Voting is about the lowest form of political influence (besides doing nothing). If all you do is vote then you’re left with candidates determined by others. You can (and should) still vote for the least worst option of those that have a chance of winning, because not voting effectively means you approve of all options. The only thing you can vote against in an election where one of two options will win is one of those options, by voting for the other. Anything else won’t matter.

If you want better options to vote for, you need to be politically active besides voting, actively working to establish better options, tell the established parties what candidates and policies you want them to support, support smaller parties that represent your interests better, and that might slowly shift it into a direction more to your liking.

Of course that’s much harder that doing nothing at all and proudly telling yourself that that will somehow delegitimize the system - the system doesn’t care. Election results are shown only as a proportion of valid votes, anyone else has no influence on the result at all.

the kind of doom propaganda that fuels inaction

And worse, the destructive “we have to exploit everything because it doesn’t matter anyway” attitude.

Mit fallen bei Mediathekvideos immer mal wieder Szenen auf mit Artefakten durch zu niedrige Bitraten-Obergrenze, das ist da wohl manchmal mehr auf Bandbreite optimiert als Qualität.

Probier mal Staffel 2 und The Return, Staffel 1 hat bei mir auch blos ne einfach wegklickbare Warnung.

And it’s the AI companies who are going to have to pay it, either directly or via taxes.

And they delighted in the “liberal tears” of those who warned them.

Weird. Not sure what could be the cause then, sorry.

I’ve been recommended to do a fully CMOS reset by pulling out battery but don’t really have time. It disappeared after a BIOS update :)

Did you load the default BIOS settings after that? If not, that might be easier than removing the battery.

And if you did, the default settings could have enabled the CSM, or changed other settings like fast boot that might make the drive not show up.

Have you checked your BIOS if CSM is enabled (gets disabled when enabling secure boot iirc)? If your Linux drive has an old partitioning scheme it needs that to show up during boot I think.

Yeah, all this automation with robots and AIs could (and should) be good for all people. All it takes is distributing the value of that automated labor to all of them and not enrich a few selfish fucks. Of course none of them realize (or say aloud) that for that to happen, all the money their companies gain needs to be taken from them again (or they need to give it voluntarily).

But giving all the resources to LLMs slows/prevents those useful applications of AI.

Aren’t batteries pretty harmless when not used? It just slowly discharges and loses all its energy so it doesn’t have any left to explode.