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Google wants the internet simplified so they can get it under their control, what else is new? I started learning web design a few years back and this is the kind of shit that makes me suicidal. There’s almost no point when they have such a huge monopoly in the space.
Okay, well I’m ready to write a angry email now who’s with me? Anybody know the best address?
Well obviously hope and optimism and nuance are important here, I can’t entirely disagree with that I’m just saying we need to support illegalist climate action uncritically (except in the case of complicated, shady organizations like PETA) and we can’t expect those in power to act sensibly as a general rule.
I’m not saying we need to write everything off as hopeless, I’m saying we need to recognize that a lot of current efforts amount to greenwashing and ARE hopeless or even pointless (carbon credits for one are a good scam that comes to mind). The best work is being done by people chaining themselves to trees and sabotaging oil pipelines, not those writing policy with pockets full of cash… and this honestly comes off as apologetic for the latter and more than a little naive to me.
Mindless optimism isn’t the answer either. We need real change immediately, the window to slam on the brakes as a species is already behind us arguably. The only answer is to be both realistic AND ambitious.
Anticheat software, sure that’s what it is. Totally not a excuse to steal total control of a player’s machine, nope not here
The Point of my post
Your head
This is exactly what they want you to think. A few select cities in this country are they way they are to push a agenda. Look at Portland for example, total decriminalization was instituted BEFORE universal healthcare or infrastructure to help addicts. These points are all engineered and a lie to distract people from the upper class not doing their fair share and even actively sabotaging the rest of us.
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Well, to be fair he did steal the presidency from Bernie Sanders and doom us all to pre-fascist neoliberal hell
@invaderDJ @Porous_gray_matter. SBCs and their recent popularity show there IS a demand, as well as the existence of the pinephone period. I’m not convinced either. The government, -especially the USA’s undeniably has a vested interest in keeping versatile, powerful technology out of reach for most.
You’re mistaken. Imperialism is capitalism, my friend. War is just easy profit to some. Regardless, tech companies LOVE to work with the state to design products; most motherboards do have backdoors used by the likes of the NSA. So I think there’s a fair case to be made for it being more of a don’t-piss-off-the-government decision rather than scarcity of parts or demand.
Okay but I’m absolutely serious and I bet a lot of the upvotes on that ARE unironic. There is a market for chunky, powerful portable devices -few manufacturers seem to want to cater to that type of customer however, probably because of a worldwide capitalism hegemony that exists to make you as placated and dumb as possible rather than empower you as a individual or something
I want a fucking headphone jack, thanks. Also 3 full size USB ports, a physical keyboard and a inch-thick battery, because fuck you.
Eh, I feel like this is just another meaningless article meant to shift blame away from the electoral college probably.
Love to hear it! Hope that does what you need it to for a long time! being a commercial product (kinda, system76 mostly makes money off hardware with it iirc) there should be great support and I’m pretty sure it has its own forum too like many other distros. Good luck!
Well I only suggest it for sites one has to use, and even then I think it would still show google people are fed up with their shit
*especially! Spoof user agent if you have to.
If you don’t like it there are always other options (if you like a lot about arch, Garuda or Manjaro would be my next suggestion) but I do think Pop is great for those adjusting to the new ecosystem from windows
Nah RIP Craigslist personals, it was one of the only safeish places to advertise sex work -imo these services should be state-or-community-funded, free AND respecting of privacy, ideally. Maybe it did need more moderation; but even more so it needed less outrage about the useful connections and exchanges of services it enabled. We should always mourn the old web, sure it was flawed like anything else 20 years ago but it was still faaaaaaar better than the google-ravaged wasteland of today.