Yeah that’s my point

Not only that, but literally the only reason we even have these popups now is because of recent European laws

Don’t most “privacy browsers” (I use LibreWolf) delete browsing data every time you close the program?

Though realistically, Microsoft controls your OS

They most certainly do not.

Who cares about chat anyway

If you’re being offered a free VPN, someone is tracking you.

Online drug markets are like eBay. You don’t last long if you sell bad or dangerous products.

Aren’t therapists mandatory reporters?

Cannabis and alcohol mostly

you can’t access it anymore

Someone hasn’t seen John Wick

And I’m saying that they’re probably all shit.

Hah no worries, I thought maybe it was like a translation error or something.

Vpn stands for private personal network

Ermm…

I can only speak to Mullvad, but if you want to, you can visit their onion site on tor, and pay using Monero while providing zero information. They give you a 16 digit number. And that’s it. That’s the extent of your interaction with them. No name, no email address, no credit card information, nothing.

Most of that is optional, of course, but the option is always there.

There probably aren’t any, because when a product like that is free, that means you are the product nearly 100% of the time.

Some people will even tell you that all Tor exit nodes are compromised

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

and

If everyone always got payouts for the insurance they pay into, the industry literally could not exist.

It’s the entire business model.

A dumb take is, to pay for something you might get nothing from.

You just described every form of insurance.

You are absolutely correct.

That does sound weird.

Police exist to protect capital, not people.

Pretty cool… But anyone else get major AI vibes from the way this article is written?

Why even become a journalist anymore if you’re just going to be putting prompts into a black box and copy/pasting the output?

People should be aware that Tor is gonna be quite a bit slower and isn’t practical for things like streaming.

I’m the farthest thing from an expert when it comes to programming, etc., but my understanding was that the FOSS end of it is more about which license you use to distribute, and whether or not you provide the code to the public?

I don’t really understand how that would affect the functioning of the app itself. But again, I’m not a programmer so maybe I’m missing something here.

My uncle works at the fediverse and gets all the games before they come out

Oh word… I tried MPV briefly but didn’t like it as much as vlc

I wish MPC had a linux version. One of the few pieces of Windows-only software (along with foobar2000) that I actually miss.

A few months back I decided to fuck around and see if I could get it working in wine, and it seemed to work OK, but pretty jank. Too jank to consider seriously using.

I was having issues with it the other day, and so I pasted the URL into my browser and it would not let me watch past 1 min of any video without disabling ublock.

Needless to say, I didn’t watch the video. I’m done with using YouTube in any official way. If they successfully remove all options for avoiding ads on their site, then I will just never go there again.

What do you think the line is? When will it cross over and become acceptable to call it “fascism”? Because we’ve embodied Eco’s 14 features of Ur-Fascism for like 20 years. We now have a de facto dictator who is using that framework to do explicitly fascist things… Where is the line?

I am talking about citizens

Nazis are citizens. Unfortunately.

Neither did he last administration and neither will the next.

How the fuck are people still this clueless. Talk to anyone who is learned on US history and ask them if this is the same as previous administrations.

It’s the entire fucking point.

The explanation is that they will just use this shit to target whomever they please regardless of reason. This is how fascism works.

It is meant to be confusing. Stop trying to rationalize it, you’re wasting energy.

they still need a warrant to do that

Lol…

In fascism, if you have the biggest gun, you do what you want. And Trump has the biggest “gun”

Why change the title??

If it’s between fascism and communism, the answer is pretty fucking simple imo. Only one of those ideologies considers all people to be equal.

And no, I am not a communist, and I would not choose communism unless it was the only alternative to fascism.

Just opened it up to check… It is Arch. I was able to grab pacman and use it to get fastfetch to confirm (as if I needed to at that point lol).

Possibly related, but I was able to download a distrobox image of SteamOS through BoxBuddy. Dunno if it’s legit or what, but I was able to play games through it (though made no sense to). This was a week or two ago that I saw it on the dropdown when installing a new box.

Edit: I see other people in this thread mentioning some old steamos so maybe it’s that I dunno, maybe I will check later.