LurkingLuddite

Funny. You say erase, yet I came across it just fine.

Cry more, peasant.

I dunno’, I hear disturbing news from Alberta sometimes, and that whole trucker protest thing was pretty American…

While Canada will likely always be better than the US, don’t be the frog in boiling water.

Never had a problem with XFCE, even doing some weird stuff with metrics in the task bar.

Though I do not tinker like I did when I was younger, nor do I know what Plasma has over XFCE that’s not cosmetic in nature.

Ironic given XFCE is supposed to be the light weight one and the steam deck is the portable device.

I like both of them, though. Plenty of customizations in both, not that I tinker around much any more.

Little bold to call that sort “men”.

Not arguing. Making a statement. Interesting how you think making a counterstatement is turning it into an argument… Genuinely sad for your ability to understand nuance.

“There’s nothing wrong with it… It’s ok to enjoy.”

I loved is as a kid and still thoroughly appreciate it as an adult. Not sure the new one will stand the test of time. Though maybe one day when people are simply amazed that computers were ubiquitous and powerful enough to do such things, it will gain its own unique novelty…

More that capitalism doesn’t have a single original thought unless it’s a new way to enshittify something.

Sure, plenty of new things that are great are being made, but the good stuff is nigh always without marketability or projected income in mind.

How silly. It has many flaws, but that still does not make it impossible to enjoy. It is not an either-or situation.

If things had to be flawless to be enjoyed, we’d all be screwed for having friends.

Even if it was it’s definely faked and clearly so.

It’s generated. That thing wouldn’t fit in that pot in a thousand years.

You seriously going to ask that question after Trump won twice? This country is almost Warhammer levels of up its own ass about war being cool…

Everyone is focused on the exit, when clearly there is still a vulnerability to the entrance side. If someone is identified as a bad actor, you do not want your own personal address showing up all over in the logs of who they’ve been conversing with… Regardless of what can be proven as to the nature of conversations, you will now have eyes on you.

So yes, a VPN is useful, just not for all the reasons the comments so far are addressing.

“The cloud” has always meant, “someone else’s server” to those who know. Since the beginning. Unless you do microservices correctly and have a task simple enough, even the “serverless” architectures quickly become snake oil.

It’s all meant to have you paying them for services, not for actually simplifying your task. The task is the task.

Still a laughable (if it wasn’t for reality) endeavor. It should be dismantled, not renamed.

I dunno’ what the problem is. You cannot get syphilis if it’s just your piss hitting the toilet and surrounding area.

rofl tell me you do not understand how FB got started without telling me…

That shit’s been a privacy nightmare from the beginning.

Zuck has been selling personal info from basically day 1. He’s been abusing people since day 1.

The day people realize convenience does not equal good is the day humanity grows up from a petulant child to a moronic teenager… Too bad it’s looking more and more like we’ll never make it past, “petulant child”.

“AI” has to be trained on something. They don’t want it to look too similar to the Iraq invasion, etc…

Don’t worry. At the rate we’re goíng, humanity will be long dead before “AI” is remotely sentient, let alone salty.