There is a difference (to me) of what constitutes an asshole. They are hateful pricks with no concern for others.

You dont need to be an asshole to fight one, you just need to be brave enough to fight one. Of course, they are assholes and they fight dirty, you will get dirty in the process.

First step, dont be a Asshole. After that dont support one. Then, dont raise any. Finally stand up to them.

Omg, I got a reremovedtion as being anti progressive because I kept telling the boss that maybe we shouldn’t go all in with cloud. Being in security, I was worried about putting all our shit on the internet and hoping it would be safe. Given the wildly primitive tools we had to see what was happening, I felt my caution was justified.

Nope, shut up you Luddite, we will save big money and move faster.

Now we save money by paying Microsoft an arm and a leg every month for their shitty services. We also have to pay cloudflare another ransom to add the protection that Microsoft can’t. We also pay Wiz buttloads of money to make sure that the first two things are working right.

Then someone who doesn’t like the security controls just creates a new tenant and puts a mountain of exposed PII there to get stolen and random’d.

The cloud is the best.

Omg that is so much better! I was using espeak and rhvoice. Thank you!

That’s kind of the point. Only target crime by poor brown people as they can’t afford lawyers.

Try putting a surveillance system in a corporate boardroom and see how that goes over.

Using any of them on a de-googled phone is pretty bad since the FOSS text-to-speech offerings are really primitive. Stephen Hawking could make fun of them for sounding robotic. Theyre pretty bad.

Same here. I started with mint 10 years ago, fucked around and came back to it.

Not a Dev, but I work in tech, so it does most of the things I want and can tinker with nascent projects without blowing my foot off.

It will be stupid, but I presume there will be a rise in desktop apps or webapps that require you to only plug the phone in and it will handle the rest.

Donate to the project. Graphene is run by a very small group of people who are very good at automation.

I don’t think they could effectively produce a whole new platform unless they had a lot more help.

If you value privacy, gonna have to crack open the wallet or volunteer to help.

If we just hope someone will save us, we are going to be very disappointed.

I would have rather seen the development of BBOS10. It was so far ahead of its time.

That whole thing we do with swipe gestures to navigate the android interface? Yeah BBOS had that years ago.

I miss my Passport.

It is unoriginal because meta already did it! They directly referenced meta in their description.

Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.

Let’s get these guys some money!!!

Fuck these talentless twerps.

Privacy matters. If it didnt, bathrooms would not have doors.

I do not understand people who use their garage to store useless crap and leave their car outside. The car is more valuable than the crap.

Dump all that useless junk into a dumpster. Get a bike shed, put the mower in it too.

The garage is for cars, not bikes, mowers or trash nobody cares about.

Looking at you California.

In the us, home chargers will typically run on 240 volts, similar to a dryer or electric stove.

The amperage can be as low as 16 amps (not common) and up to 40 amps. There are higher amperage chargers, but they’re not super common. Most homes dont have that much capacity provisioned and adding it to the breaker box means new circuits and often the power company has to provide a higher capacity meter. It gets expensive.

Since volts x amps = watts, a 240 volt charger that operates at 40 amps will charge at 9600 watts or 9.6 kilowatts (maximum).

You can charge using a standard 120v outlet, most are rated for 15 amps. However, you will get 120v x 15a = 1800 watts or 1.8 kilowatts (maximum).

It takes a while to get settled.

You have traded a perception of convenience for security, privacy and freedom.

Many people bounce back and forth for a bit, dont feel bad if you get fatigued and go back for a few. However, once you start using Linux, you’ll start to see the truth about windows. You’ll be back, even if you leave for a few.

Be patient, you’ll learn the ropes and soon it will be second nature.

Also, your logs will tell you much. Uploading a log to an ai makes troubleshooting much easier.

Used to make tarpits with reverse proxies. Accept the connection and then set the responses for a few seconds before default TCP timeout. Doesn’t eat much resource as long as you have enough TCP connections and can reuse them effectively.

It will be true if people are unwilling to put in a little effort to demand better or stop using windows.

You want your games to run on something else? Don’t buy them until they do. Sadly, most people are 100% unwilling to delay that instant gratification and sacrifice even the smallest convenience.

That’s how we got here. You cannot expect change if you are unwilling to do anything to make it happen.

This is why sloth is a deadly sin.

That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don’t want my OS creeping on all my shit.

It won’t matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.

A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.

My favorite simple example is “do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value–for all involved.”

There are also hand held radios, strobelights, flares, and PLBs that do not require more satellite infrastructure.

People being lost in the wilderness is not a new problem. It often happens because people don’t bother to consider that they might get lost and plan appropriately.

Sorry, but not everyone gets to come home, especially if they don’t do a little planning.

Donations are considered revenue. However, depending on the receiving entity, they could be qualified differently.