I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).

You know they’re just going to drown you in “civil matter” shit as soon as you try.

For every person like you that won’t take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.

Not afaik. You either allow it or not. Doing so selectively would require a lot more knowledge than I have.

As a workaround however, running a VM and using your browser from within that would seem like a decent-ish way to obtain similar results with minimal effort. You can use the hypervisor to set whatever limits you require.

Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.

Distros, bistros, tomatoh, tomahto.

There’s another consideration: it has to be as cheap as possible to produce. And that explains the advent of reality TV.

I would sooner put my nuts in an iron vice while running 10.000 volts through it and lighting it on fire than provide Facebook with anything at all.

It doesn’t matter if we defeat this one. They’ll just try again and again and again until it sticks.

There are already big brands offering laptops with linux in lieu of windows.

Linking to Arch is debatably a greater troll than rickrolling.

The enshittification/rent seeking continues. Nothing is sacred.

I’ve always hated Discord since the very beginning. At least now I have yet another really good reason.

Never used it, never will. Ventrilo for lyfe.

Just ignore Reddit. Pretend it doesn’t even exist. It’ll go the way of Digg soon enough.

That’s what they count on. They only have to get it through once. We have to fight and win every time, as the UK recently found out. Vigilance has to be key, no matter how hard they make it. But I concede it’s tiring as all hell.

God dammit, and just as Google starts enforcing manifest 3. Maybe it’s time to stop doing this internet thing altogether. It had a pretty nice run but right now it’s just a propaganda and compliance tool…

I was mulling moving everything from Google to Proton. Guess I’ll keep my money for now.

I used to run VM’s in parallel for my job, which eat RAM like candy. Other than that though, I’ve never had a use case for more than 32GB RAM.

Encrypted DNS traffic => oh noed, what now?