WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

Is anyone at threat of prison time or at least fines measured in the 100’s of billions, if not trillions?

Even with games that usually use kernal anti-cheat systems like battleeye, some games specifically have enabled proton support and just work as well.

I haven’t had too much issues with Bazzite for general use. I still use windows for work, so there’s some things I haven’t tried setting up and have no clue how different they’d be on an immutable vs a mutable OS.

I’ve used Mint before (like 10 years ago) and somehow it kept breaking (I’m sure I somehow caused it, but I only knew enough to break things and not enough to understand how I was breaking them). 🤷‍♀️ For most people, I’d think how Bazzite works would be acceptable. For some power users, the immutable OS aspect might be annoying, but I think that’s mostly an issue for people who are coming from a different Linux distro (it did bother me at first and I did consider switching to something like PopOS) or people who want to run fairly dated or obscure software (granted, VMs are sometimes already necessary for that - at a previous job, we had to use windows 95 VMs to run a specific version of software).

https://archive.org/details/Ep-001-Waltons-Re-release.m4a/Ep-038-Police-Militarization.mp3

Podcast episode from Covid-19 era about police militarization, which talks a fair bit about Safariland if I remember correct (its been several years since I’ve listened to it). Lots of banter during the first 20-25 minutes.

I kinda hope people who’ve become enraged by recent ICE actions and weren’t already anti-police will realize they’re just using the same tactics various police have been using for forever (and tame compared to some historical examples). BLM protests gave people plenty of chances to figure this out though and some people seemed to only focus on the abuses specifically by federal agents in places like portland, ignoring the vast majority of the abuse which was done by the local PD, so I still have low expectations. ACAB.

How can you watch your friends, family, and neighbours being executed in the streets only to buy a whistle and yell at them a bit. I get that you’re afraid; but at this point your desire to survive should overcome that fear… Yes, there’s the threat of Marshal law, but it’s being imposed on you whether they officially announce it or not. There are federal agents patrolling your streets arresting EVERYONE that’s not visibly white AND carrying papers, including 3yo children, and shipping them out of state faster than the courts can issue injunctions (even when moving as fast as possible with emergency hearings).

I’ve never seen a single ICE agent in my life (despite being in one of the top 3 states in terms of “undocumented” immigrants). So I’d imagine a lot of it is simply an “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” for a lot of people. It may be the case that Alex was the only person armed with a gun at that scene (other than ICE, if you consider those people).

You’re being kidnapped and summarily executed. This will not end until you fight it off.

Agreed. I know when things escalate, I’m certainly in the group who’ve they’ve been building lists for as someone they consider an undesirable. I consider trying to flee, but I think partly there’s still a side of me that wants to believe it won’t get to that point so I can just get through living day to day.

I use cli just for making virtual mics and audio sinks and for .jar, so things people who are afraid of cli probably wouldn’t even consider doing. Currently using bazzite. The immutable nature make it annoying when you want to do some things via cli that don’t work like they would in vanilla fedora, but that doesn’t seem like it would be a problem for someone who doesn’t want to use cli. Bazzite includes bazaar for accessing flatpaks and works fine usually.

Perhaps wants ineffective violence. He doesn’t want violence at a scale that’s a legitimate threat to him.

What is it then? 100k+ people should exist 24/7 around the entire nation on each block?

There was. And then they left ICE intact, which then found a spot the next morning with maybe a dozen or people and did a murder.

Pretty sure they did have 100k+ people yesterday at least. Maybe not yet this early, but 100k people does not mean much when the organized violent thugs just wait until they can find people away from the large crowds and murder them on the street.

Switched from w11 to bazzite for personal use (still have to use windows for work) and it’s been great. Wish there were a few pieces of software with native Linux support so I could switch for work too.

Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job

I think you missed the key line. Perhaps they care about the optics of it and include that as part of the paperwork (granted, that’s perhaps a holdover from previous administrations), but they don’t actually care about how you fill it out (or in this case, not fill it out).

Here’s sort of the punchline near the end:

“Please note that this is a TENTATIVE offer only, therefore do not end your current employment,” the email instructed me. It then listed a series of steps I’d need to quickly take. I had 48 hours to log onto USAJobs and fill out my Declaration for Federal Employment, then five additional days to return the forms attached to the email. Among these forms: driver’s license information, an affidavit that I’ve never received a domestic violence conviction, and consent for a background check. And it said: “If you are declining the position, it is not necessary to complete the action items listed below.”

As I mentioned, I’d missed the email, so I did exactly none of these things.

And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later. “Thank you for confirming that you wish to continue with the hiring process,” it read. (To be clear, I had confirmed no such thing.) “Please complete your required pre-employment drug test.”

The timing was unfortunate. Cannabis is legal in the state of New York, and I had partaken six days before my scheduled test. Then again, I hadn’t smoked much; perhaps with hydration I could get to the next stage. Worst-case scenario, I’d waste a small piece of ICE’s gargantuan budget. I traveled to my local LabCorp, peed in a cup, and waited for a call telling me I’d failed.

Nine days later, impatience got the best of me. For the first time, I logged into USAJobs and checked my application to see if my drug test had come through. What I actually saw was so implausible, so impossible, that at first I did not understand what I was looking at.

Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.

According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”

I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”

By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.

The Border Patrol agent said that while a significant minority of his colleagues agree with him, they are not comfortable speaking out given the political climate.

There’s also this important qualifier that its just a minority according to the person interviewed.

Not scared enough yet.

It won’t get signed even if it passes the house and there’s not enough votes to overturn a veto. So, why even bother filibuster? If there was enough votes to overturn a veto, then they’d just be able to end the filibuster too.

I know two of the commonly used free options for 3D vtubing are vnyan/vseeface:

https://github.com/Suvidriel/VNyanDoc (not sure what licensing it uses, but still uses unity)

https://github.com/emilianavt/VSeeFaceReleases (says it is not open-source)

Regardless, building custom models is likely still a lot of work and those wanting to get started quickly would probably still largely just buy pre-made models or hire someone to make a custom model. But it doesn’t help people who want to get into model making specifically.

Live2D is like $100/year for 2D models. Not sure what else people use outside pngtubers.

It only categorizes if they “ever use” the platform. So this could also count people who pull up facebook/twitter just to see the time/date/location of an event or check reddit for product reviews before making a purchase and doesn’t account for how much time they’re on these platforms.

Also, doesn’t Meta own like half of these?

But it does change how much power you need to use. If you leave the power the same, you’ll need more joules because you need more time and are sending more of it to the atmosphere.