Yes, for European ethnic groups. There's a reason for this too. Africans in US don't volunteer to being medically experimented on for historic reasons nearly as much as europeans.

It's a lesser version of a large problem we have with medicine being more poorly suited for women than men. Because women have a much lower risk tolerance, and so they don't volunteer for medical experiments of treatments and medications either.

Those who volunteer are the ones who medicines and treatments are optimized for, and who's medical problem patters end up as medical benchmarks.

I.e. "geriatric pregnancy starts at 35".

Dear retard. These women can't have children via fucking. That's the starting point of the tragedy.

They do, I voted for Biden, I voted for Harris, but I wasn't happy about it.

Running Windows in a virtual machine under linux with an emulated TPM is one reasonable way to keep it relatively under control, I guess. But the graphics drivers are, shall we say, low on features.

It's not the ones we like it's the ones that will let our Epstein class have the countries banana reserves.

... or eschew using tech at all.

If criminals didn't use cars or smartphones, they'd be (almost) invisible to LEOs. Most of the tools LEOs use involve scraping data from one or the other.

Cops are some of the dumbest people I've ever worked with. Some of the tools they use are sophisticated but they'd fail pretty quick against even a modest effort to thwart them (and many times the tools outsmart the cops and they miss easy targets). I'd give "Police Forensic Expert" about as much credit as I do for "UX/UI Designer". FBI folks are much smarter, but they are also much more pressed for time and attention. It's like big angry drunk guys: they can fight unarmed and unskilled victims, but anyone with skills will beat them like a drum. However, "not using tech" is a much better strategy. You cannot make mistakes with tools you do not use. KISS definitely applies to criminals as much as systems engineering.

It's an American tradition!

Trump made this completely different. This isn't France trying to get a better deal from Microsoft like usual. America can no longer be trusted.

Donald Trump has a giant list of reasons why he never should have been president once let alone twice. It's so bad I'm not even going to waste time listing the points out here.

And somehow he is still rocking a 35 to 40% approval rating.

America is completely insane. You cannot rely on us anymore and you absolutely cannot have critical infrastructure dependent on america. Software is critical infrastructure.

Under normal circumstances every single American software company would be freaking the fuck out right now because they are about to get frozen out of Europe. But because everything is owned by a handful of billionaires and those billionaires are going to make out like bandits no matter what that's not happening.

If you're American you need to come to terms with the idea that the system is designed to protect you have completely broken down and that 35 to 40% of the country can drag you down with them.

That said I have no idea what the hell you do about that.

And remember it's not just Trump it's that 35 to 40% who saw their grocery bills skyrocket and gas shoot up a dollar a gallon and somehow blamed Joe Biden for it. That level of insanity is something that you have to address head on.

America was degraded when healthcare require GoFundMe. America was degraded when school shootings are routine and there are entire industries spring up creating devices for schools to keep out school shooters.

Honestly, the fix is to make those billionaires at the top know they are just as human as the rest of us, and just as vulnerable.

The CEO of Five Guys burger chain had a promotion go so wildly successful that he had to give workers a bonus because he got afraid he might meet the same end as a certain healthcare CEO.

Maybe those who have a fair amount of money might want to take note of what happens when people feel they have no other options.

If you want to deinstall the app, blowing up the owner's house is not he way to do it.

This was stupid, reckless, does nothing for actually improving AI safety, risks worsening that very safety, risks OpenAI letting their systems being used on more and more extreme products (because all publicity is good publicity), and in short does the exact opposite of anything that anyone could possibly have imagined going through the mind of of this dweeb.

However, it is what we've come to expect from the Nu Society that is emerging - violent extremism, senseless violence, thoughtless acts, utter stupidity.

Welcome to the "brave" new world where nobody has any brains but plenty of explosives. Any claim America might have to rationality is degraded every time something pathetic like this takes place, and the rest of the world is honestly in no better shape even if it hasn't degraded to open violence yet. I am really not happy.

A lot of printers are poop. A lot of printer drivers are poop, including ones for Linux. If I want my printer to "just work" then I need to install packages. Luckily Brother produces them, and they have been doing so for years now. I've done several OS upgrades and always had new drivers available to me for them. But if they didn't do that, it would still work, I just wouldn't be able to use it via USB. My Laser PSC supports both printing and scanning via standard protocols. The only thing that wouldn't work is the on-device buttons, which I don't use anyway.

Therefore this is either user error at setup time, or user error at purchase time. That is no comfort to a home user, but we're talking about a nation here.

what I still don't know is what the state is of the equivalent of "group policy" and automated remote management and monitoring.

There are many solutions for managing group policies and remote management tools nowadays. There's a few open source solutions like foreman and such, and many many many commercial solutions like ninja.

Honestly, any commercial 3rd party system will have Linux support because it's so mainstream it's expected.

I'm not, but I know some, so I know some of the tricks. Like when you know a lawyer so you find out what to say during a traffic stop so they don't tear your car apart.

I think the solution is just to be rich so you don't care... or don't care much.. but that's easier said than done.

The solution is like airline pricing - the price should be honored.

Not the "Oh, we can't sell you the car in the ad because it was sold, but here's a similar model that's a bit nicer (more expensive)?" Or have all the "extra upcharge" and "upsell". I just want the car you advertised the price you advertised it.

Some places are starting to have laws demanding all prices shown are inclusive drive off the lot. And none of this faffing about where they deliberately "check with the manager" when they're actually wasting half an hour of your time while they go try to sell someone else a car. Or they're being timesliced.

Buying a car shouldn't involve hours of paperwork or haggling, especially since we know it doesn't. The paperwork can be printed in minutes. You should be able to come in, drop cash and walk out with a car in maybe half an hour or less.

Maybe if more people simply walked when any dealership did these tricks they'd do less of them.