It is far easier to break shit than it is to put things back together, for one.

I’ll hold out on praise until they open source Red Alert 3.

Because then the game itself will have escaped to the one place that isn’t corrupted by capitalism.

I’m on a 2080 on Mint and have been for the past year, haven’t had any major issues so far.

not at all arguing this is okay, not even a little

but

If you are the French government, and you know what the French populace has a history of doing to the French government, it would be understandable to want to keep your eye on them, no?

again. It ain’t cool. But I’m honestly surprised they didn’t hop on the “intrusive surveillance” bandwagon sooner, like, as soon as mass surveillance became feasible, and have the privacy laws they do.

honestly, this is brilliant. Not only is it going to make it easier to understand people with really thick accents – I’ve worked with lots of Indian people before (hotel industry) and I still get tripped up from time to time, especially over a crappy phone line – but it’ll also probably cut down on a lot of the racist shit they may take from customers. I can imagine the average call center employee with a thick accent takes a fair bit more abuse than call center employees who speak without an accent.

on the other hand, this might also make it harder to identify a scam call immediately if this becomes commonplace. Not that perfect English speakers aren’t also capable of scamming you, but, usually the scam callers aren’t perfect English speakers.

I dunno, maybe provide such a good service that it makes me want to pay, voluntarily? Like I do with Steam?

also, “you aren’t paying them, therefor they have the right to invade your privacy and serve malicious ads to you” is such a stupid, shit take. Are you some megacorp CEO’s personal ball-gargler or something?

see, I don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I use PopUpOFF and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Also AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, CanvasBlocker, and SponsorBlock to round out the “fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking” suite.

Hostile consumer practices becoming ubiquitous? Become a hostile consumer.

the second one for specific, more anonymous use.

Just say you have a porn alt, I and many others would respect you more for it.

It’s somehow worse when you do get the sleep, but your brain has decided to do this in your dreams. You wake up feeling angry and, rapidly, can’t remember half the reason why.

“someone with his business acumen”

Ah, yes, you mean the sort of business acumen that makes a casino go bankrupt?

yeah I blocked that entire instance for being full of those sorts of morons, and I’m gay. I don’t have the time or patience for that.

I just wish instance blocks extended to users, would make getting rid of entire swathes of annoying dipshits so much easier. Imagine being able to mass-block every user from lemmygrad.

A man can dream.

I’d switch if there was something like RVRB for Tidal or, better still, your own local music collection. Or if RVRB supported other platforms.

Seriously, that site has helped me find so much stuff I like, it’s hard to let that go.

Larry Ellison being a contentious, petty cunt? Must be a day ending in y.

really, you can just simplify this to “I wish all the people who fucked around the past four years a very merry finding out”

But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven’t been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don’t need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can’t be erased so easily.

Because the Nazis stopped at just Jews, right? Surely they never expanded upon that to encompass all “undesirables”, right?

Oh, wait.

Surely it must mean the planes are the cause of the high cost of eggs! Thank goodness they’re doing something about them.

I mean, Timeshift with BTRFS is pretty robust. I use it with Linux Mint, couldn’t be happier.

yeah I just figured I’d prattled on long enough. I’ve watched enough documentaries on WWII and the holocaust to know how it started, and I’m fucking terrified.

yeah I reckon we’re about to see, after the deportations of immigrants and the sudden labor shortage caused by it, a lot of other Americans who are also considered “undesirables” being voluntold to get busy pickin’ or get busy dying. We already force our prisoners to do slave labor, and you know what a hate-boner Republicans have for prisoners – how do you think that stacks up against their hate boner for trans people? gay people? Or, why, just anyone who doesn’t “vote correctly”?

yeah, send that to his superiors and watch the fireworks.