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Yeah that’s me, I’m funded by the anti-GDPR lobby. Still waiting on my check.

The groupthink on hacker news is exhausting. If you think aligning with China will be any better, please do so faster.

You should look up what the Japanese did to the Chinese.

It’s definitely made browsing the open web a worse experience. There should be global opt in/out.

> Instead these are just numbers in a statistic and opportunities for leverage in geopolitics instead of real lives with as much depth and meaning as your own.

I didn’t vote for this, it’s not about me, I have no control over this. I live in California, we never voted for Trump. Please don’t lecture me about how I feel.

US AID was always about soft power. No reason Europe or China can’t step up and fill that demand.

Too fucking late, eat shit Discord. We’re all moving to E2E encrypted platforms.

Savings rates are higher in developing economies because there are fewer social safety nets.

They’re too busy berating the US.

I still don’t get why people are still on Meta platforms. Shut down your accounts and switch to alternatives. Meta/Zuckerberg are disgusting.

Military and defense contractors are two separate things. Both are jobs programs, the latter for upper middle class white people in flyover states.

As an American, if an outcome of the Trump administration is even a slight deterioration of the US military industrial complex, I don’t think I’ll mind that. I’d rather spend that money on the poor and the young.

That’s still discrimination.

Save us, China.

The fact people don’t see the chilling effect this will have on privacy is beyond me.

That’s insane. Discord should just ban UK users instead of forcing this garbage on all of us.

It doesn’t help that the Switch 2 library is woefully inadequate.

I’ll look into Cachy. Bazzite I’m not going to touch because it seems politically toxic.

So what’s your alternative?

The latest version (with support through 2029) was released last month. It installed and runs flawlessly.

https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php

Yeah, sorry, I’m a normal person I guess.

The stability is why I prefer Linux Mint for gaming. Everything just works, even on my modern hardware.

dismalaf: I definitely don’t care about gestures on my desktop computer.

I’d recommend trying Linux Mint with Steam.

I’ve already tested the cancel button. Can confirm it works.

What’s great about Al Lowe is that he’s great at sleazy humor but as far as I can tell not at all sleazy himself.

Bill Gates seems like a total scumbag (cheater, hangs out with pedophiles), so it tracks.

Guess that will be a SpaceX problem soon enough. What a mess.

Yeah and it’s going to bankrupt VW/Stellantis. Surprised Europeans just don’t seem to give a damn about that.

Doesn’t Tesla have a large and profitable storage business now? Probably could have just built that instead of buying SolarCity.

Americans are absolutely not a fan of this administration and it will be severely neutered after the midterms. The Supreme Court is already doing some of that.

Americans are not your enemy, Washington (state), California, Illinois, etc (AKA the states with real economic power and all the tech companies) did not vote for this. We still believe in the rule of law and our friendships with our allies.