It’s funny, I misread the title as Pass not Press, didn’t realise until I read your comment.

Americans

It’s not the public. It’s the corporate copyright and IP holders. Because why should preservation efforts be allowed when the rights holders are letting the IP rot, and sometimes actively deleting source code?

✊ The struggle is real

… goddamnit…

I just always assumed that WhatsApp wasn’t secure…

Even more so when they made it so your chats trained their AI, default opt in, and no global setting, has to be disabled per chat.

I was trawling through Octopi and saw an update notifier. Thought it was neat. Now I won’t have to update if there’s no updates, I thought.

I removed it after a day. I could have set it to only look once a day, but realised that if I just update as part of what I do before I shutdown then I basically got the same effect, without being actually notified of anything. I don’t think there’s ever been a time where I ran an update and it said “nah nothing to do 👍”

Isn’t it age attestation as opposed to verification? Meaning that the age old tradition of 13yr olds registering for stuff are logged as in their early centenarian years?

Possibly not Linux, but likely is:

Someone in a music gear discord server I’m on found a bit of Tracker gear for their baby. Get em started young!

Depends on how much you enjoy fresh installs of your OS

Ok, then just start region blocking places with these laws. If the OS connects to the internet and sees it’s in a banned region it locks itself down irreparably or deletes the network drivers and permanently blocks reinstallation. Region block all said regions from even downloading the install files. Put a legally valid entry in the EULA saying that use in those regions is absolutely prohibited without exception and any use by anyone is without the company’s permission and all responsibility for that is on the user.

See…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places!

… unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…

No worries bud! The wording is still ridiculous…and also fuck Nvidia 😒🖕

25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”

AHEM! AKTCHEWALEE… it’s 20% which is even less qualified to be “far below” the other two.

I mean…yeah…I guess I could live with homebrew tech on a scale of 64gb of ram being the size of a full fridge…but where the fuck do I put it?! Between the my wife and I there’s barely enough space for us and just our stuff in the house we own…😒🖕 Fucking Big Corpo Tech is in bed with Big Housing to conspire against the space required for Big HomebrewTech to be a contender…

I mean… personally? I don’t feel like this is actually that much of a hot take. More of a verifiably good idea.

The big tech doesn’t deserve to fail. a bail out, but will definitely be getting one.

Legend

This photo is wild btw. Where’s it from?

I know you are probably joking.

From the wiki on palantir:

Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.

So, some of rakabis’ advice is pretty good. I’ll just say that if you’re wanting to get away from being locked into a computational ecosystem with an even worse support lifetime than windows devices, avoid buying a Mac. A 2018 MacBook stopped receiving 90% of updates in 2024.
Caveat that by saying that older MacBooks, i.e. pre Mac made chips, are usually pretty reasonably priced on the used market. If you’re willing to switch to Linux then there’s even really good support for the hardware, with basically every distro working on MacBooks with Intel chips out of the box. The only part of deploying Linux on my wife’s 2017 MB Air that was REALLY a headache was the webcam. There’s info on every step to get the drivers installed and everything working, it’s just not all in one place, and a little outdated.