Yes exactly. Within the MAGA universe loyalty is paramount. What the do looks strange and contradictory to us, but in the universe where one man decides reality, the more you can make that reality a well, reality, the more valuable you are. Even in defeat.

This may be a dumb question but isn’t OTA TV still basically exactly what you describe?

I was about to point out Greg Bovino, but he was allowed the opportunity to “retire” whereas reports are saying Bondi was denied that.

I’m not so sure, the entire modern GOP culture prioritizes loyalty to the leader above all else (even the stock market!) I think it’s possible these lieutenants understand that taking the fall for the leader will be viewed by the party to be an act that demonstrates the depth of their loyalty (and therefore helps their future career).

EDIT: Giuliani I think is probably an exception along with some other characters like Mike Lindell that actually are too dumb to understand what’s going on.

They must know that their primary role is to take the fall for Trump, right? Their job is to absorb the blows and bad press (and sometimes literal bullets), and once they get too much baggage they get dumped. It’s mafia style governance.

Yeah I run HAOS in a VM but I keep a backup on an SD card that I can pop into a raspi if for whatever reason the server is down.

CWA largely removes the need for running Calibre.

I use CWA for the main book “hub” and upload everything (audiobooks and comics too) to it. Then I have audiobookshelf scan the calibre directory, and Komga do the same because the app I use for comics (cdisplayex) doesn’t sync with Koreader yet.

On the client side I use Koreader, Lissen and Cdisplayex.

It works fine but it would be nice to have one app that syncs all progress. And my holy grail is one that can sync ebook and audiobook progress like Amazon’s whispersync!

Call me naive, but from where I’m sitting the old web we all love is not only still there but getting better every day with inventions like ActivityPub and the fediverse. The Google feature listed in this article is stupid but it only affects Google users.

Google and Meta and Reddit etc, have built their own walled gardens garbage dumps, but if you look at what’s left when you remove their worthless fluff, all of the good bits are still there and getting better. Just because the Good Web doesn’t move at the breakneck pace of silicon valley VC-funded startups doesn’t mean it’s not improving every day.

Excited for the official KDE Distro. I am a big fan of Fedora Kinoite but will probably give KDE a show once it is out of beta.

No Photogimp is not enough lol

Honestly? I would probably pay for a GIMP clone that has a photoshop-like UI and can be installed via flatpak. $70 is a little high but if it was $20 and received regular updates?

what is it

This appears to be one guy’s blog who writes about the royal family, with no connection to the family itself.

He also outputs a suspiciously large amount of articles/day. Probably using AI.

is tripwire Odo not deadly enough for you?

Nothing stopping you from making a post when you see a service on sale!

It seems to be implying that SoCs will soon become so fast and efficient that they will always outperform custom builds in every category including price.

There’s an argument to be made there (not saying I agree).

Yep he’s one of those culture warrior types. Honestly surprised he got Andy Weir on as I was under the impression he was relatively small potatoes in that space.

Komga maybe? It’s made for comics/manga but they can be grouped.

The way I see it, we have enough going on elsewhere in this timeline where I’m willing to settle on this compromise 😅

EDIT: Did not realize WHAT podcast he was on…