I remember how utterly stupid this whole thing was when it first started.

It wasn’t even worth making fun over because it just confirmed they care more about saving donkeys than civilians or children.

Even more insane when you consider that in the west bank, they just opt to slaughter the livestock to ensure Palestinians are financially ruined before kicking them out or killing them.

Yeah as long as they have Saudi in the name, it won’t be anything “new” or “different”

People forgetting even if Trump will be or had been assassinated, Vance would just take his place and continue the train. Besides, Iran has been claiming they can do this since forever with nothing to show for it.

I remember this article was suspiciously titled similar to another one from a different outlet about a Gazan teenager who suffered loss of limbs and family, while sheltering outside a a school in a makeshift refuge camp.

Almost as if CNN saw it and wanted to do a reverse take.

With dems busy repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot, he’ll probably make it to 2028.

Why are these mainstream media journalists going out of their way to make Linux work and look harder than it is?

You don’t need to open the terminal to install software or configure anything, that’s literally the whole point of every big DE that ships well made GUI apps.

He solved his problem by switching off of Ubuntu to Fedora, I think I almost shed a tear lmao

Nah I’m betting NATO does jack all and continues to be subservient to the USA.

It’s like watching a “how much can they get away with” show with no practical limit.

A much easier way to start WW3 would be for a sizable country to copy the US, like China taking Taiwan.

The reason is that the US itself has to be on board with an opponent that threatens to do the same thing, meaning they’ll lose “territory”.

Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they’re a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.

JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don’t think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.

Hopefully will see it in action soon.

This just seems like a repeat of these companies buying all the similar/unicode like domains to ensure no one can grab a domain with resemblance to the name.

Considering a most of them aren’t even used for anything practical, I wonder if this was just another ploy by ICANN to make money lmao.

Gonna keep spamming this cuz I made it a year ago and it sat in a random folder on my PC for the perfect time lol

The reasoning is that HTS was able to secure a reliable supply line from Turkey, immediately absorbed the eastern Kurds, and now they basically follow American and Israeli requirements no questions asked.

Actually out of all the things listed, removing Assad was probably the easiest and cheapest to pull off, and they likely would have succeeded without the supply line. They just made it happen faster and ensured they have leverage in Syria for the foreseeable future.

CIA has been on fire these past couple of years.

Trampled Imran Khan in Pakistan and perma froze the military regime into power

Toppled Assad after Russia went broke

Captured Maduro with some high level bribes

Played with Israel to essentially dismantle Iran’s internal power structure and consistently set back their nuclear program dozens of times.

They got basically everything they’ve wanted on their hitlist since 2000. I’d be genuinely surprised if Iran can survive past this decade.

You forgot the part where they bribed some Venezuelan defense officials to stand down. Everyone saw this regime change coming, they just didn’t expect the US to get directly involved.

That entire Chinook formation could have been shredded by a single infantry group equipped with some cheap stingers (or equivalents).

Some of the local reporters even claimed that Maduro’s own security convinced him to leave by helicopter, where Delta was already waiting for him.

They key note here is that Maduro was not well enough supported within his own circle. If you want a recent example, they could have done the same thing to Assad since he fled without even notifying the CO of his army.

Countries like Russia and NK have a complicated internal political structure that revolves around the leader ensuring he can never be couped. The US wouldn’t be able to just buy them off to create such a situation.

Damn FBI using lemmy now /s

Yes I’m sure breaking a rule over POWs being displayed is certainly the issue to focus on here and not the fact that he used the military to kidnap a head of state

Most of these answers here are not viable because the US has leverage in almost every nation on earth.

Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, etc are the exception, hence why they are sanctioned (and constantly suffering problems with every new CIA project) bar China which is locked in a trade war and has a sizable military to back themselves up.

You would realistically require a counter world power that offers an alternative to the US system, which used to be the USSR which no longer exists.

China is poised as the next superpower, but they haven’t made any significant moves in that regard because they are wary of the USSR’s downfall, and have no intention of engaging the USA in that manner (yet).

Everyone in the UN, despite all their cries, will fall in line when threatened, aside from the aforementioned exceptions.

I don’t really see how this is any different than 50 or 20 years ago, they’re just stating their geopolitical stance.

More to the point, as others have mentioned, it would be exceedingly difficult to invade Taiwan and capture their fabs intact.

Actually it wouldn’t even matter if they captured them intact because the US could just eliminate the supply line, making it unideal for production to continue for several years.

And unlike Ukraine, the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately.

China’s only benefit would be the elimination of the world’s primary chip manufacturing, and unrestricted access to the Pacific ocean.

I only see them doing it after they’ve achieved complete independence from Taiwan’s fabs in their own supply chain.

I really don’t want Apple to enter this market because then all the current OEMs will just be even more incentivized not to make generational advancements, and to just copy Apple’s Chinese grade quality to sell more slop because idiots will buy.

Google already threw a grenade with their subpar pixel fold and then Samsung magically swapped off snapdragon for their zflip. If Apple joins, next they’ll start using plastic for the shell and still charge $999.

People who think this won’t be a competitive product can just look to the past 20 years of Apple successfully selling stupid shit for exorbitant prices. I would even bet money it comes with an even deeper crease than current gen foldables against the “new hinge tech” hype this guy is claiming.

Okay so step one is to take GNOME and throw it into the trash where it belongs, and replace it with KDE which is a complete DE and not a bunch of plugins disguised in a trench coat of bash scripts.

Step two is to recommend a distro that targets both user quality and latest stable kernel releases for the most updated modules (Like Fedora or OpenSUSE)

Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web

Is the wrong problem because that’s what Flatpak accomplishes without creating distro dependency hell. Regressing to .run and .appimage files for everything is why windows updates suck total ass, and it would nuke one of Linux’s most killer features.

Users are already used to an appstore on mobile, I can personally guarantee you that they have no trouble getting accustomed to a desktop app installer, especially since they find it so much easier to search and click install without opening a bunch of websites. Since it shows both package manager and flatpak apps, they don’t even have to be aware of the backend system.

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The only thing holding back linux at this current point in time is honestly just vendors using it standard in consumer hardware. The dependency hell issue was resolved years ago by both huge improvements in package repos and the widespread support of Flatpak. The leftover baggage from X11 has been replaced by Wayland, which finally became viable around end of 2023. Even stuff like pulseaudio has been replaced by pipewire to handle every edge cases scenario.

I would not have said the same thing 2 years ago. The evidence is that the linux desktop user base is growing at an increasing rate. All they need is to hit a critical share (6-7%) for bigger vendors and OEMs to follow.

The good news is, as mentioned, there are a lot of vendors that are starting to do this. Valve’s steam machine by itself could be enough to add another 10 million users if they play their cards right.

My other anecdotal evidence is that I successfully changed several of my friends and family members over to Fedora just last year because I finally found it viable to throw at any former Windows user.

The only dissatisfaction I caused was one “dependent” person who couldn’t play Fortnite (the only game in their library that didn’t work), which I audaciously told it would be possible in 2026 via waydroid/lepton (valve plz dont fail me lol).