You can get USB-C IR blasters and add it to any phone. Also there are some 3.5mm headphone jack ones too but I’m not sure if those would be supported as well.

Anyone else notice the weird (possibly AI?) upscaling on this picture?

That’s a good point, makes what Brian was saying about Gretta even worse.

I wish fonts made the difference between uppercase i and lowercase L as clear as possible. I don’t understand why most computer fonts don’t put lines above and below the uppercase i like I think everyone is taught in school to do.

Just make voting mandatory and give people time off to vote. Read about Australia’s voting system. It’s really awesome and I wish we could have something like that here.

Reminds me about what they used to say about Al Gore on Fox “News”. They said he takes private jets. It’s a bad faith argument because those people then go on to deny climate change. Also he’s a former vice president, I’m sure security reasons are part of that decision. Also if those private jets allow him to be more productive in fighting climate change the net benefit of him using it may exceed the additional carbon generated by the jets.

No matter your feelings on him it’s very good that prominent people are joining Bluesky because he’ll likely bring a lot more people over. The more people who join Bluesky, the better.

There are companies which offer training and support to FOSS. Companies could also pay those companies.

Instead of some greasy podcast hack I’d much rather hear from professional military analysts and foreign policy experts. Bannon’s opinion doesn’t matter in the same way my opinion on how to perform open heart surgery doesn’t matter because I don’t know anything about open heart surgery.

Also what’s disgusting is Spotify recently allowed Bannon’s podcast back on. That’s why I’m again calling for people to contact Spotify and complain about bringing War Room back, about Joe Rogan’s disinformation and Andrew Tate’s hate. Or consider canceling your subscription and when you cancel fill out the reason why you canceled, mention it’s because of Bannon, Rogan and Tate.

This is proof right here that Musk has not stepped away. More pressure against Musk! Boycott Twitter, boycott Tesla, boycott Starlink, buy stocks in SpaceX’s competitors. Keep boycotting until he’s bankrupt.

It can happen to anyone, even an Australian police officer who married a man in the army.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031

I see, it was my first time encountering that person. I guess my vision of explaining that fascism has a specific scholarly definition and that fascism would not appeal to someone who likes “freedom” because they take away your rights wouldn’t have panned out the way I imagined.

I sometimes wonder what if everyone who spends money on licensing fees instead takes the same amount of money and puts it into FOSS. Imagine what we could achieve? Likely the money would be used more efficiently because they could donate it to non-profit companies which don’t need to pay tax.

I think Reddit is a good place to focus on boycotting in response to this. We have an excellent alternative here on Lemmy. If you know anyone on Reddit urge them to sign up for Lemmy. Even if you only convince them to use both website and not discontinue Reddit it’s still a win because you’re moving them in the right direction.

You did something today: you helped remind me of him, with so much chaos he slipped my mind.

If you’re feeling frustrated by lack of power to do anything what you can do to help is chip away Trump’s pillars of support. Have you ever played Jenga? If you pull out enough blocks the tower will eventually fall. The biggest blocks holding up Trump are the billionaire wealthy donors and the right-wing propaganda machine.

Twitter is an example of both right-wing propaganda machine and owned by the biggest political donor to the GOP and one that we all can easily make a difference in by personally stop using it if you have an account and urging your friends and family to also stop using Twitter. Then try contacting organizations with an account and ask them to switch to Bluesky. And of course boycott Tesla and boycott Starlink too. If you like buying stocks maybe invest in SpaceX’s competitors.

For billionaire donors you can boycott their companies for example Uline is another big donor. We can make a difference. I see them as a good boycott target due to their reputation of being overpriced. Whenever you buy something online look at the box and labels. Do you see the words Uline on it? If so contact the vendor and tell them that Uline is overpriced and unethical, they can save money by switching to another supplier. This post shows someone about cut their costs in half by switching away from Uline: https://bsky.app/profile/geneha.com/post/3low65f4zac2d and https://refuseuline.com/ has a long list of alternatives.

Another big donor is the fossil fuel industry. I recently made a post about what you can do about that.

What is your opinion on fascism (just in general)? Do you support it or are you opposed to it? What do you think fascism is?

I’m very happy they got the wage increases but I hope that if Trump is still president in 2028 that people boycott the Olympics. Make the stadiums empty and don’t send any international teams to compete. Visitors risk arbitrary detainment and harassment despite innocence. We must not repeat the 1936 Olympics.

If you know anyone who lives on South Korea try talking to them and telling them that it’s important to vote and don’t let Yoon win.

This time we need aggressive offense. Relentlessly and accurately blame the Republicans for every single failure they caused.

The irony is when we get over this we’ll likely end up replacing our American-born doctors with immigrants to replace all the people lost.