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Cake day: October 2nd, 2024

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  • There is no specific appointment for the losing presidential nominee. They just lose and move on.

    The idea with the US government is checks and balances between government branches. Congress and SCOTUS have some degree of power over the president and each branch can keep the other two in check. Historically it has worked well, but things have been changing quickly in the last 10-20 years, but especially with the two Trump admins.

    The current situation with Trump is particularly different for a few reasons:

    • Trump is incredibly popular with primary right-wing voter base. There is evidence this may be changing, but it’s been the case for 10+ years now.
    • Trump’s popularity has allowed him to put intense pressure on members on congress. He can threaten to primary any sitting senator or representative that doesn’t support everything he does. These threats are not empty and he has absolutely gotten people voted out of office due to his clout with republican voters. Most Republican members of congress are terrified of opposing him. Since republicans currently hold majority, congress is more or less toothless and completely deferential to Trump right now.
    • Two supreme court justice positions became open when Republicans had control of the government, so they have shifted SCOTUS leanings strongly to the right.

    Trump has a perfect storm of control over the systems normally in-place to hold him accountable.

    Once we have an administration ran by adults in power again, we’re going to need to seriously re-evaluate and update our system of checks and balances, or future administrations will continue to exploit these problems until the country rots and dies.



  • I’m gaming on grandpa Debian using nVidia’s CUDA repository for driver updates and I’m sitting fat and happy. Ignore instructions to install kernel headers for your specific kernel and just use the linux-headers-amd64 meta-package and it will automatically install new headers when the kernel updates. DKMS will rebuild the nvidia module for the new kernel and now kernel and nvidia driver updates are seamless. Performance is not noticeably different from when I was on Windows.

    The only improvement at this point would be kernel-level integration like AMD has so I don’t need to add a repository, but aside from that I honestly don’t see room for improvement.