Always Arch.

Or, “hey we’ve been doing this for the police and gov’t for free and we have the tech so why not sell it?”

No.

Implying that the Republicans now “stand for the little guys” is dumb but also arguably true

No, no it isn’t arguably true. It’s just flat out incorrect. 100% of people could vote for him or others like him out of fear of disappearing in the night if they don’t. That doesn’t make him or the party “for the little guy”.

It doesn’t matter that 51% of the country votes for the Republicans. The party has consistently shit all over “the little guy” and made him eat it for over 40 years, telling him he’s eating shit and then said only the party can fix it.

All the while the party’s been giving tax money to their friends and saying “don’t worry, we’re here now. you can feed him as much shit as you want. we’ll find someone cleaning up shit and make the “little guy” think that person was making it instead. that way when you get caught doing it no one will believe it”

Nagware has been around since the 80s and it was just as annoying then even without this bloated corporate hellscape we call the internet 🙁

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to the airport waiting for the naked scanner and been part of a group tahen thru the metal detector instead and let thru. I don’t even have to opt out of the scanner for the pat down.

As an American I wondered when the police would be made the victims and the actual victim would either get shot or arrested and blamed.

Rich kids at private schools aren’t wasting time vaping. They have cocaine they bought off someone on the faculty or brought in from mommy and daddy’s stash at home.

There’s even a Brownsville Station song about it

Tell that to Microsoft. Lol.

Why the fuck do headphones require an app to run? Who thinks this is acceptable?

At work they don’t let us install ublock or FF so I’m stuck with stock Chrome and stock Microsoft Chrome 🙁

Or you could edit cookies with devtools.

Standing up for your rights isn’t convenient, but it has to be done. Those that engineer this shit know that and make it as convoluted they can for this exact reason.

Always be on guard against those who would make you give up your rights voluntarily while giving up none of their own.

The difference is that if someone decides to freeze your cashless bank account they can by a mouse click and you’re destitute. Whereas if that happens in a cash-based society they have to come and get it from you.

Get a conservative business-focused person into the government and watch them give infinite money to business in the form of subsidies, bailouts, and tax breaks.

A cashless society is so stupid beyond words. In order to create one you must also create a full surveillance society to protect it, and even that would be ineffective to stop it from being hacked.

Both of them audibly and uncontrollably fart instead of just Donnie VonShitzenpantz

I put my mom on Ubuntu with KDE 10 years ago. I had far less problems with her on Linux than I ever did with Vista and 7. It got to the point she was calling me multiple times a week.

I didn’t have to but I did one Ubuntu reinstall in that entire time only because I made /boot the default partition size at installation and years later it filled up constantly. I got sick of going over there to clean it up and it coincided with her getting a new computer.

My mom installed printer drivers, and Cisco VPN software from run packages instead of apt and set up multi- monitors on her own after I taught her how to use the terminal, so it’s possible for the elderly.

Congrats on getting out!