wonderingwanderer

Ah, just as the hardware shortage reaches a plateau!

A big, giant “no shit” moment.

Except healthcare and education are also getting dismantled.

And the companies aren’t being taxed.

That just means that people in Utah would need to use a VPN to access those sites.

Which is hilarious, and a predictable result when your legislature is mostly filled with people who could’ve retired decades ago…

Ah, well you caught me. I didn’t actually watch the video. I was just going off of the comment above that said:

Like, postmarketOS literally tells you that their shit is not ready for prime time and to be ready for it to be a little bit wonky right now. And this guy is acting like they’re advertising it as it is ready for Freddy and it’s just garbage or something.

I never saw the point of the cloud, always viewed it with suspicion, and even though people thought I was a backwards luddite I stuck with local storage.

Until my phone apparently decided to start saving everything to google’s cloud by default without ever telling me or asking. I feel robbed, like just completely violated. I never consented to storing my docs on google’s servers. They just took my data.

And once I finally realized what was happening, it was a fucking headache just trying to move them to local storage just so I could copy/paste files to a different device. Absolutely absurd.

Oh, and I couldn’t even find the setting to disable cloud storage. The closest thing is just disabling cloud backups…

My next phone will definitely be a degoogled ROM.

Ironically, apparently it got shut down for ostensibly being too monopolistic…

Okay, well there’s an honest way of saying “it’s not quite ready for use as a daily driver yet, but the devs are actively working towards it” (which Postmarket openly admits) and saying “It’s a piece of shit, it’s unusable” like the guy in the video says.

Imagine there’s an election coming up and these are the two candidates in your district: “Yeah, we’re going to lock you out of your houses if you don’t buy our special keys from us, you can only install appliances that we approve of, and only come and go from your house to go where and when we approve.” And the other guy is saying “That’s bullshit, no one should have that much power over your personal choices. We’re going to make sure that never happens.”

And you repost a video of a “comedian” trashing the second candidate because he was a bartender in college, or he wears tan suits, or eats dijon mustard, or laughs funny.

Do you see the issue?

When I want to lounge at a café, I’m expecting a warm, inviting interior, some plants, bookish decor, smooth jazz, hip staff, and a coffee that could only be produced by coffee geeks with attention to detail at every step of the process…

You walk into a starbucks today, everything is cold and industrial, they’ve got pop music blaring on the radio, and the staff all look miserable. Oh, and the coffee sucks.

Is that why Resonosity posted it as a hyperlink questioning whether it’s the best option we have at the moment?

If his intention is to mock big tech, then mocking linux and the only viable alternatives to big tech is kinda misplaced.

Honestly, if someone is stupid enough to save their card info on their child’s gaming device and not even put it under parental controls, then they deserve the life-altering debt that they wind up with…

Still doesn’t excuse the predatory software companies who target children, or the app stores and operating systems which enable them. But my sympathy is not with the parents.

That’s LMDE, except LMDE uses Debian for upstream instead of Ubuntu. It’s the same developers though.

Comedians really need to stop using that line to justify being putzes, as it ignores the fact that they have a very real influence on people’s perceptions, and therefore the decisions they make and the overall trajectory of society.

Every media personality needs to recognize this responsibility, regardless of whether or not their content is intended to be “serious.”

“It’s just a joke, bro.” Yeah, well your “joke” is actively harming the development and adoption of one of our only potential ways out of this duopoly of walled gardens.

Damn, that sucks. What country does that? (If it’s large enough to not dox yourself, of course)

Except that google’s "standardized, “packaged” food is just as unsafe or even less safe than the hobby cooks’, and they’re only using “food safety” as a pretense to capture the market and hold clientele hostage.

And this change has also been preceded by buying out every other restaurant chain in town, except for the “Apple Restaurants,” which are already a walled garden, which Google is now trying to emulate even though most of its user base came to it specifically to avoid Apple’s business model.

And there are a few other smaller chains based on Google’s standards, but they’re considered niche and don’t all support every feature (“sorry, no ATMS”). Also, since most of their equipment comes from Google, Google likely has a killswitch and can cut off their stoves and refrigerators at any time.

It’s clearly an anti-trust issue, but since Apple has already set the precedent and the US is pro-corporation and anti-consumer, everyone is kinda just screwed.

The point is that Google’s head chef can come out and shit on your plate, and if you don’t like it then it sucks to suck because there aren’t really any viable alternatives.

That depends on the distro, just choose one that’s beginner-friendly or “works out of the box”

LMDE, Zorin, etc.

A “clock” that doesn’t do anything that a clock does, but it can write you a plausible-sounding essay on what a clock should do!

You’re not going to get a significant portion of religious people to abandon their religion. But if tolerant religious people reclaim their narrative from intolerant religious people, relegating the intolerant back to the shadows of obscurity where they belong, then you no longer need to convince people to give up their religion.

You can reject non-acceptance. But in that case, then how does the argument apply against tolerant religious people mobilizing to reclaim the narrative from intolerant religious people?

It sounds like you’re failing to discern between the two, which is called an overgeneralization.