I have silicone trays and I love them. I haven’t had them super long (about a year), but I use them every day and they show no sign of wear. It doesn’t get brittle with time like some plastic, so I don’t see them wearing down any time soon.

If you need to be able to stack them, it might be worth looking into some kind of small rack?

I completely understand that feeling, and it was my initial reaction too, but honestly, I think they’re kind of right.

If you’re playing chess and the opponent’s knight takes your rook, do you throw your queen at it on principle? Even though it’s backed by a pawn? Or do you tighten up your own defenses and wait for the best opportunity to strike?

Don’t get me wrong, AOC and Green are the energy we need here. I don’t even think it’s a bad play for them to make as much noise as possible about Trump’s overreach, even if it is repeating the same behavior we’ve seen for decades. But if 126 Democrats voted against it, how many Republicans actually voted for it? What’s the strategic cost of using the inertia that might flip a handful of Republicans on something that doesn’t have the numbers yet?

What if we need them for a play down the line? What if we can flip more of them and actually get an impeachment instead of just proposing one on principle because we didn’t already exhaust the idea?

I think the people should be pushing for impeachment, and I think Congress should impeach him. But I want that to actually happen. I don’t just want it to be a sentiment that doesn’t go anywhere.

The Washington Post had their chance to give a shit about this and they decided not to. Too late for panic from that particular rag.

We absolutely are heating up the planet. Look at the curve on that graph and look at the time scales. That exact graph demonstrates that this is completely unprecedented.

Your own link shows a change in pattern from ups and downs from year to year with larger patterns of rising and falling to an extremely recent upward trend in which every year is hotter than the last. We’re looking at a level of heating on the scale of decades to centuries that would normally be seen over millions of years. And humans didn’t show up during those hot periods, we showed up during the cooler period. Sure, there may very well still be life on the planet after we’re done, assuming we don’t acidify the oceans and we figure out how to dial down the rampant pollution after pushing ourselves into a kind of climate not seen for 35 million years, but will humans be able to live in that environment? Quite possibly not.

Looking at the wider picture doesn’t show that there’s no issue, it shows that there’s a critical issue and we’re screwing with extremely long-term trends that constitute the conditions we evolved under.

If it quacks like a duck.

I may be mistaken, but when I see someone doing their level best to turn a niche community into nothing but an advertising feed targeting that community specifically, that looks like paid advertising to me. It’s certainly possible that he’s just clueless about what constitutes quality content and is posting low-effort spam for attention, but this is at this point a pretty well known marketing strategy on other platforms. Reddit is inundated with this stuff.

The fact that he’s also spending a good chunk of his time squashing any vote-based feedback on his constant spamming is also probably a pretty good indicator.

I honestly kind of love Discovery, and Lower Decks is my second favorite Trek show (just behind DS9), but if we can’t argue about what is and isn’t good or is and isn’t Trek-like on a Star Trek website, what’s the point? Nerds arguing about nerd things is such a fundamental part of stuff like Star Trek that for a lot of people that trope is literally all they know about Star Trek!

Buuut for VS Star Trek is just about advertising, probably as a paid astroturfer, so of course anything other than praise is literally trolling!

Hey, I’m in this post!

If I remember correctly, I got banned for accusing ValueSubtracted of being essentially an advertiser. He’s constantly flooding the feed with patch notes for STO and advertisements for merch. I assume he’s being paid for this.

I did also tell him that his name describes what he’s doing to the website.

The funny thing is, I saw this and was going to post here anyway, but didn’t actually remember if I got banned or not. Well… I guess I did! Nothing of value was lost.

Oh, I didn’t see the screenshots somehow!Apparently you can see all this for yourself! :D

What I see in these threads is the reverse. People insist that their pet solution is a panacea for every use case and when someone points out that it doesn’t work for them they get downvotes and sarcasm. Making use of the best software for your use case is not equivalent to complicity in animal torture and environmental destruction. Nobody’s being forced into constant pregnancy or having their calves taken away at birth because I feel like third party security patches for Windows will be a better option for me than fully swapping to a Linux distro.

