Nowadays I mostly, unexpectedly, draw the line at whether the product is good. I haven't really trained my mental ethics muscle because frankly most of the unethical stuff just isn't high quality.

Often I use ethics not as a "line" but as a proxy for the quality of something. In a world where we're bombarded with too many choices boycotting is more of an advantage than disadvantage.

In the rare instance when something is good and unethical, like meat, it becomes a case-by-case thing. In the case of meat I stay away from pork (because that's the most inhumane) and obviously I don't touch any American meat.

EDIT: The topic here was work. Which is a tough one because we're basically not given a choice on jobs. I would never do a job that actively makes the world a worse place, but I would work for a for-profit corporation ... except my quality argument still carries over here. For-profit corporations are horrible places to work.

Popular equals more money and more interest. In other words popularity and quality feed into each-other (not 1:1, but more than 1:0).

• Phones won't start including a Linux desktop.
• Browser apps will be a thing of the past, you'll need to install either a mobile or desktop app to use YouTube or Netflix or whatever.
• Sites like YouTube will also probably remove the subscriptions feed (which only like 1-2% of people use).
• Vendor lock-in efforts will be more forceful.
• I think more people will start touching grass.

And putting AI aside is a bit weird since it's the big news story so:

• Companies will replace workers with generative AI, and as a result essential services will be worse (but more profitable).
• Generative AI will outside of the above be used as a (low-reliability but low-effort) search engine, for memes, and in animation.

Telling that the thing Republicans (and Democrats) fear most, are Democrats with actual integrity.

What you just said makes no sense. Mozilla is already involved in Firefox and Firefox is far from a monopoly.

My first thought was standardization. Install all the fonts in the world (or only say you have the default Windows fonts installed), lie about the OS and say you use Windows 11, pick a standard canvas, etc.

Randomization, that is also an approach that can work too, and probably with basically no compromises except having your activity be frequently flagged as suspicious by Proton Mail, presumably.

Both sides are complicit in genocide. Sure, technically both sides aren't the same, but once you get to that level you're splitting hairs.

While those of us who are wealthier like to make fun of poor people who vote for Republicans because they're the pro-corporate candidate, strictly speaking they're just the ones who are honest about it. LGBT rights, immigrant rights, and the rule of law are important but they're also mirages. The democrats sold out LGBT people and immigrants as soon as they saw it wasn't helping them (that isn't to say it was hurting them, just not helping), and the rule of law has barely been a thing for a while in America.

Obama double-tapped children using drones, so he could get the paramedics too.

America is a unique country. One where the left-wing party has become the right, and vice-versa. As a result the supposed left-wing party in the Democrats is built on a foundation of slavery. That can't be repaired without a miracle.

I wonder how, a group of people who's entire job it is to determine who's worthy of a nobel peace prize, can make the mistake of awarding it to someone who bombs civilians (I think it was hundreds per year until Trump stopped publishing the numbers).

That's where I'll need to flex my con artist muscles.

I have some rewrites I'd like to make to the US constitution.

When using the web installer, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom and clicking the download button before starting.

Spent like 30 minutes with my phone just sitting there in the bootloader waiting for it to download.

Bluetooth didn't work on my laptop. Got new bluetooth card (exact same type). Bluetooth still didn't work.

Turns out:

1. The specific card doesn't support Linux.
2. My laptop has a hardware whitelist in the BIOS that prevents me from installing any other card.
3. My headphones don't support USB bluetooth.