... to acknowledge that we're going to take your money for a product but you don't own it.

This is why click through agreements should be illegal. Unfortunately, all the lobby money is on the corporate side of the agreement.

Anyone whose had their assumed to be property, as well as everyone concerned about this, contact their congress critters about how anti-consumer this crap is. Of course you'll have to wait, at least, to the end of this administration.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

Into the hands of Trump supporters. Not until the facists are out of office and citizens demand the restoration of democracy and corporations be held accountable to regulations.

It was a "targeted load balancing" change. Just like ICE's targeted operations, the new usage means "We fucked up but we're never going to admit it.

Oh wait. There's no way to count.

(And nobody really cares because you can't spam with ads.)

Read the Mueller report. It's even available in audio format.

And this is tagged "troll."

The truth is that Rust's cheerleaders have been trolling since the beginning about memory safety.

Don't let your kids grow up to be professional techies.

Unless they're unwilling to be enslaved and have a union.

I'm going out on a limb here but I think people need to spend on food vs. an expensive flagship phone.

No? Just me? Ok...

Told you so. Debian has had the answer so let's repeatedly ignore it.

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If scores of deep-fakes of the judge flooded it the Internet.

Did you just send me back to the Hot Grits Slashdot or did I miscount my gummies?