Voting doesn’t need to be secure in Russia because voting doesn’t actually matter in Russia.

Guess I’ll just keep re-pasting and carefully dusting off my main desktop hardware from 2015.

“We own your TV screen, and the contents of your TV screen.”

By their license agreement, whether you watch normie content, use the screen to display proprietary business presentations, use it to show family photos from a USB stick, or screen that private adult video you made with your wife, LG can technically analyze all that stuff, serve you ads based off it, or sell it (or provide it) to third parties including the authorities.

Literally don’t care what they are. Not relevant to their FOSS or general technology content.

I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.

I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.

This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too “purity test” for me. The reasons listed are, let’s say extremely tepid in many cases.

I’ve never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.

I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.

I guess all I am saying is… Use whatever products you do or don’t want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.

I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I’m listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.

Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.

You would have to pay the 100% tarriff on a Chinese EV because you’d be “importing” it. You likely wouldn’t be able to register it in any state without proving the import duty had been paid.

And assuming you flew under the radar and somehow registered it without paying, the Feds would get access to the registration records and the CBP would eventually come after you.

My understanding is the performers and cast members are paid like garbage which is wild considering how much it costs to go to Disney.

Imagine encountering Mickey in the Backrooms

There are a lot of decomps being developed from the N64 and PS1 era. Meaning you can play (or replay) them natively on PC with quality life improvements such as 4K, 60fps, widescreen FOV hacks, texture enhancements etc.

It’s really a great time to rediscover some PC games (or decomps and ports of console games) from 15-25 years ago that you might have missed when they were new.

If they want to redo it properly they should make a new reboot that completely ignores all the Bethesda-era story garbage and instead builds on the bizarre story arc of the 90s era Doom book series by Dafydd ab Hugh (who recently passed away apparently) and Brad Linaweaver.

This is my thought also. v2.7.5 has been stable since April. I’m gonna stick with that for the moment.

Depending who we are talking about, good riddance.

Will be missed- The jaded technical guy who has 3 decades of institutional knowledge and can sight read machine code like its the Matrix.

Won’t be missed- The middle management corpo-speak fat fuck with turkey waddle jowls, spouting the latest efficiency reminders from his SVP (so he hits his own compensation-linked performance targets) while struggling to find the right button to screenshare on the Teams call.

US tech sector could easily shed double that number as long as it is middle managers and worthless PM types getting fired.

Hollowing out actual engineers, devs, and people who know how shit works in favor of “AI gains” and offshore outsourcing is like removing the engine from you car “for the weight savings”.

But if we are to uncritically believe what the AI peddlers told us, that means this mystery company should be reaping $10 billion in additional revenue or quantifiable gains in productivity!

Now to fuck up their plan by training their AI on House of Leaves.

“Not fair to those who buy physical software”

What was the most recent fucking calendar year when somebody walked into a CompUSA and bought physical boxed software??

I think I bought Half-Life 2 in box on launch day. So… 2004.