Until LaRose is gone, every referendum is going to have fucked language.

Gopher.

He wasn't imprisoned for 30+ years. He got 7 years and was out after 5. He was, in his own words, 'locked up in [his mind]' for 30+ years.

Wait are these worth something? I have one of these I have been wanting to throw away.

Warzone 2100. 3D RTS from the late 90s that was open-sourced after the studio went belly-up. Fantastic game, runs on even ancient hardware.

Edit to add: Forgot to mention it is still receiving updates!

The vote yes signs I've seen suggest the idea is to outright make it impossible to modify the constitution in a bid to fend off the possibility of rebuilding abortion access or introducing new gun control efforts

Funnily enough, some of the conservatives I know personally are planning on voting no out of fear that Issue 1 passing might backfire on them and activate the Dem voter base to the point they'd lose their majority in the state and a potentially useful tool to combat a theoretical Dem majority

I'd rather see a lemmyBB (phpBB-style) front-end, myself

Genuinely I'd trust random FOSS stranger on the internet before I'd trust Google, Samsung, Apple, etc. It'd be a lot of work to be the sole maintainer of a LineageOS distro that only functions on one specific phone just to try to steal the data of the maybe 12 people who are going to install it.

Cbus is rated purple today. On the edge of Appalachian Ohio where I'm from the air is like smoke from a woodstove chimney - not the worst smell but very unpleasant to breathe.

I think, especially as you get towards "newer" vintage systems, the logical conclusion is the same one he reached - if you want a compact portable and you're okay spending a couple hundred dollars, you're probably going to be better off buying something from the time period than anything new that may be sold at that price point.

I'm not local to midwest.social but I was just thinking of unsubscribing beehaw for a while because of this! It's very reminiscent of the big surge of folks onto Mastodon last year - lots of "Fediverse can't work because it isn't the large corporate entity presently having a meltdown" and every other post is about whatever's going on at Reddit.

Just a couple years ago, I could have pointed you in the direction of some really good recyclers that could get you enough parts to build a fun 486 or Socket 5/7-style machine, if you weren't too picky about what you got. Unfortunately now the supply has either dried up or the recyclers think their extreme budget clone parts are solid gold. The only time I find parts now is when I stumble across them at thrift stores or estate sales.