I’d recommend checking out BlackFlag Civilian’s videos. He’s a leftist who covers relevant topics, including how to select ammo, how to set up comms on a budget, and more.

I’d also suggest TacticoolGirlfriend (who has a great beginner series) and InRangeTV’s videos.

There are still things you can do that will drastically help.

1. find local communities and get involved to make connections, this is essential, as resisting alone without a community makes you much less effective, and easier to suppress. Any real resistance requires community.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

Union Suggestions:

• 🌍 Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)
• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW

4. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

I just finished it myself, and I’d say it’s absolutely worth watching. The documentary bits are very compelling and well edited.

M-discs don’t rot, theoretically they’re one of the best consumer long term storage mediums. I think the practical issue with them on a super long timescale is keeping a functional reader if blurays fall out of fashion.

If you’d be interested in a tracker-like DAW, Renoise has a native Linux version.

For more traditional DAWS, Bitwig and Reaper are the two best Linux native options. Reaper is quite cheap, and also offers a trial version that just nags you like winrar.

Since this isn’t clearly a joke, I think you’re effectively just spreading despair inducing misinformation instead, since you don’t know if this is true information or not.

In the US, pensions have become extremely rare, and were mostly replaced with a 401k, which is essentially a tax deferred stock market account. Often your employer will match contributions that you put into it up to a certain point.

What if their wages hadn’t allowed them to build up a 401k? They likely won’t be able to survive on social security alone.

Fractic’s tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery.

He’s pretty much like that in most of his videos.

Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn’t mean they’ll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It’s fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That’s not where these folks are now.

This I completely agree with. From what I can tell he’s established relationships with these folk over the years during his coverage of C64 content, and likely felt having them be a part of this would legitimize it and make it feel like the ‘real’ commodore, but time and time again, when I’ve seen old legends try their hands at recapturing the magic of their past, it rarely seems to work out (a good example would be every ex-Sierra employee trying to make a new game with a kickstarter, all of which resulted in pretty sub-par stuff).

But I’d have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.

I’m of the same mind.

I don’t think Frantic has any sort of bad intentions or scheme planned (he’s been steadily making classic computer content for over 7 years now), but I do think he’s completely blinded by nostalgia, which is an ever pervasive theme in his videos, and is ultimately wildly overestimating the commercial viability of the goals he has in mind.

If he really did refinance his house to help fund all this, I don’t foresee things going too well for him, as I can’t really imagine them being able to put to market something that will be affordable enough and with some killer feature to truly capture a wide enough market. I also would love to be proven wrong here, but based on how the Commander X16 went, I suspect whatever they produce will be far too overpriced for what it actually is, and will end up only appealing to a small subset of similarly nostalgic Gen-x’ers who have the disposable income to get into it, similar to the Spectrum NEXT.

Thankfully Fedora retracted the 32 bit proposal.

I think you’re right, and they may be exaggerating a bit. From what I can tell, this would be almost act like a 4th setting between power-save and on-demand mode, so you still get most of the benefits of power-save mode, but without the need to switch back to on-demand when you do something intense.

also @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

It gathered 160k signatutes in 3 days thanks to all the new press, hopefully we can keep up the momentum.

I suspect a VM would introduce latency (big no no for music production), and I can’t imagine getting ASIO working would be easy (though I’ve never tried it).

According to WineHQ, Ableton’s compatibility with wine isn’t stellar. FL Studio works quite well in it, but switching DAWs can be a pretty major undertaking.

For Linux native DAWs, Reaper and Bitwig are the two best options. Reaper is the most affordable at 60 bucks, with an infinite free trial.

I don’t know. Fascism hates art

Speaking of which…

Since that video was posted, there’s actually been a swell of support thanks to some big youtubers making videos about it. It’s already gotten 100k signatures in 2 days, so all hope may not be lost!

One possibility is using it exclusively to access its grammatik grammer checker as a non-AI and non-subscription based alternative to ProWritingAid or Grammarly.

More info here.

Otherwise, it’s still genuinely a solid option for those who want to do word processing in a terminal, which is a niche use case, but some people are into that. Perhaps as a distraction free writing environment.

OP, what is your goal in signal boosting this asshole on an explicitly leftist instance? He certainly seems to be just another Russian shill.

