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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The issue isn’t how people used their votes. The issue is that 20 million people didn’t show up to vote.

    With the math available, every single Democratic voter could have voted 3rd party and Trump would still have won. Third party voters had little to no effect on this election, outside of those who were swaying to say don’t vote at all. 50 to 100 thousand third party votes from each state just don’t make the numbers needed for the E.C. votes.

    We needed voters, period. They didn’t show up.




  • When the third party candidate admits that their campaign is solely to siphon away votes from Democrats? And the Republican alternative has actively stated Palestine should be wiped out by Israel?

    Can’t vote Democrat because support of Israel. That means you also can’t support Republicans, because they support the full extent of the genocide even more. And that means you can’t support (most) 3rd party candidates, because the Green Party is primarily funded by Republican donors and, quote,

    "Trump, has embraced Kennedy as an ally, has previously spoken fondly of both Stein and West.

    “Cornel West, he’s one of my favorite candidates,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia in June. “I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%.”

    So that leaves us with… A candidate who at least is saying a 2 state solution, and one who told Israel to finish the job. Plus you know, all of the American focused policies, such as education.

    With this in mind, and with how the events of 2016’s election turned out, you can understand why people are suspicious about 3rd party voting, right?


  • As opposed to… Supporting Trump, who has told Israel to finish the job? Who has no interest even feigning a possibility of a two state solution? The one who stopped aiding Ukraine in 2019? Who’s supporters have made trans and POC politicians step down because they wouldn’t stop receiving death threats after Trump was elected? Who singlehandedly dismantled the EPA to kill corporate regulations, the CDC resulting in the deaths of millions of Americans, and our education system by planting Betsy DeVoss, whose brother is Eric Prince founder of Blackwater?




  • Ahh so it’s still never been confirmed then. The Aether2x event and the Reddit third-party event happened relatively close together, so I never got closure.

    Sad that the emulation community has such a prevalent amount of vocal people who go around expectantly harassing developers. Such a large part of the community seems so nice and wholesome, but there is a significant portion that is also extremely vile and consistently ruins it for the rest of us.

    Edit: Oh, and thank you for responding.


  • Linux isn’t for you. Trust me, as someone who doesn’t really like using Linux all that much.

    If you stick with it, pick one. Stick with it. Use its documentation, not online forums.

    You can’t use online forums because CLI on how to do things varies from distro to distro. So a command for Ubuntu is useless somewhere else, most of the time.

    That results in following guides and having it stop working part way through. You will never get anywhere like this. When you eventually do get somewhere, you’re going to take some time away, or you’re going to break something on accident. Then you’ll have to set it all up again and likely will have lost some data if you weren’t careful.

    I built a server PC for Plex and a few other programs, after a number of years running various temporary projects, like Raspberry Pi servers I felt semi-confident. It was going for about 7 months and now it is stuck in a grub menu and if I am able to get into the desktop everything is fucked up anyway.

    Tl;Dr, you are having issues because you went with the most complicated distros. Run some normal ones like Mint in Virtual Machines, get a feel for the process to install a program – 1) manually, 2) from the “Linux store” (package manager) 3) from GitHub.

    Anything else is just asking for a frustration headache







  • There’s a lot of good suggestions here.

    As someone who uses Linux but doesn’t love it, be prepared to restart from scratch a lot. Keep the OS on a blank drive and just point the OS to your storage drives once it’s up and running.

    Otherwise you are going to be losing data every time you break something in the OS, and that is really no fun.



  • Create a script to send important data records (if you need that for taxes or inventory data etc) as a nightly routine, that way you have a consistent database for any important records.

    Then just create a restore point. If it breaks in 2 weeks, then you just relaunch it and know that it’s going to kill itself in 2 weeks. A simple restart to that restore point solves everything.

    Sounds 100% functional to me!