An excellent argument to be made when arguing about the
STop Unrelated Crap Killing budgets act.
STUCK(b) Act. See? Even has a cool acronym.
And if they take a few dozen sessions deliberating over it while the government keeps funding and running on previous bills, that’s OK. That’s the point. There should not be an easy path to leverage government’s ability function to force a vote in your favor, bypassing traditional debate, compromise, and processes.
Y’all need to get a word in with your representatives that what’s needed is legislation preventing budget bills from containing anything other than budgets.
That would solve this problem real quick. It’s been sounding stupider and stupider using the budget meeting to force unpopular agendas down throats or else the government is held hostage.
I think it would fit the bill if budgeting was held up over allocations, one side wants more border spending, one side wants more educational spending, etc, that would make sense but “allow us to attach this whole other unrelated law to declare the sky is actually green(which also contains a tag along that I get to be emperor), or nobody gets paid” is just ridiculous.
I recommend Dockge over Portainer if you want a web admin panel. https://github.com/louislam/dockge
It’s basically docker compose in a website, and you can just decide one day to turn it off and use the compose files directly. No proprietary databases or other weirdness.
Do you game at all? Gaming on Linux has made great strides, be be fair, but for a lot of titles you still need to consider a dual boot of some form of Windows, thanks to over the top anti-cheat, DRM, and developer support.
Something to consider for the gamers out there.
TBH I really do think there should be some regulations in place. I grew up on social media and it was bad enough for me that I got away from it…mostly, obviously I’m here…but I look at the next generation afraid for them and their future as I see these platforms define their very reasons to exist today. It’s so much worse today as they were able to get hooked younger and at their most impressionable.
I’m not even sure it can be safely cured at this point without some nuclear option. Kids today don’t know anything else.
I could blame the parents, but most of that generation is almost as addicted many of them don’t see the problem either.
Seems like a good post as any to ask this.
Genuine discussion:
I get what people think about ads. I run an adblocker on top of a pihole. I do that because ads became too intrusive. Not just too accurate, but because they became 60% of a given page, and pop-overs, and crap like that.
I’m not alone in scrubbing ads from my life. But, as ads are banished from our lives, nickel and dime-ing has become more popular.
Now everywhere I go a site is demanding a subscription, and there are fears of a future of micro transactions. Imagine a future where you load $20 into your browser and spend 0.0002 cents on every page load…everywhere.
The internet, as with everything, runs on money. Nothing is free. So I genuinely hope someone can come up with a fair compromise. Ads got too bold and we shut them down. Now they are coming at us directly for cash. Which do we prefer? If they went back to more sane ads, would we turn off our blockers? Or are we just waiting for the internet to run on bitcoin/monero, ad-free (or ads-as-alternative), but pay-per-view?