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  • Impossible to judge without a picture. But that shallow of a dent would likely be fine. The batteries used these days are slightly squishy and can deform slightly without concern and is designed this way to squeeze into imperfect fit housings.

  • Once Jassy took over as CEO, there was a slow march of the executives and board abandoning the Leadership Principles and data driven values that made Amazon the beast it is today.

    Amazon has left the growth phase of their business and is now in value extraction mode, which means they have to enshittify everything, treat their educated staff like shit, and charge more for all of it.

    So glad to be done with that shit hole.

  • I have a friend that regularly games in VR in Linux. Admittedly, he's always faffing around with it to make it work. But he's also a bit of a chaotic person that runs Arch, so that could just be him and not a failing of the current level of support.

  • Time & effort. Everything that you do means something else doesn't get done. Whether that be gaming with friends or an item off your project/chore list.

    We know that gaming centric distros are great for getting up & running, but it's still a time sink, and will require effort. Not everybody has a backup drive with their games and will have to re-download everything too. There's also a risk their favorite game isn't compatible with Linux

    Windows 10 also works just fine. I still have it on 2 of my 4 computers (2/5 if you count my Deck), and haven't switched those over yet because I'm being lazy on one and the other is a perfect candidate for the SteamOS UX experience since it's a HTPC. However, I have done some looking around at other HTPC experiences and just haven't pulled the trigger. Which will be awesome, since Windows did away with their HTPC UX years ago.

  • I haven't run across a game that hasn't run on The Deck yet. I know it's capable of running quite a lot, but I got it to play indie games. It's been great and does what I want it to do phenomenally. Additionallh if I ever wanted to do something more demanding on it, I could.

  • Why do people like BlueSky/Twitter for sharing long-form information?

    That is such a terrible way to convey that much information. The continuation of posting every half-scroll is so jarring and made it harder to follow.

  • Discounts

  • Aboit ten years ago I had XM Radio in my car. Came for free for the first year, then renewed me for $30 for the following year as part of the promo of getting the car. I occasionally used the service for Comedy Central radio and a couple other things, but was largely playing audio off my phone from Spotify/MP3s.

    After those two years an XM rep called me since my subscription was about to expire. They wanted $15/mo or $150 for the year. I laughed and said the most I'd pay would be $50 for a year. They tried to argue with me before I cut them off and told them "Look, here's the deal. Either you find me some special that brings the price down to that rate and get some money from me or you get no money from me since I'll be canceling my service. You're selling a service that I don't need and has limited benefit to me that my phone hooked up to my car can't do.". After a few minutes they found me a special and got approval from their manager. That wound up being my last year of using the service.

    It's dumb how much publically traded companies try to squeeze their" customers" and staff to drive up value for their true customers, the share holders. It's such a short term view on life and value.

  • Yeah, but all they heard were campaign ads. And what little news they did hear either is actually propaganda that came from Fox News or their local news that's actually part of Sinclair.

    That combined with the shenanigans of social media the last few years, yep, low information voters only wind up hearing the lies they were meant to hear.

  • But they don't. They just formm small communities and slowly work their way back up to power.

    Might take 50+ years, but it'll happen again and again until crushed out.

    I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

    And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

    Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

    And i was like, ohok and he continues.

    "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

    And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

    And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

    And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

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    Foo Fighters say they did not OK Trump using "My Hero" at Arizona rally, will donate royalties to Harris-Walz campaign - CBS News

    Former President Donald Trump has drawn the ire of another musical group for unauthorized use of their music. This time, it's the Foo Fighters.

    Trump played the band's song "My Hero" when he welcomed former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the stage at a rally in Arizona on Friday[...]

    [...]The spokesperson added that any royalties received as a result of the Trump campaign's use of the song will be donated to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz.

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    Trump's Financial Disclosures Reveal Lawsuit Debts and Cash Grabs

    Trump owes millions from two civil court cases, but his investment portfolio offers a staggering portrait of wealth.

    Donald Trump has submitted his annual financial disclosure, and after a year of lawsuits, legal cases, and grifts, the contents of the documents reflect the turmoil surrounding the former president...