What has happened since shows the delicate servile relationship Google has kept with its advertising client, the fascist apartheid state Israel

Fixed it for them.

I half expected that link to be to Psycho Killer 😁

Something something dancers apparently aren’t humans (according to The Killers)

This same thing, amongst other excellent recent pro-consumer rulings?

Protectionism is a valid reason to deny it

No it isn’t. Protectionism is jingoist bullshit. Always has been, always will be.

I wonder if denying Chinese tech under the guise of national security a last ditch attempt from big oil lobbyists?

Definitely. The leadership of both major US parties are pretty much owned by the fossil fuel industries.

Even progressives advocating for the Green New Deal won’t say the part about gradually eliminating fossil fuel use out loud out of fear of fossil fuel industry lobbyists and the politicians they own doing an AIPAC.

Or is that too far fetched

Not at all.

I love the explainxkcd meme of marking obviously true statements with [citation needed] and this one has a couple doozies:

Even a single star is far too big to fit in a cell. [citation needed]

The real Golgi was not and is not a tiny alien being who merged with our cells, as the comic and title text imply. [citation needed]

Have you ever tried any modern Linux desktop distribution?

Yeah, the last one I tried was Lubuntu Jammy Jellyfish a few months ago.

Pop was the one I tried first, but the ancient laptop I was using at the time couldn’t hack it, so I went with the ultra light weight version of Ubuntu in stead.

Very little worked out of the box and almost everything took a lot more fiddling and searching and asking for advice to get to work. For example, I never did manage to make bottles work after over a week of trying on and off, doing exactly what the documentation and advice told me to.

I haven’t gotten to the gaming part of my Tiny11 test, so if it fails that, I might give Pop another chance now that I have a much newer one, but Lubuntu is definitely not as hassle free as Linux enthusiasts keep promising that all their favorite distros are…

To be fair, alternatives like Tiny11 are much more user friendly for someone used to Windows than going all the way to Linux.

Especially if gaming is a big part of what you use your computer for and you prefer to do as much as possible with just the mouse rather than typing in various complex commands, both of which is the case with me.

Windows 11 is too bloated and otherwise enshittified and making Linux do what I want it to is too much of a hassle.

Tiny11 is better for my personal use case on both accounts and, like with Linux, I’m not rewarding Microsoft’s sleazy behavior by using it.

I’m testing out Tiny11, which is basically Windows 11 without the bloat, and so far the experience is great!

My secondhand laptop from 2019 went from taking two minutes or more each to boot and to shut down in the full Microsoft monstrosity to less than 10 seconds for either in Tiny11 and the general performance is also dramatically improved!

Ffs! This is one of the most blatant Dem* examples of the fox guarding the hen house since Joe Manchin being appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources!

*with the GOP, it’s exceedingly rare that ANY of the henhouse guards aren’t foxes and/or completely unqualified

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Keeping lists has not really worked for me to the point that I’m actively averse to them, especially in paper form.

In stead I make do with alarms and making sure that my days are hardly ever busy so that I and my very basic system don’t get overwhelmed lol

I’m seriously considering making Tiny11 my daily driver on my gaming desktop.

I’m about to start a prolonged test run on my new to me secondhand laptop as soon as my ADHD brain lets me remember at an opportune time to actually do it 😄

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The video stresses that “content credentials” will “always make transparent whether AI was used”

Should absolutely be legally required for all commercial and political usage in these hyper-propagandized times IMO…

…in bed

And got so far, but in the end it doesn’t really matter

At first, I read it as “will now automatically receive obsolete driver versions” and was like “WHY?!” 😂

Sure, but that’s up to the companies, not the government.