Consoles: Hives of vendor lock-in and proprietary nonsense
Smartphones: Hives of vendor lock-in, proprietary nonsense and a powerful tool for social engineers
Laptops: Strong tendency toward proprietary design, eh they’re not that terrible, I guess…
All in all, making these things harder to obtain would be a net positive for society.
When enough individuals ignore a law, it becomes soft nullified. For example, everyone doing ~30 over the speed limit. Even the cops where I’m from will tailgate you if you’re not going fast enough.
I salute non-VPN’d torrenters. Thank you for your service.
Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.
Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.
Here’s an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:
I sounds like you suffer from internalized proprietary.
Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.
Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.
To clarify, the term news to me translates to an organization whose purpose is to interpret events that could otherwise be better observed by going to primary sources oneself.
I don’t pay attention to news sources.
I would consider major centralized social networking platforms to be equivalent to television today as it holds captive the masses in much the same way, but with even finer grained control.
People apparently use installment plans for phone purchases these days, along with a downstream used market, so it’s actually a really apt analogy.
Ask her what her favorite steam locomotive engine is.
Get upset when she gives the wrong answer.
Erupt into a heated diatribe about the necessity of good boiler design and make sure she knows why she isn’t allowed to be friends with you.
Yell something unintelligible at her son on the way out.
If she still comes back to you later, then you know you’ve found a keeper.
Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.
I meant to, but was rudely interrupted by a skeleton swordsman this morning.
My client is configured to reject all non-encrypted peer connections. It sacrifices some potential seeds but is worth the added defense in depth if ever my VPN fails catastrophically. Openvpn client to an obscure VPN service. All media gets passed through clamAV before being accessed.
While on the hunt for treasure, my browser is configured to send DNS traffic over Tor. All web pages only get to load HTML and images, and they (torrent sites) remain perfectly functional without anything else. DDG search with the old tricks ‘1080p’, ‘full’, ‘HEVC’, ‘x264/x265’, ‘ep0_/se0_’, ‘.mkv’ and so on.
I rotate my treasure chests between ships.
I’d make a really awesome candy store clerk too, btw, because I love eating sugary snacks.
I never believed in power outages until I came face to face with one
Settings templates with user.js are Firefox’s saving grace.
Best of luck on your 'nix journey.
Same for cars.
Why do we need a new model every year?
Automotive design has been functionally complete since decades ago.
Based Germans know the inherent dangers posed by Intel Management Engine.
wtf is “GeForce NOW”?
Ah, cloud gaming
Well of course they’re going to rake suckers over the coals. Anyone with an ounce of foresight knew years ago that game streaming was going to be toll roaded to hell and back.