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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33015862

I'd like to just casually boot straight into a game sometimes, or at least a mounted floppy. I don't want to type commands is DOSbox for casual situations like this.

I'm focussing on games that can run straight from the floppy drive. Thanks!

Edit: I tried variations of this command in the macOS terminal:

/Applications/DOSBox\ Staging.app/Contents/MacOS/dosbox -c "imgmount a '/Users/io/Downloads/Prince.img' -t floppy" -c "a:" -c "dir /p"

The idea is that it would open DOSbox in the A: location, run dir /p. I should see prince.exe listed. Unfortunately what actually happens is I'm given a listing of Z: instead. When I try to switch to A:, I'm told that it needs to be mounted first. But I thought my terminal command takes care of that.

To summarise the message at the link, Fórsa are making it known that the Foreign Affairs Committee is likely to quickly bring the Occupied Territories Bill to a close in the coming days and hours.

"We need this report to state strongly that the Committee wants services included in the Bill, and with your help we hope it can. 

The report will be finished and published very quickly, before the Dáil goes into summer recess on Thursday July 17th. 

This timeline is tight, so the Committee has deliberately decided not to hold a long series of in-person sessions. They have instead opened a public call for submissions. It’s really important that they receive a lot of submissions calling for services to be included in the Bill so we are encouraging you to make a submission to the consultation. 

The deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 9th July. They simply need to be emailed to [email protected].

What to put in a submission See suggestions at https://forsatradeunion.newsweaver.com/singlemessagetest/1gdoa7xijm3

For some of us, the all-consuming preoccupation with leaving cert exams have given way to other things. Our kids will soon be exposed to new ideas and unfamiliar sources.

Our kids learned that misinformation and disinformation exists, but it didn’t go as far identifying the more subtle (and common) forms of it. I’d appreciate any concrete ideas for what to teach them, and how to make it interesting. In my experience, if the message is in any way long winded I lose their attention.

I’ve drafted something which I’ll put in a comment below. But basically what served me well growing up was learning about how bias emerges in myself (fallacies, emotional reasoning, basic psychology) as well as in the media (journalists with a pattern of chanting for one perspective, absent or misinterpreted sources, history of credibility, “Chinese whispers” on social media, etc).

I get this prompt sometimes when I connect my phone to my computer. It doesn't tell me what items it's referring to, but I know I don't want anything on my computer that isn't there already. But it looks like if I don't go ahead with it, the mystery items will be removed from my phone.

Anybody know what the thinking is behind this? Maybe it's just a sync setting I've set myself, but it reads like some kind of crazy ransom note :)

I chose 'Don't Transfer' in the end. I have no idea what the consequences are. I don't notice any differences on my phone.

MusicBee on Windows has a plugin that achieves this. On macOS I can only find one (Album Flow), and it works only with my Apple Music library.

I'm looking for something that works independently, with a directory of music I point it to. Does anything like this exist today?

I've done quite a bit of searching, I hope I'm missing something obvious because it's an extremely intuitive and accessible way to browse and listen to music. Thanks!

From the official account of Aodhán Ó Ríordáin @oriordainaodhan - EU is normalising relations with Israel

Simon Harris is again deleting genuine questions and challenges from his social media posts. Under a video where Harris was making a big deal about passing his (significantly weakened) Occupied Territories Bill.

Here @theoceanwizard came across a video where Minister Harris was talking about passing the bill, and commented asking why he opposed the bonds bill (a seperate bill). It was the most liked comment on the video. It was later deleted.

If they're deleting valid comments like this, it makes me wonder how our emails are being regarded. I have emailed all TDs in my constituency about the Dáil votes on the Occupied Territories bill (including allowing a vote of conscience), as well as the bonds bill. The only TDs that did not reply were Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the independents who support them.

"Dear Tereza,

I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.

Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.

I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.

Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."

Original, untranslated text and video is available here https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/cidades-df/2025/06/7171140-direto-da-prisao-em-israel-thiago-avila-envia-carta-a-filha.html

In a nutshell,

1. Sign a petition to have the Occupied Territories Bill passed in full, including services. It's currently at risk: https://act.forsa.ie/occupied-territories-bill
2. Get the email addresses of your local TDs here and email them to ask for the full bill to be implemented https://www.contactyourtd.ie/
3. Contact your school, work or union to encourage them to support Palestine while it endures genocide.
4. Donate if you can, boycott Israeli goods with the easy-to-use app called "No Thanks" in your App Store.

PS: If you're not sure what to say to your TD in an email, here is a template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EF1ZABOQo9VWqH-lQGCa08Gqyw4d9zgsrBAs5clHTiE/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

I know we have a lot of home grown problems here too and many of us are overworked and exhausted. The above took me 20 minutes (I did steps 1, 2 and 4). We've had a proud history of opposing apartheid, send our representatives a strong and clear signal to uphold our moral and legal responsibilities.

I wasn’t going to watch this because I assumed it would be a twee, rose-tinted bit. From the recommendation I’ve just received, it’s far from it.

It covers the oppressive society women suffered through, the role of the church and patriarchy, and the complexity of deciding whether or not to engage when such a system throws you a rope.

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