Yeah cool! This is a bunch of ways that GPS has meaningfully improved the way some things work. I totally agree with that.

I’m really not, but aight, just assume bad faith I guess.

Either you’re being obstinate or we’re just talking across purposes. I’mma out 'cause this conversation now sucks :(

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Instantly knowing where you are on a map has fundamentally changed several aspects of our lives? I really disagree.

I could well be the weirdo but it’s fundamentally changed no aspects of my life. I would love to know how it has others.

This statement confuses me somewhat, is it a bit? The “crazy” difference in my life without GPS would be: I’d have spent some more hours of my life looking at maps to work out where I am. That’s what we did when I was a child and it really didn’t take long.

That’s honestly it.

Isn’t TPM a fake requirement anyway? I’m pretty sure you can just lie that you have a TPM and it’ll update and work fine, so that may not stop them.

I cannot make my Windows 10 PC not forcibly update, reboot, and close all my shit without saving it. Every fucking month. Sometimes I’ll find a way to disable it, then they’ll push some weird telemetry thing and re-enables it a month later. One time Windows refused to acknowledge my generic drivers without re-enabling updates, so I had to do it to plug in my fucking mouse.

It’s actually the most annoying piece of shit ‘feature’ I’ve ever suffered on Windows. Neither 7 nor XP did that shit.

I’ve dual booted for 8 years now. It’s very handy for me, but it is not without its complications - The main one being Microsoft’s illegal anticompetitive behaviour by making Windows regularly overwrite the boot entries, so I have to force a legacy boot to Linux so it can recreate its own entries.

The second one being that Microsoft doesn’t abide by its own official NTFS specification, and will mark drives dirty when it shouldn’t, forcing Linux to be careful and mark the drive as read-only unless you force it or boot back and make Microsoft re-unmark it.

If you want a Windows-y theme, I’d point to Plasma/KDE for your desktop type. Plenty of themes around too.

Honestly I’ve not had an issue with hardware drivers on Linux for a long time, that issue is largely historical. Except for nvidia graphics cards, which may prove a bit finicky depending on the model. Hardware which is very recent may take a while if they don’t release official linux drivers.

As for software, obviously just check if your software has a Linux binary, if it does they’re generally all-distro supporting these days.

A lot of games are Linux native now, but for other Games on Steam with Proton (or the more complex effort of running software in WINE), they have appDBs that list compatibility here: https://appdb.winehq.org/ and here: https://www.protondb.com/

I didn’t know what Recall was, I googled and these 1.5 sentences were enough

I don’t think the US is interested in a more total global war than it’s already engaged in. Conflating all others into a single dehumanized enemy just means the US can kill whomever it likes whenever it likes, and that’s not really a new concept for the country.

Honestly, if there’s a paywall in the way, then in 99% of cases it’s not worth your time anyway

Liberals make an argument for voting Dems that wouldn’t also justify voting for Hitler challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

By my estimation, it would only take a single wind turbine 130km in diameter to generate an average 3TW to supply all electricity in the whole world. How long 'til we get a turbine that big?

forcing an ethnic minority to have 90% less children

Any source on this? Even shitty fake Western news only claims more like 30% at the time.

Is this “footage of concentration camps” in the room with us now? The only videos I’ve seen were of people being detained (who are now released) or otherwise on voluntary programs.

So you’re taking the best aspects of any fork you can find? Trust in the developers is an essential part of the question.

If a piece of software passes every audit in the whole world, but is developed and maintained by the NSA, you’d be stupid to leave your data with it.

Let me save you a lot of time and effort:

• No, it isn’t.

Your findings will either be an incredibly lengthy wording of that, or they will simply be wrong. It’s not a complex question.

“But at what cost” is really another thought-terminating cliche. It had a useful meaning originally, but is now just “Sure x is good, but what if you instead said it was bad?”, and is not a speculation of any value.

Firefox has long been going this way. I started exploring alternatives some years back, when Firefox started serving me ads on desktop, tracking me for marketing purposes on mobile, and talking about the “importance of collaboration with the private sector”. This is really just a natural progression from there.

It’s still the best browser (rock the LibreWolf branch), but it’s, ever more, just the best of a bad bunch.

Lynx is actually amazing, and makes a lot of sites surprisingly browsable for a CLI interface.