pinephoneguy

These kind of statements push moderate people towards real fascism. I don't know if that's your goal or if you're exceptionally naive but I don't think it's what people want on this site.

We invade functioning countries about every four years.

As someone involved in internet infrastructure I find this particularly upsetting. We should be seeking to connect people even in the worst places to shine light on the problems, not cut them off from the world.

I'm not sure GDPR applies if they're not using any third party services. That's the thing with GDPR compliance, if you're already doing things right it doesn't really change anything, you don't even need to ask about cookies (because cookies are actually ok under GDPR if they're used the way they were originally intended.)

Why wouldn't applying reason (especially since you're familiar with your personal situation) result in better decisions than just listening to people who are paid to tell you what to think? What argument are you even making here?

The older I get the more I realize that after you get to about average intelligence, it's control over emotions that matters far more than intelligence or technical knowledge if you're not working completely alone. That, I think, is why the stereotypes about software developers in the 80s don't seem to apply to modern software developers (why they're more sociable, why they make way more money, etc.) Now it's all about interfaces and community with a little bit of technical work where before it was mostly just you and the computer.

>certificates from authorities with a slightly dubious track record

CAs can sign certs for any website, that absolutely makes the web less secure.

Asking "who are anonymous" is like asking "who flies the jolly Rodger." It's useful given context but in general has no answer.

In the context of the Ukraine conflict: Given that most of what I've seen anyway is 100% propaganda and no memes it's likely US government agents.

>Popularity -> utility

Talk about tired arguments. All popularity really means is good PR.

As to toasters and Nintendos, yes I do whatever I want with those, toasters have nothing to stop me and Nintendos are usually trivial (and often have flash carts available) to get a shell on.

I'll happily take worse hardware with good community support over fresh off the line stuff that's up to its eyeballs in broken corporate crap.

Tell your representatives that America doesn't need to be, and should not be involved.

The fundamental problem is the refusal to publish driver source. Nvidia is one of the last companies on earth I'd expect to do that.

From what I've seen the British haven't hesitated to spend money on defense. The Germans were told not to buy the British to try and crush the Prussian military tradition and prevent future land wars, a powerful Russia being one of the consequences.

I stopped buying Qualcomm smartphones years ago. There's no way I'd by a laptop with one of their chips.

What an unfortunate choice by Lenovo.

People don't like the constraints of smartphones but they don't understand computers well enough to articulate it. That you do and then you mock me for pointing it out indicates a particularly ugly kind of follower mentality.

X11 isn't that important, it's the large app library it brings with it (many apps that after 24 years still have no replacements on either smartphone OS.) For power users the flexibility is nice too.

Onboard dev environments aren't useful to most people but it indicates/allows a few things:

1) Individual users who are inclined can easily improve the platform with very little effort.

2) The owners of the platform aren't stopping people from doing what they want with their own devices.

This is by far the best solution but too many game devs think keeping the source secret gives them a competitive advantage.

I've always preferred Windows binaries for closed stuff to Linux ones. If you're not going to open source you thing then don't even bother developing Linux Binaries, we'll just run it in Wine.

Ok, that's not our war.

> avoided moving with any effort to online shopping

That's a strange thing to say, I've bought multiple pieces of furniture from them online, I thought they were great.

>fighting our war

Which group are they fighting for? It's a former Soviet state fighting Russia. Part of being an independent nation means being diplomatic and not pissing off your neighbor. The CSA attacked a US fort and now they don't exist either. That's just the way it goes.

If by "our" you mean free democracy, eh, Ukraine wasn't exactly the bastion of free democracy you think it is. There were plenty of coups and illegitimate governments in its short life. There's nuance here but a lot of people are ignoring it and just eating up propaganda.

Telegram is not end to end encrypted and requires you to use a phone number for ID. The only worse IM app I can think of is iMessage.

Why would I do that when I'm already closer to the enemy here?

>Are you American

Yes, in fact I work for the US Government.

>Imagine if Ukrainians said that right now.

I was just talking to one that said that.

There are some that don't do that. Leaving those sucks.

Make a book club with your close friends. Read solzhenitsyn.

I had a Zarus at the time. It could run X11 and java apps and even had a self hosting dev environment.

The iPhone was mostly a regression from that.

>SSH caused serious security problems

>I don't know what "null cipher" means but it sounds very technical and is probably the best one.

The whole UX excuse is a bit silly considering modern Steam games take an hour to download anyway.

If I'm going to be honest I'd fight DC before I fought Moscow.

Reddit is less cynical but the reality is that tech is being abused to a pretty extreme degree.

The world sucks, you can either ignore it or embrace it.

As an American I hate NATO, that's a great way to start another World War.