Actually, after reading this and doing some research, I think Keychron would be a good choice. Thank you for taking the time to write this!

Are you looking for a specific type of shoes, or companies in general?

Thursday Boot Company has wide options for a lot of its inventory (only up to EEE though from what I can see); many of their products are resoleable, but Everyday Gear did a 3-year test on the non-resolable low-top sneakers and had good things to say. And my Jim Green Razorback boots are extremely wide despite not being labeled as such. Solovair’s Last 5400 boots are said to be wider, but there aren’t any specific size conventions lifted. And you can customize pretty much everything with Nick’s boots, but get ready to spend $800.

Hope others can provide better suggestions. I struggle with this myself in the women’s section now that I’m no longer shopping fast fashion. Red Wing has D sizing (which is the women’s wide and men’s average E width) that stops one size below mine, and that’s just one example, so I’m stuck with W width for most shoes and brands. So I just live with the pain until they’ve been broken in 🙃

I should push back on the idea that naming cultural patterns equals blaming victims, or that only people inside the worst possible historical analogy are allowed to analyze trajectories.

You can absolutely analyze cultural patterns. I’m just saying “you’re a violent culture” wasn’t the right choice of words. It’s also important to, while analyzing cultural patterns, to consider the role of privilege, and that words and actions are two different things, especially when the critic is looking in from the outside. I’m not talking about you specifically, but I’ve seen a lot of European/Canadian schadenfreude in left-wing online spaces (like Lemmy) over the situation happening an America. While they aren’t wrong that America is brash and needed to be taken down a peg, and there is a place for analyzing the political trajectory, sometimes these people forget the millions of people who aren’t gun-blazing, beer drinking, flag-waving patriots who are in danger, and that if they had the bad luck of being born somewhere else, they themselves might be in the exact same situation. The idea that “America tore itself apart” makes less sense the more you think about it, but seems incredibly plausible to an observer. I think the issue at hand is that, yes, it’s good to analyze cultural patterns, but America was never a monoculture.

In both situations, I ask: How does it help in these left-wing spaces to make blanket statements about Americans, when most of the posters in these spaces are the exception to Americanism and not the rule? Who is the “you” in “you’re a violent culture”?

You don’t need to already be in a Holocaust to talk about escalation dynamics. In fact, if you wait until everything is unspeakable, analysis is already useless.

I agree with this. But the message is everything. OP was just trying to make plans for a worst-case scenario and probably not jumping immediately to violence. While it indeed is important to recognize the spectrum of resistance, it also isn’t wrong to prep for the worst in addition to that. Currently, the people of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are resisting non-violently, and the Administration is still assaulting and murdering people and Trump is still threatening the Insurrection Act and martial law. For you, it’s a golden lining, but for us living it, we’re questioning whether that will work this time and bracing for impact. Is continuing nonviolent resistance the thing that save America? Maybe. Maybe the regime still won’t give us that chance. Maybe they will just make up lies to cancel elections and enact martial law. And if all options are extinguished and violence breaks out from that, it won’t be our fault for not being nonviolent enough.

Again, there’s nothing wrong about your underlying point – nonviolent resistance is important – but how it was worded.

You missed mine. Until you find yourself the victim of an authoritarian state you live in starting a Holocaust, you don’t get to make blanket statements about an entire country that lumps the oppressors and the oppressed into the same category.

You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions.

Most Americans are victims of a violent regime and not violent themselves. They’re scared and going through something most Canadians and many post-WWII Europeans will never have to deal with in their lifetimes. People are being murdered, and you’re telling the victims it’s their fault and that they’re violent for trying to prepare for a worst-case scenario.

Yes, of course there are other ways to confront this. Yes, I wish the country I was regrettably born in was culturally more like the EU and Canada. But it’s not that simple and I can’t help but feel that this comment is in poor taste.

“I’m not going to do anything to help my state, but you all put yourselves in harm’s way so a better leader can hold ICE accountable later.”

-Tim Walz

This is actually terrifying. Switching to Linux will help us for a while, and the community can take us a long way, but eventually the hardware in physical PCs won’t be able to perform basic functions. Maybe it’s because cloud PCs use vastly more power and web designers inefficiently update to a web 4.0 that won’t be accessible on older hardware – this has happened before. Or it’ll be because the cloud PCs have access to Wi-Fi cards or a new technology entirely to connect that physical hardware won’t have access to – already a standard practice with cell phones’ arbitrary gsm phaseouts.

