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Yup. It still boggles my mind that none of that was enough to make Republicans think twice about voting for him.

Now that he's impacting them financially? Oh noes! I might not vote Republican again! 🙀

But of course, it's way too late now and we'll be lucky if we even have another election at this point.

None of this is false is the thing. He's literally a criminal. He literally gave out a massive stock tip before reversing direction on tariffs again…

Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I'm not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.

Oof, I didn't realize that about Morgan either. That is very disappointing, and as you say, really at odds with the way he writes about the experience in his books.

I have literally seen two people in the same meeting make the same point and no one will listen if it's some normal schlub but the handsome man or pretty woman says basically the same thing and people will all be nodding and like "Wow, that's a great idea!"

The Wind-Up Girl is great, but also quite bleak. Probably more bleak in our current election cycle, for that matter.

So I've recently read…

• Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby — An interesting near-present tech thriller mostly about gender roles and tech bros with a bit of a battle royale element thrown in. Good, but not great.
• Moonbound by Robin Sloan — An excellent fantasy/sci-fi cross that takes place 11k years in the future and sort of re-enacts the knights vs dragons trope, but the dragons are creatures built by humans to explore other dimensions and the knight is still a young boy. I really enjoyed this one.
• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera — I could not get into this in the slightest and abandoned at about 150 pages, but then again, I thought his The Saint of The Bright Doors was barely tolerable. (I did make it through that one at least.)
• Swordheart by T Kingfisher — As usual, a lot of fun. A woman decides to commit hari kari with an ornamental sword on the wall when her in-laws lock her up because a rich uncle she was taking care of gave her most of the inheritance. But turns out the sword is magic and has a guardian in it, who promptly busts her out (pun intended). Hijinks ensue.
• A Sorceress Comes to Call — Asks the question, what if your mom was the wicked sorceress from all the fairy tales? How would you cope as a child? Also very entertaining.

And I just started Echo of Worlds by M R Carey, which is second in the Pandominion series. First was ok? Hoping it picks up in this one.

It has always been listed on the box if there is support.

Say what, now? I have yet to run into a Linux site that casually lists what all hardware is compatible before you start trying to install stuff. The same with Windows, for that matter, although knowing Microsoft there may be a database squirreled away somewhere.

In some ways it's just a technical difference (syncing vs backup "snapshots"). It's totally true that if you throw away a file out of iCloud or OneDrive, there is (I believe) a window of opportunity to get it back out of the cloud.

But I also don't think either let you get back a version from 3 weeks ago, for example, which is where versioned backups like Time Machine and File History come in.

Honestly, it is good to have both enabled for various reasons, not the least of which is just having a copy of your files offsite.

Yeah, I just meant that I think that you can't roll back to a version 3 weeks ago kind of thing, which is what Time Machine and File History do. Synchronization vs a true versioned backup.

Yeah, but the challenge is knowing what is compatible to some degree...

AFAIK, OneDrive is very different from Time Machine? More similar to iCloud? It's not a backup, it's just an online sync.

The MS equivalent of Time Machine is File History, I believe. (Ie, a versioned backup that fills the hard drive until it's out of space and then starts deleting the oldest copies of files.)