SNW is the least bad but it still blows compared to anything pre-2009.

Advertising should be illegal. Huge waste of money and everyone’s time.

More worried than about its present?

I know that and you know that, but have you seen the sort of thing Trump and those who have his ear think is a good idea?

I don’t think they’d just ban using all open source software, it’d be something ridiculous like asserting that all FOSS licenses are null and void and those projects are now the intellectual property of the US. Likely propped up by the classic “security” justification.

I’m less worried about any specific targeting of Linux than I am about some random tech bro whispering in Trump’s ear and suddenly he bans Open Source or something similarly unenforceable and insane.

I would argue that a Ferris wheel is weirder than any of those lol. The raft is the only competitor.

What? Who? I haven’t seen anything like this and I don’t understand how it would be possible.

Okay Jesus Christ dude you didn’t have to just do the same fallacies in the other direction… What edgy atheist hurt you?

Yeah the whole article including the headline – “terrifying”?? – is 98% slop. Depressing.

Yeah I’ve been very happy here. Despite a reputation as a “tankie instance” I find that we mostly just don’t put up with fascists which is sick imo.

Hmmm seems like my phone is blocking the whole website, that’s concerning…

Well that link is dead…

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Police unions are the only bad union.

Lol he means another gas station

Downloading a video is functionally identical to watching the video. I’m not 100% sure they can’t tell, but they certainly shouldn’t care… You’re not circumventing anything by downloading a streamed video, they just obfuscate the download functionality.

You just close the window. I’ve seen this twice in the last three years and never experienced any actual change – still no ads or even black screens where ads should be.

I’ve already been in the industry, but it’s really not feasible at this time to get decent jobs without degrees I feel… The competition has really increased in the last few years and with AI putting pressure on everyone it’s only gotten worse. I’m pivoting to a field that’s not susceptible to idiots replacing me with a bad machine.

gestures broadly at the entire FOSS ecosystem

What?

Reaper is another good DAW that runs natively.

Blender has great video editing capabilities. There’s also KDenLive and a few other native video editors.

CAD is harder unless you’re okay with switching to a parametric design flow with FreeCAD.