ArmchairAce1944
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- Comment on Moats are back! 4 hours ago:
This is the main driver behind gun control in Canada post 2020. They keep saying they need new laws to honor the 14 young women shot dead in 1989 but in reality they stopped giving a fuck about all shooting victims a long time ago. They know it is going to get so bad that a landlord or corrupt politician is going to get shot and they want to forbid as many firearms as possible.
The fact that some European countries are loosening up some restrictions to train their populations to shoot in light of Russian aggression should tell you that an armed populace absolutely has some deterrent effect. Not against air strikes, but against ground invasion. In Canada the army will not hold up for long against a US invasion, but they will fail in the long term against armed resistance. Carney even floated the idea of an armed resistance force, but he is still passing as many privacy violating laws as possible and sharing as much information as possible with both US governmental agencies and corporations. meaning if a US invasion happens the Americans will have a ready made list of all Canadians who might resist or have firearms permits or experience with the military or demolitions. We would be royally fucked.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 4 hours ago:
I got a Google pixel 10 just so I can have GrapheneOS as soon as possible. I am glad that Google’s plans to lock down Android are blowing up in their faces.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 4 hours ago:
This is why new laws are being passed to verify ID on a hardware level. They know the enshittification has progressed to the point that people are starting to break away. They want to put a halt to that by any means necessary.
- Comment on sausage party is such a fun movie 17 hours ago:
It is a fun movie. I love how the bun’s mouth looked like vaginas and how the douchebag was a fratboy who was… Well… A douchebag!
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 3 days ago:
Is this for real? Because it sounds too unreal to be real.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 4 days ago:
I just got a pixel 10 the moment I heard that Google wants to lock down android and I didn’t want to waste any time. I paid off my Samsung s23 and before even loading my Sim I installed grapheneOS.
I had a motorola G5 before my Samsung but it broke.
At least my Samsung is still intact. I can’t wait to format it and load a prepaid if I need a travel phone.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
Mass surveillance for advertising is just gross. I remember a comedian making a joke saying that ‘anyone here in advertising? Please kill yourself!’ Also just because someone got all the info on your for advertising, it doesn’t mean the government won’t get access to it, because right now 4th amendment and other traditional restrictions on government overreach are moot if all they need to do is buy the data from some broker on you. This has actually happened and it was upheld in court.
The precedent for stuff like that is older than you think, but also not what you think. For example some serial killers and serial bank robbers were caught because some homeless person searched through their trash looking for something they can use, eat, or sell (all of these things are legal to do BTW) and they discover things like body parts, firearms, or brand new clothes that also fit the clothes that said criminal was wearing when they did their crimes, and said homeless people reported this to the police.
But I am quite confident that someone who just so happens to stumble upon something vs. a company watching your every move are two very different things.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
I tried to do it in the more advanced way, but I had never done anything like that before and I consider myself moderately technical. I used a simpler bootloader to get Frankel (the latest grapheneOS for Pixel 10. I have a basic Pixel 10, not the pro or fold) installed. I was apprehensive, but it seemed to go on fine. I am able to sandbox any google shit I do need (and it isn’t much) and I was able to get whatsapp with my old shit on it because my family is still using it for reasons. I am using K-9 as an email client for my gmail, which does help (or so I was told) limit the amount of information google gets on my usage when I check my email.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
I am using k-9 mail as a client.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
I just got grapheneOS on my new phone (it is a google pixel 10, but it is the one that can handle that…) I needed a client to use my gmail which will probably be the last thing I get rid of.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
The reason why shooting people was too difficult is because many of the einsatzgruppen members broke down psychological and some became so murderous that they might not have been refit to reenter civilian society. They used gas chambers because it was sufficiently distanced from the actual act of killing (it just involved rounding people up into a room and having some guy with a canister dump the stuff into a vent. None of the actual killers even had to see the results of their actions as the cleaning was done by another group) that they could do it without creating that same problem.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
I last used chatGPT in 2024. Never found it satisfying.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 week ago:
No kings anyway.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
His acting as the genie was OK. But it was very clear that he was acting in the shadow of Robin Williams for that role. It is kinda hard to move away from that one however.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
When I bought my dream machine it was the first one without an optical drive… and then I bought an external blu-ray player/DVD burner.
- Comment on Make a note 1 week ago:
Been there done that.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 1 week ago:
This assumes retirement will exist for most people.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
Also rich assholes fantasize about shooting dead random poors for fun all the time.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
And what is so funny is that despite all the eat the rich talk from lefties like us it is usually a right winger that will be the one pulling the trigger on those people.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 2 weeks ago:
This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
He doesn’t just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy anf powerful people… people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn’t they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn’t have as much power as he does now?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I’ll keep that in mind when I get my pixel 10. Thank you. My phone is the last thing that I carry that isn’t on linux or some non-Microsoft/Apple software.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could find a deal like that, but as it stands I will need to pay a lump sum to my provider to pay off the remaining balance on my Samsung S23, which I am going to keep. I will format it securely and use it with a prepaid sim as a travel phone with next to nothing on it. GrapheneOS goes on my Pixel 10 and I want to degoogle it. It will pose a mild issue since sometimes I (sadly) do need to check my gmail, and I really don’t know if putting it on my GrapheneOS is a good idea.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I am also in Canada. I just called my mobility provider and told them I wanted a new phone and that i wanted to pay off my current phone immediately.
So which is it? Pixel 9 or 10?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I want to get a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. Fuck it! I am always in a race against time.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
I deleted my account already.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Also they weren’t guzzling wine and ale at all hours and when they did drink it was usually cut with water or what they called ‘small beer’ and very young wine (which didn’t have time to properly fermented and reach full potency) that had limited alcohol content. Also they did drink water. In the same way that in places in the world where they have limited water treatment facilities they still drink water even if it isn’t the best.
Again… they weren’t stupid. They might not have had the depth and breadth of modern medical technology on how alcohol affects you, but people knew what it did and they know what addiction is (even if they made it out to be a personal weakness) and how terrible it was.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Humans on a stick don’t count!
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Peasants? Even many nobles didn’t eat like that every day.
People think that the typical nobleman in the Middle Ages ate like King Henry VIII. That isn’t true. Did you that they determined that at least at a few points in Vlad the Impaler’s life he was basically living on a vegan diet? They ate a hell of a lot of vegetables and grains because meat was still expensive for everyone involved.
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about terminally online single adults, too.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. I never used Gemini or gave sensitive information/photos to major AI companies, but my family has, including photos of me.