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Anyone who has made copies of videotapes knows what happens to the quality of each successive copy. You’re not making a “treasure trove.” You’re making trash.

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If you work 40 hours a week and you STILL can’t afford to pay basic living expenses, then your economy sucks.

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Microsoft also wants to use 50 gigabytes of your hard drive space (for the Recall snapshots) and make you buy AI co-processors or their software won’t work. They want to use your property to create their own Skynet.

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I’m actually enjoying the Linux learning curve because I know it’s not working against my interests.

On the other hand, every time I’ve had to go “under the hood” with Windows (Registry settings, config files) it’s been to prevent Microsoft from doing something sh*tty to me.

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“Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)

“But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”

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A lot of these streaming services are ultimately owned by the same company. Ever had a favorite show, where only seasons 1,3 and 5 are available on one “service” and only seasons 2 and 4 are available on the other? This lets the owner of the series double-dip customers on subscription fees.

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AI is a ponzi scheme to relieve stupid venture capitalists of their money.

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I have never heard of ANY of these services and I download a lot of stuff.

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Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.

/s just in case.

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I grew up watching WW2 movies and the Nazis were never shown as being anything other than Bad Guys. I would love to know how anyone grows up here in the U.S. and doesn’t know that.

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We have to accept false dichotomies because the only alternative is cannibalism.

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6:30am “Vrrrrroooooooooooooomm!” for about a minute.

Silence for 45 seconds.

“Vrrrooooooooooooom!” for about a minute.

Repeat for the next 1 1/2 hours.

Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)

Let’s put it this way; when Microsoft announced its plans to start adding features to Windows 10 once again, despite the operating system’s inevitable demise in October 2025, everyone expected slightly different things to see ported over from Windows 11. Sadly, the latest addition to Windows 10 is one of the most annoying...

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My entire Steam library works on Linux Mint.

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Also, almost every older game, like Deus Ex or Giants: Citizen Kabuto, I can run separately under Wine. The only game that doesn’t quite work is NOLF 1. No music. (I can’t seem to get DirectMusic working properly in Wine yet).

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YouTube is also aggravating customers who use their official apps by increasing the frequency and length of the ads. In just 4-5 months, I’ve seen YouTube ad lengths on Roku go from 10-15 seconds to 30 seconds, to a minute.

They’re trying to recoup lost ad revenue by pissing off the one demographc most likely to sit in front of the TV the longest.

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1980’s conservatives: “Why don’t you move to Russia if you don’t like it here?”

2020’s conservatives: “Why don’t we move to Russia if we don’t like it here?”

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“Butters? Are you on Twitter?”

“No Dad! Just watching porn!”

Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner (www.democracynow.org)

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine....

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It probably happened. If you’ve shown the whole world that you bomb refugee camps and international food relief convoys, then you don’t get “the benefit of the doubt” anymore.

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Who TF is “National Public Data?”

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The problem with media platforms like Reddit and Twitter is that they take place in a single Instance, with thousands of communities. So it’s easy for one person (like an Elon Musk) to completely screw it up for millions of people.

With Lemmy, everything is decentralized. Communities are spread out and duplicated over hundreds of Instances in many countries. So if somebody ruins one Instance or community, people can just hop over to the second or third most popular Instance, and the original instance will dry up and disappear.

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I haven’t had any problems running my Steam library under Linux Mint. Older games, like Deus Ex and Giants: Citizen Kabuto I can run directly in Wine.

If I could get Vortex Mod Manager working properly under Linux, I wouldn’t need Windows at all.

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You literally told your advertisers to go fark themselves, Elmo. Several times. This is what consequences look like.

Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth (arstechnica.com)

Google’s story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth. The once-beloved startup—with its unofficial “Don’t Be Evil” motto—has instead become a major Internet monopolist, as a federal judge ruled on Monday, dominating the market for online search. Google is also...

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Google’s motto in 2003: “Don’t be evil.”

They sure let that motto slide.

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UBlock for Chrome is going away, no matter what Google says about Manifest.

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Trump says the quiet part (“I am totally bribe-able”) out loud, all the time because he’s a complete freaking idiot. There is no filter between his mouth and what’s left of his brain.

This is the real Trump. The moron. This isn’t “off the cuff”,“exaggeration” or “locker room talk” Believe people when they show you what they really are.

