This all leads to the bigger and more important issue: We should not be letting companies decide how much privacy we deserve... It shouldn't be up to Flock or any other ALPR vendor to decide how long police can collect and retain data

No, the bigger and more important issue is that we should not be letting anyone retain that data. If you want to do ALPR there is one and only one correct way to do it: You build a list of license plates you want information about after getting warrants about them, that list is sent to the point of recognition whether it's a camera or a data center, and any data about any plate not that list is not stored. There is no other way to fix the problem besides not collecting the data in the first place, period.

If you'd actually been using Linux long enough to have an opinion on this you'd know a lot more runs in userspace than it used to.

LOLOLOLOOLLLOLLLLL

Yes, those specific accounts were banned for actual reasons, of course sensible people agreed with that. Meanwhile multiple studies showed that during that same period, right wing speech was amplified more than left wing speech. You fucking pedo loving maggots always cry persecution while it's provably not happening to you.

You completely ignored what I actually wrote in my comment, you don't get to cry about me allegedly ignoring your comment. I didn't ignore it, it was fucking stupid and I addressed it. You're free to say something less fucking stupid than that you think I'm a corporation.

I couldn't care less because Linux native versions are problematic. I hope they allow us to install and choose from various Proton versions like Steam does. I usually try them, about half the time they malfunction. I then install the Windows version with a good Proton and everything works great. Just went through this with The Long Dark. I have pipewire+wireplumber and everything else works wonderfully. I have tested all of the APIs and they all work including ALSA and JACK. But for some reason the linux version of this game doesn't detect that I have audio. I spent 0 minutes troubleshooting, I just installed the Windows version and it worked.

I've got news for you. I'm a human end user, not a legal fiction.

Are you a human? Because you're demonstrating less comprehension ability than even a mediocre bot.

Older versions of Lutris were real slow and seemed to require a lot of stopping and starting but it started working well for me somewhere along the line and I installed a bunch of games from EA and GOG. As far as manual intervention I mostly just needed to get better versions of wine and proton, Lutris seems to use pretty old versions. My favorite proton right now is dwproton.

Steam is basically the same shit. It's a dog. It's full of web pages. Start time is very long and performance of the store (which is all web pages) is very bad.

It's inevitable under capitalism.

People need to pay their rent.

So I actually read your citation which apparently either you didn't do or didn't expect others to do:

The ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union, with which all enterprise-level trade unions must be affiliated. The ACFTU is managed by the CCP Secretariat. There has been dispute over whether ACFTU is an independent trade union or a trade union at all.

Chinese unionization is fake. It's just another way for China to control workers.

No, the problem is that the surveillance business model is legal.

China had bureaucracy for literally thousands of years before the USA was even invented.

Ok Nazi.

So your solution to shit billionaires is to return to being hunter gatherers? I do not think you will find many other to enlist in your scheme.

It isn't. It's sold to customers building a system. That's why they have different names which sound different to everyone but you.