Anybody who shits on trans people “for the children” or “for the women” should be viewed with suspicion.

They’re saying that because the only reason they can fathom that people would transition is to assault women and children. The fact that that’s where their mind goes says much more about them than about trans people.

It really depends how basic and how “general public” we’re talking. At work I’ve had multiple people email me their credit card details in plaintext. That might fall into the “beyond help” category.

A few points I think are important:

• Use an adblocker

• Use a password manager

• Don’t connect things to the internet that don’t need to be connected to the internet

• If it needs to be connected to the internet, keep it up-to-date

I think that covers the basics without impacting convenience too much. While I personally think that your TV is something that doesn’t need to be connected to the internet, I imagine most laypeople wouldn’t agree with me and do it anyway.

While this article has some good points, it really is sad, and kind of ironic, that the first paragraph of it is bullshit clickbait that completely undermines the rest of the text.

A tale as old as time. Banning media you don’t like is a lot easier than parenting your children.

Any game featuring most kinds of animal, including people, is evidence that sex occurred. We should ban those too.

arch seems the coolest, with Wayland, kde, hyperland customization

While I have no experience with Unreal Engine, so I can’t give an informed recommendation, I just figured I’d point out that you can do this with every distro

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“and the word ‘dog’ with the word ‘son’.”

Kokomo

Wank

I work in ecommerce, so the answer is “ours”. I get far too many calls saying “Do you sell x”, or “How much is y”, and because of how terrible our website’s search function is, I can’t just say “use the fucking website, that’s what it’s there for” like I desperately want to.

We all know they use Signal, anyway.

I still use Firefox despite Mozilla because fuck Google.

I tried Librewolf, but YouTube (yeah, I know) ran like crap on it for some reason.

Custom ROMs were always a pretty niche thing, and they’ve become much less worth it since:

Stock Android doesn’t suck as much as it used to

Banking Apps aren’t guaranteed to work

VoLTE doesn’t work (this might depend on phone model)

Most manufacturers now offer software support for a reasonable length of time

So unless there’s an old feature you want to keep (LG Quad DAC diehards represent), or you’re super privacy-conscious, most people aren’t going to bother.

Me saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.

I remember when I first bought my Gamecube… I had to sign an agreement that I would never play a non-Nintendo property again. “How could they ever enforce this?” I thought. Little did I know that the next day, the Sony SWAT Team would be bursting into my house to extract my Playstation. It was absolutely terrifying.

I haven’t played a single non-Nintendo game since.

If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.

Have you tried printing on a raft?

The massive negative reception could certainly be considered a “rejection”. Whether people actually stick to their guns and refuse to buy them is another story.

I can’t imagine anybody would prefer work-sanctioned “fun” to the same amount of PTO and the money the activity would have cost.