NutWrench

You’re probably going to be installing and changing a lot of stuff over the next few weeks. Make sure you use TimeShift to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore in Windows).

You can even restore a system that won’t boot anymore, by booting from a Live usb stick, running TimeShift and choosing a snapshot off your hard drive.

Nothing like having a “Supreme Court” where you can yoink their funding if they don’t give you the ruling you want.

I’m perfectly fine with storing media on flash drives. Optical disks just adds an unnecessary step between me and enjoying my movies.

If you hang out in the politics subs, you’re going to get political shills and bots with agendas. Either learn how to detect and avoid them or just don’t hang out in those subs.

Thanks to badly written software, you can literally design “planned obsolescence” into your products.

“The computer says you need to replace your 15,000 dollar battery pack.”

“But my car is only six months old!”

“Yeah, but the Computer SAYS-”

I got the “It’s time to upgrade to Windows 11” message on my Windows 10 laptop. It’s getting aggravating.

You can get laptops on Amazon now with Ubuntu pre-installed. :)

Yup. With VOIP, you can spoof any phone number. If this technology were fixed, 99% of spam calls would disappear, and Caller ID would be worth something again. Our government is either too lazy or bought-off to fix this problem.

They DID enact the national Do Not Call list and created heavy fines for people who violate that list, while knowing full well that they couldn’t catch the spammers in the first place (because of VOIP spoofing).

“Free ad-supported” makes you no different than a hundred other garbage-tier streaming services.

Yup, the fine needs to be much higher. People could have died because of this.

The entire point of fines is that they’re punitive. They’re supposed to HURT. To make you change your behavior and not do the Bad Thing again.

If fines don’t even make a dent in your daily profits, then laws become nothing more than suggestions. They become just a cost of doing business.

This is probably connected to China cloning the entire GitHub website to their own servers.

“Let them fight.”

I finally switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago. CoPilot/ Recall was the last straw.

“God never gives you more than you can handle.”

I know people who have been driven batsh*t insane by what God has given them.

Whoever is downvoting this needs to have an encounter with the U.S. legal system, so they find out how little their precious freaking “rights” are worth.

It will definitely be decentralized. The biggest blows to real representative democracy happened when the courts made the “corporations are people / money is speech” arguments.

“Why won’t our human assets appreciate being exploited? Creating a worldwide, distributed surveillance network is hard work!”

Copilot is going to want 50 gigs on YOUR computer’s hard drive to store snapshots. MS also wants you to buy dedicated AI hardware to run a few of their apps. They’re going to steal your computer’s storage and processing resources to create a worldwide AI and surveillance network.

No thanks. I finally switched to Linux. Microsoft can become Skynet without my help.

The Russian enterprise should not seek customer support from the manufacturer directly: “You will simply compromise the legitimacy of our legal entity, which presents itself as an organization not connected to the Russian Federation in any way.”

Lol. The “legal entity” is literally telling you, “don’t compromise our ‘legitimacy’ in this illegal as f*ck transaction.”

There are a lot of books that are out of print, especially reference books. And if you look for them on Amazon or eBay, they’ve been snapped up by scalpers who are reselling them for obscene profit.

Either make the books available for sale or quit complaining about “copyright infringement.” But whatever you do, quit hoarding knowledge like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold.