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  • The thing is, they care about privacy and such, but don’t know about tech really 😅 otherwise I would have gotten the easy route.

    I know multiple people like this though.

    In your case you should probably give plasma Bigscreen a try depending your hardware.

    If you don’t mind a keyboard, I will say Ubuntu ran surprisingly well, but consider a lightweight browser unless you have 8gb + of RAM


  • Well, on a raspberry pi 4 4gb, no. It’s very sluggish.

    Maybe on a 5 with 8gb?

    The next device I was going to test though is an Odroid C4 (4gb).

    I’m currently going to meet with Bliss Rom creators to discuss getting Netflix etc working on Android as well in a sandboxed manner that still gives 1080p (maybe standard Android though with Flauncher instead of Android TV)

    It’s tricky to have a privacy friendly device that can also run mainstream, well, streaming clients.

    I’m making this to make an easy to use box that works with a plain IR sensor remote for my parents (along with a customized Rustdesk client app in case they need help).

    If that’s not a problem though (like you want to use Radarr/Lidarr) then you can just a Lineage OS version of Android TV, although it seems Konstakang’s version has issues with audio over HDMI on Android 12 and above.





  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.nettoEurope@feddit.orgSo what now?
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    You missed one other option that has also been gaining traction in Europe:

    employee = employer
    

    A co-op kinda gets the benefits of both, with the downside being growth can be a little slower due to how it’s organized and bureaucracy, but this could be fixed too with legislation.












  • Further recent measures taken to tackle Swedish gang violence a proposal to amend the country’s constitution to strip dual nationals of their citizenship if convincted of involvement in gang crime.

    Oh yes, that’ll be very effective against the also significant racist gang percentage composed entirely of native Swedes that the far right parties over there aren’t stoking on /s

    Only enough space in Sweden for the Snus rotters after all.

    Funny how Sweden didn’t have these issues of gang minorities until they started passing more discriminatory policies against minorities years ago. I’m sure that didn’t have any affect on things now.

    Both Finland and Sweden have taken migrants over the years but only one has the severe problem, wonder whyyyy /S


  • Eh, I’ve been in your position.

    If I still lived there and was still in death trajectory, I’d do it. Not for all the dumdums who should also be doing it (or the idiots who dont deserve it), but to make the world a better place (or at least try) instead of leaving it in the same shit it’s in, including for anyone you love, if there’s any.

    I think that, maybe if you were even closer to death (as in actually terminal), you might (because not everyone has the same mindset) see the point, because people who are going to die anyway have something everyone else doesn’t - freedom from consequences. Freedom of choice with societal constraints, because what can any society impose on someone already destined to meet an end soon? They can try, but what is the ultimate deterrent for most humans is non existent for people who are/were in our place.

    Sure, you could call it abelist. I call it opportunist. Glass half full kinda thing. Other people, doing what we could do, have the potential to face something much worse than death in a fascist regime. Torture comes to mind.

    Someone like me who had kidney failure and did dialysis though? Assuming they want to capture me to torture me, I just gotta take some potassium supplements right after pulling off what I want to and my heart goes weh.

    Don’t pat yourself in the back too much either - even if me or you did go through with such an act, we wouldn’t really be a hero or brave or anything either. We’d be just as much of a coward, in a way, as the “abelists”, in that something was only done once we basically had little to lose. If deciding that, it’s only because there’s already an exit anyway.

    You can of course just do nothing like everyone else. Or go do more dangerous things like skydiving or giving a monkey a shower and have some fun. Certain death assured expeditiously gives freedom like no other. You have the right to be selfish with that choice just as those more likely to live longer do everyday.

    But you still carry hope because you still have a good chance, that’s why it makes you angry. You still have something holding you back. People who still have hope are not the same as the hopeless, nor even the same as people who lost all hope momentarily.

    And that is something those in power forget too.