Proton complies with court orders in other countries. Specifically, and of note, they handed over the identification of an activist due to French court rulings. There have been a number of others surfaced over the years.

nk of rooms formed by st would that they were that well stocked they could :)

You trust SuperNeatVPN headquartered in $unregulatedCountry more than your own ISP?

if SuperNeat hasn’t been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, at least a little bit. it really depends on what and who. If you’re worried about being called up on anti-regime charges when it becomes illegal, it would be at least prudent to try not to post that from an IP in a country where the regime doesn’t have search and seizure rights. At this point, Google/Apple/Verizon/Comcast have been asked to comply with handing over people doing X things. It wouldn’t take a whole lot to at least obfuscate that a little. You’d still have to be careful through, even Proton is turning over activists.

it’s a joke, the Japanese didn’t historically have a differentiation between blue and green. They ‘recently’ added a word for it, but still call green apples by their old blue term.

The people pushing the legislation are so unappealing to the opposite sex, it ranks very high on their psyche.

Per Live Science, the team modified a technique used to turn stem cells into neural tissue to create the brain organoids with the optic cups. After the cells developed into mini-brains, the optic cups formed 30 days later and fully matured at 50 days. The timing was on target with eye development in a human embryo, meaning the process could be used to study how eyes develop in utero.

LOL k

Ram doesn’t require anywhere near the tech we need for processors.

They’re going this kind of thing for processors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

Ram uses tech that’s way older. and for our needs, they can just stack smaller, low density chips

They’re all fine. You get used to one or another and that’s what you want. They all have issues and they all have boons. More often or not, it came down to either what your distro defaulted to, or whatever had that one feature you needed when you first installed (factional scaling) and you just stuck there

Go ahead, make a lucrative market for consumer ram, see how fast china figures out how ot start filling that need :)

can we make it scream activated?

Left of Hitler, just a touch.

Ass Ads grass commercials or gas sponsors, nobody rides for free

I’ve been following this for a while.

You have two main branches to follow

Bare‑metal (native Linux kernel + native drivers) pros:

• True Linux kernel
• Long‑term maintainability
• No Android blobs in userspace
• Cleaner architecture

cons:

• Driver support is the biggest pain point
• • Modems, cameras, GPUs, sensors often require reverse‑engineering
• Power management is worse
• Hardware acceleration may be incomplete
• Fewer devices are viable

You can put this on an old pine phone, or a pixel 3 or a fairephone 4/5 You can buy a preconfigured puresim librem 5 Battery life is pretty rough. You can find lots of youtubes recounting their attempts at daily driving both PostmarketOS, Puresim and UBPorts on bare metal

Halium‑based (Linux userspace on top of Android hardware abstraction)

pros:

• Excellent hardware support (camera, modem, GPU, sensors)
• Better battery life
• Runs on many more devices
• More stable than bare‑metal

cons:

• Controversial in the community
• Relies on Android blobs
• Not “pure Linux”
• Kernel is usually Android‑based, not mainline
• Long‑term maintainability depends on Android vendor support

You can buy preworking models from Volla or you can put it on a Fury Phone there are a number of options for used phones if you want to install it yousel.

IMO, If you want a daily driver with working cameras and good battery life, Halium is usually the practical choice.

You also have to beware of usage in some places, looks like most of the carriers in Australia will refsue to active VoiceOverLTE even though the phones support it.

I bought a specific airfilter from home depot once (prob 15 years ago). 6 months later I went back because I needed a filter. I couldn’t remember which one I bought so I popped on their website, from my phone. I found the unit I bought and got the filter that it needed from the store.

For the next 3 weeks straight, every other add on every page, on facebook, on amazon, on everywhere was the air cleaner I purchased. They must have spent at least $5 on me alone it was the only static ad I saw the entire time.

Not a stupid question at all, but so far in the weeds of speculation that we couldn’t get a straight answer out of it with a 24 pack of beer, a d100, and a really good DM. But let’s ponder.

The nature of international trade and finance is screwy AF. It’s like finance for the rich, where the only money that exists is what people owe to you and what you owe to people. Noting ever changes hands, not to say that it would soften the blows but it does make the effects move more slowly than one might want.

If it were just the international fall of Apple, Microsoft, and Google, along with the standard bits and bobbles of alcohol, and whatever 100 other odd consumer products we actually still manage to produce in the states, I don’t think that’ll hurt us as much as whatever eventually happens to with AI. A single day of military production probably outstrips most of that. While it’s possible that other warmachines can ramp up to quell the hunger of everyone for world destruction and weapons for self-preservation, I suspect once the current series of aggressions, fiasco,s and administration disappear, the US war machine will still find plenty of buyers, though the menu will likely change as we’ll no longer seen as a reliable ally. Food and Oil/industrial exports will likely fluctuate, at most. I suspect they’ll be forced to sell at a discount. If tourism doesn’t recover, that’ll beat the F out of a lot of places. We might see Vegas go fallout style.

I’d love to see European alternatives for Apple, Microsoft, and Google. I’d import that in a hot second.

Honestly, If the world really wanted to see the US burn, they could just stop trade altogether. The time to restructure food, coal and oil would be enough to starve out a lot of the population, even if we’re relatively close to self sustaining, none of those channels are setup.

Imaine the calls for blood when you can’t get produce out of season and avocados become $15 each.

I have a take on that. I’m going with hank green on this one. https://youtu.be/jOR4wuiPeEQ

The entire US economy is being held up by the ultra-wealthy right now. We should be in a recession, but they’re pushing all the right buttons in all the right places to keep stocks where they need to be to keep running.

The AI bubble isn’t blindly bobbing around on the top waiting to pop, it’s orchestrated. Yes, it’s a bubble. Yes the stated value there isn’t anywhere near real. But it’s not going to pop until they let it. Investors are going to stay with it as long as they’re not scared of it going away and the ultra rich are using it as a vehicle to maintain wealth and unless they somehow screw up, it’s not going anywhere until they decide to do something different.

OpenAI isn’t too big to fail, but the Industry as a whole is too well-funded and tightly controlled to let it fail, for now.

My wife just requested we gather enough boxes to turn the living room, kitchen and foyer into a nerf war fortress.

Send me your boxes…

Even Windows has its moments, bad updates fuck you over a bit.

Most distros just install and work. If you take a 1-2+ year-old system and let Linux wipe it, most of them will just kinda work. Brand new hardware is always dicey, it’s better to buy last years model. Steam and web browsers do what you’ll expect. Updates just work. Steam games are generally doable; you just have to flip a switch in Steam to use emulation. The big exception on games is stuff with kernel-level anti-cheat. Valorant, Fortnite, PUBG, Genshin Impact.

Now, if you start using hardware that needs custom apps, RBG controllers, custom webcam controls, If you used nvidia broadcasting suite, outlook, photoshop, Then, you’ll find the effort. You need to find alternatives or try to run stuff in wine, and learning new apps is work and feels bad everything will feel like a downgrade.

Replacing hardware can also be dicey. Solutions are generally not all that bad, but definintely can turn into work.

If you just need some steam and a web browser, you almost can’t go wrong, if you want to emulate every inch of what you were doing in windows outside of that, you’re likely to have to work for it.

I’ll agree that negligence does not equate to accident, my young child and I have been working on that lesson for years. But intent is a bit of a stretch. If it was actual intent, I’d be overjoyed. This is more of a dumpster fire just doing what it does.