Georgia only just passed its Russian law, and the government has already introduced legislation targeting LGBTQ+ people. This is by no means accidental.
Like it or not, we have become a geopolitical signal. We often symbolise the 'degenerate' West – as well as opposition to it. In the world of 2024, queer folk are not seen as people, we are tools. We are international scapegoats.
And when they come for us, they're coming for democracy itself. Our freedom is everyone's freedom.
With its slowly growing content I see an opportunity for #GeminiProtocol to become a standard to keep using old machines that otherwise would become e-waste.
Most of the web is painful to unusable today if you have a PC that’s one decade old or more. Yet the majority of actually useful information is still text with a few included documents or images. Gemini will always be useable on E-readers when we know the web content may sometimes be readable but mostly not.
My office desktop computer is 8 years old, and has run Ubuntu always. I have yet to notice that it's that old. Works excellently; and I do quite a bit of number crunching and image processing. Has a single CPU with only 4 cores, a smallish GPU, and 64 GB of RAM. It's even fanless, for zero noise, except for when the GPU is engaged (has its own fan). Like you, I credit open source software, and the absence of any spyware-like subscription nonsense.
didn’t see this until now but looks like jolla has another phone lined up
shop.jolla.com/details/91eb91d3-c3de-41d0-b3c0-7075a339112d/
idk, display seems a bit low-res… but it’s got an audio jack and honestly seems good enough. might consider it if i get tired of the xperia 10 II (i don’t like its tall form factor and i only got it so i could run newer android apps)
Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Expert-systemd-boot
"Debian developer Luca Boccassi has begun working on systemd-boot support for using it as an alternative to the GRUB bootloader."
"alternative" 😏
Not that I use Debian, so I mostly don't care. Still funny.
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