As much as I love Cory Doctorow’s work, this is a stretch. The crack in the door only comes once everything supporting the consolidation and oligarchy of the tech industry comes crashing down. The broligarchs have their contingency planning in place already, so a crack in the door might exist one day, but it’s going to take a lot more than EFF and a few niche rights groups to make any change there. The tech money is digging in, and doing so in ways that are edge cases for even digital rights groups.

The post-WWII order is gone, the post-Cold War model of economics is over, and the post-9/11 surveillance state is now wearing a mask with hoses that feed it super-strength drugs. It’s that the costs of the old bargain are double for everyone that isn’t a FANG, and now gone for them. Just like the Western economy, it’s bifurcating towards different planes of existence that know of each other but barely interact IRL. Which is not sustainable, but for how long we’ll wobble, it’s hard to say.

Digital rights and privacy groups need to be proactive and demonstrate uses cases for both, and make use of them while expecting the non-sustainability of the current system to one day give way to something new.

So step 1 is, for now, strap the fuck in and get your house in order. Build skills, teach others. Step 2 one day is going to be on the heels of massive cultural and political change.

There does seem to be a cyclical nature to new users. Same with new communities. I’ll go looking for a niche community and find one, only to see a half dozen posts 2 years ago during the first big push to the fediverse, and then it’s dead after that. It’s entirely possible I’m looking at an entire ghost community where every one of those users bailed a couple years back.

Hidden tail.

Welcome! The thing worth knowing is that corporate social media has intentionally trained you to expect zero friction because that’s the basis of their business model - to trap you. Once you spend a bit of time or watch a YT video and understand how lemmy works, it’s not that complicated at all.

Consider that things worth doing in life are not so easy that they suck you in. No one gets in shape at the gym on accident. A small bit of effort pays off here.

To view and view alone, use an alt fronend - https://imginn.com/ You can “follow” by bookmarking the users within the frontend.

For everything else, just make a sockpuppet account or buy an account if you can find a reremovedble site (lol) selling aged accounts. You might be able to buy 10 for $40 or something and 1 might really work.

The discover page won’t work without an account because the algorithm is defined by the account.

I also thought this headline happened like 3 months ago when all this stupid stuff started. I can’t find anything other than other “news” outlets obviously just copying this headline.

Yep - pre-coffee comments are never ideal. Learn from my fail.

Sorry, I mean patriotism and my brain is stupid about words.

Sorry, I’m an idiot - I meant patriotism. My facepalm is a full body move.

I’ll get downvoted for this, but use Claude for Linux troubleshooting, not ChatGPT. It’s much better at both Linux and PC troubleshooting. Also, are you sure that your refurbishments are compatible with the board and remaining components? Might be worth trying to do a Windows 10 install (don’t actually install, just go through the steps) just to see if you get a GUI from that process.

Also, check and take this to LinuxMintForums.com as that’s more specialized. But try and get more info before you go over there. They’ll want full details.

The rule of thumb is that you’re not going to just find some hidden gem super stealth browser. If it’s not well-known in the privacy community, it’s a scam and scraping tool.

Browsers take huge amounts of work, even FF forks. This seems like bait and until you find a researcher going out of their way to tell you to use it, don’t use it.

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The symbolism of 60 senators and 60 stab wounds. But, in practicality, by #23, a full freakout was probably going on, so #24 was probably like “Oh, hey, can I just get in here real quick and just… ok, fine! Never mind.”

Apologies, I totally missed the most essential part of this all:

Shut the fuck up, Donny.

Who decides what counts as a “level up”?

Well, you do, ultimately. Remember, you’re talking about a system where there is agency between lifetimes as well. I’m not familiar enough with non-human karmic mechanics to definitively tell you, but in most systems it’s that you a “burning off” the karma of being en evil asshole by being demoted from human to less sentient lifeforms. So sending Hitler or Cecil Rhodes or Andrew Jackson would then indeed spend 40,000 lifetimes being killed over and over again before getting back in the running to have a central nervous system.

Two things:

First, mathematically, It’s sort of a moot concern. Reincarnation comes with the framework that lives are the universe experiencing itself. So There’s no “loss” in going between species as “you” will actually incarnate as everything and everyone once in non-linear time on the backend making “time” immaterial. I am you and you are me. We are all one existence. So you have time.

Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.

The first car my dad had when I was born said “Unleaded fuel only” on the gauge.

To be fair, that isn’t exactly ancient. Leaded fuel was phased out across the U.S. in 1996, and the “Unleaded Fuel Only” tags were more common from the mid-80s onward up to 95 model years, so you could be talking about events in 1998 or 2002 when gas prices dipped for a bit. Though, diesel vs. unleaded still has to be differentiated.

Over perceived safety. None of the surveillance state add-ons do a single god damned thing to make anyone safer.

In the context of the comment, “do shit” is explicitly not anything to do with the OS or packages or repos.

People need to put their egos aside and recommend a distro suited to a soft landing for a new person. That includes knowing that person’s technical skill and who around them will help when real issues pop up that require hand-holding and not just “Well, there’s a forum and you ask there.”

IMO that’s Mint, but I also haven’t found a distro that has tempted me away from Mint, either.