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And of course they’re called racist by the CCP propaganda machine.

This requires hardware manufacturers to work with kernel maintainers. It’s hard enough just getting them to publish the driver source code and not screw the user over for removing “value add” user space software.

One alternative is to pay workers enough to afford housing. It’s surprising how rarely people mention that idea. It’s very likely thee d of “worker+housing shortage” which is just a very roundabout way to say “massive inflation.”

Tok Tok is just YouTube but with the opaqueness turned up to 11. Most of the people who use YouTube without worry think Tik Tok is an improvement.

> everyone is now aware of the awful engineering practices that underpin their products.

This was already obvious to anyone actually using their products.

Huawei routers are well known to be backdoored by the Chinese government. If you’re worried about attacks from nations then you can only build things yourself from scratch, your next best option is things done in the open since the bar for hiding back doors is much higher.

Your best bet is to use things developed entirely in the open. Even if that compromises performance.

The word your looking for is “inflation.”

I’m constantly surprised when people use GoDaddy for domain registration/site hosting.

yes. 12 crashes out of the maximum possible number of encounters.

I run dino on both my phone and desktop and have zero problems with message carbons on both.

I don't think so. It doesn't look like it really improves authenticating the ID, at best it just moves things around.

The last few companies I worked at were 100% Dells and Macs.

Meh. Almost everywhere there is a surplus of labor, the market finally began to correct in the US and people are misinterpreting it as a shortage.

The correct thing to do would be to say that they need cleaning not that they’re broken.

Much like the right to repair the problem here is that the manufacturer is lying, it’s just that the lie is slightly different.

Apple is getting their bullshit encoded into law. That’s enraging.

The ad bombardment will be the end of non-free software.

That requires root and potentially open source drivers and unlocked bootloaders. Right to repair struggles with the progress it makes, that feels unobtainable.

Meh. GUIs and other frilly OSX crap are a real pain to maintain. Paying for them makes sense.

I’d build my own home if I had somewhere to put it.

A lot of cruising boats use those. Bad reviews seem rare.

College as is practiced in the United states is a front to move money from the people paying for tuition into the pockets of administrators and little more.

That needs to stop

End. Exclusionary. Zoning. You. Fucks.

My sister does that with transfer apps like venmo. I’m a littler surprised she and her friends haven’t been banned yet.

Isn’t that the point behind an AppStore? Otherwise you should do Windows style software distribution.

It’s gotten a lot better with eg Pop_OS!. My girlfriend installed that last year and I’ve had an easier time with it than with Windows 10.

They won’t show you the address to the place from an invite email until you make an account. The whole thing is super disturbing.

I loved TOR when I was a broke student without enough money to have one or two always on machines with public IPs I could reverse proxy to.

I don’t want my grandma using WhatsApp. The corporation that owns it behaves pathologically as a matter of policy and I have no idea what they’d try to do to her.

So yes. That’s a perfect example of how this would be an improvement.

Early on many of us raved about that sort of thing too before we realized how bad it was.