Project 2025 may be the unofficial platform, although officially adopting it may be a step too far for even the Republican party. If only because of the optics of it, not because they don't agree with all of it.

Certainly Trump has suggested cleaning house of "liberal" members of the public service so he can install his own cronies that will let him do whatever he wants, which is in line with Project 2025.

It doesn't even matter all that much in the case of the Democratic party. Any Democratic president would ultimately follow the platform of the party, and you can see that by the fact that Biden's agenda has been a lot more progressive than most expected, but makes sense since the party has become more progressive in recent years.

It doesn't apply as much with Trump because he's a wannabe dictator and there's a huge cult of personality behind him. He can do whatever he wants and the Republican party will follow, because they'll be kicked out of the party if they protest in the slightest.

It makes sense if you see their views as being about controlling women rather than being pro-life. The common thread of conservatism is removing agency and power from everyone but themselves.

He needs to win so he gets that sweet, sweet presidential immunity for the countless crimes he has committed. Whether that fully protects him remains to be seen, but that's clearly the goal.

Could be useful for PiKVM or equivalent.

Historically it meant amphetamines, but it can apply to both now. Street language isn't exactly set in stone.

is it possible to set the steamdeck to “default” to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C?

Some audio issues were introduced in the SteamOS 3.5 update (partly due to having to handle the OLED model around the same time) which causes the HDMI problem. Hopefully it will be fixed in SteamOS 3.6 or 3.7. I've found that Bazzite doesn't have the issue, although obviously that's an invasive change, and I understand it's still a bit buggy with the OLED model.

how do y’all combine music and games?

I think doing what you want could be a bit technically involved. One way might be to have one device control the music, and then cast it to the deck with snapcast or similar. Then, if you can get a snapcast client on the deck to be persistently running in the background, any music that is played on the other device, will be heard on the Deck.

Or more simply, you could try pairing your Deck in bluetooth from another device, and then select that Deck as an output. This is assuming that the Deck allows this, and that your source device supports it (Android did last time I tried).

Barrett being the sane one here is surprising. Although maybe it's just token dissent, since they already have the majority without her.

“Every generation is told, ‘You’re gonna do worse than your parents,’

What? The historical expectation is that every generation will be better off than the last. That hasn't held in recent years, which is a problem.

sighs "Sexsomnia..."

This should be grounds for a refund if they are adding it post release.

He's an unhinged anti-vaxxer and all around conspiracy theorist. Summarizing him as an environmental lawyer is being real generous.

They'd prefer to sell you a giant SUV or truck with massive profit margins and so they can continue to flout emissions standards.

I'm not sure why the word victims is in quotes. That seems like an accurate description to me.

Just before Sunday’s vote, opposition leaders posted a photo of an all-male line up of their number in suits and white shirts making victory signs in the exclusive members-only Industrialists Club in Mexico City’s elite Polanco neighbourhood.

Industrialists Club? It's like they are a satire of themselves.

Now we just need to convince them that cars are unsafe due to wokeness.

At this moment, three bills — one in Florida (SB 718), one in West Virginia (HB 5319) and the other in Tennessee (SB 1754) — are making their way through their respective state legislatures. All three will allow for a felony charge to be levied against people who expose a first responder to fentanyl or a fentanyl analog, such as carfentanil or remifentanil.

All Republican states. They sure never miss an opportunity to incarcerate and kill the poor.

The FPTP voting system reinforces that. Any third party is just going to be a spoiler for one of the majors without voting system reform.

If you care about this, but still want smart home tech, look into Home Assistant and use local-only devices.

• Near instantaneous snapshots and rollback (would help with system restore etc)
• Compression that uses a modern algorithm
• Checking for silent corruption, so users know if their files are no longer correct

I'd add better built in multi-device support and recovery (think RAID and drive pooling) but that might be beyond the "average" user (which is always a vague term and I feel there are many types of users within that average). E.g. users that mod their games can benefit from snapshots and/or reflink copies allowing to make backups of their game dirs without taking up any additional space beyond the changes that the mods add.

They might finally develop the affordable, mass market car that Musk has been claiming is in the works for years, instead of idiotic and expensive passion projects like the cybertruck.

People should vote even if Biden's election is certain, because the size of the majority matters. Get enough seats and people like Sinema and Manchin will no longer have any relevance, and get large majorities in both houses and you can finally push through the many changes that are needed.

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Restaurants should be forced to pay their workers a living wage, which is how it works in developed countries. And paying below minimum wage should be illegal.

"Americans" also includes the subset that cry "both sides are the same" or are too apathetic to vote. If you don't vote against the Republican party, then you are supporting what is happening.

Trump lawyer: I move for a bad court thingy.

Judge: You mean a mistrial?

Trump lawyer: Yeah. That's why you're the judge and I'm the law talking guy.

Judge: The lawyer.

Trump lawyer: Right.

Not destroying the planet and killing sentient beings is "woke", so they have to oppose it.

I think that many of these types see Trump as God himself (or Jesus maybe) so his views outrank the pope. That's how much of an unhinged cult MAGA has become.

because you can’t use your dollar store wired sets, but there are enough cheap raycon clones out now that it’s hardly a guaranteed secondary sale at this point.

It's more about not being able to use existing high-end headphones and IEMs. It's wasteful and expensive to replace those.

There are workarounds of course, but it's never as nice as having a real headphone jack to work with.

It also has the same issue as the death penalty, where once the punishment is enacted, it can't be undone based on new evidence.

The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!

President Biden offers feel-good solutions that will make no difference to the global climate.

A lot more could be done but the Inflation Reduction Act is a major policy that is driving a lot of renewable energy investment, and probably the best that could be done under the current political circumstances. Hardly a "feel-good" solution, and I somehow doubt Romney, the lifelong conservative, has anything more substantial on climate in his back pocket.

The only moral immigration is my immigration.

Yes, but the framing of it reads like the Democratic party being too powerful is the worst possible outcome, rather than the Republican party destroying society.

You only need one app, as long as the totp is implemented in a standardized way.

Maybe just buy a monitor, particularly if you only need streaming.

Oh and HDMI prevents open source GPU drivers supporting HDMI 2.1 natively.

They might mean it's happening even with requests routed through the VPN.

the claim that Biden is killing whales in the Atlantic by promoting wind farms.

This idiocy is happening in Australia as well. It's clear that the fossil fuel industry is coordinating internationally on their propaganda.

They cause an incredible amount of e-waste and are frequently targeted at children.