https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

We’ve been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that’s because the Luddites were justified too!

They weren’t against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.

At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.

He was there with his girlfriend, yet he was in the arcade instead of the orgy!

a supposed cold city in a tropical country

What does that mean? High elevation, I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxUjZXqba8

Have you checked up your butt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9kqhzQ-8Q

If I’m taking a screenshot, it’s because I want to accurately preserve what I’m seeing. Doing anything, clever or not, to alter that is a breach of trust.

Doing it for the purpose of branding/advertising, of all things, only adds insult to injury.

You’d hope so (especially backups by the public since all this ought to be public domain data), but the other problem is that the organizations collecting it are being destroyed so there will be discontinuities in it forever now.

Just have him watch Deep Space Nine

If it’s a “safety issue,” it’s definitely not happening at a 1 MPH speed differential. C’mon, now.

MTG may have seen the light

She absolutely has not. Don’t be fooled. She’s on the other side of a schism within MAGA, not reformed away from fascism. Not even slightly.

To be fair, once the billionaire class started dumping money into think tanks the growth became exponential decline snowballed.

MTG being batshit crazy is one thing. But she also resigned and thus presumably isn’t privy to any secret plans anymore. Why the fuck should we believe her?

My diesel car has run on B100 (100% biodiesel) just fine for years. That’s already good enough and requires no new technology or infrastructure. Hydrogen is stupid as hell.

They just want to destroy open source firmware. They hate freedom from corporate control, not guns.

It can’t. They want to destroy 3D printers and Free Software in general entirely.

When I search for “App Store” and click through Google’s bullshit, Aptoide is still the only thing that comes up. Where are all the others, like F-Droid and Obtanium and whatnot?

(Also I’m salty that the term “app store” is winning even to describe Free Software repositories that don’t stoop to being “stores,” but never mind that.)

Web browser tabs.

(I only have 64GB, but that’s my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there’s a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)

Honestly, popularity. If lots of other people use it, chance are somebody did that sort of check already.