I once had a fortune cookie that read something like this, “Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want”.

And let me tell you, I have a lot of experience! That cookie made me OK with learning the “hard” way.

Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I’m less familiar with that, and assume it’s the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.

Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there’s still a lot you can do.

The bottom part of your comment is what we already do. It’s not really helping anyone else out, unless it’s to basically spread awareness to get “the other half” of the country riled up too.

I think the military oath, “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” would be widely interpreted so that a lot of the internal branches of the military would be divided on if he’s an actual threat.

Personally, I think we’re to that point now where he basically does whatever he wants without proper approvals, and then no repercussions either; so it’s reinforcing the ability to do so and shows how powerless/spineless the rest of the gov is.

I just kind of forego any content. I used to watch silly stuff like the Electroboom guy, Linux Tech tips A LONG time ago when it felt more personable and meaningful. My son watches carwow or something, doing car comparisons sort of how Top gear used to, but I’m not into it as I can’t afford those nice cars lol.

Tech review stuff gets under my skin bc it’s so much promotion of sponsors, their channels, and they’re always begging for likes and subscribes… 🤮 plus they’re often biased. I know there’s a large audience to cater to but I feel often times I’m more, product and feature aware than they are, but I’m also obsessed with technology, FOSS, self-hosting, etc.

Good explanation!

Yeah, you say, “fuck no” like it’s awful, but then provide no context as to why it’s so repulsive or why he is a bad person…

As far as a party is concerned, focusing on uniting the middle ground of voters who could use a voice or representation, more consumer privacy, and doing the right thing, yeah, it’s so terrible! /s

“Content creators” lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven’t used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven’t missed it. There’s not much on YouTube I couldn’t get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.

You’re not stupid, you just need to learn done telltale signs. Most the time, for me, it’s post history.

I have moved a lot of our company to LibreOffice, and were starting to push web clients for software vs thin clients, so it can be run from mobile, Apple, and Linux. I only have 2 Linux Mint PCs out in the wild for more savvy users and no issues so far either. The EDR works on multiple OSes which is nice, so still compliant.

The other nice thing I’ve seen Lenovo and Dell offer are PCs that come preloaded with Linux like Ubuntu iirc, slightly cheaper too.

Power users still on Excel and MS Office for features, troubleshooting, and familiarity, but so far, much smoother than anticipated. Just need to convince the powers that be to roll out more Mint!

Well, same with Libertarian and Reform parties. No big corporate sponsors means smaller budgets yes, but not impossible. I also like the fact they will only promote positive stuff about their own part vs just slander and bash the other candidates. Telling me someone else is bad doesn’t tell me why you’re good.

There’s Peertube, Vimeo, and others

Gmail didn’t exist until 2004 or so. Google back then was a search engine in 1998 so there’d be no need for an "account"in the sense it’s used today. I mean, they’re probably not wrong claiming they have a Google account old enough to be legal since it’d only need to be from 2008 to be 18, and there was Gmail, YouTube, and Android (later on) by then.

Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.

Considering YT didn’t even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don’t think they would’ve had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.

Lol, piracy, the logical solution.

Anyone familiar with the Forward Party? Seems like there could be some real momentum behind this. A good home for independents and anyone sick of the 2-parties fighting who’s better when they’re both corrupt. There’s more than 2 polar opposites, everyone…

https://www.forwardparty.com/#values

Just setting up the OS you can toggle a lot of the things off, I don’t know why you’d leave those enabled in the first place! That and disable several more optional services too once in the desktop in settings. Though 11 is a resource hog, it’s quick to undo it-not that I’m defending MS. Please utilize whatever resources necessary

But in Trump’s mind, he IS God, so he pictures “one nation under him”

Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!