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8 hours agoThis. Expecting me to select from the drop-down on every single comment even though 99% of what I post is in the same language just isn’t realistic.
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2·11 hours agoI’ve got a BIOS ROM chip sitting here on my desk waiting to be flashed with Libreboot as we speak.
How sad that you’re so desperately grasping at straws in order to simp for corporations.
Weird omission of Firefox.
It has to do with EVs in the sense that (practically speaking) every single one of them is new enough to be infested with surveillance, so (unlike with ICE) there’s no option to avoid it by going with an old vehicle.
Also, nobody gives a shit about new ICE cars, so there’s no point in mentioning them when they weren’t within the realm of consideration to begin with.
The criticism is of all new cars, not just EVs, but EVs are the only new cars that would’ve otherwise been worth considering.
Or in other words, what you wrote is a lie because old ICE cars without surveillance exist, but there is practically* no such equivalent for EVs.
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There were a few NiMH EVs from the late '90s through early 2000s that were produced in low numbers (a few thousand total summed across all years and models), mostly leased to fleets, and almost always destroyed once the leases expired. Good fucking luck finding one of those!
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Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:
(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added ‘cyber’. Also, here’s a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)
2·1 day ago“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.
Maybe there’s room for compromise, but there is absolutely zero reason to concede such things in advance. The baseline expectation is that every device should be running Free Software and fully respect its owner’s property rights, full stop.
If you instead approach the issue with the casual attitude that “oh, proprietary isn’t so bad if it doesn’t connect to the internet” the compromise after negotiations ends up favoring proprietary tyrants way more than you would’ve been okay with.
No device should have the third, ever.
Pretty sure he meant something like “not a nonprofit or government entity.”
Not if you control the updates.
But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No “smart” devices unless they’ve been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.
Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.
2·2 days agoAnticompetitive to ensure everyone sells it at the same price?
Yes, goddamnit! Haven’t you ever heard of “price-fixing?”
Yeah, I mean what is the Empire gonna do – build another Death Star?
They’re called “Windsor chairs” (with the “hoopback” variety in OP’s picture and the “comb-back” variety in your link) and they’ve been a traditional style for hundreds of years.
Hoopback Windsor chairs are an entire style, not a specific design made by one manufacturer.
Never mind actually acting on the information, the tracking, by itself, should be an instant firing offense for every single pig involved!
I doubt many people would’ve been trying to use PC-DOS or MS-DOS as a server in 1996. More likely Novell NetWare, OS/2 Warp, or maybe Windows NT.