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Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I switched to fedora (with no nvidia or however you spell the company I avoid) and everything mostly worked as it should, and when I had questions about how to do X or Y I could actually find answers online like I could on old windows (after like 7 it became “reinstall for every little issue” any time I searched for windows help. Great.) Did I have to learn how to access my com ports to use CHIRP to program a baofeng? Sure, but now that I know my user needs to be added to the dialout group, I’ve both learned something and solved the issue within 10min. Did I also have to figure out how to install the drivers for the CP210X to UART bridge on windows? Yes, and Fedora came with them (or somehow didn’t need them.) And don’t even get me started on fixing a broken flash drive with Diskpart instead of gparted or KDE partition manager, ugh. At least windows is insecure and let me mount my drive bypassing my windows pin through a live booted linux distro to save my data when w10 decided it can’t get past the login screen anymore, so that’s something!

    Ymmv, but your experience isn’t universal (nor is mine) and windows can also come with it’s own headaches (and spyware, and resource hogging to run said spyware…)








  • Here’s mine, and the exact opposite of another “unpopular” opinion here which is upvoted:

    Guns.

    First of all pandora’s box has been opened in the US and can’t be closed, there’s 600,000,000+ in private hands with no registry to know where/who and trillions of rnds of ammo and everyone who has any of that intends on keeping it. “American gun owners” actually end up being a larger army than most countries militaries, you’re just not going to be able to short of finding a way to Infinity rock (or whatever Avengers sucks) them out of existence.

    Secondly, good. I’d rather people be able to defend themselves if need be than not, be that against forces foreign or domestic, or against the crackhead down the street with a knife. All the way from the improbable fighting our government, or red dawn style fighting a foreign power on our soil, to the more likely Black Panther style activity and defending against your average deadly threats, or even just hunting for food in the event of a small/large catastrophic event that affects supply chains (if you can’t get food at the store because of a natural disaster or something, at least food is walking around, it’s just more work). It should never be your first resort, but you shouldn’t exclude it from being your last resort.



  • I expect it won’t be straightforward to view the data as well, it’s not just gonna be a folder full of jpegs.

    Source?

    Tbf, I (and I’m a random third guy not the guy to which you’re replying, for clarity’s sake), also doubt it’ll be a folder of jpegs…but I think it’ll be fairly trivial to exploit whatever it is, and it’ll take way too much storage (storage cheap now, whatever, I know I’m old but I don’t use cloud and I’ve got other shit to spend money on than HDDs or SSDs, which I do also need as a pirate/data hoarder and don’t want to waste space on).

    I don’t understand what use case you can have by asking Microsoft what porn you were watching at 2 am of February 19th.

    Well you see I have my browser set to delete history on exit because of security so this would override that and keep the history…that I…deleted… Wait…

    Lmao idfk why people would possibly want this either.