As someone who lives near a major international border, I also run into this problem, but I’m also fucking confused why this is even a problem. The phone has a fucking GPS built in. It knows exactly where it is at all times. There is no excuse for this except greedy providers and cowardly regulators.

If I am standing on my country’s soil, using an unmodified cellphone, within a reasonable margin of error, I should pay my country’s local rates. Full stop. That should be a legal obligation. If telecom providers want to bake that into their roaming agreements with international and specialty providers like that, so they must accept my calls and bill me accordingly, fine. If they want to make the phone refuse to connect to the roaming tower at all and force it to connect to a lower strength local tower, also fine. If because of technical reasons or interference they really cannot do that so that it would just lose service altogether, maybe a popup saying that my national connection has been lost and asking if I want to start roaming, rather than a text saying “Heads up! You’re roaming suddenly and we can charge you whatever we want now!”

It’s not that fucking hard. Make. It. Make. Sense.

Yes, until we bring the light of civilization, it will be the wild west and the natives are trying to kill us.

That sounds like a great idea. I think the independence of the old web is something we should aspire to, it’s a big part of what gave the internet its soul, and that’s what big tech has suffocated with ads and monetization and platform-control.

I use Odysee and Peertube where possible but yeah they’re somewhat awkward, and the biggest thing I typically miss is the comments. As awful as most Youtube comments are, the critical mass is there, if you’re looking for a quick link to something in the video, the summary that the author should’ve included but didn’t, the correction where the author was wrong, or something else of actual value, chances are whatever it is you’re trying to find somewhere on the top heap of Youtube comments. As with most social media, the value is not in the service itself, it’s in the community. Steering that community towards somewhere where it will actually be appreciated is a herculean task when someone has to be the pioneers and live in that desert and put in the work to prepare it for the ones who will come after them.

I’ve always felt like this is an area with a huge gap. I’ve got my own fragile, cobbled-together bullshit that works for me, but it’s far from ideal or reliable if I’m being honest. I do love Ansible’s general idea of relying on standard, always-ish available protocols like ssh as a universal connection method, and I think it could work well as the bulletproof lower layer when you want to use direct control over the CLI tools and configuration files, like what git provides for anything requiring version control, but ansible needs a slick management interface like github/forgejo provides on top of git, to fill in the higher level UI for when you need a wider scope to get an overview of what’s going on or to make general configuration changes without needing to get your hands dirty. Ideally it would look a lot like Proxmox itself does, just, not specific to Proxmox. Like if I want to add my Steam Deck, and I’ve got ssh enabled on it and it’s not asleep, it should be able to ansible its way in there somehow to at least get whatever basic details it can. Maybe that’s only basic system information at first, but from there I could work on customizing it. That’s what I would consider the ideal, for me at least.

You should try being the only source of revenue for media organizations if you want them to pay attention to you. I understand it works really well, especially if you have a complete monopoly.

That’s taking “legal suicide” to a whole new level. I’m impressed.

Yes, all three are supported configurations. Technically all four, since “I don’t know” is apparently a completely valid and functional configuration too.

Think longer term. How did the stage get set for this outcome? How could someone like Trump get elected in a healthy and properly functioning democracy? This is a consequence that was decades in the making, at least. Maybe being “realistic” about what we think we can achieve is what got us into this mess. Maybe we need to start questioning this “reality”, because it doesn’t seem to be working out very well for us. Maybe wishing for something better is our only hope. Or maybe it’s the first step to something actually better.

It doesn’t matter if it’s $100 and $99, or $100 and $0.01, my point is there are more than those two options. There are in fact a nearly infinite variety of options. You just have to decide that you want a third option. Stop picking between two bad options if you don’t want bad options.

Picking the less worst option over the actual worst option are both roads that lead to the same place, one is a little longer and has better scenery, but the destination you end up at is the same either way.

Picking either one means you’re going the wrong direction entirely.

They are effectively equal. Kang is not better than Kodos and Kodos is not better than Kang. That’s the point. Having two choices is not enough when they are both working for the billionaires, not for you. The details of which billionaires they’re working for, and what specifically they will do to make your life hell, is frankly pretty much irrelevant and debating whether one choice is going to cause slightly less suffering than the other is like starving people fighting over scraps in a garbage can. Demand better. Do better.

These security companies are hilarious, truly. They have to know they’re literally just posting a free advertisement for this guy, right? But the stupid CEOs and CTOs they’re shilling their security-theater-ware to obviously don’t, and I guess that’s the important part for them.

I honestly hope he does get a Nobel Peace Prize. It will be the final nail in the coffin for any credibility the award had left after Obama getting one killed its credibility in the first place. I’d appreciate the undeniable clarity of knowing it is utterly irredeemable without doubt, that it is an utter joke of an award and probably always has been. There is still a tiny sliver of doubt in my mind that it could still be redeemed somehow and used to honor people who actually contribute to world peace. But once Trump wins it, I’ll never have to worry about whether it is worthy of any attention ever again.

Yeah, but that was because in those days most people were actually illiterate, which in recent history we considered a bad thing and tried to avoid, but it seems to be making a comeback unfortunately.

(Nothing against audiobooks specifically, you gotta do what you gotta do, just suggesting the decline in literacy in general is worrisome)

I will not apologise for my idealism in hoping he wasn’t, but I can admit when I’m wrong, and I was wrong about Carney. He is a snake.

Lock her up in a psych ward and throw away the key.

Steam machines was a better name to be honest. I’m sad that effort withered and died.

It’s not hypocritical if you are providing affordable housing for someone.

Despite the kneejerk hate towards landlords lately, which is largely justified due to the extreme levels of rent-seeking behavior evident in today’s completely unaffordable rental market, affordable rental housing is actually a legitimate market and there needs to be availability to meet that demand. Renting on its own is not a crime. Some people even prefer it. It can provide significantly more flexibility and less responsibility, stress and hassle, at a lower monthly cost than home ownership IF (and ONLY IF) you have a good landlord, either because they choose to be or because the laws require them to be, which is not so much the case with most of the laws.

So for me those are the dividing lines. If you are not:

• A slumlord providing “affordable” rental housing by leaving your tenants in unsafe, unsanitary, and unmaintained properties.
• Demanding luxury-priced rents for an extremely modest property with no features that can be considered a luxury and no intention of maintaining anything to luxurious standards.

Then maybe it’s not hypocritical. And I don’t mean just taking the highest price you can find on rentfaster and posting your property for that price because “that’s what the market price is” I mean actually thinking about whether that price you’re asking is actually affordable for real human beings living in your area.

Basically, if you treat your tenants like actual human beings with the understanding they may be struggling to get by, trying to raise a family, working as much as they can even when work is not reliable, and dealing with all life throws at them, and you don’t treat these things as immediately evictable offenses like a battleaxe over their head just waiting to drop, then yes, you absolutely can argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone – because you are helping provide it.

If, after contributing to legitimate maintenance expenses and reserves, you are making a tiny profit, barely breaking even or even losing money renting, good. If you are treating it as a cash cow that funds your entire life, fuck you.

Well you see after being shot, the man decided to stop breathing, which as we all know is required to continue living, therefore his death is not sufficiently attributable to your single bullet.