You mean constant invasive surveillance is actually counterproductive AND expensive? But, but, but, all those AI tech-bros told us it would make the line go more up faster! That’s why we gave them billions of dollars! How could that happen!? Who could predict humans don’t enjoy feeling like prisoners under constant watch?

“Ozymandias Clock” would perhaps be a more fitting name…

Out of curiosity, since I switched from Windows to Mint recently so I’m not married to it just yet - what would be your recommended distro for Windows users that uses a better/newer tech stack? Mint worked out of the box for me, but if love to try other distros too if they’re better.

The Bethesda of old is long dead. After the disappointment that was Starfield, it will take multiple rave reviews and watching a few streamers playing on Twitch for me to even consider giving them any money. And I sure as hell will not be paying for goddamned mods, not now and not ever. Eff that and eff the greedy assholes that now run Bethesda.

Yet another childish tantrum? Wow, is it another day ending with “y” already? How time flies…

Do it you pathetic spoiled manchild, stop flapping your gums and actually bloody do it.

Riiiight. And, pray tell Adobe, why in the everloving fuck woul you ever need to “review” private content that’s not posted anywhere? Stop acting like you’re the goddamned pre-crime agency from Minority Report and keep your dirty paws off stuff people are creating privately.

You are providing tools, and that’s it. I can do horrible, illegal shit with my drill, but it doesn’t give Black&Decker any right to break into my house to do random checks and see if I’m drilling through kneecaps instead of wooden planks…

Classic late stage capitalism, where humans’ sole reason for existence is being advertised to. Soon we’ll start putting ads in incubators too, and invalidate this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/17-days-in-incubator-longest-time-premature-baby-will-g-1851456014

To jail, for the rest of his life, yes. Not that I’m holding my breath for it though - the international community has demonstrated time and again that genocide is compmetely fine, as long as it’s happening far away and not to “our people”.

I got it on Game Pass and wanted to give it a try, but when I sat down on the couch, controller in hand, and tried to run it, it asked me to take my phone out and scan a code to create yet another worthless account somewhere. It wouldn’t allow me to even start the game otherwise.

It made me actually say “are you fucking kidding me!?” out loud and uninstall immediately. Screw that - I will not eat at a restaurant that makes me scan a code to see the menu, and I will definitely not play a game that does it either…

Rant over, but that experience annoyed me so much that no update or improvement will make me want to install it again.

Same! It was actually a pretty big surprise that Mint worked flawlessly out of the box on my crappy pre-built PC. Everything’s working great including the printer! I’m seriously impressed.

Microsoft, probably: “StartAllBack? Nope, ya little twit, you will use our start menu AND YOU WILL LIKE IT! No installing any of that crap on your our computer!”

Let’s put it on the pile of all other war crimes over there, and then just ignore it like all the other ones. Maybe mention them in passing once in a while, but without any real consequences…

The feeling of complete powerlessness when I read news like these makes me so sad. I don’t have any hope for that area anymore - I don’t think a realisticsolution even exists anymore :(

These people only have one book (that most of them haven’t even read start to finish) and it’s enough for them - anything else is probably blasphemy, satanism and (worst of all) woke…

It’s just so sad and scary that even tough we now have access to sum total of human knowledge at our fingertips, and yet people like these, who would drag us all back to middle ages, still exist, and if anything become stronger and stronger…

“Cracking the whip is no fun if we can’t see the fear in our wage slaves’ eyes as we do it, and besides, we want you to experience workplace culture crunch directly and fully, in a crowded office and not a comfort of your own home.” - Rockstar executives, probably.

EVERYTHING has risks. People have choked to death on food before - that’s not the reason to stop eating. There’s a risk the ceiling is going to fall down on your head at any moment, but then if you go outside, there’s a risk you might get hit by lightning or a bolt that fell off a Boeing flying above…

That’s not a dig at you by the way - it’s at people who argue in bad faith asking for 100% guarantees of safety, be it for vaccines or anything else. It is not possible, and people need to comprehend it - in this case the risk is on the level of being hit by lighting, so unless you’re afraid of going outside, you shouldnt be afraid of the darn vaccine…

Will it come with its own proprietary chat?

Wow. Also, the obsession of morons with Punisher is just baffling. It’s not a very complicated story at all, and yet all these idiots just completely misunderstand it and proudly wear this mark because Frank Castle is cool and kills people…

Screw the star of david, having a Punisher skull symbol anywere on or close to your damn uniform should be a fireable offense.

Sigh, and here I was, thinking Microsoft trying to shove its useless (to me) AI down my throat at every opportunity was annoying… Quo vadis Mozilla, what are you guys doing… :(

Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.

Syncthing is great! This fork has some extra options and enhancements: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android