A third of the country are not “fringe.” Nutjobs, sure, but a statistically meaningful segment. In a multi-party country, you’d have trouble forming a government without them in your coalition. Considering that the GOP is barely 1/2 of the population, the 1/3 Trump-core are a dominating super-majority of the party that has gerrymandered itself into electoral dominance.
Also love the pi-0-2w, but I’ve started to use ESP32 for those edge sensors. You can get those for like $1-2 each on aliexpress, where real world prices on Pi zero is upwards of $20 now. Truly embedded systems like arduino were always intimidating to me, but esphome reduces ‘programming’ to a YAML for any of the many supported devices. The Pis that are working now aren’t likely to change any time soon, but I bought a handful of ESP32s for $10, and I’ll probably buy another handful before I buy another zero. Maybe convert a zero to ESP32 if I really need a whole OS for something new.
I feel like (mostly because of my own path) Pi is a great platform to get started with self hosting because of projects like pihole, homeassistant, and osmc. Projects where someone has put together simple, all-in-one solutions where you can just download an image and go. That same approach, and the Pi’s hardware limitations, make it harder to co-host multiple services, while the price point of Pi’s, at least pre-2023, made it reasonable just to run a handful of them. Only once you start wanting larger or more compute intensive stacks does the pressure to use containers/VMs on ‘real’ hardware appear. If you’ve already got pihole and ha running on Pis, there’s no pressure to move them to the big server.
If it’s the path I followed, it must be the path everyone follows :)
That’s the one. He’s not MAGA, but he’s still Republican.
Fun history of Georgia: as recently as 1998, Georgia elected a Democratic governor, and Democrats regularly won state-wide offices. In the wake of the 2000 fiasco, when everyone suddenly went to electronic ballots, Georgia chose a system with no paper trail, and no Democrat won a state-wide race for nearly 2 decades. Then, in 2020, they changed voting systems to one that includes a paper trail, and Democrats immediately won both Senate seats. The Republicans have never won a Georgia Senate race that included paper records.
Georgia is a (decreasingly) Republican state, but not a MAGA state. The governor, who prominently refused to go along with Trump’s 2020 election lies, got primaried by a Trump-nut, who lost like 3-1. The GOP candidate for Senate is one of the Trumpiest politicians in Georgia (now that MTG jumped ship). I’d really like to think this could be one of the last battles in the GOP civil war., but going all-in on Trump in Georgia was definitely a bad plan, even before the leopard started eating their faces.
nginx, “ing - inks” I’m terrible at license plate puns, too.
Yeah, I share your dream, because to do otherwise would be too depressing. I just have to prepare myself for the worst/realistic outcome, because to do otherwise would crush my dreams.
If I’ve learned anything about the American justice system: the Democrats might force an investigation, but the investigation will drag on for 6 years. Then there will be at least 2 years of trial preliminaries, just in time for a Republican to come back in office, call off the whole thing, or pardon the poor, persecuted billionaire.
I’m fond of the conspiracy theory that each of the AI companies has realized that revenues are not growing anywhere near fast enough to justify their spend rate, but none of them is willing to be the first to slow down and risk losing market mind-share. Government decree lets them stop their unsustainable growth without having to tell investors that their whole business model was unsustainable.
“I blocked them on Trath Social, why not in real life?”
That’s why I included the seat flip, too. In the supposed “massive blue wave” of 2020, Democrats lost 13 seats in the House.
In 2020 congressional incumbents won 96% of their races. The “massive blue wave” flipped 2 senators to D and 13 representatives to R.
My understanding is these ‘rebates’ go only to people who receive no ACA tax credit. Thanks to Trump’s own ACA “reform,” that’s people making >4x ponverty level - about $64k for singles or $132k for a family of 4. Last year, those people had their insurance premiums capped at 8.5% of income.
So, a single, with typical silver premium of $12k/year, lost a $6500 tax credit to get this $500 rebate.