5 years later

“What music? It was all a bluff.”

Mine’s okay, the two little contact idea they had is finicky but a little jiggle and it’s good, I do keep the contacts clean, little rubbing alcohol.

I use a Surface Pro 6, I know of a guy with an 8 on Fedora. Mine’s on Cachy with Gnome.

There is a custom kernel you may need to get, https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

The slightly older ones make great Linux tablets. I use mine for comics.

Boo hoo?

Why should anyone care? It’s just Hollywood. Let it enshittify and burn to the ground while the indy and foreign film scene eats its lunch.

Go on, merge, and merge and merge and merge. No tears wasted here. There’s no use crying over a burning dumpster fire.

Christians of Lemmy!

cough

foot shuffle

Good thinking, shoot it with a 12ga slug.

but seriously, time and sense are a factor there. A few seconds? In front of me? I’d waver that action under a few conditions.

Keep your OS updated, make regular backups, use full-disk-encryption, and nuke and pave whenever things get cluttery. You’ll be alright.

Were it me and I just went through a TSA screening and they took it and returned,… I may nuke the laptop.

This would either be opt-in or up to your device. I’d suspect any Pixel, Samsung or iPhone with Ai assisted accessibility features enabled to be likely targets.

My statement, in truth was more of a “water is wet”, broad stroke. If some feature of your phone involves an Ai agent reading your screen, then I hate to say this, but I’m afraid an Ai agent may be reading your screen.

When it does, whether it does becomes irrelevant if it can, and I don’t trust ifs. I directly tell my iPhone and average Android users on XMPP that they should know not to discuss much more than they would in a crowded mall, if that. You’re at the mercy of your manufacturer for any illusion of privacy you believe you may have. In more truth, we all are, me on a Oneplus 11 on Lineage, just maybe slightly less so. No Ai, at least.

A switch and you’re all good, fam.

Buy a single-board x86 or ARM PC with more than one ethernet port on it and install openwrt, or opn/pfsense on it depending on your sensibilities and enjoy.

I use an OpenWRT ONE router, it’s a BananaPi with OpenWRT on it.

Update and reboot regularly, don’t get behind.

No.

I was an NPR supporter for years but now I find them to be more in line with being a voice for corporate Democrats and the status-quo.

The rest of the radio is a wash.

What if I told you on some phones, an Ai agent is watching your every keystroke, making e2e entirely moot?

What if I told you that if anyone in the chatrooms you visit has one, then the entire chatroom is compromised, you included?

Food for thought.

/me looks your post up and down

Welp, added to the “list of ass”, right below Brave and ProtonMail.

The cheapest?

I um, rebuild my own vape coil. Thing is, I know that’s a rather outdated concept, but one fine day, I ran out of coils, remembered I had a rebuildable for this device and just… never went back?

4 inches of wire, and a clump of cotton. I usually never rebuild the wire and just install new cotton.

So, ~$0.05 therabouts.

Main-character types that think their exception is rule enough to be bitter.

Everyone sucks, build your own router or depend on the enshitty options at your local ScamN’Shop.

what about the average consumer?

He’s fucked.

Consider the Following

Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.

They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.

The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.

Yeah, but listening to all of it, you get the sense it’s more 12 albums with 10 fluff pieces around them.

In no timeline am I ever putting Laminated Denim up against IDPLM&L, or Gumboot against Nonagon. Their bar for quality is kinda loopy.

I liked Phantom Island, a good B+ record from them with some of my favorite singles. They’re still an extremely strong band, they sometimes spend 1-3 albums fucking around before making another hit.