[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 5 points 8 months ago

Hey, I'd just use VPN anyways. I sure as shit didn't trust spectrum not to sell my data.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 5 points 9 months ago

Because Facebook is the posterchild for anticompetitive evil corporations.

They're doing this because it will help them monopolize more content or more users. By nature, that will be harmful to the fediverse.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 10 points 9 months ago

Its Texas lol. Our government prides itself on having no empathy or compassion whatsoever.

See the list of executed juvenile offenders before the federal government made it illegal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_juveniles_in_the_United_States

Or the time the state was in contempt of court for years because they didn't want to revise the excessively cruel CPS system.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 9 points 9 months ago

Iirc it was mostly a stupid driver with improper tires on terrain that didn't quite look as bad as it actually was.

The cybertruck doesn't have differentials at all, so it shouldn't need locking diff's.

The entire point of having differentials is to make sure the power from the engine isn't being misdirected to a wheel with no traction, but the cybertruck has independent motors for each wheel.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 12 points 9 months ago

Yes. We shoot people for accelerating from a stoplight too fast here.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago

Honestly I just keep mine on airplane mode. Calibre was always a much better management tool, and libgen isn't nearly as creepy.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 5 points 9 months ago

I can't listen to it right now, but the issue with characters like Aunt Jemima is that they were just racist stereotypes given a name and slapped on a box.

I think a good analogy for this situation would be a themed chain where an AI pretends to be a comedic racist caricature.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 10 points 9 months ago

I don't think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

sweats nervously in American

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago

Those definitions tend to be inconsistent and strange though. They often concern themselves with things like pistol grips vs thumbhole stocks, which only impact the ergonomics and the appearance of a firearm, not the function.

And even a barrel size limit is a strange thing to regulate. Short barreled rifles are not inherently more dangerous than regular size rifles. The only reason they are regulated today is as a holdover from a piece of legislation that would have banned handguns.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 10 points 9 months ago

If you're anti-zionist in 2023, you're calling for the destruction or deportation of 40% of the jews on this planet.

Failure to support one ethnic cleansing does not mean that you support another. It is possible to support no ethnic cleansing.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

I disagree. IE was incredibly proprietary, and SMS is at least an open standard.

IE is...idk Facebook messenger or Imessage or something.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, no, you don't. However, you can buy computers with Linux preinstalled. I haven't looked in a long time, but they were only marginally more expensive when I looked last.

Also, installing Linux isn't difficult at all, provided that your motherboard isnt weird about booting it (really just luck of the draw, but usually not a problem), and that you're willing to nuke all your files. Dual boot installations are where things get precarious.

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