English please, not trends by snobby newspapers to reinvent things with "style".

Because technofeudal overlords demand selling verified, deanonymized user info to data brokers because "think of the children" bullocks. Money grab because plebs are the product.

This is complete bullshit. The 99% is clearing brush, leveling ground, removing rocks, staking down overlapping sections of vegetation barriers, making electrical connections, programming equipment, and cementing and caging cables and junction boxes so the copper doesn't get stolen.

If money, then not FOSS by definition. If you intend to demand making a living from code, then giving it away and expecting payment to magically appear is grifting. FOSS is a gift for all, not a guaranteed meal ticket. Never give away more than one is able and then resent it with givers' remorse. And the hostile extremist control-freak purists of AGPL is much less free than MIT.

Was just about to post that. Easy "nope" so long as CEOs go to Mar-a-lago or DV and bring golden bribes and kiss the diapered sharting sphincter.

Can't have those because "CHYNAR" and Swazticar corruption.

If it's pointless connectedness, it's because you're the product. I'm surprised they don't have spy cameras inside and out looking at your groceries and who takes them to sell more data on you.

The water filter doesn't need a special bypass cartridge like GEs often do. Just remove it and feed it with a plumbed-in RO system.

However, the ice machine will ice up and stop working randomly because it's so poorly sealed and will need extra foam and foil tape to better seal the compartment.

You clearly never ran more than 1 Xserve in a real data center then. They used single, fixed, non-swappable PSUs, consumer IDE hard drives, and lacked proper lights out and remote management tools. They were utter crap. I supported more than a dozen and another group made a very expensive mistake trying to make a "cluster" out of hundreds of them but failed miserably such that they had to be thrown out. HP, IBM, and Dell 1U and 2U servers were tier 1 boxes capable of running Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows of that era roughly 2000-2008.

The only real power grows out of the barrel of a gun or an ICBM launch tube. International agreements built on wishes and paperwork without significant and meaningful enforcement mechanisms aren't worth toilet paper.

I "accidentally" kick over every delivery robot I stumble across because it's taking someone's job.

No, I will not ID. Fuck right off.

Because the government mafia will protect a monopoly on the complicated extraction of money from you to be ruled by tyrants who celebrate the killing of little brown children around the world. Maybe consider withholding federal taxes this year instead of marching on one Saturday every few months for a participation prize.

So unless there's some miraculously fastidious chain-of-custody supply chain integrity processes and surprise in-person auditing going on that reach back from factories to and include all suppliers, there's little hope of proving electronic equipment isn't implanted with malware.

But what if it could automatically buy Wegovy and stick you with it without your consent if you appear too rotund? That's what millions of rich rubes want.