DjangoFett

I upvote because I strongly disagree.

The better educated and informed the populace, the better and more informed their decisions will be as well as their ability to articulate the how and why of those decisions.

If you can’t even agree on objective reality, then there’s no way a coherent discourse can ever be achieved.

Yeah, CachyOS has been working just fine for me. And while both of those points raise an eyebrow for me, I have also heard things about the Cachy team that do the same. Perfect can’t be the enemy of good enough. Though to that second point you raised, I just watched a [Veritasium?] video recently on how just such a system-level package was very nearly compromised by what has all the hallmarks of a malicious state actor precisely because it was so seemingly innocuous and open.

I appreciate the clear and concise explanation. Cheers, friend.

What’s the issue with systemd?

I was shy about Linux for far too long, but have jumped in with both feet recently.

For people complaining this is internal news, I should think the leader of any “democratic” nation offering to openly bribe the populace to stay in power - amidst an illegal war - would be something to pay attention to. Just like German internal politics getting weird and making world news.

I understand the overall anti-American sentiment and can’t say I’m upset with anyone for feeling that way given how my government has handled itself internationally. However, this one is a big deal. Change the names to a British or German or French PM and party and suddenly it’s appropriate again?

My point being some things will have external repercussions despite being internal debates - Brexit being an example of an internal debate with global consequences. Or, y’know, Trump being elected. Again.

Don’t confuse me with that thing that was ostensibly a government once. Please.

The piracy option is by far the cheaper and easier method all things considered. If you like Free Media (Heck Yeah) then just Google those words or even their acronym and you’ll probably be rewarded with all you could ever want. Of course, this isn’t a legal thing I would ever actually suggest anyone do.

This is how a family could have watched things ranging from entire series to latest it-shows to classic films and newest releases as a family while on a reasonable budget. Of course, mind your local ordnance regarding such things and take appropriate measures when doing anything other than verifying those websites exist for purely educational purposes as governments and corporations are absolutely watching every single byte of data that passes through your pipes unless you actively shield it. You will receive notices about any illicit activity they detect and they would be within their legal right to restrict or deny your access to the internet for piracy and theft.

On an unrelated note, I’m quite happy with Proton VPN and the services they offer. Being Swiss-based with that reputation for international privacy, I’m reasonably assured my data isn’t at any greater risk of loss or breach than anyone else relying on a single point of failure and have my eggs in a basket that is otherwise entirely uninterested in me outside a subscription to keep their lights on.

One monthly fee for privacy and a one-time investment in some basic hardware and you’ve got all of humanity’s recorded media on your television. Uh. In theory.

Edit: word. I swear I English good.

Not the specific answer you’re looking for, but the one I’ve got as its the one I use for myself…

I have a RaspberryPi as the default input for my TV now. Any and all interactions with the big screen happen through mouse and keyboard now rather than the TV remote besides power and maybe sometimes the volume.

If you’re looking for a cheaper option than that, I believe you can get older chromesasts/firesticks and jailbreak those for more or less the same results I’ve got with my setup, but YMMV depending on what you’ve got and what you seek.

While a reasonable person hears and understands you, these same reasonable people said Trump was just a joke back in 2015.

I don’t dispute your reasoning in any reap way, but let’s also not forget which timeline we actually currently occupy…

I am running an i5 and a GTX 3050 with 32GB of ram on CachyOS on an HP Victus laptop.

I am quite content with how well everything functions. I have found very few issues that don’t have a workaround of some kind, and even those kinds of issues are fewer and further between in the past few months.

A) That was physical media and so by default falls into the ownership system wherein possession is nine-tenths of the law. Neither Blizzard nor anyone else particularly cares about your Warcraft CD these days.

B) There is zero indication in that document that Blizzard has any plans or designs to walk into your house and rummage through your drawers to take away the game you bought from them. Additionally, all you did was reinforce what I said in my first post - barring reproducing the product for personal profit, do whatever the fuck you want with it is what they effectively said in legalese.

Not true at all. I grew up in the age of dial up internet. When you bought software, you owned it. That media was yours to run on your hardware as you saw fit barring certain public/commercial uses, much like you’re not allowed to buy a DVD to make copies and distribute it on your own.

However, the expectation of exchanging money for ownership is about as old as money itself. If we were talking about, say, a blacksmith and their craft that you paid solid gold for, you would therefore be okay with the blacksmith showing up one day to reclaim their iron because you only purchased a license to his materials and not the ownership of the product? I don’t see that being acceptable to you. What makes software different, especially when it doesn’t require internet connectivity to actually function? I don’t need connectivity to access locally stored media, and fuck Sony for reaching into anyone’s account and deleting access to something they bought, full stop.

There truly is no bottom.

Broken clocks and all that.

How dare you make actual sense in this modern age! I’m gonna go stick a fork in the electrical socket in a fit of rage to get back at you!

I just wish I knew why I keep hearing myself after I speak. So strange.

Yes, definitely that.

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You and I might not have the mental and emotional bandwidth for “yet another crisis,” but there are real people living harsh realities everywhere. Minimizing any of them makes you little better than any Zionist crying about the rocks Palestinian kids throw over the walls of the West Bank.

Classic case of if you’ve nothing nice to say, nicer to say nothing.

Joined just in time for the discovery of the safe.

Witnessed the “Don’t ask me how I took this picture” in real time.

Exhaled heartily through my nose at many a meme.

Left because the experience turned to absolute dogshit over the past four or five years. Like, it was already declining in quality by 2018, but man oh man has it really throttled up on the nosedive.

Touched a nerve have I?! Which I find rather hard to believe! You haven’t seen the last of me! That’s it! No More Mister Nice Gaius!