My stepson is profoundly hard of hearing so he’ll crank that shit up to 11. His Bluetooth hearing aides are excellent when he’s listening to something privately and you often can’t tell anything is playing over them (which he’ll do pretty often while having a conversation because he lip reads) but if he wants to share a video or music he’ll crank that shit way up.
Counterpoint: before Gmail, I ran my own mail server and futzed with Mutt for a perfect email experience. It was a frustrating time sink.
Gmail came out and I now get a better end-user experience with virtually no cost of ownership. I’m comfortable with the ad-supported model. I’d prefer a low monthly fee, but not so much that it’s worth moving to Proton. Eventually, maybe I will.
I get this take, but it isn’t for me.
Now you would likely be fired if you refused to use Teams or Slack or whatever your company uses.
Why would I refuse? It’s company software running on company hardware. It isn’t my problem what the ToS is.
Whenever I look at archives of memes or random screenshots from my old computers I remember how great the internet was. It’s filled with politics and advertising now.
What are you blathering about, it’s never been cheaper or easier to have a personal computer than now, however you define it. You can go full paranoid from coreboot up or you can just get a steam deck and dock and have a nice arch in desktop mode. You can meaningfully use it with internet, Firefox with ublock origin, Signal to talk to your family without selling your soul or whatever. Is this written by a chatbot?
You are not wrong but OP also is lamenting that normies won't do it due to how social order is structured. Not much to do about it besides educating people around you.
You aint convincing boomers that privacy is a right that you have to protect. But younger folks are one shiti event from being believers and we got a lot of shit floating down our way.
Critical mass should hit in like a generation or two!
I dunno, all my younger family and their friends are neck deep in the shit, and aren’t interested in hearing my “conspiracy theories”…despite them being front page news every day (all the ransomware, hacks, etc).
Well, you can throw them down the ditch to create an access to the fortified moat. That is, after you have torn down said moat using a superior medieval weaponry
According to a friend who had the displeasure of looking at the file size, he claims it’s 170GB when all is said and done… Stupid Sony refusing to let steam preload…
Congrats on dipping your toes into networking! Don’t let it suck you in too much or you’ll end up with a career change.
Plenty of resources out there to learn from, just pick a project and try to implement it. Or just play around with netcat (just ‘nc’ nowadays).
Look into the TCP/IP stack (or the OSI model, both cover the core concepts) for an overview of how applications talk to each other. This will also help you understand how LocalSend probably works (my guess is broadcasting to your network and seeing what devices are listening on a certain port. Some LAN-enabled games work like this, others aren’t as magical and ask you to provide an address and a port).
You can buy the game for $50, and then you can buy 2 DLCs for $20, $25, or $30 more depending on how you buy them.
The DLCs aren’t cosmetic - they’re “additional” storylines. For a brand new game.
Fuck Square Enix.
edit: who is voting this down? Why are you defending the practice of selling incomplete games with the option to pay to play the entire game ON DAY 1?
This isn’t Elder Ring’s DLC which released additional content and experiences after delivering an amazing, complete game. This is Square Enix trying to standardize a pay-per-quest system and you’re eating it up because of nostalgia.
Kamala came in with some lip service to progressives at the beginning and has essentially adopted bidens platform with little in the way of changes. She’s doubled down on fracking, distanced herself from the green new deal, and courted the center right (Democrat or Republican) from the DNC forward. It’s not surprising but it’s disheartening to see so many people get fooled by what has been the typical Democrat playbook since the 90s. Biden was bad optics so they traded him out. Vote for her because she isn’t trump, but don’t pretend that she’ll do anything different than follow the party line like her and everybody before her.
If you want to make some real change go ahead and vote for the Democrat. Then stop paying attention to electoral politics. Organize in your community. Agitate for worker unions in your work places and tenant unions in your neighborhood, start a political theory reading group, organize a food drive, free store, tool library, something. Literally anything other than wasting your precious time and energy on following the clown show in DC. None of them care about you. None of them want to help you. None of them are planning to make your life easier.
currently most republicans are not center-right, but OP was referring to the (now narrow, but still existing) circle of center-right republicans, not to all the republicans.
Broadly I agree with you and have said more or less the same thing. But there are people who label themselves republican and fall in line somewhere closer to democrat. The two parties aren’t as far apart as we’d all like to think
TBF again, he probably could have sold it again and not lost himself and other investors so much money. He still has a hero complex, it is part of his stupidity.
I mean, he couldhave sold it…but he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars.
Prior to the sale, twitter was losing money. It had never been profitable. And it was NEVER worth 43 BILLION dollars.
Sure, he could sell it for 30 million dollars, but what sense does that make?
The fact of it is, he’ll likely never recover the costs he paid, because of the stupid high price he paid for a never profitable company.
The part that baffles me is…why haven’t the userbase flooded outwards? If you’re on twitter today, and you’re not on bluesky/mastodon, you have nooooooooo right to complain that musk is supporting a facist agenda.
He is. I’m not denying that. I’m just saying twitter users have no right to complain about it, because they enable it.
That’s its snowballing. You know you’d be pretty obligated to use one channel of communication if everyone uses it becauae you need to stay in touch. The same works in leaving it because you feel like ditching former Tweeter is leaving the place everyone is, even politicians.
I tried GTA Online once, thinking I could just cruise around and have some fun.
Within 2 minutes I was killed by some dude in a flying motorcycle rocket launcher thingy.
He then proceeded to spawn-camp me and kill me every time I came back.
Haven’t logged on since.
I think your ideas are too non-practical/specialized/advanced/low-level for your stated goal of 'digital literacy". They read more like college intro/followup course material and are too esoteric to be readily absorbed, esp by generic teenagers, even if they’ve self-selected to be “lightly interested”.
Literally half this stuff were first-year college courses for me, even though I was already familiar with a bunch.
I agree it needs to be pared down a bit, but I also agree with OP that actually a lot of this should probably be being taught at the high school (or german equivalent) level. I think we do a disservice to students by not having some of this available to children in lower grade levels.
I get what you’re saying, like being forced to use whatever the society/work tells you to do. I do experience this sometimes.
But I don’t think I can replace computers as a whole. I can replace social medias (would happily do that in a jiffy) and get into social interactions, but I do watch lots of movies, YT videos etc… and I need them for these. Luckily there are libre frontends and high seas for most of my needs. And I rarely see ads now a days, thanks ublock!
You can use these privacy frontends, ad blockers, VPN connection to block most of the annoying tracking. As for work related thing I am with you.
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