A phaseout of physical hardware would also entail a phaseout of physical accessories, so you can’t data-horde your way out of this one unless, maybe, you invested in the now-rare M-Disc format and the drives that make them work. You can buy external offline storage for a while, but eventually it’ll all get bought up on the used market or otherwise fail in 5-10 years after the last hard drives get made for consumers. Eventually you will lose all your files and have no way to back them up. No Jellyfin server for movies you legally ripped, no GOG installers for games you legally bought, no music library or ebooks either, they’ll all be gone, stolen, so you buy it all over again in perpetuity.

Our only hope, really, is small businesses continuing to build physical PCs with equal power as the cloud devices. But would parts manufacturers let them? The current situation with data centers, SDDs, and RAM shows that parts manufacturers are increasingly only interested in selling to other large businesses. Consumers can’t boycott that.

I fully expect to be unable to access my bank or make appointments or get meaningful employment if I don’t switch over in 10 to 20 years.

I just hope Valve lets us install stuff from the command line without deleting everything on each update like how it is for the Deck. Because in that case I’m just putting Fedora on it.

Flatpaks are an important step forward but they’re just not for me.

This is clickbait. Valve didn’t use third-party resellers with the Steam Deck for anti-scalping reasons, and it’s unlikely they would for the Steam Deck as well. I’m surprised how many news outlets are leaning into this.

I’m not saying the Steam Machine won’t be that price, though I certainly hope it won’t be. I’m just saying we shouldn’t take a random posting from a random Czech website at face value, considering Valve’s established business model.

I just have long arms lol. Anything medium would work if it wasn’t for the sleeves 🙃

All my best wardrobe finds have been from thrift stores too. Stuff from 30 years ago is more likely to be well made and have super-long sleeves, from what I’ve encountered.

Unless you’re 5’11" or taller, in which case nothing will fit and you have to special-order everything and you don’t get to have the fun clothes-shopping experience everyone else gets to have.

I live really close to Minneapolis. My wife and I have friends who live there. It could have been anyone. It’ll probably happen more. I’m so shaken over this and it’s all I’ve been thinking about since it happened. Minnesota was supposed to be one of the “safe” states.

I don’t have anything meaningful to say about the article other than everything is so messed up.

I don’t have an opinion about Hasan one way or another. Influencer culture (and broadly celebrity culture), and the phenomenon of people using influencers and social media in lieu of news, is disturbing and influencers only have power because we give it to them.

I wish fewer people would opt to empower celebrities via attention and worship, followed by disappointment and scorn when their actions come into conflict with their brand image. They’re just people, and we never knew them, not really.

So true. Infrastructure issues aside, car insurance companies are horrible and need to be taken down a peg. I hate being legally required to buy insurance on a beater car I’ve already paid off because American health insurance is terrible and has shifted responsibility in collision-related healthcare to car owners.

If OP lives outside of England or the European Union, Fairbuds might not be worth it because the company won’t send replacement parts overseas. Which is a shame, because if I were ever to upgrade to Bluetooth, it would be the Fairbuds XL.

I have the DT 770 Pro X and love them. Not only extremely durable, but super comfy after hours of wearing them. The company sells some replacement parts, and they work with a third-party company in America to do more complicated repairs.

That being said, the 770 and 990 aren’t very portable at all, so that’s something to consider. I use a pair of Shure IEMs when I’m away from home. The OEM hard carrying case for the 770 does have a caribiner clip, so you could get around space constraints by clipping it to a backpack or travel bag.

I can get behind that. Have a nice day!

Sadly, no. I’ve been off Facebook for years. Back when I did have an account, I used Frost for Facebook on my phone, but I just checked and it hasn’t been updated in three years.

I’m not cool then lol.

Yes, that’s true. There are situations where it can be a sign of respect, I agree.

However, as a binary trans woman, it’ll never be that simple for me. If I get they/themmed by a stranger who doesn’t know, I spend the entire day worrying about what I did wrong in my presentation to not be simply referred to as “she” that time.

This isn’t anyone’s fault. No one’s a mind-reader. And overall I think this practice is good, though not without some minor criticisms that probably aren’t worth mentioning since it would take an essay to unpack.