These two are what we need. Good on them.

I feel like Lemmy is going a great job collectively of diminishing every win against the Trump administration. Every step forward seems to get downplayed. If I limited my exposure to this forum I’d have a much bleaker picture of people successfully resisting. We actually had the supreme court come to a 5-4 decision against Trump’s blanket firings.

If you only read Lemmy, though? You’d probably be inclined to assume that’s all meaningless and we’re already cooked. It’s honestly pretty suspect.

I would urge everyone here to make sure it’s not the only place you’re getting your political messaging, and maybe take it with a huge grain of salt, because it’s defeatist to the point of being propagandistic.

One of the major barriers for me to switching to Linux as my primary OS was a simple hardware limitation. I use a Logitech MX Ergo, and I spend much of my time in Discord voice chats. The open source driver for my mouse, Solaar, wasn’t able to be configured to properly hold down the mouse buttons that I use for push to talk. That, to me, is a complete deal-breaker.

I also haven’t yet spent the time to figure out JACK audio as an alternative to Voicemeeter Potato, which is another big hurdle, but if my push to talk doesn’t even work there’s little incentive to do that.

I’ll have to see if Solaar has been updated to get this functionality working yet. If it has, maybe I’ll give it another shot. I honestly would love to switch to Linux. I prefer it in a lot of ways, but short of learning to make a driver myself or code something to fill the gap, it’s a barrier I haven’t really seen a way around. There seems to be a fair bit of that with Linux in niche use-case scenarios, which is I think one of the major obstacles to more wide-spread adaptation.

I thought you were going to say they would be happy to drive their smoke belching pickup trucks off a cliff and became briefly enthusiastic about the idea.