What are yer thoughts on daylights saving time?
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    I strongly prefer permanent standard time, because I prefer morning light to evening light. Also, the fact that states can choose permanent standard time without congressional approval means that people who are pro daylight saving are holding us back from abolishing time changes.

    Scientists and medical experts agree: more morning light is beneficial for health since it sets the circadian rhythm for the day. Too much evening light delays sleep onset and makes it difficult for teens to get up in the morning.

    Standard Time is the obvious choice and I will die on this hill.

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  • Special counsel Jack Smith opposes televising Trump federal election subversion trial
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    Imagine if debates weren't aired live either. It would just serve as proof as to what fools politicians made of themselves in order to provoke a reaction. Imagine if the only way to know about what's going on in a debate was to read the transcript or read commentary from the press. If the recorded video of what happened during the debate is only released after elections are over, it disincentivizes making the debate into an entertainment shitshow.

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  • Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long
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    It's kinda absurd if you think about it. We're here arguing about Standard Time vs Daylight Saving Time while people are literally dying every year due to losing sleep every spring. I wish more states would just bypass Congress and revert back to Standard Time.

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  • Biden: Israel-Hamas war must end with vision for a 'two-state solution'
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    The problem is that if the resulting state is a democracy with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians, Israel will no longer be a Jewish state. This is the reason why I believe a democratic Palestine, with control of all Israeli and Palestinian territories, equal rights and protections, rule of law, separation of church and state, an independent judiciary, and a system of checks and balances, would be the best solution to this problem. However, neither Israelis nor Palestinians have shown to be particularly accepting of a democratic, one-state solution, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

    The problem is religion being the founding basis for the Israeli state, and the solution is separating religion from the administration of the state.

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  • Great experience with Wayland on Nvidia with GNOME 44
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    Unfortunately, Wayland works terribly on my Nvidia MX150 GPU. It's an Optimus based GPU, so both the iGPU and the Nvidia GPU are running all the time. I've had my Nvidia GPU disabled for better battery life for a while now.

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  • China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat
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    Personal anecdote, but I was in Taiwan recently for my grandmother's funeral. People (at least in Taipei) are surprisingly pro China. I've heard excuses like, "Chinese people don't fight Chinese people" or "China is threatening Taiwan to tell the US to back off, they don't actually want to do anything." Also, there has been rising skepticism towards the US due to a perceived refusal to back Ukraine by bringing them into NATO.

    There is no doubt in my mind that, if China chose to go to war, that the US would defend Taiwan with boots on the ground. I see Taiwan as too strategically important for defending the liberal international world order, and letting Taiwan fall would set a precedent for the South China Sea, where China's getting its way could spell the end of freedom of navigation in a region that a third of global trade passes through.

    Given current Taiwan political trends, I think many people are dissatisfied with the Tsai administration and would like to seek more business and cultural exchange with the mainland. Among the four presidential candidates, if you add up the three opposition candidates vs the incumbent DPP representative Lai, you will see that a majority oppose the DPP. However, there has been indecision as to which opposition candidate to unify behind.

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  • 3 browsers
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    For beginners, I would definitely recommend Zorin OS since it can run .exe files in case there's no Linux version (.deb, flatpak, snap, etc.) of the software you're looking to run. You can use Wine in any other distro, but I feel like Zorin OS makes it foolproof with a simple UI.

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  • Distro suggestions?
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    Eh, it's opt-in so if even if you don't do anything, nothing changes.

    It's perfectly fine to ask users if they're okay with telemetry. I'm fine with that. The problem comes when it's opt-out or if there's no way to opt-out.

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  • I basically only use `git merge` like [Theo from T3 stack](https://youtu.be/7gEbHsHXdn0). `git rebase` rewrites your commit history, so I feel there's too much risk to rewriting something you didn't intend to. With `merge`, every commit is a real state the code was in.

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    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/570507 >After [the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier](https://beehaw.org/post/567170) i checked [the Lemmy repo](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues) to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, [the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors). This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.

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