If course you don’t. That’s why you side with Trump. The fact that “trickle down economics” has been disproven time and time again means nothing to you folks.

EV’s only become popular when cheaper. It’s a fact.

Not everyone lives in areas where solar installs at ean option. The offset doesn’t make sense when you go north or south of the globe where the sun don’t shine.

An AOC/Sanders ticket is starting to make sense, aside from Bernie’s age.

Harris needs to stay away from this next race.

Newsom is a fucking snake, and I wouldn’t for him to be prez.

Whitmer and Gillibrand both just did a fast turn to fascistic and racist bullshit.

Pritzker is a billionaire, but says the right things.

If Mamdani does great shit really fast, he could be a VP pick in 2032, but he needs to prove some shit and can’t be president.

I just feel like the field is pretty limited right now. We don’t have all the good ideas at all the right times from any candidates, but we have the best ideas right now through just a few people. Voters are desperate to displace all this bullshit that is happening right now, and we just need a better crop of candidates overall. This isn’t even on the left, but the right leaning people need to get some sane fucking choices back as well.

As much as I fucking hate Musk, he does understand two things:

1. EVs will never be the mainstream without federal and state project support
2. Funneling money from the government to billionaires is the worst thing for an economy

What I find fucking mind-blowing is that this idiot is selling a shoddy EV and solar product at premium costs to other idiots, but very much aligned with Democrats on the two points above. Not only did he back the wrong horse, he straight up accidentally got on the wrong horse, and rode it threw towns away from where he was living very comfortably.

Now this fucking moron needs to invent new ways to make Tesla appealing to the “normies” because nobody is buying his bullshit stalling tactics or premium pricing for sub-par products.

I’ve got my popcorn ready, but the siphoning of votes away from Trump is just the butter on top.

I will agree with this.

This is the wildest take I’ve seen so far.

It would split the vote amongst the least same, and consolidate the vote for Dems.

What’s the upside for Musk here?

Honestly, I thought this would happen a few months ago. These people are legitimately scared for their lives, and they should be.

They did something fucking horrible for the people they are supposed to represent, and they know it.

We just saw political targeting of local reps in Minnesota and Michigan. No reason that ain’t coming for your dumbass in one of the most armed places in the country.

Or…just plant a fucking forest up and down the tributary lines and kick out the assholes farming in the deserts.

Idiots.

No idea what that means, but if your idea is supposed to be intrigue 💨

That movie was already done. It actually aligned with his values though, so maybe there’s a chance?

This woman is a national treasure.

More of a reason to vote, in actuality.

You should check those numbers, because it went 51% to Harris. Splitting that means good things for Dems though. Dilution through stupidity.

Yeah…

At best, it splits the MAGAt vote, making Dems a clear winner.

At worst, it takes some GenZ dipshit votes away from Dems and causes chaos.

Config wouldn’t BLOCK it from being detected, that’s the problem.

Have you checked for a BIOS update recently?

1. To launch apps: Super key, type in name of app, hit enter. That’s it.

2. Window Management: good writeup from that team: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/ Quick cheat sheet for relevant keys there as well: https://thedroidguy.com/gnome-desktop-keyboard-shortcuts-for-efficient-workflow-and-navigation-1263904

Then I would try the above and make sure you don’t have a mixer confused somewhere.

Okay, so this is one of Asus’s consumer models that fits in the “Windowstop” category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.

It’s got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn’t mean the microphone will be, especially if it’s on the USB bus for whatever reason.

Couple questions:

1. Do other microphones work, just not internal?
2. Does your volume control work as expected
3. Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged?
4. What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?

As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the ‘hw’ view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.

If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it’s not being enabled as an input sink.

If none of these work, you’re going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can’t detect it.

From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that’s going to be problematic if it’s a USB device for a number of reasons I won’t dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160d3wj/asus_creator_laptop_q530v_constant_problems/

What’s the exact model number of this Asus laptop?

Full Idiocracy.

Fuck this timeline.