

Feb 13 18:40:34.857464 [user] kernel: ucsi_ccg 6-0008: probe with driver ucsi_ccg failed with error -110

Edit: And this:

Feb 13 18:40:34.855192 sam-ms7b93 kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:24:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000

Feb 13 18:40:34.855523 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ucsi_ccg 6-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110

Feb 13 18:40:34.857464 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ucsi_ccg 6-0008: probe with driver ucsi_ccg failed with error -110

Feb 13 18:40:35.256841 sam-ms7b93 kernel: iwlwifi 0000:28:00.0: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 1

Feb 13 18:40:37.136726 sam-ms7b93 systemd-journald[596]: File /var/log/journal/347a826f389a4d8f832a34bd1283f6a3/ user-1000.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.

Feb 13 18:40:37.774864 sam-ms7b93 kernel: nvme nvme0: using unchecked data buffer

Feb 13 18:40:40.538835 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: VHT information is missing, disabling VHT

Feb 13 18:40:40.542833 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: authenticate with 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98 (local address=ac:67:5d:fd:29:d8)

Feb 13 18:40:40.542853 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: send auth to 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98 (try 1/3)

Feb 13 18:40:40.610840 sam-ms7b93 kernel: warning: kdeconnectd' uses wireless extensions which will stop working for Wi-Fi 7 hardware; use nl80211`

Feb 13 18:40:40.672835 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: send auth to 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98 (try 2/3)

Feb 13 18:40:40.675837 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: authenticated

Feb 13 18:40:40.675864 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: associate with 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98 (try 1/3)

Feb 13 18:40:40.696831 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: RX AssocResp from 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)

Feb 13 18:40:40.700846 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: associated

Feb 13 18:40:40.749843 sam-ms7b93 kernel: wlan0: Limiting TX power to 27 (30 - 3) dBm as advertised by 54:be:f7:d3:d0:98

Feb 13 18:41:18.320172 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ntfs3: Enabled Linux POSIX ACLs support

Feb 13 18:41:18.320369 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ntfs3: Read-only LZX/Xpress compression included

Feb 13 18:41:19.837143 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ntfs3(nvme1n1p2): It is recommened to use chkdsk.

Feb 13 18:41:19.839148 sam-ms7b93 kernel: ntfs3(nvme1n1p2): volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
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SpiceDealer OP , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Kinda of. About 6 months ago, my speakers stopped outputting sound from their proper port on the I/O. Speakers themselves still worked as connecting them to the headphone port produced sound. When I put my PC back together about two weeks ago the sound problem persisted but this time switching sound profiles in the sound setting then switching back to the default, strangely, fixed the problem. It came at the caveat that I have to do it every time at reboot.

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare ( www.eff.org )

SpiceDealer , 11 days ago

Same. Had to read that headline twice just to be sure.

Hey, guys. Is it a good idea to dunk PC parts in isopropyl alcohol?

I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular ...

SpiceDealer , 11 days ago

I would highly advise against this! That would be a health and fire hazard waiting to happen. Isopropyl is good for cleaning your electronics but I wouldn't bathe them in it.

If you still want to try submerging your PC in some kind of liquid, you can try mineral oil. This was a trend in PC building back in the early-mid 2010s but seems to have lost momentum around 2017/2018. I've never done this myself so research thoroughly. Other than that, stick to water-cooling.

Also, at the risk of sounding like an asshole, I would advise quitting smoking.

SpiceDealer , 10 days ago

The idea wasn't about cleaning your PC but rather cooling it. The idea was that since mineral oil hydrophilic (is that the right word?), it could do a better job than air or water cooling. However, as other have pointed out, it was a massive hassle with marginal benefits.

Name it

SpiceDealer , 13 days ago

Dishonored.

YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They contain vitamin C, improve blood pressure, and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. Radishes contain almost no calories

SpiceDealer , 15 days ago

Thanks for the tip. Might incorporate them into some homemade fajitas or Chinese-style stir-fry.

Elon Musk will be deposed along with DOGE staffers over USAID dismantling ( www.the-independent.com )

Destruction of world's largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim ...

SpiceDealer , 15 days ago

Not just freeze them but nationalize them along with all his companies (except for Twatter and Grok, put them out of their misery) and, as Gammelfisch said, throw him into prison. But before we do that, we have to "get rid" of Der Orange Führer.

This has happened so many times

SpiceDealer , 17 days ago

I was speaking to a Nicaraguan co-worker a few days ago about the current situation in Nicaragua and the general geopolitical situation in Latin America as whole. She seems to be in her 50s so I ask about her memories regarding the Contras and Sandinistas. I shit you not, she actually spoke positively about the Contras; she said if the Contras were around today, Nicaragua wouldn't be in the situation that it is today. She goes on to say that her dad was falsely accused of being a member of the Contras.

While I understand that the situation with her dad may have traumatized her, it is mind-boggling that she praised the U.S.-funded death squads.

GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids ( www.thepinknews.com )

The prolife party is calling for death? This is a familiar pattern. How long you think until it comes out hes fucking kids? ...

SpiceDealer , 19 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Well, I'm bummed that I had to find out who this fucker is and that he's running for governor for my hellhole of a home state. But I will use this knowledge to not vote for him at this year's midterms.