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I guess Intel needed that QA team, after all.

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Same here. If I could get Vortex Mod Manager to work under Wine/Proton, I wouldn’t use Windows at all.

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I checked out Mod Organizer 2 recently, but it didn’t support Subnautica the last time I tried it. I only use mods for a few games, line Stardew Valley and the Fallout games.

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You might want to check out Libre Office. It’s document compatible with MS-Office and I think it comes pre-installed on Linux Mint.

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This. It feels to me like driving a stick shift when you’ve been using an automatic transmission for years. You have to do a little more fiddling but I honestly don’t mind learning a new OS that isn’t actively working against me.

With Windows . . . on the other hand . . . every time I’ve had to go “under the hood” (tweak Registry settings, Config files, etc) it’s been to prevent Microsoft from doing something crappy to me.

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Yeah this.

Channeling Joe Pesci from “Casino”: “You only have that farking data because WE made that possible!”

KOSA passes Senate | ACLU: This bill would not keep kids safe, but instead threaten young people’s privacy, limit minors’ access to vital resources, and silence important online conversations for all (arstechnica.com)

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) easily passed the Senate today despite critics’ concerns that the bill may risk creating more harm than good for kids and perhaps censor speech for online users of all ages if it’s signed into law....

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Any time a lawmaker says they are doing something “for the children” you are being played. They are always up to something sh*tty.

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards (arstechnica.com)

Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform....

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Wheatley: “A very minor case of serious brain damage.”

Tesla recalls 1.8 million cars because their hoods can open while driving (arstechnica.com)

The electric car manufacturer Tesla had to issue a massive recall this month to fix faulty hood latches that can open while its cars are driving. The problem affects more than 1.8 million cars, which means it’s slightly smaller than the recall in December that applied to more than 2 million Teslas....

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Although the problem is with the hood latch, as with many Tesla safety recalls, the problem can be fixed with an over-the-air software patch

This is what happens when you run all the car’s mechanical and electronic switches though some cheap, sh*tty tablet interface. Instead of directly wiring them to lights on the dashboard.

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When you car can connect to the Internet, it becomes a data-mining tool that tells everyone your business. Companies would LOVE to have all that juicy location data that only Google has right now (from your phones). Insurance companies would LOVE to know your driving habits to have any excuse at all to jack up your premiums.

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There’s nothing subtle about Trump. So when he say something blatantly stupid and evil, it doesn’t need translation or interpretation. If he says, “we’re going to ‘fix’ voting so that you’ll never have to worry about voting ever again” there only ONE way to interpret that. Believe people when they show you what they really are.

It also doesn’t help that our mainstream, “liberal news media” (you know, the one that’s owned by only six corporations) is constantly running interference for Trump.

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This. And “cryptically declares?” Really? Trump is always dumb, blunt and obvious. Believe people when they show you what they really are.

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Who talks like that? A grifter. A guy who literally embodies all of the seven deadly sins, trying to convince his followers that “he’s a Christian.” That is just exploding with irony.

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Damn, Acer. You used to be cool. (a very long time ago)

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If only there were hundreds of other sites on the Internet that stream video. If porn sites can make it work, anyone can make it work.

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Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?

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I didn’t think the MAGAs could find a stupider fashion accessory than those dumb, red hats but somehow, they found a way.

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There are many creatures in nature that warn others that they are toxic or dangerous by having bright colors, warning sounds or by wearing little red hats.

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In April, a CrowdStrike update caused all Debian Linux servers in a civic tech lab to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot.

And then, you boot their servers from a Linux Live USB, run TimeShift to restore the last system snapshot, refuse the latest patch from Cloudstrike and they all lived happily ever after.

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Our government was corrupted the moment the courts accepted the “Corporations are people/ Money is speech” arguments. At that moment, the government stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only represented the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.

It’s taking a long time to play out but it’s going to end badly.

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The police accepted the software’s judgment and Ms. Hemid went home with no further protection.

This is what happens when you rely on your Nintendos, instead of using your damn brains.

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And then they unveiled their, “ByteDance: We’re totally not the CCP” logo.

And everyone laughed harder.

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Equilateral triangle. All three sides are equal length and it has three interior angles that add up to exactly 180 degrees.

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