90% mass hysteria, 10% random people flying drones for fun.

Most videos I've seen are people misidentifying airplanes as drones, and even if they are drones... they sell those on Amazon.

No one's gonna talk about how they turned referral links into a piramid scheme?

You know it's an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php /s, but you can use the offical version for playing games and stuff without paying, and there are easy ways to get around the limitations (remove watermark, change desktop background, etc).

Even if they kept the police off of their property, the power company would just disconnect the wires coming into their property. Even with the sovcit magic it wouldn't work.

IRC, assorted mailing lists and forums, Matrix, Mastodon and occasionally Reddit (blasphemy, I know)

Solvent or solute depending on concentration. The drink however is a solution.

I have always heard "z stanów" in Polish, an equivalent would be "from the states".

There are certainly useful uses for trusted computing, like discouraging tampering with distributed computing projects, but they are used much more often to implement DRM and restrict hardware. They don't it to be impossible, just hard enough that the average user gives up.

Currently it is possible for an average user to to install Linux, but if that process requires hardware tampering (no normal person will decap chips), almost no one will do it.

Check out OpenAssistant, a free to use and open source LLM based assistant. You can even run it locally so no one else can see what your doing.

A lot of people have old phones whose batteries are to degraded to be useful for much, those could be used as servers with much less problems then any other phone (no spotty connectivity, no changing mobile network ips, no cutting into the battery life of your phone)

Pay Microsoft a subscription fee or use libreOffice or another free and open source tool instead.