Also xmas trees are giant cocks. Yep. Huge phallic symbols.

Today I learned!

I’m going to enjoy Christmas trees even more with this knowledge. Thank you.

Though, when looking for a source for others to enjoy, it also turns out it’s complicated.

Edit: Caesar Borgia. Unsubstantiated…except by pretty much anyone who, you know, has a quick look at the various portraits of him.

Somehow they see him as more godly.

Well yeah. Jesus loves to “grab em by the pussy”, apparently.

I’ll admit I haven’t quite found that Bible verse…

Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

To make it easier to see who out there is most invested in a Trump presidency:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/most-important-billionaires-backing-trumps-104802063.html

It’s so great.

And the scene is even better on a rewatch.

so we’ll see if Vance is similarly loyal.

Yeah. Considering how Trump may have actually intended to have Pence killed during the January 6 insurrection, my money is on “not particularly loyal”.

I like to think there’s still hope that people around Trump and Putin will recognize the clear signs of dementia and not drag the world to war, this time.

Yeah. They do still sell Frisbees, though, at least.

Does “Breaking News” on Dropout.tv count…

Historically, “nothing” is the label we apply when none of the things we are currently able to detect are present.

After we can detect what actually is there, we update our description to the much more accurate term “practically nothing”.

Large corporate donors decide, in a non-representative winner-take-all vote system.

Also, I think they meant to say “both parties”.

“There’s no shortage of air!”

Yeah. This is such a better experience than past community tools I have used.

In particular, I hope we can attract the Do-It-Yourself repair community, before the current platforms lock all of that content away.

Why would Microsoft fire an employee for holding a vigil, it’s not like they …

…called “No Azure for Apartheid”

Oh. Thanks for drawing attention to this, Microsoft! I appreciate that they’re so willing to invoke the Streisand Effect.

I hope those employees land somewhere where they build something that costs Microsoft a lot of profit.

This sounds like an important step toward fully working the right think algorithm.

For example, Republicans tend to have Christian evangelicals and business interests.

Yeah.

But at least the Christian evangelicals’ shareholders keep them so accountable to their core values that the desires of the mostly unorganized pastors leading the business owners have no meaningful say in the outcomes. (This is Sarcasm)

Makes sense. I suspect it may still not work due to Proton likely being compiled for Intel, rather than ARM chips.

If you run into that, you may be able to work around it by logging into the Raspberry Pi, cloning the source code and installing: (if you’re able to get that to work, it’ll likely work equally well on Ubuntu or Raspbian). But it’s not for the faint of heart, they (Proton) don’t include many details, so it looks like there will be a lot of learning about their tool chain. https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app#installation

(Edit: Since ProtonVPN is Python based, it may be fine, as long as there’s not too much C in the project. If it works immediately, my gut feeling is it will also work fine on Raspbian, if you need to switch for any other reasons.)

I know a lot of people have Pis set up like this and surely they can’t be administering the whole thing through CLI, right?

We are, indeed. I use a combination of SSH (for quick stuff), and Ansible for stuff I need to do repeatedly.

How do I get a similar setup to my Synology such that I can just get a desktop interface in a browser?

The tool you’re looking for is a ’VNC’ solution. There’s lots of them, and the best ones are free.

You can enable VNC on your Raspberry Pi through Raspi-Config. You’ll also need a VNC client on each device you want to connect from. Fin linked one above, I think.

And now some un- requested advice from me:

You mention running Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi.

If you choose Ubuntu, I believe you will encounter many recipes online that will not work, because Ubuntu does not come with various Raspberry Pi specific tools pre-installed, such as raspi-config.

Raspbian and Ubuntu are extremely similar (this is intentional).

But I have found:

• Many Raspberry Pi recipes will not work on Ubuntu, because Ubuntu does not include Pi specific software that is included in Raspbian.
• Most Ubuntu recipes work perfectly on Raspbian.

I think the Raspbian software can be added on top of Ubuntu, but I’ve never cared enough about the minor differences to even try.

The Ubuntu recipes I have found that don’t work on Raspbian also don’t work on Pi hardware at all, until I compile additional tools from source code. (A Raspberry Pi uses an ARM chip, which is cool, but makes it harder install some software that doesn’t support it.)

The Apple II is still such a fucking cool computer.

Sure, my watch is about a billion times more powerful, but my watch will never be as cool as the Apple II.

Zip drives still hold the most data of any media. Science may say otherwise, but science doesn’t usually come in bright neon colored sleeves.

C.S. Lewis wrote that every death in our lives is an ending not just to their life, but an end to the unique part of our own life that only happened when we interacted with them.

It’s natural to fear and mourn that ending.

Yep. Also, Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos