Name one that is immune to some fascist in government deciding I'm an Enemy of the People and taking away my livelihood with a click of a button, I'll wait. Or wanting to find out if I'm one and going through a nicely compiled list of all my purchases. Any newspapers with wrongthink? Donations to wrong parties? Oh, and as a nice bonus Bitcoin is also immune to some communist in the government deciding he needs to fund yet another Big State Project and just giving himself a ton of money created out of nowhere with a click of another button, devaluing the ones I have.

But you knew all that. In fact this is exactly why you're raging against Bitcoin.

You're just another fascist fucktard who thinks it'll be his foot wearing the boot on my face (or at least, feet of politicians from his side) and that's your reason for pushing this govt-controlled e-banking shit.

Oh well, you fascists made a huge mistake with those Canadian truckers. Waaaaaay to early to be swinging hammer like that. You should have waited until you were way more entrenched. You gained almost nothing, and now noone will believe your "benign intensions" while you're pushing this CBDC shit and working against alternatives like cash or BTC.

OK, so in the scenario where government disappears you because of some info they got on you from Meta, it's Meta that's the evil villain that needs to be taken down and not the government? I see the leftist education system has brainwashed you nicely.

I'd think that under the circumstances, replacing Donald with Daffy would make sense. And in the one sequence where he's turned into a baby, use Baby Plucky from Tiny Toons.

Do you ... ever have like a moment of non- black and white thinking?

Just a little nagging, uneasy feeling, that perhaps things and people are not all good or all bad?

" The problem, Amazon says, is that it never agreed to any of it. Meta didn't tell Amazon that Muse would access its store, the agent doesn't identify itself when it browses, and it appears to capture and store customer credentials,"

Gee it must be horrible to have an implacable sleepless faceless entity hoovering your data without asking...

Well, that's nice.

Fortunately, we're still a sorta free country, so they are doing it anyway. Regardless of what you think, commissar.

... that Google's laptop strategy was "thin, cheap client"? I guess that's changed.

Yeah, exactly. I definitely don't need or want an "agent" to do things in my life.

Research and organize some info, maybe. Write some code, maybe. Draft something that won't piss people off as much as something I would say off the cuff, maybe.

Buy things for me, or do personal communications for me in non-draft mode? Definitely not.

Yeah, and the reason for that is if the government decides they don't like you, they can debank you, make you unemployable, put you in prison for however long they feel like, torture you, kill you and any combination of the above. Oh, and go after your loved ones too. Worst thing Meta can do to you is show you a targetted ad or ban you off their platform. No, the actual worst thing Meta can do is give the data about you to the government, but this takes us back to the previous issue.

Isn't the more salient question whether you want to read it?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for desktops, mice, keyboards, and displays.

Try them out is all I can say. I spent last winter trying out KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Zorin, LxQt, Gnome, and Elementary. There is a new Cosmic DE out that I have not tried.

KDE seems to need more GPU than I have on that machine (RX 560). It stuttered and shook and the widgets editor flashes once and vanishes before you can do anything. It was pretty though. LxQt was also pretty but didn't seem very cooperative. Zorin looks like Windows 11 (which is the point but pouring bleach in my eyes is not my thing). Elementary is still a work in progress as far as an App Store equivalent, Gnome had me shrieking in rage after 15 minutes, It does not work the way I do.

Cinnamon and I get along fine on a Ryzen 4600G with only the integrated graphics. MATE seems a little friendlier for some reason I can't explain and works on older hardware as in a 2009 Core 2 Duo and is quite spritely on a 2012 Mac Mini (HD 4000 graphics). Xfce works quite well but is pretty spartan. It can be dolled up, but MATE already is good enough.

 

Are you so stupid you still think you have any credibility?
My entire thread has been about people exactly like you. Windbags who can't stop raging that everything is political and it's always "the guys you hate" to blame.
Literally.
Every.
Post.

Your quote:
"...Reagan first shit up education in California and then went on to do it nationally. It's a less well-known fact, but still a fact, that it was done for the purpose of getting rapeublicans (which hilariously autocorrected to "trollbags") elected by avoiding an "educated proletariat"...:

The New York Times won one for genocide denial during the holodomor. It's not something to be proud of.

I said you were retarded for instantly making it political.

And btw:
"...Reagan first shit up education in California and then went on to do it nationally. It's a less well-known fact, but still a fact, that it was done for the purpose of getting rapeublicans (which hilariously autocorrected to "trollbags") elected by avoiding an "educated proletariat"...:

Was that you, oh soul of non-biased centrism?
Or is "that's not politics, that's just facts" for you? Clearly not even slightly partisan?

The VA uses a form of 2FA that's provided by a third-party (I've run across it on other sites once or twice.) that will use either text messages or email, your choice. What you get by text (I've not tried email.) is a six digit one-time code that you use to confirm your ID. If you run across a site wanting to use ID.ME to authenticate you, it's safe to use. I've been using it for several years and had no trouble.