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I’d say those SMART attributes don’t look great…

The state that brought us Sarah Palin and helped kick off the Trump-style candidacy?

Yeah, no. It’s been hard conservative for a long time.

Remember “the internet is a series of tubes” guy? Yeah, he was a Republican senator for Alaska and he said it in 2006. So Alaska has been full of political shit takes for at least twenty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Now it’s “Trumpland” because they’ve officially tossed Jesus out the window.

This is the other end of the endless bullshit from the Trump administration

Flooding the Zone with Bullshit isn’t just beneficial for the Trump administration. The open displays of corruption and non-stop media coverage give other oppressive governments cover to do things like this.

1. Coverage of stories like this is getting lost in the frantic coverage of every single bullshit thing Trump does every single day.

2. The extreme level of corruption on display in the USA means small antisocial decisions by oppressive governments will be viewed less negatively, because they’re now being compared to the USA and the Trump administration. “Well, our government sucks, but at least they’re not as bad as the Americans!”

An aspect of the “survivors and disability” part is for when you die before you can take out your payments but you have disabled children who need support. You can sign away your-never-to-be-used-otherwise-benefits to your disabled children to take care of them.

Used to be, just being interested in Linux could get you on a watchlist.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance

Stay classy, you Nazi fucks.

McCarthyism 2: Electric Boogaloo

I paid for a lifetime pass like six years ago or more. It was definitely before Jellyfin was well known or well developed.

I’m probably gonna keep using it until they do the whole “lifetime is over” crap these kind of companies usually do.

I’ll at least have gotten my moneys worth.

Washington released theirs just in time (1991) to be worn on plaid shirts at grunge concerts.

Yeah as much as the other options aren’t perfect, it’s why I went with KDE connect. 😔

I am in the process of setting up my own Matrix server but it’s my first time using Ansible so who knows how that will go. Ugh.

Beeper has questionable ownership now, and honestly, I always found their privacy practices questionable at best.

When I was being onboarded for Beeper, when it was still in it’s infancy and they had to walk you through the technical setup via an onboarding video call, I asked what promises they could keep about privacy if the company was sold? I asked because the owner of Beeper was the guy who made the Pebble watch and he sold Pebble and I was wondering if the sale would require the privacy policy to stay the same. I never got a response, and then Migicovsky sold it, like I thought he might.

What actually made me ask the question initially was getting into a recorded onboarding session that I had never been warned would be recorded. The first warning I had that they would record the video-call onboarding session was when I logged into the session. They never thought to warn me ahead of time that my voice and onboarding would be recorded. I bowed out and never signed up for Beeper, especially since they never thought it was worth it to answer my questions about privacy practices after having already disrespected my privacy once. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth about their privacy promises if they couldn’t even bother to warn me ahead of time that an onboarding session would be recorded.

If you were running your own Matrix server and bridge, you at least know what’s happening because you’re fully in control of it. But that can be a lot of work where these options are out of the box working at least.

I shut down my Immich server two months ago and moved it halfway across the state and did not have this issue.

All my files are on an internal disk.

There’s also GSconnect, a gnome implementation. There’s also Zorin Connect from Zorin OS.

There is also scrcpy

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Scrcpy literally copies the screen of your android device into a Window on your desktop

Anyway, I found those by searching “kde connect alternatives.”

What OS are you using? Microsoft has a proprietary and data-sucking app that can allow you to send messages from desktop. I can understand wanting to avoid using it.

On Linux there’s KDE Connect and a litany of other options as well (KDE Connect breaks a lot in my personal experience, although it has been more stable lately).

Jumping to Beeper for this seems like a bunch of extra steps to mimic things that already exist.

This is fucked up, but it’s still somehow better than a Murphy Bed backdoor.

It’s about an older Alex, still stuck in his ways, rethinking his life and considering “growing up,” dropping the life of crime and having a family.

Burgess was notoriously disappointed in the omission of the final chapter:

There is no hint of this change of intention in the twentieth chapter. The boy is conditioned, then deconditioned, and he foresees with glee a resumption of the operation of free and violent will. ‘I was cured all right,’ he says, and so the American book ends. So the film ends too. The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. The American or Kubrickian Orange is a fable; the British or world one is a novel. (Burgess xii)

It is also to be noted that it was the 21st chapter, which he viewed as the age that we truly hit “adulthood” and that was a purposeful literary choice to appeal to the idea that Alex could grow and change.

I couldn’t tell you why it was cut, nor why Kubrick declined to use it, but American versions often have it cut.

The number of copies of the A Clockwork Orange book that omit the last chapter is too damn high.

I guess they really wanted to ignore how Project Mayhem had already infiltrated the police, eh?

That’s only literally part of the plot…

It’s such a tragic disease. My ex went through a bout of dizziness for about two weeks, and they initially thought it was Meniere’s. It was thankfully unrelated and eventually passed, but I was so worried for her. I can’t even imagine what you’re going through it sounds so awful. I really do hope for the best for you in dealing with this awful malady.