They’re no longer communist and they’re getting a lot of money from Putin so they don’t give a shit. Similar deal with China. They may be communist on paper but they still play ball with them by giving the corporations a place to build shit with cheap labor and materials. They also have a huge consumer base so you better believe these stupid McCarthyists are fondling Xi Jinping’s balls for acess to their markets.
Mint works pretty well! I’ve never been much of a power user so using its GUI (Cinnamon 'cause I failed miserably at running KDE) to update and install certain programs is pretty convenient.
We desperately need smaller vehicles to counter the behemoth light trucks that are in the road today. Everything about these kei truck bans just scream corruption and incompetence from politicians to domestic auto manufacturers.
I’m willing to bet they’ll start adding telemetry features in RPiOS for “quality purposes” a few years from now.
I heard this same argument from people all the time. Until it affects you in a meaningful way to change your mind, it’ll be too late.
The surveillance would be a double edged sword. If they were to be hacked, all sensitive information that was going through their PCs could be compromised.
Oh good another reason to wear face masks in this hellish cyberpunk dystopia. Imagine suffering the equivalent of credit card fraud because someone took a photo of you in public.
It’s the Chinese government. Not the common Chinese people. I have no problem with ordinary folks trying to live out their lives with friends and family. I do take issue with the CCP using its military to bully fishermen in the South China sea and fucking over the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Taiwanese.
It was always two weeks away from being revealed/voted on.
If the Trump administration could be consistently described by a single word, it would be “unprecedented”. That seems to pop up in every other headline you’d see about the bastard.
It’d be nice if an OS pre installation option was available in the manufacturer’s website. I’m sure Linux would get a bump in popularity by the average person if it led to a dip in their PC/laptop’s overall price.
Cars shouldn’t have Internet connectivity and telemetry collection at all. I don’t care what “quality of life” improvements they bring, if they use it to spy on and profit off their customers after paying for the vehicle then it should be banned. I know most people don’t give a shit about their privacy but when it starts affecting their wallet, they will.
Sir this is America. We only do hardcore capitalism in this country, preferably to the detriment of the average citizen and benefit of CEOs and stockholders the way God intended. /s
So this is how democracy in the US can end. A Democratic president who’s resisting the overwhelming cry of the people to stop supporting a genocidal fascist who will then lose the presidency to our own domestic fascist out of their protest. When the government’s been deliberately unresponsive to the will of its people for so long I guess this is its inevitable conclusion.
This is what happens when the Union wasn’t firm enough with the seditionist South post Civil War. The Restoration Era was too kind and short lived to the traitorous bastards that allowed their shit ideology of racism and secession to stick around the South.This allowed their ideas to fester and metastasize over the decades into Jim Crow laws, Confederate romanticism, and the idea of rebellion being something that is punished by a slap on the wrist.
The fact the Jan 6 traitors were prosecuted with extreme leniency is only giving these bastards all the more encouragement to ramp up their calls for another civil war. The next time we win I say apply the penalty for treason on all combatants and bar anyone associated with their movement from ever holding office again.
They outright won’t ban Nazi content from their website. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie
The real tragedy is knowing some of the kindest and most educated people I’ve met are still willing to vote for this monster. I can’t tell if they have some ulterior motives or they’re just willing to play dumb over loving a dictator because they believe in some fantasy that Trump’s not a bad person deep down.
I shudder to think what one of those cybertrucks would do if it tried to plow through a crowd of protesters.
I recommend Linux Mint. It’s very beginner friendly and you don’t need to use the console too much if that kind of thing bothers you. The GUI even looks very similar to a Windows 10 environment.