The east side of Britain was colonized by the Vikings. “Big Wota” = the Danelaw + Scotland.

I mean, I could’ve gotten a better deal if I’d been shopping around intentionally…

At least the way the auto parts store does it, you get charged the full price of a tool if you fail to return it.

(Source: I accidentally bought a vacuum pump.)

Well, fuck.

By all means, be choosy with where you spend your money and who you work for. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s how we win.

There should be a bot that responds with this every fucking time somebody says “boycott.”

(I say as someone who has been boycotting several large companies for decades, to zero observable effect.)

Is beep still alive active? They’re my one and only blocked member

AFAIK, yes, and they’ve given up on their weird crusade.

Sounds like a worthwhile tradeoff for something you’re strapping to your face and therefore want to be as light as possible.

Trump has caused a precedent to be set that could upend trade worldwide. Freedom of navigation is dead and other straits like Malacca, Bosporous, and Gibraltar could end up tolled by the adjacent countries because of this.

Wait, the $15 2K model you bought yesterday can be rooted? I figured anything made in the last few years would’ve been patched.

Can you tell me the exact model (the code on the box, like this, as explained in this XDA thread about the model I got where I experienced disappointment), and where you found the information about rooting it?

I appreciate that you’re happy with yours even without rooting, but I don’t think I’d be able to trust it not to enshittify in the long run on the stock firmware.

This screams of !thathappened, but LOL if it actually did.

I have a couple of them that I bought shortly after the LTT video on the topic with the intention of rooting. After figuring out that I’d unfortunately got the newer hardware revision that can’t be rooted, I had them just sitting in a box.

If “debloating” them without rooting and installing Lineage or whatever is “good enough,” maybe I should take another look. Do you know of a good guide to follow? Is there anything special that needs to be done, such as preventing it from updating or connecting to the Internet before the factory malware is removed?

What’s a “dont” and does it exist when not owned by a ghost?

Goddamnit. I got my Boomer parents to ditch cable and get a Roku, in part, to keep them away from Fox News.

There is no rule that you have to put “rule” in the title. It’s just a tradition.

When did that happen?

I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.

That’s great and all, but I’m still waiting for it to be affordable to install my own so that it can also be a whole-house uninterruptible power supply.

Just kidding… mostly.

Realistically, your diary is safe enough on your Mac. (By the way: you say “I am certain I need to install a Linux distro or a BSD,” but technically, MacOS already is a BSD.) IMO the main threat vector you have to worry about would be Apple changing something to start harvesting your data itself, either for its own purposes (e.g. AI training) or legal compliance with Orwellian bullshit. That risk is a lot lower than the certainty it is with Windows, but it’s still proprietary software so it can’t be zero.

If you’re really that paranoid about it, any device without an Internet connection would do just fine, including something that isn’t on the Internet because it’s too old to be compatible with it (hence the typewriter, but a very old computer running DOS would do fine, too.) Otherwise, if you want a maximally-paranoid but still modern system, look into something like Tails or Qubes OS on a PC, or Graphene OS on a mobile device.

That “average price” includes cards with factory overclocks and other enhanced gimmicks to jack up the MSRP above what the base 9070XT is supposed to be. What does it look like for the specific models of cards that were actually intended to hit the $599 price point?

I did literally that.

The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.