Massie’s political stances:

In 2019, Massie was the only member of Congress to oppose an act that refused to recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea.[119] He was also one of three members to oppose a March 2022 resolution supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty after it was invaded by Russia.[120][119] He later amplified Russian claims that Ukraine was developing biological weapons. Referring to Victoria Nuland’s statement that Ukraine had biological research facilities that the U.S. feared might be seized by Russia, Massie tweeted, “I didn’t take the concern over Ukrainian biological labs seriously … until now.”[121] Massie opposed a resolution in 2022 to support Sweden and Finland joining NATO, saying he did not want to “subsidize socialist Europe’s defense”.[122] In March 2024 he voted against House Resolution 149 condemning “the wrongful and illegal kidnapping of children from Ukraine” by Russia, one of nine Republicans to do so.

On Environmental issues:

Massie rejects the general scientific consensus on climate change.[127] He has said, “I think the jury is still out on the contribution of our activities to the change in the earth’s climate”.[127] In 2013, he implied that cold weather undercut the argument for climate change, tweeting, “Today’s Science Committee Hearing on Global Warming canceled due to snow”.[128] During a 2019 House Oversight Committee hearing on the impact of climate change, Massie suggested that concerns over rising carbon dioxide levels >were exaggerated.[68][69]

Massie supports dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency.[129] He voted to block the Department of Defense from spending on climate adaptation.[130] He voted to repeal the Stream Protection Rule, which imposed stricter requirements on coal >mining to prevent coal debris from getting into waterways.[131]

In 2018, after French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Congress and mentioned his desire that the United States rejoin the Paris Climate Accords to curb climate change, Massie said Macron was “a socialist militarist globalist science-alarmist. The dark future of the American Democratic Party”.

On Human Rights:

Massie was the sole member of Congress to vote against the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in November 2019[159] and the UIGHUR Act condemning the treatment of Chinese Uyghurs in December 2019.[160][161] Massie clarified on Twitter that his reasoning was that it is not the role of the United States to intervene in other nations’ internal affairs.[162] Massie was also one of only three House members to vote against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2020,[163] and was one of >14 House Republicans to vote against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d’état that overwhelmingly passed in 2021.[164]

On February 26, 2020, Massie voted against making lynching a federal hate crime.[165] On February 28, 2022, he was one of three representatives to vote against the similar Emmett Till Antilynching Act.

On Healthcare:

Massie supports repealing the Affordable Care Act.[172] In 2017, he criticized Republicans’ efforts to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, saying the efforts fell “far short of our promise to repeal Obamacare”.

On Disaster Relief:

Massie is among a handful of members of Congress who consistently vote to block disaster relief. However, when Kentucky has been hit by natural disasters, Massie has supported disaster relief. Stating, “While it’s true that I’ve consistently voted against bloated spending bills and unbalanced budgets, it’s also true that once these bills pass, it’s my constituents who must bear the burden of the taxes and debts incurred by these bills… Therefore, I advocate for our congressional district’s fair share, if those bills ultimately pass.”

On Immigration:

Massie voted against the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158) which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).

Other stances:

In October 2019, Massie criticized the jail sentence for Maria Butina, a Russian citizen who pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent in the United States. Butina had sought to infiltrate the National Rifle Association of America in order to influence a more favorable U.S. foreign policy towards Russia. Massie described her jail sentence as motivated by Russophobia. In August 2019, >Massie said that former FBI Director James Comey should be put in prison instead of Butina.[192][193]

In September 2020, Massie said Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged (but later found not guilty) with first-degree intentional homicide after shooting two people at a protest following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, had shown >“incredible restraint”, noting that Rittenhouse “didn’t empty a magazine into a crowd.”

Massie released a statement in 2013 in which he called Roe v. Wade “one of the greatest judicial travesties of our time”, then went on to say he believes life begins at conception.

The political system is completely fucked. Going grassroots with direct action is currently the best way to both resist, and build horizontal decentralized power that isn’t prone to the corruption and lobbying that the democrats have fallen to.

1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

Union Suggestions:

• 🌍 Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)
• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW

4. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

TrilliumNext Notes is a great one.