But what is definitely happening is people stop reading pro-FOSS threads by the third rabid fanboy response and actually miss what could be a useful alternative.

Does it have separate audio channels and input/output controls with volume sliders and hotkeys? That would still leave a few other issues, but progress is progress and I do like to keep myself aware of the options so that I’ll know when it finally ticks all the boxes.

Do you actually think that it’s more important to fuss about using the temperature scale that you prefer and only that scale in all science communication than to actually reach a wider population with your message and reduce the rate of climate change? How does this differ from some Americans complaining about multi-lingual instructions because “speak American”?

The way people act while advocating for something does in fact affect the efficacy of their advocacy whether they want to admit it or not.

• Voicemeeter and Virtual Audio Cables for separate audio channels with separate volume controls, macro keys, and easily adjustable toggling between outputs (more easily adjustable and less latency than JACK)
• Eartrumpet for easy and immediate per-program control over audio channels
• FL Studio
• Adobe Premiere
• MX Ergo drivers that have full functionality including remapping and holding down mouse 4 and mouse 5 and toggleable precision mode with LED indicator
• No sudden troubleshooting mid-way through working on projects to break my flow
• A Windows testing environment
• 100% compatibility with every game I own

There may be a few more, but these are the big ones. JACK, at the moment, just isn’t a replacement for Voicemeeter and while there are some DAWs for Linux, they’re not FL and I don’t know if they’re compatible with Guitar Rig. I’ve used OpenShot for video as well, and while it’s not terrible it isn’t really comparable.

I’m sure that Linux is a good fit for many users. Personally, as an operating system alone if it weren’t for these issues, I’d prefer it. I’d love to be able to do what I need to do and also have a plasma, it’s much nicer. But at the moment it isn’t a real option without sacrificing things that I actually need. I also really can’t be dealing with suddenly needing to sort out how to make a finicky program work at the drop of a hat when I’m in the middle of working on a project.

I’ve been dabbling with Linux since the early 00s. I like it and I wish it were a substitute for Windows for my use case, but it isn’t. No amount of people being rude and obtuse in threads will change that. Time might, but it hasn’t yet.

You can also just stay on Windows 10 and get 3rd party security updates. That is a legitimate option that for a lot of people is going to be their best choice.

I imagine the downvotes are backlash against all the people who convince themselves that Linux is the only viable solution regardless of use case or workflow. There are definitely loads of people in the Linux community and the open source community in general who will pick a piece of software and proselytize it with no consideration whatsoever whether it fits someone’s actual needs. Like, personally, I like Linux but there are things I need to do that require me to have Windows. For some people this fact is absolutely unacceptable and they simply won’t hear it.

Threads like this are why people don’t use open source. It sounds like a reality-denying anti-intellectual one-size-fits-all cult in here. This is also like half the threads about Linux. Just armies of tech bros who couldn’t put themselves in someone else’s shoes if their life literally depended on it.

I’ll always remember that time when Obama was up on stage taking questions from the Internet after having literally run on change as a campaign slogan and when someone asked about legalizing marijuana he literally laughed as if that would be absurd. And this is someone who did change quite a lot. The Democratic party’s mainstream has been afraid of radical change for a long time, even though it’s been demonstrated over and over again that it’s what brings energy to the party and gives them the ability to move the ball.

I really hope this past election makes them a little less cautious and a little less centrist. We really can’t have our representatives just sitting on their hands waiting for the tide to wash away any and all progress. We have to keep pushing forward so when we do take a step back we don’t lose everything all at once.

That’s a weird spelling of “hate-crime”.

I figured out something absolutely crazy. You can put vegetables into the ground, (you know, the dirty thing outside?) and they will literally just start making more of themselves.

Also, you know all those naked people outside with too much hair and extra legs instead of arms? They’re made of meat!!! It’s true!