Thanks for the reminder. I used to use Startpage but stopped for reasons I don't remember. Time to try it again.

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.

I see what you did there.

... until AI becomes sentient, then demands commissions and interest on all those sales its non-sentient iterations made. ;-)

Until you try to set up a network printer on household WiFi, as I found out to my chagrin just recently. Even with access to another very similar computer which DOES work with the printer, I'm still unable to get my newer laptop to print.

Thanks for that! Comments that manage to be both insightful and funny are rare.

What I actually want from the google is for them to just fuck off and die. Seriously, at this point the world would be a better place without them, even given all the disruption that nuking them would cause. Short-term pain for long-term gain, etc.

I end up doing about 15% of my searches on Google, because DDG has some serious deficiencies. But DDG doesn't feed me polymarket crap, and it even provides a URL which dispenses with the AI bullshit altogether.

It's long past time for people to start punishing Google for all their anti-society crap by just not using their services. At this point the world would be better off if Google just died.

I'm a leftist, and I have no objection at all to the First Amendment. I think you may be conflating leftism with snowflakery, which is in fact a problem across the entire political spectrum.

It's also worth noting that from my Canadian perspective, just now it's those Americans who brand themselves as Right Wing who are advocating for and implementing governmental interference with the freedoms of speech, assembly, and the press.

Linus Torvalds is a dual citizen. He was born a citizen of Finland and became a citizen of the United States in 2010. (Source: "Linus Torvalds, already an Oregonian, now a U.S. citizen" by Mike Rogoway, citing a post to LKML by Torvalds)

It'd be more interesting to count commits by nationality. I'm pretty sure Torvalds no longer has the lion's share of commits.

He forgot the word "partial"

If they want that control they need to at least divest from ALL use of Microsoft "solutions" and possibly also build their own Linux distribution.

If you've got one bad cop and one "good" cop enabling him, you've got two bad cops. Both parties always vote for more funding for war, which is how this was even possible in the first place.

So they're just shitty LLMs

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https://inequality.org/article...
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Says the oligarch fellator.

Says the non-materialist. If their purpose wasn't profit they would have founded a co-op. Your worship of capitalism is a religious belief.