Trump has a narrow majority in both chambers so hes going to held hostage by numerous minority interests in his party. He is going to be largely tied up in republican in fighting once the honeymoon period is over. Expect lots of accusations of traitors in the republican party and threats to remove republican opponents.

He will do some of the work for them but the dems really need to focus on fixing their own party and listening to voters. I’m not sure the party leadership get why they lost even now.

The more interesting link thank a paywalled article is to the actual Project Liberty programme to try and buy tiktok: https://www.projectliberty.io/peoples-bid-for-tiktok/

I don’t know enough about this group andnplannto know whether the ownership structure would work and be independent. But the broad idea of collective ownership instead of a shareholder mentaloty oght bebgood for many companies. Too many are entirely focused on anything that will boost the share price rather than what is best for the company and customers.

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“strict American food regulations” - that’s hilarious.

This is the country where chlorinated chicken is allowed, where animals are allowed to be given hormones to bulk them up, and where food companies are allowed to label anything with less than 2 calories as “zero calorie”. Tic Tacs are 100% sugar and labelled zero calorie! This is also the country that requires eggs to be washed to the point the shell can no longer keep them fresh and they have to be refrigerated.

The ban on animal lungs is fairly arbitrary it seems - it’s based on lookin at the contents of animal lungs under the microscope and deciding it contains too many contaminants such as fungal spores, pollen and refluxed acid rather than actual evidence of harm to humans.

US food regulation seems to be a crazy mix of unsutry lobbying and arbitrary decision making. There will be of course plenty of reasonable decisions too, but there are enough egrarious decisions that and anti consumer decisions that overall it’s poorly regarded int he rest of the world.

Hopefully she was rushing home - maybe driving? - and couldn’t text well?

“K”, and “I am baby”?

I dunno if this is the best approach to compeletely cut off your windows access? what if you need it for some unexpected critical reason? Would be a ball ache installing it again. I main Linux but I’ve kept my old windows install on it’s own drive. I barely use it but very very occasionally I have (and it has just been for gaming but I got the game working in Linux in the end). It’s Win 10 and I have no intention of "up"grading it to Win11.

I do actually have Win 11 set up to run in a KVM virtual machine from within Linux (I bought a Win11 key cheaply just for convenience with the activation nonsense tbh). I made the VM partly because I wanted to see how well it’d work as I like tinkering (it works fine, little bit laggy but does the job) and also to give me some easy access to the full MS Office suite in-case I want them and can’t be arsed to go to my work device. I barely ever use it (2 times so far, both just to use full Powerpoint of web powerpoint). If you have your Win 10 license you could potentially do the something similar to avoid a total block should you ever need to access windows for something and wine doesn’t cut it?

I think you’re missing the stock market part of the dot-com bubble which is very similar to AI, and the core part of the collapse.

The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble on the stock market with companies getting hugely over valued despite not being profitable on the hope they would make bank. Companies were getting huge amounts in venture capital investment, and floating on the markets to huge valuations all based on expected future earnings.

Then companies started collapsing and not being protiable and eventually the stock market in the Internet companies collapsed. But the Internet didn’t collapse; lots of startups and companies disappeared but companies with solid business models surived, grew and prospered. Amazon, Google, Ebay etc survived the bubble and dominated their areas.

The AI bubble is very similar in that companies with AI focus are getting over valued despite not being profitable. The drive int he market is the same - people want to get in at the ground floor and are not being discerning in what they invest in. Very similar to the docotm era, people don’t yet see exactly how money will be made with AI or which companies will be the ones to triumph. It’s all gambling on things people don’t really understand. The AI bubble will also pop, but again AI as a technology isn’t going anywhere - it is investors who will be harmed and a lot of companies will collapse leaving behind ones that have viable business models.

The dot com bubble burst in March 2000 due to multiple factors - a Microsoft anti trust case loss, the AOL-Time Warner merger being increasingly questioned, and rising interest rates putting pressure on the debt-driven growth of dot-cons.

Looking at AI, it’s clear there is speculative valuations going on with lots of AI companies. And established tech companies are all throwing money at AI. Meta - which has been in trouble for a while as it needs to keep growing due to the stock market but Facebook and Instagram have peaked and face more competition - first tried to pivot to VR (that’s gone very quiet suddenly!) and suddenly has pivoted to AI. Nvidia has been wildly over valued based on its chips being used in AI and other companies stockpiling them for future AI work. Companies are making expensive moves to stake a claim on future AI market share but at the moment there hasn’t been any profitability coming from these tools.

AI will survive, but a lot of companies are very obviously going to get burnt. This feeling was also prevenalt during the dot com era - the difficulty was actually picking the winners not that people didn’t know there was a speculative market bubble during the dot com era. People knew it was going to burst just as we know the AI bubble will burst.

This illustrates a huge political problem for the EU that is very difficult I resolve. Citizens want freedom of movement but they also don’t want illegal immigration and crime. It’s difficult to resolve the two.

But it does need to be addressed as it does undermine the EU and we’ve seen time and again across Europe that the far right are advancing in polls driven in large part by concerns around immigration which are not being well addressed by the centre and left lending parties.

The EU just needs to look at Brexit to have a warning about what happens when such issues are ignored. Brexit was multifaceted but one of the big issues was illegal migration, and the UK wasn’t even in the schengen zone so already had more control over it’s borders than other EU countries.

