Gormo

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by Gormo 2y ago
> Freedom of speech, at least in the US, is a concern specifically with the government censoring citizens' speech. Well, no -- you're conflating "freedom of speech" as a general concept with the first amendment as a l
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by Gormo 2y ago
Citizens United didn't overturn any other precedent apart from Austin (Buckley v. Valeo still holds, for example), didn't alter any rules regarding corporate campaign donations (which are still entirely prohibited!), and every
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by Gormo 2y ago
Your point about Plex ignores the rich ecosystem of hardware and software that offers equivalent or better functionality to Plex.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I believe that companies made computers difficult to use for whatever reasons, be they catering to “power users”, business or just plain inattention to the non-techie user. I don't think that's quite accurate. "Power us
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, you don't. Re-read my previous comment.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> The society is holding together by some level of trust others. Over emphasize individual self dependence is not helpful IMO. The maintenance of social trust is entirely conditional on the ease with which people can revoke it or transfe
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by Gormo 2y ago
The only way that the ever-growing risks inherent in being dependent on centralized platforms will ever be addressed is for "non tech people" to start learning about tech. There is no way to reconcile "I want to trust other p
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by Gormo 2y ago
Kodi is available as a WebOS app via Homebrew Channel ( https://www.webosbrew.org/ ) and can be installed through developer mode without even having to root your TV. If you've got some hangup about plugging a video sou
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by Gormo 2y ago
> While the Court didn’t explicitly equate money with speech The court did the exact opposite, and repudiated the attempt by the FEC to equate money with speech. The FEC were effectively arguing that "speech is money" and tha
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, it didn't. There's gaslighting going on, but I'm afraid you've been gaslit by the media here. CU was not about campaign donations, despite the frenzied attempts by various factions to pretend otherwise. No donat
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by Gormo 2y ago
Where did you get a reference to "the South shall rise again" out of the previous comment?
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by Gormo 2y ago
I'd argue that what critics of "capitalism" use the term to describe is essentially a straw man that has never accurately represented any real-life economy.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Vermont is one of the few states in the U.S. where people can carry a concealed weapon without a permit That was true for decades, but over the past 15 years, 28 more states have adopted Vermont-style permitless concealed carry laws, s
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Plex is the only software which works with the TV's remote, on the TV. This is not accurate. The protocol that supports using the TV remote to operate software running on external devices is called HDMI-CEC, and it has widesprea
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by Gormo 2y ago
That's what Kodi is for. Get a cheap Raspberry Pi, install LibreELEC (a minimal Linux distro that boots directly into Kodi), and you've got a turnkey full-featured media center without much cost or effort. It even supports HDMI-C
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by Gormo 2y ago
If you're not using the streaming apps, there's not much reason to use the software running on the TV in the first place. There are plenty of cheap devices that offer set-top-box experiences, if that's your thing. A cheap Ras
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by Gormo 2y ago
Or just put a fence around the bazaar.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Likewise! At least there are still some venues online where partisan sloganeering hasn't totally overwhelmed discourse.
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by Gormo 2y ago
On this particular topic, yes, absolutely. Just read the ruling.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I'm afraid I can't observe any of that. All I can see is superficial appearances -- I can't see behind-the-scenes corruption or measure superior alternatives that were suppressed in favor of locking in a marginally mitigated
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Super PACs/Citizens United....this is what he's targeting. And this is part of the problem. Citizens United was a bog standard first amendment ruling that has been targeted by an aggressive misinformation campaign by a fac
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by Gormo 2y ago
Yep. The number of people rallying behind superficial nonsense without any substantive policy positions backing them up has never been higher. Trump and Sanders are two sides of the same coin. If there's any evidence of a decline, it&
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by Gormo 2y ago
> The election of Trump (especially Trump 2.0) is a ground-up repudiation of this consensus by ordinary people Or maybe it's just a reaction to the "class of technocratic managers" becoming corrupt and dysfunctional, and a
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by Gormo 2y ago
Regulation doesn't work. It's usually co-opted by the very parties it's intended to regulate, and used as a means to entrench rather than limit their power. In the worst case, it actually makes things far worse by allowing
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by Gormo 2y ago
Well, 1995 was seven years before Congress passed the statute that the FEC was misinterpreting in the Citizens United case. The Citizens United ruling had essentially noting to do with "money in politics" and was just a bog stand
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by Gormo 2y ago
That's a vague slogan, not a meaningful strategy to accomplish anything of consequence. Money is just a tool. The resources and incentives that the money is being spent on already exist, and it's being used to further ambitions
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by Gormo 2y ago
Communities form among individuals seeking mutual benefit, not the other way around. The way to create prosperous communities is to maximize opportunities for individuals.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Why not just run it with Qemu or Box86?
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Exactly -- so nothing has failed at all!
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, I'm not having any of the problems you're describing. I'm moving windows between monitors with no visible issues.

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