In the fallout of Elon Musk’s baffling appearance during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a curious new front in the ongoing online culture war has emerged: a push by Reddit sports mods and users to ban links to X (formerly known as Twitter).

And it's not just sports subreddits, too.

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=ban+links+x&cId=558b372b-aeae-4a43-9f6c-e89ad6bcdb42&iId=3d45bef2-9eed-4dee-a475-6cf6d5ed52d3

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least nine Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “large-scale and significant military operation”.

“We are acting systematically and resolutely against the Iranian axis wherever it extends its arms – in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said. Judea and Samaria are terms Israel uses for the occupied West Bank.

The move into Jenin, where the Israeli army has carried out multiple raids and large-scale incursions over recent years, comes only two days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israeli NGO B’Tselem accused the Israeli government of using the Gaza ceasefire as “an excuse and opportunity to ratchet up the oppression of West Bank Palestinians”.

“This is not what a ceasefire looks like,” it said.

In the days leading up to the Israeli military operation in Jenin, Palestinians in the West Bank said multiple roadblocks had been set up throughout the territory, where violence has resurged since the start of the war in Gaza.

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Mine is Lady Sia for GBA. It's just a platformer but I just love it played and completed more 20 times. Will probably speedrun it in future.

NJ Residents/voters/potential primary challengers take note

I wish I was there.

This picture shows the rough-in before I made it look nice. I soldered it in by soldering the old mounting holes directly to the casing of the connector. Seems sturdy enough. I might put a piece of foam in there to help hold it in place, take any excess pressure off the PCB.

I used this connector from Amazon, and soldered in my own 5.1k resistor to make it compatible with USB C PD chargers. I hate devices that leave that resistor out. Very annoying.

It's crazy, this thing was made in 2012. USB C wasn't even ratified until 2014. The first name brand Android didn't have it until 2016. And here I've drug it into the future. Cool stuff!

Screen off:

Screen on:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

There seem to be many long term Linux users switching to Windows right now, and posts like these got me inspired to do the same and report my experience doing the transition.

I'm just done with Linux OS altogether, and I think Windows is the better choice for me.
Why?

1. Linox is too barebones for me. I accidentally left the console mode on my Asus ROG Ally recently and was overwhelmed by the amount of customisation options I had available. Before, I was a KDE user, and one single setting app just felt... lackluster.
   But then I saw, that Windows had three different ones, and I find this way more elegant. Three is three times better than one, did you know that? Checkmate, Linus 😉😎
2. The CEO of the Linux company has made some very unsettling decisions in the recent past.
   The most prominent example is making the kernel open source.
   I don't know, if you've ever heard about this weird concept before, but let me explain it to you in layman's terms. This basically means, that my laptop is now fully exposed to hackers! 😳
   Wimdows on the contrary is way more secure, because there's no hacking instruction available on file sharing sites like GitHub. I now feel way safer, knowing no one can access my search history on MS Edge 😎
   Also, speaking of, thanks to the sponsor of this post, South VPN, i am now totally safe against evil hackers!
3. I really like the recommendations in the start menu.
   On Linus, I always had trouble finding applications, but here this decision has already been made for me.
   This is how good UX works, you nerds.
   The software selection is absolutely great, especially because it usually integrates very well with my OS. Without that, I would never have discovered a neat app called "Tik Tok" for example. I wish I would have used it sooner, I've never been as politically informed and entertained before in my life!
4. The AI features are stunningly amazing. I've bought the newest Surface device, but it came with Linux pre installed and couldn't make full use of the hardware.
   There's a highly sophisticated AI chip, basically a small brain, built in, which takes a screenshot every few seconds and adds some OCR layer on top of it.
   It's really amazing how innovative this OS is!
5. Linux feels "stuck". It's basically version 6.x for over a year now, but Windows is already ahead 5 versions. Using such old software just feels wrong and is at least 1,8333 times less secure.

I could continue that forever, but I think you should just check it out for yourself. It's amazing!

The installation is really quickly done. It only took about 4 hours, some minor regedits, and another 4 hours again because I had to reinstall due to virus I got when downloading Fortnite.

I chose the Windows 11 distro instead of the Windows 10 variant, because everyone knows 11 is the bigger number and therefore superior.