No, heavily Democratic district, but the Republican received 17% of the vote in the last election. The Republican receiving only 4.4% of the vote this time is a massive shift. Something must be going on in Minnesota.

I’m just waiting for Trump to announce he’s going to going to deport all those illegals back to Puerto Rico.

Good faith is meaningless when dealing with clear, repeated violations. By this point the courts are well aware of the abuses going on and these Trump goons are being held to a much lower standard than anyone else. “Good faith” has become nothing but a delay tactic that lets these assholes get away with violence, illegal deportations and terror for months without consequences. If we had a functional judicial system, rulings would rarely be ignored because of there would be immediate and severe consequences to those doing so no matter who those people were.

Can you imagine how differently this would play out if it were you or I, or even a private security firm ignoring clear court orders? We’d be slapped with fines and jail time almost immediately instead of being handled with kit gloves.

Finally judicial consequences that will stop ICE from ignoring court orders! U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz will give Todd Lyons a very stern look and may even scold him!

U.S. courts have become a bad joke. Administration officials will start obeying the law only after one of them spends a few weeks in jail after ignoring court orders. With our court system and cowardly judges they’ll never start obeying the law.

Android has almost caught up to Aero which was released with Windows Vista in 2006. What an amazing Google innovation, it only took them 20 years.

Another Magat that’s only slightly more intelligent than a bar of soap.

Bought a Pixel 10. After the last few days I’d only give it a C- review. Google uses their customers as beta testers and leaves all kinds of ridiculous bugs for their customers to deal with. The hardware is nice overall, but Android 16 needs lots of work. This is probably the reason so many Google employees refuse to use Android and buy Iphones.

The bugs Google has knowingly released include a broken volume control that requires the screen to be unlocked and the application be open for some applications, sleep schedules not working reliably, “helpful” nags ignoring the sleep schedule and waking me up in the middle of the night. Last night it was their “Find Hub” (renamed from “Find my Device” for some reason) waking me at 1:30AM to let me know I should set it up. A week ago it was my phone warning me at 3AM that Location was turned off and Accident Detection would not work. There have been more and right now I’m wishing I bought an Iphone. Google doesn’t deserve our business.

I bought a OP 9Pro just before Oppo decimated the company. They moved from Oxygen OS to a poorly camouflaged version of Oppo Color OS and stripped out some of the features that made Oneplus what it was. Oppo also almost completely stopped fixing bugs, even some really serious ones that had been long documented. I recently bought a new phone and didn’t even consider Oneplus Oppo.

It seems to me that the only reason Oppo would do this is to preserve the revenue they get from selling customer data that should remain private. Otherwise why would Oppo care what OS people run on their hardware?

Gemini: “It is understandable that you’re frustrated. It is reasonable to expect accurate information from Google’s premiere AI and it’s not being provided.”

“For your frustration take Ivermectin. Some guy on Youtube says it’s very effective.”

They literally don’t give a fuck and just like all conservatives, they will only start caring when it has a negative impact on their own lives.

Transferring funds to an account in another country is no longer difficult. With pension funds direct deposited to a U.S. bank, a wire transfer can be initiated from most any PC in the world. Many banks even allow automatic, scheduled transfers. This is something I do fairly often (without a pension being involved) and isn’t hard at all.

Thank you Captain Obvious.

There is a Russian asset running the U.S. The GOP, their propaganda outlet (Fox News) and the Supreme Court, are solidly behind him no matter what he does. The very mechanisms put in place to stop a Manchurian candidate have been co-opted to protect him and his ilk. The one thing that can bring this to a stop is irrefutable evidence that Trump is a child rapist and most of his crazy is focused on preventing that evidence from being released. He doesn’t give a shit about any damage he causes as long as he saves himself.

It’s a good thing U.S.elections were held before Canadian elections, otherwise Canada would have Poulievre to deal with as well as Trump.

Your SS and and pension aren’t tied to your physical location. They will continue to be paid no matter where you live.

Another deliberate, calculated distraction from the Epstein Files.

Child rapist pardons child rapist. Nothing to see here.

I’m no security expert and my biggest concern with self-hosting is making a configuration error in the OS or some app, or missing a critical update that allows someone access to my personal data. In order to reduce the attack surface and management requirements my network can only be accessed through Wireguard. The random open WG ports do not respond to unauthenticated packets, so someone would have to have access to my configurations to be able to get past my firewall, at least in the absence of some yet unknown vulnerability. Of course that won’t prevent mistakes being made on PCs (especially Windows) but it’s one less thing to worry about.

Wireguard clients on our PCs and phones make connecting and accessing media and files a breeze. There are no third parties involved so enshittification by some company’s security breach or sudden monthly fee isn’t going to happen.

I have a Bosgame mini-PC that is completely inaudible unless you get close to it. Power draw is <15 watts under light load meaning that even with the high electricity rates where I live it costs less than $3.50 a month to operate. I’ve avoided hard drives because I don’t want to listen to them whine, so no comment there. Two simultaneous 1080p Jellyfin streams increase CPU utilization by less than a percent and it still is under 5% with a couple of other Docker containers running.

Good luck setting everything up to your liking.

The Amazon CEO is terrified of angering the Toddler-in-Chief. Tariffs have already drastically raised prices for Americans. Here’s an Amazon example - this tool is 55% more expensive in the US than in Canada. Tariffs are 47.5% so apparently there’s an an additional fee tacked on, perhaps a tariff handling fee?

Surprise! Trump’s tariffs and more are being paid only by Americans. And we have to pay sales taxes on the Trump tariffs taxes.

68% of Cubans supported Trump in the last election.

Those being deported have friends and family who can vote and still support Trump.