Turns out voting for conservatives has consequences.

No thanks

Tubular was right, then. You do follow around and harass people.

Thanks for driving people away from Lemmy

Best response by far. Very human-like.

I like Lemmy because it’s, by design, shielded against government surveillance through mandatory police ID checks. The government cannot target Lemmy because it’s decentralized/federated.

It was a very nasty setup, they practically tried to present Zelensky as a thug of sorts.

It’s like the US administration is made of amateurs who are just now discovering that Russia is untrustworthy and is playing US presidents to further its goals, like they faked friendship with Bush in the 2000s when they were weaker.

With that being said, the US is still helping Ukraine defend itself, but it’s much more transactional now.

1980: TVs will fry your brain

1990: Videogames will fry your brain

2000: Computers will fry your brain

2010: Smartphones will fry your brain

2020: AI will fry your brain

Any takes for the 2030s?

First time I hear of this. What alternatives would you suggest? I have brave on my PC because it’s pre-configured and comes with a Tor addon

I may be high on hopium but is XBOX doing a comeback in terms of user friendliness and popularity?

What’s wrong with Brave?

They did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don’t use Chrome.

Christian fundamentalists would prefer to ban a lot of things for everyone. Since they cannot do that, they resort to the next best thing, which is to ban them for their own crowd. But the main objective is to have every device be like that. If this phone network establishes itself in the long run, it will be a big L for all of us.

DM the mods to fix channels. If they refuse, you’ll have to leave. Don’t give Discord any info. A community I was in moved to an alternative and it’s still there, right after Discord announced it would implement ID registrations.

Defender with Malwarebytes as already mentioned should be enough. What false positives do you get exactly?

Personally I have a Linux distro on my PC and don’t need AV software at the moment.

These people are called “tankies”. It’s communists who like militarism and imperialism, as long as it’s of their own flavor. The internet has many such “bunkers” where these people congregate. They unironically support the countries you mention, and they do not represent the entire left-wing community.

I’d argue that they aren’t the result of capitalist policies being shitty. Such communities have existed on the internet since the early 00s. It’s just their ideology.

Why are they on lemmy? My guess is that Reddit banned some of their communities for posting violent content (threats of violence etc.) so they moved to lemmy, which does not censor people to the degree Reddit does.

The .ml for lemmy.ml supposedly stands for “marxism leninism”.

Not just a US thing. EU is pushing for much more restrictive measures regarding mandatory ID registration. And it will be EU-wide for us. US will most likely be much better in that regard from 2027 onward, since only a few states seem to change things.

Gambling is a scam, but I wouldn’t trust my government to ban it. The way governments see these things, they may as well as ban Fallout: New Vegas for having gambling-related minigames. Or chance-based videogames. Good luck reasoning with your government on how these things are different. You’ll be hit back with countless arguments on how you are wrong.

Also, when gambling is legal, it’s taxed and regulated. When it’s illegal, it still happens but now the government has to spend money to stop it. Lose-lose situation.

My country reduced European VAT tax on coffee and nearly every coffee shop kept the prices at the same level. The government raised them back again later. I’d say this is not starbucks-specific, reducing VAT to lower the prices just doesn’t work.

There are certain Linux distributions that come with all basics pre-installed and are designed to be convenient. All ubuntu derivatives, Mint, Pop_OS, Zorin etc. I know it because I use one and it’s just as convenient as Windows.

You can be sure these distributions will cause you no trouble because they are made by companies that put them in their computers or design them to be on pre-builts and therefore cannot be allowed to be difficult to use. For example, System76 developed Pop_OS to be used in their PCs. SteamOS is developed by Valve for the handheld console. These aren’t indie projects some hobbyists made.

For your programs, we now have flatpaks/snaps that make a program work even if it’s not developed specifically for your distribution. Valve developed Proton for its console, and it “translates” almost all games to Linux, including some games with anti-cheat. I have a library of 500+ games and they are all compatible. You can install any program with a click of a button, it’s just as easy as running an .exe file.