[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

(And for the record, it's sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

Except that's been the whole point of this exercise from day one!

The voters on the right have proven that they have NO standards that a candidate needs to live up to, while the voters on the left are the ones who are screaming "we need to have high standards for the people who are going to run the country"

Until recently, while the left would have preferred an even better candidate, Biden at least just barely fell above the seemingly minimum bar, especially when compared against Trump. But now Biden seems to have fallen right to the cusp of where the voters who still have standards are wondering if he's fallen below them, and if there's might be a better option, both from the standpoint of meeting their standards, and the standpoint of actually being able to win against Trump, who MUST lose for our nation to avoid disaster.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

"God works in mysterious ways"

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

Because up until Broadcom bought them, it was a good product with a ton of useful features, endless supported integrations with 3rd party software and hardware, relatively easy to learn/use, with good support, all at reasonable and flexible price points depending on your needs.

Of course Broadcom has now thrown all of that into the toilet...

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago

The problem isn't them being in you LAN. It's about going to an untrusted network (eg Starbucks, hotel) and connecting to your VPN, boom, now your VPN connection is compromised.

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We got lucky and the clouds parted just in time in my corner of Texas.

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A Diamond-perfect Moment in DFW.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

I tried to switch to iOS when my pixel 3xl died. I gave up after 24hrs and bought a Pixel 6Pro.

Every time I tried to do something on the iPhone, or find a comparable app, it either couldn't be done, or needed an app with an ongoing paid subscription. It was infuriating. Paying one time for an app is one thing. I don't need to be spending 10s of dollars or a month in perpetuity just to use some apps on my phone when I can get the same functionality free, or for a smaller one time payment elsewhere.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

This fuck-knuckle has 5 kids. If any of them are girls, I'd bet good money he wants this because he wants to be sure they can't have an abortion when he knocks one (or more) of them up, as part of his Handmaid's Tale fantasy.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

And then make him take care of it for 18 years.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I's she also going to sue Ticketmaster and her own PR team for publicly releasing every city she's going to in her tours?

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

At this point I think Biden needs to just call their bluff. He should come back with, "Okay, here's all the plans we've drawn up to go into effect as soon as you ratify your secession."

Then present the plans that include cessation of all federal subsidies to all public and private Texas entities, removal of all US military personnel and equipment, removal of all other federal agencies and personal (eg. Federal Border Patrol, Park rangers, IRS), removal of the Federal reserve in Dallas, the construction of border walls around the state in NM, OK, AR, and LA asking with placement of the removed border patrol there, and so on.

Let them stew for a bit and chew on just how utterly fucked this state (yeah I live in TX, and early awaiting the day we can leave) would be if they really did successfully secede.

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[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

It isn't. Either your cable is bad, or the port on your phone is bad/broken.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months ago

I've paid for Relay Pro multiple times over the years, and was happy to do so. And if this subscription had been implemented as just a way to support Relay, I'd have subscribed in a heartbeat, because it's a fantastic app and worth every penny.

But due to all the Reddit API (and other) bullshit behind it, I just can't do it. After many, many years of happy usage, I uninstalled Relay Pro yesterday when I got the update.

As far as I'm concerned, Reddit is now only a "read-only" archive that I'll read if a search returns old information I need, and I'll read just the post/comment I need from an ad-blocking browser then move on elsewhere (ie. lemmy) when I want to participate in conversations.

I know it's highly unlikely, but if dbrady ever releases a Relay for Lemmy app, I'll pay for it.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

There's a lot of things they can't do, until they do them anyway, which then either results in the other side wasting a bunch of time money fighting to get it overturned (during which the narrative is controlled by the assholes), or it doesn't actually get overturned, and they get something they want, but shouldn't have.

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