To add, it's even reached out to non-nerds. My brother, who isn't THAT tech literate picked one up and he's absolutely loving it. He hasn't had a gaming PC ever but he's getting tons of time on the Steamdeck and we've had zero issues playing games online together and using the steam voice chat.
As a fellow Linux guy, it's just great. I have had to do no hacking and bare-bones minimal tweaking to get things how I want. 90% of games work out of the box, even mouse-heavy games like RimWorld. I just love it. I sit at a desk all day for work. I don't want to do that after. The steam deck gives me almost my entire steam library and I can lounge wherever I feel like with it. I <3 you Steamdeck.
Having been there, that's a lot less than I would have imagined it to be. But that means nothing.
Can't forget Party Down as well!
He's fantastic in Miracle Workers. Definitely recommended.
Oh, there will be more issues that you discover as well. Have fun ;) or don't, I'm not your boss.
As a wise Arabian parrot once said, "Why am I not surprised? WHY am I not surprised!?"
Thank you for that first feature in the list!!!
In other news, the last manufacturer of floppy disks has closed it's doors today
Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)
Is yours not? Maybe I should see a doctor.
It wasn't amazing, but I thought it was pretty decent. Still prefer The Boys though. More exploding dicks in that show.
Time for some double shots rather than printed on nonsense!
Can confirm. Was cured of this many years ago.
Well there go that random "this could be fun" idea.
It really does.
And you just know the person who made it recorded that thumb-in-cheek pop sound for this.
I've been quite enjoying Mint as well. Granted, it's been reeeal light use. But so far loving it. I've always enjoyed Debian distros. RHEL can kiss my butt. It was always frustrating to work with at work. I think Slackware was Debian? That was probably my first back in like 2004ish. Generally just works™
A newly passed measure directs the National Archives to collect documents related to U.F.O.s and disclose confidential records within 25 years but stops short of ordering more transparency.
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Congress Orders U.F.O. Records Released but Drops Bid for Broader Disclosure
A newly passed measure directs the National Archives to collect documents related to U.F.O.s and disclose confidential records within 25 years but stops short of ordering more transparency.
Congress passed legislation on Thursday that directs the government to eventually tell the public at least some of what it knows about U.F.O.s but stops short of more aggressive steps lawmakers sought to force greater transparency around unidentified phenomena and extraterrestrial activity.
The measure, which was tucked into the annual defense policy bill that won final approval with a bipartisan vote, directs the National Archives to collect government documents about “unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin and nonhuman intelligence.”
Under the provision, which President Biden is expected to sign into law, any records not already officially disclosed must be made public within 25 years of their creation, unless the president determines that they must remain classified for national security reasons.
Lawmakers in both chambers have ratcheted up efforts to increase government transparency surrounding U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters as conspiracy theories proliferate and suspicions persist that the government is concealing information from the public. They have said Congress has reason to believe that the executive branch has concealed information about U.F.O.s that should be made public.
“This is a major, major win for government transparency on U.A.P.s, and it gives us a strong foundation for more action in the future,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, using the acronym for “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” the government term for U.F.O.s and unidentified objects.
But the measure is far weaker than what Mr. Schumer and other lawmakers in both parties had sought. Mr. Schumer succeeded over the summer in attaching a bipartisan measure to the defense bill that would have established a presidential commission with broad power to declassify government records on U.F.O.s, modeled after the panel that reviewed and released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
The Republican-led House added a proposal by Representative Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, that would have skipped any review and simply ordered the Defense Department to declassify “records relating to publicly known sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena that do not reveal sources, methods or otherwise compromise the national security of the United States.”
Unable to reconcile the two competing approaches, negotiators who hammered out a bipartisan compromise between the House and Senate on the defense policy bill ended up dropping both Mr. Schumer’s measure and Mr. Burchett’s.
“We got ripped off,” Mr. Burchett said. “We got completely hosed. They stripped out every part.”
Mr. Burchett said the “intelligence community rallied” to kill his proposal and tamp down more aggressive ones to compel broader disclosure. Another person familiar with the talks who insisted on anonymity to describe them noted that the Defense Department also had pushed back forcefully on wider measures.
The measure that ultimately was included in the defense bill grants government agencies wide latitude to keep records classified.
It permits government agencies to determine whether public release of certain records would pose a national security threat that outweighs the public interest of disclosure. Records whose release would “demonstrably and substantially impair the national security of the United States” or “constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,” for instance, would be exempted from disclosure. Classified records must be periodically reviewed for declassification.
“It is really an outrage the House didn’t work with us on adopting our proposal for a review board,” Mr. Schumer said. “It means that declassification of U.A.P. records will be largely up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades.”
Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota and a co-sponsor of Mr. Schumer’s proposal, echoed his disappointment on the Senate floor Wednesday, just before the defense bill passed.
“We are lacking oversight opportunities, and we are not fulfilling our responsibilities,” Mr. Rounds said.
The Pentagon has begun stepping up the number of explanations it provides for recent videos showing unidentified phenomena, suggesting that pressure from Congress for greater transparency has had some early results.
Those videos of unidentified phenomena, captured by military sensors and released in recent years, and reports by naval aviators of strange objects have fueled speculation about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial activity. Some of those videos have been explained as optical illusions or drones, but others remain unexplained and have become the subjects of wide and conspiratorial interest.
The tweet: It is an outrage the House didn’t work with us on our UAP proposal for a review board.
This means declassification of UAP records will be up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades.
We will keep working to change the status quo.
It's also has the 7 minute clip of Schumer and Rounds discussing the policy, why they submitted it, and some strong words regarding the illegality of government programs that have not been disclosed to Congress.
When living in MX, my wife had a wisdom tooth removed. Cost me about $300, done at the hospital, no long term issues.
Yeah media says on the original instance it got posted on, it's just the URL that gets passed around instances.
Schumer stated that “House Republicans are also attempting to kill another commonsense, bipartisan measure passed by the Senate…to increase transparency around what the government does and do…
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> Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) aimed to establish a process with the ostensible goal of revealing the existence of “non-human intelligence” to the public. But the legislation, which is co-sponsored by three Republican and two Democratic senators, is now in jeopardy.
> In comments yesterday on the Senate floor, Schumer stated that “House Republicans are also attempting to kill another commonsense, bipartisan measure passed by the Senate, which I was proud to cosponsor… to increase transparency around what the government does and does not know about unidentified aerial phenomena.”
> According to reports, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, are leading efforts to prevent any meaningful version of this provision from being added to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.
> Members of Congress generally clamor for enhanced government oversight — a core function of the legislative branch — and transparency. So what could cause a small group of influential lawmakers to suddenly resist it?
Should our elected officials seek out and initiate disclosure of information our government possesses about unidentified anomalous phenomena?
![Disclosure and National Security: Should the U.S. Government Reveal What It Knows About UAP? - The Debrief](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/68a6ae58-400a-4b8f-a000-a1db1b6cfa61.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The Mellon meter bumped again.
The purpose of this article is to provide insight into how a hypothetical UAP recovery and reverse engineering program that began in the late 1940’s would have evolved over the last 75 years. I will use history and my knowledge of the aerospace industry and its biggest customer, the Department of De...
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I just wanna say thanks for making sure foldables are a great experience. On a z-fold 4 and even since the beta it's been a great time. I know we're the odd duck (FOR NOW, YOU WILL SEE THE LIGHT) so it's really nice to have a polished experience on both the smaller and larger screens.
Keep it up Mr. Dev, you have my support a thousand times over on this one.