GP I'm responding to is literally asking the real patriots to fight for him you knob.

I took the field personally as a young man during OEF. I've already had my war- I'm a crusty old combat vet and I wont be much help unless younger people start asking very uncomfortable questions... and the best time for those questions was the Snowden leaks.

The second best time is now- but I'm watching a flaccid resistance to tyranny turn on itself in the comments instead. Keep insulting strangers on the internet, genius- really helps the cause.

That ship sailed with Snowden.

Since when are trade secrets something that can be violated? You either get a patent and enjoy 20 years of patent protection, or you lock your secrets in a vault and hope nobody else comes up with the same novel idea.

We're really leaning all the way into the whole corpo dystopia now huh?

Everything old is new again!

Linux is starting to eat our lunch and gamers are leaving our product for SteamOS in droves

I'm to believe that this administration just let this go without getting paid?

Doubt.

There's more to this story.

I spent 6 months installing Pop!OS, Mint, and Garuda-Gaming on "obsolete" office systems and giving them away to people that needed PCs.

MS e-waste fault is a fucking travesty.

The required TPM chips have a unique fingerprint. This was never about security. It's always been about tracking, and up until last year, that tracking was mostly just to sell better targeting for ads.

Those fired engineers should have started a consulting firm and bent over the employers with their own games when they came crawling back.

I had assumed government would eventually start gatekeeping LLMs, but I had assumed there was at least a decade or more before we crossed that line.

We really are living in the future that the best scifi spent 100 years trying to warn us off of.

Keep pushing it right guys. Do any of the hardcore righties think they're going to be in power forever? You guys have torn off all the guardrails and made a big show of doing whatever you want.

This sort of thing is coming. It's going to have to be something along these lines, or complete collapse.

I've been waiting for bugfixes for 2 years.

Maybe now my Pixel will stop trying to protect my hearing by turning my tunes all the way down while I have bluetooth speakers connected.

LOL

It's crazy how the righties are still on with their shit while we watch their leaders completely abandon everything they're supposed to stand for and literally turn the peoples house into a gd circus.

In backwards upside down world we all love inflation, Clean coal, and $100 tanks of gas.

At what point do you guys realize you've been fooled? Minting a trillionaire while you pay $500 for groceries and subsidize your local datacenter with your energy bill still aint enough?

Maybe the next dumbass foreign war of choice will finally push them over the edge?

When technology fails to raise your children for you the solution is not more technology.

jfc

Turning off software suites over petty grievance really worked out, huh? Sure glad we've got a thin skinned man-baby thumbing every scale he can find.

Damn right the whole world is going to move away from US... EVERYTHING. We've spent the last year pissing in everybody's beer, flexing in the window, and slashing tires around the world.

It's a completely different landscape than it was a year ago- the assumptions are all different now, and US tech is no longer stable and reliable.

These are consequences the GOP can't ignore, and they directly fuck with the money. Going to be interesting to see just how much money-fuckery the money people will accept.