It means that whoever has the most coins gets to make the rules and that's going to be whoever set up the blockchain. If you want to throw your money away there are plenty of better ways to do it.

You know, I'm used to people pushing their own internal conflicts into their assumptions about me on the internet. It's what we do. But that was breathtaking. :)

I've been using DAWs since 1997, and I have a very nice one today. I fought the Alsa/jack battle back in the day on Linux. That's why I mentioned it.

Don't assume so much. My post was about consumers in general. I am as technical as they come.

Why are you assuming this about me? I've run Linux servers for two decades. :)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sy...

The other side of the bad guys because they use violence against left wing protesters at three times the rate of right wing protesters. Also go look up some videos on unite the right in particular the one from YouTuber Shaun. This is very much a left right thing because the left wing is on the right side of History.

Remember the words left and right in a political context come from the left and right wings of the French assembly during their revolution. The right wing were monarchists and the left wing were in favor of democracy. In other words the right wing is and always has been about obedience to the people in power instead of self-rule.

And that's exactly what the protests in question were about. In particular the 93% peaceful protests I talked about earlier what about people being told to sit down, shut up and obey. I hear a lot of talk about not being told what to do from people on the right wing but my experience is they're not upset about being told what to do they're upset about being told what to do by voters instead of by somebody higher up the totem pole than they are

It's a vicious cycle I have seen family members and their churches go down. When reasonable people start leaving the church, those remaining are more radical. With the religious radicalization, there is also a heavy injection of politics.

I've seen churches that avoided politics as a matter of course go full Q-Anon within a few years. Just as social media uptake ripped through the elderly population. With the congregation absorbing that stuff Monday through Saturday, they expect to hear about it on Sunday. It's a holy war. Churches that don't play politics are losing members to the ones who do fill the demand. These are polydrug abusers, if they don't get a hit of Trump with their Jesus, something's missing.

>" In this particular instance, hate speech is not what the accused is being charged with"

Oh, *I* know that, but every article that references "hate speech" in an article gives the term/concept a tiny bit more "legitimacy." I want to combat that any time I see it.

>"Yep, snap ends up being more of a problem than a solution."

Not just screw snap, but screw any FORCED use of containerized packages. Users should always have a choice for native packages- you know, the ones that take little disk space and are not complicated to manage.

Having the choice to use a container package is fine/great- they can be useful. But abandoning native packages is bad. And if you are going to support containers, using snap would probably be the worst choice. It is why Linux Mint not only has native packages for the major stuff that Ubuntu doesn't, but they also fully support flatpak and not snap.

>"Every Snap I've seen is alongside the deb package, so the choice is there."

You haven't looked very hard, then. And the number will go up with each release. It is one of several reasons Linux Mint is continuously gaining in popularity.

>"Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released"

Kewl, because that means a new Linux Mint will be on the way soon.

https://linuxmint.com/

And I seem to be more fascinated by their LMDE project, although I haven't decided to jump to it from regular Mint quite yet...

https://linuxmint.com/download...

>"No, hate speech is speech that attacks not just an individual, but a whole class of people."

No, "hate speech" is whatever anyone wants to define "hate speech" as. It is a nebulous, ever-changing, non-legal-definable, subjective, emotional, nonsense concept. I have seen countless examples of so-called "hate speech" that, in my opinion (and I doubt I am alone), are not "hateful" at all. It is a dangerous term that is utterly incompatible with any rational form of "free speech" and should have no place in our society.

The issue here shouldn't be what was said, but the fact that someone was IMPERSONATING someone else with mal-intent. I am no lawyer, so I am not sure if that is a crime, but it certainly should be one.

You underestimate what consumers will tolerate. The newer tech companies don't have any phone support, and it hasn't hurt them. Most of the time I've had to contact customer support (with few exceptions, like banks) there hasn't been any support to speak of.

Without programmers you don't have a product. That's much more of an impediment to business than lack of phone lines.

AirTags were not available in 2017.

Most of the people protesting technology putting people out of work do so because they know the same people saving big with the tech will fight tooth and nail to make sure we do NOT adapt the economy. They want the displaced to go die quietly somewhere that is not in their back yard. Unless/until that changes, every displaced worker brings us that much closer to an ugly social uprising.

We need to look at UNDER employment as well. Especially on the west coast, a number of the homeless are, in-fact, employed. Some full time. But because our job market is ruled by supply and demand (rather than needs), a glut in supply has resulted in employed people that can't even afford a shitty apartment.

Many of the homeless I see are doing the "thorazine shuffle", a gait that comes from years of treatment with major tranquilizers/antipsychotics. So for those, mental health issues is a good bet.

Thanks I should have thought of that it seems so obvious when somebody says it. I'm actually surprised that hasn't shown up as a risk in Apple's stock reports. The iMessage Mafia is that big a deal.

Also hilariously I wonder if iMessage is gradually going to become associated with old people like regular SMS messaging is. I think it definitely will if Apple doesn't do something to stop it and I just wonder what that something might be