Assassinations usually make things worse. Just look at what happened to the string of coups in South Vietnam during the Vietnam war.

Or, can you think of a time when assassination actually did improve matters?

You don’t understand how leadership works, do you?

Look, I’ll talk with you, but not if this is how you treat me.

Can you give an example of a time when assassination produced a better successor?

AI. And PoW-based cryptocurrency.

As if it matters what Trump of all people says.

How do you know the fascists won’t just rally behind somebody else like Trump, but younger and more competent?

Yep. I read a quotation from this show elsewhere. I thought it couldn’t be right, so I found the show and listened, looking for perhaps some missing context that might soften the quotation a little. No. Just no. No amount of context can ameliorate the terribleness of Lindsey Graham.

I hate news about news. Here is the actual news: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CWRboGsn-oA

You only saw the tabs open on this workspace.

But yeah I don’t have hundreds of tabs open. It is incompatible with my workflow. Only the “tabs” directly relevant to whatever is currently happening in the current workspace are kept open.

A link either gets read or it doesn’t. If I don’t have time to read a link somebody sends me personally, I just tell them that. I don’t string anybody along about a link I know I will never read. I can’t allow for any link backlog. That leads to . . . dark places.

Also, I don’t really use bookmarks either. When I disable search suggestions and use firefox suggest, it leave more space for history. It works so well I don’t really need to bookmark anything. Frequently opened sites make their way to the top on their own.

Is this something you care about? If so, why?

It did last time I tried compiling AOSP. At least on the default settings. After I told the build system not to try building in parallel, I got that number down to 8 gigs. Still way too high. There’s no way anybody could develop AOSP on a phone.

The same applies to Android OS development. All of it. Android requires a very powerful 1000 USD desktop or laptop computer with 20 gigs of ram and 200 gigs of SSD hard drive space just to compile. This is unacceptable.

Meanwhile, mainline phone linux, like dreemurrs archlinux or postmarketos, can be developed using the same phone it runs on!!! All you need is a 20 USD bluetooth keyboard. It is fully awesome. Imagine a world where anybody with just a smartphone and a bluetooth keyboard could be an OS developer!

I download opus .webm s,
    then use ffmpeg to convert to .opus,
    which I'm pretty sure is just ogg.
IDK, works great in quodlibet.
.webm can't be tagged, though.
Tagging is critical, especially replay_gain tags.

Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/env python

# Youtube actually hosts audio-only opus tracks, but you can only get them
# in the webm container, which many music players, including quodlibet, don't
# know what to do with. This script downloads the track, then converts it with
# zero loss to the opus container using ffmpeg's `-acodec copy` feature.

import sys
from subprocess import call
from os.path import splitext
from os import remove, walk, listdir
from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
from shutil import move

urls = sys.argv[1:]

with TemporaryDirectory(prefix='yta-') as tempdir:
    # Do not raise exceptions, because yt-dlp counts failure of a single
    # download in the list as an overall failure, exit code wise.
    call(['env', '-C', tempdir, 'yt-dlp', '-if', 'bestaudio',
        '-o', '%(artist)s - %(title)s - %(id)s.%(ext)s', '--'] + urls)

    for tempdir, dirs, files in walk(tempdir):
        for fn in files:
            path = tempdir+'/'+fn
            name, ext = splitext(path)
            if ext == '.webm':
                if call([
                    'ffmpeg', '-hide_banner',
                    '-i', path,
                    '-acodec', 'copy',
                    name+'.opus'
                ]) == 0:
                    remove(path)

    for node in listdir(tempdir):
        move(tempdir+'/'+node, '.')

My brother once shared an rdio playlist with me. I used the firefox dev tools to download all of the songs to my library. A few months later, rdio shut down. To this day, a piece of rdio lives on on my hard drive.

That and you can just download opus from youtube using yt-dlp lol. It's 100% great. Anybody transcoding youtube audio to mp3 is definitely doing it wrong lol

OH, fire arms! Not firearms.

Couldn't we keep civilisation and change how we spend our time?

You're welcome, though.

And while it is true that porting your old motorola would be a waste of time from a strictly economical standpoint, it would still be a valuable learning experience. And people waste their time on the internet all the time lol.

I would only say that rather than porting lineageOS to your motorola foan, you would be better employed porting postmarketOS to your phone. It is a much nicer operating system to work with.

PostmarketOS also has a handy list of the good phones. These are the best phones for modding because they are the best known, the best supported, and in a couple cases were specifically designed for modding. For a more gentle introduction to phone hacking you might be better off installing postmarketOS on one of these to start.

I use "foan" to refer to the nerf-tier android phones that are badly made, difficult to modify and repair, lose their upstream support in two years, and whose creators are openly hostile to the opensource community, i.e. most android phones.

This might not be what you want to hear, but you're wasting your time. I have been there. Every one of these fucking android foans has its own foan-specific modifications to the kernel which can be found nowhere else, and not in a good way. You will need to be familiar with these modifications. Then, there are the userspace device drivers. Yes. Userspace device drivers. Android has them. Much of the hardware on your foan will not work without them. You will need to be familiar with every bit of hardware on your foan that you want to get working. These bits really add up. Camera (front and back), wifi, modem, audio, bluetooth, charging (yes, often a foan will not charge without drivers for the foan's power manager), accelerometer, magnetometer, storage (onboard and sdcard), video, touch, etc… If you want your port to become official, that extends to literally every bit of hardware on the foan, period.

It will take weeks of real time to learn the Android operating system and to finish porting an unsupported foan, and when you're done, there will be like three people globally who will use your work. Your foan is one of literally hundreds of other android foans that are all just as (un)popular and that all require the same amount of work to port.

But above all, android does not deserve your time, nor does it deserve anybody else's. The development end of the android operating system is a terror to look upon. Just to compile it requires hundreds of gigs of SSD hard disk space and about 20 gigs of RAM. It deserves to be burned to the ground.

Take that time, convert it into legal tender, and use that money to buy one of the phones that the opensource community has agreed to support—a fairphone if you want something androidous and worky, and a pinephone if you're feeling adventurous and want to see what the opensource phone world looks like without android (preview: quite a lot nicer on the development side, still a little broken but definitely usable on the user side).