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Trans rights are gamer rights!
Essentially, more-or-less, broadly speaking, predominantly, etc. (for debatelords, that they may peper and solt it as they plese)
It’s very easy to say this, because it means you can just reject any evidence to the contrary as “not good” or “biased”.
Accusations of genocide aren’t a fucking game. It’s either happening or it isn’t. Either the evidence is good or the evidence is bad (and all evidence is biased) So give us some good evidence.
It? I sure hope you aren’t talking about a human person.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas evidence 😔
So it’s just the browbeating for me today then?
Pretend all you want that you’re “just asking questions”
That’s pretty much exactly the same as the Israeli line
vibes of a genocide denier
doesn’t change facts.
What facts! I’m still waiting for one. We can go round and round all day but until you show me something to center this on it’ll be a waste of time. In 30 years even your ABC will quietly walk back their claims of genocide and I hope when that happens you will tell the people around you not to trust the same sources that lied to you.
There’s no racial component to it at all
That’s a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?
Are you or are you not genociding the people of mars right now? 
You see that’s kind of where the problem is. You can say there’s a genocide and I can say “where” and that gives me the vibe of a genocide denier. I’ve looked for evidence, I’ve asked for evidence, but the best I’ve ever gotten is a satellite image of some prison in China, some (AI padded) mugshots with no context, and some thorough browbeating by very serious liberals.
Let me put this another way. I’m of Jewish descent. My great aunt was in a camp. I’m not trying to “deny” any genocides, but what should my standard of evidence be? Particularly when there is a clear incentive for western media to create false narratives about their enemies, and have done so before?
If you have something to present that I haven’t seen, I and the other “tankies” are wide open to engage with it.
Wouldn’t say “dead” just put on the back burner. They’ll get their way eventually just like they did with net neutrality. (Responding to the article headline not you exactly)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
Google is pushing for websites to implement this software that talks to your TPM (trusted platform) chip on your computer and has it attest to the state of your web stack. Then, the website gets to decide if that’s okay and can deny you access if there’s any “funny business” such as ad blockers installed, or you’re using a browser they don’t like, or maybe even running an os they don’t like. We’ll almost certainly find ways around it for a while, but it’s going to get better (for them, worse for you)
I think this is on their eventual roadmap, somewhere just after not allowing anyone to log in without a verified WEI check for “”““security””“” 
Then you can stop all the YouTube rehosting sites like piped by baking in little 1 pixel changes that uniquely identify the account that ripped the video. Netflix and others will do this as well to try to stop piracy.
They’re going to go scorched earth on this, I just know it. The Internet will become as bad as cable was and this is the turning point.
The point is that the western sequence of events is incorrect on the face of it.
I had a tiny Dell Chromebook 11 through college running arch. It had a 10/10 keyboard and a decent IPS display, paired with an efficient bitmap font it was perfect for my needs. I should grab one off eBay, it looks like they’re only $40 or so now.
I usually recommend new users try out a few distros from distrowatch on a USB stick with Ventoy making sure to pick a few different desktop environments to try (XFCE, KDE Plasma, Gnome, Budgie, Cinnamon…) There are hundreds and I would argue they have as much of an impact on how your computer works and feels as your distro.
What distro you pick matters less from a user standpoint than you might think. You’re going to get a lot of recommendations for Ubuntu and its derivatives Pop_OS! and Mint. They’re great for beginners IMO except for one small sticking point, which is that they’ve been shipping most software in snap packages and flatpaks which have their own quirks to learn. It’s kind of like a little container or sandbox. You hear a lot of new users saying that they’re having issues with a program not being able to see a file on their computer and it’s usually because the program is a snap or a flatpak.
Me too 👀
Mullvad is only $5 a month just sayin’
I’ve noticed all my British shows have gone missing over the last couple years from the usual torrent sites. I’m kind of surprised because (I’m going to get my head bitten off for this take) the BBC is making better content than anything America has put out in the last few years.
Still on prime because I save more than I spend using it.
I’m going to start with a couple projects that don’t already exist.
Something like the AUR but for non executable content like movies or books. I’m imagining something like;
(program name) -m (medium, eg. Book, magazine, article (or “print” for any text document) Show, Movie (or video for any video document) and so on) (search term)
A project that allows a full installed-in-place Linux installation with grub and all, no USB drive required. If that’s a two stage thing where it partitions a section of the drive then installs an installer there, then reboots to that installer, or some other thing doesn’t matter. No, not whatever Ubuntu used to do, I mean a proper installation.
A program that tricks lan games into playing in side by side couch coop. I’ve figured out a method for doing this using multiseat on swayWM but it’s pretty complicated and touchy.
An open source car computer software. Not for the infotainment.
An open source printer that works.
A liquid democracy voting system
Things that actually exist:
Minetest, specifically creating tools to help existing Minecraft mods be ported over.
GIMP
IPFS, try to get it in use in more places by default (AUR seems promising?)
Wine
Re: haiku what do you find so promising about it? I’ve played around with it. I imagine it isn’t just the desktop experience?
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263835/new-report-details-firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china This is the first result when I typed in “uyghur firsthand account”
I’ll read it when I get home in a few hours unless you have another source(s) you’d prefer.