The “American by birth, southern by the grace of god” is icing on the shit cake.

No drawback if you have the hardware and know how to do it, but those are major obstacles for the vast majority of people who use Google Drive. Signing up for a hosted instance is much easier (and not even more expensive)

Nextcloud is already on the list but I just wanted to mention that self-hosting isn’t the only way to use it. Frankly for the price of a hosted solution it isn’t worth it unless you already have a server for other things.

I’d add hosted Nextcloud too. Hetzner for example have 1TB for less than 5 EUR/mo and it works great on Linux.

Earning a nickname like that from Fox News would be a crowning achievement for me.

He wanted people to bang more, so he wasn’t all bad.

RIP Shinzo, you old dog

What?? The only books that exist are:

• Harry Potter
• 1984
• AO3 fanfics

Never ask a Lemming what kind of leftist they are, or what is the best Linux distro.

I’ll withhold judgment until I can find a source that doesn’t trace back to that obscure blog.There’s nothing else online regarding this.

They’ve been trying to grab that last slice of Golan for decades — don’t conflate opportunism with long-term policy. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that HTS would support Palestine less than al-Assad did. You may enjoy this analysis: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241209-is-the-overthrow-of-assad-good-for-the-palestinians/

Not really. Al-Assad was a known quantity and the relationship, while certainly not friendly, was at least stable (by Middle-Eastern standards). These guys on the other hand are an unknown, and that lack of predictability makes neighbours uneasy.

From the US’ POV, having Syria devolve into a theocracy is a small price to pay for the harm this inflicts on Russia (most notably losing their only port on the Mediterranean and forcing them to transit through the Hellespont, subject to the whims of Turkey)