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Gee. You make it sound like breaking Microsoft Store and Windows Updates are /bad/ things. :-/

What a hero. Fuck these weak, cowardly religious terrorists.

Not "said to be"... it's CONFIRMED to be. Muslim terrorists.

Gunmen kill 11 at Australia's Bondi Beach Jewish holiday event - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-police-...

Shaddap and take my upvote!

Is rude really the default? I thought respect was, especially during the initial stages of a professional exchange like a god damned job interview.

RIP Arkansas. Enjoy your TikTok news feed. I'm sure you'll produce a healthy and stable future generation of kids. Good luck.

Literally in the post next door:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-te...

Oh. Can we sue China too? Sue any country who blocks anything anywhere? Nice.

Huh? What do you mean? Their own product page states that it comes with a 4,500mAh User-Replaceable battery.

We're so fucking apathetic. Organizations that wish to strip your privacy should be treated the same as organizations who commit atrocities towards the planet or their fellow inhabitants. Expose them all. Shame them. Vote against them. Pass laws to weekend their power, etc. We've totally been down this road before with alcohol, cigarettes, climate control, pollution, trans fats, guns (in some countries), etc. It's completely possible to do it again for online privacy. Use your voice now, before you find you are unable to do so at all.

"Attempt", being the key word here. :-/

This got rejected in the end, btw.

God damn!

Great! Welcome to the club! :-/

This is sad and I hope this doesn't last long. I'm guessing it'll cost a lot to run a fancy restaurant in NYC where only half the guests are buying food, so if they don't shut this down for ethical reasons then hopefully they will for financial ones.

Lack of screen is a benefit, not a handicap, I'm my opinion!

Wikipedia is supremely useful. Twitter is a dumpster fire no one needs. I'll continue to throw a few bucks to Wiki next year, thanks.

Same here. Made the switch decades ago (yes, plural) and I'm always amazed at how much better these distros have become.

Folks, we're now at the point where you can have the Windows experience you're used to (GUI, behavior, support for popular apps, multimedia support, etc.) but without the Microsoft creepiness of harvesting your data and/or crippling your hardware. Why /wouldn't/ you want to make the switch?

ps. That was a rhetorical question. I'm not really interested in hearing about that legacy app you still need to support. For the average home user, the time to take the plunge is right now. :-).

Your reply was next to meaningless as it doesn't offer anything above a "well, that's just how YOU feel about it!".

Yes, that's true. That /is/ how the OP feels about it. But at least they were able to articulate their point and get a message across, along with an implied (albeit weak) "call to action", not meant to be taken literally. Although I'm sure, if polled, the majority of folks in this thread would agree with the OP sentiment. I know I do.

Pro Tip: Other parents sometimes need to be told NO, especially when it comes to matters of tech. I believe their heart is in the right place but most of them don't know the first thing about the dangers of social media, gps tracking, cellphone addiction, frequent video calls, etc. If enough pressure is applied, then it will be the norm for your local community of kids to spend time in real life together vs. 100% online in a digital scaremongered world. Can there be a balance? Sure. But that balance usually comes only after saying NO to unnecessary tech. NO, kids in elementary school don't need a phone (they really don't). NO, we don't need to digitally track our child's movements down to the meter (we really don't).

But don't take my word for it. In 2025, we now havea sea of well documented research that proves the extremely high cost we all pay (as a society) for damaging our kids this way.

It saddens me that this is a real thought of yours. You just need a bit of creativity and trust, my friend. Something it seems people are lacking these days... likely due to the very thing we are discussing now: smartphone addiction!

As has already been pointed out to you here before, these social moves you fear are awkward or impossible were EASILY handled by generations before you... and all without cellphones. Go figure.

Wow. Great backstory; and thanks!

That is wild! I guess "big crunch" cyclical model of the universe is back on the table again! ;-)

I liked reading the stats, buy something feels wrong about publishing the photos and videos of these kids for the world to see. Did they all give consent? Is it even possible for a minor to give consent? Sigh.

Imagine being from the many previous generations of fasters who just had to deal with this "the old fashioned way" or "the way God /truly/ intended it", and then learning about this government-sanctioned hack. :-/

F you, Google! Thank goodness I severed that relationship years ago. With so many other great (and ethically superior) products out there to choose from, you'd have to be a true masochist to intentionally throw yourself into their pool of shit.

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Wow. That was remarkably way off base.

The CRA proves that the algorithm by itself can never understand anything by virtue of solely symbol manipulation. Syntax, by itself, is insufficient to produce semantics.

RIP John Searle, and thanks for all the fish.