For sure, I have no illusions about that. I still think if this went through and fucked the world economy they would pretty quickly find they would have to repeal the repealment though. It would create way too many problems to try to weasel out of.

Sure, but my point is that it does not mean they want to. They will take the cheapest option possible - if there isn’t one, they usually try to invent a new cheaper option for themselves. In the realm of bribery, if you are going to bribe people anyway, why wouldn’t you pay a couple bribes to avoid paying indefinite bribes?

Haha, I had the same thought - it would be better if it didn’t have the potential to completely collapse society though. I could certainly stand to lose more than a few of the things I listed though.

If the news were that it was being amended to make carve outs for businesses who pay an amount of money, then I would agree.

But the news is that it would be repealed entirely.

This means you could not bribe the government once to protect you from all lawsuits - you would have to bribe each and every judge involved in each and every lawsuit, and/or each and every juror.

1 Billion people sue your company. I don’t think any megacorp would be happy about suddenly having to pay out 1 billion bribes and to do so as a regular ongoing expense.

The least expensive option for the corporations is to not have this repealed. As a result, that is what they would prefer to put that money into instead. Way cheaper to bribe this into not passing than it is to have to do it continuously or multiple times and/or losing those income streams.

I don’t think this would pass, the megacorps stand wayyy too much to lose here and would fight tooth and nail to prevent anything like this. Same goes for a lot of the US government. This would kill any website with user generated content because no company would risk the lawsuits and basically boils down to two options for them - get collapsed due to the cost of legal fees resulting from millions of lawsuits, or get collapsed because the major sources of income streams of your business no longer exist.

Facebook/meta - gone, youtube - gone, reddit - gone, lemmy - gone, twitter/x - gone, bluesky - gone, every chat application - gone, every email provider with a web application - gone, every search engine - gone because they wouldn’t be caught dead potentially displaying anything made by a user, etc.

This would instantly kill the thousands of data mining/brokering businesses that exist because they collect and sell this data.

Sections of government that collect the same data to spy on what people are up to would also not be happy about this. Making it so that people can’t openly discuss anything actually damages their ability to control narrative because no one would be able to speak openly anymore, including bot accounts.

Ad companies would die because users would no longer have any reason to visit half the websites where the ads are and therefore advertising on them would be useless.

IT infrastructure would collapse because there would no longer be any place to discuss fixes or workarounds to problems and every open source project would cease development - which a tonne of proprietary technology uses in their stack. Every business that uses a LAMP stack would almost immediately be fucked.

Billing systems would collapse, large numbers of people wouldn’t be receiving paychecks anymore, supply chains would crumble, etc.

Tonnes of companies would get hacked because there wouldn’t be a reasonable way for people to distribute information/stay in the know on new vulnerabilities for the masses of IT/security workers.

No one could leave reviews of any kind on any service or product which has a litany of resulting problems itself.

This would also result in an ungodly amount of lawsuits filed for any and all reasons which would basically collapse the court system under its weight.

Even if this went through, I’m sure it would immediately collapse the economy like has never been seen before and they would scramble to revert it.

The owner of the software company I work at openly said to a room full of multiple clients that he believed that AI is a bubble and that it is going fail, but nonetheless let them know the business would be adding an optional AI feature to one aspect of the software product for those who want it, and even at that it’s not an LLM or anything, it’s intended to try to speed up the re-creation of specific types of diagrams based on an input of the original diagrams.

There is no requirement or suggestion to use AI as an employee at my company, personal preference for how each person works is generally respected and everything goes through a few layers of review regardless. All the management cares about is that the work gets done somehow.

There’s one dev who uses it for 1 or 2 things on rare occasions, no one else ever uses it.

Under ~ I usually make ~/Application for flatpaks/appimages etc, ~/Script for any kind of script I write in bash, python, or whatever else, ~/Audio for audio/music production stuff, and ~/Games for emulators and such. ~/Documents is reserved for actual documents containing text data usually.

I used to be unable to do this but took an interest in music as a hobby at some point and developed the ability to do it over time. I think it really helps to have built music from the ground up in a DAW or some such to begin to pick up on that.

I won’t buy a phone with any fewer than 16 folds.

I agree that this has been very useful for me. Initially taught it to myself when I was working in IT, and it has come in handy a lot.

Go use actual Debian, I game just fine on it.

Thanks, I’ll try when I have a moment and let you know how it went. I appreciate it.

My search doesn’t seem to return good instruction on how to do so. Very glad to try and appreciate the suggestion, but do you have guidance on how to do so? Thanks!

Primarily my aforementioned issue with Remmina not being able to span multiple monitors while running under wayland.

I think when I looked it up I saw the Remmina devs have been aware of this problem for a couple years now, but the problem is surprisingly difficult for them to fix for a few reasons I can’t recall at the moment.

Ahh I see. Doesn’t quite solve all of my problems then, but at least it’s doing some heavy lifting already without me knowing. Thanks!

I honestly don’t know a tonne about the topic. If you happen to know, what exactly is xwayland and how would I go about implementing it (on debian 13). Curious if it would have ramifications for my system for better or worse, might be interested in trying it out until other software can get caught up with wayland proper.

I did earlier and it bugged out for me for some reason and was unusable. Possibly a config problem, will try later on when I have a bit more time.

The problem isn’t really with Wayland not working though, it’s with other software not being caught up to work fully with wayland.

For example, in X, I can have my single screen windows work laptop display to my multi-monitor linux machine with remmina and be able to interact with the laptop as if it had multiple monitors.

Remmina cannot do this with Wayland as far as I have been able to determine.

Clearly not the fault of Wayland, but also kind of a pain in the ass that there are issues like this since some other maintainers/devs haven’t implemented what is required in their software yet.

Well shit. I would like this better if more things played nicely with wayland, as wayland itself seems pretty great. Remmina for example can’t do multi-monitor outside of x for example and this is breaking for me when i remote into my work computer.

I realize that this is the fault of remmina and not wayland. Any RDP client recommendations that work on wayland for this?

I touch typed with qwerty for over 20 years before learning it, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that. It’s just a matter of consistent practice.