ExtremeDullard

So this guy was sacked, right?
Just like the MSNBC dude who expressed schadenfraude OFF THE AIR over Kirk’s murder, right?

Enjoy your Dad while he’s around. When you’re old and he’s not there anymore, you’ll miss this shit.

You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.

China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.

One does what one can where one can.

Well, there’s another reason why I run this ARM laptop: it’s fully open-source. Well, mostly: there’s one binary blob left. But that’s as close to open-source as I was able to find.

Like I said, there’s no good option if you need a computer - or indeed any product - that wasn’t made by some company in some country that runs against the values you believe in. Only the least bad option. This laptop is the one that ticked the most boxes for me.

I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).

Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.

But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.

Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:

• It’s not Intel: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through its stake in Intel.
• It’s not American: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through sales taxes.
• It’s not Russian: even if Elbrus processors were obtainable, I refuse to fund the Russian fascist regime through sales taxes.

The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.

Yeah it’s plausible. It’s just that you can’t trust anything any part of the US administration says is true and impartial anymore, is my point.

According to AP, there were messages engraved on the casings in the Kirk shooting.

Careful there. That’s not according to the AP, that’s ultimately according to the FBI. And if you think Kash Patel and his yes-men are above fabricating evidence to enable Trump to pin the murder on the woke-DEI-LGBT-left-whatever, I have a bridge to sell you.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and not with a missing minute in the video.

Is this a depiction of what happens when you have an ectopic pregnancy in an anti-abortion state after a romantic night with an Iraqi?

It’s funny how little of that word he hated I feel for him right now… I guess he just didn’t attract a lot of it as a terrible person.

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Well, I haven’t tried it yet but I feel totally safe and confident that my privacy will be totally respected already.

Something tells me a lot of porn sites will suddenly start being summarized…

You mean Apple doesn’t just make impressive bribes for fascist dictators?

Apple can gargles my balls. Fucking collaborators…

A strangely pointed metaphor of America today…

Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you’re at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we’re blessed not to hear about him from now?

We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

Also, LibreOffice saves in .docx format, if you want to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic.

This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

Did I claim otherwise?

Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is that older folks tend to remember the world as better in the past than it truly was.

Also, America sucks and always will.

That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.

Yes, and Bernie Sanders is old as dirt yet a decent politician in touch with young people.

But they’re exceptions. We need AOCs and Mamdanis and Sanders as the norm in politics.

That’s not a bad idea. But then you have to outlaw money in politics, because as soon as money is in the picture, it invariably favors rich old dudes, or people with connections that can only be formed over time.

In other words, nothing like this will happen in America in my grandchildren’s lifetime, let alone my children’s or mine.

That’s an illusion.

America 7 millenia ago might have been empty enough of people to be peaceful (though I highly doubt that) but people died young of easily treatable diseases because they didn’t have vacc…

Nevermind…