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I suppose now that “the children are protected”, there aren’t any roadblocks to more intently exploiting the adults?

There’s only one reason, money.

You can’t pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine… idiot.

Yes, everyone should do everything they can to avoid seeing advertisements. No one is immune, and advertising is very effective. That’s how Trump ended up as President twice. Yes, that was advertising, all of it.

It’s hard for them to show me ads when I barely look at my phone. It’s hard for them to show me ads through uBlock. I go most days without seeing an intrusive ad. I only see ads on the rare occasion I do online shopping. I do that the same way I shop IRL, as quickly as possible.

Cool.

Maybe they can also stop forcing updates that break my game, too?

Fortunately, GOG exists. Which proves that Steam doesn’t need to force the updates on us, but chooses to.

The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.

I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I’m using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I’ll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.

Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.

If the Constitution is out the window, maybe we can elect this guy as President of the U.S. I don’t know him, but even from this brief article, he is ten times more competent than nearly every politician the U.S. has ever had.

It helps, but there is no budget that makes U.S. minimum wage livable, unless you’re somehow getting free housing and don’t need a car. Even then, it’s barely enough.

What’s the plan here? How did he think this would end? Drunk fucking idiots thinking with their small head.

In war, most soldiers don’t want to kill the enemy. And, many don’t, they won’t fire their weapon, they miss on purpose, etc.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hope_on_the_battlefield

I’m guessing “shaking Israel to its core” is hyperbole.

Those who used it imagined Swiss law to be less intrusive? I suppose it sounds like a good idea to anyone, which is mostly everyone, who doesn’t know Swiss law.

Yeah, they rolled over to the authority, as expected. But, they sold themselves as “private”, not “private up to the extent of Swiss law, and our laws here are very intrusive, so really the private part isn’t going to get anyone very far if they use this service for anything slightly questionable, let alone outright illegal. You might as well be using GMail for how ‘private’ this thing is.”

I dipped my toes into “smart” thermostats with a Wyze. Meh. I don’t really need to set the temp from my phone, or any of the other features, beyond having a simple schedule. I’m seriously considering reverting all the way back to an old-school bimetal strip, dial on the wall type, in private protest of all this crap.

(Don’t get a Wyze. I think they’ve been discontinued anyway. The damn thing loses connection to the wifi three or four times per year, then I need to go through the ENTIRE setup process again, from the very beginning. The wifi antenna is in the closet not three feet away. POS.)

Finally, some good news.

I’m glad it’s Black Hole Sun, because that’s what I thought it was all these years.

Musk is just Nazi-washing what he stole from Wikipedia, he doesn’t have the base of volunteers and employees to maintain his latest toy. A year from now, it will be gone and forgotten, and we’ll all be shouting at each other to go vote.

Is data collection from cars really this lucrative? What’s next? A Cheez-It car?

Girls read this and say “A couple of years? Are you serious?”

Guys read this and nod their head. Every guy has a story like this, at least one.

The correct answer is, “Yes. I saved all the pictures from Zillow.”

There are so many characters they can’t do, it’s like trying to choose a sports team mascot these days.

They still screwed it up.