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- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Linux for personal use can be undependable. I have a use case where I don’t mind configuring stuff, but once setup I need that shit to mf work every time all the time and it not working results in direct loss and depending on when potentially substantial loss. I say this as an avid linux user.
- Comment on waooooo 3 days ago:
Why exactly should I care what a figure skater has to say on this?
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 3 days ago:
Debian on server, arch of some kind for personal use
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 days ago:
Totally cool, but they should also give men the option to choose to ride with a man.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 days ago:
Track record and reputation
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 5 days ago:
Nah, discord has access to unencrypted chat logs and will happily give that up. Way way more of an impetus to leave.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 6 days ago:
Vibe ops is crazy lmaoo
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
How can you trust that there’s no rootkits being injected into your linux install?
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Yeah it def would be. The laptop has a pretty slim target markt
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
How this hasn’t killed all serious interest is beyond me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That is not true. They are encrypted in transit, but not e2e
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 week ago:
Everyone panicking when this is exactly how it will go.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
This its why capitalism is failing. Shareholder profit is a fundamentally unsustainable incentive.
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
You showed him!
- Comment on The Hole 1 week ago:
Genuinely might be an evolutionarily selected disposition. Could totally see there being an advantage there.
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 1 week ago:
Which you shouldn’t continue to do.
- Comment on Announcing Winners of the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards 1 week ago:
Stremio+real debrid
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
Now that is actually smart
- Comment on women 1 week ago:
This is where my democratic socialist ass loses you
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 4 weeks ago:
Its cinny.in, not .im
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 4 weeks ago:
How about hell fucking no you idiot
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 4 weeks ago:
It has been absolutely seamless with zero issues for me, but I’m a relatively recent adopter with low traffic just for friends
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
I can search users and spaces across any federated matrix server
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 4 weeks ago:
Matrix is mature enough, and has a better philosophy. Just the best choice atm.
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 4 weeks ago:
Matrix has end to end video conferencing and is decentralized like Mastodon
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 4 weeks ago:
Matrix is fanstastic
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
I hear this. What could be better? You make an account and if its federated your done. Login, boom.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
Matrix!
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
FOR REAL BRO
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
It absolutely is both