angrytoadnoises

Yeah AI is incredibly cool and I wish I could get excited for an actual amazing advancement in technology instead of fearing it. People will sooner imagine a life where all artists are dying on the street instead of a life where capital doesn't dictate our every move, and that paints a very depressing image.

At the time, I think I had uncommon hardware. I was trying to get Linux going on the cheapest little notebook you can imagine. I also got the same retort from support forums at the time, so my problem obviously wasn't widespread. It was just the most definitive effort into Linux I had made, and I was just getting rebuffed by what I saw as silly little problems.

That was close to a decade ago now, though. After so much faffing around on the Steam Deck I think I'm ready to give Linux another stab.

There was absolutely sexual violence during the holocaust and the german army absolutely raped their way through both the western and eastern fronts. What did you mean by this? All armies rape and pillage, the US, the brits, the italians, the french, the japanese, even the aussies did it.

Do you actually think armies full of men just...don't rape?

yeah I'd probably wanna stop the nazis too

no one tell this guy that raping and pillaging comes standard with armies and warfare. almost like war is bad and has a negative effect on the land and people or somethin idk

The fastest way to get a gawky white american teenager spitting revisionism at you is to plainly state that the Soviet's were instrumental to winning the second world war.

b-b-but the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact!!

a year and a bit spent on the steam deck makes me wonder if daily driving linux would be all that hard. i've tried before but was always bounced off by the stupidest little things, like not being able to find wi-fi drivers or whatever. but nowadays i'm starting to think all that is worth it to be off windows

That's a shame. I want someone to do something about live service games so fucking badly. Fuckin exploitative scams that specifically target those with mental health issues, gambling problems, and the neurodiverse.

Surely it has to be a hugely dangerous precedent to legislate against, uh, criticizing a country? Surely that tramples over some highly valued concept of free speech. I have to wonder if they would extend the same consideration to just about any other country, race or religion on the planet.

oh boy the twitch streamers sure are getting cocky with the boasting of their personal wealth these days huh

how hard is it to just shut up and be the brand you so desperately want to be

I'm building up to doing the same. Already using Protonmail and Kagi. Looking for a less Google-dependent phone to switch over to and then I might pull the plug myself.

I'm feeling positive, too. You can't undo the progres made in the decentralized network space. Every loss for big tech is a win for us. I don't hold much hope that decentralized networks are going to sweep the globe and return the internet to it's former glory. But I do think we'll always have a space, and that space can only get bigger.

I've never seen a Tankie claim that Russia, China, North Korea, etc. are good governments that are always ethical. It's almost always a comparison between the US and these other authoritarian countries that they get stuck on.