SDF user since 2001. BSD user since 1998.
Just here for the tech discussion.
I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.
Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.
Debian stable
Liquorix kernel
Flatpak the apps
Probably the only life my piece of shit Z16 has left.
13% is low, but I guess this shows how resistant to change people are. It’s better to establish a new market (or the first to become popular in a young market) than to try and come along with something disruptive in a mature market.
There is an entire industry of shady companies who make tens of millions per by selling dogshit “secure comms” products to barely literate and computer illiterate LtCols and procurement officers in the US Government.
Those officers are close to retirement and by regurgitating big words they do not understand while still in their procurement positions, they can land a job at said company and receive some of those funds once they hit minimum retirement age and wait a year.
Signal is free and disruptive to those business models.
Ergo the misinformation campaign, the FUD, is well funded, by people who have a lot to lose.
DX2400 crew!
Great computer. Got me my undergrad and my wife through her masters program. Later we maxed out the RAM and did like a Core2 Quad upgrade and an SSD and it was great. Radeon upgrade gave us our first dual monitors. And yes it also ran Arch, but awesomewm.
Sold it as a downsize and move overseas thing. Good to see one still in use out there.
It’s already started.
Anti-malaria measures in Africa are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the same Bill Gates that anti-vaxxers argue are trying to poison us through the COVID vaccines and has ties to Epstein.
They are already warning about weaponized mosquitoes being used as flying syringes in California and genetically modified mosquitoes being unleashed.
Spotify Premium pays Joe Rogan.
The same kind that lists the Empire State Building in the headline, like it’s the 1930s and that’s still impressive.
Neither.
I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.
Not just Linux; gcc was very important as well.
Did he resign from the position, or from Red Hat entirely?
I’ve been using Anker chargers and USB-C cables exclusively since the USB-C transition half a decade ago. They fold up neatly and deliver more power at a fraction of the size of a standard ThinkPad charger.
Five countries, both 220 and 120 and I haven’t had a single issue and they are used daily.
You can do non-OEM and still be fine.
Regarding batteries, non-OEM is pretty much the only way to go if you are beyond the Lenovo warranty period. You can’t even get fresh batteries from Lenovo for 8th generation machines anymore.
I am going to say the unspoken part out loud: it’s rooted in Hitler’s “Creators, Maintainers, Destroyers” view of race.
The fact that this article exists at all shows how deeply rooted the sentiment is, even if 95% of the people regurgitating it don’t see themselves as racist or know that this is what their society has conditioned them to believe.
Asians only get tech by copying and stealing from the West. So when the “free market” West gets bothered by a little bit of competition and enforces protectionist measures, Asians who aren’t willing to whore out their women to Westerners are supposed to come crawling back and accept sanctions as punishment for trying to be uppity. It’s a shock to the system that China was able to keep innovating independently in a different direction, that can’t easily be attributed to IP theft. It’s not about the 7nm process; it’s about the entire SoC.
There are a lot of dogwhistles and things left unspoken in these articles and TikTok videos (where I saw it first) and I’m sure the “well ackshually nobody ever said that” jackasses are ready to pounce on this comment so it’s probably best to just leave it at this:
Unilateral protectionism has been a fucking disaster for consumers. All we got out of it was increased prices. A maxed out iPhone in 2016 cost $949. A maxed out iPhone in 2023 costs seventeen hundred fucking dollars and Samsung has done the same increase over that period. Less choice meant less competition and the duopoly was able to further entrench in their positions. This phone would be competitive with flagships at half the price. Why is that a bad thing?
Laptops: ThinkPad P-series. The repairability that the T-series used to have with slightly beefier specs and better heatsinks. Great for Linux.
Phones: FairPhone 4 (FP5 will likely be announced end of the month so wait for that) - user repairable, supports alternate operating systems, 7 years official OS support from FairPhone.
They also only fight for privacy as a marketing differentiator from Google in the US. Their privacy stance varies from country to country.
If Apple had the same capability to harvest and mine user data as Google, there’s no doubt in my mind they would already be doing so. Their inability to produce a viable cloud service and major security and update issues with iCloud imply it’s a lack of ability and not any pro-user/privacy-oriented sentiment in the company.
Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.
And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don’t think that’s the first place I went when I didn’t see the conformation email?
Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.