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umean2me

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  • Yes the test points are directly connected. This seems like the answer I was looking for, so I’ll shop around and try and get that to work. Thank you so much!

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
    umean2me @discuss.online

    Need Help Adapting Chromebook Touch Display to External Display

    I took this Chromebook touch display off of a broken Chromebook.

    It’s a SHARP LQ123P1JX33/A01 .

    I’ve determined that I would need an eDP 40-pin to mini-DisplayPort adapter for output to the LCD screen, but I’m having trouble finding information for what I would need (if I need anything) for this connection? I assume this is the part of the display that handles the touchscreen. Is it possible to adapt this for external use, or is it not worth the hassle?

  • There have been many protests even before the stock market issues. Even before Trump was elected there were protests across the nation at college campuses representing Palestinians. Even my very politically inactive university had enough students feel strongly enough to protest. Just because you’re not seeing them, or looking for them, doesn’t mean protests weren’t happening.

  • Ahhh I see this is a distinction I wasn’t aware of. I just remembered reading one of the publications saying he was a citizen, but it seems you’re correct.

  • In addition to ignorance, Khalil had legal citizenship which makes him a US citizen ☠️. So much for “we love immigrants as long as they’re legal”!

  • This article doesn’t even mention his name. He was a leader on Columbia’s campus for pro-Palestine protests but all accounts show that he didn’t partake in or encourage any vandalism or barricading of buildings. Even your explicitly biased news source does not list enough evidence to convict this man of any crime worthy of revoking citizenship or trampling his free speech.

  • I think it’s a valid criticism that should be welcomed. You could make this argument for any company when they make a bad decision.

    “Oh well you trusted this company blindly so why are you upset and criticizing this design choice you don’t agree with.”

    I also am not convinced a criticism is less meaningful if it’s the minority opinion. Many such cases in the world where the minority opinion is proven to be better for the majority.

  • If you’re joking I apologize in advance but why should that be illegal?

  • Books @lemmy.world
    umean2me @discuss.online

    Looking for novels about the train

    I have this intense craving for a novel about riding the train basically. My issue is I don’t want it to just be a setting amidst a larger plot. No train murder stories, no regular stories that just happen to take place on a train.

    I need the novel to be wholly about the experience of riding the train, maybe across the US maybe just between two cities whatever. It just has to focus on the experience the train provides and the spirit of public transport.

    Insane how hard this is for me to find maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Trains are so beautiful it’s a group of people who have never met and they’re all connected through experience, locked in to a direction literally bound by the railway. There is God in the railway. Infinite potential to be tapped in this hyper specific idea.

  • “I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy,” Vance said.

    The jokes write themselves these days.

  • Maybe I’m the outlier but I have always failed to see chat history being very important. Realistically when is the last time you’ve combed through chat histories and why? If it’s to look for important information you can just write down the important parts and the rest is useless. I’m not trying to be elitist or anything I’m just genuinely curious hoping someone can explain this to me.

  • Where are your well-supported points and meaningful dialogue?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    umean2me @discuss.online

    What would be the best way to organize local protests online while remaining anonymous and reasonably private?

    I entirely understand that the more secure and private a means of communication gets, the less convenient it is. That being said it seems like there should be some way to be reasonably secure while still being able to promote these types of things.

    To be completely transparent I am not planning on being said organizer of protests, but recent events have simply piqued my interest in the topic. I've read certain frequently referenced materials like "What is Security Culture", "Confidence Courage Connection Trust", and "Mobile Phone Security for Activists and Agitators". I feel like the more resources I read the more it seems like there is no general consensus on the best solutions even for similar threat models.

    So far the only thing I've truly gathered is that if you want the best security and privacy you should just not use online communications, which obviously is sub-optimal for gaining traction.

    Some people say using Signal is the best means of communication, but that the use

  • You’re missing the point of what I said. Concord and Dustborn did not try to send a message, they tried to get the profits they thought would come from associating with the message, and implemented it horribly. This is not activism. That would be like saying Instagram changing their logo to rainbow for a month is activism.

    As for true activism, video games are both entertainment and an art form. Saying to “leave that shit at home” is missing the point of artistic mediums in their entirety.

  • You’re telling me that a bland and generic Overwatch clone with character designs that were reductive to the groups they were supposed to represent failed because of activists? The games you listed didn’t fail because of activism, they failed because their “activism” was a marketing stunt instead of being actually progressive. There are plenty of games developed by people that care about those issues where they’re represented accurately and appropriately. Those games usually do well and win awards. Making a game where you meaninglessly and inaccurately pander to minority groups is not the result of activism, it’s trying to leech off of actual activism.

  • You would have to jump through a lot of hoops to conclude that activism makes you a bad game developer. If they’re exploiting their customers constantly to try to increase profit margins, they are more than likely exploiting their workers, who they have much more control over.

  • It’s because of their shitty horrible business practices, nobody wants to pay $100 for a rushed game and nobody wants to invest time into their 500th live service game that they’ll stop supporting in a year.

  • There are plenty of record breaking games that have released while the industry has been “filled with activists.” Many of them are even about politics, like Helldivers 2.

  • Idk something about strengthening American economy making it more self reliant. Which is why he’s putting tariffs on all of the things we can’t sustainably produce here and are outsourced for a reason, y’know, so we can, uh…

  • Not to mention, blue means democrat. If the lines are blue they can blame it on the democrats when things go wrong!

  • I don't really see people defending TSA anywhere. I just see people pointing out that Trump thinks DEI initiatives are at fault, while simultaneously thinking that thinning out the workforce in a notoriously understaffed field will strengthen the workforce.