Small, if true!

lol. I don’t wish him any harm, I just want him far from those he might continue to harm.

It’s easy to imagine the prosecution closing the case by just calling Russel Brand to the stand and letting him just not be smart enough to shut up for a few minutes.

Brand has given off “too stupid to realize consequences can be real” for a good while, now.

I hope he gets a prison sentence and damages that gives his victims some peace.

He’s counting on Mars. Which isn’t insane. He should go. We’re right behind him.

I would chip in $25 to send him to space, unless it was a two-way ticket.

Dealing with billing mistakes is sexy as hell - for the glory of the empire!

I mean, I do give a shit what they say.

Andy Yen said “I’m going to fuck up a service you rely on.”

I took them at their word and canceled.

It will still be “our network”… just with a wider definition of “our”.

Want to give me any pointers on what to check out first, in case there’s a mad rush to join in and explore?

Lol.

Oh sure, all the time.

A computer running public auditable software refined by some of history’s top computer scientists…is still just a computer.

We taught spicy electrified rocks how to help us fill out tax forms.

It’s going to fall short every so often.

Pencil pushers gonna push pencil.

I’ll be surprised if we learn there was actually no dark web back room deal providing this stuff to anyone who didn’t appreciate the law getting in the way.

This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.

lol. That brings back memories. I did that once, and then I kept getting asked Windows tech support questions.

So now I don’t bother. Linux Mint is more than good enough for my random family use.

There is no corporate answer.

Edit: Hyperbole aside, here’s some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough:

You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed.

For phones, it sounds like you’re aware that there are no compromise-free answers today.

But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft.

Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled.

Edit 2:

Back to your original point - I don’t have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you.

I think some exist, but they’re much lower quality, because there’s a mich smaller community around them.

Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have.

So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller.

I recommend freedom.

Like Christmas in Whoville, freedom doesn’t come wrapped in a company.

Freedom comes from standing in the cold naked air on open source software with no cloud services except what you can wrangle from the earth with your own two hands.

Edit: All this discussion has me worked up. I’m going to go use hand tools to carve a canue.

I didn’t recommend Google and I don’t sit in their cage either.

We early adopters are so far further away than you imagine.

Here’s the starter kit, if you’re ready:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint
• ~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS~~
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS

Edit: lol. fuck it, you sound angry, and anger might be what you need to go all the way. Added link to GrapheneOs.

The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.

We saw Apple’s closed ecosystem as the trap that it is, and avoided it. Can’t really help you if you’re still inside the cage.

You’re also missing out on a bunch of other cool shit, honestly.

But I get it, it is convenient. I’m not mad. I just also can’t help you fly free until you leave the cage.

I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit

If you have a 401k, selling “Large-Cap” indexes or “Full market” indexes can help. (and buying something else, don’t leave it uninvested, obviously).

Am I missing something?

Just fear of missing out on the bubble rising higher before popping, assuming magical luck to get off the ride at the perfect moment.

In other words, idiocy. Idiocy is what you’re missing.

Wise to keep missing it, if you can.

And… I sure wish we could stop them.

Most 401k plans have some options that can reduce or eliminate stock owned in the biggest tech companies, at least.

Selling any “Large Cap” or “Full Index” stocks, and buying into a Mid-Cap Index should drastically reduce ones 401k’s risk from and participation in the current tech bubble.

so it’s not going ‘off the rails’ for every Hombre with a Black Hat, but rather every Hombre with a Black Hat, leather hat band, and a white feather, sort of. I’ve not read beyond the Abstract.

So each season it would be tuned to “what was in fashion” for the expected coming cold/flu season?

That sounds awesome.

Spray up the nose for a chance to miss the worst bug of he season? I would take those odds. (And yes, I’m aware of and partake of the bargain that is existing annual flu shot, haha.)

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