What’s a Nazi’s favorite color smoke?

White smoke.

(For all y’all non Catholics, the vatican has white smoke to signal when they elect a new pope…and ya know…JD Vance is a nazi.)

Al Sharpton doesn’t speak for all black people!

He told my dad he did.

This was an eyes-only broadcast!

I’ve flirted with Linux off and on for 20 years, but MS forcing everyone to Win 11, stuffed with spyware, is the end of the road for me. Now on Linux full time. Linux isn’t about to take over the desktop, but I can see Windows shedding a couple million users a year as enshittification continues.

You can totally turn it off in a couple clicks or leave it on if you want it. Other tech companies take note, this is how you do it.

Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there’s never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill…and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in “left wing” states like California or Washington…so not sure you’re making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?

There are so many breaking points:

• With software it was moving everything to subscriptions that made me switch to Linux and LibreOffice
• With hardware it was when Apple started soldering RAM in their computers so you couldn’t replace it
• With healthcare it was having to negotiate with 11 different companies my 11 bills for a single ER visit
• With the Democrats it was the head of the DNC saying out loud that the reason for super delegates was to prevent popular grassroots candidates from winning

Capitalism doesn’t just crush you once, it finds a new way to crush you every day.

The one state that refuses to connect to the interstate power grid and has Uber-like surge pricing on electricity? Yeah, I’m sure this won’t result in regular people footing the bill for more billionaire profits.

Texas is a joke, but not a good one.

No, but they can remain solvent longer than you can survive on the streets.

And that’s how they get you.

What makes them (it?) good?

For anyone who doesn’t already know the good FOSS alternatives:

• Local: Libreoffice
• Cloud/self-hosted: Nextcloud Office

Probably preaching to the choir on Lemmy but…reminder to boycott Facebook and Instagram.

Perfect. This will now be how I watch. Thanks!

Addd to this list: Upload & I’m a Virgo

Amazon really loves co-opting anti-capitalism.

Another good reason not to use Google products

Yeah, Mailspring is what I use currently, but the sidebar pretty much just shows the list of e-mails, no other data, but it is the best of what I’ve found on my own.

Simon Caine makes the best videos revealing the crazy shit big tech does. I’m looking forward to the companion videos on Zuckbook and Twitter

1,000%

I’m a year into developing my first game though and this means I don’t have to abandon all the progress I’ve made. After I publish this game, all bets are off as to where I go…or should I say where I godot.

I’m really hoping some of the bigger Unity devs, like the people that made Rust or Among Us sue, as most of us don’t have enough money to even stand a chance in court against Unity’s lawyers…especially once they have all that nice runtime money to spend. 😒