Trump and his buddies are very, very petty and vindictive. The law will not protect you, even if the things you say are protected by law, and if the FBI has nothing better to do (which seems likely these days) you may be in dangerous waters. I would never recommend intentional aggravation of bullies unless you're very confident you know a way to make sure they can never hurt you again in the future.

Or a heat pump dishwasher? If he finds a way to turn a heat pump into lighting he's got it made.

This feels like marketing disguised as criticism.

Zero. Zero accurately. They don't even talk about it, because they don't care. The arbitrary cruelty is a bonus feature.

Or we can tell Trump to shut the fuck up and let him politically posture later. When he tries to hurt us, endure the pain, because every second of it makes us stronger and makes him weaker. Do not negotiate with terrorists.

Anyone know if there's something similar/equivalent for Linux? I've been using inxi on the command line and it mostly does what I need, I'm just wondering if there's a better option or anything more directly inspired by CPU-Z and GPU-Z.

The HVAC trades are run kind of like a mafia, at least in my part of the world. It's a savage business, and it's not because they're competing on price.

Using secondary heat for a few days or even a month a year is still a huge improvement, huge cost savings, and adds up to a massive reduction in annual carbon footprint, even if you're using a fossil fuel furnace for secondary heat. People are crazy to not consider heat pumps as the primary heat option, especially if you already have central air conditioning, it's basically the same machine, typically with the same connections and location, just physically somewhat bigger. Obviously it won't work absolutely everywhere, but for the vast majority it's a brilliant option and almost a drop-in replacement.

That's exactly what I was thinking of, thanks!

I agree. I'm very interested to try it. I felt like Ornith 1.0 tried a little too hard to second-guess and overcorrect itself and would sometimes end up steering itself down an inescapable rabbit hole of self-correction ad absurdum, when ironically its first solution was often the best, sometimes would work as-is or with only a little refinement needed. I'm hopeful that 1.5 will improve that.

Ahh I see we are officially transitioning into the "papers, please" stage of fascism already. Buckle up folks, the road only gets rougher from here on out. The witch hunts don't stop here.

They ... rejected ... anti-DEI ... making them ... pro-DEI ... and anti-Trump? Am I getting that right? Sorry, there are just getting to be a lot of double-negatives these days it's hard to keep track.

well obviously, all this proves is that copper wires are just as bad as wet mud. Every audiophile knows you need gold oxygen nitrogen purified wires blessed by a voodoo witch doctor.

The death of anonymity for most people, yes. Not me though. I'm going to make my own internet. With blackjack. And hookers. And protonmail too, probably.

Don't worry, GenZ will eventually get even more burnt out than us. They're just not there yet. We all have it rough.

The stupidity is happening because it benefits rich people to fill the world with stupid people. Stupid, gullible people are the key to their endlessly growing profits and wealth extraction.

We already know how to solve stupidity. We have always known it. Education has been one of the core pillars of human civilization since antiquity. It wasn't the first man to discover fire who changed everything, it was the person who discovered how to teach the next generation to control fire at least as well if not better than they originally did.

Education has not failed us. Education has been sabotaged and dismantled. By rich and powerful people, for their own purposes.

First we get rid of those rich and powerful people who have set themselves against us, then we rebuild everyone's education and if we're lucky, we might get to move on with our civilization eventually. Nobody promised it's going to be easy. But it is necessary, if we wish the human race to continue, and traditionally we've been pretty stubbornly invested in that.

Why is this always worded in such a shitty way that makes it sound like a bad thing. "swamps the grid" "overwhelming the region" "prices slumping". Fuck all the "energy companies" and their bought politicians and journalists who think or at least talk this way.

Here let me fix it for you: "France now has abundant solar energy, providing free electricity to all homes and businesses that want it, while plenty of solar capacity remains in reserve, available for meeting increased demands or storing for later or night-time use by refilling hydroelectric reservoirs"

They're never going to financially recover from this.

Oh wait actually nevermind, it turns out they actually made more money while I was writing that sentence than I've made in my entire life. I guess they'll be okay.

Check your communities, and what instances they're on. Not all are created equal. lemmy.ml tends to be pretty wacko unless you're of their particular ideological alignment, lemmy.world is very very large and thus has a very very large number of obnoxious shitheads compared to other instances. On the other hand, beehaw.org is intentionally and pathologically positive. I also find lemmy.ca quite friendly, though I might be biased.

It's 2026 and I'm suddenly desperately interested in buying a flipphone from Commodore? What is even going on? Has reality itself completely jumped the shark?