I don’t know what the solutions are, but the EU needs to work on this. Euro skepticism has gone quiet following Brexit but it’s likely to come back in other countries if its not addressed.

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As a Brit, I’m not offended by the Proton CEO’s post. I don’t like Donald Trump BUT I do like that he has hired someone who should be tough on tech anti-trust moves. This is very important.

Americans can be obsessed with their electoral system, but the rest of us don’t have to pretend to support the Democrats or Republicans. I don’t necessarily agree with all of Andy Yen’s take regarding the two parties, but I’m not offended enough by it to boycott Proton, certainly not based on one tweet. I can also see the pragmatic benefit to his position by massaging trumps well known fragile ego.

There is no way TikTok will be sold - China won’t allow it, and it’s also technically likely nigh on impossible to just sell the “American” portion of it.

TikTok is a multinational success and highly profitable, so ByteDance aren’t going to sell it just to keep it going in the US for the benefit of Americans. They of course don’t want to shut it down as it’s hugely financially successful in the US, but a ban is the lesser evil for the company.

But it’s all nonsense anyway - Trump wants to “do a deal” over this; I doubt he’ll get anything meaningful from China but he will blowhard about some bullshit to save face and TikTok will continue, even if there is a short ban before his inauguration.

The Telegraph that was heavily pro-brexit. It’s a shit newspaper, so extremely biased it’s derisorily called the Torygraph. It’s a tabloid newspaper in broadsheet clothes and continues to influence the opinions of it’s elderly readers.

The only good news is that said readers are dying off due to old age.

Yep you can read the follow up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/harrisonburg/comments/1hvdyv8/fake_kidpissed_wife_epilogue/

Can they impeach him once he’s in office?

If the dems manage to take back congress in 2 years I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s bogged down in impeachment proceedings for the rest of his term.

Also out of interest, can private citizens take forward the prosecution? The justice department is being stopped for political reasons but is there anything to stop a private citizens group or organisation taking forward the prosecution based on the evidence noted in the report?

The article suggests alternative fixes were implemented in Proton - esync and fsync. On searching, Esync is available already in proton everywhere and fsync is a newer better fix but depends on the users kernel build. Steam Proton uses both apparently, with fsync used if your kernel supports it.

So the performance increase may not be as marked or even present on the Steam Deck. The NTSYNC patch will make this universally available including in wine, while Proton already has fixes in place.

It would be interesting to see how NTSYNC compares to fsync. Again on searching, NTSYNC does seem to offer a performance uplift over Fsync, but it doesn’t seem to be a dramatic improvement.

I had a similar problem with an nvme and it turned out it wasn’t seated properly in its slot. It was sitting very slightly at an angle even with the screw in place. I had the same problem with it sometimes being detected at boot and sometimes not.

I’d double check it’s fully and correctly inserted into it’s slot before writing it off as defective.

I have 4 Linux devices on the go at the moment. My desktop is on OpenSuSE, my laptop I recently moved from windows to OpenSuSE, my HTPC is on Nobara and I have a Raspberry Pi on Raspbian.

I’ve also used Mint as my main before OpenSuSE and still use Mint in KVM on my desktop to run Virutal machines. My most used VM is for Servarr / torrent use - nice to run it in a contained sandbox with its own VPN.

I’d say it’s normal, but also normal to not distoe hop - everyone has their own preferences and Linux gives people the freedom to do what they want.

I have wiped my distro before just because I felt I’d let it bloat. I like tinkering and installing all sorts of random packages a long the way but am not good at cleaning up. I stayed with the same Distro - OpenSuSE.

But before OpenSuSE I used to use Mint. I liked Mint but I managed to break the updates in a minor but annoying way with a customisation I did on one version prior to an a major system update. When I decided to fix the problem I decided to distro hop.

I also have a HTPC and I just reinstalled my distro this week - I did this to wipe Win11 off the device which had been pre installed and I kept when I installed Linux “just in case”. I haven’t used it once and it was taking up half the hard drive. So I figured I’d back up my home folder, wipe the computer and reinstall Nobara and then restore my home folder. Worked like a charm, and I was back up and running in about 30mins.

It also gave me a new appreciation for User level Flatpaks, much of my software was already there, installed and ready to use. I did even consider distro hopping again but Nobara has worked well in my HTPC.

So yes, Distro hopping is normal, reinstalling on a whim is normal, and staying with a distro and just letting it update for years is also normal.

Unfortunately I think Labour are increasingly being tmshow to be a bunch of idiots, just like the tories before them.

Selling citizens public and private health data to AI companies is not going to uncleash a boom. Instead it will be a privacy and data management nightmare, and is a distraction from the actual things needed to improve the UK economy and public services.

So while it’s good to spread server load, for a new user it’s also good to just land on a reliable server and then I’d suggest move to another server once you’re familiar with Lemmy if you find a server you prefer. You’ll already find a lot of content has been federated in locally on established servers.

I’d suggest Lemmy.ee, Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, of sh.itjust.works . There are also good regional servers like feddit.uk, and Lemmy.ca and similar non-english servers.

In terms of apps, I use Boost which is pretty much identical to the old Reddit version.

You should be able to log in to any server on most apps, so it may be that the server you’ve picked is a little flaky or difficult to reach?