that’s some bullshit. I bought a thing the other day that had a $7.00 fee for protection. I didn’t check it and thought, cool, they’ll just decline to ship it and keep my money if I don’t pay it. I didn’t pay it, I did get my shit, but the thought was thunk and now I’m thinking it again. You should think it too.

Whole foods asparagus water: $8

Whole foods aspargus water shoved into your asscrack while mumbling incoherently: priceless

Mental illness and homelessness go together like sex and cigarettes. You can have 1000 days of harmless hobos sleeping on benches, and all it takes is 1 or 2 stark-raving madmen attacking or harassing people to shift attention and spark concern about safety (falling property values because that neighborhood has a “bum problem”)

I’m not saying it’s right, it just how things work.

Edit: I’ve paid high rent to live somewhere and had to deal with panhandlers, hobos, and thieves. Kindness wasn’t a valuable tool. Needless to say it hits different when you are the one being affected.

You silly goose! US Congressmen get the best healthcare. What’s wrong, are you not a Congressman? Sucks for you!

words right out of my mouth.

So if I were a foreign asset and in charge of the executive branch, I would ensure that every cabinet position and agency was headed by an incompetent, obnoxious, embarrassing criminal, so it simultaneously: discredits the institution, accelerates dissolution of public faith in government, actively damages the agency and its mission, and weakens the United States by a death of 1000 cuts.

But that’s just if I were a foreign (why not Russian) asset actively working against the best interests of the United States.

Just like the good ol’ days in the Bronze Age.

Don’t look at the Debian website.

I chided someone earlier today for what I thought was a neckbeard superiority complex. It was a cheap shot. It’s a lot better than it used to be. The nerds tolerate you if you use Mint.

On the plus side, you don’t have to m----r the goats to get your money back.

Isn’t EA the company recently making headlines for being a power and money-hungry greed machine pushing the inshittification of the digital world and subscription-based life?

Gosh it sucks when someone with more leverage institutes unreasonable and unprecedented restrictions and demands, huh? The narcissism mind-virus is insane.

The female sims will have a fulfilling existence, just limited to the confines of their home and subject to their husband’s authority. /s

Weird. I think they like them a lot more than they let on (sandy sexy secrets).

To be fair to your point, windows does seem to be biased toward HP products - I have a really nice Canon $100 laser printer that makes any HP look like dogvomit, and windows is awfully forgetful, acting like they haven’t met on the rare occasions I have to use it.

That is literally impossible to say, as you said, “hostile vendors” and all. I’ve had a chance to think about it, and I’m not sure they’re hostile, probably just lazy. At any rate, I sense some willful blindness on your part; exactly the kind of thing I was saying holds back progress. You type some terse retort and push your keyboard away, satisfied you’ve told some stupid normie off- I’m not the one on the wrong side of the philosophical fence here, and my argument is not unique or new.

Those are good points, and accurate. I think my luck may just suck. I would be so happy to leave Nepo-baby Gates and his spyware company in the 20th century where it belongs.

My self-hosted services run on a repurposed thinkstation with a headless Debian install.

I had a Mint VM I loaded up with stuff - bottles, etc. It was all going pretty well, the install was almost as big as winblows which I wasn’t excited about, but I really like Mint. I had a Linux Lite VM i was using for a separate secure connection to my work vnc. I didn’t want my personal computer being legally discoverable just because I used it to connect to the mothership. On both of those, I wasn’t doing a lot of sharing, printing, or other intermediate or hardware tasks.

For what I was doing, it worked pretty mostly fine. There was always a level of tinkering that is beyond what a normie would be willing or able to do. I do get tired of having to manually enter the commands to make the distro display correctly on my ultrawide monitor, but it is understandable.

I don’t hate Linux. I like it. It has gotten a lot better in the last 20 years; I’ve watched it happen. There are just some things that remain frustrating, especially since I’m too dumb to remember CLI along with all the other things I know.

print something on a piece of paper.

It didn’t take long for having to buy 3 or 4 streaming services to replace cable became more expensive than cable.

Anyway, I have a poopdeck to scrub and a wooden leg to polish.

They might get interested if people start talking about Epstein again.