Not Kindle, but StoryGraph now has a Kobo Account integration

Especially cause we all know it's impossible to not be interested in "Crazy Sand: Bus fever"!

I'm not daily driving it right now just because none of the laptops I have have wi-fi drivers available for them. I do have it installed on one of them though and I take it out and use it every now and then. If my hardware worked with it, I think it's daily driver-able at this point to be honest. Not tons of software, but a lot more than you'd think.

And yeah the went to an inode-like system for the BFS structure, I think just because it makes porting software a bit easier to do

Sort of has window management. You can stack windows together to create something akin to a window with multiple tabs, but they don't need to be the same app. You can also "fuse" the windows together along a border so they'll always be next to each other. A good amount of this is accessible through keyboard shortcuts so it makes managing windows easier when using a trackpad

Still got a ways to come, but you should check out Haiku. It's a community developed spiritual successor to BeOS. I will admit that not everything will run on there, and the hardware support isn't the most wide ranging (but gets all of its drivers from OpenBSD and FreeBSD), but it's easy to use, runs and installs extremely quickly, and all the developers are super passionate about it. I think it can run Minecraft, not sure about other games and it recently got Firefox too

We obviously can't trust Raman because the bike lane lobby is so big and powerful, just look how bike oriented Los Angeles is! [sarcasm]

I would say that people are doing stuff, but we're constrained by several things:

1. Fixed election cycles: Once in office, only the fellow officers of the federal government, whether Congress or the top tiers of the Executive, are able to recall, expel, or remove officials in the government. Since all the branches of our government are held by one political faction, the chance of this is vanishingly small

2. Lifetime appointment of judges: As a consequence of the actions of some key figures (cough cough, RBG) we're stuck with an extremely conservative and Trump allied Supreme Court that won't block or overturn any of the administration's actions

3. The leaders of Congress have decided not to exercise their power which for the 249 years prior to 2025 has been the main check against something like this happening. Per point number 1 there's no recourse for citizens until this November essentially. I don't know the statistics in countries like the US vs Canada, but at least here in the South, Senators or Representatives in leadership positions get essentially a free walk at least to the general election, most of them through to reelection

4. Due to how it was set up, the US Senate, whose main roll is essentially being the red or green light on much of the President's agenda, changes extremely slowly because we don't elect them all at once. Luckily this year, a majority of the Senate incumbents facing reelection (20 out of the 35) are Republicans, so the Democrats could (in theory) make significant gains or at least have more of a chance to

5. This administration has shown that it really doesn't care about popular opinion at all about anything

6. As others have mentioned in this thread, the administration has made it a habit of locating and locking up under terrorism charges people that publicly speak out against it and has made it practice to murder people in the street trying to help those in need, so the stakes are significantly higher than political change has been in the past

The main thing Trump has done is exposed just how much of our government has been de facto. I think one of the main issues is that the founders of the country basically assumed good faith in much of the mechanics the built into the system because that was more of a component of high class culture back then.

I think it's important to remember for us Americans too though that almost to a man, most of these guys hated each other and did everything in their power to undermine each other. People talk about polarisation in politics today like it's a new thing and totally unprecedented. The Era of Good Feelings lasted like 5 years people, democracy needs disagreement to survive

Could have at least gone with Lake New York to stay on theme

Depends on where you live honestly. Besides Sales Tax being regressive and harming low income people disproportionately, where you live affects what the sales tax is being spent on. In general in the US, sales tax goes towards funding infrastructure, primarily roads and other car-centric forms of infrastructure. If I'm remembering correctly, for every dollar the government spends on roads for cars, society as a whole pays an extra $9 or something like that, in contrast to society having a gain when that money going towards bike or public transit infrastructure. So in that way, no, not worth it.

I also think that people get more butt hurt over sales tax because it feels like something you have to pay after you buy your goods/services due to it being levied on the list price so it feels like basically a junk fee. If prices were displayed with tax already included like how VAT works in Europe, I don't think people would notice or care as much, and the mental side of fiscal burdens is as important if not more important than the fiscal side of it

I have been waging a war of attrition getting people to switch onto Signal. After 5 years I've managed to get my spouse, my sister, my mother, 6 of my friends, 6 of my coworkers, and one sports team I play on to begin using it. Only real holdouts are my in-laws, two of my friends I talk to regularly, and another sports team or two. Some I've wooed off of basic texting, others off of WhatsApp. It's been a long hard road, but at this point, I would estimate about 85% of my communications happen over Signal now. Keep fighting the good fight

Eclipses so crazy, you can't even see the sun at all!

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