You can run it on a Pi via Box64. Source: I did it.

I’ve been able to control a consumer-grade CyberPower UPS for just my modem/router via a Raspberry Pi using Box64 to emulate the linux command line software for communicating with the UPS. I’ve never had any issues, and it had pretty okay documentation. You just connect it to a host PC via USB.

https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/standby/st625u/

This is the one, nothing special.

As you can see though, source, rpm, and deb versions are available. If a low-power consumer grade one like this has Linux support, I’d daresay most of them do. Like I said, I never had trouble.

Oops actually now you have to upgrade to a new speaker, because since the old ones are no longer supported by The App™ Elite Edition, we have done you a “favor” and remotely bricked the device so now what was once repurposable electronics must basically be “recycled” (read: burned to release tasty toxins) because we hate you and the environment and ourselves.

Authoritarians know people will want to escape, so “the border” issue is dual-purpose. It’s to get numbskulls to join in a dumbass plan to get rid of “undesirables” while not realizing these borders go two ways, and when things get so bad that we’re trying to sneak into other countries… it won’t be the other countries trying to stop us.

They know people will try to escape their fascism, that’s why step one is to make it harder to escape.

Leia was wrong, the tighter Vader gripped, the more star systems were crushed in his palm.

The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

So in a way, they’re no different than Floridians who refuse to move even though they can’t actually get their homes insured anymore.

Humans and refusing to face the reality of climate change until it’s too late. Name a more iconic duo.

I’m a cancer patient and getting an emergency stockpile of meds is nigh-impossible.

The thing is, they make all kinds of exceptions for cancer patients because our circumstances are considered dire, so if it’s this difficult for me, it’s astoundingly more difficult for the trans community, who have no such exceptions protecting them.

It’s probably a good idea to get your homes prepped to hide LGBT+ folks, Anne Frank style, just so you’re not caught off guard when the need arises. Keep in mind Nazi SS didn’t have high tech shit like heat vision goggles to sniff out anyone hiding, so do your homework before you start.

Don’t even get me started on something as simple as a bluetooth speaker.

Quick press to turn on and off. Short hold to get into bluetooth pairing mode. Long hold to get into stereo pairing mode.

What’s the fucking problem with having more buttons??

He could rape a woman in public, on video, and Trump voters, senators, and house representatives will howl at “fake news!” and instate him as Secretary of Defense anyway.

Can the media stop pretending things are normal anymore or that corruption means anything at all? It doesn’t, it’s all a joke now.

This is America, the buck starts here.

Found Zizek’s Lemmy account.

The good thing is that thanks to how GOG works, as long as some pirate purchases a copy, they will always be able to keep a current update available to the pirate community.

Thanks GOG, for being against DRM in games.

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It’s like he’s trying to kill the US dollar. Nobody who was actually trying to protect our currency would be making these moves.

It’s not a shocker why all the cryptobros are behind him either, because that’s their goal, too.

But I mean god damn it is really hard to exaggerate how stupid and easily manipulated Trump is.

Nice, thanks for the link. I knew almost all of this stuff but never had a place where it was all tied together and organized neatly. Now I do. Cheers.

Yeah I prefer my Purple Stuff Vodka Seltzers

but for real capitalism is truly plumbing the depths of nostalgia for our generations youth.

It’s like the fact that some prominent atheists were involved at the beginning of gamergate kind of got memory-holed in the upswing of right-wing Christian theocracy.

Personally it’s been wild to witness the atheist-to-Christian pipeline through gamergate and the “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd.

What’s even wilder is that Sam Harris somehow ended up somewhat less shitty than he initially appeared, because I fully expected a hard-right turn from him at some point.

Okay, it’s more like the people who all refused to leave Xitter until recently. It took something very like the original Twitter (Bluesky) for them to finally get the mental gumption to make the switch. Prior to that, mental inertia kept them in place.

he’s done the meth

A super accurate typo.

It’s not actually decentralized or federated, but keep telling yourself that.

Look I’m just here for when we get to the Football in Suits scene.

There’s a big difference between “all kids are terrible today” and “some people have very successfully dismantled the education system, and it’s impacting our youth to a point where we can’t trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok.”

To be clearer: failure to educate is squarely on adults not on children.